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Xander and Sirius's arrival interrupted an argument between Anya and Buffy over the plausibility of evil lint as a concept to begin with.

Sirius raised an eyebrow to Xander.

"Evil lint?"

Xander nodded.

"Even if it wasn't lint, there were the demons that didn't exist."

"Demons?" Sirius asked.

"You didn't tell him?" Buffy asked. She had thought that he should have.

"Not the whole story," Xander said.

He put the boxes on the table. The first was immediately emptied.

"Why not?" Buffy demanded.

"You didn't tell your whole story either, I bet," Giles said to Sirius.

"There's more to it than being really cool and sneaking out of school at night?"

"Yeah!" Giles said.

It was several moment before anyone could break the silence. Nobody wanted to be the first to give up a secret. Xander and Giles were the common ground, but neither of them knew what the other was aware of.

"Sirius knows a werewolf," Xander said eventually.

Willow latched onto that. "What do you do during the full moon?"

"Oh, Snape makes him a potion. It lets him keep his mind while he's wolf. But it makes him sick during the day. He won't hurt anybody. But it makes it hard to get a job."

"He could just lock himself in cage for the nights," Buffy said.

"No one will give him a job anyway, poor man."

"But why would they even think about it?" Dawn asked. "I had no what was going on and Buffy …"

"Oh, Moony doesn't have any Muggle qualifications," Sirius said. "And everyone learns about werewolves in the first years of school."

"There's a school that teaches you about werewolves," Willow demanded slowly.

Giles explain about Hogwarts and his schooling as succinctly as possible. Willow was upset that she'd never had the training. Buffy was upset that there was more to Giles's life that she didn't know.

Dawn's eyes had lit up, as had Anya's. Xander looked forlorn.

"But if you're a wizard and my mother was a witch … why don't can't I do any magic?" he asked.

Sirius smiled weakly. "You look a bit like me," he said. "What my mother would have done to the youngest Black. Last heir of her estate. She would have raised you to be the son I wasn't Mariana wouldn't have wanted that. And if any wizard had taken you in, someone would have worked out who you were."

"So what happened?" Willow asked.

She stood suddenly and went to stand next to Xander, who looked pale. She held his hand, but she was only just before Anya took his other. Xander sat down and looked anxiously at Sirius.

"I don't know. This is the Hellmouth, so your magical abilities will have been hidden. But Mariana probably put a charm on you. Dumbledore will be able to fix it."

"But Willow can do magic," Xander said. "And Tara. And Anya turned her ex into a troll. And Giles helped Amy turn Buffy back from a rat, and Amy turned Buffy into a rat."

"Magic?" Sirius asked, awed. "Without a wand?! Mr Giles, you too?"

"Wand?" Willow asked, awed. "Giles, you have a wand?"

Sirius and Giles managed to explain the difference between witches who used wands to access their magic, which would always have shown up. And witches who called on the elements, or magical objects, or the gods, to use the magic that would otherwise have lain dormant. It was easier for wand wizards to access wandless magic, but they didn't usually know how. Once wandless wizards had access their magic, though, they could learn with wands.

Willow grinned like the Cheshire cat.

"I understand the magic," Sirius said. "I understand how you were able to learn it, once you'd found out about it. But how did you find out about it?"

"Giles," Willow answered.

"And what were you doing telling high school students about magic and vampires anyway?" Sirius asked Giles.

"We found out about vampires on our own," Xander said. He hastily amended that statement. "I heard about vampires quite by accident. Giles was arguing with Buffy about them."

"And how do you know about vampires?"

Sirius hadn't really payed much attention to her until now. She hadn't been part of the confusing comments earlier and she'd spent most of this discussion looking slightly put out, or disinterested by the discussion, except for being slightly upset to begin with. She chuckled slightly now.

"You haven't worked it out. With all the magic and werewolves you know."

Sirius looked confused.

"I'm the Slayer," the slight blonde girl said.

Sirius blinked.

"Into each generation a Slayer is born, one girl in all the world, a Chosen One, one born with the strength and skill to hunt the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil blah, blah, blah."

"Merlin, the Slayer!" Sirius said, when he placed the title. Then he laughed.

"Disbelief I get a lot, but never amusement," Buffy said.

"But the Slayer's a Muggle myth. The Slayer's just a Muggle," Sirius said.

"With extra speed, healing, and strength," Xander said.

Sirius looked at Buffy. Suddenly the whole situation made sense. He hadn't realised before that it hadn't. He knew it was the Hellmouth, so there were vampires. He hadn't realised how odd the group was before. But if Anya stayed with these people, than she had known who they were. And Giles had been the librarian at the school.

"You're her watcher?"

"So you know about Slayers, you just don't believe in them."

"I took Muggle studies for my OWLS, you didn't need to study for it. I just thought the Slayer myth was interesting. It's very nice to meet you."

"Thank you," Buffy said politely.

Sirius's memories connected with what he had just worked out.

"You have to come to Hogwarts," he said.

Giles sat up sharply. Dawn squealed.

"I'd love to see it," Anya said. "I've heard so much about it. But, of course, I never got to go. Witches know all sorts of curses. And I don't like the cold."

Sirius looked around at the startled, confused group.

"Xander, of course, is invited. If you want, Dumbledore can see what charms are on you, and you can get training. But if the Slayer could come, you could protect Harry. Everyone else, of course. No Slayer without the Watcher, and Dawn, because she's Buffy's dependant. McGonagall and Dumbledore would love to meet Willow and Tara. I'd like to see Snape's face when they arrived. Anya, of course, if she wants to accompany Xander, if he wants to come. Dumbledore will let you in, to protect Harry."

He gave the scooby gang a briefer run down of his past than he had given Giles. Anya nodded knowingly in parts.

"We can't just leave," Buffy said quietly. She felt a strange thrill at the suggestion that they could all move to England. And have a good fight to fight that would be over.

"We can," Willow said. "The only attacks recently have been aimed at you specifically. If we leave, either nothing happens or they come too and we deal with them like always."

"What about the shop?" Anya asked. "People know that the Slayer is associated with this shop, if it's closed they suspect she's gone."

That startled the group.

"Your friend," Tara said. "The werewolf, he could mind the shop? And we could go to Hogwarts to protect your godson."

"That's brilliant!" Sirius said. "If you want to come?"

They all nodded, some more slowly than others. Sirius worked through his brilliant plan in his head. And hit one major snag.

"Bloody Hell!"

"What?" Xander asked. Sirius's face had fallen dramatically. He looked very old suddenly.

"The new Defence Against the Darks Arts teacher is a Ministry spy, basically. Sent in by Fudge himself. There's no way she'd let you all in at Hogwarts, whatever your documents say."

"That may not be a problem," Giles said.