Title: Look Alikes
Author: LavenderGold
Rating: Varies on Chapter
Summary: Draco and Hermione are aurors and go to Sunnydale to fight the demons their and stop the rumored evil there. They meet up with Scoobies only to make friends with the whole lot. At first confusion between Spike and Draco.
Canon: Draco and Hermione are aurors, 20 years of age. Season 5 for Buffy and friends except that Riley is gone. Also Spike loves Buffy and she knows it. So I'm thinking right after the episode "Crush". Draco and Mione can fight as good as Buffy and Spike. Just so you know basic auror training in my case is to know how to fight muggle-wise and magic-wise. Have fun.
A/N: Thank you for the LOVELY reviews. No sarcasm in the lovely part. I swear! Ugh nobody trusts me! Bloody reviewers **realizes they are reading this** I mean such LOVELY reviewers! **LavenderGold punches her evil twin** Sorry. My evil twin is all well evil. **Looks down at it** Well enjoy the story and thanx for the reviews. I'm sooo enjoying this story. Have fun!
Disclaimer: Don't own a bloody thing.
Dedication: To Hannah Spearritt. Erm- she's a friend of mine and she read this without liking Buffy whatsoever **big gasp from the crowds** Yeah I know but she actually liked how I mixed the two things together so I guess I did a pretty good job! So this chappie is all for her. Erm- new dedication for next time! I never dedicate a chapter to the same person twice. Sorry Hannah!
Feedback: I luv reading your guys' feedback reviews take which ever you like better but anyways I apologize if I don't answer or what ever. Erm It's spoilery, Shellie. I think that's your name. Apologize if not. G/Hr isn't my kind of shipping but neither is S/Hr and I have a shipping story for them that is kind of on hold because of this story. I like this story much more. I'll think about Harry and Ron. I have so many ways I can take this story but I take one step at a time and have the story lead me in the right direction. God that sounded less corny in my head. Anyways enjoy. You will enjoy the story! GRRRRR!!!!! AHHHHHHH EVIL TWIN ESCAPED!!! **Gets a shovel and starts pummeling the evil twin**
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*~*~*~*~*~*~* The Magic Box: 4:00 PM *~*~*~*~*~*~*
Hermione and Draco entered the Magic Box. Anya was counting money while Tara Willow and Dawn were sitting at a round table doing what looked like research. Xander Giles and Buffy were nowhere to be seen. Dawn laughed to herself. Everybody looked at her except Anya, who was still counting the money from the cash register.
"You are laughing because?" Willow started.
"It's kind of funny but is combined with a lot of weirdness. I mean every time Spike comes in he's like running in with a blanket on and all smoky but here's another Spike except he's human coming in all normal and everything." Dawn explained.
"Do all American teenagers think like that?" Draco asked.
"Only 15 percent but half of that 15 percent are crazies." Anya answered.
"But I'm not crazy." Dawn added. She looked around the room. "I am so not crazy." She argued. Draco rolled his eyes and went over to the table. Hermione punched him in the arm softly showing him to mind his manners.
"So what's with the books?" Hermione queried with interest. She looked at one of the books and murmured, "Hell goddess?"
"Just extra reading." Willow said. She shifted the book over to herself to keep out of Hermione's sight. Hermione stared at the red head a bit but was interrupted by the main entrance door opening and the smell of something burning. She turned around and saw Spike.
"See what I mean?" Dawn quietly said to the group. She began to laugh. Spike gave her an odd look.
"Dawn can't get over the fact that there is a human Spike and a you Spike." Anya answered for him.
"I have a name you know." Draco stated.
"Of course you do." Anya pretended to agree. Draco was in somewhat rage but let it pass by. The Anya chit was very tact and well not as normal but she was American. Americans are just weird.
"Where's Buffy? Draco told me some interesting stuff about her." Hermione said. Another door opened and out came Buffy, Giles, and a very, very large Xander. "Americans are weird." Hermione thought to herself. Draco was right along with her except he said it aloud and a bit rude,
"You Americans are so weird." Draco insulted in his cold voice. Hermione looked at him in a 'don't-say-that-you-prat-or-else-Buffy's-gunna-beat-you- up' look.
"You get used to it." Giles cleaned his glasses as he plainly stated this.
"He's right you know." Spike supported Giles' comment. Xander was in the oversized suit that made him look like a sumo. He looked at the four Brits and began to complain,
"You British people are weird too! I mean you are over there sipping on tea and eating scones and doing book clubs. Who does book clubs anymore? I mean Oprah doesn't even do that,"
"Actually," Anya interrupted but stopped quickly realizing this isn't the time to prove Xander wrong.
"You should look in a mirror annoying one with sumo suit." Hermione wisecracked.
"Shut up." Xander argued. "Help me Will?" Willow looked at Hermione and cracked a smile and went to Xander. She unzipped the back of the sumo suit and helped Xander get his arms out of the overstuffed sleeves. Spike went over by the staircase that lead up to the balcony of the store and leaned on it. Hermione and Draco sat at the table with the other Scoobies.
"Reminds you a bit of Hogwarts, Mione?" Draco whispered to Hermione. Hermione looked at the table. It did seem awfully similar to the Hogwarts tables in the library. Especially like the table Ron and Harry were at whenever they were researching a big project. Ok, whenever she was researching a big project for her spare time.
Spike heard them again. He is a vampire for Christ's sake. He can see, smell, and hear stuff a lot better than he could when he was human. He enjoyed his little gift, he can hear conversations he wasn't suppose to hear, he can see a whole lot better at night, and he could also smell Buffy's scent without being too close to her. He went back to reality and saw that they were already in a discussion and asking questions.
"What's an auror?"
"Why are you here?"
"Where did you get your cool eyebrow scar?"
"Whom do you work for?"
"Where are you staying now?"
The questions kept on pouring in but Draco remembered what Hermione told him not to answer any of their questions. They are the aurors, they should be asking the questions. They smiled at each other and continued to stay quiet. Finally the Scoobies realized what the two of them were doing, they all shut up wondering why they weren't answering any of their questions.
"We won't answer anything until you all tell us why you all are helping the slayer, and reading about hell goddesses." Hermione smirked. Draco smiled at Hermione. They were in charge. Nobody was going to come up and take that position from them. Buffy looked at Giles and Will then finally at Dawn. Spike was in the same position, waiting to see what was going to happen. This is way better than watching Passions.
"We aren't going to tell you anything." Buffy said with a frightening tone in her voice. She folded her arms making it final.
"Then we don't have any business here." Draco nudged Hermione showing that it was time to go. They got up and went to the door exit. Draco then stopped and thought he saw something. It's impossible, she couldn't. Draco walked up to the table and looked at Dawn. There was nothing there but he just saw her, differently though.
"Let's go Draco." Hermione insisted. Draco turned around and went to Hermione. He wanted to tell her but couldn't. He looked at the corner of his eye and saw Dawn differently again.
"Stop staring at my sister like that." Buffy demanded. She was getting scared. Maybe they were working for Glory. Maybe they were after Dawn.
"Dawn's different isn't she?" Draco finally queried.
"Why are you here?" Buffy insisted.
"We aren't saying anything." Hermione reminded the slayer. Buffy began to walk up to the two strangers. Anya got between them though.
"I got an idea! How about we take turns." Anya suggested.
"An hun. We had a discussion about this," Xander started.
"No I mean like take turns asking and answering questions or we could have Buffy tie them up and we can get the answers out of them." Anya explained.
"Is it just me or did Anya have a good idea?" Buffy inquired the group. Anya looked very ecstatic. "Let's tie them up."
Draco and Hermione were reaching for their wands waiting for Buffy to attack. Giles gave Buffy a cross look. The slayer sighed and backed off. Draco and Hermione looked at each other and left their wands inside their coat pockets. The two of them walked with caution back to the table. Draco took a couple glances at Dawn hoping to see her different again.
"So we do the questions now?" Willow asked the group. Everybody nodded. Giles decided to start off the conversation,
"What is auror training?" Hermione and Draco didn't know how to answer this. They were sworn not to tell anybody about their magical community.
"It's a program when you learn how to defend yourself from demons and are eligible to become and auror." Hermione answered. This was all true so far.
"What's an," Giles started but Anya interrupted him,
"One question at a time."
"What's with the books on the hell goddess?" Hermione asked before Draco could. 'Not yet' she mouthed out to him.
"Ex," Willow started but Draco interrupted her,
"Don't start with that extra reading rot. We told you the truth, tell us the truth." Willow sighed.
"Glory is the big bad. She's a goddess from hell and well she can kick Buffy's ass. We have nothing on her except that." Willow said. She left the Key part out. Nobody else besides the Scoobies were going to find out that Dawn is the Key.
"Big Bad is the bad evil that's going on." Anya told Hermione.
"You gave them extra information!" Xander complained.
"I could give them more. I mean you're little codes like Scoobies, Big Bad, bollocks..." Anya started.
"Actually we know what bollocks means." Draco said. Anya rolled her eyes,
"Well then you don't need me."
"How did you get your scar?" Dawn darted off. Buffy scolded her for asking such a dumb question. Draco cracked a smile.
"Could of mistaken me for the famous Harry Potter." He smirked to Hermione. She giggled a bit. Draco looked at Dawn and retorted, "I got it from a battle between my dad and an evil," Draco stopped. He looked at Hermione sympathetically.
"He got it from an evil demon. He was like our Big Bad." Hermione tried to explain.
"But from his dad too?" Dawn insisted to know about this.
"He was a follower of this demon and wanted me to be a follower of it too. I refused so I became a target. I really didn't want the world to end, liked it the way it was so I ended up joining the brave and loyal trio. Big battle, got hit a couple of times but my dad took out a sword and sliced my eyebrow a bit. We won. The end. We saved the world." At first Draco carried a blank expression but got more comfortable with the little story. "Why do you want to know?" He asked. Hermione knew that Draco wanted to know about Dawn, so did she, but not now. Maybe later when these people trust them some more.
"Oh because Spike has one too but I don't know how he got it. It looks kind of like yours except your scar is on you right eyebrow." Dawn answered. Draco looked at Spike's left eyebrow and saw it. Freaky. They even had similar scars. It was like looking into a mirror. Hermione smiled at Draco a bit, it was exactly like looking into a mirror, except that Spike looked like he was in his mid 20's when Draco just reached them.
"Our turn, what's an auror?" Giles asked.
"An auror is kind of like a detective. We solve crimes that deal with dark magiks and demons." Hermione responded. That sounded about right. Draco was desperate to ask about Dawn. He was just about to ask until Hermione kicked his leg. "Buffy, how long have you been a slayer?"
"About six years. Maybe five and three quarters but that would be way too technical." She smiled. She was beginning to trust Hermione, maybe not Draco, but that's because he looks too much like Spike. Hermione was amazed.
"You must be the longest living slayer, ever." Hermione assumed. Buffy nodded. She knew this of course. Buffy read some of the Watcher Journals. Their slayers only lasted a year, lucky if for two. Faith was living because she was in jail. No Big Bad to fight there except her horny cellmates.
"Why are you here?" Spike asked. He knew this wasn't the real question he wanted to ask but maybe later, in a more private area.
"Boss sent us. Said he detected evil energy around here." Hermione paused for a moment, "More evil energy than your regular hellmouth evil energy."
"You know what the hellmouth is?" Tara inquired. Hermione and Draco nodded.
"Remember the whole, we solve cases dealing with demons and dark magik." Draco reminded Tara. Hermione looked around the Magic Box. It was very primitive. Not the setup but the tools in it. She saw potion ingredients and cauldrons but she also saw pentagrams and incense burners. Those things were never used in today's magic. It looked like they owned the shop so she decided to pop the question,
"Does anybody do magic here? Like Mr. Giles or Anya?" Hermione asked. Willow and Tara looked at each and grinned.
"We do magic." Willow spoke for Tara and herself. She looked really excited. Hermione was surprised. She never heard of a couple of witches helping out the slayer. She then got curious,
"What school did you go to?" Anya was about to interrupt until Tara came in,
"No, we don't mind the extra questions. I didn't live here for high school. I was off somewhere else but Willow went to Sunnydale High." Hermione didn't even think, she just blurted out,
"Sunnydale High? That's not a magic school." Draco stared at Hermione hard like she was a moron or something.
"There are magic schools? That is soooo cool!" Dawn stated in her oh so American teenage voice. Hermione knew she blew their cover. Well at least her cover.
"So you are both witches?" Xander asked. He then thought for a while and pleaded, "Oh god please tell me not both of you are witches."
"No you prat. I'm a wizard." Draco said. Hermione knew Draco did that on purpose. He grinned mischievously. The git, blowing their cover, but nobody in this room did look all that normal. Willow and Tara are witches, Spike's a vampire, Buffy's the slayer, and Dawn was different somehow. Mr. Giles, Anya, and Xander all looked normal but seemed to be helping the slayer out anyways.
"A wizard? A guy into Wicca, you two don't do spells together. Do you?" Xander asked.
"Yes, we do spells together all the time. In dim light with incense around the room and use each other's energy to conduct a spell." Draco taunted. Xander was buying it all.
"Show of hands who had a bad mental image." Xander said. Everybody in the room except Anya Spike and Giles raised their hands. "An, usually this is a thing where you raise your hand."
"No! They are a real wizard and witch." Anya argued. She went up to Draco and pulled his wand out of his coat pocket. "They have wands and stuff!"
"Hello! We're witches and we don't use wands." Willow waved her hand. Spike went out of his leaning position and stood up fully. He obviously knew what Anya was talking about,
"Wicca is an amateur type of magic, all about mind control. For these two though, magic comes to them easily. They don't have to try. They just say a couple words and wallah! Instantly done whereas you two have to prep up to do a spell." Spike explained. He probably could have included a little embarrassing comment but he decided to spare the witches.
"So how does Captain Peroxide seem to know all of this?" Xander asked. God he was becoming annoying with the questions. Also Captain Peroxide? How long did it take him to make that ingenious name up?
"For your information I seem to be 120 some years old. You never thought I ate a wizard? Please, even Angelus knows this stuff." Spike ridiculed.
"What about you Anya, Giles?" Buffy asked her ex-watcher and the ex vengeance demon.
"Before I went into vengeance, I used to be a witch. I went to Durmstrang, even if it was further away than Hogwarts or Beuxbatons. At least I could understand what they were saying. Wasn't exactly good with my English." Anya clarified. Buffy nodded pretending that she knew what Anya was talking about. She turned to Giles then.
"I too used to be a wizard. I went to Hogwarts, best school to learn magic there. Too bad I dropped out." Giles felt sorry for himself.
"You dropped out?" Hermione questioned. Giles nodded.
"Oh! That's because your dad wanted you to become a watcher and you didn't want to and got on the demon-worshipping streak and went all 'grr argh!' and then you decided to be all good and you became a watcher and I'm babbling so I'll shut up." Willow prattled.
"Vengeance? How can you go into vengeance?" Hermione asked. Anya looked very excited to explain but Draco spared the group of going into a nine- hour presentation of Anya becoming a vengeance demon.
"Vengeance demon pet. Thought you were smart." Draco smirked.
"I know what a vengeance demon is but she doesn't look like a vengeance demon. Also vengeance demons wouldn't be helping the slayer." Hermione said.
"You guys don't kill all demons do you? Because if you do, I'm not a demon!" Anya, the ever wordsmith tried to cover herself up.
"We only kill threatening demons. We aren't prejudice, we're aurors." Hermione explained. Anya was scared that they were going to stick a sword through her or something, so she quickly changed the subject.
"Can we see a spell?" Anya queried.
"Sure, why not? How about something original." Hermione took out her wand and pointed it to Xander, "Coligietto." Xander soon turned into a black hare, a rabbit. Anya soon screamed and backed away.
"You evil person! Why did you do that?" Anya shouted. Hermione was offended and confused.
"What did I do?" She whined.
"Don't worry, it's not your fault. She's erm- bunnyphobic." Giles explained. Draco tried to hold back laughter. Hermione felt horrible,
"Gerumanie." She muttered. The black bunny soon turned into the regular Xander. Anya ran up to him and hugged him tight.
"Don't do that ever again." Anya commanded.
"Was I a rabbit?" Xander asked the group. Hermione nodded.
"Yes! It was awful! You were black too! A black evil fuzzy monster. I think I'm traumatized for life." Anya complained.
"Maybe I should be changed into a rabbit more often." Xander sarcastically joked. Anya hit him on the arm.
"Thank you for those horrible nightmares!" Anya exasperated. The little episode was very comedic to Hermione and Draco. Never in their wizarding lifes did they see a bunnyphobic demon.
"Sun's setting." Buffy pointed out. She was right. They spent a full two hours talking about each other's lifes. "We better start patrolling." Spike looked like he was ready to go but Buffy stopped him. "I meant Hermione and Draco, not you Spike. I want to show them around the hellmouth." Buffy insisted.
"Alright then. No patrolling for me." Spike said. He grabbed his blanket and went next to the door. He went outside and stayed in the shadows. It was six o clock now so it was late enough to go outside and not get turned into a French fried Spike.
"You want us to patrol with you?" Draco asked. Buffy nodded.
"Can I go patrolling with you guys too?" Dawn queried. Buffy looked at her in a 'you-know-you're-not-going-to-be-able-to-patrol-until-you're-never' way. "Ok! No patrolling for me. I'm going home to do my homework.
"Will, can you," Buffy started.
"Already on it. Come Dawn, off to conquer the math homework. Wish to join us my lady?" Willow role-played. She offered her two arms to Dawn and Tara. Dawn let out a giggle and grabbed her bag. Tara took Willow's arm and off they went to the Summers' home.
"So we patrol?" Hermione inquired.
"We patrol, as soon as I get the weapons." Buffy retorted.
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A/N 2: I didn't let all of the secrets out. I just let some itsy bitsy ones. Like I mean they were going to find out about Tara and Willow being wiccas in this chappie or chappie 4 after patrolling. I was going to do this totally differently but I like this version better and no way am I going to show you the alternate chapter! Patrolling with Draco and Hermione in next chapter. This chapter was originally 14 pages but I cut it in half. Sorry that you guys have to wait for a few days or until I get 20 reviews. So please review. Make me feel loved and liked! LoL! No literally please review! PLEASE!!!! I know you want to review this story! LoL! Next chappie up as soon as the reviews hit 20 or in 2 days. Cheers!
Author: LavenderGold
Rating: Varies on Chapter
Summary: Draco and Hermione are aurors and go to Sunnydale to fight the demons their and stop the rumored evil there. They meet up with Scoobies only to make friends with the whole lot. At first confusion between Spike and Draco.
Canon: Draco and Hermione are aurors, 20 years of age. Season 5 for Buffy and friends except that Riley is gone. Also Spike loves Buffy and she knows it. So I'm thinking right after the episode "Crush". Draco and Mione can fight as good as Buffy and Spike. Just so you know basic auror training in my case is to know how to fight muggle-wise and magic-wise. Have fun.
A/N: Thank you for the LOVELY reviews. No sarcasm in the lovely part. I swear! Ugh nobody trusts me! Bloody reviewers **realizes they are reading this** I mean such LOVELY reviewers! **LavenderGold punches her evil twin** Sorry. My evil twin is all well evil. **Looks down at it** Well enjoy the story and thanx for the reviews. I'm sooo enjoying this story. Have fun!
Disclaimer: Don't own a bloody thing.
Dedication: To Hannah Spearritt. Erm- she's a friend of mine and she read this without liking Buffy whatsoever **big gasp from the crowds** Yeah I know but she actually liked how I mixed the two things together so I guess I did a pretty good job! So this chappie is all for her. Erm- new dedication for next time! I never dedicate a chapter to the same person twice. Sorry Hannah!
Feedback: I luv reading your guys' feedback reviews take which ever you like better but anyways I apologize if I don't answer or what ever. Erm It's spoilery, Shellie. I think that's your name. Apologize if not. G/Hr isn't my kind of shipping but neither is S/Hr and I have a shipping story for them that is kind of on hold because of this story. I like this story much more. I'll think about Harry and Ron. I have so many ways I can take this story but I take one step at a time and have the story lead me in the right direction. God that sounded less corny in my head. Anyways enjoy. You will enjoy the story! GRRRRR!!!!! AHHHHHHH EVIL TWIN ESCAPED!!! **Gets a shovel and starts pummeling the evil twin**
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*~*~*~*~*~*~* The Magic Box: 4:00 PM *~*~*~*~*~*~*
Hermione and Draco entered the Magic Box. Anya was counting money while Tara Willow and Dawn were sitting at a round table doing what looked like research. Xander Giles and Buffy were nowhere to be seen. Dawn laughed to herself. Everybody looked at her except Anya, who was still counting the money from the cash register.
"You are laughing because?" Willow started.
"It's kind of funny but is combined with a lot of weirdness. I mean every time Spike comes in he's like running in with a blanket on and all smoky but here's another Spike except he's human coming in all normal and everything." Dawn explained.
"Do all American teenagers think like that?" Draco asked.
"Only 15 percent but half of that 15 percent are crazies." Anya answered.
"But I'm not crazy." Dawn added. She looked around the room. "I am so not crazy." She argued. Draco rolled his eyes and went over to the table. Hermione punched him in the arm softly showing him to mind his manners.
"So what's with the books?" Hermione queried with interest. She looked at one of the books and murmured, "Hell goddess?"
"Just extra reading." Willow said. She shifted the book over to herself to keep out of Hermione's sight. Hermione stared at the red head a bit but was interrupted by the main entrance door opening and the smell of something burning. She turned around and saw Spike.
"See what I mean?" Dawn quietly said to the group. She began to laugh. Spike gave her an odd look.
"Dawn can't get over the fact that there is a human Spike and a you Spike." Anya answered for him.
"I have a name you know." Draco stated.
"Of course you do." Anya pretended to agree. Draco was in somewhat rage but let it pass by. The Anya chit was very tact and well not as normal but she was American. Americans are just weird.
"Where's Buffy? Draco told me some interesting stuff about her." Hermione said. Another door opened and out came Buffy, Giles, and a very, very large Xander. "Americans are weird." Hermione thought to herself. Draco was right along with her except he said it aloud and a bit rude,
"You Americans are so weird." Draco insulted in his cold voice. Hermione looked at him in a 'don't-say-that-you-prat-or-else-Buffy's-gunna-beat-you- up' look.
"You get used to it." Giles cleaned his glasses as he plainly stated this.
"He's right you know." Spike supported Giles' comment. Xander was in the oversized suit that made him look like a sumo. He looked at the four Brits and began to complain,
"You British people are weird too! I mean you are over there sipping on tea and eating scones and doing book clubs. Who does book clubs anymore? I mean Oprah doesn't even do that,"
"Actually," Anya interrupted but stopped quickly realizing this isn't the time to prove Xander wrong.
"You should look in a mirror annoying one with sumo suit." Hermione wisecracked.
"Shut up." Xander argued. "Help me Will?" Willow looked at Hermione and cracked a smile and went to Xander. She unzipped the back of the sumo suit and helped Xander get his arms out of the overstuffed sleeves. Spike went over by the staircase that lead up to the balcony of the store and leaned on it. Hermione and Draco sat at the table with the other Scoobies.
"Reminds you a bit of Hogwarts, Mione?" Draco whispered to Hermione. Hermione looked at the table. It did seem awfully similar to the Hogwarts tables in the library. Especially like the table Ron and Harry were at whenever they were researching a big project. Ok, whenever she was researching a big project for her spare time.
Spike heard them again. He is a vampire for Christ's sake. He can see, smell, and hear stuff a lot better than he could when he was human. He enjoyed his little gift, he can hear conversations he wasn't suppose to hear, he can see a whole lot better at night, and he could also smell Buffy's scent without being too close to her. He went back to reality and saw that they were already in a discussion and asking questions.
"What's an auror?"
"Why are you here?"
"Where did you get your cool eyebrow scar?"
"Whom do you work for?"
"Where are you staying now?"
The questions kept on pouring in but Draco remembered what Hermione told him not to answer any of their questions. They are the aurors, they should be asking the questions. They smiled at each other and continued to stay quiet. Finally the Scoobies realized what the two of them were doing, they all shut up wondering why they weren't answering any of their questions.
"We won't answer anything until you all tell us why you all are helping the slayer, and reading about hell goddesses." Hermione smirked. Draco smiled at Hermione. They were in charge. Nobody was going to come up and take that position from them. Buffy looked at Giles and Will then finally at Dawn. Spike was in the same position, waiting to see what was going to happen. This is way better than watching Passions.
"We aren't going to tell you anything." Buffy said with a frightening tone in her voice. She folded her arms making it final.
"Then we don't have any business here." Draco nudged Hermione showing that it was time to go. They got up and went to the door exit. Draco then stopped and thought he saw something. It's impossible, she couldn't. Draco walked up to the table and looked at Dawn. There was nothing there but he just saw her, differently though.
"Let's go Draco." Hermione insisted. Draco turned around and went to Hermione. He wanted to tell her but couldn't. He looked at the corner of his eye and saw Dawn differently again.
"Stop staring at my sister like that." Buffy demanded. She was getting scared. Maybe they were working for Glory. Maybe they were after Dawn.
"Dawn's different isn't she?" Draco finally queried.
"Why are you here?" Buffy insisted.
"We aren't saying anything." Hermione reminded the slayer. Buffy began to walk up to the two strangers. Anya got between them though.
"I got an idea! How about we take turns." Anya suggested.
"An hun. We had a discussion about this," Xander started.
"No I mean like take turns asking and answering questions or we could have Buffy tie them up and we can get the answers out of them." Anya explained.
"Is it just me or did Anya have a good idea?" Buffy inquired the group. Anya looked very ecstatic. "Let's tie them up."
Draco and Hermione were reaching for their wands waiting for Buffy to attack. Giles gave Buffy a cross look. The slayer sighed and backed off. Draco and Hermione looked at each other and left their wands inside their coat pockets. The two of them walked with caution back to the table. Draco took a couple glances at Dawn hoping to see her different again.
"So we do the questions now?" Willow asked the group. Everybody nodded. Giles decided to start off the conversation,
"What is auror training?" Hermione and Draco didn't know how to answer this. They were sworn not to tell anybody about their magical community.
"It's a program when you learn how to defend yourself from demons and are eligible to become and auror." Hermione answered. This was all true so far.
"What's an," Giles started but Anya interrupted him,
"One question at a time."
"What's with the books on the hell goddess?" Hermione asked before Draco could. 'Not yet' she mouthed out to him.
"Ex," Willow started but Draco interrupted her,
"Don't start with that extra reading rot. We told you the truth, tell us the truth." Willow sighed.
"Glory is the big bad. She's a goddess from hell and well she can kick Buffy's ass. We have nothing on her except that." Willow said. She left the Key part out. Nobody else besides the Scoobies were going to find out that Dawn is the Key.
"Big Bad is the bad evil that's going on." Anya told Hermione.
"You gave them extra information!" Xander complained.
"I could give them more. I mean you're little codes like Scoobies, Big Bad, bollocks..." Anya started.
"Actually we know what bollocks means." Draco said. Anya rolled her eyes,
"Well then you don't need me."
"How did you get your scar?" Dawn darted off. Buffy scolded her for asking such a dumb question. Draco cracked a smile.
"Could of mistaken me for the famous Harry Potter." He smirked to Hermione. She giggled a bit. Draco looked at Dawn and retorted, "I got it from a battle between my dad and an evil," Draco stopped. He looked at Hermione sympathetically.
"He got it from an evil demon. He was like our Big Bad." Hermione tried to explain.
"But from his dad too?" Dawn insisted to know about this.
"He was a follower of this demon and wanted me to be a follower of it too. I refused so I became a target. I really didn't want the world to end, liked it the way it was so I ended up joining the brave and loyal trio. Big battle, got hit a couple of times but my dad took out a sword and sliced my eyebrow a bit. We won. The end. We saved the world." At first Draco carried a blank expression but got more comfortable with the little story. "Why do you want to know?" He asked. Hermione knew that Draco wanted to know about Dawn, so did she, but not now. Maybe later when these people trust them some more.
"Oh because Spike has one too but I don't know how he got it. It looks kind of like yours except your scar is on you right eyebrow." Dawn answered. Draco looked at Spike's left eyebrow and saw it. Freaky. They even had similar scars. It was like looking into a mirror. Hermione smiled at Draco a bit, it was exactly like looking into a mirror, except that Spike looked like he was in his mid 20's when Draco just reached them.
"Our turn, what's an auror?" Giles asked.
"An auror is kind of like a detective. We solve crimes that deal with dark magiks and demons." Hermione responded. That sounded about right. Draco was desperate to ask about Dawn. He was just about to ask until Hermione kicked his leg. "Buffy, how long have you been a slayer?"
"About six years. Maybe five and three quarters but that would be way too technical." She smiled. She was beginning to trust Hermione, maybe not Draco, but that's because he looks too much like Spike. Hermione was amazed.
"You must be the longest living slayer, ever." Hermione assumed. Buffy nodded. She knew this of course. Buffy read some of the Watcher Journals. Their slayers only lasted a year, lucky if for two. Faith was living because she was in jail. No Big Bad to fight there except her horny cellmates.
"Why are you here?" Spike asked. He knew this wasn't the real question he wanted to ask but maybe later, in a more private area.
"Boss sent us. Said he detected evil energy around here." Hermione paused for a moment, "More evil energy than your regular hellmouth evil energy."
"You know what the hellmouth is?" Tara inquired. Hermione and Draco nodded.
"Remember the whole, we solve cases dealing with demons and dark magik." Draco reminded Tara. Hermione looked around the Magic Box. It was very primitive. Not the setup but the tools in it. She saw potion ingredients and cauldrons but she also saw pentagrams and incense burners. Those things were never used in today's magic. It looked like they owned the shop so she decided to pop the question,
"Does anybody do magic here? Like Mr. Giles or Anya?" Hermione asked. Willow and Tara looked at each and grinned.
"We do magic." Willow spoke for Tara and herself. She looked really excited. Hermione was surprised. She never heard of a couple of witches helping out the slayer. She then got curious,
"What school did you go to?" Anya was about to interrupt until Tara came in,
"No, we don't mind the extra questions. I didn't live here for high school. I was off somewhere else but Willow went to Sunnydale High." Hermione didn't even think, she just blurted out,
"Sunnydale High? That's not a magic school." Draco stared at Hermione hard like she was a moron or something.
"There are magic schools? That is soooo cool!" Dawn stated in her oh so American teenage voice. Hermione knew she blew their cover. Well at least her cover.
"So you are both witches?" Xander asked. He then thought for a while and pleaded, "Oh god please tell me not both of you are witches."
"No you prat. I'm a wizard." Draco said. Hermione knew Draco did that on purpose. He grinned mischievously. The git, blowing their cover, but nobody in this room did look all that normal. Willow and Tara are witches, Spike's a vampire, Buffy's the slayer, and Dawn was different somehow. Mr. Giles, Anya, and Xander all looked normal but seemed to be helping the slayer out anyways.
"A wizard? A guy into Wicca, you two don't do spells together. Do you?" Xander asked.
"Yes, we do spells together all the time. In dim light with incense around the room and use each other's energy to conduct a spell." Draco taunted. Xander was buying it all.
"Show of hands who had a bad mental image." Xander said. Everybody in the room except Anya Spike and Giles raised their hands. "An, usually this is a thing where you raise your hand."
"No! They are a real wizard and witch." Anya argued. She went up to Draco and pulled his wand out of his coat pocket. "They have wands and stuff!"
"Hello! We're witches and we don't use wands." Willow waved her hand. Spike went out of his leaning position and stood up fully. He obviously knew what Anya was talking about,
"Wicca is an amateur type of magic, all about mind control. For these two though, magic comes to them easily. They don't have to try. They just say a couple words and wallah! Instantly done whereas you two have to prep up to do a spell." Spike explained. He probably could have included a little embarrassing comment but he decided to spare the witches.
"So how does Captain Peroxide seem to know all of this?" Xander asked. God he was becoming annoying with the questions. Also Captain Peroxide? How long did it take him to make that ingenious name up?
"For your information I seem to be 120 some years old. You never thought I ate a wizard? Please, even Angelus knows this stuff." Spike ridiculed.
"What about you Anya, Giles?" Buffy asked her ex-watcher and the ex vengeance demon.
"Before I went into vengeance, I used to be a witch. I went to Durmstrang, even if it was further away than Hogwarts or Beuxbatons. At least I could understand what they were saying. Wasn't exactly good with my English." Anya clarified. Buffy nodded pretending that she knew what Anya was talking about. She turned to Giles then.
"I too used to be a wizard. I went to Hogwarts, best school to learn magic there. Too bad I dropped out." Giles felt sorry for himself.
"You dropped out?" Hermione questioned. Giles nodded.
"Oh! That's because your dad wanted you to become a watcher and you didn't want to and got on the demon-worshipping streak and went all 'grr argh!' and then you decided to be all good and you became a watcher and I'm babbling so I'll shut up." Willow prattled.
"Vengeance? How can you go into vengeance?" Hermione asked. Anya looked very excited to explain but Draco spared the group of going into a nine- hour presentation of Anya becoming a vengeance demon.
"Vengeance demon pet. Thought you were smart." Draco smirked.
"I know what a vengeance demon is but she doesn't look like a vengeance demon. Also vengeance demons wouldn't be helping the slayer." Hermione said.
"You guys don't kill all demons do you? Because if you do, I'm not a demon!" Anya, the ever wordsmith tried to cover herself up.
"We only kill threatening demons. We aren't prejudice, we're aurors." Hermione explained. Anya was scared that they were going to stick a sword through her or something, so she quickly changed the subject.
"Can we see a spell?" Anya queried.
"Sure, why not? How about something original." Hermione took out her wand and pointed it to Xander, "Coligietto." Xander soon turned into a black hare, a rabbit. Anya soon screamed and backed away.
"You evil person! Why did you do that?" Anya shouted. Hermione was offended and confused.
"What did I do?" She whined.
"Don't worry, it's not your fault. She's erm- bunnyphobic." Giles explained. Draco tried to hold back laughter. Hermione felt horrible,
"Gerumanie." She muttered. The black bunny soon turned into the regular Xander. Anya ran up to him and hugged him tight.
"Don't do that ever again." Anya commanded.
"Was I a rabbit?" Xander asked the group. Hermione nodded.
"Yes! It was awful! You were black too! A black evil fuzzy monster. I think I'm traumatized for life." Anya complained.
"Maybe I should be changed into a rabbit more often." Xander sarcastically joked. Anya hit him on the arm.
"Thank you for those horrible nightmares!" Anya exasperated. The little episode was very comedic to Hermione and Draco. Never in their wizarding lifes did they see a bunnyphobic demon.
"Sun's setting." Buffy pointed out. She was right. They spent a full two hours talking about each other's lifes. "We better start patrolling." Spike looked like he was ready to go but Buffy stopped him. "I meant Hermione and Draco, not you Spike. I want to show them around the hellmouth." Buffy insisted.
"Alright then. No patrolling for me." Spike said. He grabbed his blanket and went next to the door. He went outside and stayed in the shadows. It was six o clock now so it was late enough to go outside and not get turned into a French fried Spike.
"You want us to patrol with you?" Draco asked. Buffy nodded.
"Can I go patrolling with you guys too?" Dawn queried. Buffy looked at her in a 'you-know-you're-not-going-to-be-able-to-patrol-until-you're-never' way. "Ok! No patrolling for me. I'm going home to do my homework.
"Will, can you," Buffy started.
"Already on it. Come Dawn, off to conquer the math homework. Wish to join us my lady?" Willow role-played. She offered her two arms to Dawn and Tara. Dawn let out a giggle and grabbed her bag. Tara took Willow's arm and off they went to the Summers' home.
"So we patrol?" Hermione inquired.
"We patrol, as soon as I get the weapons." Buffy retorted.
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A/N 2: I didn't let all of the secrets out. I just let some itsy bitsy ones. Like I mean they were going to find out about Tara and Willow being wiccas in this chappie or chappie 4 after patrolling. I was going to do this totally differently but I like this version better and no way am I going to show you the alternate chapter! Patrolling with Draco and Hermione in next chapter. This chapter was originally 14 pages but I cut it in half. Sorry that you guys have to wait for a few days or until I get 20 reviews. So please review. Make me feel loved and liked! LoL! No literally please review! PLEASE!!!! I know you want to review this story! LoL! Next chappie up as soon as the reviews hit 20 or in 2 days. Cheers!