A/N: Hey everyone, more Buffy Crossover goodness for you all. Thankyou to everyone who reviewed! I hope you continue to enjoy.
Disclaimer: I wish I did but I don't own Harry Potter or Buffy, mastered by JK Rowling and Joss Wheaton respectively. This story is my idea however and I am making no profit other than the expansion of my heart.
It had been two months since she had started at Sunnydale high and she was excited about Lily's upcoming wedding. The letters were becoming more and more frequent and there was much excitement when they had finally decided on the wedding and bridesmaid dresses. Now Lily was consulting with her friends from the magical community on flowers and the little details that Buffy couldn't help with because she was so far away.
James had written once complaining in fun that the cost of the wedding was going to send him broke. She knew that this was a huge exaggeration because the Potters weren't exactly running out of funds anytime this centaury.
Buffy was sitting up toward the back of the library studying hard for the chemistry exam that they had the next day. She had just discovered a way to sort out the equations simply when a yell from the office could be heard.
"Buffy!" It was Giles and Buffy was on her feet and hurdling the rail around the staircase in seconds.
"Giles? What's wrong?"
"What is that?" He demanded pointing to the owl that had flown in the open window and was now perched on a chair seated at the table.
"You're the watcher, what do you think that it looks like?"
"Well...an owl. It just startled me, that's all."
"You gave me a fright. I thought that something terrible had happened to you."
"Me? Hardly Buffy."
"Have you forgotten where we are? Right on top of the hellmouth! Anything could have happened."
"Yes...well." He took off his glasses and cleaned them, something that Buffy had come to know as the Giles 'thinking' gesture.
"Hey Ally." She cooed to the owl that was staring pointedly at Buffy. She moved forward and the owl held out its leg and Giles watched Buffy remove a parcel from its leg.
"My, word." Giles exclaimed. Buffy grinned at him and removed a letter of her own from the pack she had left on the table. She tied it to Ally's leg and petted the owl, before watching it fly out the open window and into the night.
"Well, that is certainly something that you don't see everyday. You seem familiar with it though."
"It is the way that my sister writes to me." Buffy had unconsciously reverted to her English accent when she spoke of Lily, and Giles eyebrows immediately shot up.
"Are you making fun of me again Buffy? And I didn't know that you had a sister."
She sighed. Buffy had known that eventually she would have to tell Giles about her past, she just had hoped that it wouldn't be for a long time. "I'm not making fun of you Giles. As much as I want people to believe, I'm not really that sort of a person." She didn't bother to talk with out the English accent now, and put it on completely. "I actually have two sisters." She informed him.
"I'm beginning to believe that there are things here that aren't as they seem."
"That's because they aren't."
"Are you going to elaborate?"
"In a moment. Let me go and collect my things." She left him there while she wandered back into the stacks and collected her books. Returning she placed them on the table and began to shuffle them so that they were away in her shoulder bag where anyone who walked in wouldn't see them.
Giles mouth gaped open as he caught sight of the Chemistry equations that she had been compiling. They were worthy of Willow. "So, you study as well?"
"Yes. I suppose that there is no way that I can hide it from you anyway. You have to promise not to tell though."
"I wont."
"Thankyou. I only pretend to do really badly. Things are just easier that way. And I don't want to be any more special that the Slayer title makes me."
"Strangely enough, I can almost understand that." He sat down and she sat opposite him at the table. "About your family?" He prompted.
"I have two sisters, Lily and Petunia Evans. We were born in England, where I lived until I was eleven. Then social serviced split us up. Petunia hated Lily, and me and because she was Eighteen she moved in with her boyfriend. Lily was away at a boarding school for gifted students, and it was all paid for in advance, so she stayed there all year then during the Summer she would stay with her friends. I was only a minor and there was a lady who I can only describe as mean. She came into the house and literally dragged me away. They wouldn't let me contact Lily or Petty to tell them what had happened, and then they made a mistake and sent me to England. Joyce and Hank were only my adoptive parents. I lived with them ever since." She stopped and pulled her wallet from her back pocket. She had two photos that she kept there.
Holding them out she showed Giles. "This is of Petty, Lily and Me before Petty hated us." He took the photo and studied it. They were all really young when the photo was taken, but Buffy still carried it with her everywhere. Just so that she could remember her family and who she was.
"Who is who?" He asked suddenly. Buffy stood up and walked around the table. She came to sit beside Giles and looked at the photo over his arm. The older brown haired one is Petunia. Lily is the red head. She got our mothers looks. The scrawny kid...god I must be three there, is me."
"Buffy you have brown hair here."
"Oh, yeah...well you see...I'm not a natural blonde." She bubbled. "I changed it when I cam to America. Then I was taught all the stuff I would need to get by, cheerleading, gymnastics, and my incredible fashion sense. Oh and lets not forget this lovely vocabulary that I seem to have developed."
"Never." Giles agreed dryly. "So, who is this in the other photo?"
"This was taken at the end of last year. I went to see Lily graduate from school. She was Head Girl there and it was her eighteenth birthday as well. Mum said that it was okay for me to go. That is me and Lily in the front, and the four boys are Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter." She pointed them out to him as she said their names. "On the last day of their schooling, Lily had to make this speech because of her position. When she was done James got up and announced to the hall that the prankster king was ready to take a queen. Then he dropped to one knee and proposed to Lily. It was really romantic. And considering that I set them up in the first place, I was quite pleased with my self."
"That does sound lovely."
"It was." She said dreamily staring at the photo. "Anyway, the wedding is next month. That is why she mailed me. She probably wants to be certain about the dresses that we chose." Buffy smiled and ripped open the letter.Dearest Buffy,
I hope that you are well. I was wondering if you would feel up to some guests next weekend? Sirius, Remus and Peter are driving James and myself nuts. They keep butting in when they are clearly not needed and James and I wanted to have some space to out selves.
Peter is going to go and spend some time with his mother and brothers and sisters, but Remus and Sirius have nowhere else to be. Can I send them to you? They both can apperate and will be leaving on Friday night. So they will get to you on Friday night, I think.
I know that you have probably already sent a letter with Ally so I will send the boys to you any way and if you don't want them, then just send them to Europe or something. I wont miss them.
Will all my love,
Lily.
Buffy chuckled. "Remus and Sirius are coming here, to see me this weekend. They seem to have been cluttering Lily's space and style. She kicked them out."
Giles chuckled. "I must say though Buffy, it will be nice to have someone to have a proper conversation with now."
"Whom are you talking about?"
"Why, you of course. Although I had always thought that you were quite interesting, I think that you have just become more so. And now you are English. Another from the mother country."
"I wouldn't really call it that though Giles."
"Neither would I, but there are few Americans that wouldn't"
"I pretend to be one of them." Buffy informed him.
"So you said. Feel free to talk to me Buffy. I am always ready to listen."
"Thankyou."
"Also, do I get to meet these friends of yours?"
"I hope so. Sirius knows about me. I told him just after I found out my self, when these photos were taken. Remus doesn't though."
"Very well. I think that we can work with that. Would you like a cup of tea?"
"I would love one Giles."