Welcome to the Hellmouth, Teenage Wizard Style chapter 4
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Last time:
Buffy Summers saw the two cute new boys when she and her friends came around the corner. They were sitting on a bench, looking somewhat bored, when she spotted them. Oh, they were so cute. Adjusting her hair and smoothing out her clothes unconsciously, she watched them. Mmmm, not cute but HOT. Especially the blond one.
Making up her mind, she started over. Someone needed to say hi and welcome to Sunnydale High. She dragged the shy Willow after her, who tried to drag her heels. No not this time sister. She was determined to drag Willow out of her shell.
This time:
Willow saw where Buffy's gaze was going and automatically knew what she was thinking and what she was going to do. Sure enough, she was right. Buffy adjusted and smoothed out her clothes and started walking their way, grabbing Willow's arm and dragging her unwillingly toward the two boys. Willow tried to resist, but her meager strength was nothing against the strength of a Slayer. She was dragged after the blond, fighting the whole way.
As they approached (well Buffy approached and Willow was dragged), the dark haired boy looked up at them. His green eyes examined them, very quickly sliding from one to the other. An emotion that they didn't recognize flashed through his eyes and he glanced at his companion. The blond nodded once at him, silently communicating something that only they knew. The whole exchange only took seconds, and it was during this time that Buffy, walking quickly (and dragging the unwilling and shy Willow behind her) was able to reach them.
"Hey! Are you new? I'm Buffy." Buffy was able to get out, met with the blue eyes of the blond, who was looking at her with a different expression that she didn't recognize. Those eyes made her freeze, and what she was going to say was thrown out of the window. The dark haired boy nudged his friend, and the blue eyes moved to Willow, freeing her from his spell. A grin appeared on his face, just a small grin.
"Yes, just moved to town. So, Buffy…that's a…different name. I'm Draco Black." Laughs from the dark haired boy made his eyes narrow and focus on the culprit, somehow knowing, perhaps from prolonged exposure to his brother's antics, that he was planning something. "And this buffoon is Harrison."
Grinning at his brother, Harrison stood up and bowed deeply to the ladies. "Charmed, ladies absolutely charmed to meet you. If you so wish, you can call me Harry. Harry the Great, the magnificent, the…"
Draco interrupted what would have been a very long speech. "Harry, stop it!"
Buffy giggled at the fake hurt look that was thrown Draco's way. "I'll let you know, Drakey, that interrupting someone introducing themselves to two such beautiful ladies such as these is considered very rude, in most parts of the world. So," turning to the two named ladies, who were both grinning, "it is very nice to meet you."
Buffy grinned and then nudged Willow. Willow, who had been looking slightly overwhelmed, jumped. "Oh! Oh, hi. I'm Willow."
"Pleasure Mademoiselle." Harry bowed slightly, grinning.
"Are you English? I mean…I heard the accent and thought you were but it may not be the case then…okay shutting up now." Willow got out, slightly relaxing as Harry just grinned at her, not minding in the slightest her babble. Willow, often, got very socially awkward around guys her own age, especially ones that she thought were cute or she even liked. The only guys that she had never been this way around were Xander and Jesse. But Harry didn't seem to be put off by her attitude and babble. It didn't seem to bother him at all.
"Ah, yes. We just moved here from England to the land of the endless sunshine and clear skies." And into the land of the endless night and creatures from nightmares walk. "Our… guardian thought we needed a change of scene." That was one way of putting it.
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Willow, somehow, found herself relaxing around Harry. Somehow, he seemed to put out something that put her at ease that relaxed her. She found herself eagerly talking to him, when she found out his interest in computers. And then, they were off. Off to the computer lab, where Willow had a program that she was describing in detail to Harry. He just nodded and put in his two cents as she talked fast, about something that she was obviously very interested in and had a lot of knowledge about.
As she talked, Harry examined her. He let his magic reach out and engulfs her totally, trying to 'read' her, to get a sense of her. From the reports that had been made of all the Slayer's friends, it was said that she was very powerful and had the potential to be one of the most, if not the most, powerful witches around. But there were also concerns, mainly of the place she had lived and had grown up on. For a witch growing up on the Hellmouth, there were great risks. Many found that they could not control their power, others started to dabble in the dark arts very early on, and others went totally mad. And that was if they even lived to the age where they even had a chance to go mad. If they were not killed or turned by creatures that were drawn to the dark energies of the Hellmouth and therefore to them.
Willow was very powerful. And she had also survived all her years on a Hellmouth, without any idea of her powers. It was amazing. Amazing considering the creatures of the Hellmouth had not taken her yet, sensed her and taken her. Knowing the now-former master of the Hellmouth, appropriately named the Master, he would have taken her if he had had any idea of her existence. But he had not, for that Harry was very glad.
Glad because looking at the beautiful young woman beside him, she was still innocent in so many ways. She literally shone with it. Shone with the best things in life, beauty, love, joy, and happiness. Shy, she might have been, but she was also very intelligent, considering what she was talking about. She sure knew her ways in computers and many other avenues of thought.
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Draco watched the Slayer. There was something very interesting about her. He had no idea what, but something made her stand out. He had seen the memories of a few slayers, through the memories of those gone and passed, but they were all the same. Women, which what they were, no matter how young for they were often forced to grow up very fast by those that were supposed to protect them, and also by the things and situations that they found themselves in. Women that had to fight the darkness, all alone. Sure, they were helped by their Watcher (somewhat) but they had no friends, no one to turn to besides the Watcher. And it wore them down, to the point where they welcomed death.
Buffy Summers was not welcoming death at all. She was doing something that no other, no other recorded one at least, had done. She had made friends, and those friends had been brought into the truth of what was really out there. And when they had found out the truth, they had not hesitated to dive right in. To help fight against the darkness. And she let them help. Another slayer, driven by the brainwashing and ideals of the Council, would have held them back, not allowing them to help, but not Buffy Summers. She was a new type of Slayer, a new type that Draco looked forward to seeing more.
The bell rung, signaling the start of class. Draco sighed. School. Yippee.
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So, how did you like it? I know it was very short, very, very, very, very short. Sorry about that. Oh, and if you would like to tell me what pairings you want, go ahead. I would prefer for you to go to , to my profile and fill out the poll there, but you don't have to.
I am pretty sure I am going to do Harry/Willow, but not sure about Draco. I know that this chapter made it lean toward Buffy, but it doesn't have to. So, it is up between Buffy and Cordelia. If not Draco with Buffy, then Angel.
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