Buffy was walking through a cemetery that seemed familiar, like a distant memory that you just can't totally recall. As she walked along, glancing at the headstones as she walked. They were all familiar names. Names of people she only knew of a life that she never knew really existed. She didn't want to exist. One that she had grown to accept the fact never really had existed.

She longed to stop, to read, to mourn, to put an end to her feeling of loss. But something forced her on, forced her to keep walking, searching for something that she could not think of. Something that had been pulled from her memory.

She glanced at one name long enough to be able to make a name out of it. Angel. A man…a vampire that had once been her lover.

Finally she stopped, facing two headstones side by side. A man stood behind them, a man she knew, but didn't know.

"You can only choose one. The time will come and you will be forced to choose between a love that exists now, and a love that will exist forever."

The man's name came to her.

"But Giles-" she tried to speak, but he was gone. Shaking, she looked down on the headstones to read the names, a feeling of dread, love, and pain chilling her spine. As she read the first one she shook harder.

It read Remus Lupin. She gasp and felt tears start to come to her eyes. "Please…" she whispered, turning her attention to the other headstone. Sirius Black. "God, please no…"

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When she woke in a cold sweat and sat up suddenly, a sob escaping her lips. Rupert Giles' words ran through her mind.

"You can only choose one. The time will come when you forced to choose between a love that exists now and a love that will exist forever." Buffy knew what he meant. She had to choose who was to live; Sirius or Remus. But it didn't make sense. Sirius was already dead. How could she really choose who was to live?

"Are you alright?" Remus sat up beside her.

"I'm fine," she whispered, turning away from him and wiping the tears from her eyes. "Just a bad dream."

Remus pulled Buffy back down onto the bed and rested her head on his chest. "Does it have anything to do with the dream?"

Buffy nodded, knowing the dream he spoke of.

"It was weird…I…I can't talk about it right now…" she whispered, closing her eyes. Remus kissed the top of her head.

"I understand…its okay…now get some sleep…" in a couple of minutes they were both back asleep, dreamlessly snoozing through the night.

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When Buffy woke the next morning the first thing she could think of was her dream. It was becoming a curse; one that she couldn't prevent.

"Buffy, are you up yet? It's almost ten; we have a meeting with the Order in an hour." Buffy jumped up and dressed quickly; not in her normal clothes; instead in her muggle clothes. She liked the muggle clothes much better than she liked her wizard clothes.

When she came down the stairs Remus was waiting, dressed and setting two plates of eggs on the table.

"Hey." Buffy kissed him on the cheek and sat down at the table in front of one of the breakfast plates.

"Hey to you too. Hurry and eat, we should be there early." Remus said, digging in to his own food.

When they made it to the Black house, Buffy heard only the screams of Mrs. Black; Sirius' mother.

"Filthy creatures! Mudbloods! Get out of my house! It's a disgrace-" she was silenced and Harry came down the stairs along with Hermione and Ron.

"Remus! Buffy! Good to see you!" Buffy nodded towards Harry and let Remus lead her to the living room. As she waked she allowed memories to come to her.

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"Sirius..."Buffy giggled, "Where are you taking me?"

Sirius led Buffy through the old Black house, seemigly to Buffy aimlessly. When he finally stopped her, Buffy stood still and did as he instructed her.

"Open your eyes."

Buffy did and almost fainted of shock.

"How-" Buffy stopped herself.

Sirius' entire bedroom was filled with candles, and there was a table in the middle of the room, in which had two black roses lying on the table. Sirius knew that she loved black roses more than red.

Black rose petals were scattered all over the room.

"Sit," Sirius whispered softly in her ear. She sat down.

Sirius lifted the lid on the plate in front of her. All of her favorite foods were there; though she only had two that she really liked.

When they had finished eating Sirius waved his wand and the room filled with soft violin music.

"Care to dance?" he asked, holin gout a hand. Buffy smiled and nodded.

Sirius took her up in his arms and they moved swifly around the room to the music.

"Buffy..." he whispered, his eyes closed and lips close to her ear, "I really do seriously love you. More than anyone or anything. And I know that your sister doesn't like us seeing each other...But..." As he bant down onto one knee Buffy's heart skipped a beat. "Will you marry me?" Buffy got shivers as three words left her lips.

"Bloody hell yes!"

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"I love you Sirius, but I can't get married! I'm sixteen! I'm not even out of school yet! I'm so sorry, I swear to God, when we are older…"

"Yeah, and I'm sorry too. I'm sorry I asked you."

"Sirius, really, I love you…"

"I love you too…" he kissed her and when they pulled apart Sirius slipped the ring off of her finger and slipped it into his pocket.

"When we're older," he agreed.

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Buffy entered the house. She could only hear two voices; yelling at each other, screaming more even.

She followed the voices and found Mrs. Black and Sirius arguing in the kitchen.

"It's a disgrace…you flaunting that mudblood around! Either you get rid of her, or we will get rid of you," she said, pointing a finger into his chest.

"Then I guess I won't be seeing you any more!" Sirius stormed out of the room , with his school trunk dragging behind him. "Buffy-"he hadn't been expecting her to be there. "Let's leave. Now," he said, grabbing her arm and dragging her out of the house.

"Sirius-" he tossed his trunk and kicked the dirt.

"That bloody bitch!"

"Sirius-if I've caused any trouble, maybe you should listen to-"

"Don't you even dare to tell me to listen to that…that… he stopped and shook his head. "Never mind. Just forget today."

"Sirius, my sister and James are gunna kill me if they find out you ran away because of me… "

Sirius shook his head. "I was leaving anyway. I can't stand her." He wrapped his arms around Buffy. "I love you, and I won't let anything EVER come between me and being with you."

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When Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny had been ushered back upstairs, the meeting began.

They had since moved into the dining room where there was a table for them to sit at.

Remus sat on one side of Buffy, and the newcomer Tara sat on the other side. the meeting started after Dumbledore had introduced Tara, of whom there had been whispering like, 'who is she?' and 'where is she from?'

Dumbledore proceeded by calling forward certain people to discuss certain issues. Kingsley went up first.

"After the unexpected death of Sirius, they have taken his case to trial, and proved him innocent. I regret that the man will never be able to taste the freedom in the world now his innocence has been confirmed." Buffy didn't like the way he spoke; he sounded like a newspaper article.

Dumbledore then called Tara forward.

"Um…there's nothing much for me to say, sir."

"Can you tell who we should be focusing our attention on taking down now?"

"Well…I can, yes." She stood up. "Her name is Willow. She is the most powerful Wiccan Witch to date. And as if that isn't bad enough to deal with, she has recently been turned to a vampire by Angeles. I hope you all know who Angeles is." There were a few words muttered, but everyone's nodded yes. "And so, being turned into a vampire bloodline as as powerful as that, it makes her ten times more dangerous.

Buffy looked up as Tara spoke of Angeles.

"Um…sorry to interrupt, Tara, but I thought that Angeles turned good after a Higher Power gave him a soul to regret the mistakes of his past?"

Tara nodded. "There are ways magically, with Wicca, to give someone the illusion of pure happiness. Angel lost his soul when some Wiccan Witch did a spell to cast that exact illusion and so he is currently Angeles.

"If we can find where they have hidden his soul and release, that will take care of his threat, leaving Willow."

"But won't they have the other three of the Four on their side?" asked Remus.

"Yes, I suppose they would, but none of the other pose as much of a threat as Angeles and Willow. If Drusilla, William, and Darla are on their side, then when we have disposed of the worse threat, we will take care of them.

"Because there are vampires involved, I have called an old friend for help. Everyone, meet the Slayer. Faith."

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A/N i feel horribble (well, not bad at all) for leaving off there, but hey, whats a girl to do? hehe, the next chapter'll be up soon.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: RockinSlayer and DreamerChildthanks for your reviews and thoughts. I dont wanna say anything more or i'll give away the story, so maybe it'd be best if i just shut up because I'm rambling again. Byebye!

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