Chapter 28: Winter in L.A.
That night Angel walked into the Great Hall and sat down next to his son at the Slytherin table. " Hey son, I got your letter. I think it's a great idea we could always use help at Wolfram and Hart. Though I don't know what all of you could do." Angel said filling his plate with food, his goblet filled with pigs blood. " Well I was thinking, maybe we could be assistants you know run errands, help with the less important clients. Stuff like that." Connor said smiling. " We'll see when we find out if they can come with us or not. Other than that I think we should be quite now it looks like Dumbledore is about to make a speech. Angel was right Dumbledore had stood up and the Great Hall went silent. " Before we start eating, I would like for everyone staying at Hogwarts during the break to know that once you return there will be will be a ball. It had been postponed due to a few different reasons, and we were just now able to set a new date. I hope that everyone will enjoy themselves. Also when you return there will be a few changes, minor as they are you might want to keep an eye out. On with the feast!" Dumbledore then sat down. " I wonder what changes are going to be made?" Hermione said. " Nothing much, Some of the classroom are going to be changed around again." Sir Nicholas said while gliding through the table. " Why's that?" Ron asked. " Well, it seems some of your classes are going to go more in depth then they have been. It seems that Professor Rosenburg is going to further the lessons of Dark Arts in A New Age. It seems that most of you have failed her recent test." Sir Nicholas then departed. Hermione started to shake. " What if I failed? I've never failed in my whole life!" " Not to fear Miss Granger you were one of the only people not to fail." Willow said while walking towards the teachers table. Everyone began to eat and the noise died down. It seemed that many people were eager to get the day over with, and go home tomorrow. This year at Hogwarts was a lot more hectic than the others had been, and they still had half a year left. The question of what was going to happen when they came back seemed to be on everyone's mind that morning. Eventually people were slowly exiting the Great Hall. " Are you ready to go see Professor Snape?" Angel asked Connor, by the look in Connor's eyes he would never be ready to see Snape. " Yeah, let's go." Connor slowly got up from the table and left the Great Hall with Angel. It didn't take long to bump into Snape in the hallway of the Dungeons. " May I help you Mr. Angel?" Snape said turning around slowly. " Yes, I would like to have a word with you in your office. It's about some of the students." Angel said, he really didn't like Snape. " Fine, in here please." Snape lead them through the Potions classroom and into his office." What is it that you would like to discuss?" " Connor wrote me saying that some of his friends were staying at Hogwarts since going home wasn't safe for them. I was wondering if they could come with Connor and I to L.A., they can be interns at Wolfram and Hart over their vacation. It will earn them some extra cash, they'll be able to stay away from their parent's and others that might try to harm them, and get them out of Hogwarts. " Angel tried his best to convince Snape. " Plus you wouldn't have to watch them." That seemed to put something that looked like a twisted smile on Snape's face. " That will be fine with me, however I am going to have to talk it over with Dumbledore about it." Snape said getting up. " It's fine with me Severus. I think it would do the boys good to get out of the castle and away from everything for a while." Dumbledore was standing by the door, and no one noticed he had entered. " Fine, Mr. Connor Angel if you would go and please fetch your friends, well tell them what's going on and see if they would like to join you." Snape say back down. Connor left the Potions room and ran to the Slytherin Common room. When he entered he didn't see them in the room so went up to the bedrooms. " Hey guys, Snape wants to see you. It's about winter break." Connor said looking around the room. " What now? Did he change his mind, are we going to have to face our parents?" Tracy asked. " No, it's nothing like that, though I think your going to like this alternative better than the current one." Connor said walking with them back to Snape's classroom. Once they were inside the boys noticed the other two people in the room. " What's your dad doing here Connor?" Draco asked. " That's part of the suprise!" Connor said sitting down at one of the desks. " You five have been called here because Angel and Connor have decided that if you would like you can go back to L.A. with them and work for Angel as interns. That's if you would like to go, if you don't you can still stay at Hogwarts. Professor Snape and I have agreed that you can go, but the choice is up to you." Dumbledore said taking a seat next to the boys. " If you come to L.A. your internship will give you some extra spending money. I'm sure Fred won't mind figuring out how to convert your earning into wizarding money. You'll also meet some interesting people, and be in a place that many of your parents probably haven't been to." Angel said, he wanted them to understand the positives of coming to L.A. besides protecting them from their parents and Lord Voldemort. The boys broke into a little huddle discussing what they wanted to do. It didn't take long for them to answer. " We'll do it, we want to go to L.A. with Connor and Angel." Blaise said for the group. " Great, well we leave tomorrow so I suggest you get packing. You won't need warm clothes though, however I would pack a pair of long pants and a long sleeve shirt. If you don't have one don't worry you can go shopping and buy some." Angel said getting up and walking towards the doors. The next morning Angel meet up with the six boys, Lupin, Fred, Lorne, Doyle, and Spike they all decided to go back to L.A. for the winter. The rest of the group decided to go other places. Xander and Zoe decided to go to Brazil where Buffy and Dawn were currently staying. Tara and Willow decided to stay in Hogsmeade for the winter, they loved the wizarding village. Andrew decided to stay at school so he could create lesson plans for after the break, and get all his materials collected. Faith decided to go to London and help out the Watchers Council for a while. " Ok, everyone have their things?" Angel asked looking around. " Yes, but how may I ask are we getting there?" Goyle was looking at everyone and their luggage. " I had Wolfram and Hart send a plane to the nearest air port. It's waiting for us so if we're ready to go I suggest we start making our way to the air port, it's about three hours away." Angel said walking out of the front doors. They left Hogwarts in the carriages. " Angel, hun, how are we getting to the air port? I mean it's great that you got a plane to get to L.A. but how are we getting their?" Lorne asked looked out at the village. " I'm having cars wait outside the village. So we're going to have to carry out things out of the village and to the cars." " Um, that's a pretty long walk! I don't mean to complain or anything but our Hogwarts trunks are extremely heavy." Marcus Flint told Angel. " Well, I can help you there. There's a spell you can do to make you trunks weightless, it's very simple actually." Lupin said while taking a hold of Fred's hand. Once they had boarded the plane, which was an adventure in it's self to Lupin, Blaise, Draco, Marcus, and Goyle all of whom had never been in a plane before, they put their stuff in a back room. " So what's Wolfram and Hart like? What are we going to do?" Tracy asked, he was excited to go to America. " Well Wolfram and Hart is huge! Not as big as Hogwarts but for an office it's huge." Lorne said smiling he couldn't wait to get back to Karatas. He still owned the bar, but had let one of his friends take care of it while he was gone.
" You're going to be assisting some of the employees. Fred's assistant is going to be Lupin obviously. Lorne's assistant is going to be Tracy Davis, Wesley's is going to be Draco and Blaise, since we're hoping they can get Wes to break out of this shell he's put himself in recently. Gunn's is going to be Goyle I think he might acutally enjoy working with him. My assistants are pretty obvious, the last two people whom don't have jobs, but the jobs are going to change each week so each of you will be assisting each person, therefore you'll be able to learn about the different jobs." Angel said looking at the game of wizarding chess that Marcus Flint and Draco Malfoy was playing on the floor of the plane. " We should be there in about an hour and a half." Fred said after making everyone something to eat for lunch. Once they landed and got out of the air plane they were picked up by a limo which amazed most of the group. They had never seen a car before and definitly not one like this. Before they had reached Wolfram and Hart, Angel had asked the driver to drive to the old hotel. " Angel, why are coming back here?" Asked Lorne, he remembered that Angel just kind of gave the place up with out looking back. " I had W&H buy it, and it's where everyone will be staying while they visit. Each person will have their own room. Something that I know the boys will enjoy after sharing a room for so long. It will also be easier to get everyone to work and back with out them getting lost. Oh, and after what happened before I had Dumbledore and W&H put some heavy spells on it, so no one can see it other than the people who know where to look for it." Angel said stepping out of the limo. Everyone entered the hallway of the Hyperian hotel and was amazed by the inside. It was cleaner then it was before, and it looked like they had never left. " I suggest everyone go and find a room. You can put your stuff away and then I'll take you over to the office and get you all situated." Within 30 minutes most everyone was back in the hallway, some people like Fred and Spike decided that they would stay at the hotel and help the others unpack since they already knew their way around Wolfram and Hart. " Ok before we enter Wolfram and Hart I just wanted to tell all of you how happy I am that you all could come here and that you wanted to come. I also wanted to tell you to be watchful at times while in Wolfram and Hart most of our clients are out of the ordinary and some won't think twice if they are threated or insulted to hurt, maime, or kill you on the spot. I hope your caughting this Mr. Zabini." Angel said turning to Blaise and Draco. " Yes sir, I understand no threatining or teasing the clients. Got it." Blaise said rolling his eyes. " Ok, we're here. If you would all wait at the elevator on the bottom floor I'll meet you there in a minute. Since it's still day I have to go in the sewers and get it." Angel didn't really have to go through the sewers but he didn't want them to know where his secret enterance is, it was bad enough that Spike knew. Once inside the students looked around. They had never seen a place like this before. It reminded them of the buildings in Diagon alley and Hogsmeade because of the people walking around, but other than that the building it's self was extremely different. " May I help you?" One of the ladies at the front desk walked over to the group of guys and asked. They looked lost. " No, my dad told us to meet him by the elevators. Thank you anyways Ms. Harper." Connor said turning to face the girl infront of him, and then around to face the visitors desk. The girl sitting there was mouthing the other girls name ' She must be new.' Connor thought " Oh, sorry um Mr. Angel's son." Ms. Harper turned around and went back to her desk. At the same time the elevator opened and Angel stepped out. They went to floor 34 and got out. " Ok here's where the main offices are ---" Angel was cut off. " Hi, How are you all? You must be the students from Hogwarts, welcome to Wolfram and Hart I'm-" " Yes Harmony, will you please excuse us." Angel walked towards his office. " Ok boss, hi Connor." Harmony said before walking back to her desk. Connor waved and then followed his dad. The vacation went by very quickly. Lupin, Angel, and Giles became great friends, and were constantly going out to fight demons, which Lupin found extremely fascinating. Giles kept stopping by to check up on things, and to train his Slayer Nicole. Angel had added a state of the art Slayer training facility in Wolfram and Hart, so Giles and Nicole were constantly there. The students didn't do to bad at their jobs, Marcus and Draco picked up on reading some of the ancient lanuages faster than Wesley, and they got Wesley to go out to a couple of clubs. When they we're helping Gunn they were able to learn to speak the languages that they could already write. Flint was great at being Angel's assistant as was Connor, they didn't really do much, they signed papers that Angel approved while Angel was out and picked up important things. Goyle and Gunn became great friends also. They had a lot in common, fighting, helping the helpless stuff like that. Tracy and Lorne were the like brothers by the end of vacation. No one knew that Tracy loved Barbara Striesand, Tracy didn't even know until Lorne started playing her Cd's over and over again. Tracy was such a good intern by the end of vacation he had added 19 new people onto Wolfram and Hart's client list and fixed 10 celebrity feuds. " Well, tonight all of you get back on the plane and go to Hogwarts. I just want to tell you that if any of you want to come back during another vacation your jobs will still be here. Even when you graduate if you're having a hard time finding a job or just want to get away you all have my number and I'll still be connected to the Floo network and able to recieve owls." Angel said at a part Wolfram and Hart decided to throw for them. " Angel, we just wanted to say that you and the others are one of the coolest bosses any of us ever had. We learned a lot while we we're here. Some of us more than others, and we are never going to forget this vacation. Thanks for letting us come and giving us jobs." Tracy raised his cup to Angel and the others as did the other guys and some of the employees. Draco and Blaise also gave a speech but it was in tonic so no one but Wesley understood it, however even Wesley could only understand part of it. That night they went back to the castle pack up their things and went to bed.