Sorry about not getting this chapter up last night, but I had a track meet and didn't even get home until seven. Then I had to do regular homework, plus make-up work so I didn't get done that until late.

Just to let you know, I'm going to try to get another up by Sunday, but next week is not going to happen cuz I will be in Chicago most of the week (which I am a little bitter about because I will also miss the last episode of Angel. So I have to wait 'till Monday to watch what I taped.) But it's a ten-hour ride there, and a ten-hour ride back, so by then I should have a good amount of chapters written by the time I get back.

Thank you to:

Immortalwizardelf-fan(): Glad you liked my reasoning for having Malfoy take to optional class and thanx for reviewing.

WW: As for how Xander and Anya will teach, you'll just have to wait and see. There was a reason for it.

Ouatic7: Glad you like the story. As for the grammar stuff, like I said before my beta reader is having computer problems, not just that, but when her computer does get running again, she'll have, like eight chapters to read for me. And as far as school is concerned, the vocab story has to have twenty of the thirty vocab words we work with in the past two weeks, it's only worth twenty points, one for each word used correctly, the grammar stuff really doesn't count here, she just corrects it for me and I don't lose any points. I usually do read though it once I have it all formatted for the class, because I do want it to be correct, but I won't get to that until after I write this chapter. Anyways, thanks for letting me know where some things are wrong, it'll give me something to look for when I go back and correct it.

LizaGirl: Glad you liked the change in location. Thanx for putting me on your author alert and Fav. author list, I feel soo special!!

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Chapter 19 – Classes

When Dawn and the others finished their breakfast, they headed up to the staff table and heard the complaints of Xander and Anya as they approached.

"This is not funny!" Anya was saying.

"This was defiantly not what we agreed on." Xander added.

"Well Xand, ya know Dumbledore is getting up there, musta slipped his mind." Faith said with a smile. Behind her, Buffy was also smiling sweetly.

"Hey guys." Dawn interrupted.

"Hey Dawnie." Buffy said. "Were you surprised?"

"How could you not tell me?!" Dawn said in mock hurt.

"Well, we didn't have things completely worked out until last night." Buffy explained. "Listen, we're staying behind the sun picture to the right of the Entry Hall. The password is 'Slayer Central' if you need to get in." She told the group. They all nodded. Alright, you guys get to class." Dawn rolled her eyes as she thought of all the class Buffy missed when she was at school.

Dawn's classes were starting to bore her. She still had mostly second year classes and they were getting to be really easy. She was hoping that she wasn't the only one who noticed this, but for now she would just have to deal with it.

The next day, when the new schedules were handed out, Dawn was slightly surprised to see that she now had sixth year classes. Not only was Dawn not the only one who thought she was really good at her classes, but it also meant that the Key's power was stronger then many anticipated.

Her first class was Wandless magic. Followed by Wandless Defense. Then after lunch she had Divination. Only Harry and Ron were with her in this class, she had heard things from all three of them about this class, but she was interested to see for herself. Then her day ended with DADA.

Willow was very well prepared for her first class considering she only had one day to prepare. However, she was still incredibly nervous. One thing that made her feel a little bit better was that Dawn and the others were all in her first class. They were also the first ones to show up.

"Hey Willow." Dawn said enthusiastically.

"Hey Dawnie." Willow said in her nervous, high-pitched voice.

"Little nervous there Will?" Dawn asked. Willow nodded. "Don't be, your gonna be fine." Just then Giles walked in the room, his arms full of books.

"Hello you three." Giles said.

"Giles, those books aren't for this class are they?" Dawn asked getting a little nervous.

"Oh, no. I was just up in the library looking for the books with correct demonic facts. This is all of them." Giles said indicating the books he had just put down on the desk at the front of the room.

"That's it!" Hemione said, outraged. "Out of all the demonic books in the library you were able to carry all the books that had correct facts in them?!"

"That I could locate yes. We'll have to look through them later tonight." Just as Giles said this the rest of the class began funneling into the room. Dawn, Harry, Ron, and a still disgruntled Hermione sat in the front row. She had taken the news that the library had false information in it very hard.

"Hello, I'm Willow, not Professor or Rosenberg or anything like that, because that reminds me of my old high school principal. Anyway, this is Professor Giles, and he is going to help me. This is Wandless Magic, which as you signed up for it, you already knew that." Willow paused for a second before she plowed in to her lesson. "Wandless magic can be very powerful. You all have that power in you. What we are going to do today is focus that energy." Then Willow gave everyone a crystal. They were told to focus all of their energy into the center of the crystal. Once they did they found that the rest of the class went by quite quickly. The class left Willow's room feeling extremely relaxed as well.

After their break, they made their way to Buffy's room. When they entered the classroom, they found a room full of mats and some weapons on the wall. The class came in and sat down on the floor. Buffy and Faith started the class with a demonstration. By the time they were done, they had the class's full attention. Which was nice for Buffy, as she was the first to address the class.

"First of all don't even think about calling us 'professor'." She started. "And don't call me Miss Summers, that's what my old high school principal called me, and class when we have time I'll tell you what happened to him. Anyway, just call us Buffy and Faith."

"Now, there is no way your ever gonna be as good as us." Faith said as Buffy rolled her eyes. "But we will teach you an awful lot. This kinda stuff you don't need a wand for. And it always helps when you have a weapon you don't have to reach for."

"Before we get started I just want to point out that you have a break before this class, this is when you can get out of your roby-things and into some more comfortable clothes." Buffy said. "For today, we're just gonna start with some basic exercises." The rest of Buffy and Faith's class was spent working on techniques. Once lunch was over Dawn, Harry and Ron headed for Divination.

Dawn was not in Trelawney's room two minutes when the 'bug lady' came over to her and took her hand. "I see you have had a lot of loss in your past." Trelawney told Dawn, as if she was impressing someone.

"You're supposed to be able to tell the future right, things people don't know yet?" Dawn asked innocently.

"That's correct dear." Trelawney said.

"Well I really didn't need you to tell me about my past, as I was there." Dawn said pointedly. Trelawney stiffened slightly before releasing Dawn's hand and turning away. For the rest of the class, Trelawney seemed to go back to her old habit of predicting Harry's death. After class all Dawn could think about was Cordelia, who gets her real visions from the Powers That Be. It truly amazed Dawn how Trelawney thought she was fooling the class into thinking she had real visions.

When they got to DADA, they took their seats as usual, but Dawn noticed that Draco wasn't in his seat. She decided the only thing she could do was wait until after class to go and find him. "Alright," Spike said, tucking his hands in to the pockets of his black leather duster that he never took off, "today, we're gonna do a little bit about the Vampire Slayers." Dawn and the others were surprised that Spike was doing this. Several students looked as if they were going to object, but Spike cut them off. "Yes, she is real, and as a matter of fact one of 'um is here to talk to you." At that moment Buffy entered the room.

"Hey guys!" Buffy said as she entered the room. Once she got to the front of the room, she turned to address the class. "Before I start I just wanted to let you know the reason for this. Because I am your teacher now, you have a right to know exactly what Faith and I do, and yes, there are two Slayers but I'm not even going to get into the reason why." This explanation for sharing her secret was mainly directed toward Dawn because she knew her sister would be curious. Dawn also had a good idea that the reason Faith wasn't here was because she didn't want to be around if her Slayer past got brought up. "Now, anyone have any questions?" Most of the class was too stunned, after learning that their new teacher was the Slayer, but Hermione who already knew, raised her hand. "Yes Hermione?"

"Can you tell us what happened to your principal?" Buffy smiled.

"Sure thing!" Then she launched into the story about the mayor and the Ascension, which is when the Mayor ate Principal Snyder. The class really seemed to enjoy the story. After that Buffy focused more on what she actually had to do as the Slayer, but she only gave the general outline, nothing else that was specific to her or Faith. This was mainly because they couldn't be considered traditional Slayers, but they liked it that way. Buffy was getting ready to tell the class about the Watcher's Council when Willow walked into the room.

"Hey Buffy, could I talk to you for a minute?" Willow asked.

"Is everything okay?" Buffy asked a little worried.

"I'm not really sure at the moment." Willow said not wanting to alarm the rest of the class. Buffy, however knew that her friend was sure that something was wrong.

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Cliffie!! I know this chap was kinda boring but I really needed to get Dawn through most of her new classes, we'll get back to things apocalyptic next chapter. You'll find out what the problem is and how Xander and Anya are going to teach together.