The students went to their house common rooms and then up to their beds. Buffy and Faith were surprised and delighted that they got to share one of the separate rooms with Hermione. They had more room then most of the others.
Buffy introduced Griffin to an excited Hermione, while Faith answered the girl's questions about her. The twins were unsuspecting of the fact that Dumbledore has a phoenix as well. Hermione let them know it.
They took a few moments to daydream and think about the what-ifs for being able to see both of the phoenixes together, but soon swept away those thoughts. It was very unlikely, and they had to unpack.
Buffy took the bed closest to the window, while Hermione took the bed nearest to the door. She was surprised to find that the two twins often slept on the same bed still. They told her the truth. Neither of them had felt safe when they slept not knowing the other was feet away. So they put their beds together near the window, and decided to make it like a large queen bed.
They talked while they unpacked, and even tried to convince Hermione to push her own bed up to theirs if she needed to.
She smiled and told them that she would be fine.
Fai (B's nickname for her) told her that if she was ever spooked or afraid, to curl up next to them if she needed, Hermione would be welcomed. That made the girl blush.
She thanked them.
They talked about anything while they unpacked. When Buffy and Faith added another room to theirs', Hermione was a little startled. She asked them how they did it, but didn't get an answer she wanted.
"It's our own little recipe." Buffy said. "Since we were six, we started doing things like this for our own benefit and protection."
"Why would you need to be protected?" Hermione asked.
"We don't know, but we have always had this need for certain safety things, and it did come in handy once." Faith said.
Hermione had stopped for a minute. "When did you need a safety room?" she asked.
"Once, we got a package in the mail, and we got some old things that we knew were ours, but not where we got them. We opened it, and took the stuff. But two hours later, the door was illegally opened, and a death eater was poking' its head through." Buffy said.
Faith continued, "So we got our parents into our secret room, which they had no idea about, and we hid there while the cloaked wizard went through the box we got in the mail. Then he went in our room and got one of our potions. But he couldn't see the room or the doorway we were in."
"It's safe to say that it wasn't detected. And mom and dad didn't give us any grief about the room." Faith said.
"Yeah, but they might have bottled it away like some people do." Buffy said to herself, but Faith and Hermione heard it too.
At Hermione's odd look, Faith told her, "It's a defense mechanism. Kids don't really have it as bad, but most people do it at least once in their lifetime. When you see something you can't explain, you'll just make up some excuse, even if it can't be true, and you know it."
"Like, if someone sees a dragon in the sky, they'll say it was a float, or there imagination." Buffy finished.
Hermione took the new information in stride. She always did, and that gave her a brief knowledge on what was going on.
Griffin went over to Hermione and sat on her shoulder. 'Mione was a bit startled, and when she looked at Griffin, unsure of what she wanted, Buffy laughed, and Faith smiled.
"What does she want?" Hermione asked.
"She probably is just striking her protection."
"Yeah, she is really protective. Once, me and Fai were walking down the road to the store to get some ice cream, and this drunken bum jumps out at us. We shrieked because we didn't see him there, and next thing we know, Griffin is swooping down and pecking his head." Buffy made a small giggle at that.
"Yeah, but I think she just pecked at him not to show the wizarding world stuff." Faith said with a smile. "Although, he was drunk enough that he probably wouldn't have believed it anyways."
They talked some more, and learned that Hermione went to a public muggle school for her first four years, until she was accepted here. "My parents were excited, neither of them had magic, although both of their families were known to have some. But I got plenty. I couldn't wait to get here and start school."
Buffy gave her a look, and Faith continued doing what she was doing.
Hermione gave the blonde a look of her own. "What?"
"You actually like school?" she asked.
"Well, yes." She replied. Faith heard this and spit out her candy.
"How can you like school?" she asked, looking at her sharply, but not mean.
"Well, I don't exactly like school, but I love to learn new things." Hermione said.
"Well, then you need to learn the difference. You like to learn, not be taught." Buffy told her.
"Uh huh." There was a pause and Faith was heard mumbling in between the movements and sound coming from the things going in places. "How can you like school?" she was asking herself.
"Just because you're good at it, doesn't mean you have to like it." Buffy told her.
Buffy then dragged a small TV out of her bag. Hermione stared at it, wondering how she fit it. Then the wizardry hit her, and she made sure that she didn't take her hand to hit her forehead in the space that she knew was pretty much a 'duh.;"
"You do know that you can't work electronics in Hogwarts right?" she asked, a little amused.
Faith shrugged, and Buffy put the television on a table across from their bed, and said "Yeah, we know, but we're also really creative."
"We have our own little inventions." Faith told her matter of factly.
Hermione was interested now. She didn't really like that she couldn't use things like that at the school. It was one of the reasons she was looking forward to going home over the break. "How?" she asked.
"Simple," Buffy remarked, "We created a little something so the magic doesn't affect the TV, and our other goodies."
"But if you like levitate a brick over it" "And drop it" "Then it will affect it."
"Brilliant! Because it isn't magic that is breaking it but the force of gravity!" she exclaimed.
Both twins smiled as they saw Hermione was ready to jump up and down the walls with the revelation.
"Hey 'Mione, do you wanna have your bed a little over here so you can see the TV as well?" Faith asked.
Hermione looked at the assortment of things and shrugged. "Why not."
Hermione went to try to move the bed, but Buffy beat her to it. She said an incantation, and the bed moved about a foot off the ground. It stopped in the middle of the room, and Hermione directed it to where it was comfortable.
They took a look around the room, when Buffy had a burst of inspiration. "Hey Faith, do you wanna move the room?" she asked her sister.
"Huh?" Faith asked, not quite sure of what she meant, but when she looked where Buffy was looking, she knew what was up. "Good idea."
Hermione, who was a bit confused, looked at the door as well. "What do you guys mean?" she asked.
Faith smiled, and explained. "B brought up the point that if we put the secret doorway behind the other door, and someone sneaks in or something, then they won't think to look there.
Hermione grinned. It really was a good idea. She got them to let her do it, and she pulled it off. She grinned happily when that was done.
The last of the unpacking was being done. Red headed brunette-ish witch was again surprised when both of the twins took out guitars.
"You can play?" she asked.
Buffy blushed, and Faith nodded.
"Can you play something for me?" she asked.
B and Fai looked at each other in silent communication, and picked a song.
"Sure 'Mione." Faith said.
Faith sat in a chair across from one of her desks, and transmogrified it into a small drum set. "B sings better then me-"
"Not aw." Buffy said. "We both sing well, it's just a little different.
Faith rolled her eyes, she didn't agree. "Anyways, B is the singer, and a better guitarist, while I am more for the drums. But we can both play the same. It's our twin thing."
Hermione didn't catch the 'our twin thing' exactly, and waited for them to start.
And they sang.
[Anything that they sing is written by them okay. Ignore whose music it is, just pretend it's theirs...]
(Michelle Branch's: Everywhere)
"Turn
it inside out so I can see
The part of you that's drifting over
me
And when I wake you're never there
But when I sleep you're
everywhere
You're everywhere
Just
tell me how I got this far
Just tell me why you're here and who
you are
'Cause every time I look you're never there
And every
time I sleep you're always there
'Cause
you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know that makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone
I
recognize the way you make me feel
It's hard to think that you
might not be real
I sense it now, the water's getting deep
I
try to wash the pain away from me
Away from me
'Cause
you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know that makes me believe
I'm not alone
I'm not alone
I
am not alone
Whoa, oh, oooh, oh
And
when I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty
that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never comes a day
No matter where I go
I
always feel you so
'Cause
you're everywhere to me
And when I close my eyes it's you I see
You're everything I know that makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're everywhere to me
And when I catch my breath
it's you I breathe
You're everything I know that makes me believe
I'm not alone
You're
in everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me?"
Hermione was entranced. Their beats hit each other perfectly, and the notes they used drew her attention in. And they sang beautifully. She was amazed. She didn't think she had heard better music in all of her life.
When it hit her that they were finished, she saw they were blushing. She did as well, knowing they were waiting for some kind of reaction.
She blinked. "Woah." She almost whispered.
"Where do you get your material?" she asked, mystified.
They shrugged. "I don't know. It just comes to us sometimes. We have a lot more songs, but we just picked that one up." Buffy said.
"You like?" Faith asked. Hermione nodded her head rapidly, trying to form words.
"You should like, make some kind of club and like use your music as a perk." Hermione joked.
Buffy and Faith both laughed.
They put their guitars in their hidden room, and put there other stuff in their as well. Hermione finished not long before they did, and they sat down on the double bed, and watched TV while talking.
They were best friends before the night was over, and Griffin accepted all three.
Faith was the first to fall asleep, and Hermione was next. Buffy made sure Griffin's food and water were filled before going to sleep next to sleep...
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Ron and Harry got a larger dorm with a bunch of other Gryffindor boys. They took the two beds next to the window. Harry's owl Hedwig took her own post near the window, and went to sleep while the boys all unpacked.
Harry and Ron chatted about things for a while. Harry was interested in his friend's large family since he was alone as far as he was concerned.
He didn't count the Dursleys as actual family. They were more like his illegal, yet legal jailers.
They talked about stuff, and Harry found himself spilling about the Dursleys. Ron was a little shocked, but comforted him with stories of his brothers, and being the youngest boy. It cheered the dark haired boy up a little, and they soon became friends.
"Harry, what do you think about the girls?" Ron asked.
He shrugged, and decided to be straight with it. "I like the smart one. Hermione." He said.
They both blushed, and Ron said, "I like the younger twin, Faith." They talked about their crushes, and joked about getting a guy for Buffy.
Before long though, they were tired, and went to sleep for the first time at Hogwarts, school of witchcraft and Wizardry.
Little did they know, that their lives, as well as the school, and many of the other students' lives, would never be the same. They were changing many things with destiny.
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"You got them with love. That is simply how you got the kids out of it." Lorne said.
The room was quiet; too much had gone on tonight to do anything.
Cordy was a little weirded. It didn't quite make sense with what she was being told. "Angel got Buffy knocked up with loving her?" No tact as usual.
(Where does Xander pick these tactless straight forward women?)
Lorne nodded again. Angel simply blinked. He wasn't expecting that. Actually, he wasn't expecting anything that happened that night.
Doyle was the one who spoke up. "Angel, man, I simply don't know what to do."
Lorne picked something up, and spoke up. "Angelcakes, something big is going down. And it's not the something that our little slayers were killed by."
"Slayers?" Angel asked. He wasn't here to hear the news Wesley gave.
"The phone call we got before you went upstairs was the woman's prison. Faith was found murdered in one of the visitor rooms. They can't identify who it was that killed her. Or how she died, just that she did, and she wasn't in anyway sick." Fred said.
"Magic." Lorne said.
The bottle of half full Irish liquor in his hand was not one of his favorites, but the life he just uncovered called for something. "It's the way Buffy died. Some wizard used an illegal curse on her. The same probably happened with Faith."
"W-Wi-Wizard?" asked Fred.
Lorne sighed. This was going to be a long explanation.
"A long time ago, there were wizards in our world, but prejudice and things like that pushed them apart, so four wizards combined their magic, and made a separate world for wizards. They have their own laws, and land, and government. They use wands to get the magic out of themselves. They're different then Wiccas, but they have some things the same." He took a swig.
Fred wanted more information on this world, as did Wesley. He knew about the wizarding world, most watchers did. But he only knew basics. Wand magic was separated into their own communities, and the Ministry of Magic had contacts within the Council.
They had laws together, the main one being that slayers could not learn wanded magic; He thought that was one of the dumbest things he had ever heard of before he even came to Sunnydale. "Why would Wizards kill slayers though? It doesn't make sense." He said.
Everyone looked at him. "I dunno Wes, but it's something important."
"What do you mean Wes?" Angel asked.
"Wizards do not go around killing people unless they interrupt something. But that's only a certain Wizard's people. The Ministry has laws against it. But one of the greater laws is that slayers cannot be witches. Personally, I think it is ridiculous, but it has stood there since the Wizards created their own community."
"Why would they make that law?" Cordy asked.
"She would be privy to two different governments. They work together and, I strain to say, share, but they would be fighting for her constantly. The council would most likely have any slayer killed if she had witch blood in her." He told them.
There was a silence. "I hate them the more I hear of them." Doyle said. Everyone was thinking that same basic thing.
Lorne got back on track. "Anyway Angelcakes, you should call Sunnydale, see what's happening, and I am going to go track down Gunn." He said as he left.
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thugalet: Thanks for the info. I am never good with names. I don't read the books, so I get all the HP world info I know off of other fics, which isn't very comforting; I know. I agree with you, and am going to make it Ron/Faith and Harry/Hermione.
Anna: I am not fully aware of what I am doing, but I want them to get them sent to Quartoth by Voldemort's people. I am even thinking about blowing up Hogwarts for a very small period of time. But I am not sure.
Meghan: As far as I am concerned, I want them to remember their lives at Quartoth, and get them there to stop the apocalypse. I am most likely going to have Voldemort and the First team up, but I might do a double apocalypse thingy, where they stop the first, and then go to Hogwarts to stop Voldemort.
LizaGirl: Yes, I like my big block of chapters as well, but I don't know if I will have time to do them, I am on my third week of school tomorrow. But I'll do my best to get chapters out soon.
Sorrow1: I am sorry (Sorrow, get it? lol) but I have finally decided on the pairings of those three girls. BA (DUH!), H/H, and R/F. I know I can't really see them together either, but I guess Ron wants a 'bad girl.' I think Harry and Hermione are a pretty okay match though.
Yes, Spuffy ness is nasty. Gross, nightmares are made of that.
Oh. Griffin makes a lot of noises, when I said hooted, I meant hooted, like when guys do it at concerts. But I totally understand how you got that impression. So I'll ask you this, what noises to phoenixes make?
Kiara Black: Thanx. I think I am being creative as well. Although, it's kind of surprising that I am keeping it up SHIT! I think I just jinxed myself!
WW : Thanx for the review. I like it too. Oh yeah, that is one of the ideas that I am planning. 'Puppy face.' Get it?
NOTES: I have been thinking of making Buffy and Faith go to potions, and Snape does something mean to one of them, and Buffy makes him regret it or something by using her secret weapon. The innocent puppy face that no one, not even Giles can beat. lol
I am a devoted B/A fan. Spuffy-ness and AC action is what nightmares are made of. Get it? Nightmares?
I think that is going to be one of my Challenges. Have Freddy come to the hellmouth, and start killing people in their nightmares, and he could be bugging Buffy with Angel's death and stuff, and making her go to Spike!!! What do you think???
Thanx for the reviews everyone, the more I get, the more I will be urged to put out more chapters. And I already think that this will be about twenty chapters, but It might go shorter or longer depending on how long I will be able to get out of my head and onto 'paper'. (computerized Microsoft word I mean.)