Chapter 19: The Truth about Angel.
Hermione sat by the fire of the Gryffindor common room and started her essay on vampires that was due during the next Defense Against the Dark Arts class. She was use to learning about animals in this class, a few years ago they had learned about werewolves, and now vampires. Hermione figured that it was because of Spike and Angel hanging around. Though the coast was clear and it was labeled safe to return to Hogwarts for the time being Angel dropped by every couple of days to check up on everyone.
" Lets see vampires of the 1800s. I can't seem to find that anywhere!" She said exasperatedly.
" Here I already found it." Ron shoved his book over to Hermione.
For some reason Ron and Hermione didn't fight as much as they use to. No one could tell why either. Since the karaoke party both had been acting differently around each other. Harry supposed it had something to do with what Lorne had told them about their futures.
"Thanks. Here you're going to need this later on in your essay. I did it first because it was suppose to be hard to find." Hermione pushed a book towards Ron who looked at it and started writing stuff down. It was weird really, Ron wasn't saving this essay until later. He found vampires to be extremely interesting.
" Your welcome. Hey I was wondering if during the next Hogsmeade weekend if you wanted to go with me?" Ron's ears and face turned bright red. He always had a thing for Hermione, though he just realized what that thing was a while back.
" Do you mean as a date?" Hermione looked at him. By the look of his face that's exactly what he ment.
" Yeah, why am I not good enough for you or something?" Ron gave Hermoine a funny look.
" No, I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry if you took it the wrong way. I'd love to go with you. Does this mean we're a couple?" Hermione never thought about being a couple with Ron.
" Not unless you wanna be" Ron answered and both of them returned to their work.
Half way through her essay Hermione suddenly jumped, " Oh my gosh!"
" What? What's wrong?" Ron asked looking up from his essay.
" Sorry I just read this thing about these vampires named Angelus and William the Bloody, and how they maimed and tortured their victims! That's such a horrible thing to do!"
" Yeah that's not even the worst of it keep reading if you wanna get really disgusted they explain everything in full detail!" Ron went back to writing his essay.
" Oh my gosh!" Hermione said falling out of her chair and running out of the room with her book. At the same time Harry entered coming back from a detention he had to serve.
"What got into her?" Harry asked Ron.
" She read something about two vampires named Angelus and William the Bloody and flipped out. I'm sure she'll be ok though, Mione can handle it." Ron went back to finishing his essay and Harry started his.
" By the way Harry--erm-- Hermione and I aren't going to join you this weekend at Hogsmeade we decided to go together on a date. I hope you don't mind." Ron's face turned red again.
" You and Hermione are dating now? I didn't even know she liked you let alone you liking her." Harry said bemused.
" Well I just sort of just figured out that I liked her. I keep thinking about kissing her and stuff. Plus have you seen how gorgeous she's become now that her curls have loosened, and her teeth are all the same size." Ron's eyes started to glaze over.
Harry snapped him out of it. " Don't you have a paper to finish?"
" Oh yeah thanks for reminding me." Ron got back to work.
Hermione sat by the fire of the Gryffindor common room and started her essay on vampires that was due during the next Defense Against the Dark Arts class. She was use to learning about animals in this class, a few years ago they had learned about werewolves, and now vampires. Hermione figured that it was because of Spike and Angel hanging around. Though the coast was clear and it was labeled safe to return to Hogwarts for the time being Angel dropped by every couple of days to check up on everyone.
" Lets see vampires of the 1800s. I can't seem to find that anywhere!" She said exasperatedly.
" Here I already found it." Ron shoved his book over to Hermione.
For some reason Ron and Hermione didn't fight as much as they use to. No one could tell why either. Since the karaoke party both had been acting differently around each other. Harry supposed it had something to do with what Lorne had told them about their futures.
"Thanks. Here you're going to need this later on in your essay. I did it first because it was suppose to be hard to find." Hermione pushed a book towards Ron who looked at it and started writing stuff down. It was weird really, Ron wasn't saving this essay until later. He found vampires to be extremely interesting.
" Your welcome. Hey I was wondering if during the next Hogsmeade weekend if you wanted to go with me?" Ron's ears and face turned bright red. He always had a thing for Hermione, though he just realized what that thing was a while back.
" Do you mean as a date?" Hermione looked at him. By the look of his face that's exactly what he ment.
" Yeah, why am I not good enough for you or something?" Ron gave Hermoine a funny look.
" No, I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry if you took it the wrong way. I'd love to go with you. Does this mean we're a couple?" Hermione never thought about being a couple with Ron.
" Not unless you wanna be" Ron answered and both of them returned to their work.
Half way through her essay Hermione suddenly jumped, " Oh my gosh!"
" What? What's wrong?" Ron asked looking up from his essay.
" Sorry I just read this thing about these vampires named Angelus and William the Bloody, and how they maimed and tortured their victims! That's such a horrible thing to do!"
" Yeah that's not even the worst of it keep reading if you wanna get really disgusted they explain everything in full detail!" Ron went back to writing his essay.
" Oh my gosh!" Hermione said falling out of her chair and running out of the room with her book. At the same time Harry entered coming back from a detention he had to serve.
"What got into her?" Harry asked Ron.
" She read something about two vampires named Angelus and William the Bloody and flipped out. I'm sure she'll be ok though, Mione can handle it." Ron went back to finishing his essay and Harry started his.
" By the way Harry--erm-- Hermione and I aren't going to join you this weekend at Hogsmeade we decided to go together on a date. I hope you don't mind." Ron's face turned red again.
" You and Hermione are dating now? I didn't even know she liked you let alone you liking her." Harry said bemused.
" Well I just sort of just figured out that I liked her. I keep thinking about kissing her and stuff. Plus have you seen how gorgeous she's become now that her curls have loosened, and her teeth are all the same size." Ron's eyes started to glaze over.
Harry snapped him out of it. " Don't you have a paper to finish?"
" Oh yeah thanks for reminding me." Ron got back to work.
Hermione ran as quickly as she could to the library she couldn't believe what she read. She had to make sure that she had read that right and if it was in the other books. No wonder her teachers always warned them about being careful around vampires and other such creatures. Hermione turned the corner and bumped into Spike.
" Bloody Hell you need to slow down there and watch where your going you could hurt some body." Spike snapped at Hermione with out noticing who she was. " Sorry, thought you were some reckless kid. How are you Miss Granger?"
" Um I-I-I've got to g-g-get going." Hermione didn't know what was up with herself she never studdered in her whole life why was she doing it now?
" Are you ok?" Spike asked looking concerned. He'd never seen Hermione so nervous since he came to Hogwarts.
" Y-yes," Hermione squealed then went into the library. 'That was a close one,' she though.
Hermione went to the shelf where all the books on magical creatures were until she found a couple on vampires then took them to the Gryffindor table and opened up the to index. All of them confirmed what she had read. Angelus and William the Bloody are the two worst vampire to have ever walked the earth other than The Master, and the Anointed One. The latter of whom died at the hands of William the Bloody and his girlfriend. The Master was killed by Buffy Summers. At this Hermione decided to go right to Professor McGonagall.
Spike decided to wait outside the library until Hermione surfaced again. He was really concerned what was going on with her. Once he noticed her going down the hall he ran to catch up. " Hermione Wait!"
Hermione turned around and spotted Spike running towards her. " What do you want?" Hermione asked innocently.
" I wanna know what's got you so nervous, and I'm not leaving until you tell me." Spike remembered saying something like this to Buffy once only to get punched in the face.
"It's nothing." Hermione lied.
" Yeah right nothing. Why is it when girls are asked what a problem is they always say its nothing. I think girls should learn that eventually a guy figures out that nothing is a big something." Spike turned to Hermione.
"No really it isn't anything of importance." Hermione started walking towards Professor McGonagall's class quicker.
" If it really is nothing of importance why are you going to McGonagall? It has to be something if your heading to her class." Spike followed Hermione into Professor McGonagall's class luckily their wasn't one in progress.
" Can I help you two?" Professor McGonagall looked up once she heard the door opened.
" Well I don't know according to Miss Granger there seems to be nothing of importance to tell anyone." Spike said sarcastically. " However I don't believe it seeming once she opened about 17 books in the library she came storming to you."
" Well then Miss Granger spit it out. What do you have to say?" McGonagall sat down behind her desk.
" Why's Dumbledore letting two vicous, and dangerous vampires roam the halls of Hogwarts?" Hermione spat out looked upset and frusterated.
" I have no idea what your talking about Miss Granger, the only vampires that roam these halls are Angel and Spike, both of whom aren't creatures and hardly a threat!" McGonagall raised her voice.
" I know what she's talking about." Spike looked a little upset, he though Hermione knew him better than that. He's stood up for her against the Slytherins and other gits at Hogwarts since he got here.
" Fine then Spike what is she talking about." McGonagall was completely lost at this point.
" Willow and I had a huge argument the other day, and now she's trying to get back at me, so she assigned her class an essay on vampires espically those in the 1800's. She wanted to see if any of the students would catch on as quick as she's heard. She heard that Professor Snape gave them an essay on werewolves and one of the students caught on the every next day. I'm guessing that student was Hermione. Willow thought that Miss Granger would of caught on sooner than this." Spike looked at Hermione who blushed.
" I'm still not understanding why Ms. Granger burst through the class doors yelling about vicious and dangerous vampires Spike." McGonagall gave him a dirty look.
" Back in the 1800's Angel didn't have a soul and was referred to as Angelus, and I was referred to as William the Bloody. At the time we were the most dangerous vampires in the world that is to say after The Master. We did terrible things to our victims. We didn't just kill, we played with our victim's mind and turned it into one big game. We wrecked their lives. However that isn't us today we snapped out of it. He was cursed by gypsies and given a soul where he became a wuss. I eventually started to kill Slayers and when I got obssessed with killing Buffy I gave up on other victims. Then I got a soul and stopped killing for the heck of it." Spike looked at Hermione while recalling this whole story.
" Oh, I understand now. Miss Granger thought that you could still be evil in some ways. Miss Granger do not worry, neither Spike nor Angel can lose their soul." Professor McGonagall started to write stuff on the board.
" Well Minvera, that's not totally true. If Angel feels absolute happiness even if it's for a couple of seconds he turns back into Angelus. Though I'm happy to say that will never happen here seeming that all the girls here are pretty much jail bait."
" Well thanks for informing us." With that Professor McGonagall shoo'ed them out of her classroom.
" I'm sorry, I should of asked you about it but I got really nervous." Hermione turned to Spike in the hallway and gave him a hug.
" No problem, but please don't go blabing this around school. Angel and I don't want other people making the same mistake that you did or go farther than telling a teacher and actually try to stake us.
" Ok, I promise." With that Hermione turned to leave.