Chapter 2

Patrol that night was nice and warm. Not too warm, but a cool breeze swept through now and then. Giles, Wesley, Tara, Oz, Spike, Xander, Faith, and Anya took turns taking the newer Slayer to different cemeteries. Well, actually Oz, Spike, Willow, Wesley, and Ali went to one cemetery while Tara, Faith, Giles, Xander, and Anya went to another of the many cemeteries in Sunnydale.

Angel went back to L.A. for the summer to be with his kid and to work again. He had gotten a Hogwarts letter and accepted his job to Hogwarts. He has to bring Connor along to protect him against the dark forces. Angel is a vampire after all. Wesley was going to stay in L.A. but he, too, had gotten a letter from Hogwarts that previous morning. He accepted as well, trying to help with the Dueling club. He was to be helping Angel.

Spike also got a letter. He was asked to help with Defense Against the Dark Arts. Giles was explained to, by Dumbledore, that he wasn't losing his job. He and Spike would be teaching magick defense and then Oz and Riley would be teaching fighting techniques. Faith and Angel would be teaching the Dueling Club students to fight while Severus Snape and Sirius Black would be doing the magick part. Connor would just attend normal classes set up for him. He wouldn't do the magick part, but he would do book work and watch people; maybe he could try simple spells though.

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Willow started thinking about Sirius and how she missed him so much. Marriage came into her brain. *No, marriage is too soon* she thought. It was possible, after all. Well not, now, but maybe in a couple of years or something if they were together and Sirius proposed to her. Maybe they could even have children. *Wow, another Willow Jr. to ruin the world* Willow thought again. Harry and Ali could have nice cousins, not rotten, spoiled ones. Well, maybe a little spoiled, but they would spoil Ali and Harry too. They just wouldn't be rotten.

Willow was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't even notice a vampire coming up behind her to feed off of her. As the vamp came nearer, he grabbed her shoulders and brought her closer. The red-headed witch screamed as loud as she could. Spike took hold of the vampire's collar and flung him backwards. Ali was there with her stake in hand and the vampire flew right into the stake. He was dust. It was good that they all stayed close. Not too close, but close enough to watch each other's backs.

"Nice work" Wesley complimented Spike and Ali.

"You okay, Red?" Spike asked. As he paid attention to Willow, Ali and her Watcher, Wesley, walked to another part of the cemetery to make sure vampires weren't around any longer so that they could go to another cemetery.

"Yea I'm fine" Willow answered Spike.

"How about we give it a rest here and go to the Bronze to meet Harry, Draco, and Dawn?" Willow asked the others.

"Well, do you think that we should go to a couple more cemeteries tonight?" Wesley objected.

"Wes, lighten up. We've been on patrol every night for two weeks. I'll go for a little while and around two or two-thirty, I'll patrol again" Ali compromised.

"Fine" he said. "But I'm not dancing."

"Fine" she said. They all walked along the sidewalks to the nearest club in Sunnydale. Actually, it was the only club in Sunnydale. The only entertainment in Sunnydale. The bouncers would let anyone in, but underage people had to have stamps on their hands to represent that they couldn't drink.

~*~

"Jeez" Faith muttered under her breath. "We can take them all" she reassured the others.

"I wonder if the others are having this much fun" Xander said sarcastically. About ten vampires were around them.

"This can't be normal" Giles said.

"Well, we'll all die now" Anya whined.

"No!" Faith yelled. "We won't. We can do this." She ran up to the first few she could get to and did a roundhouse kick to his face. He fell backwards as the next goon came up to get knocked in the gut with her fist. She was fighting them off one-by-one as the others were having a little trouble. "Wow, that was fun" she said as she breathed in and out really hard.

"Oh yea, big joy" Anya said.

"I can't believe you guys don't get that rush."

"No, forgive us, we aren't Slayers."

"No, you're not. You're humans."

"Ex-demon" Anya corrected with an attitude.

"Whatever" Faith mumbled.

"Calm down, honey" Xander said to Anya.

~*~

As Wesley, Oz, Ali, Spike, and Willow were walking across the street to the night club, they noticed two people coming out. A male with a cute female under his arms. He was wearing red plaid pants with a long sleeved black shirt. The girl wore a blue dress to her knees with some white high heels on that she obviously had a hard time walking in.

"Vampire" Willow whispered.

"I'll take it" Ali volunteered. "I think I can handle, have your fun."

"Are you sure?" Oz asked. He held onto her forearm to make sure she could do it.

"I'm old enough. I'm a Slayer after all."

"Okay" he said, he watched her follow the man and woman into the dark alley as the others walked in.

As Ali was walking beside the dark street, she pulled her stake out, ready for some action. A scream was heard and she started running faster, with little click-clacks on the sidewalk from her shoes pounding on the hard cement. The woman that had been under the man's arm earlier was staring at her wide-eyed with horror from the vampire attacking her.

"Hey" Ali said calmly. The vampire turned around with blood all over his fangs while still holding onto his prey. Ali guessed she was around 19 or 20. He dropped the young woman and walked towards Ali. The woman got up and ran past the vamp and the Slayer as fast as she could.

"Slayer" the vampire whispered. He walked closer to her and stood right in front of the almost seventeen year old. Her and her brother's birthday was in about a couple of weeks.

"You're point" she said. She kicked him up against the wall. He pushed her back and she bounced off the wall and landed on her stomach on the cement.

"He's looking for you. You will pay for what you've done" the vampire said.

"Who?" she asked as she picked herself up. He didn't respond to her, he just ran away. She got up and held the stake in hand and threw it as hard as she could as he ran down the street. In another second, he burst into a pile of ash. She held herself up against the brick wall for a moment and then walked inside the Bronze.

"All done?" Wesley asked as Ali sat beside of Oz on the couch they all were sitting on.

"Mission accomplished" she reassured them. Dawn, Harry, and Draco finally came over to where the others were and brought them some drinks.

"So, are you all ready for your final year at Hogwarts?" Willow asked.

"Totally" Dawn answered. "No more school after that. Unless you know, I wanna go to college here in the U.S.A. or something, but I don't know."

"Good thinking" Wesley said. "Maybe you want to give it some more thought."

"Major blah. But if it'll get all of you off my case, then okay."

"You okay?" Oz asked. He turned to his girlfriend, Ali; she was looking off into space and looked at him.

"Yea."

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing" she lied. He looked at her for a moment before she decided to fess up. "Okay, that vampire was saying something was after me and I was going to pay or something."

"We'll protect you" he said. Wesley had heard and took it in account what Ali said. She looked away from her Watcher when he had heard. She was too embarrassed to show how frightened she was. She was always frightened, every single day and night. She never had time off from Slaying, and no one could protect her except Faith, but she wouldn't always be there. She had to take care of herself. Oz did as much as he could do, but a normal human was no match for a demon or something. She still loved him for it though.