Authors Note: Again, sorry about the huge, crazy amount of time between
updates. life is soooo busy. hopefully I'll be able to update more often
this summer. although I'm not sure. Also, I nearly cried over Miss Kitty
Fantastico's fate, and so I have changed it here.
Disclaimer: I own Buffy, Angel, and Harry Potter. In those really fun little mini-movies we call "dreams."
Chapter 12: To England We Shall Go
Once they had boarded the airplane, and had been flying for about 2 hours, Buffy began to get nervous. Sitting next to Angel made her feel safer, but there was still something incredibly freaky about getting ready to take off in an airplane for a place she had heard about only from her studies in school, and the things Giles, Angel, and Spike had told her about the place. Buffy had never been out of the country before, and this was a rather large leap, as England was on an entirely different continent.
Then there was the part where she was going to teach at a school for magic. She didn't even know magic.
"This is insane." Buffy allowed her thoughts to pour out of her.
"What's insane, my-Buffy?"
Buffy smiled. He had almost said "My love," she was sure of it. But he had caught himself. And that was ok with her. This whole "secret relationship" thing was fun. And besides, the longer it took Xander to figure it out, the better life would be.
"Oh, just flying to a country I've never been to to teach at a school for magic that I am highly not qualified to teach at and have never heard of, all while leaving the care of Sunnydale to a newbie slayer that I'm not quite sure is capable."
"I'm sure she's capable, Buffy." Angel said. He snuck a glance around the airplane to make sure that nobody who would care was watching, and then took Buffy's hand.
Buffy instinctively snuggled up to her Angel.
"But she's so new!"
"You were new once too," he pointed out, "Look where you are now."
"Yeah. Look where being new got me. A dead watcher, and a burned-down high school gym." Buffy pointed out,
"Yes Buffy. You made a mistake. It happens. But then you moved to Sunnydale, and met Giles, and Willow, and Xander, and look how many lives you've saved. Everyone has to start somewhere."
"And you. Don't forget I met you!" Buffy said, sounding a bit sleepy. She rested her head on Angel's shoulder, and fell asleep,
Angel just sat there, staring at his soul mate and wondering how in the world he had managed to stay away from her for so long.
* * * * * * * * "So Spike, want to play BS with Connor and me?" Dawn asked.
"BS?" Spike asked, "What kind of game is that?"
"Well, basically, it's a card game that you have to deal the cards and then you put the cards down in order, and then if you don't have the cards you put down the wrong card and lie about it. And if the other person knows you're lying, then they say BS. IF you really are lying, you take all the cards in the middle. If you aren't lying, the person who "BS'ed" you has to take all the cards. The first person to get rid of all their cards wins." Dawn explained.
Spike thought about it, then answered, "No."
"Aww, Spike, why?"
"Bit, do you even realize how good I am at lying?"
"I know. I'd major-ly loose. But It's got to be more fun for you than watching "Legally Blonde!" Dawn commented.
"Well, yeah, but I wouldn't want to crush your dreams of being BS World Champion."
"Don't worry. those are. crush-proof?" Dawn replied.
"Just watch the movie, pet."
"Fine! Be that way!"
**********
"Xander." Anya said, poking the dark-haired boy sitting next to her, who, judging from the large amount of drool hanging out of his wide-open mouth, was sound asleep. "Xander, wake up!"
The boy continued to sleep, his only reaction to her incessant poking being "Don't worry! I'll save you from the bunnies!" and swinging an imaginary. sword? Or golf club.? At the invading "rodents."
"I like knowing that Xander, I really, really do, but right now I need you to wake up. I'm REALLY bored, and I need someone to talk to."
Xander continued to sleep.
At this, Anya stood up and screamed, "XANDER HARRIS WAKE UP RIGHT NOW OR I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE I TELL EVERYONE ON THE PLANE ABOUT THE TIME WHEN WE STARTED TO SING AND DANCE LIKE A PERSON FROM THE-!"
Xander woke up and grabbed Anya, promptly interrupting her and sitting her back down on the airline seat.
"Anya. I told you never to talk about that again. Bad, bad, bad idea!" Xander reprimanded her.
Cordelia chose that presicise moment to poke her head over the seat. "What was Xander dancing like Anya?"
"He was dancing like a-"
"SNOOPY!" Xander inerrupterd, "I was dancing like Snoopy! You've seen the Snoopy dance!"
"No, you were dancing like-" Anya started again.
"Anya, please go away and annoy Buffy or Giles or Angel or Spike or Dawn or Connor or. ANYONE BUT ME!"
Anya made a hurt face, but walked away, apparently over towards Spike, Dawn and Connor.
"I never saw the Snoopy dance, Xander. Can I see it now?!" Cordelia asked.
"NO! Absoloutley not! You can't! Not on a public airplane! Not ever! I have to go!" Xander got up and walked away towards the back of the airplane.
"Geez Xander! Thanks for leaving me all alone!" Cordelia huffed, and turned back around to look back at the fashion magazine she had been reading.
************
"Willow!" Tara laughed. Willow had just been telling her the reason that she had been late to her high school graduation. This subject had come up when Tara had accused Willow of never ever being late for a class in her entire school career.
"What?! We were scared! Wouldn't you be scared if you knew that your mayor was going to turn into a huge snake-demon?"
"Well, as interesting as that sounds, I'm not sure scared would be the word."
"Well, ok, what if you knew this demon was going to try to eat you and your friends?"
"You have a point there."
"A pointy one." There was a moment of silence, and then Willow announced, "Ok! Next topic!"
"I wonder how Miss Kitty is faring." Tara stated.
"She's a brave little kitty. I'm sure she'll be just fine. But just to be sure, we should give her a lot of space when we get to this Hogwarts place. It sounds pretty big, I'm sure she'll like it. "
"Yeah. Hey! What subject do you think we'll teach once we get there?" Tara asked Willow.
"I don't know. I hope it's something cool. I mean, wouldn't it just be so boring to get stuck with. like the magic equivalent to Home Ec or something?"
"Yeah, I could see how that would be boring. levitating all those sewing needles."
The girls laughed. Sitting here talking and hanging out was, for them, the perfect way yot spend the time until they arrived at this amazing place to learn about magic.
*************
"So, Rupert, what has the Hellmouth been up to since my departure?" Wesley asked his fellow ex-watcher.
"Oh, the usual. Demons, monsters, the occasional hell god, and I have really spent way too much time with American young people, I'm beginning to speak like them. What about you? The hellmouth is predictable in an unpredictable sort of way, but we have heard next to nothing about the goings on in Los Angeles." Giles replied. It was true. He had heard very little about the exciting things that he assumed must be going on where Angel was around.
"Well, there was this whole 'I kidnapped Angel's son and he nearly killed me for it' thing that happened, but I really don't want to talk about it."
"Ah. I see. Otherwise, though, everything has been fine?"
"Yes, yes. It's all been very good."
They had run out of things to say. So they just sat there, in a very long, very uncomfortable silence.
**************
Xander was so embarrassed. He couldn't believe what Anya had said. He walked down the aisle towards the back of the airplane, and he couldn't help but notice something on the way there. He noticed Buffy, asleep on Angel's shoulder, holding hands. And he noticed Angel, staring down at her like she was the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes upon.
It was too bad that Buffy and Angel didn't notice the look of jealousy in Xander's eyes, or his intense need to do something to stop their relationship before the "inevitable" happened, and things "once again" went "too far.
AN: A little cryptic here. I have a plot lol. ok, So, next chapter, our friends the scoobies shall meet up with some of our friends from Harry Potter. Dadada.
Disclaimer: I own Buffy, Angel, and Harry Potter. In those really fun little mini-movies we call "dreams."
Chapter 12: To England We Shall Go
Once they had boarded the airplane, and had been flying for about 2 hours, Buffy began to get nervous. Sitting next to Angel made her feel safer, but there was still something incredibly freaky about getting ready to take off in an airplane for a place she had heard about only from her studies in school, and the things Giles, Angel, and Spike had told her about the place. Buffy had never been out of the country before, and this was a rather large leap, as England was on an entirely different continent.
Then there was the part where she was going to teach at a school for magic. She didn't even know magic.
"This is insane." Buffy allowed her thoughts to pour out of her.
"What's insane, my-Buffy?"
Buffy smiled. He had almost said "My love," she was sure of it. But he had caught himself. And that was ok with her. This whole "secret relationship" thing was fun. And besides, the longer it took Xander to figure it out, the better life would be.
"Oh, just flying to a country I've never been to to teach at a school for magic that I am highly not qualified to teach at and have never heard of, all while leaving the care of Sunnydale to a newbie slayer that I'm not quite sure is capable."
"I'm sure she's capable, Buffy." Angel said. He snuck a glance around the airplane to make sure that nobody who would care was watching, and then took Buffy's hand.
Buffy instinctively snuggled up to her Angel.
"But she's so new!"
"You were new once too," he pointed out, "Look where you are now."
"Yeah. Look where being new got me. A dead watcher, and a burned-down high school gym." Buffy pointed out,
"Yes Buffy. You made a mistake. It happens. But then you moved to Sunnydale, and met Giles, and Willow, and Xander, and look how many lives you've saved. Everyone has to start somewhere."
"And you. Don't forget I met you!" Buffy said, sounding a bit sleepy. She rested her head on Angel's shoulder, and fell asleep,
Angel just sat there, staring at his soul mate and wondering how in the world he had managed to stay away from her for so long.
* * * * * * * * "So Spike, want to play BS with Connor and me?" Dawn asked.
"BS?" Spike asked, "What kind of game is that?"
"Well, basically, it's a card game that you have to deal the cards and then you put the cards down in order, and then if you don't have the cards you put down the wrong card and lie about it. And if the other person knows you're lying, then they say BS. IF you really are lying, you take all the cards in the middle. If you aren't lying, the person who "BS'ed" you has to take all the cards. The first person to get rid of all their cards wins." Dawn explained.
Spike thought about it, then answered, "No."
"Aww, Spike, why?"
"Bit, do you even realize how good I am at lying?"
"I know. I'd major-ly loose. But It's got to be more fun for you than watching "Legally Blonde!" Dawn commented.
"Well, yeah, but I wouldn't want to crush your dreams of being BS World Champion."
"Don't worry. those are. crush-proof?" Dawn replied.
"Just watch the movie, pet."
"Fine! Be that way!"
**********
"Xander." Anya said, poking the dark-haired boy sitting next to her, who, judging from the large amount of drool hanging out of his wide-open mouth, was sound asleep. "Xander, wake up!"
The boy continued to sleep, his only reaction to her incessant poking being "Don't worry! I'll save you from the bunnies!" and swinging an imaginary. sword? Or golf club.? At the invading "rodents."
"I like knowing that Xander, I really, really do, but right now I need you to wake up. I'm REALLY bored, and I need someone to talk to."
Xander continued to sleep.
At this, Anya stood up and screamed, "XANDER HARRIS WAKE UP RIGHT NOW OR I WILL PERSONALLY MAKE SURE I TELL EVERYONE ON THE PLANE ABOUT THE TIME WHEN WE STARTED TO SING AND DANCE LIKE A PERSON FROM THE-!"
Xander woke up and grabbed Anya, promptly interrupting her and sitting her back down on the airline seat.
"Anya. I told you never to talk about that again. Bad, bad, bad idea!" Xander reprimanded her.
Cordelia chose that presicise moment to poke her head over the seat. "What was Xander dancing like Anya?"
"He was dancing like a-"
"SNOOPY!" Xander inerrupterd, "I was dancing like Snoopy! You've seen the Snoopy dance!"
"No, you were dancing like-" Anya started again.
"Anya, please go away and annoy Buffy or Giles or Angel or Spike or Dawn or Connor or. ANYONE BUT ME!"
Anya made a hurt face, but walked away, apparently over towards Spike, Dawn and Connor.
"I never saw the Snoopy dance, Xander. Can I see it now?!" Cordelia asked.
"NO! Absoloutley not! You can't! Not on a public airplane! Not ever! I have to go!" Xander got up and walked away towards the back of the airplane.
"Geez Xander! Thanks for leaving me all alone!" Cordelia huffed, and turned back around to look back at the fashion magazine she had been reading.
************
"Willow!" Tara laughed. Willow had just been telling her the reason that she had been late to her high school graduation. This subject had come up when Tara had accused Willow of never ever being late for a class in her entire school career.
"What?! We were scared! Wouldn't you be scared if you knew that your mayor was going to turn into a huge snake-demon?"
"Well, as interesting as that sounds, I'm not sure scared would be the word."
"Well, ok, what if you knew this demon was going to try to eat you and your friends?"
"You have a point there."
"A pointy one." There was a moment of silence, and then Willow announced, "Ok! Next topic!"
"I wonder how Miss Kitty is faring." Tara stated.
"She's a brave little kitty. I'm sure she'll be just fine. But just to be sure, we should give her a lot of space when we get to this Hogwarts place. It sounds pretty big, I'm sure she'll like it. "
"Yeah. Hey! What subject do you think we'll teach once we get there?" Tara asked Willow.
"I don't know. I hope it's something cool. I mean, wouldn't it just be so boring to get stuck with. like the magic equivalent to Home Ec or something?"
"Yeah, I could see how that would be boring. levitating all those sewing needles."
The girls laughed. Sitting here talking and hanging out was, for them, the perfect way yot spend the time until they arrived at this amazing place to learn about magic.
*************
"So, Rupert, what has the Hellmouth been up to since my departure?" Wesley asked his fellow ex-watcher.
"Oh, the usual. Demons, monsters, the occasional hell god, and I have really spent way too much time with American young people, I'm beginning to speak like them. What about you? The hellmouth is predictable in an unpredictable sort of way, but we have heard next to nothing about the goings on in Los Angeles." Giles replied. It was true. He had heard very little about the exciting things that he assumed must be going on where Angel was around.
"Well, there was this whole 'I kidnapped Angel's son and he nearly killed me for it' thing that happened, but I really don't want to talk about it."
"Ah. I see. Otherwise, though, everything has been fine?"
"Yes, yes. It's all been very good."
They had run out of things to say. So they just sat there, in a very long, very uncomfortable silence.
**************
Xander was so embarrassed. He couldn't believe what Anya had said. He walked down the aisle towards the back of the airplane, and he couldn't help but notice something on the way there. He noticed Buffy, asleep on Angel's shoulder, holding hands. And he noticed Angel, staring down at her like she was the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes upon.
It was too bad that Buffy and Angel didn't notice the look of jealousy in Xander's eyes, or his intense need to do something to stop their relationship before the "inevitable" happened, and things "once again" went "too far.
AN: A little cryptic here. I have a plot lol. ok, So, next chapter, our friends the scoobies shall meet up with some of our friends from Harry Potter. Dadada.