THE SUMMARY - I'm only gonna write this in this post because i dont think its really needed in any other ones, so heres the setting. Season seven Buffy, instead of Warren shooting Tara and Willow going all evil, he found a way to reopen the hellmouth, unleashing hell on earth, the only way to stop it was for Willow and Tara to cast a spell, a big one, Willow needed lots of Tara's help of course with her addiction and all, and in the end, they not only stopped the hellmouth from opening they destroyed it completely, setting Sunnydale free of its curse. Unfortunately for them a new hellmouth has opened in NY and the scoobs are shipped of to fight and eventually run into some friends. The friends cast is also set about season 7, C/M are engaged and R/R are not together (yet). This fic is my first attempt at writing a fic with demons and a hellmouth, and i'm gearing it more towards comedy than pure romance though rest assured there will still be plenty of W/T goodness.
There we go, enough rambling me thinks, so if you're a friends hater or a Dawn lover, you may want to turn around now, else without much further ado...
Title - I’ll Be There For You
Author’s Name - Nath
Rating – The usual, PG-13 until I say so as I am god
Disclaimer - These Char’s belong to Joss and ME and totally not mine, well the Buffy ones anyway, The friends people belong to Bright, Crane & Kauffman naturally, very rich people indeed. Also the song name for this fic is from the Remebrants, you might have heard it before.
Feedback- Tell me if I’m funny or not, I can take it, I promise
Summary – Read the first post for all your Summary goodness, it’ll be to big to post here over and over again.
Part 1 TOW we’re out of here
“Who would’ve guessed New York was a hell mouth?” Buffy stated with an ounce of sarcasm as she continued packing her bags. Sunnydale had been good to her, falling in love with a vampire, being killed by a hell god, watching her best friend become addicted to Dark Magic. Yeah she was really gonna miss this place… Not! Now that Sunnydale was hellmouth free, the inhabitants could get on with their lives as normal. Though a slayer’s job is never done and as it just so happens a new one opens up in New York and ever the gracious heroine she’s off to fight evil once more.
“I’m so excited, first New York, then the world.” Anya sighed with glee; she had been the toughest nut to crack to move to New York with her interests firmly focussed on the Magic Box. Though once Willow had mentioned the word “Franchise” Anya hadn’t wiped the smile of her face. With the lack of hellmouth evil in Sunnydale, business was sure to slow down, though the prospect of hellmouth related mayhem in New York had potential customers all over it, and well size wise, New York was just a wee bit bigger than Sunnydale.
“Calm down Anya, anyone would think you live of the suffering of others.” Dawn came into her sister’s room and pulled a leather jacket out of her sister’s closet and stuffed it in her bag.
“What do you think you’re doin’? The slayer asked in shock as her younger sister tried to exit the room.
“Packing, like you guys. Remember we’re moving to New York?” Dawn carefully reminded the slayer.
“Yeah about that, you’re not going.” Tack obviously wasn’t one of Buffy’s strong points; Anya just nodded with glee.
“What do you mean not going, where else would I be going?” Asked the slayer’s sister with an ounce of worry.
“Giles, he’s taking you to England.” Buffy stated with a solemn look upon her face.
“Why, why am I going to England. It’s because you don’t want me around isn’t it?” Dawn asked in her most annoying voice possible, tears flowing as she started up a tantrum.
“Quite frankly yes, your whining has driven us to our wits end and we’re sending you of for rehabilitation.” Anya said firmly, putting in her two cents worth, she’d had enough of Dawn’s constant whining to last a lifetime.
“No why are you doing this to me, I’m an integral part of the scoobies, who could possible replace me?” Dawn wailed, as two men in white coats carried her out kicking and screaming, enter on cue Cordelia Chase.
“Who is this little weasel and will someone put a cork in her?” Cordelia’s bitchy voice brought a smile back to Buffy’s face, a memory of the days of yore when Buffy scripts were written well. Also it was neat to be free of the burden of having to always look out for Dawn.
“That was Dawn, she’s going away, never to be seen in this fic again. So what brings you back to Sunnydale?” Anya’s voice was also a lot chirpier now that Dawn had been removed.
“Technically it’s because the writer cant get enough of me I think, but officially its because you guys are headed to New York and I want in.” Cordelia replied, not looking at either one of the girls as she filed away at her nails.
“I thought you were all nice and high and mighty now.” Buffy stated in reference to Cordelia’s new image on “That other show.”
“I think the general viewing public prefer bitchy Cordelia that was boinking Xander.” Cordelia replied pretty nonchalant.
“Hey! Xander’s slime and their will be no boinking, yellow crayons jammed up the you know what but no boinking.” Anya protested loudly.
“Whatever, either is good for me.” Cordelia replied as she looked at the finished job on her nails.
… … … …
“Can you believe we’re actually headed for NYC?” Tara stated excitedly as she and Willow packed their stuff into boxes in their room.
“I know, here I was giving away a great college education to help out Buffy and now I get at least a decent one.” Willow smiled as she put her “Who killed Elmo sweater” into a box before Tara threw it into a pile of clothes that the girls would never be seen in again. Their fashion sense hadn’t improved; they just had better wardrobe selectors than they did on set.
“Well at least we got to meet each other here, so this place will always hold a spot in my heart.” Tara smiled as she folded away some of their less fashionably frightening garments, though they still weren’t what you would call trendy.
“Always.” Willow smiled and the two leant in and shared a brief kiss.
“So how are we paying for all this again?” Tara asked as she thought about it with confusion.
“It’s like that time Buffy was dead, we got by okay and if anyone asks we just say that its all council funded.” Willow tried to explain to her girlfriend.
“Yeah I understand the whole covering up plot, but how are we actually paying for this?” Tara tried to reframe her question.
“We’re not, you see what happens is one moment we’re here packing, loading the boxes and all, then the next we kinda get teleported to the exact spot we’re supposed to be and we’re already unpacking, magic really.” Willow was kinda proud of her explanation.
“So you and I been all with the witchy power, we do this?” Tara queried once more, not exactly sure.
“Nope, that’s be the Powers That Be up above, way more powerful than you or i. Heck they could kill of a character with the simple slip of a finger on the keyboard.” Tara shuddered at the thought that Willow just put through her mind,
“Well at least we’re lucky, you know this being a Willow and Tara fic and all, makes us at least guaranteed to make it to the end.” Tara smiled at the thought, though she wasn’t going to go jumping out of any twenty-story buildings to prove her point.
… … … …
Willow and Tara were unpacking boxes in their room, they were sharing a room with Buffy. Xander, Anya and Cordelia were across the hall, how they were all going to get along, especially with Xander and Anya’s break up and the fact Xander used to date Cordelia. Combining all that with the fact the apartment only had two rooms, it was sure gonna be messy but they were on a budget, Xander and Anya were the only money makers there at the moment, though Buffy had money from the sale of her mom’s house.
“See I told you, magic.” Willow smiled as she continued unpacking her boxes.
“Handy, I must say.” Tara smiled as she too continued to fold away clothes into their new closet space.
“I so can not believe you Harris!” The sound of Cordelia screeching and slamming the door to their apartment brought Willow and Tara out to the main area to see what was going on.
“What’s going on?” Willow asked as her and Tara poked their heads out of the door.
“Xander, he thinks that he should get a room and Anya and I have to share, I mean I can’t even begin to describe how many things are wrong with that.” Cordelia huffed, Xander, whom had followed her in with Anya, just shrugged his shoulders as if it seemed the only logical choice.
“I don’t see what the problem is, I mean Willow and Tara do it, they’re not complaining.” Xander replied as he got bustled out of the way by a dusting Buffy.
“Yeah well they’re lesbians, they kinda like the fact that they’re sleeping together.” Anya stated as she too was hustled out of the way by Buffy with her duster. Willow and Tara shared an innocent little smile, letting them know that there definitely were no complaints on their end about sharing a bed.
“Besides, Anya and I are way more likely to pick up than you, I say Anya and I get the rooms and you get the couch.” Cordelia stated, Anya huffed and nodded in agreement. Xander knew he wasn’t going to win this battle as he watched Buffy chase Anya of her seat with her might duster.
“What the hell is with the duster?” Xander finally cracked, not sure why Buffy was doing the compulsive cleaning thing.
“I’m not sure, but get used to it, I’m going to be doing a lot of compulsive, annoying things from on.” Buffy stated as she grabbed some air freshener, sprayed it and sniffed in the nice new scent.
“Why?” Xander asked, dumbfounded as usual.
“For storyline purposes, it’ll all make sense eventually.” Buffy spat back at him, getting annoyed herself from the sudden barrage of questions.
“I seen a cute little café just down the way, anyone want in?” Anya asked, wanting to get out of this mess, much to her surprise Willow put her hand up and offered to go. This stunned everyone in the room, as it was a well-known fact that Willow and Anya weren’t the closest of people, though they did have their moments.
“What can I say, I’d dine with the devil himself if there’s a mocha in it for me.” Willow smiled and grabbed her coat, pulling Anya out the door with her.
“You know, I don’t think he likes caffeine.” Anya stated as Willow huffed and dragged her along.
… … … …
Willow and Anya were walking quietly side by side, both know a solitary word could set of a simmering feud that could make this a very unpleasing experience. They walked up to the café that Anya had mentioned, “Central Perk” Willow noticed the name and giggled, she liked the quirkiness of it. As the two ladies were about to enter a middle-aged blonde accidentally bumped them into on her way out.
“Oh my God! Anyanka is that really you?” The blonde haired woman asked, obviously shocked at the sight before her.
“Oh my God! Regina it can’t be, Regina Philange?”
“Yeah, well not any more, it used to be like eighty years ago in my past life, just plain old Phoebe Buffay.” Phoebe smiled as she pulled Anya into a hug.
“So ya still in the vengeance business?” Phoebe asked, as that was what she was doing when they last met.
“I did do the human thing for a while but all demon again.” Anya smiled pronouncing herself like a model.
“Really, you’ll have to tell me all about it but first you can introduce me to your friend, then I’ll take you in and introduce you to some of my friends.” Phoebe smiled as the two got along like long lost friends.
TBC…
I hope it went okay, it's not as big as my usual updates, it just means hopefully i can post a little more regularly. As its the first part, feedback is more crucial here than anywhere else (though its appreciated all along) if i miss anything or if you have any ideas how i might mnake it better, please dont be afraid to say something.
Cheers
Nath
Isn't it funny how you feel your most tired five minutes before you have to get up.
Way to go!
Friends is my fav show...it was so funny that Anya knew Phoebe as 'Regina Philange' 
it makes sense that the gang would go to Central Perk since they love coffee and mochas and can't go to the Espresso Pump anymore. I loved in your summary when you said that R/R aren't together YET 
which means you might put them together which is cool cuz they belong together. Having Cordelia around should make things even more interesting...can't wait for more 
at: 10/13/02 1:25:21 pm
, glad to see another
Don't even know where to start!
Wasn't too happy about that for a split second until I read that Xander, Anya and Cordelia were gonna share too! 
Like i mentioned a little earlier, i can see Phoebe and Anya working so well off of each other that it would be insane to not use 'em together, be expecting plenty more Phoebe and Anay scenes 
Keep it up. I love it 