Title: Anywhere but Here

Summary: Buffy runs into Harry at Magnolia Crescent. He learns about the slayers. I originally had more summary but I realized that it was all LIES! i have no idea what's to come. Or do I? Dun dun dun...well you'll just have to read to see what happens. (And the story gets increasingly better with each chapter, I swear!)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything associated with Harry Potter or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they are all possessions of J.K. Rowling and Joss Whedon.

Relationships: Most of the characters will have very undefined and changing relationships. (EDIT: Except that I know who they will all end up with! That is, if I ever get far enough in this story for full relationship and character development...but it will definitely be amusing along the way.) Almost everyone deals with his or her love life, even Dudley!

Magnolia Crescent

The moonlight illuminated the manicured lawns and storybook perfect houses that lined Magnolia Crescent. The soft whistle of the wind broke the serene silence and the footsteps of a young woman could be heard, though the click-clack of her heels was so quiet it was is if she didn't want to disrupt the calmness of the atmosphere. She stopped and sat on a stone bench along the walkway, while swiping her long blonde hair out of her face. She absent-mindedly twirled a stake in her fingers as she thought Wow, I've been in the 'land of the tweed' for a month now and there have only been two vampires! I'm so bored, clearly I've been living on the hellmouth too long…

The woman suddenly stood up abruptly as she heard a rustling in the bushes somewhere behind her. She felt a tingling on the back of her neck alerting her to the fact that she wasn't alone. She walked slowly around the bench and over some bushes in a fighting stance that would give any demon second thoughts before attacking her.

"Come on out, evil thing, I don't bite, that's your job…" She said, still searching for the source of the noise. Come on! she thought, I could do with a bit of action…she smiled, thinking of how Faith, her fellow original slayer, would have interpreted that. She looked around not seeing anyone and was about to assume it was a squirrel or some other little animal when she stepped around a tree. Then she saw it, seated on the ground with his legs stretched out and his back propped up against the tree trunk was a teenage boy, fast asleep.

She almost laughed out loud at the normality of the situation; the kid probably just had a fight with his parents and ran away. Well, at least he's alive she thought, after noticing the rise and fall of his chest. He was kind of cute in a teenager-y way, she decided. Judging by the dark circles under his eyes and the state of his hair, he was probably really stressed out. The peculiar shaped scar on his forehead gave her an uneasy feeling, she didn't want to know how he had gotten it at the moment.

She was about to go over and wake the kid up as his parents were probably worried sick, she would be too if Dawn was still out at one in the morning, when she noticed movement out of the corner of her eye. On the damp grass sat an open brown leather photo album, but the pictures were moving. It was hard to make out much detail from the light of the moon and stars but it looked like a couple on their wedding day and a very happy man. She noticed a flashlight and big dorky glasses on the ground beside it and realized that obviously the boy had been looking at the magical book when he fell asleep.

She was about to pick up the book to observe the mysterious moving photos more clearly when she heard a whimper from the boy. He was obviously having a nightmare, judging by the thrashing of his head and his muttering. When a look of terror struck his face, she bent down and gently shook him by the shoulders. When that didn't work, she squatted in front of him and tried shaking him a bit harder, still to no affect.

"Come on kid, rise and shine!" She said desperately. Sighing in frustration, she thought I wish I at least knew this guy's name! Then she noticed the photo album and thought that maybe the teen's name was in the cover. She pulled it over to her carefully and glanced back at the photo, running her thumb over the handsome laughing man's face, wondering how it was that he was grinning at her. When the groom kissed the bride, she turned to the front of the book before she could let her thoughts once again turn to her love life, or lack there of. Her fling in Rome with the immortal had been fun, but they just didn't click. Anyway, she thought forcefully, this kid is what matters right now. She noticed the name in the book, Harry.

"Harry!" She said loudly, while shaking the boy once again. His face now looked somewhere between terrified and full of grief, a look she recognized all too well. After shouting his name a couple more times and gently lifting up his head and shaking him by the shoulders, he opened a bleary eye.

Well, that was the edited version of my first chapter. I decided that instead of re-posting the whole story and confusing everyone (including myself), I decided just repost the edits along with each chapter. Future chapters will be longer. Hope you enjoy the story. Please Review!

Muchas Amor, Slaygal166