Disclaimers, etc, see part one.

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The group was gathered around the table, waiting. They looked up expectantly when Giles arrived. They relied on him to know which books to look up.

Xander stood up when he saw who the stranger was. He swallowed and held out his hand.

"I'm Xander," he said.

"Sirius," Sirius said, taking the hand in both his own. "It's wonderful to meet you."

"Likewise."

It took a moment before everybody else caught on.

"Oh, oh, oh," Willow said, leaping up. "Ah, I'm Willow. Very pleased to meet you. And … if you want to know any embarrassing stories about Xander, I know heaps."

"Will!" Xander protested.

"I know some, too," Anya called from the counter.

Xander spun around to glare at her.

"They're probably too embarrassing, Anya," Tara told her.

"I don't even want to think about it," Dawn said.

"Thanks, Dawn, now I have," Giles sighed.

"Are we going to research?" Xander asked, "Because I could take Sirius with me to get doughnuts and leave the rest of you with the books."

"That's great," Willow said.

"Make sure you get enough jelly ones," Dawn said. "Giles always eats them."

"And the little powered ones," Tara said. She smiled at Willow, "We like those."

"Buffy? Doughnuts?" Dawn prompted.

"Hmm? Yeah, get what I like," Buffy said.

"Sirius, you've got doughnuts in your part of England?" Xander asked.

"Yeah," Sirius said.

He had been trying to follow who was saying what, but, in the end, he'd just looked dazed.

"Come on, old man, you'll be fine," Xander told him.

"Xander," Giles chastised the boy. After all Sirius wasn't much older than he was.

"He really is my old man," Xander said.

He took Sirius's arm and led him out of the shop.

"You have to tell me about my mom."

Sirius blinked at the sunshine. Despite the light in the shop he'd forgotten, in the short time he'd been there, that it was still light outside.

"You eat doughnuts this early in the morning?" Sirius asked.

He tried to calculate how late it was from the sun, but he didn't know where it should have been.

"Yeah. Or, well, every time we do research I get doughnuts. Cordelia cut me down for it once. But it puts someone on the street while everyone else is together, and vulnerable. I saved them from this dead kid who was trying to blow up the school once. Something was going on they didn't want me to get hurt."

"Okay, first question?"

"Sure."

"Cordelia?"

"First girlfriend."

"Okay. What happened?"

"She walked on me and Willow kissing, which we shouldn't have done, but it was absolutely the last time it was going to happen. She ended up with a piece of pipe through her stomach. Her father got done by the tax people and she's trying to be an actress in LA in between getting mind-numbing visions from the PTB about people in danger."

"PTB?" Sirius asked.

And so they went on Sirius asking for many explanations as Xander described his life and eventually describing some of his own life. He kept mainly to Hogwarts memories and Xander didn't talk about anything in the last two years.

Eventually they made their way around the main street and back to the doughnut shop.

"Does it usually take this long?" Sirius asked.

"Nah, the Magic Box is just down there," Xander pointed. "But I normally walk this way because it mean I don't have to do as much researching."

Sirius chuckled. It seemed his son wasn't really into schoolwork either. This could be fun on top of being freaky and moving and difficult.

"So you were, like, cool at high school?" Xander asked.

"Yeah, I suppose," Sirius said.

They stepped up to the counter. Xander ordered his collection of doughnuts. Sirius took the time to look around. He hadn't been out in the world for fourteen years, and it felt good. Granted it was the Muggle world, and full of strange people, but still very good. And no one was going to run away from him, or try to kill him.

'Or if they do,' he amended, 'it'll be because I'm with my son, not because of me.'

He stepped beside Xander who was chatting up the girl behind the counter.

"Who's your handsome friend?" she asked, nodding over Xander's shoulder.

Xander raised an eyebrow at the man, who had the grace to look embarrassed.

"That's Sirius. He'll be staying in town with us a few days. I might have to send him to get the doughnuts tomorrow."

"You do that. Your girl can get pretty angry."

She handed over the boxes. Sirius handed Xander the wallet Dumbledore had given him and waved him to use his money. Xander handed the money over, returned the wallet and grabbed the boxes. He flashed a grin to the girl and followed Sirius out of the shop.

"Thanks, dad," Xander said.

Sirius growled. It was deep and strong, like a werewolf. Xander looked sharply at the other man.

"When I was your age, you were four," Sirius said.

"That's pretty scary," Xander said. "That's like me and Cordelia having a kid. Argh! scary place. Or me and Faith, given that Cor and I never got that far."

"Faith?"

"Ah, bad girl who hung around for a while. She's in prison in LA. Angel helped her out."

"Angel?"

"Vampire with a soul. He dated Buffy for a while, that wasn't going to work out though. He's the one Cordelia's working for. If you don't mind me asking, are you a werewolf?"

"No. Way do you ask?"

"The way you growled," Xander said. "Doughnut?"

"Thanks. So, you've faced werewolves, too? Killed any?"

Xander chocked on his doughnut and stopped to glare at his father.

"You don't kill werewolves. Hell, Willow dated one. Lock them in a cage for the night. The only one who died was Veruca, and they were wolfed out when Oz killed her."

Sirius was startled by the anger and venom that was suddenly directed at him. This boy – man – was a Black. He didn't back down though. He was a Black, too.

"Moony's a werewolf," he said lightly. "That's how he got his name, of course."

"Sorry," Xander said. "It was just the way you asked."

"No problem. Although there's obviously more going on here than just a group of high school kids and the librarian killing vampires. Even Giles."

"You know Giles?"

"He owled Dumbledore, so he must have some connection to Hogwarts."