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Warning: Characters may act very out of character!
Chapter 2; 'Blood is thicker than water' or 'dear lord' * cleans glasses *
After staring dismally out of the window at the now almost childfree platform, Katie felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle in awareness, someone was watching her! Whilst removing the headphones from her ears, Katie turned towards the door, only to see the grinning face of . Marcus Flint! At least it could have been Flint if it wasn't for the sheer perfection of his normal sized pearly white teeth. Suddenly he spoke "Hi! I was.oof" he was elbowed in the gut "Correction we were wondering if you would mind if we shared your compartment?" Distracted by Flints new teeth Katie had failed to notice the boys standing behind him, the entire Slytherin Quidditch team with strange looks on their faces, it looked wrong, kind of appreciative but totally disturbing. Following their gazes she found the source of their stupor to be . herself, more particularly her legs and her chest. 'What the hell is the matter with them? Katie thought to herself 'Why are they looking at me, Katie Bell, like that? Unless.' Suddenly it clicked 'Oh my god! They don't recognise me!' She had to choke back laughter at that, the people who hated her most in the school, and had done for years, people she fought with both on the Quidditch pitch and off, didn't recognise her! A cough brought her out of her reverie; they were looking at her expectantly. "Sorry boys but I'm afraid you really don't want to sit here" "Why not" was the indignant reply. Katie shook her head said, "You guys are priceless!" and burst into giggles. The boys looked at Flint expectantly, he just looked confused and shrugged. "Are you honestly telling me you don't recognise me?" she was met with blank looks, placing her walkman aside she stood up, stretched and sauntered towards the door 'Might as well have a little fun' Placing her hand on Flints chest Katie looked up at him, fluttered her eyelashes and pouted seductively "Oh Marcus" she sighed "how could you have forgotten those wonderful times we spent on the Quidditch pitch!" Flint looked confused and the other boys looked at him as if to say 'you sly dog, why didn't you tell us!' "I .um." he looked lost for words and his forehead was creased in concentration. "Surely you remember" Katie ran her hand up and down his chest, toying with the buttons on his forest green shirt 'this is great, I am Katie the slut!, kinda empowering' Then breathily, against his ear, just loud enough for the other boys to hear she said, "Let me refresh your memory, it was just you and me . and the entire Gryffindor and Slytherin Quidditch teams" she pulled back to look at his face, nope still totally blank. This game was getting tiring "Oh come on Flint, surely you haven't been hit in the head that many times with a Bludger!" "Merlin! You're Katie Bell!" exclaimed a voice from out side the compartment. "Hallelujah! Somebody give Mr. Higgs a prize! Now get the hell out of my compartment!" No one moved, they were still in shock. "NOW!" "Bye!" "See you later Bell" They left, all looking slightly shocked and resorted to pulling an almost comatose Flint with them 'I'm surprised his brain hasn't exploded from that much thought, although perhaps it already has' Katie slumped onto the seat 'finally'. During the most intelligent conversation of the century, the train had pulled away from the platform and Katie found it strange that none of her friends had come to join her. Twenty minutes into the journey she gave up hope and allowed her compartment to be over run with first years. Katie didn't mind, after the first few questions had lapsed into uncomfortable silence she just listened to her Walkman. The rest of the journey passed quite well, with Katie buying Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and sharing them with the first years, almost too well in fact, it should have been a sign but Katie was wallowing in misery and didn't notice until it was too late. She had just dropped into a rather interesting dream involving Orlando Bloom and large quantities of Honeyduke's finest melted chocolate when she was roughly shaken awake. "Whhaat! I was sleeping!" she mumbled. "I know but its important" the evil waker-upper replied. Opening her eyes Katie found herself staring into the cold grey eyes of Draco Malfoy! "What do you want?" "There's some little first year girl in our compartment crying her eyes out, making loads of noise and getting snot everywhere, it's disgusting. erm and she's asking for you" "For me?" "That's what I just said wasn't it" he snapped "Okay! Chill I'm going!" "Well hurry up! I was five minutes away from hexing the little brat to shut her up." Draco kept mumbling to himself about "bloody wimpy first years" but Katie drowned him out, gathering her things her thoughts were consumed with the thought that 'other than the ones in this compartment I don't know any first year girls!' Reluctantly she followed Malfoy out of the compartment and surprisingly into the one next door, where the heart wrenching (yes even to Katie's cold heart) sobs of a little girl could be heard. Taking a deep breath Katie slid open the door but couldn't see anything for the sea of male bodies that blocked her way. Listening to what they were saying Katie thought it little wonder that the girl hadn't stopped crying, Malfoy wasn't joking about the hex threats 'yeah guys! Great way to get her to stop crying, threaten to kill her! I wonder why that one isn't working!' "Okay that's it move out of the way!" pushing her way unnecessarily through the bodies that parted like the Dead Sea. Katie gasped at the sight that awaited her. Terrance Higgs had his arm around the shoulders of a small shaking blonde girl trying to provide comfort against the harsh words of his housemates 'well at least one of them is half decent!' Hearing the sound of another girl's voice, the little girl looked up. "Oh my god" The boys all fell silent. The little girls lower lip wobbled and then she wailed "Kaaaatttttiiieeee!" and promptly burst into tears. Katie couldn't move. There in front of her sporting a rapidly swelling black eye, and dressed in Hogwarts robes sat her little "sister" Casey. Her little ten year old "sister" Casey. Hundreds of thoughts passed through Katie's head, the most important one being 'What the hell is she doing at Hogwarts' Then all thoughts were forgotten as the little girl threw herself into Katie's arms and wept against her chest.
Meanwhile in Sunnydale California Loki was one tired owl! He had spent about three months trying to find this Rupert Giles bloke! Finally he had it narrowed down to two locations, the first one a store known as the Magic Box in downtown Sunnydale proved to be fruitless because at midnight most savoury establishments were closed so he was making one last stop before returning to England. 1630 Revello Drive.
Oh! He was so tired and dirty! His once snowy coat was covered in dirt and that damned letter tied to his foot was bloody annoying and was in a right state!
Swooping over Sunnydale Loki thought it seemed like an okay place but something felt off, it felt bad. Making a dignified landing on the porch of 1630 Revello Drive, Loki puffed out his feathers to make him more presentable and thought about roosting in the nearest tree until someone was awake, and made to turn around but then noticed the light on in the living room and the soft murmur of voices coming from within. It's now or never. Walking towards the door he tapped on it with his beak and waited patiently. Footsteps! Somebody was coming!
The door opened to reveal a familiar looking man, Loki was sure he had seen him before on one on Katie's albums, something about a white wedding if he remembered correctly. The blonde man looked down at him but surprisingly for a muggle faced with an owl on his door step, didn't look to surprised. He leaned towards Loki to remove the letter, but Loki wasn't having it! This man was too young to be Rupert Giles! Seeing his chance Loki rushed into the house hearing the man shout "Hey! Did anyone order an owl?" Loki flew into the living room and saw a group of six muggles, seven including the one who answered the door, all wide awake and with weapons close at hand. "Owl? What owl?" said the young brunet male. He was also too young to be Rupert Giles, plus he was American. "Oh my god! It's so cute!" Squealed a young skinny girl with really long brown hair. A piece of wood flew towards Loki and he managed to avoid it in time before it skewered his wing. Hooting in protest he moved away from the crazy blonde and walked further into the room and felt a tingle. He was here! A slightly older lady walked into the room with some snacks and said "Did you kids say something about an owl?" "Yes. An owl of the feathery variety in your living room!" "Isn't it cute mom?" She looked at me and then to the blonde male chastising the crazy blonde who threw wood at me. Then she turned around and said "Rupert, honey come and look at this!" A cultured British voice answered, slowly getting closer "It's not a disgusting display of teenage hormones again is it?" "Nope it's an." "Good lord!" He dropped his mug of tea. "No it's an owl!" It was him! Loki walked across the carpet towards the shocked Rupert Giles and held out his leg, hooting to indicate he should take the letter. Wizards could be so stupid sometimes. Mr Giles face was white and his hands shook as he removed the letter "Dawn, could you please get some water and something for the owl to eat please" "Sure" the young squealing one left. The other muggles sat silently watching Mr Giles as he sat down and started to read the letter, his hands shaking. The older lady sat on the arm of his chair and patted his back reassuringly. Loki felt the crazy blonde one looking at him again so moved to hide on the bookcase, where he promptly fell into a well earned rest only to be awakened by the exclamation "dear lord it can't be" followed by various exclamations of disbelief and mumbled muttering that ended in "it appears I have a daughter" " Yes Giles you have two remember, you adopted us when you and mom got married!" "Yes, Dawn I know that but I wasn't referring to you, it seems I have a biological daughter who just found out about my existence, in England!" There was a thud as he fainted and his body hit the floor. Seeing the food and water laid out on the table Loki hooted disinterestedly at the man on the floor and tucked in.
What followed when the man was revived was a good deal of glasses cleaning, the reading out loud of Katie's letter and the explanation of the Wizarding world that Rupert Giles had left behind almost seventeen years ago. During the discussion Loki decided that he liked the blonde man and took to sitting on his shoulder, and felt relaxed near the two girls holding hands next to him, he could feel something emanating from them, a power, they were Wicca's! Loki found that he liked the quieter girl best, she felt more powerful, so after an hour of his new perch he repositioned himself on the chair arm next to her and proceeded to talk to her using hoots of course, she seemed to find this quite amusing. The crazy blonde one was a bit reluctant to believe Mr Giles until he actually went into the attic to get his wand and some old schoolbooks. They were all quite shocked yet seemed perfectly happy to have another family member and they had decided to all write letters to her so they could know her better. Loki was quite puzzled as to why the brunet male wouldn't let the none squealing brunet female write letters to Katie. It was decided that they should just write short notes at first to be sent back with Loki, once he had rested, until Giles could contact the Ministry to get connected to the floo network, or until Katie could get her hands on some Muggle technology. Loki wondered how Katie was doing; she would be going back to Hogwart's today, he hoped she was all right. The squealing girl called Dawn asked Loki if he wanted some ham from her sandwich, he hooted that he would and then was inundated with yes/no questions inquiring about Katie.
It was quite a shock for Rupert Giles to find out that he had a daughter and poor Melissa, why didn't she tell him. Not to his surprise everyone seemed very supportive of making contact with her, although Buffy was a bit sulky, probably because Spike told her off for trying to skewer the owl. Speaking of the owl, it really was a beautiful creature if a bit dirty but that could be expected from travelling the world. God, what would he say to her? Katie, such a nice name. His daughter. His.daughter. He couldn't believe it. What would she be like? What were her favourite subjects? Who were her friends? Well all that would have to wait until he got an owl of his own. He was contemplating sending a message to Dumbledore as well and asking him to inform the Ministry that he would like to be linked up to the flew system. Wonder if Hogwarts has a telephone yet, or maybe one of those computer thingys that Willow liked, with the internet. A hoot brought him back to the real world, it seemed Dawn was communicating with the owl. "Come on Giles give it a go!" "Ask him about Katie! One hoot for yes, no hoots equals no!" "Okay. Her house. is she in Hufflepuff?" The owl was silent. "Ravenclaw?" Silent again "Good lord, she's not in Slytherin is she?" The owl said nothing but puffed up its feathers and looked very affronted! "That means she's in Gryffindor! Good old Gryffindor, my old house you know!" "Okay what does she look like?" The talking continued until the early hours of the morning, with the Scooby gang finding out that Katie was naturally blonde but had dyed her hair black (that took some deciphering!), was shorter than Dawn but not as short as Buffy, had brown eyes and was chaser on the Quidditch team. Her worst teacher was in potions but that was the lesson she was best at whilst her favourite teacher was a choice between Herbology and Charms.
The Scooby's thought that Giles looked much happier than when he first opened the letter but nobody seemed to notice that Buffy only smiled when Giles looked at her.
Two days later, after being well fed and rested, Loki set off back to England with enough letters to keep a muggle postman busy although, thankfully, Giles had managed to shrink them to the size of postage stamps and placed them in a pouch tied around Loki's leg. The little owl figured that it would take him less time to get home than it did to find Rupert Giles, the weather willing he should be back at Hogwarts well before Halloween.
On the Hogwart's Express
Trying to disentangle herself from the sobbing girl clinging to her like a leech, was a more difficult task than Katie had anticipated. "Casey, honey, you have to stop crying so you can tell me who did this" and then I can beat the crap out of them' Casey just sobbed louder much to the chagrin of the Slytherin boys in the compartment. Katie had only been in the compartment for about ten minutes and the wailing was getting on her nerves, enough was enough. Using the most authoritative voice she could muster Katie commanded "Casey Marie Bell you stop that bloody racket right now or I'll tell Elvis what you did to his collection of girly mags that he had hid under his bed!" In between wails Casey managed to choke out "You. wouldn't . dare!" "Try me" was the reply. Casey gulped, knowing by the look on Katie's face that she meant business, and her wails turned into sighing widely interspersed sobs. "There isn't that better" Her attention went to the boys sitting far to silently in the compartment and sitting down in Casey's vacated spot next to Terrance she said "Chocolate?" Which was met with a resounding chorus of "I'll have some, Bell" "No, dumbasses, I meant have you got any chocolate that I can give to Casey to calm her down!" "Oh!" "No sorry!" "Just eaten the last bit!" Just then one of Malfoy's shadows, Goyle stepped into the compartment unwrapping a chocolate frog. Taking a deep breath and pasting a smile on her face Katie sauntered up to Goyle. 'The things I do for my sister!' Laying a hand on his arm, and standing so that he had a clear view down her shirt - to distract him, Katie looked up at him and sweetly said " Hi! You must be Gregory! Draco's told me so many nice things about you!" She cringed at how sickly sweet and vapid her voice sounded. Noticing the pretty girl talking to him, Goyle's face brightened " Really?" "Aha! He said you were a very kind and generous friend." that statement was interrupted by barely concealed sniggers. Katie sent a furious glare Malfoy's way but it did little to quell his amusement. " Anyway." she continued " I was wondering if you would be so kind as to let me have half of that chocolate frog, see my sister well she fainted and ." before she could finish aforementioned chocolate frog made a mad leap to freedom. down the front of Katie's top. Of course Goyle's chubby hands made to follow but Katie slapped them away "Pervert!" Suddenly there was a mad dash in the compartment as the boys all stood up to assist Katie! Batting away questing hands she growled, "Don't even think about it!" She reached down the front of her top with a thumb and forefinger and pulled out a rapidly melting chocolate frog, and snapping it in half proceeded to give half to Goyle and shoved the rest in Casey's mouth. " Thanks Goyle" Then she turned to Casey and said "What the bloody hell happened?" Casey went on to explain how she had been looking for a compartment to sit at after Elvis kicked her out of his compartment to make room for his new friends when this girl who quiet frankly looked like she belonged in a zoo, had opened a door and hit her, the excuse that her hand had slipped! "That bitch!" Katie was fuming, and pacing up and down the compartment. "What did she look like?" "Well you remember that dog, Aunty May had, the one with the squashed face?" "The pug?" "Yes that's it and." she was cut off by a whimper "What now?" "It's her!" she hissed furiously. Katie looked up and surely enough there was Pansy Parkinson sliding open the door and about to step into the compartment. "Drakie darling there you ..." she didn't get to finish however because a punch to the nose sent her sailing out the door to crash into the panelled wall of the corridor. Katie, with her fists clenched in furry walked over to the felled girl and said " Parkinson, you touch my sister again and I'll break your legs. no make that your neck, you understand me?" "Perfectly" spat Pansy with blood streaming down her face.
Warning: Characters may act very out of character!
Chapter 2; 'Blood is thicker than water' or 'dear lord' * cleans glasses *
After staring dismally out of the window at the now almost childfree platform, Katie felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle in awareness, someone was watching her! Whilst removing the headphones from her ears, Katie turned towards the door, only to see the grinning face of . Marcus Flint! At least it could have been Flint if it wasn't for the sheer perfection of his normal sized pearly white teeth. Suddenly he spoke "Hi! I was.oof" he was elbowed in the gut "Correction we were wondering if you would mind if we shared your compartment?" Distracted by Flints new teeth Katie had failed to notice the boys standing behind him, the entire Slytherin Quidditch team with strange looks on their faces, it looked wrong, kind of appreciative but totally disturbing. Following their gazes she found the source of their stupor to be . herself, more particularly her legs and her chest. 'What the hell is the matter with them? Katie thought to herself 'Why are they looking at me, Katie Bell, like that? Unless.' Suddenly it clicked 'Oh my god! They don't recognise me!' She had to choke back laughter at that, the people who hated her most in the school, and had done for years, people she fought with both on the Quidditch pitch and off, didn't recognise her! A cough brought her out of her reverie; they were looking at her expectantly. "Sorry boys but I'm afraid you really don't want to sit here" "Why not" was the indignant reply. Katie shook her head said, "You guys are priceless!" and burst into giggles. The boys looked at Flint expectantly, he just looked confused and shrugged. "Are you honestly telling me you don't recognise me?" she was met with blank looks, placing her walkman aside she stood up, stretched and sauntered towards the door 'Might as well have a little fun' Placing her hand on Flints chest Katie looked up at him, fluttered her eyelashes and pouted seductively "Oh Marcus" she sighed "how could you have forgotten those wonderful times we spent on the Quidditch pitch!" Flint looked confused and the other boys looked at him as if to say 'you sly dog, why didn't you tell us!' "I .um." he looked lost for words and his forehead was creased in concentration. "Surely you remember" Katie ran her hand up and down his chest, toying with the buttons on his forest green shirt 'this is great, I am Katie the slut!, kinda empowering' Then breathily, against his ear, just loud enough for the other boys to hear she said, "Let me refresh your memory, it was just you and me . and the entire Gryffindor and Slytherin Quidditch teams" she pulled back to look at his face, nope still totally blank. This game was getting tiring "Oh come on Flint, surely you haven't been hit in the head that many times with a Bludger!" "Merlin! You're Katie Bell!" exclaimed a voice from out side the compartment. "Hallelujah! Somebody give Mr. Higgs a prize! Now get the hell out of my compartment!" No one moved, they were still in shock. "NOW!" "Bye!" "See you later Bell" They left, all looking slightly shocked and resorted to pulling an almost comatose Flint with them 'I'm surprised his brain hasn't exploded from that much thought, although perhaps it already has' Katie slumped onto the seat 'finally'. During the most intelligent conversation of the century, the train had pulled away from the platform and Katie found it strange that none of her friends had come to join her. Twenty minutes into the journey she gave up hope and allowed her compartment to be over run with first years. Katie didn't mind, after the first few questions had lapsed into uncomfortable silence she just listened to her Walkman. The rest of the journey passed quite well, with Katie buying Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans and sharing them with the first years, almost too well in fact, it should have been a sign but Katie was wallowing in misery and didn't notice until it was too late. She had just dropped into a rather interesting dream involving Orlando Bloom and large quantities of Honeyduke's finest melted chocolate when she was roughly shaken awake. "Whhaat! I was sleeping!" she mumbled. "I know but its important" the evil waker-upper replied. Opening her eyes Katie found herself staring into the cold grey eyes of Draco Malfoy! "What do you want?" "There's some little first year girl in our compartment crying her eyes out, making loads of noise and getting snot everywhere, it's disgusting. erm and she's asking for you" "For me?" "That's what I just said wasn't it" he snapped "Okay! Chill I'm going!" "Well hurry up! I was five minutes away from hexing the little brat to shut her up." Draco kept mumbling to himself about "bloody wimpy first years" but Katie drowned him out, gathering her things her thoughts were consumed with the thought that 'other than the ones in this compartment I don't know any first year girls!' Reluctantly she followed Malfoy out of the compartment and surprisingly into the one next door, where the heart wrenching (yes even to Katie's cold heart) sobs of a little girl could be heard. Taking a deep breath Katie slid open the door but couldn't see anything for the sea of male bodies that blocked her way. Listening to what they were saying Katie thought it little wonder that the girl hadn't stopped crying, Malfoy wasn't joking about the hex threats 'yeah guys! Great way to get her to stop crying, threaten to kill her! I wonder why that one isn't working!' "Okay that's it move out of the way!" pushing her way unnecessarily through the bodies that parted like the Dead Sea. Katie gasped at the sight that awaited her. Terrance Higgs had his arm around the shoulders of a small shaking blonde girl trying to provide comfort against the harsh words of his housemates 'well at least one of them is half decent!' Hearing the sound of another girl's voice, the little girl looked up. "Oh my god" The boys all fell silent. The little girls lower lip wobbled and then she wailed "Kaaaatttttiiieeee!" and promptly burst into tears. Katie couldn't move. There in front of her sporting a rapidly swelling black eye, and dressed in Hogwarts robes sat her little "sister" Casey. Her little ten year old "sister" Casey. Hundreds of thoughts passed through Katie's head, the most important one being 'What the hell is she doing at Hogwarts' Then all thoughts were forgotten as the little girl threw herself into Katie's arms and wept against her chest.
Meanwhile in Sunnydale California Loki was one tired owl! He had spent about three months trying to find this Rupert Giles bloke! Finally he had it narrowed down to two locations, the first one a store known as the Magic Box in downtown Sunnydale proved to be fruitless because at midnight most savoury establishments were closed so he was making one last stop before returning to England. 1630 Revello Drive.
Oh! He was so tired and dirty! His once snowy coat was covered in dirt and that damned letter tied to his foot was bloody annoying and was in a right state!
Swooping over Sunnydale Loki thought it seemed like an okay place but something felt off, it felt bad. Making a dignified landing on the porch of 1630 Revello Drive, Loki puffed out his feathers to make him more presentable and thought about roosting in the nearest tree until someone was awake, and made to turn around but then noticed the light on in the living room and the soft murmur of voices coming from within. It's now or never. Walking towards the door he tapped on it with his beak and waited patiently. Footsteps! Somebody was coming!
The door opened to reveal a familiar looking man, Loki was sure he had seen him before on one on Katie's albums, something about a white wedding if he remembered correctly. The blonde man looked down at him but surprisingly for a muggle faced with an owl on his door step, didn't look to surprised. He leaned towards Loki to remove the letter, but Loki wasn't having it! This man was too young to be Rupert Giles! Seeing his chance Loki rushed into the house hearing the man shout "Hey! Did anyone order an owl?" Loki flew into the living room and saw a group of six muggles, seven including the one who answered the door, all wide awake and with weapons close at hand. "Owl? What owl?" said the young brunet male. He was also too young to be Rupert Giles, plus he was American. "Oh my god! It's so cute!" Squealed a young skinny girl with really long brown hair. A piece of wood flew towards Loki and he managed to avoid it in time before it skewered his wing. Hooting in protest he moved away from the crazy blonde and walked further into the room and felt a tingle. He was here! A slightly older lady walked into the room with some snacks and said "Did you kids say something about an owl?" "Yes. An owl of the feathery variety in your living room!" "Isn't it cute mom?" She looked at me and then to the blonde male chastising the crazy blonde who threw wood at me. Then she turned around and said "Rupert, honey come and look at this!" A cultured British voice answered, slowly getting closer "It's not a disgusting display of teenage hormones again is it?" "Nope it's an." "Good lord!" He dropped his mug of tea. "No it's an owl!" It was him! Loki walked across the carpet towards the shocked Rupert Giles and held out his leg, hooting to indicate he should take the letter. Wizards could be so stupid sometimes. Mr Giles face was white and his hands shook as he removed the letter "Dawn, could you please get some water and something for the owl to eat please" "Sure" the young squealing one left. The other muggles sat silently watching Mr Giles as he sat down and started to read the letter, his hands shaking. The older lady sat on the arm of his chair and patted his back reassuringly. Loki felt the crazy blonde one looking at him again so moved to hide on the bookcase, where he promptly fell into a well earned rest only to be awakened by the exclamation "dear lord it can't be" followed by various exclamations of disbelief and mumbled muttering that ended in "it appears I have a daughter" " Yes Giles you have two remember, you adopted us when you and mom got married!" "Yes, Dawn I know that but I wasn't referring to you, it seems I have a biological daughter who just found out about my existence, in England!" There was a thud as he fainted and his body hit the floor. Seeing the food and water laid out on the table Loki hooted disinterestedly at the man on the floor and tucked in.
What followed when the man was revived was a good deal of glasses cleaning, the reading out loud of Katie's letter and the explanation of the Wizarding world that Rupert Giles had left behind almost seventeen years ago. During the discussion Loki decided that he liked the blonde man and took to sitting on his shoulder, and felt relaxed near the two girls holding hands next to him, he could feel something emanating from them, a power, they were Wicca's! Loki found that he liked the quieter girl best, she felt more powerful, so after an hour of his new perch he repositioned himself on the chair arm next to her and proceeded to talk to her using hoots of course, she seemed to find this quite amusing. The crazy blonde one was a bit reluctant to believe Mr Giles until he actually went into the attic to get his wand and some old schoolbooks. They were all quite shocked yet seemed perfectly happy to have another family member and they had decided to all write letters to her so they could know her better. Loki was quite puzzled as to why the brunet male wouldn't let the none squealing brunet female write letters to Katie. It was decided that they should just write short notes at first to be sent back with Loki, once he had rested, until Giles could contact the Ministry to get connected to the floo network, or until Katie could get her hands on some Muggle technology. Loki wondered how Katie was doing; she would be going back to Hogwart's today, he hoped she was all right. The squealing girl called Dawn asked Loki if he wanted some ham from her sandwich, he hooted that he would and then was inundated with yes/no questions inquiring about Katie.
It was quite a shock for Rupert Giles to find out that he had a daughter and poor Melissa, why didn't she tell him. Not to his surprise everyone seemed very supportive of making contact with her, although Buffy was a bit sulky, probably because Spike told her off for trying to skewer the owl. Speaking of the owl, it really was a beautiful creature if a bit dirty but that could be expected from travelling the world. God, what would he say to her? Katie, such a nice name. His daughter. His.daughter. He couldn't believe it. What would she be like? What were her favourite subjects? Who were her friends? Well all that would have to wait until he got an owl of his own. He was contemplating sending a message to Dumbledore as well and asking him to inform the Ministry that he would like to be linked up to the flew system. Wonder if Hogwarts has a telephone yet, or maybe one of those computer thingys that Willow liked, with the internet. A hoot brought him back to the real world, it seemed Dawn was communicating with the owl. "Come on Giles give it a go!" "Ask him about Katie! One hoot for yes, no hoots equals no!" "Okay. Her house. is she in Hufflepuff?" The owl was silent. "Ravenclaw?" Silent again "Good lord, she's not in Slytherin is she?" The owl said nothing but puffed up its feathers and looked very affronted! "That means she's in Gryffindor! Good old Gryffindor, my old house you know!" "Okay what does she look like?" The talking continued until the early hours of the morning, with the Scooby gang finding out that Katie was naturally blonde but had dyed her hair black (that took some deciphering!), was shorter than Dawn but not as short as Buffy, had brown eyes and was chaser on the Quidditch team. Her worst teacher was in potions but that was the lesson she was best at whilst her favourite teacher was a choice between Herbology and Charms.
The Scooby's thought that Giles looked much happier than when he first opened the letter but nobody seemed to notice that Buffy only smiled when Giles looked at her.
Two days later, after being well fed and rested, Loki set off back to England with enough letters to keep a muggle postman busy although, thankfully, Giles had managed to shrink them to the size of postage stamps and placed them in a pouch tied around Loki's leg. The little owl figured that it would take him less time to get home than it did to find Rupert Giles, the weather willing he should be back at Hogwarts well before Halloween.
On the Hogwart's Express
Trying to disentangle herself from the sobbing girl clinging to her like a leech, was a more difficult task than Katie had anticipated. "Casey, honey, you have to stop crying so you can tell me who did this" and then I can beat the crap out of them' Casey just sobbed louder much to the chagrin of the Slytherin boys in the compartment. Katie had only been in the compartment for about ten minutes and the wailing was getting on her nerves, enough was enough. Using the most authoritative voice she could muster Katie commanded "Casey Marie Bell you stop that bloody racket right now or I'll tell Elvis what you did to his collection of girly mags that he had hid under his bed!" In between wails Casey managed to choke out "You. wouldn't . dare!" "Try me" was the reply. Casey gulped, knowing by the look on Katie's face that she meant business, and her wails turned into sighing widely interspersed sobs. "There isn't that better" Her attention went to the boys sitting far to silently in the compartment and sitting down in Casey's vacated spot next to Terrance she said "Chocolate?" Which was met with a resounding chorus of "I'll have some, Bell" "No, dumbasses, I meant have you got any chocolate that I can give to Casey to calm her down!" "Oh!" "No sorry!" "Just eaten the last bit!" Just then one of Malfoy's shadows, Goyle stepped into the compartment unwrapping a chocolate frog. Taking a deep breath and pasting a smile on her face Katie sauntered up to Goyle. 'The things I do for my sister!' Laying a hand on his arm, and standing so that he had a clear view down her shirt - to distract him, Katie looked up at him and sweetly said " Hi! You must be Gregory! Draco's told me so many nice things about you!" She cringed at how sickly sweet and vapid her voice sounded. Noticing the pretty girl talking to him, Goyle's face brightened " Really?" "Aha! He said you were a very kind and generous friend." that statement was interrupted by barely concealed sniggers. Katie sent a furious glare Malfoy's way but it did little to quell his amusement. " Anyway." she continued " I was wondering if you would be so kind as to let me have half of that chocolate frog, see my sister well she fainted and ." before she could finish aforementioned chocolate frog made a mad leap to freedom. down the front of Katie's top. Of course Goyle's chubby hands made to follow but Katie slapped them away "Pervert!" Suddenly there was a mad dash in the compartment as the boys all stood up to assist Katie! Batting away questing hands she growled, "Don't even think about it!" She reached down the front of her top with a thumb and forefinger and pulled out a rapidly melting chocolate frog, and snapping it in half proceeded to give half to Goyle and shoved the rest in Casey's mouth. " Thanks Goyle" Then she turned to Casey and said "What the bloody hell happened?" Casey went on to explain how she had been looking for a compartment to sit at after Elvis kicked her out of his compartment to make room for his new friends when this girl who quiet frankly looked like she belonged in a zoo, had opened a door and hit her, the excuse that her hand had slipped! "That bitch!" Katie was fuming, and pacing up and down the compartment. "What did she look like?" "Well you remember that dog, Aunty May had, the one with the squashed face?" "The pug?" "Yes that's it and." she was cut off by a whimper "What now?" "It's her!" she hissed furiously. Katie looked up and surely enough there was Pansy Parkinson sliding open the door and about to step into the compartment. "Drakie darling there you ..." she didn't get to finish however because a punch to the nose sent her sailing out the door to crash into the panelled wall of the corridor. Katie, with her fists clenched in furry walked over to the felled girl and said " Parkinson, you touch my sister again and I'll break your legs. no make that your neck, you understand me?" "Perfectly" spat Pansy with blood streaming down her face.