Chapter 10
Willow: Thanks! Oh, don't worry, Pansy will be hurt!
Kida: No fears, Willow is here with her update (hehe).
buffanatic13: I'm workin' on it. Glad to see you want more of my fic!
willowwiccantara: I've seen season 5 a couple of times, but what's in the episode "Family"? Gonna find out where Hermione's seen Spike soon.
Lily Flower: Thank you for the review. Next chapter's comin' soon.
fairysk8r: Just for you, I made it long. (For all of you that wanted it long, I did it for you to. She asked but it was for all of you!) It would've been longer, but the parts I was going to add would have made it boring. We don't want that! I'm workin' to spice those parts up! Thanks for loving it!
Tap Dancing Widow: I know, Spike and Draco DO look so much alike!
THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWS! I hope you review some more on this chapter!
~*~
Hermione was in the library surrounded by her school books. O.W.L.s were soon and she was finishing up her homework. She was looking up some types of demons for Defense Against the Dark Arts and passed by the section with vampires. She flipped back a few pages and her eyes opened in horror.
"William the Bloody" she muttered to herself. She looked at the moving picture of Spike vamping out and turning back to human. "William was named 'William the Bloody' after his bloody awful poetry. After he was turned into a vampire, he gained his nickname, Spike. His nickname symbolized what he did to people; he killed them with railroad spikes" she broke off scanning the rest of the page.
She gasped as Ron and Harry came over to her table. "Something wrong, Hermione?" Ron asked.
"No" she said slamming the book shut. "Just saw some disturbing demons, that's all." She picked up her books and jammed them into her school bag.
"Leaving already?" Harry asked.
"Yes, I forgot some stuff in the common room" she said as she quickly walked away.
~*~
"He's a what?"
"A vampire" Hermione said.
"That's ridiculous, Hermione. Vampire aren't allowed in Hogwarts" Ron replied.
"Look here" she opened her Defense Against the Dark Arts book and laid it on the table in front of them. Shadows of the flames from the fire in the common room danced around on the page. The young brunette witch pointed to a page entitled 'William the Bloody'.
Ron and Harry examined the picture in the top left corner of the page. A man's face was up close with high facial features and dark brown hair. The eyes had that piercing blue stare when you looked straight into them. A few moments later, the man had a crinkled up face with a huge furrowed brow, golden eyes, and long pointy teeth. He was morphed into his vamp-self and growled loudly.
Every few seconds he would morph in and out of his vamp face to his human mask.
"Spike has blonde hair like Malfoy's, not dark brown like Dawn's" Harry pointed out.
"Look at the eyes. And the cheeks; they're slightly sunken in and have high cheek bones. And look at the smirk! Exactly the same! It's completely obvious it's Spike" Hermione stressed.
"That's not Spike, that's one of Malfoy's relatives" Ron said. "Sorry Hermione. This time you're not right. It could even be Spike's relative. Night" he added. He got up out of his chair and walked up the stairs and into the boy's dorms to sleep.
"Yea, I'd have to agree with him" Harry said as he followed. "Night" he called back.
"Night" she whispered to herself. "This has to be him" she continued the conversation with herself.
~*~
"Hey guys" Dawn came up to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Hello" they replied at different times.
"Hermione has this strange theory that" Harry was cut off by Hermione elbowing him.
"'Strange theory that' what?" Dawn asked.
"That uh. Umm I have a theory that I could maybe find out why you were sent to Hogwarts so late" Hermione lied.
"Oh, I was a key and have left over magical energy or something. Don't tell anyone though" Dawn said. "I trust you guys."
"Oh. I can research the key for you if you'd like" Hermione offered.
"Uh, sure, thanks" Dawn replied.
"Well, I have to get back to the common room" Hermione said.
"Hermione, you're not missing another lunch are you?" Ron asked.
"Sorry Ron, I didn't finish all of my Potions last night. I'll see you next period" and she ran off.
"Well I'm going to eat" Ron said.
"Yea me too. See you later Dawn" Harry said.
"Bye" she replied.
"Aww; Summers is all alone now. Can't let anything happen to her now, can we?" Pansy mocked in the shadows.
"Shut up!" Dawn half-shouted. Pansy reached for her wand and Dawn followed just in time. They whipped out each wand and had their pointed straight in front of the other. "Expelli" Dawn started, but was cut off by Pansy.
"Silencio" Pansy shouted. Dawn mouthed the rest of her Expelliarmus spell, but nothing happened because she was silenced for at least 2 minutes. Pansy had a nasty, evil smile on her face.
"Crucio" she muttered. Dawn fell to the floor, silently screaming and her muscles twitching with excruciating pain. Her body lay still after about twenty or thirty seconds of enduring that straining unforgivable curse. Her body was limp, but she was coherent. Pansy did the same charm two more times, straight through.
The silencing charm finally lifted off and Dawn could defend herself. She held her wand up and weak, red sparks flew out. Pansy's head shot to her right and a deep red gash appeared on her left cheek starting from a little below her eye and extending to her pointy chin.
Pansy's eyes narrowed. "You'll pay for that."
Before she could do something else, Dawn muttered something and Pansy flew backwards and landed onto the floor.
"Wingardium Leviosa" Pansy muttered to the nearby plant. The plant lifted and followed her wands' lead and above Dawn's head. Pansy dropped her wand down and the plant dropped down to Dawn and shattered above her head leaving her unconscious.
Pansy lifted herself up and whipped around at hearing a low growl from the corridor. "W-who's there?" she whispered with fear in her voice.
"Your worst nightmare" the vamped out Spike came into view and she screamed at the top of her lungs. He started forward, but she ran as fast as she could and came running into something and landed on the floor once again.
"Spike?" Giles asked. He quickly took out his wand and flicked it and Spike stopped and rose off of the ground and floated in mid-air.
"You hurt Bit!" he shouted.
"Dawn?" Giles asked with fatherly concern. "Where is she?" Several teachers came running from the other hallways to find a vamp in full form floating in the middle of the hallway, Giles standing looking concerned, and Pansy on the floor with a deep cut on her face.
"Back there" Spike sneered. Giles ran towards the upcoming corridor and found Dawn, lying there with her chest barely rising up and down. She had several cuts and wounds all over with bruises over her body. He scooped her up into his arms and ran out past the others to get to the Hospital Wing.
Spike's face became human again as students started forming about to see all the commotion. "Everyone back to your common rooms now" McGonagall said to them. They groaned and finally cleared out. "Go to the hospital wing, Miss Parkinson" McGonagall demanded.
She got up and walked as quickly as she could. Dumbledore raised his wand and let Spike go. "Now, if you decide to go after Miss Parkinson, I'm afraid I'll have to have the Slayer kill you" he informed Spike. Spike stood and listened.
"Now, what happened?"
"I was walking along the halls and I see a vase fly out of nowhere and hit a girl. I recognize the girl was Dawn and I lost it" Spike explained.
"No more losing it" Dumbledore ordered. He still had a familiar twinkle in his eye, but it was fierce and strong, much like Spike's.
"Fine" he said and stalked off.
~*~
"Is she okay?" Buffy asked, plunging through the doorway. As soon as she heard the news, she ran as fast as she could to see her sister.
"She'll be okay in a couple of days. She's still not coherent, but she should come around soon" Madam Pomfrey informed her. Buffy looked at her sisters bed to see Sirius sitting on her bedside, holding her hand.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Checking on my daughter" he replied, standing up.
"You have no right to call her yours. You haven't been there when Mom left Dad, or died, or when I died. You only came to take her away from me and my friends after I was resurrected. Me and my friends were doing a fine job with her until you people show up and take her away" Buffy asked. Her eyes were narrowed and were filled with tears, but weren't going to let them spill.
"I tried to be there, but your mother wouldn't let me. I visited her grave at night when I saw you leave the cemetery. I knew if I got in contact with her last year then you would've flipped and thought someone was out to get you two" he replied. "She is here to be protected from the Dark Lord."
"I can protect her on my own."
"This requires more than power, it requires love and magic."
"Are you saying I don't love my sister?"
"I'm saying you don't pay enough attention to her."
"That's bull. I pay more attention to her than I pay to my own life. Dammit, I gave my life up for her!"
"You gave your life up for her and the world, Buffy. You saved us all, not only her."
She finally let a tear fall. He lifted his arms up and wrapped them around her. She held him close and cried into his shoulder. "I miss Mom. My Dad never calls and my sister was taken from me. Plus I just got back from dying and Willow's been into some heavy magic. I worry. A lot" she said.
"I can be your dad."
"What?" she whispered. She looked up at him.
"I can be a substitute dad for you" Sirius offered. She smiled at him. She never smiled at him and this was the first. "How 'bout it?" She smiled even wider and hugged him even harder.
"I need air" he gasped.
"Sorry" she replied timidly. She walked over to her sister and sat down. Sirius brought a chair beside her and sat down. He put his arm around his daughter's half sister and watched as she fell asleep. Her head rested beside Dawn's arm as she held her hand.
Willow: Thanks! Oh, don't worry, Pansy will be hurt!
Kida: No fears, Willow is here with her update (hehe).
buffanatic13: I'm workin' on it. Glad to see you want more of my fic!
willowwiccantara: I've seen season 5 a couple of times, but what's in the episode "Family"? Gonna find out where Hermione's seen Spike soon.
Lily Flower: Thank you for the review. Next chapter's comin' soon.
fairysk8r: Just for you, I made it long. (For all of you that wanted it long, I did it for you to. She asked but it was for all of you!) It would've been longer, but the parts I was going to add would have made it boring. We don't want that! I'm workin' to spice those parts up! Thanks for loving it!
Tap Dancing Widow: I know, Spike and Draco DO look so much alike!
THANKS FOR ALL THE REVIEWS! I hope you review some more on this chapter!
~*~
Hermione was in the library surrounded by her school books. O.W.L.s were soon and she was finishing up her homework. She was looking up some types of demons for Defense Against the Dark Arts and passed by the section with vampires. She flipped back a few pages and her eyes opened in horror.
"William the Bloody" she muttered to herself. She looked at the moving picture of Spike vamping out and turning back to human. "William was named 'William the Bloody' after his bloody awful poetry. After he was turned into a vampire, he gained his nickname, Spike. His nickname symbolized what he did to people; he killed them with railroad spikes" she broke off scanning the rest of the page.
She gasped as Ron and Harry came over to her table. "Something wrong, Hermione?" Ron asked.
"No" she said slamming the book shut. "Just saw some disturbing demons, that's all." She picked up her books and jammed them into her school bag.
"Leaving already?" Harry asked.
"Yes, I forgot some stuff in the common room" she said as she quickly walked away.
~*~
"He's a what?"
"A vampire" Hermione said.
"That's ridiculous, Hermione. Vampire aren't allowed in Hogwarts" Ron replied.
"Look here" she opened her Defense Against the Dark Arts book and laid it on the table in front of them. Shadows of the flames from the fire in the common room danced around on the page. The young brunette witch pointed to a page entitled 'William the Bloody'.
Ron and Harry examined the picture in the top left corner of the page. A man's face was up close with high facial features and dark brown hair. The eyes had that piercing blue stare when you looked straight into them. A few moments later, the man had a crinkled up face with a huge furrowed brow, golden eyes, and long pointy teeth. He was morphed into his vamp-self and growled loudly.
Every few seconds he would morph in and out of his vamp face to his human mask.
"Spike has blonde hair like Malfoy's, not dark brown like Dawn's" Harry pointed out.
"Look at the eyes. And the cheeks; they're slightly sunken in and have high cheek bones. And look at the smirk! Exactly the same! It's completely obvious it's Spike" Hermione stressed.
"That's not Spike, that's one of Malfoy's relatives" Ron said. "Sorry Hermione. This time you're not right. It could even be Spike's relative. Night" he added. He got up out of his chair and walked up the stairs and into the boy's dorms to sleep.
"Yea, I'd have to agree with him" Harry said as he followed. "Night" he called back.
"Night" she whispered to herself. "This has to be him" she continued the conversation with herself.
~*~
"Hey guys" Dawn came up to Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Hello" they replied at different times.
"Hermione has this strange theory that" Harry was cut off by Hermione elbowing him.
"'Strange theory that' what?" Dawn asked.
"That uh. Umm I have a theory that I could maybe find out why you were sent to Hogwarts so late" Hermione lied.
"Oh, I was a key and have left over magical energy or something. Don't tell anyone though" Dawn said. "I trust you guys."
"Oh. I can research the key for you if you'd like" Hermione offered.
"Uh, sure, thanks" Dawn replied.
"Well, I have to get back to the common room" Hermione said.
"Hermione, you're not missing another lunch are you?" Ron asked.
"Sorry Ron, I didn't finish all of my Potions last night. I'll see you next period" and she ran off.
"Well I'm going to eat" Ron said.
"Yea me too. See you later Dawn" Harry said.
"Bye" she replied.
"Aww; Summers is all alone now. Can't let anything happen to her now, can we?" Pansy mocked in the shadows.
"Shut up!" Dawn half-shouted. Pansy reached for her wand and Dawn followed just in time. They whipped out each wand and had their pointed straight in front of the other. "Expelli" Dawn started, but was cut off by Pansy.
"Silencio" Pansy shouted. Dawn mouthed the rest of her Expelliarmus spell, but nothing happened because she was silenced for at least 2 minutes. Pansy had a nasty, evil smile on her face.
"Crucio" she muttered. Dawn fell to the floor, silently screaming and her muscles twitching with excruciating pain. Her body lay still after about twenty or thirty seconds of enduring that straining unforgivable curse. Her body was limp, but she was coherent. Pansy did the same charm two more times, straight through.
The silencing charm finally lifted off and Dawn could defend herself. She held her wand up and weak, red sparks flew out. Pansy's head shot to her right and a deep red gash appeared on her left cheek starting from a little below her eye and extending to her pointy chin.
Pansy's eyes narrowed. "You'll pay for that."
Before she could do something else, Dawn muttered something and Pansy flew backwards and landed onto the floor.
"Wingardium Leviosa" Pansy muttered to the nearby plant. The plant lifted and followed her wands' lead and above Dawn's head. Pansy dropped her wand down and the plant dropped down to Dawn and shattered above her head leaving her unconscious.
Pansy lifted herself up and whipped around at hearing a low growl from the corridor. "W-who's there?" she whispered with fear in her voice.
"Your worst nightmare" the vamped out Spike came into view and she screamed at the top of her lungs. He started forward, but she ran as fast as she could and came running into something and landed on the floor once again.
"Spike?" Giles asked. He quickly took out his wand and flicked it and Spike stopped and rose off of the ground and floated in mid-air.
"You hurt Bit!" he shouted.
"Dawn?" Giles asked with fatherly concern. "Where is she?" Several teachers came running from the other hallways to find a vamp in full form floating in the middle of the hallway, Giles standing looking concerned, and Pansy on the floor with a deep cut on her face.
"Back there" Spike sneered. Giles ran towards the upcoming corridor and found Dawn, lying there with her chest barely rising up and down. She had several cuts and wounds all over with bruises over her body. He scooped her up into his arms and ran out past the others to get to the Hospital Wing.
Spike's face became human again as students started forming about to see all the commotion. "Everyone back to your common rooms now" McGonagall said to them. They groaned and finally cleared out. "Go to the hospital wing, Miss Parkinson" McGonagall demanded.
She got up and walked as quickly as she could. Dumbledore raised his wand and let Spike go. "Now, if you decide to go after Miss Parkinson, I'm afraid I'll have to have the Slayer kill you" he informed Spike. Spike stood and listened.
"Now, what happened?"
"I was walking along the halls and I see a vase fly out of nowhere and hit a girl. I recognize the girl was Dawn and I lost it" Spike explained.
"No more losing it" Dumbledore ordered. He still had a familiar twinkle in his eye, but it was fierce and strong, much like Spike's.
"Fine" he said and stalked off.
~*~
"Is she okay?" Buffy asked, plunging through the doorway. As soon as she heard the news, she ran as fast as she could to see her sister.
"She'll be okay in a couple of days. She's still not coherent, but she should come around soon" Madam Pomfrey informed her. Buffy looked at her sisters bed to see Sirius sitting on her bedside, holding her hand.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"Checking on my daughter" he replied, standing up.
"You have no right to call her yours. You haven't been there when Mom left Dad, or died, or when I died. You only came to take her away from me and my friends after I was resurrected. Me and my friends were doing a fine job with her until you people show up and take her away" Buffy asked. Her eyes were narrowed and were filled with tears, but weren't going to let them spill.
"I tried to be there, but your mother wouldn't let me. I visited her grave at night when I saw you leave the cemetery. I knew if I got in contact with her last year then you would've flipped and thought someone was out to get you two" he replied. "She is here to be protected from the Dark Lord."
"I can protect her on my own."
"This requires more than power, it requires love and magic."
"Are you saying I don't love my sister?"
"I'm saying you don't pay enough attention to her."
"That's bull. I pay more attention to her than I pay to my own life. Dammit, I gave my life up for her!"
"You gave your life up for her and the world, Buffy. You saved us all, not only her."
She finally let a tear fall. He lifted his arms up and wrapped them around her. She held him close and cried into his shoulder. "I miss Mom. My Dad never calls and my sister was taken from me. Plus I just got back from dying and Willow's been into some heavy magic. I worry. A lot" she said.
"I can be your dad."
"What?" she whispered. She looked up at him.
"I can be a substitute dad for you" Sirius offered. She smiled at him. She never smiled at him and this was the first. "How 'bout it?" She smiled even wider and hugged him even harder.
"I need air" he gasped.
"Sorry" she replied timidly. She walked over to her sister and sat down. Sirius brought a chair beside her and sat down. He put his arm around his daughter's half sister and watched as she fell asleep. Her head rested beside Dawn's arm as she held her hand.