The Scooby Gang

Book 2: Traveling the What

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Summery: The gang must pull together to face new challenges in their new environment. How will they deal with it? Where the Hell – are they, and is that literal?

Sequel to 'The Scooby Gang Book 1'

Multi-Ships: m/f/f/f/f f/f/f f/f m/f

Crossovers: Harry Potter, Stargate, Honor Harrington, Highlander, and Terminator

Chapter 9: Rescue Bones, Invite Immortals, and kids play with Wolves

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"I'm telling you, Mac! Look…"

Duncan had just arrived with Ritchey, 'He's taken his sweet time as well.'

Amanda knew he was dragging his feet for some odd reason; 'I refuse to accept he thought I wanted him to do a job with me, for old-times sake.'

Looking he asks, "What?"

She smirks and pulls out the sword. Duncan's eyes widen and she slips it back in.

"See!" Amanda was smirking smugly now, "I told you so."

Mac, as his friend called him, reaches out to where he knew the blade was and as soon as he touched it, knowing it was there, he felt the tingling of run through his quickening.

"Jesus Christ Amanda, you were right."

From the door where Ritchey Ryan had stayed (not hid but stayed) for safety sake, he asks, "What is it?"

Mac nods to Amanda and she pulls out the sword. Richey's eyes widen and his voice is laced with awe, "How do you do that? Mac, are you going teach me to do that?"

Amanda smirks just a little, "Sorry Ritchey but this isn't a trick. This is the sheath. I just purchased it about a month and half ago."

She glared at Duncan with that reprimand and the highlander had the grace to at last look sheepish as he asks, "So what's gone on since you called me?"

With a mock innocence clearly point out she asks, "You mean almost a month ago?"

Ritchey was no idiot… well at least he wasn't an idiot all the time and he knew that tone well enough from Tessa when she was not happy with him or Mac usually for them doing something stupid. Ritchey blanches before quickly and smoothly backing out the door behind him mentally taking the excuse to stand vigil out of sight and out of mind but still, he might be able to net some juicy gossip relating to Duncan via the cracked door. Ritchey wasn't sure how much flirting was there between the barbs and recriminations but he was sure he didn't want to be target for their wrath or their inclusion.

About twenty minutes later Ritchey heard Amanda's pager going off and then the gleeful sound of the raven haired highland woman, "He's in an area I can track."

He had to step aside as she rushed out the doorway to the office Ritchey lingering in.

Duncan came in soon after with an aplomb grace, "Hey Ritchey, we've a man to track down."

Rushing to the computer Amanda taps a few keys as the two men watch.

"See here's the map; he's in a completely different area." She frowns, "He's never been there before it's about twenty five miles from the edge of London."

"Well lets go, that's going to take some time get there."

"Not really, this time of night the traffic inside London isn't nearly as bad. We should be able to get there in" she glanced at the watch as the printer printed out the black and white map with dots on it, "forty five minutes, if we push it."

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Xander, Buffy, Angel, Bill, Tonks, and Madeye who had been resting in Grimmauld Place, he'd been spying on the wolf to see if it did work, he was thrilled Remus was alright.

Cordy, Dawn, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were in the observation room that housed Bones' observation scout. Albus had given them a portkey before they left he was the big gun in case Tom showed up but they thought that he might send someone else someplace else if he thought they were loosing.

They landed with a thump outside the wards and Xander grumbles, "Damn Portkeys!"

The others smirk, Bill gets down to business, "The wards are torn but not down, so be careful."

Xander asks, "You're putting up those anti pop out wards right?"

Bill looks over at Xander smirking and rolls his eyes but nods, "Right away, boss."

The boss was said in a mock gangster tone that had Xander wincing. Bill licked his finger and reach up marking off an invisible tally.

Moody growls, "Back to work, Bones can't handle her own for too long without backup."

Bill winces giving the old Auror a nod. Angel stared to move in as did Buffy; they were almost at the door with Xander tagging just behind them. Xander hit the door with three blasts from a Zat, he disliked calling them Zat'nik'tels. The three blasts banish the magic-proof door as if it was hit with a supercharged vanishing spell. Moody wasn't rushing like the younger crowd or at least the younger appearing crowd. He was slow, making his way there keeping an eye focused on what was on the other side of the wall and what magic was in the area.

Buffy moved like a dancer into the field of battle, the first masked man had his wand and then his neck snapped. Angel charged game face on as he too snapped the neck of one of the Deatheaters.

Bones had seen them and sighed with relief as they moved in closer. There were fourteen Deatheaters here; she knew they wanted her badly.

Madeye was at the door and a wall sprung up beside Buffy just in time for a curse to hit it. Angel was hit with a green curse and growled at the man that shot it as he practically flew through the air. Another fell to Xander's Zat and Moody hit one that was trying to sneak up on the boy.

The battle was short and Bill came in just as Xander was tossing a fireball at the bastard that disarmed him. With a whine the Cursebreaker complains, "Man, you guys have all the fun."

Bones turned to Bill Weasley with shocked eyes.

He smirks and shrugs. "Anti Apparition and Anti Portkey wards are up now. I doubt even a house elf could pass the ward line."

"How did you know?" Bones asked Madeye. Tonks entered just then and Bones looked at her, "Tonks?"

"Um, the entire area is secure, I found two Deatheaters waiting outside for confirmation."

"How did you know?" This was asked again but this time in her best Director of DMLE voice.

"Um, we bugged you." Tonks said and shrugged. "We got word they were going to kill you and figured that with bugging them and you we'd be sure to stop it."

Madeye grouses, "Tonks! You and I are going to have a word about Operational Security. You didn't even verify that she was Amelia."

Xander groans, "Damn it Madeye! You should tell us that before we spill the beans."

Amelia was incredulous at that metaphor, "Spill the beans?"

Xander held up a hand, "First…" he pulls out a large paddle looking item and then pushed some magical charge into the rune he'd done to make sure there were no small animagi like Rita or Wormtail around. Best be sure as they weren't tracking them.

Tonks shifted a moment into her natural form and nothing else happened.

"Alright everyone is in their natural form for at least a moment so no bug Animagus or anything flying around. I think that covers Polyjuice too."

The magic had thrown Amelia off kilter a bit, "What was that?"

"A runic aerial affect paddle, I got sick of having to do runes on the fly and so I got a bunch of them at home. Most are blank, this one will be easily sanded another time if I don't want to laminate it and reuse it later."

"Enough chitchat, Bones you want to come with us until you get some better wards up?"

"I think that would be advisable, but my niece…"

Tonks voice breaks with surprise and concern, "She's here?"

Amelia shakes her head, "No, but she's due back in about fifteen minutes."

Amelia didn't say she'd planned on making sure they were wounded enough before giving up, if she couldn't beat them in twelve minutes… just before her niece could return.

"The others won't mind, maybe we should pack up the house, anything you want to bring with you?"

Bones nodded. She glanced at the Deatheaters, most were dead. As she left she saw Xander was now pointing that strange gun thing at them and they were vanishing. Clean-up detail and she saw her Aurors wince. She wouldn't be adding this to any report.

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Susan returns to Ossuary and is utterly shocked, "Auntie?"

The girl rushes her aunt in a hug before starting to cry at the thought of loosing more family.

Amelia softly tells her, "Get your things dear, we're going to be in a safe house for a while."

Susan nods before rushing to her room to get her school trunk and pack it.

Madeye grouched, "We have company!"

Xander frowns as he looked out the doorway. "I know her. She's the woman that bought the sword and sheath."

Bill was surprised, "The ones with all the runes on it?"

Xander nods, "Yea I wonder what she's doing here." He focused on the three intruders and blushes just a bit, "Oh, I guess she was more interested in the sheath then she let on. I didn't know you had immortals here."

Bill looks confused but it's Madeye who asks, "Immortals?"

Xander shrugs, "She's about a thousand years old according to the young man there. He's forty and the dark haired man is Duncan born or found in 1492. They can't be killed unless their head is chopped off and…" he refocused, "They have a number of immortals that are evil, they like to cut off heads of other immortals and steal their power. Duncan is a boyscout with a strict code of personal conduct, both the other two are less moralistic. They aren't opposed to stealing and such but none of them would kill an innocent willingly. If something they did, caused an innocent to die, they'd have all the nightmares and such that good people would."

Madeye asks, "What are going to do about them, they are just outside the wards and how did they track you?"

Xander blushes, "I gather that the woman's money clip has some kind of computer tracking on it. She's not looking to steal but she likes to have more information on individuals before she approached them for any personal work. They want sheaths to carry swords with and the younger one thinks that if magic is real like the older ones say that he would love to hide their quickenings. That's what tells other immortals that they are around and where they are."

"Are you going to help them, I mean it seems they are the good guys…" Buffy asks, "right?"

"Yea, but lets do it on the go. I'll go talk to them."

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Albus was consternated. It seemed Tom was not going to go out. He and the others watched as the spies Severus planted shared a Deatheater meeting which relayed Tom's next orders.

"Obviously Tom believes that there is some spies in his midst."

"Yes sir" Harry said, "He's just ordered the werewolves to be taken to West Country there are giants already there, ready to do some damage and get people out in the streets panicking. We can't let that happen, sir."

"Yes unfortunately you are correct and none of the runic blocks you've been helping to make and use are able to deal with werewolf." He really didn't want to take Harry with him but the boy seemed to sense that. Even the block concussion force would just piss them off, and he was fairly sure the snatchers wouldn't hold against the raging wolf.

"All of us here know the Silver-Dart Spell. I suggest we talk to Remus as well; all of those wolves are on wolfsbane potion. They're doing this with their free will."

Albus sighs, "I'll see if he feels up to it. How many are here now, and how many are in Grimmauld Place?"

"Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Luna Egeria, the five Doyles, Aura, Amy, Michael, Eric, Fleur, Molly, Arthur, Kendra, Cordelia, Emmeline, and Snape are all here or Headquarters."

Willow and Dawn were with Janna and Giles on the Joyce training to fly on their way to Beowulf.

Harry contemplated aloud, "We can send Eric to Mr. Giles to watch, I think Cordelia would rather go with him, and Snape would be best to stay away from any conflict, so that's three out for sure. Counting you and me, there are eighteen people. I'd recommend using a buddy system to pair off, Kendra and Ginny, Hermione and Amy, Allen with Ron, Harriet with Fleur, Egeria with Molly, Arthur with Frank, Emmeline with Nancy, and Luna with Aura. The non-wand users could have crossbows, if you conjure some silver arrows."

Albus raised an eye at that, "And you and I?" he asked with a smile.

Harry shrugged, "It looks like there might be a few magic users with the wolves and if we do take Remus he'll need someone to guard his back and you are the best at transfiguration if he looses control you can conjure a cage that will not only protect innocent bystanders but Remus as well." He smirked a bit, "And if you are doing that you need a magical to guard your back."

Albus nods approvingly, "Very good!"

Harry worked best on the fly but they were getting him to think and prepare and that was going to lead him somewhere, Albus was just unsure as to where.

"Now we must leave at least two pairs here to watch and alert us if we are about to receive more company. The last two pair would be good for that. You feel up to a little field trip Harry?"

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Molly had been furious but seeing as she was outnumbered she just sat and glared at them. Egeria was sympathetic and amused at her partner's antics and softly told her as she patted her cheek with affection, "Oh dear, you do need to let them grow up you know."

"I just…" Molly sighs and whines, "They're only kids!"

Egeria nods and then pulled back the bow and let an arrow fly into one of the targets.

They could make out Ginny and Kendra over at the distance. Kendra had a silver battle axe and Ginny was conjuring silver darts and walls that stopped the flow of the pack. There had to be almost a hundred werewolves. They could make out on the other side that Albus and Harry were with Remus in his wolf form. Remus was taking on a grey haired wolf, she knew who that was; it was Fenrir Greyback. Remus took him down quickly letting his wolf side out to play a bit.

When he'd killed him, Remus shifted half form and howled at the moon. The thirty or so wolves left from the hundred, they howled as well before they fled from the alpha.

The fur covered Remus shouted to Albus, "We need to go Albus, before Tom realizes he's lost the wolves."

Albus nodded.

Thinking on traveling Remus adds, "Could you put a sleeping spell on me before we transport back. I'm not sure I can control myself if I get too disorientated."

"I will Remus, you did well tonight."

Harry went up to him and hugged him, furry and all. Remus was shocked and shifted a bit more human in form.

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Amanda was startled when Xander appeared seemingly out of thin air. She widened her eyes.

Half glaring at her he says, "You were naughty!"

She flushed at the emotion she felt projected with that word.

"I'm Xander and if you really want to see where I live you'll have to come with me when we all go."

Ritchey asks, "Go? Go where?"

Xander smirks, "We're be going by Portkey and as you are somewhat aware of magic; you should know that a Portkey is a magical method of transportation."

Amanda asks, "How did you know we know about magic?"

Xander raises an eyebrow, "Aside from you being naughty?" He sniffs the air as if hurt that she had to ask. "I know lots of things."

Mac warily eyed the man that had a great humor in his eyes.

"You know it would have just been easier if you told me you wanted further contact with me and asked for my phone number, or you could have asked one of the girls, they probably would have given you some method of contact. I mean they did think you were cute."

Xander smirks as she blushes.

"Xander" Buffy came up appearing out thin air. "We're ready, are they coming?"

Duncan looks at Amanda and shrugs, "I guess. If not – Amanda will mostly likely die of curiosity."

Mac smirks as Amanda glares at him.

"That or she really wants to visit with Willow and Cordy. I know she was looking them up and down in the shop." Xander was teasing but Amanda blushes again.

Duncan laughs and nods his head to Xander; he had not been able to humble the thief in quite a long time. It was a relief to know she was able to blush as she was apt in controlling her emotions when she wanted to be.

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The group that handled the werewolves returned before the group who handed the Bones' attack had returned. Remus was in bed, with a ward around his bed to prevent him from leaving the area for eight more hours. That should give him time to sleep it off and no longer have to fight the full moon for his form.

Buffy, seeing everyone in Grimmauld Place, asks, "What's going on? The manor is alright, right?"

"It's fine Buffy" Albus said with a smile, "There was a second attack, the wolves were released. We had to move fast to make sure there was little to no casualties."

"Where's everyone else?"

Hermione answers her. "Cordy and Eric are with Professor Snape or maybe Mr. and Mrs. Giles."

Snape had his one area that he rarely ventured out of in manor. He confessed to Albus that he actually liked it there. He was unsure if it was because of the wards or the silence as nobody there seemed to broadcast their thoughts as they did at school. Snape's Legilimens was not as fine tuned as it could be, usually Legilimens did not hear thoughts but instead would look for and find memories or look for lies in words as they were spoken.

Tonks informs the group, "Well we brought the Bones and some people Xander found."

Albus looked at her worried a touch, "Xander found?"

He was aware that Xander would not bring them if he didn't have a reason to trust them.

Angel told him, "They look normal but Xander says their immortal."

Albus sighs, "Are they out waiting?"

Bill nods. "We thought about knocking them out to bring them in but as you want to tell the Bones where we were anyway…"

Albus went to tell Amelia, she was surprised to see him. "I didn't know you were in charge, Albus." She was not going to ask but the fact that Albus was in charge both worried and reassured her. Albus was not usually so decisive – they had no prisoners.

"Yes, though I don't know if I would call it being in charge so much as a joint effort. The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve Grimmauld Place."

Amelia exclaims in shock, "Fidelius?"

"Indeed, won't you come in?"

Ritchey reacts in shock to seeing two houses being pushed apart to allow a new one to appear, "What the fuck?"

Amelia harshly chastises him, "What your tongue, young man; children are present."

Mac and Amanda smiled at the tone and reprimand, as Ritchey actually looked at the ground and apologized. Ritchey hardly ever apologized. This was a monumental occasion.

Max felt he had to explain the young pupil's reaction and softly tells her, "It is quite a shock, I've known magic was real for a while but to see something so exact and physical isn't something we're use to."

Amelia nods, it was said and done.

The old man that told them the secret and was in robes held out a hand, "I'm Albus."

Xander shares, "This is Duncan, Amanda, and Ritchey!"

Amanda looked startled as they hadn't shared names.

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Susan was quite, she didn't know what was going on. This wasn't like a safe house in any normal sense. She'd expected to sit in her room and do nothing but this was far more exciting. The cute boy that was with her aunt right now didn't seem too much older then her… she wondered if he was seeing anyone. He was fairly comfortable with the blond girl she noticed, but the blond was surely dating the dark haired man. This wasn't like the Aurors they were either friendly or stiff.

"Auntie where to I put my things?" she asked.

"That is a good question." She turned to Albus but the boy interrupted.

"If you want I think she's in the same class as Harry…?" Xander was looking at Albus too.

Amelia was surprised but looked and Albus nodded.

"You want to go see a few of your classmates? We have a few rooms in the Manor still open."

Albus informed Xander, "Harry's in the kitchen. We dealt with the second attack tonight and they used the werewolves."

"Damn it!" Xander curses and them mutters, "I need to work on some method of handling them, I just didn't think they'd use them this time. It's the first full moon they've used the Wolfsbane and I figured he would want to make sure they had control." He shook his head.

Albus smiles slightly, "I don't think that will be a problem, Xander. Remus went with us."

Xander was excited, "It worked, I wasn't sure it would."

"He can transform but it isn't perfect, he requested a sleeping spell before taking the portkey back. But Greyback was beaten in combat and their numbers were more then halved. They won't be returning to Tom's side."

"Good, I hate putting down werewolves."

Albus smiles nodding his agreement and points for Susan, "Through there Miss Bones."

Susan looked to her aunt who nodded with worried lined on her face. She rushed to the kitchen.

"Now tell me that you didn't take school children into battle."

"If I had a choice I would not have. But there was very little magic utilized. Arrows with sliver tips were conjured before hand and as I was with them no warnings were even issued."

"Well that is a relief any Deatheaters there aside from werewolves?"

"No, I will show you in my Pensieve if you wish it. Mr. Potter insisted that he and I be near Remus incase he lost to his wolf side. I gather that he was aware that if Remus could best Fenrir Greyback that he would remove the wolves from Tom Riddle's service."

"Tom Riddle" she hummed, "Voldemort's name?" she asked after a moment.

"Yes" he smiled.

"Where is the rest of the order?" she asked.

"Kinsley is on duty I believe and there are a number of others but most of the order you should know is information gathering not militant intervention. In fact I would say the children were more apt to intervene than the adults, by that I mean skill and cohesive team work."

Xander nods, "I think they've been spending a few hours each day practicing team work, the Pensieve you have at the Manor allowed them to see some of the team work we've done and some of the raids that Kingsley, Tonks, and Arthur have been on."

He nodded.

"What exactly is the issue? Werewolves if they're like the movies" Ritchey asked, "I mean if they are joining this bad guy and I take it that he was a bad guy, and then shouldn't the law step in?"

Amelia winces, "I am the head of the law as it were for magicals at least. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement," she told him, "the DMLE is not very effective against wide spread terror strikes. We are more along the lines of response group to going after and arresting individuals rather then groups. Some are better than others but at the same time there are laws and protocols to follow that restricts our intervention in a non magical area."

Xander spoke up, "Not to mention that she was herself fighting for her life tonight, the same location you found me at."

Amanda nods sheepishly.

"The only casualties tonight were Deatheaters and three non magicals that had their memory wiped of the event after being healed. They weren't bitten yet so there will be no repercussions on that end. They will of course have scars that they don't recall receiving but they are healthy and whole."

She nodded and Ritchey was curious about the entire magical world.

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Smiling Susan shouts, "Harry!"

She was hugging him on sight. Normally Susan wasn't so open, but with her aunt so close to death recently she was overly emotional. Seeing two redheads she hugged them both!

"Ginny, Ron, who else is here?" She was looking around for anyone else she knew that she could obviously hug.

Smiling Harry told her, "Luna, Hermione, and quite a few others. We're getting ready to head back to the Manor. Are you going to come?"

She shrugs, "I'd like that; it feels a bit… dark here."

Harry nods, "This was my godfather's family home. He ran away when he was sixteen and he only came back when the headmaster asked for use of it to run the Order of the Phoenix."

"What is the Order of the Phoenix, that's the second time I've heard that tonight, it sounds familiar."

Softly Ginny lets her know, "Your parents were part of it."

Susan smiles sadly and nods, "Oh!"

She really wished at times she had a mum and dad but her aunt was nice enough, she was family. "I guess that's why I'd have heard about it at some point in time."

"Just a word of caution, my godfather was falsely accused and sent to Azkaban, but if you recall my telling about the Voldemort getting a body the person he was accused of killing was the one that chopped off his hand."

She scrunched of her nose, "Who was that?"

"Peter Pettigrew."

"I thought he was…" her eyes widen and she nods, "Oh, Sirius Black?"

"Yea" he smiled. "Third year he was after Pettigrew who was hiding in plain sight as a common house rat."

Susan was distracted from her recent emotion excitement by the new information and asks, "How did he know where he was?"

Harry smiles, "Fudge had given him a paper with Ron's family on the cover, the rat was on Ron's shoulder showing off his missing claw."

Wide eyed the Hufflepuff gave a proud grin that spoke of loyalty and camaraderie, "So he escaped to save you?"

Harry nods, "Are your ready to go meet him, he's already back at the Manor, he hates it here."

"I guess but let me ask my aunt."

From the doorway Amelia agrees, "You can go. But I do want the memory of that night and I'd also like the memory of the night you met him at Hogwarts. I'll get his name cleared as soon as I can. We have enough Deatheaters we can ask if Peter was seen recently and get the confirmation that he's alive from multiple sources. Fudge was the arresting Auror so he was simply covering his own arse."

Amelia had growled that last bit.

Susan with a slightly smug and pleased expression reprimands, "Auntie, language"

Amelia the unflappable flushes slightly and grins at her niece.

Amanda turns to Xander and sweetly asks, "Are we all invited to this Manor?"

Bantering back Xander nods, "Of course, how else are you going to hit on Willow and Cordelia?"

Amanda blushes slightly but controls it a bit more this time. He smirks and wiggled his eyebrows causing her to lose the fight and blush.

Duncan laughs, "Aye I wouldn't mind relaxing a bit, it doesn't seem quite so inviting here."

He glanced around and the others nodded. They'd removed loads of dark magic but it seemed that it permeated the walls.

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Duncan had felts something right away. It felt different. He'd suddenly felt disconnected when he and the other entered the manor through the strange looking door. He could smell the difference in the air and the feel was a welcoming feeling.

"Amanda, do you feel…" he started to ask and then "disconnected a bit?"

She nodded with a smile. "I usually feel quite a bit… did you notice that you can feel Ritchey and me much stronger than we were before?"

"Aye, I can, I'm not as adept as Connor but I can feel it."

She smiled and looked around, "I also don't feel a need to collect anything of value I see."

He blinked and shrugged, "Aye, they have magic I assume they have some antitheft magics too."

"No we don't. Not here. That is one thing we lacked, but the wards cut off additional influences. Maybe you pissed off some magic user when you were younger and they put a curse on you." Xander offered and shrugged. "Back then there wasn't much in the way of organization so it would have been easy to curse you."

She swallowed at the idea that he knew how old she was.

"How…" he raises an eyebrow as if daring her to ask, "Fine." She sniffed.

Duncan laughs.

"After everyone gets settled I'll go and get Giles, Janna, Willow, and Dawn and we can have a barbeque outside. I'm sure most of us are hungry."

Bones nodded; a nice relaxing sit down with food sounded right at home.

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"Giles are you able to come away for a bit?"

"Yes, we are docked as they call it at Beowulf. We've paid four hundred dollars for a month's rent. That includes basic maintenance and data port, but nothing else."

"That's fine, we have the money for it, was there a reason you did for the whole month it sounded like we could rent it for a day or week if wanted?"

"A day is forty-five dollars and a week is two hundred. I don't know if we'll be done within a week so two weeks is closer to what Willow insists we'll need and Dawn was sure the portal would not last long on here. In fact she says she can't feel it any longer."

He nodded. "I think it's to a modern world now, Cordy and Eric are playing scout the area and recording it for us to look through quickly. At least she was going to do that while we went to deal with the Bones' attackers. There was a second strike; the werewolves are dealt with by what I gather."

"Good lord and who dealt with that?"

"It was the kids mostly but I gather Albus was there to watch Remus and the tat seems to work just fine."

"I was sure it would, but it wasn't a cure all. The other rune you said would prevent the transformation completely and that would prevent other things such as many healing magics."

"I know, besides I think that with Sirius being Padfoot too that he might enjoy a run in the forest."

"Indeed. We've strayed from the topic. The ship is in capable hands in the dock security and they won't know we aren't sleeping or something." Giles shrugs.

Xander wiggles his eyebrows in a Groucho Marx fashion and teases, "Or something?"

Giles rolled his eyes without even a hint of a blush then smirks at the younger man, "I will inform Janna if you wish to inform the girls? They are doing something in their room."

Xander left, he found the girls weren't ready to go yet and he spent fifteen minutes making up for his interruption, up enough for them to be ready.

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