It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Cole had been visiting Halliwell Manor when the portal opened. He was trying subtly to pull Phoebe upstairs for a "conjugal visit" as he paused from dodging bounty hunters, but she was embroiled in planning wedding details with Piper and Prue, both of whom made it clear they wanted nothing more than for him to leave. Phoebe tried to play peacemaker, telling him to wait and her sisters to stop glaring. Yes, her boyfriend was a demon, but he'd proven that he loved her and wouldn't harm her, right?

The portal opened in the middle of the living room. Cole knew what it was; he'd used similar things before, like when he went to the past to destroy the Halliwell line. But he had no idea what this particular one was for, so he immediately grabbed Phoebe, trying to stop her from getting pulled in. He could hear Prue and Piper shouting and calling for Leo as the portal drew both of them in.

He hit the ground hard when they emerged at the portal's other end, twisting just in time to take the brunt of the impact and cushion Phoebe with his body. Piper landed beside them, but he didn't see Prue anywhere.

Cole pushed himself up and helped Phoebe to her feet. After making sure Phoebe was OK, he immediately looked at Piper. "I didn't do it," he said.

Buffy knew that it was likely a futile gesture to patrol in the aftermath of the apocalypse, but it was something normal, so she was clinging to it like a lifeline. Half of Sunnydale was dead or missing and it wasn't completely unfathomable that some of them might turn up as creatures of the night.

What she wasn't expecting to find in the cemetery was a swirling vortex. Despite her best efforts, she found herself and the bag she was carrying sucked into said vortex.

"Oh, great. Just what I needed. A portal to hell. Like my life wasn't already hell on Earth," she grumbled as she landed on her ass.

She stood up, brushed herself off, picked up her bag and looked around. Wherever she was resembled a college campus. "Okay, so maybe not hell on Earth," she revised. "Guess it depends on if there are killer finals though."


[open to anyone in the UMass group who might be there already or who might get deposited there by the portal!]