Buffy, the witchy vampire slayer

Chapter 7 – We Wish You a Merry Christmas…

DISCLAIMER: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, and Harry Potter to J.K. Rowling. I don't owe anything…-sighs-

TIMELINE: AU. BTVS: After Buffy season three. HP: Before and after Harry's birth (Takes place during the marauders 19:s and up). The years follow the Buffy timeline.

SUMMARY: BTVS/HP crossover. Buffy leaves Sunnydale after Graduation to catch up with her past.

BIG SUMMARY: Buffy is an eleven year old witch and friends with the Hogwarts marauders (a year older), until her parents tells her they're moving to LA, because they wants to take her away from all the 'magic-stuff' (They don't want to accept the fact that she's a witch). Four years later, she's called as the slayer.

CENTRAL PAIRING: Buffy/Sirius

OTHER PAIRINGS: James/Lily, Willow/Remus, Xander/Anya

Reviews respond:

Anne-Janet: Thank you a lot for that! And yeah, it's good to plan stuff...And I know, Voldemort...well, I have a problem portraiting him evil and scary, because I think he's a rather...plain? bad guy...I mean, if you compare to some of BTVS biggest and baddest...well, he comes rather low on my 'scariest'-list. About the same place as the Troika and Gachnar... LOL. But in uglyness, he comes high! I'm glad I made Peter realistic. Here is your Christmas-chapter...when is your birtday? Mine is on New Years day (January first) so you'll get another chapter then!

manticore-gurl071134: Thanks! Well, this story is gonna follow the HP verse to some extent...and you're right, Lily/James doesn't have to die...I'm actually having a problem deciding...I just know that they WILL die in one of my stories... (not necessary one of those I'm writing right now)...but it doesn't have to be in this one. When I kill them off, though, I know I'm gonna hate myself for it... I hope you're wrong about 'The heiress of Slytherin', because I liked it too! Do you know the authors name?

Willow Evenstar: Hi Emi, and thank you! I loved writing that part too, so I'm glad you liked it! (and more sweetness comes in this chapter - not Lily/James though) I know, writing Buffy/Snape fics must be -shudders- eew in a high level. I'm glad you're not afraid of rats either (another thing we have in common. LOL). As for the babbeling (another thing we have in common)...I'm glad we're alike! And no, I haven't read it, but I think I have too now! I'll let you know what I thought later! Have a merry Christmas!

Just Me (anonymous): Hi! Thanks for your help...gah! Why do people have to remove good stories?! And no...I can't recall the name on the author either...it's frustrating! I'm glad you liked the chapter...and I loved writing the Lily telling James part, so I'm glad you liked that too. And yeah, a lot of Sirius/Buffy in this chapter! My new story, 'Out of the Blue', will be posted on January first, and the central pairing will be Buffy/Remus. YAY! And yeah, sure as hell Peter/Buffy is a gross-factor just as high as the eiffel-tower...I'm on your favourites? Yay again! Merry Christmas!

CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur: Hi, and thank you! I loved writing that part too, so I'm glad everyone seems to like it this far!

Meryl-chan (anonymous): Hi! I hope that too! And yeah, old Moldywart can go to Hell!

Kat Hawkins: Here is more! And NO, you can't kill Wormtail, because he's mine to kill! (But I can let you hit him a couple of times?)

slaygal166 (anonymous): Thank you! And yeah, it was sad in a way...I wrote it like that just to make peoples feeling go wacky if I decide to follow the HP verse and kill them of. But I may not do that, we'll see...

Gertyke: Hi there! Well, Buffy/Sirius smochies will come...but not yet. In this chapter, though, you will get a lot of Sirius/Buffy...but no smoochies! Sorry.

Hidden in the Darkness: Oops, my bad! Sorry...but can I help I love to tease people about their height? (But just so you know, it's only because I'm about as short as Buffy, so I have to let my mouth speak, to make myself feel taller) LOL. And yes, baby Harry is on his way...and yeah, Willow is staying in England. She will propably study at Oxford, and magic at the side, since she's too old to enter Hogwarts. Merry Christmas!

Thanks to:
WaterNaiad13

Special thanks to: My Beta – CharmedChick

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It was a little more than a month since Lily had broken the news to James, and it was now the day before Christmas. Buffy was really nervous about the present part - what if the marauders didn't like what she'd bought? Willow, was, in her turn, just as desperate - she wasn't very familiar with the wizarding world yet, so she'd not had a clue what to buy. She just hoped her presents wouldn't turn out to be disasterous…

The only person not worrying was Lily, wherever she went, she could be heard slowly singing a muggle Christmas song.

"We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year…"

Lily smiled. She was sure next year would be great…and next Christmas, she and James would have a little baby…

She smiled again. James had been really sweet since he found out about her pregnancy…but he didn't seem to think she could do anything herself anymore.

For example, he wouldn't let her lift her bags with presents in Hogsmeade - she could hurt herself. But it was all kind of cute, actually.

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Sirius was not having a good day - it was already December 24, and he still had no idea what to give Buffy. He wanted it to be special, but what could that be? He'd missed so many years of her life, and had no idea what to give her. What did she like? He realized how little he knew about his friend, if you didn't count the fact that he knew she was the Slayer.

"Maybe a weapon of some kind?" He thought out loud, but then remembered that James already had bought that. Remus had bought books, and knowing Lily, it was probably something useful from her. Peter had probably bought candy or something she could eat, knowing that he could taste it afterwards.

He sighed.

"Maybe a…" Suddenly he lit up. He knew the perfect present. He grinned happily.

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Christmas morning came, and went. Suddenly, it was afternoon, and they sat in the Great Hall, along with the staff, and some of the students that stayed over Christmas vacation.

Right now, they were enjoying themselves before the fabulous dinner.

Sirius found he grew more, and more nervous. Maybe his present wasn't a good idea after all…it wasn't really an actual present…

He sighed, and moved his eyes over to where Buffy sat, speaking to Lily excitedly about something. Suddenly, they both giggled over something Lily'd said…and was it his imagination, or did they look over to his seat when they did it?

'They're not laughing at me, are they?' He thought worriedly. His thoughts were interrupted by Dumbledore, who'd risen from his seat, and now clapped his hands, begging everybody to be silent.

"Welcome everybody to another Christmas here at Hogwarts! I wish you all a merry Christmas, and must beg my guests not to worry about presents too much," his eyes twinkled, and Sirius was sure he looked at him while he said it.

"Now I won't keep you from your food much longer, I only have six words for you: Merry Christmas, and enjoy your stay!"

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"Gimme, gimme!" Buffy said excitedly. It was only she who hadn't opened her presents yet, and barely could stop herself from opening them.

James laughed.

"Take it easy, Buffster! Here." He gave her a present wrapped into a beautiful red paper.

Buffy opened it slowly, and found a beautiful dagger and sword inside of it.

"Oh, James!" She breathed, "it's beautiful!"

"I hoped you'd think so," James said, and grinned. Next present was from Remus. It contained two books - one about Defense Against the Dark Arts through the Ages, and the second one full of complicated Defense Spells.

"I know you may not be able to use all of them because some of them are really complicated, and you haven't gotten much training, but you could check it out, and maybe learn some, and get some ideas?" Remus suggested, and Buffy smiled gratefully at him.

The next one was Peters. A box full of chocolate-frogs.

Buffy smiled. Typical Peter to give her a present he could be sure to get a bite of.

Buffy had a feeling she wouldn't eat any of those frogs - she trusted Peter less and less for every day - something about him made her spider-sense go all wacky, and not in a good way.

Buffy turned her eyes to Sirius, who looked embarrassed, and gave her a folded envelop.

Buffy wrinkled her forehead. What was this? She opened it slowly, and read the words inside the envelope.

Meet me at the north Astronomy Tower at Midnight.

That was all it said. Buffy was really curious now, and gave Sirius a wondering look, but Sirius refused to meet her eyes.

'Weird,' Buffy thought, but shrugged. Obviously Sirius was worried about something, and Buffy really wanted to find out about what, but decided to let it go. She would probably find out later - maybe at midnight?

She checked the watch every single minute. At 11:30 Sirius snuck out of the room, and twenty minutes later, Buffy left too, her heart pounding furiously from curiosity.

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When she got up at the Astronomy Tower, she found Sirius waiting for her. His eyes were fixated at the Hogwarts grounds.

"Siri?" Buffy asked quietly.

"What's wrong?" Sirius didn't turn around, so Buffy went up to him, and put a hand on his shoulder.

"Why did you ask me to come here?"

It was quiet for a moment, until Sirius opened his mouth to answer.

"I wanted to give you your Christmas present…"

"Oh. Well, here I am, where is it?" Buffy joked, trying to get rid of the electricity that seemed to be floating in the air.

"Buffy, I…"

"You what?" Buffy looked at Sirius, concerned. It wasn't like him to be this quiet.

"Nothing." He turned to her with a smirk, but it looked forced.

"Come here," he took her hand.

"Close your eyes." Buffy did as he told her, and tried to ignore the butterflies in her stomach when she felt Sirius hand in hers.

"Okay, you can look." Buffy could hear the nervous undertone in Sirius voice, and opened her eyes slowly. In front of her stood a shiny black motorcycle.

"Oh my gosh! Is it yours?"

Sirius grinned.

"Yeah. I've had it since my seventh year at Hogwarts…it didn't look half as good then. I've been fixing it ever since."

"This is so cool! Can I try it?" Buffy asked excitedly, and Sirius nodded, happy she liked it.

"I hope you don't mind I didn't buy you a present, but to be honest, I couldn't think of anything that didn't seem silly..."

Buffy just laughed.

"Never mind about that! Can we take a ride?"

Sirius grinned.

"That was my intention."

Buffy laughed again, when she suddenly got a frown on her forehead.

"Siri. We're on the top of the Astronomy Tower…where are we gonna drive it?"

Sirius grinned again, and sat down in front of her.

"Promise to hold on tight?"

Buffy nodded breathlessly. They were so close…she put her arms around Sirius waist, trying to regain control of her breathing. The butterflies were worse than ever.

Sirius started the motorbike, and a squeak was released from Buffy's throat. Was he mad?

They couldn't drive anywhere! They where on the top of a roof for God's sake!

Suddenly, the motorcycle set off, and Buffy stared horrified as the end of the roof came closer. They were only an inch from the free air now…and then, they were over the edge of the roof.

Buffy screamed. Did Sirius want to kill her?! She closed her eyes, preparing herself for the crash…but nothing came. Instead, the only sound heard was the loud sound from the motor.

Buffy opened one eye at the time, and gasped.

They were…flying?!

"…Sirius…" Buffy whispered breathlessly, and took a harder grip around Sirius waist. He swallowed.

"Merry Christmas, Buffy."

Buffy grinned from where she sat.

"Do you…like it?" Sirius asked, and Buffy grinned even harder.

"I love it!" she got an evil twinkle in her eye.

"Can this enchanted bike go any faster?"

Sirius laughed.

"You got it!" Buffy screamed with delight, when the bike set off again, this time, twice as fast as before.

She snuggled closer, and leaned her head against Sirius' back.

"Can we land someplace far away from here?" She whispered.

Sirius nodded, and flew the bike higher up in the air, over the clouds.

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They landed in a clearing in the woods.

"We're not in the Forbidden forest, are we?" Buffy asked, and Sirius shook his head.

"That is not far away from Hogwarts."

"Oh. Right. So where are we?"

Sirius smiled.

"You would like to know that, wouldn't you?"

Buffy smacked him playfully on his arm, before sitting down in the grass.

Sirius sat down beside her, wondering if she would mind if he put an arm around her shoulder. He bit his lip, and gave it a try. When Buffy felt Sirius arm around her, she tensed, but then relaxed into his arm. She heard Sirius let out a sigh of relief, and she smiled. She snuggled closer, and lent her head against his shoulder, watching the stars above them.

Suddenly, a star fell.

"When a star falls, you're free to wish something," Sirius whispered and Buffy smiled.

"Anything?"

Sirius nodded.

"Anything."

Buffy closed her eyes, and let a wish pass through her head.

'I wish I could stay this happy forever…'

Buffy didn't know how long they just sat there, but soon she drifted of to sleep.

She woke up when the first sunbeam shone straight into her face. She checked her watch - four o'clock in the morning.

"Hey, sunshine!" Someone called, and Buffy blinked, and looked up. Sirius stood bent over her, a teasing smile on his lips.

"Ready for another ride?" He asked and motioned over to the motorbike.

Buffy grinned.

"Oh, yeah."


A/N: Well, merry Christmas everybody! (I know, it's not until the 25'th...for you. For me, it's tomorrow! The 24'th... Anyway, I figured you'd be too busy to read on Christmas day, so that's why I post it now!) I hope you liked the Buffy/Sirius mushiness…a lot of people have begged me for more Buffy/Sirius – how is this for a Christams present, huh? –Grins-

Anyway, please REVIEW, and I'll have another chapter up for new year!

/Ida