Title: Spikey Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Author: Flick

E-Mail: FinalFantasyFlick@yahoo.com

Summary: Harry Potter with Buffy characters.

Dedication: Hilary for inflicting her love of Spike on me and encouraging me to write...stuff, Sarah who encouraged me to actually pick up a book and read it from start to finish and to everyone who gave me positive feedback for 'A Fluffy Interlude'.

Chapter One

The Vamp Who Lived

Andrew, Warren and Johnathan always believed themselves to be normal. Indeed, despite their somewhat bizarre behaviour at times, they certainly considered themselves more normal than some of the people they knew. They preferred to sit in Warren's basement reading comic books and sometimes playing with their action figures. They, at this point in their lives, wanted nothing to do with some of the strange people who shared their neighbourhood of Sunnydale.

Such a person was Rupert Giles who, on this evening, was taking an unusually late walk through the streets near the house where the three youths lived. However, considering Rupert's normal behaviour, such a late walk was by no means unusual. Neither was the fact that he was not alone tonight. Sat beside the garage of Warren's house was a small rat who seemed to be looking directly at him. Rupert stopped in his tracks to look at the tiny pair of eyes glinting in the moonlight as they fixed themselves in a locked gaze on him. He smiled as if this rat were an old friend of his.

"I might have known you'd be here....Professor Rosenberg" he said, not even trying to lower his voice as he spoke to the rat. Within a soft puff of white smoke, a young red haired woman was now stood where the rat had been. "Hey, Giles" she answered, her soft voice sounding more like a whisper as she approached the older man.

The two of them stood in a moment's silence, Giles looking up at the only lit window of Warren's house. "It's true, isn't it?" the young woman broke the silence filling the air. "The rumours. They're all true."

"Yes, I'm afraid so, Willow" Giles replied, removing his glasses for a minute to expose the signs of age beneath each of his eyes. "Both the good ones...and the bad."

Willow bit her lip before speaking again. It all seemed like so much to take in. How could so much have happened in such short time? "And...the vampire?" she asked almost hesitantly.

"Anya is bringing him" Giles' soft english accent responded.

"Is that such a good idea? Anya isn't exactly the most delicate of people." Willow cocked her head to express her uneasiness regarding Rupert's choice of protagonists in the night's events.

"I hold Anya with the same level of trust that I hold you, Professor Rosenberg."

No sooner had he said this but a bright white light hit the two of them from the starlit sky above them. Willow was convinced she could hear the faint sound of a motorised engine growing louder and louder but before she could convince herself that it was nothing but a passing plane, the motorbike was swooping down in it's descent from the sky and hit the road rather bumpily in front of the witch.

The blonde haired rider removed her goggles to reveal a rather sooty face which beamed a smile upon seeing her two friends. "Willow. Giles." she greeted them both as she hoisted herself off the bike. Slumped back on the back seat was a shirtless blond male who seemed to be asleep and not voluntarily. His face was covered in bruises and there was what seemed to be a deep wound on his chest just about where his heart should be. "He was like that when I found him" Anya explained as she and Willow helped him off the bike. "There was nothing left of the other two but dust."

Willow paused for a moment. So...it was true. They were both gone and now he was left all alone.

"It won't be forever, Willow" Rupert spoke, as if reading her thoughts just by the look on her face. "He'll be back with us before you know it."

And so, the two women left him slumped in the doorway of Warren's house, Giles kneeling over his unconscious form. "Farewell, Spikey Potter. The vamp who lived."

Next to him, he placed a letter addressed to Warren from he, Rupert Giles, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Slaying and Vampirism.