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Chapter 15- Vamps at Hogwarts
The next morning Buffy hollered down the basement steps and woke up Dawn and Draco. They both were slow to wake up. Once they did, they realized the position they were now in. Dawn smoothly slid over to the other side of the couch, and she was not going to lie, she really didn't mind waking up like that. Draco sat on the other end of the couch thinking the same thing.
They really didn't have time to talk about this, because they had to get back to school. This was a little more complicated then it sounded because they had to go back separately so no one in the school got suspicious that Draco was associating with a muggle. If anyone saw, it was likely that the news would make it back to his father before lunch.
Draco headed back to school first with Anya who had to go there to work, he still wasn't sure what she did though. Draco had his own room in the Sytherin tower, because there were too many boys in his year to put in one room. This made it easy for Draco to simply go right in to breakfast with out anyone noticing he was gone all night.
A few minutes after Draco and Anya left, Dawn and Buffy followed. Buffy had to go see Professor Dumbledore, and even if she didn't she was not letting Dawn walk to school on her own with the Knights of Byzantium out looking for her. Once they reached Hogwarts, Dawn headed into the Great Hall and Buffy continued down the hallway to Professor Dumbledore's office.
Once Dawn entered the Great Hall she scanned the Slytherin table for Draco, to make sure he got back to school okay, and that no one was bothering him about where he had been. Once she saw that he was fine she then took her seat at the Gryffindor table. As soon as she sat down, she was bombarded with questions.
"Where were you?" Harry asked as soon as she was seated.
"I got a little tied up at home." Dawn vaguely responded.
"We were really worried about you." Hermione said to her.
"Was there a fight?" Ron asked a little too enthused.
"Not really." Dawn said, her mind clearly elsewhere.
"Well, we're glad your back." Ron said. "We better get to DADA." The others agreed and they all headed out of the Hall. On the way Ron made the mistake of bringing up the great job the house elves were doing on keeping this new place clean. Of coarse, this set Hermione off. The rest of the way all she did was yell at Ron about how much the house elves needed to do and that he just took it for granted. Dawn was grateful though, because she now had the opportunity to talk to Harry.
"I need to talk to you." She said seriously. Harry caught the looks of extreme seriousness and nervousness in her face.
"What's the matter?" He asked concerned.
"Not here, during break." Dawn said simply. "We just need to find some way to keep Ron and Hermione busy for a little while."
"Leave it to me." Harry said. They arrived at the classroom at that moment and entered the room. Soon after that, Spike started class.
"Now, today we will be continuing with the dangers of Sunnydale-" Spike started, but he was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Hello, Spike." Angel said from the back of the room.
"Oh, bloody hell." Spike said looking at the ceiling. "What are you doing here. Figured you and Buffy would be sitting around making googley eyes at each other."
"Well, Buffy told me that you were teaching, and I just couldn't leave with out seeing it for myself." The class was very interested in the exchange.
"Listen Peaches, I'm fascinated that you've taken an interest in my new profession, but go away." Spike said exasperatedly.
"Well, I have a few questions first." Then Angel turned to Dawn. "Dawn, what did he tell you to call him? Professor 'the Bloody'?" Dawn smirked.
"No, he said if we called him Professor anything that he would rip our throats out." Dawn responded calmly. Angel then redirected his attention back to Spike.
"A hundred plus years, and that's the best you could come up with, William?" Angel said with an evil smile. At this point Hermione was unable to keep her hand out of the air.
"Yes Hermione." Spike said.
"What exactly does he mean by 'a hundred plus years'?" Hermione asked Spike. Spike just rolled his eyes and spoke to Angel.
"Alright Angel, as your not going away, you might as well get up here and help me." Spike said resentfully.
"What exactly are you teaching them?" Angel asked as he made his way to the front of the room.
"The dangers in Sunnydale." Spike said simply.
"Do you really expect to cover all the dangers of Sunnydale in one year?" Angel waited a beat. "Alright I'll help." He said and made his way to the front of the class. Now Spike turned to the class.
"How many of you still don't think there are vampires in Sunnydale?" Spike asked with a small smile. Every one, with the exception of Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dawn, and to everyone's surprise, Draco, raised their hands. Spike and Angel both smiled at the class, and Dawn smiled as well. "Well, how many of you would believe that there are two vampires in this room right now?" As expected, the only person who raised their hand was Dawn. "And why would you say that Dawn?" Spike asked, his smile widening. Dawn rolled her eyes knowing that Spike had been waiting to do this since he started teaching.
"Because you and Angel are both Vampires." Dawn said simply. At these words most of the class started to laugh. They stopped when they saw that neither Spike nor Angel were laughing. Once the class settled down, Spike asked another question.
"Now Dawn, please tell the class other names we might also be recognized by." He said as he leaned back on the desk behind him.
"Spike is William the Bloody, and got the name 'Spike' because he used to torture his victims with railroad spikes." Dawn said all of this very dully. "And Angel is Angelus."
"What, no story about me Dawn?" Angel said in mock hurt.
"I'll tell your story if you want, Peaches." Spike said getting excited.
"Don't you dare!" Angel said morphing. The class gasped. Angel knew Spike would not tell his life's story the way he would want it told.
"Oh, really? And what, exactly, are you going to do about it?" Spike asked also morphing. Both Spike and Angel were preparing to fight and were standing face to face when all of the sudden, out of no where, a sword flew right in between both of their faces and hit the board. All eyes moved toward the entrance, where Buffy was standing.
"What was that, like, five minutes?" She asked Spike and Angel. "Gotta say I'm impressed. I thought one of you would have been dust by now." She said matter-of-factly.
"What are you doing here?!" Spike asked, starting to get annoyed that people kept walking in on his class.
"Oh, like the two of you could be left alone, in a room, full of impressionable minds. Some one needed to supervise you." Buffy said causally.
"You know we've got a lot of years on you Buffy." Angel said playfully.
"Well, if you want I can show your class how strong a 'young' person can be." Buffy said exaggerating 'strong' hoping Angel and Spike would get the message.
"No." Spike said. "We are not going there. I am trying to teach a class here." Spike said motioning the class.
"Never thought I'd see the day when you would take something seriously Spike." Angel commented. Spike simply glared at both of them.
"And you knew he was coming!" Spike said to Buffy.
"Well, yeah, I thought he might be able to help you with your class." Buffy said shrugging. "Anyway, Angel I need to talk to you." She said seriously.
"Good," Spike said, "Slayer and Peaches, go flirt in the hall. I have a class to teach." Buffy and Angel both sent Spike deathly looks, then headed for the hall. This made Dawn very curious.
"What is it Buffy?" Angel asked as soon as Buffy shut the door.
"You need to go back to L.A." She said.
"Why?" Angel asked worried. She handed him a note.
"Willow, just sent this to me while I was here." He took the note from her and started to read it, Buffy kept talking. "Cordelia's awake." When Buffy said this Angel's head snapped up to look at her.
"Are you gonna be okay here?" He asked, not wanting to abandon Buffy if she really did need him.
"Go Angel. There's nothing you can do for us right now. Call me and let me know how she's doing." Angel nodded.
"Thanks Buffy." He said.
"Don't worry about it." She said, before he turned and headed for the sewer near the entrance, so he could get back to L.A. with out bursting into flames. Buffy stuck around until Spike was done with Dawn's class. She made the trio and Dawn hang behind for a little bit.
"So, where's the Great Poof?" Spike asked, noticing Angel wasn't there.
"Back to L.A., for now anyway. Cordelia's awake." Buffy said.
"Well there's a lovely turn of events. Vision Girl wakes up just in time to tell us that there is danger, which is something we already know." Spike said irritably.
"Shut up Spike." Buffy said before turning to the others. "We're not gonna do the research thing tonight, but Dawn, why don't you stop by anyway. Faith actually said 'why don't you bring D home." Buffy said Faith's part very pointedly hoping that Dawn would get the message to bring Draco home. Dawn nodded to let Buffy know she understood what she wanted her to do. "Anyway, we'll need help packing."
"Packing? Why would we need to pack?" Dawn asked nervously.
"Because, the Scoobies are moving in." Buffy said with a smile on her face.
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This was one of the hardest chapters to write, so if you don't like it, I'm really sorry, just trust me it will get better.
Good news for you guys. I am going too need about eight more chapters over the next four weeks, so I am going to try to do two chapters a week, but I'm not promising anything!
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