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Chapter Five

Xander and I rushed over to the table at which Giles was seated, talking avidly with the perky headmaster.

"Yes?" Giles said, annoyed with the two of us. I didn't care. This was important.

"Buffy's gone mad!" I told him, right off the bat.

"Excuse me?" Giles asked, confused.

"Buffy is having major anger management problems over there," Xander explained, nodding towards the Gryffindor table. "They put Dawn in that other dorm and Buffy's now on a rampage because they aren't in the same dorm.

"I don't know about you," I said, "but I don't think this is our normal Buffy having a fit over there.

Giles sighed before saying, "I should have known that within an hour of our arrival we'd be on our way to the library.

"Well, that's the way the world works, Giles, I would have thought you'd discovered that by now," Xander replied sarcastically.

Giles rolled his eyes and unhappily got up out of his chair to lead us to the library. He had told us earlier that the reason why he had accepted this job was because he was friends with this Dumblebore guy or whatever his name was. From what I knew of this Dumble guy, he was creeping me out with his eyes and his beard and... Uuggh...

"Here we are," Giles said after a few minutes, stopping in front of two large double doors. He opened one and motioned for Xander and me to go in first.

"Welcome to the Hogwarts library," he continued. I sensed a hint of extreme ecstasy in his voice, as though just being in this library was making him so happy because there were so many books, or something.

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I was so busy sitting there, watching Buffy's little sister be molested by the biggest sleazebag in this whole school to notice that Willow, Xander, and Giles had all walked off to go on some adventure. Maybe if had been looking, I would've noticed that Buffy was about to explode with anger over the fact that Dawn had been put in this Slytherin dorm, or whatever it is. But, I wasn't looking so I didn't notice.

"So, Dawn," I saw the greasy-haired boy slide his arm around Dawn's waist. What did he think he was doing? "What do you say we head up to the dorm before everyone else. I can give you a little tour before it gets crowded," he added slimily with a wink.

That was it, this was too much for me to bloody handle. I stood up and spat right into his pointy little face, "At least I have an excuse for being pale. Now you, on the other hand, don't. Dawn, I think you've been stupid enough for one day. Why don't you sit over here by me?

They both looked at me blankly for so long I thought I was going to have to slap them both back to reality. But then Dawn spoke.

"What are you doing, Spike?" she breathed, her cheeks deep red with embarrassment.

"Trying to save you before this guy rapes you," I explained simply. "Are you really that bloody stupid?

"What?" Dawn was speaking so quietly I could barely even hear her. It was as though she was too astonished to speak. Well, I didn't give a bloody hell what she thought.

"Dawn, do you want me to hand him over to Buffy or do you want him to stay in one piece?" I asked, thoroughly annoyed. "She might be a vampire slayer, but I'm sure she can kill sleazebags also.

"Spike-" Dawn started to say before she was interrupted by her molester.

"Come on, Dawn," he said. "Let's go back to the dorm. We can hide from this psycho there.

They started to rush out of the dining hall so I shouted down to them very loudly so I could embarrass Dawn in front of the whole school, "Dawn, I thought you would be smart enough by now to know that that's code for ÔLets go back to my room before any teachers do so you can give me a blo-

But this time it was I who was cut off and that bastard wasn't doing the cutting off. This time it was an ear-splitting scream that rang through the dining hall causing the room to shake and everyone to fall to the ground, clutching their ears as though they would explode from the noise.

Grabbing my ears as well, I turned toward the direction of the scream. It was coming from Buffy.

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I was walking through the hall, following Xander, Willow, and Giles when I heard it. The deafening scream that hopefully wiped out all the bunnies in the vicinity with its high decibel. I practically fell on the ground from the pain it caused my ears. But it wasn't nearly as bad as it was in the Dining Hall- or so I assume.

When it finally died down what felt like an eternity later, someone came up behind me.

"Tara!" I cried, seeing who it was. "You scared me. I thought you were a bunny, or something.

"You really have to lay off those poor bunnies," Tara said.

"How dare you, defending bunnies in my presence," I replied, annoyed.

Tara laughed and apologized. "So I guess you're following Giles, Xander, and Willow also?" she inquired.

"Yes," I answered. "Where do you think they're going?

Suddenly Tara stopped in front of two huge double doors. I looked up at them and noticed the words "Hogwarts Library" in big letters above them.

"I think we've found the place," Tara replied, pushing open a door and heading inside.

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"Okay what was that?" I asked, puzzled, once the blood-curdling scream had left my poor, delicate ears.

"Buffy," Willow answered without hesitation. "Is has to be her.

"Well, from what you've been saying, I wouldn't be surprised if it was her," Giles commented, fixing his big round glasses on his nose.

"Lets get researching," I said simply, heading into the stacks of books.

"Wait a minute, Xander," Giles said. "We have to go to the appropriate section. Follow me.

Giles led us through the stacks until we finally reached one labeled "Restricted". Giles headed right on into it.

"Are you sure we won't get in trouble for this?" Willow asked.

"Nah," I answered for Giles. "Giles has connections.

"Start looking through these books," Giles ordered, taking a particularly large one off a shelf and blowing a truckload of dust off it.

This was going to be a long evening.

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When the psycho finally stopped screaming, the whole Dining Hall was silent. I felt as though my ears were bleeding. I was practically directly across the table from her, for god's sake!

"What the hell?" Ron finally whispered slowly to me after moments of silence.

Buffy was staring at the Slytherin table, her face getting redder with anger by the second. I turned slowly in my chair to see what was going on over there. Malfoy was in the middle of dragging Buffy's sister out of the room, while a blond person who looked very similar to Malfoy was trying to stop them. I had heard him scream something about things being code for giving Malfoy a blowjob. This was one weird group of people.

I then noticed that the redheaded girl and Xander had left the table. The old guy was missing from the staff table, as well. I looked at the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw tables and then saw that the other new people were gone from those tables as well!

"Buffy?" I could vaguely hear Buffy's sister say from across the room.

"What the bloody hell?" the Malfoy look-alike replied, throwing his hands up in the air. "And where did everyone else go? Is everyone plotting against me now?

He stormed out of the Dining Hall, a look of utter disgust on his face.

Buffy's sister slowly made her way across the room and put a hand on Buffy's shoulder.

"Buffy?" she whispered again.

Buffy whipped her hand out into her sister's stomach. Her sister doubled over in pain and then toppled to the floor.

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"Finally!" someone said from the entrance of the Restricted Section.

I glanced up from the ancient book I was reading from. It was Anya and Tara.

"How did you find us?" I asked curiously, setting down the book on a table and striding towards them.

"We followed you," Anya replied. "But we didn't know where you went. Man, this place is huge!

"I know," I replied, an unwilling grin spreading over my face.

"Wow, Giles," Tara replied. "A giant library- I bet it's the best present you could have ever wished for.

I ignored her comment and turned back to my book, embarrassed.

"Grab a book from the shelf and look for demons that could possibly be possessing Buffy," he ordered.

"Shouldn't someone go and check on her?" Xander asked. "I mean, after she screamed like that, something crazy is definitely going on.

"Yes, yes," I responded, my eyes still on my book. "Why don't you go check on her?

Xander stood up and left the Restricted Section without another word.

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I walked briskly through the halls, surprisingly anxious to see what had happen to Buffy. For some reason I really wanted to know what had made her scream like that. Maybe it was because I secretly thought that she had spontaneously combusted, or something.

I suddenly bumped into someone, and looking up I discovered it was Spike.

"Where did you all disappear off to?" he asked, looking desperate. "Did you all run off to have some adventure without me?

"No, we wanted to figure out what demon was possessing Buffy and everyone followed us," I answered simply. "Now if you'd excuse me, I want to see whether or not Buffy's exploded yet,

"Probably not," Spike told me, blocking my path. "So where did you all host your party at? I figured I'd check the library first. Seems like a likely hang out.

"Make a left next time you can and you're at it," I replied, darting around him and continuing to the Dining Hall.

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"I found something!" Tara suddenly cried, causing everyone to jump.

"What is it?" I asked eagerly, bending over to see the book.

"It's a demon called Figikwor who possesses people who are feeling a lot of one emotion and then like quadruples it," Tara explained. "Here's the weird part, though. This demon has slaves.

"Why is that weird?" Anya asked, unimpressed.

"The demon's slaves are bunnies," I answered, reading the rest of the caption about it.

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A/N: This chapter is longer than all the others, so I hope you all enjoy it!