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(First, I am working on Sideways. But the next chapter is one of those deep conversation ones that takes me forever. Unfortunately, I did not have a head start on this one like I did on the others.)

Now. I've read several "Buffyverse meets Twilight" fics, and I couldn't resist doing my own. It turned out to be a lot more canon-ish and a bit more introspective than I thought. (Gah! I can't even parody without some sort of plotty sense.) But there is mocking! Also, somehow it turned Spuffy. What can I say?

Buffy gets attacked by a demon in the cemetery and is sent to an in between dimension, where she meets another girl involved with a vampire... Preview:

“He wants to eat you?” Buffy asked.

She nodded. “He loves me that much.”

“Yeah, well, Angel left me for my own good.”

Bella looked shocked and appalled. “My Edward would never do that.”

“Wait until the second book,” Buffy said.

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BUFFY MEETS BELLA

One minute Buffy was fighting a demon and a vampire in the cemetery, the next she was falling to the ground as the demon said something in Latin at her.

When she opened her eyes, she was somewhere gray. It didn’t really seem to be a place. There wasn’t a sky or a ground, but just endless gray that dissolved into mist.

There was also another girl there. “Hello,” the girl said.

Buffy turned around. “Where are we?” There was nothing but gray as far as the eye could see.

“Oh, I don’t know.”

“I was fighting this vampire—well, demon—” Buffy trailed off, remembering what had to be a spell. “How did you get here?”

“I’m not sure. I think I fell and hit my head. Maybe I’m in a coma. I’m so clumsy, you know. I hear voices sometimes, Edward’s voice talking to me.” Then she frowned. “Did you say you were fighting vampires?”

“Well, yeah.”

The girl looked at her doubtfully. “I’m sure you could never beat my Edward. He’s amazing.”

“I so could—wait, Edward is a vampire?”

“Of course. We’re in love.”

Buffy must have made a weird face, because the girl was glaring at her.

“So, what’s your name?” Buffy finally said.

“Bella.”

“Buffy.” She paused. “Well, I’m sure you’ll wake up.”

“I’m sure you’ll wake up, too.”

“Um, yeah.” She really hoped Giles was working on a way to get her back. Assuming that someone knew she was gone. The fact that her body might still be lying in the cemetery was something she didn’t want to think about.

After a moment of silence, Bella started talking about Edward again.

“It seems like he’s trying to call me back, get me to wake up. But listening to him is so nice, sometimes I almost want to stay here! Of course, then I could never look at him again. I’m not sure I could live without seeing him. But I’m sure Carlisle is helping him. He’s such a good doctor, especially after four hundred years.”

“Um, good.”

“They’ll think of something. Edward is so smart. And beautiful. I fell in love with him the moment I saw him. He was so perfect, like a god. Everyone at school is nothing next to him. And he can do everything so perfectly! I know I don’t deserve him.”

“Right.” Buffy was quickly deciding that she’d rather be trapped here alone. This girl obviously had issues.

“Edward must be worried sick. I’m sure he hasn’t left my bedside. He’s got to be working on a way to wake me up. He’s so wonderful he doesn’t even belong in this world, like an angel.”

“If he’s all that, maybe he can just kiss you,” Buffy said dryly.

“Oh no, I’m sure if he kissed me, I’d nearly faint!”

Buffy raised an eyebrow. “Uh-huh.” But she felt strangely uncomfortable. When you kiss me, I want to die.

That was her younger self, she told herself firmly. High school and forever and epic love. Unfortunately, her older self had another vampire to deal with.

“But I hope that stops once he makes me like him,” Bella continued. “I can’t go around fainting all the time, even if he does catch me!”

Buffy was pulled out of her thoughts. “Say huh?”

“Well, of course I want to be with him forever. And I’m so clumsy, he has to save me all the time now. I want to be perfect for him. He says he likes me now, but I don’t believe him. How could I? Just look at me.”

“You want him to turn you?”

Bella blinked. “Of course.”

“So you can lose your soul and be all ugly and get staked?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Have you ever seen a vampire?”

“Have you?” Buffy asked.

“Of course I have! Obviously you have no idea what it’s like to have one in love with you,” she said haughtily.

“The love of my life was a vampire, thank you very much.”

Bella seemed to suddenly warm up to her. “Oh, we can compare notes! How many times has he saved your life? Does everyone at school watch the two of you? How did you finally get him to kiss you? And did he have a problem about wanting to eat you?”

“He wants to eat you?” Buffy asked.

She nodded. “He loves me that much.”

“Yeah, well, Angel left me for my own good.”

Bella looked shocked and appalled. “My Edward would never do that.”

“Wait until the second book,” Buffy said.

“Huh?”

“What?”

“What did you say?” Bella asked.

“I don’t remember.” Buffy frowned. “This place must be getting to me.”

“I’m sorry your vampire left you,” she said sincerely. “I can’t imagine how I would live without Edward.”

“Oh, I’ve got another one in love with me now.” She rolled her eyes. “As if.”

“Why?”

“Spike can’t fall in love,” Buffy said, like it was obvious.

“Spike is not a very romantic name.”

“I think his real name is William,” she offered.

“William… It’s nice.”

“That’s not the point! I’m sick of it! He follows me around like a lost puppy. He’s always there…helping me,” she finished lamely. “It’s just some weird phase. I wish he’d go back to hating me.”

“Why?”

“Because then I’d know how to deal with him!”

“I remember when Edward hated me,” Bella said dreamily. “But he didn’t really. He just thought he might kill me.”

“I remember when Spike wanted to kill me. Now he hangs out with my mom and is my sister’s new BFF. It’s majorly weird.”

“How can you hate someone who loves you so much?”

“That’s not the point!” Buffy said again. “He’s evil and soulless and can’t love! Just because he’d do anything I asked, doesn’t mean I have to love him!”

“That kind of devotion is hard to resist. You should give him a chance.”

“What planet are you from?” Buffy demanded, even as she was struck with the realization that her earlier outburst had been true. Spike would do anything I asked. “I don’t have to be…with someone. And he’s evil, so it doesn’t matter that I like—should give him a chance.”

“It sounds like he really loves you.”

Suddenly, the world swirled, and the gray faded into white. Buffy opened her eyes to find herself lying on Giles’s dining room table. There was a candle burning on either side of her, and she was covered with some sort of dust.

Buffy coughed. “What happened?”

“You were attacked by a Klaxim demon. It incapacitated you.”

“How did I get here?”

“Spike, er—”

“I brought you.”

She sat up to see Spike leaning in the shadows by the door. He was hanging back, obviously worried, but trying not to appear worried. He took a hesitant step forward. “I killed the demon and the vamp, but the Watcher figured out how to wake you up.”

“Yes, well,” Giles said. “It was slightly difficult. Klaxims tend to send their victims’ consciousness to another plane, generally a sort of bubble between dimensions.”

“Yeah. I was in this misty place. There was this weird girl there,” she said, suddenly remembering. “Thank you,” Buffy said. Then she glanced briefly at Spike. “Both of you.”

Spike shrugged, looking down.

Buffy slid off the table. “I’m going home.”

“Very good,” Giles said. “Though I don’t recommend you patrol further.”

Buffy nodded, and then looked at Spike as he opened the door for her. She supposed she was happy that she wasn’t dead. Helping make her not dead should be encouraged, she decided. “You can come. If you want,” she added over her shoulder.

He followed her out, quickly catching up to walk beside her.

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Bella woke up to Edward standing over her. She was in the hospital.

“What happened?” she asked.

“I’m so sorry Bella. I was too busy monologue-ing about hating myself to catch you when you fell out of the tree. You hit your head on the way down. And then you fell on a grizzly bear. Only you could fall right on top of a bear.”

“It’s okay, Edward. I love you.”

“No, it’s not! Don’t you see, Bella? How dangerous I am to you. How I could have gotten you killed! Everything I do risks your life. If I leave—if I’m with you! It doesn’t matter! I’m doomed to end your life no matter what I do!”

“You could just change me.”

“No. Then I would loathe myself. I cannot destroy your life, your light.”

“But then I could take care of myself.”

“I don’t want you to take care of yourself! I want to take care of you. I want to control every detail of your life!”

“Oh, Edward! I’ll always be under your power! You dazzle me.”

“You glow with life.”

“You sparkle.”

“You shine.”

“Edward.”

“Bella.”

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