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Spoilers: All hp books.  Hardly and buffy.

I know I said I'll take a while, but I got my essays and stuff done really quickly, so I wrote more chapters and decided I should post this!

My friend pointed out to me that I may have lost all the Australian readers after my comment last chapter, so I just want to say-sorry!!  I got a bit big headed!

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Summer after 5th year, Sunnydale.

"I don't see why I have to be the bait!"

A young, red headed girl poked her head out from a tree, grinning mischievously. 

"Just act like the damsel in distress.  You'll do fine!"  The red head disappeared behind the tree again.

"Fine!"  Shouted the teenage boy, with a mess of curly brown hair on his head. "But if I die, I'm coming back to haunt you!" 

He swung his arms, shivering in the cool night breeze.  It was a Friday night.  The night was pretty young, and where was he?  In a cemetery.  Oh, what a life he led!  And, to top that off, he was playing the damsel in distress!  He shivered, thoroughly annoyed with his so-called best friend who was off doing naughty things behind a tree with her boyfriend.  And who knew where his other friend was?   The young boy pulled on his many layers of clothing on his torso.  His other peers may make fun at him at his school, but he thought it was very practical.  Besides, layers were in!  Weren't they?

"Look out!"  Screamed another girl from somewhere behind the trees.

The boy turned around, only to be knocked down by a large man.  The boy fell to the ground, feeling the hard grass and the earth under his back.  He grimaced as the man on top of him grinned; showing large, very sharp teeth.  Gathering all his strength (which wasn't very much) he pushed the man off him and scrambled to his feet.  Only to get knocked down again.

A short brown haired girl jumped out from behind a bush, her large bushy hair tied up into a ponytail, bright chocolate eyes sparkling in the night. 

"Don't worry, I'm coming!"  She yelled to her friend on the ground.  She brandished a large wooden stake from her trouser pocket and ran as quickly as she could to her friend on the ground.  Using all her strength, she kicked the man off her friend and then punched him in the nose.

The man growled at her, his bumpy forehead shining because of the moonlight.   He grinned, satisfied by the horrified look on the young girl's face.

"Uh, guys?  Help!"  She screamed, before running away from the man.

Two figures stepped out from behind the tree, the girl with red hair strewn across her face and both with very red looks on their faces.  The boy accompanying the girl was shorter than her, with green spiky hair and wolf like features.

They both ran out, chasing the man who was chasing their friends.

"Stop him!"  The young boy with brown hair said, jumping up from the ground, giving chase also.

The brown haired girl ran as fast as she could, but then her legs started to get weak, her breath coming in short gasps.  And she could hear the man closing in. 

"AHHHHH!"  Shouted someone from behind her, and she stopped and turned around to see what was happening.  The brown haired boy had jumped the big man, which wasn't very clever because then he had been thrown against a tombstone.  Then the green man attacked, punching and kicking with all his might, but after a few seconds, he was thrown into the air also.

The red head grew stopped short, angry that her boyfriend and her best friend had just been beaten up.  Summoning a small amount of her magic from within her, as she had been taught in class, she lifted her hands, and as she did so, then large man lifted off from the ground also.

The man kicked and yelled in the air, but it did no good.  He was soon suspended in mid-air, so he could not move.

"Now!"  Shouted the red head to the other girl.  With a swift movement, the girl thrust her stake into the man's heart, and after moments of doing this, the man disintegrated, turning into dust.

The brown headed girl dusted herself off and then quickly ran to her brown haired friend and helped him up.

"That went well."  Said the green haired boy, grinning. 

"You did your hocus pocus thing too soon Willow!  I was going to kick the guys ass and then you went all Sabrina on me!"   The brown haired boy said, grinning goofily.

"Was that during the unconsciousness or after, Xander?"  Hermione smirked.

"Well, I think we did pretty well."  Willow said, walking out of the cemetery, her hand firmly clasped in her boyfriends.  "And you boys fought brilliantly.  I especially liked your damsel in distress screaming Xander, you got very into character." 

"It was manly screaming I have you know!"  Xander protested.  "Oz, come on, back me up here."  He said turning to the shorter boy.

Oz shrugged.  "I gotta say, I'm sticking with my girl on this one."  Willow grinned and paused to give him a short kiss.

 Hermione grinned, she loved watching Oz and Willow, because they reminded her so much of Ron and herself, minus the fighting of course.  It wasn't easy being the girlfriend of Ron Weasley, especially because of his hot tempered manner and blatant disregard for anything thing educational, but she also loved being his girlfriend, because, when they kissed, it was like nothing she had experienced.  When Hermione had kissed Viktor Krum in her fourth year, it was short and had little emotion behind it.  When she kissed Ron however, every kiss felt like it was her first, so meaningful and passionate, she felt she was floating on cloud nine and that whenever she was with Ron, there were no worries or misery in there world.

"Well, I think from now on, we let Buffy do the slaying, agreed?" 

"Agreed." Chorused everyone.

***

England.

It was dark here.  Cold, wet and dark.  Silence.  A young boy with floppy hair and freckles stood on the cold concrete ground, paralyzed with fear.  It was enormous.  It was terrifying.  And the boy was so scared of it, he couldn't move.  He tried to make his feet work, tried to run away, but the look it seemed to be giving him told him that if he moved, the horrifying thing would jump at him and probably eat him alive.  The boy was so scared that he thought he would never see daylight again.  He would just stay here in this place, glued to the ground, until he was dead.  He would never go outside again.

And then there was light.

So much light that it blinded him and the boy had cover his eyes with his hands.  And that gave the thing a chance.  A chance that it had been waiting for ever since the boy had stepped into it's lair.  Into it's private sanctuary.

"Aw, is little Ronniekins scared of a spider?"  The spider quickly scuttled away, further into the dark, where he would not be found again.

"I am not scared!"  Ron said, running quickly out of the garden shed past Ginny into the garden.  Ginny laughed.

"So is that why you've been in that shed for fifteen minutes?  Mum only told you to get a broom!" 

Ron turned to face Ginny, his face the colour of his head.  Ok, so maybe he was a little scared.  But that was a bloody massive spider!  And the legs…uh, he did not want to think about that.  Ron shuddered.

"I was not scared.  I just…just couldn't find the broom!"  Ron argued.  Ginny snorted and went inside the shed, coming out moments later with a broom.

"It was right by the door!"  She said, throwing Ron the broom and heading back to the house.  Ron followed her, angry that he had been caught acting like a baby in front of his little sister.  He had faced a lot more dangerous things than a spider.  Like Voldemort.   Ron's spirits were immediately lowered as he thought about what he had to go through this past couple of years.  The Philosophers stone.  The Chamber of Secrets.  The Triwizard Tournament, and now recently, what had happened in the Ministry just one month ago. 

But not everything that had happened over the last five years he had been in Hogwarts was bad.  He had met the best friends he had ever had, Harry, Buffy, Willow and Hermione.

Hermione.

His relationship with Hermione was very complicated.  They had first become friends when Buffy had save Hermione from a two vampires in their first year, on Halloween.  Buffy, Willow and Hermione were inseparable, whereas Hermione and himself…  Well, they tended to argue a bit.  A lot.  Constantly.  But that was okay with Ron, because Hermione was one of the most interesting people he had ever met.  Even though it didn't seem like he did, he enjoyed it when Hermione lectured him or corrected his homework.  He liked it when Hermione would come up with all these interesting facts.

Hermione.

He could think about her all day.  He remembered when they had first got together.  It was in their fifth year, after Dumbledore's Army had been established.  Harry had known about Ron's crush on Hermione, and Buffy and Willow had known about Hermione's crush on Ron.  So with a lot of arguments, tricks and strategies, Buffy had locked Hermione and Ron in a broom cupboard and had left them there for an hour. 

Flashback.

"So."  Hermione whispered, avoiding Ron's gaze.

"So."  Ron said, equally as uncomfortable as Hermione was.

"I'm going to kill Buffy when she unlocks the door!"  Hermione said loudly, a look of annoyance clearly written on her face.

It was quiet after that.  The only light was from the crack under the door that lit Hermione's face.  She looked beautiful, long curly hair tied neatly up in a bun, chocolate eyes that sparkled, robes that clung perfectly to her frame.

"Harry told me that you.." Ron started, trailing off as he lost confidence.

"Buffy told me that you…" Hermione replied.

"I do."

"So do I." Hermione said, smiling shyly.  Ron grinned at her, thanking the gods that it was true.  Hermione liked him!

"So you want to…"

"Sure,"  Hemione replied, "only if you want to…"

"I do."

"So do I."  Ron laughed to himself, as Hermione giggled quietly.

"This isn't going very…"

"No it isn't."

"I want to…"  Ron lost his confidence again.

"I want to as well…

"But I don't want to-"

"Go to fast?"

"Yes."

"Me neither."  Hermione said, unable to stop smiling.  Her dreams were coming true, after all this hard work of trying to tell Ron how she felt, it was actually happening!  Ron wanted to date her, and she felt exactly the same way.  When she got out of this broom cupboard, she was going to kiss Buffy for setting Ron and Hermione up, and then she was going to kill her because she was setting them up in an old broom cupboard.

Ron built up his courage and started again, "so are you sure you want to…"

"Definitely.  No doubt."

"So will it be okay if I kiss you?" 

Ron stepped forward as Hermione nodded and bent down to catch her lips in a soft kiss.  It was amazing, just like he imagined it would be.  Short and sweet, just as they had agreed.  They stepped apart, both gasping for breath.  It was Hermione who spoke first.

"That was-"

"I know."

End flashback.

"Ronald Weasley!  That is the fifth time I have called you, come downstairs now!"  Molly Weasley's voice echoed through the house, snapping Ron out of his daydream.

"Coming mum!"  He yelled, running out of the room after he had carefully put the picture he had of Hermione safely on his desk.

***

London, Giles' apartment.

The telephone was ringing.  It had been ringing for the past five minutes.  But Giles was lying in bed, asleep.  Or at least, trying to.  The phone stopped and Giles sighed in relief.  It was five o'clock in the morning.  He was so tired that it showed.  But it was hard not to be.  Having read the Daily Prophet every single day, there was always something new that shocked him and sent him into sleepless night.  But on the top of his list of problems and worries, was Buffy.  His slayer.  There were so many wrinkles and grey hairs that were caused by Buffy, but he was still always up late at night, wondering if she was okay.  Wondering if she was hurt, wondering if she had run into trouble when she went patrolling.  Giles had become her watcher when she had arrived at Hogwarts, and although he would never admit to anyone, she had become his the moment he had met her. 

She was his, his slayer, his student, his daughter.  At least, he would like to be her father.  He knew that her parents had divorced in Buffy's second year, and Hank had never kept in contact after the divorce, finding Buffy's magical talent too abnormal to cope with.  It had caused a lot of stress and worry on Buffy's part, she would constantly worry if it was because of her that her parents had split up, because of her that her father never talked to her.  But after a while, Joyce had told Buffy that Hank was cheating, and Buffy's worries and cares for her father had stopped and disappeared right then and there.

Buffy was Giles' daughter now.  She would go to Giles with any problem she would have, any insecurities she had and any worries.  And Giles had listened with an open ear, relishing in the fact that Buffy thought Giles as her father figure.  And that was why he was always worried about her, because even though her odd American ways and blunt manner of speaking annoyed him sometimes, Giles still adored Buffy, and he knew that his life would have no meaning if Buffy was not in it.

Giles turned on his side, prepared to go back to sleep again.  He closed his eyes, and as he did so, the phone started to ring again.  Giles growled.  He got out of bed and stomped to the phone in the living room.

"What?"  He said irritably, picking up the phone.

"I'm sorry Rupert, did I wake you?"  The speaker on the other side said, not sounding very sorry at all.  In fact, he sounded happy.  Giles pinched his nose, recognising the voice.

"Travers.  What do you want?" 

"I'm afraid we have some bad news." Then there was silence.

"What is it?"  Giles said, wondering if Voldemort had struck again, or if something was wrong at the Hellmouth.

"A new slayer has been called."

I know, I'm evil.  Hehehe.

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