A/N: PLEASE REVIEW!!! They were rollin' in. What happened?!?!?!?!

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Chapter 8-An Unexpected, Badly Timed Phone Call

"Sorry, guys. I thought we had the night off." Buffy said, addressing the group (minus Spike) in her living room. "Giles just took a look in the good old Codex this morning-"

"Book of prophesies." Giles told the confused group of Gryffindors. Buffy was the only one to notice that Harry tensed slightly when Giles said 'prophesies'. But, not wanting to draw attention to it, she plowed on.

"Yeah, well, Giles found a prophesy that revealed that Volder- whatever is coming to Sunnydale in the beginning of June. We also learned that he is gonna ask some hellmouth natives to help him out."

"Let me guess." Xander said pretending to think hard. "What is one thing that this area seems to have a lot of ...well... there are the cemeteries, but they couldn't help that dude out a lot. Ya know Alex, I'm gonna have to go with; What is a vampire?"

"That's correct Mr. Harris, you've won a lovely watch, a years supply of turtle wax, and a bag of chips." Buffy tossed him a bag of potato chips. Xander, pretending to be excited, opened the bag, and started eating. "But really, right now, were ahead of the game, but we really don't know how long that will last." As if to answer her, a vampire came crashing thought the window, and jumped over Ron, Harry and Hermione who were sitting on the couch.

The vampire then turned toward Harry, and was coming at him. It hadn't gotten far before Buffy, trying to distract it, punched it in the back of the head. "I think I got it's attention." She said unnecessarily. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had reached for their wands, before realizing that they wouldn't need them. Buffy was giving the vamp a series of kicks and punches, mixed with a few witty comments, and eventually got the vamp on the ground. She was searching the room for something to use as a stake (the others were keeping the teens back), when the phone rang. Buffy thinking she could multi-task answered it. "Hello?" Then a few seconds later "Angel?" Xander nearly choked on his chips (as far as he was concerned there was no better entertainment then watching Buffy kick vampire butt).

Buffy was so distracted that the vampire ended up punching her in the stomach. "Angel, can you hold on a sec? I'm kinda in the middle of a dusting." Buffy tossed the phone to Xander, who was taken by surprise. He was still managed to catch the phone, but he dropped is chips in the process. Spike had just walked in, and seeing Buffy fighting, he walked over to her weapons chest, and pulled out a stake.

"You all are a lot of help." He said just before he called Buffy. "Hey, Slayer, heads up!" He through the stake in the air, and with out looking up Buffy reached up into the air, and pulled the stake down, and into the vamps heart.

" Gee, thanks Spike." Buffy said, gratefully. Buffy glanced up a Ron, Harry and Hermione's awestruck faces. Buffy could see that Hermione had a question, and was about to ask her what it was when she heard Xander talking.

"So, Dead Boy, how are you? Pretend I care." Now that the sound of Buffy's fight was gone, everyone could hear Angel's response.

"I'm okay, and I thought I told you not to call me that?!" Buffy walked over and ripped the phone out of Xander's hand. Spike had figured out who was on the phone, and rolled his eyes just as Buffy walked into the kitchen. The others got the pleasure of hearing Spike's comments on Angel.

"Oh, what does that great poof want?" Spike asked, but he was ignored.

Willow was looking at Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who had yet to move from their places on the couch. "You guys okay there?" She asked.

"How-?" Ron started.

"Super Slayer strength, kinda comes with the job." Dawn answered the unfinished question.

"Yes, well, at the moment we have more pressing matters. First of all, did anyone, who lives in this house, invite anyone in recently?" Giles asked. No one responded, so Giles took that as a no. " Well, then , we have a great deal of research to do. We need to find out how that vampire could get in, and stop something like that for happening again."

"A vampire can't just walk into a person's home?" Harry asked.

"No, Harry, they can't. A vampire can only enter a person's house if they are invited in. Once that occurs, they are then after welcome in the house." Hermione stated.

"Unless of course, you do a spell to reverse the invitation. That's something I think we do a little to much of around here." Willow said

"I know how the vampire got in!" Buffy said coming back into the room and hanging up the phone. " Angel just said that he got wind of a curse that can make it possible for vampires to enter houses uninvited, and guess what? It's been used. Angel's not to sure of the specifics, all he can tell us is that it's been around for a while, and I'm talking before Darla."

"That was a while ago." Spike commented.

"So, someone wants vampires to enter everyone's house, and why not. I mean, sending out the invitations, inviting them in one by one is far to much work." Xander said with extreme sarcasm.

"Right. Well we need to find out who is doing this and why." Giles said.

"Isn't it obvious who it is?" Harry asked.

"Harry you are used to there being only one creature of evil that could do or want to do something like this. Now, it is quit probable that it is Voldermort, but right now we have no way of knowing. Many things could have done this, especially on the hellmouth." As Giles finished, Harry nodded.

"I just have one question." Hermione said. "Who's Angel?"

"That is a much longer story then we have time for." Buffy answered simply.

"Right." Hermione responded.

"Giles it's getting late. I'm gonna walk the four of them back to -" Buffy was cut off by a high pitch scream coming from what sounded like right in front of her house. Everyone scrambled outside to see Anya jumping up and down.

"OH MY GOD!!!!! IT'S A BUNNY! IN THE BUSH!" She shrieked. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Dawn.

"That's Anya, she has Bunny fear." Dawn said. The other three understood, but were still having difficulty trying not to laugh.

"Anya, this is Harry, Ron and Hermione. They go to Hogwarts. Because of certain dangers, the school has been moved here for the year." The three Gryffindor's were not sure what Giles was doing. Obviously he trusted this girl, but they had just met her. Giles continued talking. "Buffy was just about to walk them back to school, but before they go, why don't you tell us what you are doing on Buffy's lawn, at this time of the night?"

"Oh, Giles, it's not that late." Anya said, still staring at the bushes. "Well, D'Hoffryn put me on suspension, because he's mad at me, I'don't know why, but I got really board, so I figured you guys were probably saving the world or something, and I thought I'd help. That is if you want me to." Anya finished hopefully.

"Of course we want you to Anya. To be honest we an use all the help we can get." Giles told a very happy Anya. Giles lead her inside the house to fill her in on what they were doing, while Buffy walked the others back to school. Buffy couldn't help but notice that Harry and Ron kept glancing at her out of the corner of their eyes. Dawn must of noticed this to because all of the sudden she turned to them and said;

"You know, she's not gonna hurt you." Buffy nodded her head in agreement. Harry and Ron still seemed uneasy, but were soon fascinated by what Buffy could do as Hermione seized the opportunity to ask Buffy everything she could about Slayer abilities.