Title: Where In Merlin's Name Am I!
Disclaimer:I dont own a thing :cries hysterically:
Summary: Sequal to Running away. This is a Harry Potter/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover. Draco has run away from Hogwarts and the mess of the war. He ends up in an unexpected place. The Hellmouth! He makes friends and rooms with a vampire. He makes enemies with a Slayer. His best friend gets kidnapped! A Slayer goes evil and it isn't Faith(well, just)! A vampire with a soul is summoned to calm his childe. Romance and adventure abounds. Through it all, Draco comes to terms with his old life and his new one. This is mainly Draco's POV, though it is in third person.
Warnings: Slash, spoilers books 1-5, INSANE VAMPIRE!SPIKE, EVIL!BUFFY BTVS AU style
A/N:Yes, Buffy is AU. Everything has happened. A few differances, though. 1)Dawn is not the key. 2)Dawn is Buffy's twin sister. Buffy is ten minutes older. 3)Spike's chip is long gone. He is not crushing after Buffy. He is Dawn's best friend and stays to help her and her friends. 4)Xander and Anya never got together(yes!Im gonna pair Xan up with someone else, got a problem with that?) 5)This is set in season five. 6)There are more that I cant remember. If I do, I'll list them.
A/N 2: I will likely make a few chapters songfics, but not all. I believe music is the key to the soul and the key to my fics. A/N 3: I have a sequal already being planned for this one, as we speak. It will try and feature as a Harry POV. I will need suggestions for the title. Please, help! If you want, in the next chapter, I'll even post a short section of the sequal I have stuck in my head, LOL.
On with the fic!
Chapter 1: Where am I?
I packed. I choose very few clothes, a potion or two, some money, a few books, and my wand. I spent a few minutes to write to you and a few other people letters. I put them in an envolope addressed to Dumbledore. I left the rest of my belongings. I walked to the edge of Hogwart's boundries. I took one last look at the Hogwarts grounds and appearated to an unknown location.- From Running Away
Draco looked at his very strange surroundings. He sighed and put his wand in his robes. "Where in Merlin's name am I?" He wondered outloud. He saw a clear nightsky. There were tombstones all around him. A mosullem was to his right.
"Oi!" A british male voice called to Draco's right. Draco swiviled around. A man in mugle clothes was standing there. Draco looked closer. The man looked familiar. Draco jumped in suprise when light fell across the man's face from a doorway behind him. Holy Hell! He looks like he could be my father! Draco thought wildly.
"Spike! Jez, come back in!" A young American female voice called from inside the doorway. The man, Spike, turned. A woman, who looked about 18 stepped out of the door. She looked at Draco, then Spike, then back to Draco. She fired off questions. " Who are you? What are you? Why are you here? Wh.."
Spike interupted by grabbing the girl's shoulders and shaking her a little. He looked her in the eyes. "Dawn. Calm. Down." The girl took some deep breaths and turned back to Draco with a small smile. "So, spill"
Draco raised an eyebrow, a trick he had learned from his godfather. When Dawn didn't even blink, Draco sighed and gave in. "My name is Draco..." Draco stopped. He would -not- use that last name. He looked at Spike and explained, "I don't...I disowned my father after a few...things happened. I don't want to use my old last name. Ever. Again." He made it very clear.
Dawn shrugged. "It's ok. Alot of people here only use first names or nicknames. Spike, Angel, Darla, Dru, Faith, Anya. I don't even know those people's last names." She grinned.
Her and Spike said at the same time, "But that doesn't keep me from trying." Dawn glared at Spike, who gave her an innocent look. He grinned and shugged. Dawn rolled her eyes at him.
She turned back to Draco. "Well, Draco. That means 'Dragon' in latin, right?" Draco nodded, not seeing the point in knowing what is name meant. "Great! My name is Dawn Summers and my friend over here is Spike I-have-no-last-name." She grinned at her joke. Both men just blinked at her. She stuck her tounge out at them. "Aw! No fun!" She took on a serious expression, "Next question. What are you"
Draco blinked owlishly for a second. He could answer this a few ways. Wizard, human, 1/4 Veela, or 'A Malfoy', whis is how he -used- to answer. He combed his hands though his hair and laughed nervously. "Last time I checked, I was a human"
Dawn exchanged a look with Spike. She unclasped her necklace. She yelled, "Catch!" and threw it to Draco.
Draco caught it. He looked at it curiously. It was a small silver cross on a thin chain. His intrest rose. Why had they thrown a cross at him? Maybe they were vampire hunters? Draco tossed it back to Dawn. She caught it and put it back around her neck.She sighed. "At least you're not a va..." She trailed off as her eyes widened.
Draco grinned, now. "Not a vampire?" He asked. Dawn only nodded numbly. "I thought you might be vampire hunters when you tossed me the cross"
Spike asked, "What do you know about vampires"
Draco thought about his DADA and CoMC lessons on Vampires. "Vampires are creatures that are mixed breeds. They are humans that have been given a demon. The human dies and the demon takes over the body. They must drink blood to survive. They can die of starvation. They cannot be in direct sunlight. Holy water and crosses are harmful, but not deadly. Wooden stakes though the heart, fire and beheading are a few ways to kill them. When they die, they turn to dust, no matter how newly risen. Some think this is because once the demon blood spreads in the body, it is unstable with the remaining human in the body. Over time, it slowly stabilizes. In fact, older vampires have been known to leave whole skeltons behind.
"The soul of the human that the vampire possesses does not in fact, leave. The soul and demon 'meld' and make the vampire. The problem is that both sides try to be dominant, causing the problems with sunlight, holy water, crosses and fire. If both sides were to 'combine', so to speak, then the bampire would be like a human just with an extened lifetime. Oh, I believe that 'dust' would no longer happen either, it would be a normal body. They would still drink blood, have the strenth, speed and stanima that goes with it, as well as the extended age. The violent tendencies and the need to drink as much would be illiminated, however.
"Vampires hearts do not beat, nor do tier lungs work. Thier blood, somehow goes from thier stomach, to thier veins. Most likely, the demon does this. Vampires can eat other things and enjoy them. They cannot tast food as well as humans. Blood has 'taste' to it. It carries not only a person's feelings and emothions at that time by thier life story and powers as well. That is why they enjoy human blood more than animal. It is also why other food tastes like sawdust to them. After such intense food like that, they are unable to taste any other. That is why they cause intense pain, fright and sometimes sexual emotions in thier victims. It makes the emotions higher, taste bettter."
Draco stopped and looked at the others. They both were gaping. Draco blushed. "It's mostly theory. I can't prove any of it"
Spike rasped, "Did you write a bleeding book on the subject?"
Dawn hit him on the shoulder. She turned back to Draco. "You know more than Giles!" She said excitedly. Draco gave her a confused glance. Dawn noticed and grinned. "Oh, it's a complement, trust me. You have to meet Giles." She nodded to herself.
She turned back to Spike."I'm taking Drao to see Giles. You wanna come along?" Spike shrugged. Dawn grabbed Draco's elbow and dragged him along.
She chattered about college, her sister, her friends, Giles and Spike. Spike and Draco exchanged amused glances. Draco listened intently.
Where ever he was, he wanted to stay.
