Part 9
"Why Don't You Just Ask?"
By OldScout.
Buffy and Auror Dawlish stood looking at the remains of the door to room Delta Pi. Buffy tried to push it closed but the more force she used, the more things seemed to break.
"If you hadn't broken my wand," Dawlish grumbled, "I could probably fix it before anybody got back."
"You're lucky that's all I broke." Buffy replied, patting his shoulder in sympathy.
Auror Dawlish looked at the petite woman forcing a frown to her face to try and show sympathy for his loss. He couldn't be mad at her; nothing she did seemed to be out of malice. Even her destructive trip to the lavatory had a very natural explanation. He could have left her there, run for help, gotten back up, but other than her not so idle threat about pointing wands, she seemed harmless. He knew she wasn't, he'd been on the recovery team when the Death Eaters attacked Tonks and Buffy in Diagon Alley. He could still see the man with his head nearly twisted off and the other kicked so hard that the mediwitch said his heart had been crushed and he didn't even want to think about the force needed to throw that knife she killed the third with.
Yet here she was, trying to cover up a mess like a child who had spilled a bucket of floo powder. He couldn't resist wanting to help her.
"Do you think they'll understand?" Buffy said meekly. "You know I was in there for an awfully long time."
"I'm sure the maintenance elves will be able to put it back together in quick order."
--
"Is this her non-surgical strike?" Director Bones whispered to Minister Fudge as they rushed to the lifts with the Auror who had come to get them.
"The timing does seem a bit too coincidental." Fudge agreed. "As soon as we get to Law Enforcement, send down a couple more Aurors to keep an eye on those two." As Fudge finished speaking, he tapped a control with his wand and the lift door slid closed behind them and the contraption rushed up to level 2.
When they reached the Ministry of Magical Law Enforcement, Director Bones sent two of the newly arrived Aurors back down to the visitor's atrium then turned to the other twelve that had gathered. "What's going on?"
"Security registered an alarm from the door to room Delta PI being forced open." One of the men responded. "When they checked their Observer feed, Miss Summers was not in the room."
"Not possible." Minister Fudge said. "Those doors are charmed to be unbreakable, I don't care who she is."
"And the Observer is guaranteed to be invisible." Director Bones replied.
"Where's Auror Dawlish, he was suppose to stay with her." Fudge asked.
"We haven't seen him."
"Okay, has anybody gone to investigate the room?"
They all looked at each other.
"We were just about to." One of the older Aurors said.
"Fine, then lets go." Director Bones drew her wand and breezed through the gathered Aurors to the Hall of Interrogation.
If anybody had bothered to check the maps from the locator spell, they would have noticed one white dot indicating Buffy stood outside of room Delta PI while the other headed toward them in the lift.
--
As soon as the lift carrying the Minister, the Director and the Auror that came to fetch them started toward level two, Faith grabbed her stake from the security desk and turned to Willow "Okay, let's go."
Auror Tonks, Amos Diggory and the watchwitch immediately pulled their wands. The watchwitch fumbled to get her's untangled from her knitting.
Willow looked at the three wands pointed at her and Faith. "Oh, aren't they cute." She chirped. "Where can I get one?"
Tonks and Diggory took a few steps back keeping some distance between themselves and Faith.
"You two have to stay right here." Tonks said in her best Auror voice. She had no idea what manner magic Buffy had but was certain Faith had the same and that made her extremely dangerous.
"Red, we don't have time for this." Faith said to her friend.
"Can I see those?" Willow asked like a naive child and stepped forward in front of Faith.
"Miss Rosenberg, we are not here to play show and tell." Amos replied.
Willow pouted. "Please?"
"You better show her your wands." Faith looked over Willow's shoulder with a grin. "Willow always gets what she wants when she pouts."
"You've got to be kidding.." Tonks started to say just as her wand jumped out of her. She watched it and the other two wands fly to Willow whose demeanor had changed from spoiled child to something else. Nothing actually changed just her attitude, but the child act was gone.
"Got 'em." Willow smiled triumphantly as she held up the wands to show Faith. "Let's go." And she headed for the lifts.
Willow and Faith headed to the lifts and Willow turned back to Tonks and Diggory. "Aren't you coming?"
The two stood there, their mouths open staring at the two intruders. "What?" Tonks choked out.
"Well the Minister did say to watch us. Didn't he?" Willow smiled.
Soon the four were standing in an open lift.
"Where are we going?" Willow asked no one in particular.
"You don't expect us to tell you where she is? Do you?" Amos asked indignantly.
Willow pulled out a map with white dot on it. "Up, but what floor?"
Tonks and Diggory crossed their arms and glared at the two women. "You'll have to guess." Tonks said.
"Second floor." Faith replied
"How?" Tonks glared at Faith surprised.
Faith pointed to a sign, the second line read "Level 2: Department of Magical Law Enforcement."
"You're still not going anywhere." Tonks said. "You need to be properly trained with a wand to use those controls.
Willow held her hand over the controls. "Level two of eighteen." She said. "Here we go." As the lift started up, another lift came down holding two more Aurors to help keep an eye on Faith and Willow.
--
One end of the Hall of Interrogation was filled with black robes. Witches and Wizards stood shoulder to shoulder pointing wands at Auror Dawlish and Buffy. Buffy glanced at the crowd and stepped behind Dawlish. "It's only a door." She said in a soft voice. With Dawlish blocking their view, the group could not see the smile on Buffy's face as she realized why all these people where standing their pointing those horrid little sticks at her.
"Auror Dawish, what is the meaning of this?" Director Bones demanded as they approached.
"Miss Summers had to use the lavatory." Dawlish replied with as much authority as he could muster. "I was late getting here to escort her so she started to take matters into her own hands. We were just now discussing the best way to repair the damage."
Buffy peered around the large Auror and tapped him on the back. "Tell them about the wands or I will."
"Miss Summers would like you to put your wands away." Auror Dawlish stated. "Apparently seeing the child killed today has given her a bad taste for them."
"We will do no such thing." Minister Fudge stated. "This is the Ministry Of Magic and I will have no muggle telling us what to do even if she is the Chose One!"
At that, several Aurors turned and looked at Minister Fudge while Dawlish turned and looked at Buffy. "Chosen One? What's that?"
"Chosen One comma the." Buffy replied. "Cross reference it with Vampire Slayer, one girl in all the world, blah, blah, blah. I'm sure you have some department around here that knows all about it."
"Miss Summers, we apologize." Director Bones said. She turned to the others as she put her wand away. "Put your wands away." She said. "Miss Summers is not a threat."
"What are you doing?" Minister Fudge said to Director Bones still pointing his wand at Buffy. "There are a lot of issues at stake here. Lives and lively hoods. This is not YOUR decision to make."
"On the contrary." Director Bones replied. "As Director of the Ministry of Law Enforcement, it IS my decision to make."
"Hey B., we too late?" A female voice said from behind the Aurors.
--
The three American women sat around the table in the conference room going through Buffy's purchases. Buffy was standing wearing a pair of the blue pumps showing them to Faith and Willow.
To the far side of the room Minster Fudge and Director Bones where talking to Auror Tonks and Amos Diggory.
"Now tell us." Fudge said quietly so their 'Guests' couldn't hear. "How exactly did they get past you and up the lift?"
"The red head, Willow, must be a witch." Amos said. "She just held out her hand and summoned our wands."
"Perhaps she's a telekinetic." Director Bones suggested.
"I thought so except she operated the lift the same way." Tonks said. She turned to the Minister. "She said there are eighteen levels to the Ministry. What.."
"Show's how good she is." Fudge interrupted. "Everybody knows there are only ten levels."
"Hey, why don't you just ask?" Faith called to them from across the room.
"I knew I should have used a silencing charm." Fudge muttered.
Just then the door to the conference room opened and a middle aged wizard came in. He was wearing purple robes decorated with crescent moons and stars with matching purple cowboy hat and cowboy boots.
"Hey, Minister." He said loudly as he walked straight to the four Ministry personnel. "I heard you had a problem with Miss Summers, I thought I'd see if there was anything else I could do to help before I keyed back to the states."
"Billy Bob?" Willow looked up from her conversation with Buffy. "What the hell are you doing here?" She looked at the man's clothes. "And what's up with the crazy fashion statement?"
All the color drained from the American Auror's face. "Oh, crap."
To be continued.......
"Why Don't You Just Ask?"
By OldScout.
Buffy and Auror Dawlish stood looking at the remains of the door to room Delta Pi. Buffy tried to push it closed but the more force she used, the more things seemed to break.
"If you hadn't broken my wand," Dawlish grumbled, "I could probably fix it before anybody got back."
"You're lucky that's all I broke." Buffy replied, patting his shoulder in sympathy.
Auror Dawlish looked at the petite woman forcing a frown to her face to try and show sympathy for his loss. He couldn't be mad at her; nothing she did seemed to be out of malice. Even her destructive trip to the lavatory had a very natural explanation. He could have left her there, run for help, gotten back up, but other than her not so idle threat about pointing wands, she seemed harmless. He knew she wasn't, he'd been on the recovery team when the Death Eaters attacked Tonks and Buffy in Diagon Alley. He could still see the man with his head nearly twisted off and the other kicked so hard that the mediwitch said his heart had been crushed and he didn't even want to think about the force needed to throw that knife she killed the third with.
Yet here she was, trying to cover up a mess like a child who had spilled a bucket of floo powder. He couldn't resist wanting to help her.
"Do you think they'll understand?" Buffy said meekly. "You know I was in there for an awfully long time."
"I'm sure the maintenance elves will be able to put it back together in quick order."
--
"Is this her non-surgical strike?" Director Bones whispered to Minister Fudge as they rushed to the lifts with the Auror who had come to get them.
"The timing does seem a bit too coincidental." Fudge agreed. "As soon as we get to Law Enforcement, send down a couple more Aurors to keep an eye on those two." As Fudge finished speaking, he tapped a control with his wand and the lift door slid closed behind them and the contraption rushed up to level 2.
When they reached the Ministry of Magical Law Enforcement, Director Bones sent two of the newly arrived Aurors back down to the visitor's atrium then turned to the other twelve that had gathered. "What's going on?"
"Security registered an alarm from the door to room Delta PI being forced open." One of the men responded. "When they checked their Observer feed, Miss Summers was not in the room."
"Not possible." Minister Fudge said. "Those doors are charmed to be unbreakable, I don't care who she is."
"And the Observer is guaranteed to be invisible." Director Bones replied.
"Where's Auror Dawlish, he was suppose to stay with her." Fudge asked.
"We haven't seen him."
"Okay, has anybody gone to investigate the room?"
They all looked at each other.
"We were just about to." One of the older Aurors said.
"Fine, then lets go." Director Bones drew her wand and breezed through the gathered Aurors to the Hall of Interrogation.
If anybody had bothered to check the maps from the locator spell, they would have noticed one white dot indicating Buffy stood outside of room Delta PI while the other headed toward them in the lift.
--
As soon as the lift carrying the Minister, the Director and the Auror that came to fetch them started toward level two, Faith grabbed her stake from the security desk and turned to Willow "Okay, let's go."
Auror Tonks, Amos Diggory and the watchwitch immediately pulled their wands. The watchwitch fumbled to get her's untangled from her knitting.
Willow looked at the three wands pointed at her and Faith. "Oh, aren't they cute." She chirped. "Where can I get one?"
Tonks and Diggory took a few steps back keeping some distance between themselves and Faith.
"You two have to stay right here." Tonks said in her best Auror voice. She had no idea what manner magic Buffy had but was certain Faith had the same and that made her extremely dangerous.
"Red, we don't have time for this." Faith said to her friend.
"Can I see those?" Willow asked like a naive child and stepped forward in front of Faith.
"Miss Rosenberg, we are not here to play show and tell." Amos replied.
Willow pouted. "Please?"
"You better show her your wands." Faith looked over Willow's shoulder with a grin. "Willow always gets what she wants when she pouts."
"You've got to be kidding.." Tonks started to say just as her wand jumped out of her. She watched it and the other two wands fly to Willow whose demeanor had changed from spoiled child to something else. Nothing actually changed just her attitude, but the child act was gone.
"Got 'em." Willow smiled triumphantly as she held up the wands to show Faith. "Let's go." And she headed for the lifts.
Willow and Faith headed to the lifts and Willow turned back to Tonks and Diggory. "Aren't you coming?"
The two stood there, their mouths open staring at the two intruders. "What?" Tonks choked out.
"Well the Minister did say to watch us. Didn't he?" Willow smiled.
Soon the four were standing in an open lift.
"Where are we going?" Willow asked no one in particular.
"You don't expect us to tell you where she is? Do you?" Amos asked indignantly.
Willow pulled out a map with white dot on it. "Up, but what floor?"
Tonks and Diggory crossed their arms and glared at the two women. "You'll have to guess." Tonks said.
"Second floor." Faith replied
"How?" Tonks glared at Faith surprised.
Faith pointed to a sign, the second line read "Level 2: Department of Magical Law Enforcement."
"You're still not going anywhere." Tonks said. "You need to be properly trained with a wand to use those controls.
Willow held her hand over the controls. "Level two of eighteen." She said. "Here we go." As the lift started up, another lift came down holding two more Aurors to help keep an eye on Faith and Willow.
--
One end of the Hall of Interrogation was filled with black robes. Witches and Wizards stood shoulder to shoulder pointing wands at Auror Dawlish and Buffy. Buffy glanced at the crowd and stepped behind Dawlish. "It's only a door." She said in a soft voice. With Dawlish blocking their view, the group could not see the smile on Buffy's face as she realized why all these people where standing their pointing those horrid little sticks at her.
"Auror Dawish, what is the meaning of this?" Director Bones demanded as they approached.
"Miss Summers had to use the lavatory." Dawlish replied with as much authority as he could muster. "I was late getting here to escort her so she started to take matters into her own hands. We were just now discussing the best way to repair the damage."
Buffy peered around the large Auror and tapped him on the back. "Tell them about the wands or I will."
"Miss Summers would like you to put your wands away." Auror Dawlish stated. "Apparently seeing the child killed today has given her a bad taste for them."
"We will do no such thing." Minister Fudge stated. "This is the Ministry Of Magic and I will have no muggle telling us what to do even if she is the Chose One!"
At that, several Aurors turned and looked at Minister Fudge while Dawlish turned and looked at Buffy. "Chosen One? What's that?"
"Chosen One comma the." Buffy replied. "Cross reference it with Vampire Slayer, one girl in all the world, blah, blah, blah. I'm sure you have some department around here that knows all about it."
"Miss Summers, we apologize." Director Bones said. She turned to the others as she put her wand away. "Put your wands away." She said. "Miss Summers is not a threat."
"What are you doing?" Minister Fudge said to Director Bones still pointing his wand at Buffy. "There are a lot of issues at stake here. Lives and lively hoods. This is not YOUR decision to make."
"On the contrary." Director Bones replied. "As Director of the Ministry of Law Enforcement, it IS my decision to make."
"Hey B., we too late?" A female voice said from behind the Aurors.
--
The three American women sat around the table in the conference room going through Buffy's purchases. Buffy was standing wearing a pair of the blue pumps showing them to Faith and Willow.
To the far side of the room Minster Fudge and Director Bones where talking to Auror Tonks and Amos Diggory.
"Now tell us." Fudge said quietly so their 'Guests' couldn't hear. "How exactly did they get past you and up the lift?"
"The red head, Willow, must be a witch." Amos said. "She just held out her hand and summoned our wands."
"Perhaps she's a telekinetic." Director Bones suggested.
"I thought so except she operated the lift the same way." Tonks said. She turned to the Minister. "She said there are eighteen levels to the Ministry. What.."
"Show's how good she is." Fudge interrupted. "Everybody knows there are only ten levels."
"Hey, why don't you just ask?" Faith called to them from across the room.
"I knew I should have used a silencing charm." Fudge muttered.
Just then the door to the conference room opened and a middle aged wizard came in. He was wearing purple robes decorated with crescent moons and stars with matching purple cowboy hat and cowboy boots.
"Hey, Minister." He said loudly as he walked straight to the four Ministry personnel. "I heard you had a problem with Miss Summers, I thought I'd see if there was anything else I could do to help before I keyed back to the states."
"Billy Bob?" Willow looked up from her conversation with Buffy. "What the hell are you doing here?" She looked at the man's clothes. "And what's up with the crazy fashion statement?"
All the color drained from the American Auror's face. "Oh, crap."
To be continued.......