AN: Hey Shellie here! Thanks to the peeps who reviewed. Wow. This story is really like. moving, Three chapters! Sorry. I know it's not THAT long, but hey, it is for me! Lol. So. ya. Ill shut up and type now. Also. I'm not sure if there's any difference between an American credit card and a British one, so lets just say there is, since it is part of the plot of this chapter.

AN: Hey Gabby here! I'm glad you guys like our story. Um, I dunno what to say so, um...MERRY THANKSGIVING!

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Chapter Three

"What do you mean there are no tickets available until next week? We are asking for a flight that doesn't travel in SUNLIGHT! Like. we WANT to fly to England in the middle of the night and your telling us we have to fly in the DAYTIME?! We can't! My boyfriend will f- BURN! He gets really bad sunburn! Like. really bad." Buffy was having a screaming match over the phone with the lady at American Airlines. They had called every major air travel company that had destinations near this "Diagon Alley" place, and no one could give them night tickets. "Alright. Fine. I'll make my flight plans elsewhere!" Buffy slammed the phone onto the receiver.

"I'm not thinking you had much luck." Xander commented.

"No. None." Buffy said. "I just don't get it. What's with all the night flights being taken? Don't people usually prefer flying at a decent time?"

"I don't know." Angel answered his soul mate. "What are we going to do?"

"Well. the people at Southwest Airlines said that they can get three people onto a nighttime flight that leaves tomorrow." Willow said. "Why don't we do that?"

"Split up?" Buffy looked at Willow. "Where's the fun in that?"

"I don't know Buffy. It might be a good idea. I'm thinking that might be one of the days where you don't really want to run into me at night.

"In that case, problem solved!" Cordelia, they all knew, was tired, and wanted to go home.

"Not really Cordy." Xander said. "Who's going on what flight?"

"Angel, me, and Dawn on the night flight." Buffy suggested.

"Eww! No! I'm not going anywhere with just you two, you can't make me."

"Awww. Dawnie.. What's wrong, you don't like it when me and Angel kiss?" Buffy teased, and Angel, in an effort to play into what Buffy was saying, and disgust Dawn, started the smoochies again.

"Buffy, Angel, can we be a little more. mature?" Giles asked.

"No." Buffy replied, but the two did stop kissing, and eventually the group started talking about who would go when.

"Giles, would you go with Angel and I?" Buffy asked. "I used correct grammar and everything! Pleaaaase?"

"Alright." Giles said, "But won't that leave Xander, Willow, Oz, Cordelia, and Dawn rather. defenseless?"

"Giles. Get a grip. It's a DAYTIME flight we're talking about here? Get it? Good." Buffy rolled her eyes at Giles' concern. "And besides, they know how to defend themselves in an emergency. I trust them with my life. And Dawns."

"So no pressure on us." Xander commented.

"Alright. Then it's settled. Call the airline company."

Buffy stood and sprinted to the phone. She dialed the airlines and started making the reservations.

"Will you be using credit or debit Ms. Summers?"

"Uh." Buffy covered the phone with her hand and asked Giles "Giles. how are we going to pay?"

"Oh. Um. I don't have an American credit card. You'll have to ask your mother."

Suddenly the door opened. Joyce Summers, Buffy and Dawn's mother, came through it.

"Ask me what?"

"Oh. Hi Mom!" Buffy said. To the lady on the telephone she answered, "Look, can you please hold the seats under Summers for like an hour? I'll call back,"

"Of course ma'am."

"Thanks so much." Buffy placed the phone back on the receiver.

"Ask me what, Buffy?"

"Mom. can we. go to England? For a year?" Buffy saw her mom's look of surprise, and added, "To teach young people who are completely lost in the ways of. fighting? And other stuff that we do. like, protecting themselves from vamps and other. demon-y evil things?"

"What?" Buffy's mom asked, clearly shocked.

"Well, there's this school in England, Hogwarts. It's a school for magic and stuff. And the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, wrote us a letter asking us to teach there. We kinda-sorta said yes. So, now we are booking a flight to England for next week. Credit or debit?" Buffy explained, throwing the last question in on the assumption that her mom would give them permission to go.

"Buffy! None! You can't go!" Joyce said.

"What?" Buffy screeched.

"Do any of your parents say it's ok?" Joyce asked Buffy's friends, excluding Giles and Angel, because they could (obviously) make decisions for themselves.

There was a chorus of 'Umm.'s, 'Uh.'s, and 'Not really's from the teenagers sitting in the Summer's living room.

"Do your parents even KNOW?"

"To be honest. no." Willow said. She looked very guilty.

"Well. I was going to tell my mom, but. how do explain I'm going to teach at a magic school?" Xander asked.

"Yeah." Oz said, "My parents wouldn't take that so well."

"Well, Buffy, you can't go unless they all talk to their parents and work it out."

"What about me?" Dawn whined.

"You're too young to teach."

"Oh, Mom?" Buffy said. "This Dumbledore guy wants Dawn to learn magic."

"Oh no. Absolutely not. You being the slayer is enough. I don't need Dawn mixed up in all this supernatural stuff too."

"Ya Mom, 'cos Dawn can really avoid getting mixed up in it. She's only the slayer's little sis'. Maybe learning some magic would help her defend herself. And besides, she'd also be learning self defense, taught by Angel and I." Buffy pointed out, "It would protect her."

"Buffy. what about her school? And college?" Joyce asked her daughter.

Buffy didn't know how to answer. She wasn't really all that excited about college; she just wanted to go to make her mother happy. But Dawn really did need to go to school. But this could be a good opportunity for Dawn to learn something that could save her life if she got in a real jam.

"Mom, it's a school. The kids that go there are Dawn's age right? So, they have to give some sort of education. And college can wait a year or so while I go do this. Please?" Buffy looked at Angel, her eyes screaming, "SAY SOMETHING! HELP!"

"Uh. don't worry Mrs. Summers, I'll. uh. watch out for Dawn. and Buffy." He managed to get out. He mentally screamed at himself because of how dumb that had sounded, but, given the amount of time he had to think about it, it wasn't that bad.

"Thank you Angel. I'm sure you would. Mr. Giles? Are you going?" Joyce asked.

"Oh. Er. of course. I'll be teaching something called Defense Against the Dark Arts." Giles answered.

"Alright. Then Buffy and Dawn can go. But I want all of you to ask your parents before you make any more plans alright?"

"Yes Mrs. Summers." All of Buffy's friends said in perfect harmony.

Mrs. Summers smiled and walked out of the room.

Xander stood up, "I call the phone!" he said, and ran as everyone in the room rushed to get to the phone first.

Twenty minutes later everyone had managed to convince their parents to let them go to England for a year, for various reasons. Oz had a Dingoes tour. Willow had gotten a scholarship at a prestigious college in England, and had decided that's where she wanted to go. Xander's extremely lame excuse was that he was going on a very long vacation, but his parents didn't really care anyway, so he didn't have to use it. Cordelia told her parents that she had gotten a job modeling gowns in France.

Once it was all settled, Mrs. Summers called the airlines and booked the tickets. She too was a little nervous about Dawn going without an adult or her sister, but they managed to convince her it was ok.

Early that afternoon, Buffy and Giles accompanied the people who would be leaving earlier to the airport to say goodbye and make arrangements on where to meet the people coming in on the night flight. Buffy took Willow aside.

"Willow, I know it's like. totally illegal, but. here." She handed Willow a small packet. Willow looked inside and made a face.

"Diabetes shots!" Willow said (AN: Are they insulin shots? I dunno what they are called. I don't know any one with diabetes.) "Thank you!"

Buffy smiled, "Will, they are for Oz."

"Oz has diabetes?" Willow looked concerned.

"No. they are tranquilizers, in case of an emergency. about the full moon. Get it?"

"Oh. Yeah. I got it. Thanks Buffy." Willow gave Buffy a big hug.

"No problem Will. Have fun! Watch out for Dawn!"

The two friends rejoined the main group. Now Buffy said 'bye' to Dawn.

"Dawn. Listen to Willow. And Xander. And Oz. And. ok, depending on what Cordelia says, if it makes sense, listen to her too. Got it."

"Yes Buffy. And I won't do anything stupid like jump off the plane either,"

"No, that's fine. You can do that." Buffy smiled. "Have fun!"

"Bye!" Dawn said.

The people who were leaving finally got to their plane. Giles took Buffy home; she still needed to finish up some packing. Buffy walked into he house and found her mom waiting in the kitchen.

"Buffy, were you really not going to tell me?" she asked

"Eventually I would have." Buffy answered.

Her mother replied by giving her a look that said, "I'm very disappointed in you," and leaving the kitchen. Buffy followed her, feeling very guilty.

"Mom, I was just really excited." Buffy offered.

"I notice you told Mr. Giles."

"I had to tell Giles, Mom! I mean I'm the slayer! If I want to go anywhere, I have to tell someone who can be in charge of getting SOMEONE over here to watch the hellmouth. If there was some sort of apocalypse and there was no one here to stop it, the world would probably end. You get that right?"

"Yes. I understand. I understand that. But being the slayer isn't your only responsibility, Buffy! You have to keep me informed of what's going on in your life too!"

"I know. I'm sorry Mom. I really should have told you. And I would have. But."

"Apology accepted Buffy. Now go pack. You don't have all the time in the world."

Buffy gave her mom a quick hug and sprinted up the stairs. She still had a lot of packing to do.