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Title: The Middle of Nowhere

Spoilers: all four HP books, Buffy up to the end of season six, and my three fanfics Twins of Peace books one, two, and 'two and a half'.

Category: General, Supernatural, Action/Adventure, and Romance

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Jesus people, if I owned this do you think I'd be bootlegging CD's 'cause I'm too cheep to pay the fifteen bucks?

Summary- Prologue: Um there's not really a way to summarize this one with out giving it away

Authors Note: Wow, I'm back for another one. What can I say, you people are my life...well you, BtVS, and my WB shows, oh yeah and my HP books, and my comics, and my…er, getting pathetic here. Um, just read and review will ya? Thanks!

PS- NEXT CHAPTER NOT 'TILL AFTER CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Prologue:

It started with one baby, Fred and Gunn's first daughter. Then Lorne settled down with a nice Las Vegas stockbroker. They had a son. Hermione and Adrian Black moved from England to Los Angels soon after their graduation from Hogwarts and the downfall of Voldemort. They married, and a daughter soon followed. At the same time Draco and Piper Malfoy also moved over. Hermione and Piper were pregnant at the same time. Piper had a healthy son. Xander and Anya had retired back to the Hellmouth where they'd finally married and Anya eventually gave birth to a little girl. Meanwhile Buffy Summers Winthrop and William Winthrop, better known as Spike, were still over in England raising their two three year olds. Dawn Summers also lived with them as she was finishing her last year of high school. Dawn was seeing the illustrious Harry Potter and was the envy of many witches. Remus and Leandra Lupin also had two babies, a boy and a girl separated by a year in age.

Angel, head of Angel Investigations, soon had the funds to begin hiring additional secretaries and detectives. Some were humans with histories like Gun's, and some were demons or other non-human creatures. Many had children that they needed to place somewhere during the day while they worked. The lobby was soon filled during the after school hours with children from one month to ten years. Fred and Cordelia interviewed many nannies to start a company nursery in the hotel, but none were quite qualified for the job of sitting human and demon children and those that came anyway lasted no more than a week.

Dawn finished high school and Harry Potter proposed. Because Dawn was 'his' Niblet Spike firmly put his foot down, telling the young couple that they needed a trial period of one year apart before they married. Neither Dawn nor Harry was very pleased about this (and neither was Buffy) but they didn't argue much with the blond vampire and soon Dawn was on her way back to Sunnydale with her sister, brother-in-law, and cousins while Harry stayed in England boarding with Sirius Black and Ron Weasley and going through his Auror training.

Upon hearing that Buffy was coming back Angel was elated. His problem was solved. Who better to take care of demon children than the slayer? He suggested the idea after the family had been back for a few days and Buffy eagerly said yes, because the fact that she had children made her apprehensive about taking up slaying full time again. Her husband on the other hand was not to pleased about the idea and brooded about it for about a week until Buffy and Dawn finally convinced him to let go of at least some of the hatred he had for Angel so that Buffy could work.

And so the children of her friends and of Angel's employees finally had a permanent babysitter.

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Eleven Years Later- 2015

"His mum was a shifter, his father was an elf. It makes for a weird magic combination, and he can't channel it through a wand, we've tried!" Spike was explaining to Professor Dumbledore.

"It's all Earth based," said Professor Willow Rosenberg. Her voice was muffled through the wooden door of the office. "So I've tried teaching him, but it doesn't work."

Jonah Winthrop was half listening to the meeting in the office, and half concentrating on what he trying to accomplish on the floor. So far two marigolds had sprouted and bloomed, and more were on the way. A yellow light came from his palm when he held his hand over the floor. Another flower bloomed. His Aunt Willow didn't know it, but she'd taught him something.

"I know who can help him." Jonah heard Professor Dumbledore say. "There are three women in San Francisco very gifted in many types of magic. I can almost guarantee they'll be able to teach him, and if not their husbands surely will."

The shrill scrapping of a chair on the floor followed along with his mother's voice. "I'm not sending my twelve year old to San Francisco just like that!" Buffy's fingers snapped for emphasis. Jonah silently agreed, Hellmouth or not Sunnydale was still his home and he wasn't ready to leave just yet. Flowers started to wilt in lieu of his distraction, something he didn't want, so he concentrated on the ground again.

"Buffy sit down," Dumbledore soothed gently. "I wasn't suggesting you send him just yet. Wait a year or two and see what happens. You never know, Jonah might gain control with out help, but if he doesn't here," The sound of a quill scratching lightly on paper. "This is their number and here is their address. If you ever do contact them, tell them that I recommended them to you."

"What makes you think these witches can take it on?" Asked Spike.

"Simple," Willow said. "They're the Charmed ones."

This interested Jonah and he stopped what he was doing for a moment to listen in through the door. He was upset when no more about the subject was said. Instead there were around of thank yous and goodbyes from the adults and foot movements towards the door. Jonah squeezed his left hand tightly and the flowers on the floor quickly faded into nothingness.

"Ready to go get your brothers?" Buffy asked Jonah when she, Spike, and Willow exited the office.

"Yeah mum," He said and then asked cautiously. "So did you decide anything?"

All three of the adults shook their heads at the same time, and Spike said, "Nothing's definite. We're gonna see how it goes. Remember, in the end it's your decision."