Warning: Spoilers for Half Blood Prince and OTP.
Most HBP spoilers are later in the story. The Big OTP spoiler is right in the beginning.
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Character Notes and Timeline are listed in first three chapters.
Lost Potter
Chapter Ten
Morning/Afternoon
-Morning Watchers Headquarters-
Main Meeting Room.
Giles looked over the gathered council, particularly the youngsters. Buffy and Willow Xander and Dawn seemed to be a bit tired. "Did everyone have a restless night?"
Faith scoffed, 'not me Jeeves. I slept like a baby. Now they on the other hand look like they were being busy all night." Faith said with a leer in her voice. Faiths comment made Dawn and Xander blush.
Buffy didn't notice the blushes since she was focused on Faith. "Faith when are you going to get your mind out of the gutter?"
Faith thought about it for a moment. "Hum? I guess never? The gutter is nice and warm, and I like it there." (AN:1)
Buffy humped at Faiths casual crudeness and decided she wanted to get things over with. "OK Willow, your up."
Even though Willow was one of the most powerful Wicca's ever, she had a trace of her old nervousness at speaking in front of groups. So she gave Buffy a dire look that promised vengeance later on, as she stood up to address the gathered council. "About 2:30AM local time this morning an attempt was made to break the wards protecting the new Watchers Council headquarters. This magical assault wasn't just going to penetrate the wards. It would have obliterated them, if I hadn't reinforced them almost immediately. What's even worse is that the person or demon trying to break the wards was mystically stronger than I am."
A muttered wave of nervousness passed among the gathered council, at this revelation. Willow was definitely one of the most powerful Wicca's to exist in the past two thousand years. Anyone or anything that was more magically powerful than her had to be considered a major possible threat.
Willow tried to override the murmurs. "It was stronger than I am when it's just my personal power on the line. But!" She raised a finger to draw attention to her next point. "When I delved into the Earths power I was much stronger than the instigator of this morning's mystical intrusion." There were quite a few shared looks of relief passed around at that point. "The magic itself didn't feel malevolent, so it might have only been a divination attempt with no particular animus against the council."
The meeting continued on for the next few hours along these lines. Congratulations were also made for Buffy's impending audience with the Queen.
-A private hotel suite located in upscale London.-
It's been a very long and tiring night, and we should all get a short nap along with some food into us. Room service at establishments such as this should be capable of handling most mundane foods. So I hope that later this evening we will be refreshed and able to start the active search."
Snape was looking like he'd sat on a pincushion with how pinched his face was. "Are you sure that staying here is a good idea? Even with the multitude of inconspicuousness charms we have woven about us, we could most easily fall prey to violating the secrecy laws."
"My dear Severus, we have nothing to worry about. We are all most accomplished at obliviating muggles. As for the secrecy laws, I doubt we shall need to be concerned about them. Now does anyone have any more questions about the charm I taught you as we flew here under or illusionary guise?" The nodding heads reassured Dumbledore that things would proceed smoothly after that debacle with the wards. "Then let us go to the rooms I have managed to convince the local establishment to provide for us and get some much needed rest."
-Harry's reality.-
Voldemort's lair.
"Lucius approach me with your report."
Lucius Malfoy carefully moved to the prescribed distance while maintaining the proper demeanor of deference to his master. "I've come from visiting Fudge's office. He was ranting about the mysterious disappearance of Dumbledore. The fool has been up in arms over Dumbledore's abduction of the Potter brat. With the boy's legal guardians dead he becomes a ward of the state. Needless to say Fudge desires this greatly.
Fudge dispatched a crack team of Aurors to locate the brat and place him in protective custody. McGonagall has been so unhelpfully polite it's amazing that she hasn't broken out into a rash with all the honeyed words she's been spewing. There has been one significant development though. It seems that Severus has disappeared as well."
"Excellent Lucius, make sure that you keep me informed of any developments." Voldemort hissed.
Buffy's reality-
That afternoon.
The Scoobies had gathered in Giles office to discuss among them selves the meeting they had been stuck in for what seemed like forever.
"Willow next time you sit bolt upright and keep something from breaking the wards…." Buffy leaned forwards to make her point. "Don't! I thought that meeting would never end. Give me an apocalypse any day."
Faith chimed in from the bar. "You can say that again B. And I thought budget meetings were bad. Now do you realize why Jeeves didn't want to call in the cavalry this morning? If he'd made it seem that urgent so that everyone would be up at that hour. Well… we would still be conference."
Dawn and Xander exchanged a quick glance in relief yet again. Things could have been rather awkward if someone had come looking for them last night. Once again Buffy was oblivious to the exchange, but Faith noted it. And thought to herself, The X-Man and little sis… How neat is that? Wonder if Willow knows? Best change the subject. "B how cool is it that your going to see the fricking Queen in two days? I really wish I could go with ya."
Giles once again tried to reassure Faith. "Until your legal troubles have been completely cleared up it would be most inadvisable for you to go to such a public place. Even with all the security that's available it simply wouldn't be safe until we can get your conviction overturned. Her Majesty is aware of your predicament and is applying all the royal vigor she can to helping our efforts. But it does take time. You will be recognized as soon as it is practical and safe for you to do so.
Buffy wanted to reassure her as well. "Faith we may not be blood. We may even have trouble getting along with each other. But we are all family."
"Family huh? Well I can most definitely see you as the older and nosier sister. Hey Dawn ,you want to team up and terrorize big sis."
An evil smirk crossed Dawns face, and Buffy started to worry. "Sure would sis." Buffy wondered what she'd let herself in for.
BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP, BTVS/HP
AN:1 I paraphrased (slightly) a certain disreputable character that I've always enjoyed. The first person that can come up with the character I was thinking of, will get a mention in the story in upcoming chapters. (If they so wish, otherwise I'll just point out their right guess.)
NOTE: The Lost Potter will be revealed in the next two chapters. So get your votes in quickly.
