A/N: Hey everyone! I've been so busy now that school's started up again that I barely add onto any of my stories Bad Alie! Anyway, thanks to everyone who reviewed! I'm so excited to write this chapter, I'm getting like an adrenaline rush thing! I hope I do the Gentleman and my good friend (I wish) Joss Whedon justice with this chapter! Although I've probably destroyed all chances of justice doing by making a Buffy/Draco story or even by making an HP BtVS crossover, for that matter!

Girl-Of-Legends: It's really not that gross to have the story be Buffy/Draco because he's going into his 7th year, meaning he's 17 and she's a freshman in college so she's only 18, so there's only a year difference! Unless you have another reason for anti-Buffy/Draco-ness... (which u probably do, Shan seeing as that you hate any 'ship unless it's Buffy/Spike or Buffy/Angel!!!!! And why did you never tell me you were Shannon?!??!?!?!)

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Harry Potter.

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I woke up the next morning on the floor of Buffy and Willow's room. Buffy and I hadn't spoken to each other at all the evening before after our fight at Xander's house. I looked up to see Willow slowly sitting up in her bed, and Buffy missing from hers. Suddenly she came through the door, hitting my feet as she swung it open quickly. She flashed me a fake smile of apology. She then turned to Willow.

"Good morning," she mouthed.

Wait, she mouthed? What-? SHIT I'VE GONE DEAF! I jumped up and was on my feet in seconds.

"I'VE GONE DEAF!" I tried to scream. But no noise came out of my mouth. That was because I was deaf.

Willow started madly mouthing things. I thought I could catch that she thought she was deaf too. Buffy was shaking her head. She started snapping her fingers. It took Willow and me both a minute to realize that we could hear it and that meant we weren't deaf.

"Thank God," I mouthed, sighing heavily. "Wait, why can't I talk?"

Buffy shrugged. "GILES!" she mouthed. Willow's face lit up and she rushed to the phone, dialing his number in seconds. She started moving her mouth, and then realized that she couldn't speak and put the phone down with a red face.

I opened the door and poked my head outside to find everyone frantically rushing about trying to talk and failing. So we weren't the only ones! There were a few people crying and some people who looked like they were trying so hard to talk that the veins in their necks were about to burst.

"Giles' house!" Buffy was mouthing. "We have to go to Giles' house!"

Good thing I was such a good lip-reader.

We got ready and made our way to his house. Along the way we saw someone selling white boards to hang around your neck and write whatever you were trying to say on them. When Giles opened the door he started trying to say things at such a rapid pace that it looked as though he was really talking but someone had just pressed the mute button on his speech. Buffy held up her white board.

"We have no idea what you're saying," it read.

Giles made a face as if to say "Well, of course."

We sat down helplessly. What was happening? So many insane thoughts ran through my mind, but nothing really made any sense. I then noticed a woman who was sitting on a chair off to the side. Who was she? I remembered that Giles had a friend staying at his house, but I never really thought of him as the type to have a girlfriend.

Someone came through the door. It was Xander. He was making wild gestures with his hands and rambling on and on about God-knows-what. I noticed the whiteboard around his neck. I started snapping my fingers to get his attention. He glanced over at me and I pointed at my whiteboard. A look of understanding spread across his face and he started scribbling things down.

"What the hell is going on?!?!??!" was written on his whiteboard.

We all shrugged. Giles wrote something down on a piece of paper and showed it to Xander. He nodded. Giles looked confused but then walked hurriedly to his bookcase and began handing out books. He snatched Willow's whiteboard off her neck and wrote "RESEARCH" on it in big letters.

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Three hours later I had gone through two books and had come up with absolutely nothing. Xander was falling asleep and Giles was pacing around the room. The woman had disappeared from her chair. Buffy put her book down and threw her hands up in defeat. Then she had an idea; she turned on the telly A/N: Thank you, Occasus. The news was on.

"There seems to be a sudden case of laryngitis that has swept over the town of Sunnydale and contaminated everyone," a news reporter was saying.

"This is definitely notlaryngitis," Xander wrote on his white board. Willow and Buffy made faces of agreement.

Something about this situation seemed vaguely familiar. Maybe I'd learned about it somewhere or sometime in school...

"Where's Spike?" Giles wrote on a piece of paper.

"My place," Xander wrote on his whiteboard.

"Was he affected?" Giles wrote down.

Xander nodded. Giles made a thoughtful face and stared at the ceiling.

I was ready to spontaneously combust. I'm not the type of person who can go a while without talking.

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The next morning I had an epiphany and I suddenly remembered what was happening and how I knew it. I snatched my white board wrote down "Giles' house. I know what's going on." Before frantically waking up Buffy. I showed her the sign and a look of utter relief spread across her face before she grabbed me and started kissing me insanely as though we were going to die from this. Which we might. A/N: For all you Riley-haters, she's kissing Malfoy instead of him! Muhuhahahhaha

When we finally parted she smiled at me and then pointed at Willow. I woke her up and soon we left, making it to Giles' house in record time. I immediately started kicking and banging at the door with all my might. He opened the door right as I was kicking it, and my foot accidentally rammed right into his shin. He doubled over in pain and I quickly scribbled "Sorry" onto my whiteboard. After he saw it, I erased the message and replaced it with "I know what's going on."

Giles was stunned and ecstatic. I gestured wildly for me to continue. "Fairytale creatures that scared the crap out of me when I was little." Erase. "Learned about in Defense Against the Dark Arts at school." Erase. "The Gentleman. Rip out still-beating heart. Need 7." Erase. "I don't know how to rid them." Giles gave me the thumbs up and Buffy shook her head in embarrassment.

The woman who was staying at Giles' house emerged. She wrote on a piece of paper that she saw something the night before. She sketched it on a piece of paper. It was a white, veiny person with metal teeth and a disgustingly frightening grin. I nodded to show that it was the correct creature.

I shivered. So these things that had haunted my dreams for so long were actually real. What the hell had my father shoved me into?

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A/N: I started writing this a while ago and just finished it. I hope you guys enjoy it! I hope that the Riley-haters like the fact that I replaced Buffy's Riley kiss with a Draco one Even though most people aren't too keen on the whole Draco/Buffy thing. But they'll just have to deal.