A/n: Hey, hope everyone had a great Christmas (if you celebrate Christmas!)! I know I did, except for the fact that my best friend left for vacation in Florida, she'll be back for school but we go to different schools and don't get to hang a lot so I thought we could hang over break. We can't and I'm pissed. Anyway, I'm listening (if you care) to Once More, With Feeling! Got it for x-mas and my parents think I'm crazy! Whatever, my cousin who's in he's mid twenties likes Buffy too and that kinda creeps me out. I must say my fav song is I'll never tell! So I'll stop talking about me cuz you all probably don't really care. I'm sure (and I admit to doing this also) you all just skip over this part and go right to the story! Can't really blame you if you do!

Thanks JT! Not a lot of people like reading about a new slayer and her gang, most people just want me to get to the parts with the ACTUAL Scoobies! Anyway thanks for review to anyone else who did! If you didn't review then poo on you! (I realize that my maturity level just dropped but who cares!) I frown on the laziness of all of you who don't review. Unless you are going to flame me cuz then I'll ignore it! I just I should get to the story.

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Giles came in after her. Buffy and Dawn were already hugging and the rest of the new gang were just standing there, unsure of what to do. Immediately Giles was attacked by Willow.

"Giles!" she cried, "How are you? I missed you." The other woman, who Sami guessed was Anya, ran and joined the two. Followed by Xander and Buffy. Spike did not choose to join in on the hug fest.

"Do you think he can breathe?" Sami whispered to Matt and Ana. Ana looked through to Giles.

"Um, he's turning purple. If they don't give him some space, he'll suffocate." She laughed. The group dissolved and Giles beamed. The group turned their attention to Dawn and the hug fest continued.

It was all very tear jerking. It was the perfect Kodak moment, if only Sami had a camera. She wished she had a circle of friends like this, then it hit her. She did, or at least she was working on it. Matt was Xander, Ana was Willow and Dawn was just Dawn she guessed. She was Buffy, except she knew that she would never get to the level Buffy was at. She could feel it. This place was making her uneasy, and she wasn't alone. The moment Ana had set foot out of the fireplace she felt the magic coursing through her. For a second she was afraid it would take control of her but somehow she fought it.

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"Sami, Ana, and Dawn will be staying in the Gryffindor girls' dorm. Matt will stay in the boys' and Mr. Giles, you may stay with Professor Harris, if that's all right." Dumbledore instructed once all the greetings were finished. Giles nodded in agreement. Sami's excitement took control of her. She almost shrieked in excitement. She just couldn't wait. Yet part of her knew that something was going to go wrong here. Her spider senses were tingling and that was never good.

"Professor, sir, you wanted me?" A boy with messy jet-black hair and shockingly green eyes said from the doorway. He was accompanied by another taller boy with red hair and freckles and a girl with bushy brown hair.

"Ah yes, Harry will you, Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger escort Miss Jones, Miss Martinez, Miss Summers, and Mr. Ballinger to the Gryffindor Tower?" Professor Dumbledore asked.

"No problem, sir." Harry answered. Sami, Ana, Dawn and Matt grabbed their bags and followed the three out the door. The group walked up the first staircase and along a few halls in silence.

"I really think we should have told her." Sami said to Ana. "I just have a feeling in my stommy."

"Stommy?" Ron asked. He knew that she wasn't talking to him but he still had to know. He chuckled slightly at the immaturity in the word. Sami bit her lip as to know say anything back, because if she did, it would have been very rude. The silence remained. Their footsteps echoed in the halls. Matt was the one to break it.

"Ana, was your dad or mom a, you know?" Matt asked. He had been wanting to for a while.

"I don't think so, I mean as far as I can remember of them. They left when I was pretty little and I've lived with the Jones' ever since." Ana replied. She hoped to the hellmouth they were going to school on that the subject was dropped.

"I never knew my parents." Harry said. They had stopped in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere.

"I'm sorry." Sami offered, knowing that wouldn't help at all.

"Thanks." He muttered. "I'm Harry, incase you didn't know." He said.

"Sami." She smiled, "This is Ana, Matt and Dawn." She offered since no one else seemed to.

"I'm Hermione." The girl said, "This is Ron."

There was some silence in which Sami shifted her weight uncomfortable. Harry turned to a picture on the wall of an obese woman and said "Wolfsbane." The picture swung open, revealing a hole into which they all climbed. Hermione led the three girls up to her dorm room. Someone had added three cots. Harry and Ron led Matt to their rooms.

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Sami laid down on her cot. The day had gone by very quickly. Buffy had promised Sami a talk later on in the visit. Dawn and Giles talked excitedly with the crowd, catching up. Sami, Ana and Matt had taken off on their own for a while to explore the castle. Sleep came quick to them all.

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"How is she?" Buffy asked. She, Willow and Giles were roaming the halls.

"Dawn, you saw, she's doing very well." Giles answered.

"Not Dawn, Sami. Is she slaying ok?" she asked.

"Yes, no where never you but she's doing well."

"So, what's the big bad?" Willow asked almost as though it really didn't matter.

"Two vampires. We aren't sure of what they are planning but we know it's big."

"Anything we can do to help?" Buffy asked.

"No." Giles said. They had walked to Xander's office. "Really girls, I'm exhausted. Good night."

"Night Giles."

"Night."

The two girls walked away as Giles entered Xander's sleeping quarters. He fell immediately to sleep.

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Go to the forest, a tinny voice in her head told her. She obediently got up. She pulled on some jeans, a gray Salem sweatshirt (a/n: Salem's her old school) and some shoes. She instinctively grabbed a stake and a cross and shoved them into her pocket. Covered in the dark, she made her way out of the castle, which took a while considering she didn't have a clue what she where she was going, and toward the forest. The wind blew hard in the direction of the trees, guiding her. She walked through the forest into a clearing and became alert. She suspended her senses, as Giles had taught her, to find the people around her. There were too many, she knew she wouldn't be able to fight them all. They formed a circle, it was spread out and far enough away as too not seem threatening, yet close enough to see and hear what was happening. She opened her eyes and saw a man, or what she assumed was a man, coming toward her. His eyes were red and his face structure reminded her of a snake. She figured him a wizard.

"Who are you?" Sami called, "I know you're there, I just can't see you."

"I'm your master." The man hissed. Sami laughed.

"Excuse me. You are not my master. I don't have a master. I have a watcher and friends but not a master." She called.

"Bow." The man called. Sami bent at the waste as though she was a puppet. The man laughed, full of pure evil.

"I wanted to do that. I was looking at something on the ground." Sami said not wanting to believe that somehow this guy had control over her. He laughed again.

Come toward me, the voice in her head ordered. She took two steps forward.

No, it can't possibly do me good, another voice said meekly. She recognized it as her own voice.

Come to me, the man's voice said a little stronger and more commanding.

No, in fact I'm freezing so I'm going back, her voice said more loudly. She took a step backward.

I'm your master, now come to me, the man shouted.

Yes master, she took a step forward, NO I REFUSE! And please don't yell. Use your inside voice, I'm getting a headache.

Come!, he shouted again.

"NO!" she yelled out loud. She turned around and started running. She was full out running, no holding back. She heard the man say something but he was too far away to hear. She knew he had cast a spell since a second later something hit her in her back. It spread through her veins. She fell to the ground, a few feet away from the edge of the forest.

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The sun began to peek over the edge of the mountains. The death eaters had been sent away but one remained.

"Master, what did you do to her?" Pettigrew asked as they watched the girl lean against a tree, hugging her self and muttering.

"It's part of the plan." Voldemort replied. They continued to watch and the girl slowly made her way out of the forest.

"Master, if you let her go any farther, she'll be found."

"That's the point." Voldemort said. He laughed maliciously then dissapperated, followed by his follower.

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Hagrid was making his way, as usual, to the castle for breakfast. He was very excited to meet the visitors. Something moved at the edge of the forest that caught Hagrid's eye. He went to investigate and found one of the guests, Samantha.

"What yer doin' here? 'Snot safe." He asked as he picked her off of the ground and set her on her feet. She was shaking, Hagrid figured, from the cold.

" It's dirty. It's all dirty. And all over me!" Sami said and seemed to brush something off of herself. She started shaking even more. Hagrid swung her into his arms.

"Best get you ter the hospital wing." He said and carried her toward the castle. She continued to mutter and shake.