Sorry for the late update. Things have been all stressful. First I almost die by car, then get flipped off five or six times 10 minutes later. Then 2 weeks later my ferret goes all floppy and everyone thinks she had a stroke and was paralyzed and had to be put down until the vet gave her a shot of sugar and told us that she was, like, diabetic. Meanwhile I am in Texas on vacation and so sick and in so much pain that I can't move, so they take me to a hospital, thousands of miles from where I normally live, and perform major surgery and call me unique, saying that I had something they had never seen before. I finally got home alive and have been working at they keyboard when I could stand the horrible pain. On the brighter side, I must thank my beta, blackcat200, for, well, beta-ing and being all cool about looking over this. Thanx!!

d/c: you know the drill...I don't own what's not mine, they all belong to the writers, producers, creators, and any artists that may have songs that show up.

Spoilers: up to season 6 in buffy, up to book 5 in HP. Music that you may not have heard but want to hear may also be shown. Stuff by T.A.T.u., Ozzy, Avril, Eric Clapton, that kind of stuff, is fair game. You have been warned!

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Tonks woke up to find herself snuggled up next to Chris. She smiled to herself and snuggled in deeper, sighing. 'This is the way I always want to wake up. Next to someone I trust,' she thought.

Chris woke up and saw Tonks curled up beside her, eyes half open. "Hey, you," she said softly to the green haired girl.

"Hey yourself," Tonks replied, giggling at the phrase Chris used so often. "So how do you feel today?" she asked, getting into her serious mode.

"Honestly? Like I got hit with the killing curse and survived," Chris joked, grinning. "It's not bad. The ribs are a little sore, but I think I can survive."

"That's good. So what are we doing today?" Tonks asked, content with what she got.

"Well, I don't know what you're doing, but I'm going to Australia for a surf session and a college course," Chris answered.

"Can I come?" Tonks asked, wanting to visit the continent.

"No!" Chris answered.

"What? Why not?" Tonks asked, hurt.

"Because I have a surfing lesson from a girl that I like, and I don't need you interfering with that. Then the class is boring and you would be asking to go home in minutes," Chris explained in a tone that wasn't mean or sarcastic.

"Well, can I come to the surf session and just watch, then aparate to Hogwarts after? I promise to be quiet," Tonks said, desperate to get out of the room.

"Fine. But I want no comments from you whatsoever if I hit on her, you hear?" Chris said after thinking it over for a few seconds.

"Gotcha," Tonks replied, grinning. She ran up the stairs and told Willow that Chris was better and that they were gonna go out for a while. Willow nodded her head, acknowledging it, and the two went out of the room, then teleported to Australia.

Tonks sat on the beach working on her tan as she watched Chris get her feet under her and then loose her footing to fall in the water. Then she grabbed the board as the instructor (blonde, tan, cute accent) wiped the hair out of her eyes gently and held onto her waist as she got back up. Then she saw them holding hands as the girl showed her friend how to stand on the board. Tonks saw a huge wave going towards them and tensed for a second before she saw Chris mutter something and make a motion with her hands, stopping the wave from hitting her and the Aussie. She sighed in relief, then sat back and watched the two flirting shamelessly. It was interesting to see another's technique.

She then watched as the two caught a huge wave together, which had shown up as if by magic(and maybe it'd had a little help from that department). She watched Chris taking the wave like a pro, and handling her board beautifully. Then Tonks saw her friend's attention waver for just a second, but it was all it took. Suddenly, the wave doubled, so a tube came over the tube, and crashed down. The girl that Chris was surfing with shouted a warning, but it was too late. Tonks watched in horror as her friend got crushed by the blue giant. She screamed, but saw Chris' friend out in the water dive down and was reassured.

She watched as the two came out of the water and the Australian girl dragged Chris to shore, then bent over her worriedly as all the other beach goers ignored them. Tonks put a charm on herself so that she could hear what the girl said to Chris, which was along the lines of, "don't die, sweetie. Please don't go!"

Tonks grinned, knowing that Chris was immortal and couldn't die, that she was probably just stunned and was forgetting to breathe. She couldn't wait to see Chris' expression when she realised that she was getting mouth-to-mouth from this girl. Tonks was a little worried that no one was helping, but decided to leave it for later. She aparated back to Hogsmead so that she didn't disturb Chris and the surfer girl.

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Chris was in a daze. 'That wave hit really hard. How did it get that strong?' she wondered, as she started to come to her senses. She realised that someone had their mouth over hers and was breathing into her mouth. The lips were soft. 'Must be Rena' she thought. She realised that she wasn't breathing. 'Oops. I guess I forgot. Well, I was in a daze. I guess I have to make this convincing.' She gasped and started coughing, having gone through this a few times before.

"Oh God! You're alive!" Rena, the Australian, said, hugging Chris. "I thought that I'd lost you! Never scare me like that again, do you hear?"

"I hear. I'm sorry. I didn't hear what you were saying, and by the time I got it, it was too late to do anything." Chris started explaining, leaning into Rena, feigning weakness, as she was supposed to after almost drowning.

"Are you all right, at least?" Rena was concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Well, not fine fine, but fine," Chris started babbling.

"That's good."

"Yeah, but there's one thing I don't get," Chris said, starting to get a look in her eye that Rena couldn't read. She decided to play along.

"Oh? And what's that?"

"Was it my imagination, or were your lips covering mine a few seconds ago?" Chris was slightly grinning now, baiting the Aussie.

"I wasn't about to let you die, dummie!"

"Oh, so it wasn't just that I'm so totally kissable?" Chris feigned disappointment.

"Well...that could have helped me along." Rena was starting to get what was going on, and she was completely fine with where it was going.

"Ya know, I don't think that my breathing is quite right just yet. I may need a little more help from you," Chris said, getting a breathier voice.

"I may be able to do that." With that, the two moved towards each other and kissed lightly before Chris pulled away with a shock.

"Oh man! I forgot! Your board! Rena, I am so sorry! I lost my grip on it in the water and the ankle grip came loose." Chris started stressing out, knowing how much the long board she was on costed.

"Hey, it's all right. You're alive, right? Losing the board is preferable to losing your life." Rena was amazed that this girl had come so close to death and she was thinking about her and her lost surf board. 'How selfless is she? Wow, I lucked out with this one. Usually the ones that care this much are straight.' She grinned.

"I can get you another. I mean, it was your long board, and now it's somewhere out in the ocean!"

"Chill out. I have more. Do you know how many I go through in a year? A lot. I have about ten boards at the house, and about four of them are long boards. That one was nothing special. Well, it was, but it was nothing irreplaceable." She held onto Chris and said, "do you want to come back to the house for a few minutes to dry off? You're soaked."

"Yeah, sure, but only for a few minutes. I have a class over at the lab in Sydney in about half an hour, and since I don't have a car or a license, I have to walk."

"Hey, I can drive you. Is there anything that you brought that we should grab?" Rena asked, standing up and brushing the sand off of herself.

"Nah. They don't care over there if I wear this, so I usually go in a bikini or bathing suit. They'll think this is modest." She grinned and gestured sat what she was wearing, a long pair of shorts and a matching short sleeved shirt, both meant for the water, tight and form fitting, made out of an elastic-like material.

"Okay. Here, grab a towel." The surfer girl tossed a beach towel at Chris and grabbed one herself from the bag that she had brought, which was close by them. They walked over to the car, a cute little blue sports car, with Rena's arm supporting Chris around her waist. Chris had her arm slung over Rena's shoulder for "support". (Ok, just to be close to her). They jumped in and Rena started the car up. In a few minutes they were pulling up to a cute little house fairly close to the beach.

"Wow, this is nice, Ren," Chris said, looking the house over.

"It's small, but it's home." Rena let them into the house, grinning as she heard that the other girl liked it. "So, the bathroom is down the hall to your right, third door. There are big fluffy towels in there. Could you bring one out when you find them?"

"Sure, no prob, babe." Chris said, being affectionate. She grinned and went into the bathroom, finding large towels on her left. She grabbed two and went back out to the bigger part of the house, where she found Rena lounging on a couch with her eyes closed. She decided to sneak up on her just for a laugh. She walked silently, as she knew how to do, and wrapped her arms around Rena's neck from the back (if she had been standing, it would have been her waist) and said in a low voice, "Hey, you."

Rena jumped and tilted her head back to see who it was, then grinned, saying, "so you feel better then?"

"Yeah. Here's a towel. You're soaking your couch." She tossed a towel at the other woman and wrapped her own around her waist. She saw Rena giving her a hungry look and smiled innocently and sat next to her, closing her eyes as well. She felt the couch move as Rena shifted closer to her and smiled to herself. She hadn't planned for it to happen that way, but she was dealing well.

"Do you know what you're doing to me, sitting there all perfect looking?"

"Mmmm...no. Why don't you tell me what I'm doing to you, Ren?"

"You're driving me crazy! Do you know how much I wanna kiss you?"

"How much?"

"I'll show you." With that, Rena leaned over and covered Chris' mouth with her own, leaning against her side for support.

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Harry and Hermione woke up around noon, savouring the feeling of sleeping in late. Harry got up first and opened his eyes lazily, to find Hermione leaning her head against his shoulder for support. "Hey, 'Mione. Get up, love." He shook her gently.

"Why?" She whined, snuggling deeper into his arm.

"Because it's almost noon! If we don't get up, we may get suspicious comments asking what we were doing up here for all this time."

"Let them ask, and let me sleep!" 'She's really tired' Harry thought. He decided that he'd been nice enough and given her enough chances. 'Really glad that this house is protected so that no one can sense if magic is done in it. He conjured up a bucket full of freezing cold water and a slide under his girl so that the water wouldn't soak the bed. 'She's gonna kill me for this, but it must be done.'

Carefully, he edged the water over to the bed, then used his wand to tip it all at once onto her head. She jumped up as the first drop hit her, and screamed in shock as she found herself soaked to the bone and frozen. "Harry! I'm going to make you the boy who didn't live in about two seconds!"

"Oh, come on, you wouldn't-"

"TWO SECONDS, POTTER!"

With that, he ran out of the room and left her in peace to calm down, thinking that maybe it hadn't been such a good idea after all to wake her up.

He was downstairs eating a sandwich made by Mrs. Weasley when Hermione came down the stairs, looking very grumpy. "H-hi, 'Mione." he tried, his voice weak as he remembered her fury.

"I'm not a morning person, Harry. Remember that. And I'm really not a morning person when someone pours 5 gallons of ice water on me when I'm in a deep sleep!" she shouted the last part so that everyone looked over and grinned. The twins gave identical smirks that suggested that they wouldn't let Harry forget this one for a while.

"I didn't mean to! It's the middle of the day!" Poor Harry was shocked at the outburst and still a little scared at what may happen to him.

"You're lucky I love you so much!" Hermione growled at him, then kissed him. Everyone cheered and clapped at the couple. The twins started giving out cat-calls. When they were finished, Hermione asked innocently, "so what were we gonna do today?"

"Nothing." Harry responded, shocked that she had kissed him in front of the whole house.

"Good. Then let's go and 'pack'" she said with a wink, which Harry caught and followed her up the stairs fast.

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"Hey, Will. I'm back," Tonks called as she walked into the rooms that they shared.

"That was quick. Did you have fun?" Willow asked, interested.

"It was...interesting. I didn't like seeing Chris flirting with that Australian girl, but I like her. She saved Chris."

"What do you mean saved? What happened?" Willow started getting worried, thinking that there had been another attack.

"A wave doubled in size when Chris was riding it, and caught her unaware, so she got knocked off and around by it. Then the girl she was with saw her fall and dragged her from the water. She got shocked or something...she forgot to breathe. No worries, though. She's fine." Tonks waved it off.

"That's good. So, what did you do at the beach while watching Chris surfing?"

"Worked on my tan. Honestly, I love this country, but it's horrible if you want color in your skin." Tonks pouted.

"Can't you just change the color of your skin with a thought?" Willow asked, referring to her being a Morphmagus.

"Well...yeah, actually. I forgot about that. It still doesn't change the fact for everyone else."

"Well, don't worry about me. Fair skinned I am and fair skinned I shall remain, and may no sun ever tempt me." Willow joked.

"Well, we have a while before Chris comes back, and that's assuming that she comes right home after her class. What do you want to do?"

"Um, I don't know. What can we do?"

"How about a game of Wizard's Chess?"

"Okay. But what's the difference between Wizard's Chess and normal Chess?"

"In Wizard's Chess the pieces move on their own once you tell them where to go, and it's more violent and fun."with that, they started a game with Tonks teaching Willow along the way how to play the game, and letting her win the first two games, then creaming her in the next and losing for real in the fourth and final game.

"How'd you get so good at this, Tonks?"

"Years of nothing else to do as a child. Chris and I played all the time at school. Kept us from doing our homework." Tonks grinned as she revealed a secret hidden from all others.

"You two were close, weren't you?" Willow asked, noticing a look in Tonks' eye as she remembered old times.

"Yeah," Tonks replied.

"Could you tell me about some of the things that you two did?" Willow asked, wanting to know more.

"Maybe when Chris gets back. She can tell it all a lot better than I can. Speaking of, her class should have been over by now. I wonder where she is?" Tonks said, effectively changing the subject. "And I want to know how that wave that creamed her got so big. I think she called up the original, which was a good ten or fifteen feet, but someone or something else made it double so that it gigantic. When it hit her it was easily twenty or thirty feet high." Tonks started thinking about what may have happened. "It may have been a Death Eater, they don't like her too much right now. I didn't see one on the beach, but I wasn't paying much attention."

"Tonks, calm down. I bet Chris will have an answer when she gets back. But just out of curiosity, what's a Death Eater?"

Tonks took a deep breath and began. "Well, about seventeen years ago, a wizard went bad and started craving power. He gathered other wizards around him by..."

"Dawn! Why are you so late?" Buffy asked as Dawn sauntered into the Scooby meeting that had been called ten minutes late.

"Chill out, Buffy. I was in the Library and I lost track of time. Then I got lost," Dawn explained, rolling her eyes at her sister's outburst. "And don't act like you're the princess of punctuality. How many times were you late for library meetings in high school with Xander, Will, and Giles?"

"Shut up!" Buffy glared at her little sister. "Fine, I'm letting this one go. Next time you might not be so lucky, though."

"I'm quaking in my boots," Dawn informed her sarcastically.

"Right, then," Giles cleared his throat, interrupting the verbal dispute that could easily come to blows. "Let's talk about our progress so far, shall we?"

"Spike and I have the fighting part of the class planned out, and you know how far you and I have gotten in the book learning part of it." Buffy told him, getting her focus.

"Yeah, blondie and I have it all planned out, starting with learning to fall and ending with learning how to use a spoon as a lethal weapon," Spike added, grinning at the last part.

"Anya? How are you doing?"

"Can't complain. The chair could be a little more comfortable, but I'll live." Anya replied, thinking he was asking about her current status.

"No, I mean with the librarian." Giles cleaned his glasses in frustration.

"Oh. Why didn't you say so? Pretty well. Madame Pince and I are getting on well, communicating, and getting used to each other. And she accepts what Dawnie is doing without too much complaint."

"Good, Good. Speaking of, how is the research going, Dawn?"

"Humph. I went through about thirty books, and twenty five of them were horribly wrong. Angel got killed by a pony, indeed!" she snorted.

"Right. And Xander?"

"Good, G-Man. The prof and I are kindred spirits, it seems. No problems here, whatsoever."

"Got it. So, I guess that's everything. Unless anyone has something else to say?"

"Spike and I worked out a defense system for the Potter kid," Buffy piped up. "Spike sits outside of the Gryff common room at night and I keep an eye out during the day. And we have a charm put on him so that whenever something dangerous comes near him and is threatening him we know about it. Sound good?" Buffy looked anxious, wanting her plan to be approved of.

Giles nodded. "Very good. You two thought that up yourselves?"

"Yup. We're bloody brains, you know that, watcher-boy," Spike said.

"Right, then. I think it's bed-time. Good-night, all." Giles walked out of the room yawning as the others realised that it was close to midnight.

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"Chris? Are you ready to go?" Rena asked, snuggling into the other girl's shoulder after kissing her.

"Hmm? Oh, yeah. The class. Yeah, sure. Whenever you want to. I still have about five minutes. With the way you drive, I'd be about four minutes early." She earned herself a playful smack in the abs as she rested her head against the top of Rena's.

"All right. And what time does the class let out?"

"An hour after it starts, but I have a ride home all ready," Chris put in, knowing that if she hadn't the other would have been waiting for her.

"Who?"

"My room mate. He and I have an arrangement. I take him out swimming with dolphins and he picks me up from classes."

"He?"

"He. He is named Avery, and he has a boyfriend, so don't even think that he's free," Chris teased. Rena blushed.

"You live with a guy, though? That's surprising," she said.

"Why is that surprising? I mean, in the 1800's it would be shocking and unheard of unless I was married or related, but this is the 2000's, babe." Chris was surprised at the attitude.

"It's shocking that you two tolerate each other, and that you don't discriminate each other. I had one roomie, once, and she kicked me out because she and her boy friend caught me snogging (AN:what's the Aussie term?) on my bed one night when they came in to do the same," Rena was close to tears, and Chris noticed and held her close.

"Sh. It's okay. She was a bitch. If Avery and I discriminated against one another it would be hypocritical, wouldn't it?" she got a sniffle and a nod in response. "Besides, most of the time we don't see each other. One of us is usually out of the house doing something. I mean, I'm rarely home. But when we do get together, it's all hugs and puppies until rent time, then it's money, hugs and puppies." Chris grinned, and got a weak smile in response. "We're close, and we don't fight a whole lot, which is good. I think the last thing we fought about was whether or not surfing was an actual sport. I say yea, he said nay." Chris grinned. "I won." She checked her watch. "Oh, gosh, we gotta go. I'm gonna be late! Do you feel up to driving?"

"Yeah, hop in," Rena said, and a minute later they were at the lab with Chris holding onto the seat for dear life. Rena gave her a quick kiss. "I had fun. Aside from that whole almost drowning thing."

"Yeah? Me too. We should do it again sometime."

"How about tomorrow?"

"How about going on a date tomorrow instead of surfing? It's supposed to be nice out." Chris asked, hoping for a yes.

"Sounds good," Rena responded, smiling.

"I'll come by your place. Say around, oh, I dunno, seven?"

"Sounds good. Now go to class, you're late!"

"Thanks. See you tomorrow," Chris grinned and stole another kiss, then ran out onto the small dock where she saw the rest of the class. She heard Rena's car drive off and smiled as she listened to the professor say that they were going out onto the reef to study the non-mobile things out there.

After the class ended, she decided to go back to the apartment that she shared with Avery to check in. She found him in there watching a video about kangaroos. He raised a hand in greeting. "Hey, Chris. Where ya been?"

"In England, Hogwarts." Avery was a wizard and knew all about her.

"Oh yeah? How's Harry and his little gang doing?" Avery asked casually.

"Well, Sirius died, so Harry's all torn up about that. Then Hermione's parents just died a few days ago, and she ran into Harry, and now they're happy together, so that worked out slightly well. Then Weasley got all jealous that Harry is going out with Hermione so he won't be returning to Hogwarts or have any contact with his family."

Avery gave her his full attention. "Sirius Black died? That's horrible. What happened?"

"His cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, knocked him into the veil in the Department of Mysteries." Chris' tone was sad as she said it.

"And the Grangers?"

"Voldemort."

"That's bad. So what now?"

"Now the gang from Sunnydale takes up residence in Hogwarts to protect Harry and fill teaching positions. And Tonks is teaching Will how to do wand magic, so she's sticking around Hogwarts as well, they share a room. And I'm gonna hang out there every night, in case someone needs me. Is that okay?"

"Yeah, sure. No prob. You're still going to pay rent, though, right?"

"I'm not abandoning you, nut case. And I just found the girl of my dreams, so expect to see me around more." She tousled his hair affectionately.

"Oh no! That means if you're gonna be here with your girl toy, I can't bring my boy toys around!" He groaned.

"Chill, blondie. She has her own house, we'll probably be there most of the time. I just thought I'd check in with you. How's it going?"

"Good. Well, if you have to go, it's near midnight in England, so..."

"Thanks, Ave. I owe ya. I didn't realise it got this late. See you in a while, nut case! Maybe I'll let you meet Rena." Chris laughed and teleported into Tonks and Willow's apartment, leaving Avery mouthing, "Rena?"

Chris looked around and saw that they had gone to bed. She smiled and went to her own room to change and sleep. She could feel that tomorrow would be fun.

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I hope you all liked it. Oh, right. I take annonymous reviews now, as well. I got over the whole 'suspended' thing.

Peace

Chris