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.
Buffy had gone straight home and informed her mother that Sirius and Remus would be visiting on the weekend and that she would like it very much if they could stay with them.
"Please mum, it's just for the weekend. I promise. Lily is sick of them crowding her and she wants some alone time with James." Buffy had kept her mother aware of her sister and the things that were happening in Lily's life, as much as she could that is.
"That should be fine. Will you be able to borrow another fold out bed from your friends at school?"
"Sure thing."
"Then there is no problem."
"Great."
Buffy was excited. She was enthusiastic all of the next day. (It was Friday; the letter had taken two days to reach her.) Willow and Xander weren't sure what was wrong with her. She didn't seem to be winging about her Chemistry Exam that she sat as she normally would. She didn't complain that she had to patrol that night, or that she needed to do homework on the weekend instead of going to the Bronze.
"Hey Wills, do you have a folding bed that I could borrow for the weekend."
"Sure Buffy, are you having friends over?"
"Yup, I really am. Some people that I met in LA, they are from England so I only knew them for a summer, but they are the best. Mom said that they could stay the weekend while they are passing through."
"England hey? Wouldn't have anything to do with the watchers council would they?" Xander asked suspiciously.
Buffy laughed out loud at the suggestion. "God no. Not these two. There is nothing that they would hate more. They are members of a group of four and the four boys made the record of most detentions for their stay at their boarding school. Mind you, the teachers were all cool with it, and the boys wanted the detentions. I think that they felt it was their duty to give the teachers somebody to punish."
"Sounds like someone else that I know." Willow quipped and both the girls tuned and looked at Xander.
"Hey! Don't be ganging up on the guy. I could whip you all with your hands tied behind your back. In Buffy's case her feet as well."
Both girls were giggling at his as they entered the Library at the end of the day.
"Giles! We are here!" She yelled to him grandly.
"Yes, yes. Hello." He said coming out from his office. "Buffy, Willow, Xander." He greeted them each.
"Hey Giles." Willow replied softly.
"Hey G-Man." Was Xander's answer, throwing him self into the couch.
"Must you call me that?" He asked exasperated with the young man.
"Yup." Xander answered. Giles sighed.
Willow took up her place at the table and set up her laptop and Buffy, previously changed in the bathroom, entered the weapons cage and took out two wooden swords. Giles had decided to teach her considering that she had quickly become adept at every other weapon that she had been handed.
The English Watcher emerged from the office clad from head to foot in padding. Setting the swords on the table, she moved some furniture around and made space in the room.
"Stretch first Buffy."
"Yes Giles." She replied and flipped easily up onto the landing of the Library. She bowed her head and focused on her calm. Finding it, she sprang to life, running through the different things that Giles had shown her. She punched, kicked, spun and flipped for fifteen minutes, loosing herself in the dance. Finishing off, she saw that she had everyone's attention.
"What?"
"That was beautiful Buffy!" Willow exclaimed.
"Not bad." Xander agreed.
"Giles, please tell me why they are suddenly so excited about seeing me work out?"
"You don't normally work out in front of them, and besides that, you did that really well. There were only a few little things that you are working on correcting that you messed up. Aside from that, it was quite a brilliant routine."
"Wow, praise from the Watcher himself. I'm flattered." She winked at him and completed a handspring back down to where he was standing. She took up one of the swords and tossed Giles the other.
"Now lets see how much you have improved." He announced, bringing the blade down and meeting hers.
It was an hour later that Giles called it quits. Buffy had been improving with every separate duel, but he wasn't as young as he would like to pretend and needed to stop.
"Wills, Xand, can we go get the spare bed now? Then I'll walk you guys home."
"Sounds like a plan Buff."
"Let's go then. Giles, will you be here tomorrow?"
"It's the weekend, the time of rest and spending time with ones friends. Of course I'll be here at work." He replied so seriously that everyone started to laugh.
"G-man, I told you that I was the only one aloud to make the bad jokes around here!" Xander protested.
Wisely Giles avoided that comment and shook his head. "I'll bring Sirius and Remus in to meet you." Buffy called to him as she left the library, her arm linked with Willows.
The didn't meet any vampires on the way to Willows, and Buffy collected the bed and said good night to her best friend then walked Xander the one block back to his house. Dusk was not completely set in, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
Buffy made it home and set up Willows bed and their own in the spare room. She made them neatly and folded back the corners making the whole place seem homely. Adding a spare lamp, she decided that the room was perfect.
She was just making her way down stairs when there was a loud knock at the door.
"Buffy?" A male voice called uncertainly.
"I bet you got the wrong house again Sirius." Another voice grumbled.
"No way. I'm telling you that it has to be this one!" Sirius said firmly.
"That's what you've said the last five houses." The other male, who Buffy knew must be Remus groaned.
Without waiting a moment longer, Buffy rushed forward and threw open the door.
"Buffy!" They both exclaimed and ran through the doorway and scooped her up into a huge hug.
"Sirius, Remus! I missed you both heaps!" She cried returning their fierce hugs.
Finally they stepped back and took in Buffy's appearance. "You look different Lady-Bug" Remus commented bluntly.
"Oh, God! I have bad hair!" Her hands rushed to her head immediately.
"No, no, no!" Sirius exclaimed indignantly. "Our little Bug has finally been taken by the horrors of being a girl...it's always the hair!"
"It wouldn't hurt you to brush yours once in a while Siri." She criticised him, fixing him with a glare.
"Siri?" Remus' mild tone spoke volumes.
"Padfoots a mouthful 'Moony'" She replied to him.
"Point taken."
"C'mon, I'll give you the grand tour." Buffy told them and grabbed them by the hands. She showed them the kitchen where she found a note that Joyce would be home late and that Buffy should take her friends to the Bronze or somewhere else for dinner. She would meet them the next night. Then Buffy finished up by showing them where she was sleeping and their own rooms in the bedroom beside hers.
"Oh my God!" Buffy suddenly exclaimed.
"What?"
"I just realized that you two haven't ever been in a Muggle house, have you?"
"Sure, umm...well, maybe we haven't."
"Right. So what don't you guys know?"
"If we don't know how can we tell you?"
"Always the practical one Remus." She complained. "Alright, make it hard for me. Do you guys know about Electricity?"
"Nope."
"Well it is what powers the muggle world. This is how you turn on the light." She demonstrated with the ceiling lamp then the bedside one.
"Cool!" Sirius exclaimed and jumped up to flip the switch on and off. Buffy let him keep going at it until she couldn't stand the flickering any longer. She stood and dragged him away from the switch and pushed him back down so he was sitting on the bed. She then proceeded to tell them about things that they would need to know about to stay with her for the weekend.
"Remember, no-one here knows that you are Wizards."
"Not even your mother?" Remus asked shocked.
"No, definitely not her. If she knew...well I don't want to think about that." She shuddered remembering the hospital that she had been in and Sirius noticed, catching on to her train of thought. (He knew about the ordeal).
"Also, the people that I go to school with don't know that I was adopted and from England. Well, the school Librarian is a great Tutor and he is really friendly. We are great mates. He's also English and I kind of spilled everything to him...well not the part where you guys are Wizards, but the rest."
"Why do you feel the need for so many secrets Buffy?" Remus asked sadly.
"I don't know. Perhaps I like the mystery, and perhaps I don't like feeling venerable to anyone. I don't think that there is a single person alive that knows the complete truth about my life."
"Jeez. That's gotta be stressful."
"Not really. It's actually kind of liberating. No one really knows me, so they don't feel they owe me anything."
"You have a unique view of the world Lady-Bug." Remus said finally. She gave him a huge smile.
"I know. Now do you guys wanna have take-away food or do you wanna go to the local club?"
"Definitely the club." Sirius said before Remus could say a word. His friend shook his head.
"Well then, you need to get changed and so do I."
"What's wrong with what I am wearing?" Sirius demanded sounding a little put out.
Buffy looked him up and down. He was wearing a Hawaiian t-shirt and board shorts. Thongs were the only protection on his feet. "Please tell me that you have a change of clothes." She asked.
"Don't worry Buffy. I forced him to pack normally." Remus reassured her opening his pack.
"What did you think you were going to do with that sort of outfit?" She asked Sirius.
"Go to the beach." He shrugged also opening his pack.
"Well, I don't think that you want to go to the beach here in Sunnydale. It is anything but Sunny and it smells." She informed them sternly. "Look. I'll just be next door getting changed." She told the boys. They nodded to her and she left the room, shutting the door behind her.