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.
She marched back to the boy's room and banged on the door. "Come on! Let's get going. What are you doing in there anyway?"
"Just a minute Buffy. Geez, and we were hoping that Lily was the only one that was bossy in her old age." Sirius grumbled through the closed door.
"I could have told you that Buffy would be the same Padfoot." Remus said to his friend soothingly. "They are sisters after all."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go already." Buffy yelled.
"We're coming your majesty." Sirius called before opening the door. His jaw dropped to the ground, as did Remus' when he emerged from the room.
"What?"
"You...you...you..." Sirius blubbered and Remus thoughtfully reached out and closed his mouth with a snap. Buffy giggled and led the way down stairs.
It was dark out now but there wasn't very much that she could do about that, so she was on extra alert. She felt a tingle almost at once and when she spun she saw a shadow come out of the darkness. She looked closer and noticed that it was Angel.
"God, you know that you shouldn't sneak up on people!" She scalded the vampire. He had revealed him self to her when she guessed what he was. She did trust him however and hoped that he wouldn't let her down.
"Buffy." He said simply.
"Hey. Are you one of Buffy's friends?" Remus asked him curiously.
"Sorry, there I go again. Remus, Sirius, this is Angel. He has been a good friend around here. He's kinda like my night time guide." She grinned at him and Angel resisted the temptation to roll his eyes. He shook hands with both the boys.
"They are visiting from England and staying for the weekend." She informed him. He raised his eyebrow.
"Where in the mother country?" He asked seriously. She was pleased to see that Remus and Sirius realized that he too was from the England region. Although Angel didn't know that she was too, she was able to follow their conversation of English places quite clearly. They talked animatedly for the entire walk to the Bronze and Angle didn't comment if he noticed that she had slipped back into her English accent by mistake.
There was a cue out the front of the Bronze but Buffy linked her arms with Sirius and Remus and they walked to the front of the line. The bouncer nodded her in immediately. Angel was allowed in too.
"How'd you know that we'd get in?"
"Me and my friends always get in." She said simply.
"How come?" Remus asked.
"Umm, my first weekend here in Sunnydale I gave the bouncers a hand with a party they called the harvest. They kinda never forgot, even if they forget the details of the party."
"Like the host." Angel muttered under his breath but Remus heard him clearly.
"Alright, enough thoughts of the past. Let's get some food, then we dance!" She exclaimed.
"A plan. I love a woman with food on her mind." Sirius exclaimed and practically dragged her to the bar with Remus and Angel following obediently.
They ate a good meal of hamburgers and were munching on a bowl of hot chips when a really good band started playing.
"Sirius, come on, we have to dance!" She cried and without giving him a chance to reply she grabbed his hand and dragged him out onto the floor. He just stood there at first and watched her move to the music when she noticed that he wasn't dancing. Making a bold move she put her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear while standing on tiptoe, "Do you know how to dance?"
"Not like this." He replied.
"Then I need to educate you." She replied. "Listen to the music and feel the music. Let it run through you and move in the rhythm. Move with it as you get the beat." She swung her hips and he was compelled to move his at the same time as she did. She took a half a step back from him and held her hands up in the air. She rolled her neck with her eyes shut enjoying the music.
It was Sirius's turn to be bold and as the song changed he placed his hands on her hips and pulled her closer. She gasped as she felt the pull. He knew that she had the strength to pull away if she was uncomfortable, and she knew that she could too, but she didn't and they both knew that.
She wasted only a moment to shock before placing her hands around his neck and swinging him into the middle of the crowd. Their bodies moved together and they almost become one person as the music flowed over them. As it finished, they stepped apart to catch their breath. A rosy pink swelled up in her cheeks but she turned away and pressed back to the table they were at before Sirius could say something and spoil the moment.
Remus was alone when they got back, and he raised his eyebrows at Buffy's blush. Sirius came up behind her and wore a satisfied grin. Remus opened his mouth to ask what had happened between them when Buffy beat him to it.
"Say anything and I will personally make sure you never speak again." She half-heartedly threatened. Remus put his hands up in mock shock.
"Who me?"
"Yes you." She turned to Sirius who was standing behind her at a safe distance. "Can you get me some water?"
"Sure." He wandered to the bar surrounded by a bubble of self-confidence.
Remus and Buffy talked quietly between them for a short while until Remus asked something Buffy had known was coming. "What is this place? I know that it is different...I can sense it. I don't know whether you know it or not but I think that you do."
She sighed. "I cant keep anything from you can I Remus?"
"Not a lot, no."
"Smug bastard." She muttered and looked him in the eye. "This is the Hell Mouth. The centre of mystical convergence; it's the place that you don't want to be on a bad day let alone a good day. Here the things that go bump in the night are real and there is not a thing that you can do about it unless you know how to swing an axe with both hands."
"And you stay here because?"
"I have no choice."
"Everyone has a choice Buffy. Nothing is set in stone that cannot be changed."
"This is." She told him firmly.
"How?"
"Well, did you ever wonder why I never got a letter from Dumbledore to attend Hogwarts when I was clearly magical?"
"Only I noticed that, you said so you're self." He replied but looked thoughtful. "I was curious though."
"Well, it's because I have been called as the Vampire Slayer. I am the one with the double ended axe that stops the things that go bump in the night."
"I read up about them when we touched on the topic at Hogwarts." He mused.
"I figured that you would."
"Just as you would have if you were in my place." He accused and she blushed.
"How did you know?"
"What, that you are smarter than you act?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I know that your Lily's sister, and that's enough on its own, but I can see it in your eyes. You know more than you let on and you have seen more than you should have. You still have the appearance of someone much younger Buffy, but your eyes are older. Wiser."
"Thankyou, I think."
"My pleasure."
"Well, I should tell you that my friends know that I am the Slayer, so does Sirius. I told him when I saw you guys last. I was in a little bit of trouble with my last school and I didn't know what I should do about it. It had happened just two days before the party and I needed to talk to someone about it."
"You don't need to justify your self to me Buffy. I understand."
"You do?" She studied him. "Oh, of course you do. With you being the wolf and all for a little while every month?"
"Yes. That."
"Thanks for listening though."
"Not a problem. Just a question though, Angel is a Vampire isn't he?"
"How on earth did you figure that out?" She gaped at him.
"Intelligent guess?"
"Must I say smart ass again?"
"If you insist. I do like it when my butt is complimented."
Buffy started laughing and it only got worse when Sirius returned with her water and wanted to know what happened to Remus' butt to make it worth complimenting and would she compliment his too. He even offered to bend over for her.
In only a few hours she felt completely comfortable with her friends again.