Buffy, the witchy vampire slayer

Chapter 17 – Tasks, babies and Fidelius.

DISCLAIMER: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, and Harry Potter to J.K. Rowling. I don't own 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:

The Lady Morgaine: Happy you seem to like it! As for the baby-boom...here we go!

Just Me: Yeah, running is definitely a good advice. Espescially for Sirius. -Smirks- No, Angel is not coming back...and Buffy keeps glaring in this chap!

The Cardboard Moon: Hehe, no worries. Happy you liked the Angel/Sirius interaction.You miss Wills? I'll try to give her some room in next chap, 'kay?

goddessa39: Sorry you didn't liked the chap. Was it because of the being mean to Angel thing?

bella-lover: Pranks are here! As for Spike...I kind of forgot about him, and with the thought of the timeline, if I bring him in, he'll have to be evil. We'll see...I'll try to put him in somewhere! I got an idea now, so possibly...

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"Sirius," Buffy said sweetly.

"Buffy." Sirius gulped.

"Remember how I told you that you had to make up to Remus for believing him guilty of being the spy?"

Sirius gulped again.

"Yes."

Buffy smiled brightly.

"Good. Because we're starting now." She gave him a piece of paper.

"What is this?" Sirius asked and frowned.

"A list on what you have to do. There are three tasks. And when you're done, count on being the victim for some of my pranks for being so mean to 'Angie-pooh' when he was here." Buffy patted him on the chest. "Good luck." She left. Sirius sighed and took a look on the first task.

"KISS MCGONAGALL!"

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The First Task.

Sirius stood in front of the doors of the Great Hall. All students where eating dinner there now, and since it was only three years since he graduated, he knew more than half of them. And the teachers. And Remus. And James. And Lily. And Peter. And Buffy. He gulped.

"I can't believe she's forcing me to do this…" he muttered to himself, before working up somewell needed Gryffindor courage.

"Here we go…"

Sirius opened the doors, and smiled a (false) bright, cheery smile.

"Hi all!" He said, and then worked his way over to the faculty table, and Minerva McGonagall.

"Minnie," he said with a smirk and leaned forwards a bit. Buffy was already having trouble containing her laughter, while all the others just looked confused.

"Mr. Black. How many times do I have to tell you to not call me that?"

"Many times more," Sirius said. "Minnie, do you have any idea how beautiful you're looking this evening? Even the stars are fading in comparision."

Everyone stared at Sirius with big eyes, except Buffy, who was shaking with silent laughter. McGonagall looked thoroughly shocked.

"Mr. Black, what do you think you're doing!"

"I'm sorry, Minnie, but this will probaply hurt me more than you," Sirius said, and closed his eyes hard. He lent forwards…and…he gave her lips a quick (like 0,0001 second) kiss.

"Oh, yuck…" Sirius coughed and spat. McGonagall was sitting still as a statue in her seat, too shocked to utter a sound.

"Siri!" Buffy scolded, although she was laughing and looking disgusted at the same time.

"That wasn't a kiss, it was a peck!"

"Oh, it was a kiss, alright!" Sirius said. "I'm not doing it again, that wasn't part of the deal!"

"Well, I said kiss!"

"It was a kiss!" Sirius protested.

"It was so not a kiss! If that's what you're calling a kiss, I feel sorry for you!"

"It was a McGonagall kiss!" Sirius said. "And do you know how much I hate you for making me do this!"

"SIRIUS ORION BLACK!" Sirius tensed and turned back to the faculty table, looking at his ex-head of house.

"Yes…?"

"WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING!"

"…Kissing you…?"

"AND WHY DID YOU DO THAT!"

"I thought it was obvious," Dumbledore mumbled from his seat, not able to keep the laughter out of his voice. "It was a part of a deal…"

McGonagall turned her angry look towards Dumbledore, who gulped.

"Albus! You are not helping!"

"I'm sorry, Minnie…Minerva." Dumbledore hastily added as McGonagalls eyes narrowed.

"Sirius Black, if I could, I would give you so much detention you would never find a second of peace!"

Sirius gulped.

"I can't believe you and ms. Summers would place a BET whether or not you would KISS your own head of house!"

"It wasn't a bet…"

"THEN WHAT WAS IT!"

"A deal…" Sirius looked really small.

"A DEAL!" Mcgonagall rose from her seat, nostrils flaring. "And what, may I ask, were you gaining by taking part of this DEAL?"

Sirius gulped.

"Eh…"

"Well! Out with it! How much was KISSING ME WORTH!"

Sirius cast a frightened look towards Buffy, who sighed. She had a feeling they would be stuck here for quite awhile…

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The Second Task.

Sirius was standing outside the Slytherin common room, quite naked. (He was wearing a couple of pink (Buffy's orders) boxers) He was cursing himself for putting these ideas in Buffy's head in the first place.

"At least I don't have to run completely naked..." he muttered, and took a deep breath. Buffy had somehow been managing to find out the Slytherin password, which he would have welcomed during his years at Hogwarts, but now he'd hoped it would have been impossible to find.

"Sirius!" Someone hissed from behind him.

"What? Who's there!"

"It's me, Buffy! And Remus. And Willow. Under the invisibility cloak."

"What are you doing here!"

"Well…I do need proof. Do you really think I'm just gonna trust you on your word of doing this?" Sirius could almost hear her smirk.

"Oh, shut up…" he growled. "Chamber of Secrets," he said to the portrait, and the hole flew open at the mention of the password. As he climbed in, everybody grew quiet.

Sirius smiled.

"Hi! Did anybody order entertainment?" He said cheekily, although he was burning of embarrassment inside. First, he ran three rounds around the room, singing "twinkle, twinkle little star", and then, he did some rock n' roll dance to a "modernised version of 'Itsy Bitsy Spider", before running out, as fast as he could.

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"Sirius," Buffy said seriously. "I think you've been doing really great, so you don't have to do the third task. Unless you want to. It was more of a reserve anyway, if you promptly refused to do one of the others."

"Wait. Are you saying I could have skipped one of the tasks and done the third one instead?" Sirius asked disbelievingly. Buffy nodded.

"And you didn't tell me this before…why?"

"Ah, where would the fun be in that!" Buffy asked cheekily. Sirius scowled. Buffy then smiled.

"But if you really DO want to tell Snivellus you've had a change of heart and want to marry him, who am I to stop you?"

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Buffy was patiently waiting for Sirius to emerge from the bathroom. She slowly counted down to herself.

"Three…two…one…"

"GAAAAAAAAAAH!" A quite lady-like scream sounded from the bathroom, and it took about five seconds before Sirius showed up, towel wired around his waist.

Remus, Willow, James and Lily came running out of there rooms.

"What's wrong?"

"Are there an attack?"

"Who screamed?"

"Did somebody die?"

The last statement was from James. Buffy could only snicker, ad point towards the bathroom opening. They all turned around. And burst out laughing. (James was literally rolling at the floor)

"P-padfoot…" He laughed, tears rinning. "What in Merlin's name happened to you?"

Sirius hair was a mixture of silver and green, and he was practically glowing with anger.

"Buffy…"

"Yes, Siri?" Buffy said innocently.

"What did you put in my shampoo?"

"Oh, nothing. Just some hair-colouring potion…nothing permanent. It should fade a way in a week or so."

"A WEEK!"

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One week later.

"BUUUUUUUUFFFFFFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

"Yes, Sirius?" Buffy asked.

"The haircolour…does not…go…away," Sirius said through gritted teeth.

"It doesn't?" Buffy blinked in innocent surprise.

"Oh, I'm sorry. It should have faded away by now."

"Meaning?"

"Well…I guess you'll just have to wait another week…"

"WHAT!"

Buffy laughed.

"I'm kidding. Here." She gave him a bottle of something smelly.

"What is that?"

"Another shampoo. It should take away the colour instantly."

"Are you telling me there was an antidote?"

"Uhu."

"And I didn't have to wait a whole week to get rid of the colour?"

"Nope."

Sirius just sighed.

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June 25.

A letter arrived to the peaceful cottage called Godric's Hollow. Here lived a very young couple, called the Potters, since a week back.

"James…"

"Yes, honey?"

"I just got a letter from my sister…you know, Petunia."

"Oh, her. What about her?" James couldn't have sounded less interested if he'd tried.

"Apparently she gave birth to 'a beautiful little baby-boy' the 23:rd."

"Nice for her. What is she going to name him?"

"Well, she and Vernon are thinking about the name 'Dudley'. She's even calling him 'Duddy-kins' in her letter." Lily sounded disgusted.

James sighed.

"Well, poor kid. 'Harry' is a much better name."

Lily smiled, and sat down beside James.

"Absolutely." She snuggled closer to him. "I miss the others," she whispered.

James smiled. Since Lily and James had left Hogwarts a couple of weeks ago to get an own house, they'd barely seen their friends. They had gotten word from Willow and Remus about a week ago – they were travelling through Europe, doing missions for the Order. (Willow had joined right before Lily and James had left.) Apparently, Willow had fallen in love with Italy, so that's where they were staying right now, taking a small break from 'the real business'. It seemed like they were thinking of moving in together and settle down somewhere near the coast sometime in the future, once the war was over and they were no longer needed in England. As for Sirius and Buffy, they were still at Hogwarts, annoying the crap out of Filch and the Slytherins. Sirius had been thinking of leaving, but since Buffy was staying, so did he. Buffy wouldn't have minded leaving, but since Moody often came and left reports to Dumbledore about the Order, she wanted to be there. (She had still not found out a way to expose Peter as the spy.)

"Yeah, me too…we'll see them at the Order meetings, though."

"Even Peter?"

James frowned. "I'm not sure…"

They saw less and less of Peter. He'd left Hogwarts right after they had, and they only saw eachother at Order meetings, but more than often Peter was sick, and couldn't show.

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July 30.

The Order were all assembled in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts.

"Welcome, everybody." Dumbledore smiled.

"I will be leaving the word to Alastor tonight."

Mad-Eye moody coughed, and raised up from his seat, his wooden leg doing thumping sounds against the floor.

"Well, by now we know for sure that we have a spy among us…" Buffy was glaring at Peter as Mad-Eye said this, and was pleased to see that he stiffened.

"…And due to some research me and miss Summers have done, we have possible suspects narrowed down to ten." This was a lie, of course, but Mad-Eye couldn't say that they only had Peter as a suspect and had spent several time plotting against him to make him reveal himself.

"However, we have no further proof, and therefore we have come up with plan to force the spy to reveal him…or herself," he added. "Miss Summers."

Buffy stepped forwards and revealed a parchment.

"I actually got this idea from Lily. Me and Moody have just…improved it a little. This paper is charmed in a way that only allows those who are truly loyal to the Order to sign. If someone who isn't loyal signs it, we should all know immediately."

Peter gulped.

"Ehrm…"

"Yes, Peter?"

"Doesn't that seem like a bit much? Why not just check after the Dark Mark?"

"Because Marks can be concealed," Buffy said, sharing a glance with Moody.

"And how do we know that paper isn't fake!" Peter said, his already high-pitched voice growing higher for every word.

"Maybe it just points out the one you hope is the spy!"

Buffy glared, and was just about to answer, but Dumbledore beat her to it.

"Mr. Pettigrew. Alastor has my fully trust in this."

"So…let's sign." Moody and Buffy was the first ones to sign, and then Dumbledore. Soon, there was only ten persons left, among them James, Lily, Remus, Peter, Willow, Sirius and the Longbottoms. Alice had just gripped the pen and started to write her name when…

"Argh…"

"Alice? Honey, are you alright?"

"No…" She dropped the pen and parchment and gripped Frank's hand tightly.

"I think I'm in labour…" she hissed.

Buffy swore to herself when everybody started fussing over Alice. She knew there was no way they'd get Peter to sign now…

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July 31.

"You're calling him Neville?" Lily was talking to Frank through the fireplace in Godric's Hollow.

"That is so sweet."

"Who is it, honey? Oh, hi, Frank! How's Alice?" James asked.

Frank smiled brightly.

"She's great! She just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy."

"They're calling him Neville," Lily informed her husband, smiling.

"Nice. He and Harry are going to be the best pals ever," James grinned.

Frank laughed.

"Oh, Hogwarts beware! A Longbottom and a Potter together – it's promising trouble."

Frank and James chatted away, not noticing how Lily had suddenly grown very quiet.

"James…" she whispered.

"Yes, Lils, just a moment…so Frank…"

"James!" Lily hissed. "My water just broke!"

"Oh, that's great…" James said absently. Then…

"WHAT!"

"I think that's my cue to leave," Frank said. "I'll let the doctors know they can expect you any second…

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"Is it over soon?" Sirius hissed. He was pacing in the hospital ward in St. Mungos, as he had for the last hours.

"Sirius, sit down," Buffy said. "James'll tell us when it's over."

"Well, excuse me for being excited! It's my Godson being born in there!"

"And my Godson too, remember," Buffy said. "But do you see me pacing around like an idiot?"

Sirius shot Buffy a glare.

"Sirius, can't you just relax?" Willow jawned. "It's really late. We'll hear when Harry's coming…" As on cue, there was the sound of a baby screaming. Willow, Buffy and Remus shot up from their chairs. (Peter was still snoring in his.)

The door flew open and revealed a more than excited James.

"HE'S HERE!" he screamed, before running back in, and shutting the door closed behind him.

"Hey! When do we get to see him!" Sirius protested.

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October 20, one year later.

"Because of the threat from Voldemort and we do not yet know of whom the prophecy speak about, or who the spy is, it is important your location is hidden." Dumbledore told Lily and James.

"You're telling us we have to go into hiding?"

"Yes. Under the Fidelius charm. I'm prepared to be your Secret Keeper…"

"Wait, Dumbledore, we trust you, but…we would feel better if Sirius was the Secret Keeper."

"Sirius?" Dumbledore sounded surprised. "James, I am not sure that is wise…"

"Sirius would rather die than betray us," James insisted, but Dumbledore was still not sure.

It took another hour and a talk to Sirius before it was decided.

Another two hours later, the charm was completed, and Sirius was the Potter's secret keeper.

What this would lead to, nobody knew…


A/N: Hope you like! The end is coming nearer...I know it might seem like everything seems rushed, but I really want this story to come to an end at the twentieth chapter, so...
And by the way, this chapter wasn't betaed, so if the grammar and spelling seems worse than usual, it is because of that! It might get betaed later, though!

/Ida