Secrets Kept
By Kalystia
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. So far I only own Kayla and Robbie Jr., but all the BTVS and Angel characters belong to all the people behind those two wonderful shows. All Harry Potter characters belong to JK Rowling. That's all for now!
Timeline: I've played with it a bit. Harry Potter: 5 years from the 5th book, making Harry, Blaise, Draco, ect, 20 years old. Buffy: This is set 5 years from the last episode. Not really too important except for the fact that Blaise would have been 15 during season 7 of Buffy.
5 years ago:
Blaise looks around the school bus as they drive away from the carter that formally was Sunnydale. She knows she is lucky to have made it this far, but for her, unlike the other girls, it wasn't based on luck or skills. No, for Blaise it was based on her magical ability. Since coming to Sunnydale, Blaise hadn't used magic of any kind knowing that it was illegal since she wasn't yet out of Hogwarts, and also her father would be able to track her. That is her biggest fear, that her father would find her. But during the final battle she had used a couple of curses to stay alive. No one had seen her and she now has her wand firmly tucked up her sleeve.
She still has much to be worried about. With the First stopped for now, and her being a slayer (she still couldn't wrap her head around that fact); the former Slytherin princess doesn't know what to do. She can't go back to Hogwarts, her father would punish her for running away, and she shudders to think of what Voldemort would do if he finds out what she is. She would be under the Imperius curse within a minute.
As she sighs, Giles looks up at her. Giles regrets the fact that he doesn't know all the girls as well as he wants, their histories and such, but Blaise always seemed familiar to him. She has since her arrival in Sunnydale. Her long dark curly hair and her brown eyes remind him of someone. Now that he has thought on it, he has never bothered to ask her last name. As she turns towards him, he looks away. Maybe it is just the fact she is British. That could be it.
He doesn't have much time to concentrate on this as they pull into the parking lot of the Hyperion. Giles doesn't know how good of an idea it is going to Angel, but some of the girls need medical attention, and everyone needs some sleep. As Xander (who is driving much to Giles' dismay) stops the bus Giles stands up. "OK please help all those who need medical attention into the hotel first, do this in an orderly manner please," he says hoping that everyone will listen to him. Buffy has already jumped off to bus to run inside, so he figures he will be the one to take charge.
Blaise looks around as she hears Giles speak. It is always nice for her to hear him; another English voice somewhat dulls the pain of being so far away from home. She made sure she has her wand firmly up her sleeve before waiting for Dawn to walk up from the back of the bus. When she first got to Sunnydale, she was one of the first potentials to get there after the group Giles brought in. They were already friends, and she didn't seem to fit. Dawn felt left out too, so the two of them had formed a friendship. Another reason she is afraid of her father, what would he say of her friendships with muggles?
Blaise never liked Lord Voldemort, but her father was a known Death Eater. Almost as high up as Malfoy Sr. What would he say to this? "Hey Blaise you ok?" Dawn asks her quietly.
"Sorry, I'm fine, just thinking," Blaise then looks at Dawn who looks worse for wear, "you alright there?"
"Yeah I'm fine." Dawn says putting on a smile Blaise could tell was fake. "Let's go inside."
"Sure Dawn," Blaise mindlessly follows Dawn out of the bus and into the hotel.
As they walk inside the foyer, they notice people everywhere. Apparently Angel and the LA group had already set up in case the survivors of Sunnydale needed to come here. It proved to be good planning.
A black man walks over to them, "Girls are you two ok?"
Dawn quickly answers, "Yeah we're fine. Where's Buffy and the rest?" Blaise looks around for the first time and notices they aren't there.
"Meeting with Angel." He says tersely and moves on to others that are obviously wounded.
"Hi I'm Fred, I need to ask your names, you know, trying to create some type of order here," a brunette girl says walking up to them.
"I'm Dawn Summers."
"Oh, sorry Dawn didn't realize that was you. Why don't you go in with everyone in Angels office, you know where that is?" At Dawns no, Fred points her in the right direction. Dawn walks over towards the office, leaving Blaise alone.
"Hi, didn't catch your name before," Fred says looking expectantly at Blaise.
"Blaise Zabini, and my parents are in Britain, please don't call them. I'll explain to Mr. Giles later, just don't call them," Blaise says looking at Fred hoping that she won't think that Blaise is hysterical.
Fred eyes Blaise. "Ok we won't call them. But can I bring you over to Wesley, he was a former watcher, might understand and all."
"I guess," Blaise says feeling less confident now then before. What is she going to tell these people about her family? In the months she has been in Sunnydale, she has found no reference to the Wizerding World, just as before the Bringers attacked her she had no idea about a Slayer or Watchers or any of this. She had known about Vampires, but believed the Slayer to be a myth. 'Some myth,' she thinks wryly.
Blaise gets shaken out of her thoughts as she slams into Fred and falls backwards. Fred had stopped to let the door open to Angel's office and as everyone walks out, Blaise realizes her wand had slipped out of her sleeve and was now lying on the ground at Giles's feet.
"What is this?" Giles asks Blaise.
"It's mine and I would like it back," Blaise says to him as she stands up. "Now if you don't mind." She prays that she remembers how to do her snooty Slytherin voice as she holds her hand out and looks impatiently at Giles. From the looks she is getting, her act as the Slytherin pure-blood 'I'm better then you' attitude is believable. 'Thank you Draco,' she thinks as she starts tapping her foot, his hours of teaching her this act are finally paying off.
Giles finally looks up from her wand. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"I'm no mind reader, I wouldn't know you knew about this, its not in any of your books or anything like that, and I know I looked," she continues her act as she rolls her eyes, "at least now I know that Watchers weren't complete idiots, I mean I was beginning to think....."
"Blaise Victoria Zabini! Do NOT finish that sentence! Or do you want your father to know where you are?"
Blaise turns around at the familiar voice to see her cousin Wesley staring at her. Wesley's mom is her mother's sister; she hasn't seen him a long time, because of his job. "At least now I know why you left me in that hell-hole," she says glaring at him, reminding him of his long ago promise to take her away from her father.
"Not the point," Wesley says still glaring at her, "apologize now."
"No." She turns back to Giles, really mad now; "Accio wand" as her wand flies towards her she grabs it out of the air. "Oh bloody hell," she says as she realizes she has done yet another spell. Dumbledore isn't going to be able to get her out of this one. The last two were in defense, she had many witnesses for that, but this one...plus she has allowed her wand to be tracked again.
Wesley looks at his younger cousin. He is amazed to see her here. And for her to be a slayer? That is too much for him to take in. He walks up to her and puts an arm around her, "Come on, we'll talk in the office."
Blaise nods slightly, she isn't at a place to disagree. As they enter the office, Blaise knows that she has the eyes of all the other slayers on her back, with their questions. Giles isn't going to stay around to answer them. With her new senses she can tell he is following her into the office. Giles closes the door behind them as Wesley sits Blaise down on the couch.
"Blaise, love, do you want to tell me what is going on?" Wesley kindly asks her.
"Wes, what don't you get here? I got attacked by bringers on a Hogsmeades trip. Professor Snape seemed to know what was going on and brought me to Dumbledore, who also knew what was going on. Is Snape a Watcher? I've been wondering that since that day. What about Dumbledore?" She says looking at the two men in the room.
To her surprise it is Giles rather then Wesley, who she knew had gone to Hogwarts, that answers her question. "Dumbledore is a liaison that the council has with the wizarding world. Most Watchers go through Hogwarts, and Dumbledore knows who they are, makes sure no matter what their OWLs that they are placed in upper level DADA, that sort of thing. I wouldn't know who Snape is so..." Giles trails off.
"Severus took interest in becoming a Watcher. Many of his friends from Hogwarts became Watchers. He would have rather done that, but unfortunately his father had his path laid down for him already." Wesley looks at Blaise, knowing she knows what that path was, "he must have heard from someone about the Bringers. Its not unusual for the Slayer, or well I guess now a Slayer, to also be a witch."
Blaise nods and then continues on, "When I got to Sunnydale, I started to drop hints about Hogwarts. Only Willow caught on, but she thought I was speaking about magic in general. When I found out she didn't use a wand... I figured it would be in my best interest not to say anything. Only to use my wand if I absolutely had to. Plus I was happy pretending that the wizarding world didn't exist for a while. To live as a muggle."
The two men exchange glances at the last comment. "What's going on Blaise?" Wesley asks.
"What do you mean what going on? What's been going on the past few years! Voldemort is back!" The two men cringe. "Oh don't cringe, ok so a few months ago I would have, but we just defeated evil here! Voldemort is little on the big bad scale."
Giles starts laughing at her, "It seems California has affected your vocabulary."
"Had to blend in," Blaise shrugs. "Besides I might as well start sounding like a muggle American. I can't go back. The rest of my house would try to figure out where I was, and if father found out what I am, he'd sell me to Voldemort. Whatever brings him up through the ranks, that's his motto."
Giles looks quizzically at the girl, "Are you a Slytherin?"
Blaise puts on her impassive face again, steeling herself against anti- Slytherin comments. "Yes I am."
Giles nods at her, "I was a Ravenclaw."
Wesley looks at Giles, "I was a Ravenclaw also."
Giles looks at him, "You remind me more of a Hufflepuff."
Blaise starts laughing at the look Wesley has on his face. Wesley glares at her, "Watch out I'll say you should be a Gryffindor," he threatens her.
Blaise snorts, "Yeah like I'd be able to stand Saint Potter and his little friends. The Golden Trio is what all the Professors call them." She sits thinking about it for a second, "I don't really miss it, any of it. I mean I miss learning magic, that's something, but Hogwarts, not really. How can anyone win a war when the place where you are supposed to be accepted for who you are is the most prejudice place in the entire Wizarding World? How are all the witches and wizards supposed to rise up against Lord Voldemort when no one trusts each other based on what house they where in when they were at Hogwarts?"
Giles and Wesley look at each other. "What do you want to do Blaise?" Wesley asks her.
She looks at them. "Truthfully, I want to learn to be a Slayer, be the same as the other girls. And I want to learn magic. A lot of young witches and wizards learn by home school. Maybe my watcher can teach me? I mean I am second in my class. The only one who got better marks is that Gryffindor Granger. I probably would get O's on all my OWLs if I took them now. The only thing we have to worry about is someone tracking my wand. I think we need to talk to someone in the ministry."
"Dumbledore most likely," Giles says, "but I think everything else can be arranged."
Blaise smiles. For the first time in a long time Blaise is truly pleased with the way things are going to turn out.
By Kalystia
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. So far I only own Kayla and Robbie Jr., but all the BTVS and Angel characters belong to all the people behind those two wonderful shows. All Harry Potter characters belong to JK Rowling. That's all for now!
Timeline: I've played with it a bit. Harry Potter: 5 years from the 5th book, making Harry, Blaise, Draco, ect, 20 years old. Buffy: This is set 5 years from the last episode. Not really too important except for the fact that Blaise would have been 15 during season 7 of Buffy.
5 years ago:
Blaise looks around the school bus as they drive away from the carter that formally was Sunnydale. She knows she is lucky to have made it this far, but for her, unlike the other girls, it wasn't based on luck or skills. No, for Blaise it was based on her magical ability. Since coming to Sunnydale, Blaise hadn't used magic of any kind knowing that it was illegal since she wasn't yet out of Hogwarts, and also her father would be able to track her. That is her biggest fear, that her father would find her. But during the final battle she had used a couple of curses to stay alive. No one had seen her and she now has her wand firmly tucked up her sleeve.
She still has much to be worried about. With the First stopped for now, and her being a slayer (she still couldn't wrap her head around that fact); the former Slytherin princess doesn't know what to do. She can't go back to Hogwarts, her father would punish her for running away, and she shudders to think of what Voldemort would do if he finds out what she is. She would be under the Imperius curse within a minute.
As she sighs, Giles looks up at her. Giles regrets the fact that he doesn't know all the girls as well as he wants, their histories and such, but Blaise always seemed familiar to him. She has since her arrival in Sunnydale. Her long dark curly hair and her brown eyes remind him of someone. Now that he has thought on it, he has never bothered to ask her last name. As she turns towards him, he looks away. Maybe it is just the fact she is British. That could be it.
He doesn't have much time to concentrate on this as they pull into the parking lot of the Hyperion. Giles doesn't know how good of an idea it is going to Angel, but some of the girls need medical attention, and everyone needs some sleep. As Xander (who is driving much to Giles' dismay) stops the bus Giles stands up. "OK please help all those who need medical attention into the hotel first, do this in an orderly manner please," he says hoping that everyone will listen to him. Buffy has already jumped off to bus to run inside, so he figures he will be the one to take charge.
Blaise looks around as she hears Giles speak. It is always nice for her to hear him; another English voice somewhat dulls the pain of being so far away from home. She made sure she has her wand firmly up her sleeve before waiting for Dawn to walk up from the back of the bus. When she first got to Sunnydale, she was one of the first potentials to get there after the group Giles brought in. They were already friends, and she didn't seem to fit. Dawn felt left out too, so the two of them had formed a friendship. Another reason she is afraid of her father, what would he say of her friendships with muggles?
Blaise never liked Lord Voldemort, but her father was a known Death Eater. Almost as high up as Malfoy Sr. What would he say to this? "Hey Blaise you ok?" Dawn asks her quietly.
"Sorry, I'm fine, just thinking," Blaise then looks at Dawn who looks worse for wear, "you alright there?"
"Yeah I'm fine." Dawn says putting on a smile Blaise could tell was fake. "Let's go inside."
"Sure Dawn," Blaise mindlessly follows Dawn out of the bus and into the hotel.
As they walk inside the foyer, they notice people everywhere. Apparently Angel and the LA group had already set up in case the survivors of Sunnydale needed to come here. It proved to be good planning.
A black man walks over to them, "Girls are you two ok?"
Dawn quickly answers, "Yeah we're fine. Where's Buffy and the rest?" Blaise looks around for the first time and notices they aren't there.
"Meeting with Angel." He says tersely and moves on to others that are obviously wounded.
"Hi I'm Fred, I need to ask your names, you know, trying to create some type of order here," a brunette girl says walking up to them.
"I'm Dawn Summers."
"Oh, sorry Dawn didn't realize that was you. Why don't you go in with everyone in Angels office, you know where that is?" At Dawns no, Fred points her in the right direction. Dawn walks over towards the office, leaving Blaise alone.
"Hi, didn't catch your name before," Fred says looking expectantly at Blaise.
"Blaise Zabini, and my parents are in Britain, please don't call them. I'll explain to Mr. Giles later, just don't call them," Blaise says looking at Fred hoping that she won't think that Blaise is hysterical.
Fred eyes Blaise. "Ok we won't call them. But can I bring you over to Wesley, he was a former watcher, might understand and all."
"I guess," Blaise says feeling less confident now then before. What is she going to tell these people about her family? In the months she has been in Sunnydale, she has found no reference to the Wizerding World, just as before the Bringers attacked her she had no idea about a Slayer or Watchers or any of this. She had known about Vampires, but believed the Slayer to be a myth. 'Some myth,' she thinks wryly.
Blaise gets shaken out of her thoughts as she slams into Fred and falls backwards. Fred had stopped to let the door open to Angel's office and as everyone walks out, Blaise realizes her wand had slipped out of her sleeve and was now lying on the ground at Giles's feet.
"What is this?" Giles asks Blaise.
"It's mine and I would like it back," Blaise says to him as she stands up. "Now if you don't mind." She prays that she remembers how to do her snooty Slytherin voice as she holds her hand out and looks impatiently at Giles. From the looks she is getting, her act as the Slytherin pure-blood 'I'm better then you' attitude is believable. 'Thank you Draco,' she thinks as she starts tapping her foot, his hours of teaching her this act are finally paying off.
Giles finally looks up from her wand. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"I'm no mind reader, I wouldn't know you knew about this, its not in any of your books or anything like that, and I know I looked," she continues her act as she rolls her eyes, "at least now I know that Watchers weren't complete idiots, I mean I was beginning to think....."
"Blaise Victoria Zabini! Do NOT finish that sentence! Or do you want your father to know where you are?"
Blaise turns around at the familiar voice to see her cousin Wesley staring at her. Wesley's mom is her mother's sister; she hasn't seen him a long time, because of his job. "At least now I know why you left me in that hell-hole," she says glaring at him, reminding him of his long ago promise to take her away from her father.
"Not the point," Wesley says still glaring at her, "apologize now."
"No." She turns back to Giles, really mad now; "Accio wand" as her wand flies towards her she grabs it out of the air. "Oh bloody hell," she says as she realizes she has done yet another spell. Dumbledore isn't going to be able to get her out of this one. The last two were in defense, she had many witnesses for that, but this one...plus she has allowed her wand to be tracked again.
Wesley looks at his younger cousin. He is amazed to see her here. And for her to be a slayer? That is too much for him to take in. He walks up to her and puts an arm around her, "Come on, we'll talk in the office."
Blaise nods slightly, she isn't at a place to disagree. As they enter the office, Blaise knows that she has the eyes of all the other slayers on her back, with their questions. Giles isn't going to stay around to answer them. With her new senses she can tell he is following her into the office. Giles closes the door behind them as Wesley sits Blaise down on the couch.
"Blaise, love, do you want to tell me what is going on?" Wesley kindly asks her.
"Wes, what don't you get here? I got attacked by bringers on a Hogsmeades trip. Professor Snape seemed to know what was going on and brought me to Dumbledore, who also knew what was going on. Is Snape a Watcher? I've been wondering that since that day. What about Dumbledore?" She says looking at the two men in the room.
To her surprise it is Giles rather then Wesley, who she knew had gone to Hogwarts, that answers her question. "Dumbledore is a liaison that the council has with the wizarding world. Most Watchers go through Hogwarts, and Dumbledore knows who they are, makes sure no matter what their OWLs that they are placed in upper level DADA, that sort of thing. I wouldn't know who Snape is so..." Giles trails off.
"Severus took interest in becoming a Watcher. Many of his friends from Hogwarts became Watchers. He would have rather done that, but unfortunately his father had his path laid down for him already." Wesley looks at Blaise, knowing she knows what that path was, "he must have heard from someone about the Bringers. Its not unusual for the Slayer, or well I guess now a Slayer, to also be a witch."
Blaise nods and then continues on, "When I got to Sunnydale, I started to drop hints about Hogwarts. Only Willow caught on, but she thought I was speaking about magic in general. When I found out she didn't use a wand... I figured it would be in my best interest not to say anything. Only to use my wand if I absolutely had to. Plus I was happy pretending that the wizarding world didn't exist for a while. To live as a muggle."
The two men exchange glances at the last comment. "What's going on Blaise?" Wesley asks.
"What do you mean what going on? What's been going on the past few years! Voldemort is back!" The two men cringe. "Oh don't cringe, ok so a few months ago I would have, but we just defeated evil here! Voldemort is little on the big bad scale."
Giles starts laughing at her, "It seems California has affected your vocabulary."
"Had to blend in," Blaise shrugs. "Besides I might as well start sounding like a muggle American. I can't go back. The rest of my house would try to figure out where I was, and if father found out what I am, he'd sell me to Voldemort. Whatever brings him up through the ranks, that's his motto."
Giles looks quizzically at the girl, "Are you a Slytherin?"
Blaise puts on her impassive face again, steeling herself against anti- Slytherin comments. "Yes I am."
Giles nods at her, "I was a Ravenclaw."
Wesley looks at Giles, "I was a Ravenclaw also."
Giles looks at him, "You remind me more of a Hufflepuff."
Blaise starts laughing at the look Wesley has on his face. Wesley glares at her, "Watch out I'll say you should be a Gryffindor," he threatens her.
Blaise snorts, "Yeah like I'd be able to stand Saint Potter and his little friends. The Golden Trio is what all the Professors call them." She sits thinking about it for a second, "I don't really miss it, any of it. I mean I miss learning magic, that's something, but Hogwarts, not really. How can anyone win a war when the place where you are supposed to be accepted for who you are is the most prejudice place in the entire Wizarding World? How are all the witches and wizards supposed to rise up against Lord Voldemort when no one trusts each other based on what house they where in when they were at Hogwarts?"
Giles and Wesley look at each other. "What do you want to do Blaise?" Wesley asks her.
She looks at them. "Truthfully, I want to learn to be a Slayer, be the same as the other girls. And I want to learn magic. A lot of young witches and wizards learn by home school. Maybe my watcher can teach me? I mean I am second in my class. The only one who got better marks is that Gryffindor Granger. I probably would get O's on all my OWLs if I took them now. The only thing we have to worry about is someone tracking my wand. I think we need to talk to someone in the ministry."
"Dumbledore most likely," Giles says, "but I think everything else can be arranged."
Blaise smiles. For the first time in a long time Blaise is truly pleased with the way things are going to turn out.