Hey everyone!!! I know I said I would have this up last Thursday, but I decided to take pity on my Beta reader and not post any chapters until after she's read them. Cuz last time when I started posting before she read them, she ended up with, like, ten chapters to read and she just finished going through them. Now I have to go back and repost so that's my new plan.

I'm off to the sure again in two days, but I should have another beta read chapter up before I go. I can write and type my stories while I'm a way, but I can't send them to my beta reader, so it expect to not have anymore updates for about a week and a half from Saturday.

Now for reviews;

Saxifrage: If that's all u have to criticize me on then I don't feel that bad. And you're right, I need to spend more time on the computer, and believe me if I had the time I would. Anyway, thanx for reviewing.

Thanx to Evilelvengoddess(),mk(), and Nikki101 for reviewing.

I also lost track of what day it should be at Hogwarts (go me) but we're just going to say that this chapter takes place on a Friday. (This is going to be one very long story.)

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Chapter 23 – Demonology

Draco woke up the next morning to find Dawn sound asleep on his shoulder. He took a moment to think about how the girl sleeping next to him had given him so much hope in the short amount of time that he had known her. Draco looked down at his watch. It was 8:30. They had a half an hour to get back to their dorms, change, eat breakfast and get to class.

"Dawn." He said shaking her. "Dawn, you need to wake up. We missed our meeting with Buffy, and we have to get to class."

"Huh?" Dawn asked finally waking. "What time is it?"

"Eight thirty-five." He replied. Dawn then lifted her head off of Draco's shoulder and grabbed his wrist. The watch he was wearing made no sense to her, but she didn't have time to figure out how it worked.

"Us and couches huh?" She asked, referring to the fact that they had just fallen asleep on a couch for the third time together. Draco nodded.

"Tell me about it."

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do. First of all we're not going to worry about our meeting with Buffy. We'll just meet with her after Dinner. Now, I'm gonna go to my room, your gonna go to yours. Then we're going to go and grab a quick breakfast in the Great Hall and then head off to Demonology." Dawn said, and Draco agreed. With that they headed out of the room and off to their respective towers.

A half an hour before Draco had wakened Dawn, Neville was in Gryffindor common room waking up Harry, Ron and Hermione. When the trio finally woke up, they could not understand why Dawn had not woken them up when she came in. Despite that, they still had to go and get ready for their classes. When they met back in the common room fifteen minutes later Hermione informed the boys that the reason Dawn did not wake them up was because she did not go to bed last night. Her bed was made and her books were still in her room. Hoping that they would eventually run into Dawn, Harry, Ron and Hermione headed to the Great Hall for breakfast. The group didn't even think about their meeting with Buffy until they saw her at breakfast. She told them not to worry about it, and they would deal with things later.

About twenty minutes after the trio left Gryffindor tower, Dawn went flying through the now empty common room and ran up to her room to change and grab her books. Then she quickly headed to the Great Hall.

It was eight fifty and there was only a few people left in the Great Hall. Draco was one of the few, but Harry, Ron and Hermione were not. Dawn and Draco seemed to be thinking the same thing because they were each grabbing a few pieces of toast from their tables before heading out of the Great Hall, eating as the walked. While in the Great Hall they did their best to aviod each other, not wanting any of the few students still in the hall to be suspicious, however once they reached the very empty entry hall, they were free to talk.

"Nice timing." Draco said as they started out for Xander and Anya's class.

"You too." Dawn replied simply. They walked the rest of the way in silence, not wanting to draw any attention to themselvesThey made it to Demonology just before the bell.

While the morning chaos was going on with the Scooby teens, Xander and Anya were having their own problems. Xander was sitting in the staff room reading the wizarding paper known as "The Daily Prophet" when Anya came in, holding a piece of paper in her hand.

"Okay, Xander, Here is our lesson plan for today. You'll notice that you don't talk. You make sure that the students pay attention to everything I say. This way, there is no chance that you will make them stupid like yourself." She said the last part fairly perky, as she handed him the piece of paper she was holding.

"Well, the lesson plan looks fine, but I can't promise I won't talk. I mean, your teaching Dracula." Xander said, trying to be nice.

"Oh, Xander I already know you're not good with promises. After all you did promise to marry me, and then you didn't." Anya retorted.

"Anya, I already told you I'm sorry, and I know you have no reason to forgive me, but-"

"Whatever Xander! We don't have time for this. We have a class to teach in ten minutes." With that, Anya turned on her heal and left the staff room leaving Xander to follow her.

They got to their room to find three people already waiting for them. Harry, Ron and Hermione were standing out side the room talking about something that seemed very important. Xander caught a few words of their conversation.

"I don't know where she could be." Hermione was saying to a worried looking Harry and concerned Ron. "She didn't come in last night, she wasn't at breakfast and she isn't here. I don't know what to think." Harry was about to say something, but Xander interrupted.

"Good Morning!" He said cheerfully. It was obvious that the others didn't know Xander was standing there because the all jumped slightly when he greeted them.

"Oh, good morning Xander. Anya." Hermione said attempting to be as cheerful as Xander. Harry and Ron also said good morning. Then Anya unlocked the classroom and let the kids in. Xander had noticed that Dawn wasn't with them. Buffy filled the Scoobies in on what had happened at their meeting the previous night, so it wasn't completely shocking to see that Dawn was not with the other three.

Once they were in the room and the three students had taken a seat in the front center of the class, and Anya had started running around the room setting things up, Xander decided it was time to get the Gryffindor's side of the story. "So," he asked casually, "do you guys know where Dawn is?" This time, Harry spoke.

"We're not exactly sure at the moment. She didn't come back to the tower last night, and we haven't seen her all morning." Harry concluded hoping Xander might be able to shed some light on things.

"This is about the whole thing with Malfoy right?" Xander asked. The others nodded. "Let me tell you something. Dawn is an excellent judge of character. She was the first one out of any of us to trust Spike. Even Buffy didn't trust him at first, but Dawn did. Spike just went off to fight for his soul this past summer. None of us ever thought he would do anything like that, but when Dawn found out she really wasn't too surprised. Trust me, Dawn knows what she's doing." Just as he said this a large group of student's started funneling into the room. All four of them knew this conversation was over. Xander turned away to try and help Anya set up, but Anya, not wanting help, hit his hand whenever he tried. The trio were still not convinced that Dawn had made the right choice, and the fact that Dawn and Draco came rushing into the room together just before the bell rang did not help matters.

As Dawn and Draco entered the room, Dawn gave Draco an evil look. Draco, catching on, smirked at her and headed to a seat where a large group of Slytherins were sitting. Dawn meanwhile walked in front of Xander and Anya, greeting them as she passed, and took a seat in the front of the room next to Harry. As soon as she sat down Harry turned to her, and opened his mouth to question her whereabouts, but Dawn cut him off by telling him they'd talk about it later. Though Harry didn't want to wait until later, he knew there was no way of getting Dawn to tell him anything if she didn't want to, and at that moment Anya started class.

"Well, I'm Anya, but you already knew that from your DADA class." Anya said. Then Xander took over, which earned him a deadly glare from Anya.

"And I'm Xander Harris, but you get to call me Xander, and for the love of macaroni don't call me Harris or Mr. Harris because that's what my high school principal used to call me." Many people laughed at this because one teacher in each of their new classes had mentioned their old principal.

"Anyway," Anya said annoyed, "for those of you that are stupid like Xander, and can't read your schedules this is Demonology. Now, I know you've covered vampires in DADA, but today we are going to talk about one of the most famous vampires of all time." She paused "Dracula." With that Dean raised his hand.

"Is there really a vampire named Dracula. I though that was just a muggle myth." Dean asked.

"Oh, no. He's real." Anya replied. "We actually hung out a few times. He was really cool." Anya said dreamily. Then shaking her head she said. "Dracula does have a few more powers then the average vampire. It's mostly gypsy magic though. Now, you're not going to find Dracula hanging out in some crypt. He's more into the big mansions. I've also heard he has special dirt that he uses." The entire class, except for Dawn, looked at Anya in shock, which was mainly due to the fact that she had hung out with Dracula.

"And I hear he was Spike's old rival. He also owes him money." Xander said with his goofy smile. Yet again, Anya ignored him.

"Dracula is one of the only vampires that can turn in to a bat. He can also appear in a wisp of smoke, which is actually pretty cool." Hermione's hand went up in the air. "Yes, Hermione."

"So, is everything that is said in the legends true?" She asked.

"More or less. Spike once told a friend of ours that Dracula is the reason everyone knows how to kill a vampire. Something Dracula does that most vampire's don't is he sleeps and travels in a coffin." Anya stated and Xander pressed his luck by speaking again.

"Dracula can also put a person under his thrall, and believe me, it's really not fun." Xander said and before Anya could yell at him for talking Pansy Parkinson called out.

"There is no way you were under Dracula's thrall." She said similar to the way Draco used to talk to Hagrid. Being a Slytherin, she was disgusted that she was being taught by a muggle.

"Oh he was." Anya said with a smile on her face. "It was actually really funny. Xander was supposed to be his 'eyes during the day.' Xander was not supposed to tell us that he was working for Dracula, but he kept calling Dracula 'Master' it was very entertaining."

"Well, I'm glad you found my days as Dracula's butt-monkey so entertaining." Xander said glaring at Anya while the class in front of him laughed. Anya had had enough.

"Xander, if you recall, you weren't supposed to talk at all this class."

"Anya, this whole thing would go a lot soother if we could teach together."

"No this whole thing would go a lot smoother if you didn't leave me at the-" Anya was cut off by Dawn.

"uh guys? We were talking about Dracula." Dawn had a feeling that it wouldn't be a good idea for Xander and Anya to tell the entire class about their history. Anya turned away from Xander and faced the class.

"Right you are Dawn!" Anya said in her falsely cheerful voice. "For homework write an essay on Dracula by next class, so Xander can grade it. You might want to ask some staff members for help." The bell for brake rang just as she said this. Dawn gathered up her things and headed for the door with out talking to Harry, Ron or Hermione.

Dawn was in the hall before the others caught up with her. Harry fell into step next to Dawn and Ron and Hermione followed behind the other two.

"Dawn, we have to talk." Harry said trying one more time to get answers from Dawn.

"Not here." She said as she headed for the doors that lead outside. "Outside." The others agreed and headed for the door.

"No," Harry said suddenly thinking about the Knights, "the Room of Requirement. We wouldn't want anyone to see us sitting around an abandoned building" The others agreed this was a good idea, and with that the four Gryffindor members headed to the seventh floor.

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Like I said before, there should be one more chapter up before I leave on Saturday. Hope you like it.