So guys, I forgot to tell certain stuff of last chapter, it was based on the episode 'Lessons' of season 7 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

A little part of this chapter is based on the chapter Conversations with Dead People, of the last season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. With my own personal touch.

Guys, this chapter is way longer than usual, a little gift for the delate. I really hope you guys like it.

Thanks a lot to Allen Pitt for correcting this chapter.

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CONSEQUENCES:

Chapter 17: Conversations

"We have to find them Mr. Giles" Hermione Granger whispered to the watcher in front of her. "The girls aren't the only ones in danger"

"I'm afraid not," The watcher said cleaning his glasses. "Hermione send all the information we have to Sunnydale" The watcher ordered and started to check some old books.

"But, but, we aren't done with them" The girl said.

"Hermione, send the information we have to Sunnydale now" The watcher repeated.

"I'm going to stay with the Cruici-"

"Send the files now!" The watcher exclaimed loosing his composure. "Those files aren't safe in here"

"I could take them to my-"The young witch tried to intervene but again was shut down by Giles.

"The only place those files are going to be safe is in Sunnydale, even if that's hard to believe" The watcher said putting again his glasses on. "I believe that with owls would be the most effective..."

"Alright" The young witch said defeated. "I'll send Pigwedon with them"

"Ron still has that damned owl?" The watcher said with annoyance on his voice.

"It's trained now!" Hermione said defensively.

"If you say so Ms. Granger," The watcher said amused returning back to his readings.

"Have you talked to anyone in Sunnydale?" Hermione asked after being a few minutes in silence.

"No, I haven't" The watcher said still watching carefully with a special glass the pages.

"Oh" The girl said disappointed. "Alright, I'm going to send this"

"Nobody said that you couldn't communicate with anybody," The watcher said casually. "Just that you needed to be as discreet as possible" The watcher left the pages to dedicate a smile to the girl and she just sighed and nodded. "Now go and send those things, and you better be right with that bloody creature" The girl grinned to herself and went out of the room.

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"You are doing it wrong again!" The slayer whined. "For Christ sake you can't even be near a kitchen, get out of my sight you lousy little creature" She said dismissing Draco Malfoy with her hands. "You are hopeless," The slayer said removing the melted plastic from her microwave. "Go go" She said when she saw he was still in the kitchen. "Go and do some of your mojo stuff"

"This place is more than dull" Draco whined when he came into the living room.

"Welcome to my world" The slayer's 'little' sister said bitterly. "At least you guys can go out of the house to patrol every night alone, I for the other hand can't unless I'm with Buffy, I mean she should understand that I can take care of myself, I don't need her to baby-sit me when I'm patrolling" Dawn babbled.

"Yeah it was very impressive when you stake that vampire's eye.... I thought that you had to stake the heart to kill it" Draco remembered smartly.

"Shut up idiot" The girl said turning on the TV and sitting in the ground.

"I believe Hermione is going to feel replaced when she sees that now you have a new bickering partner," Harry said from his seat while he scratched his head. Both Dawn and Draco turned to glare at the Boy-who-lived-but-soon-would-be-dead.

"Wow, what did you do mate?" Ron asked bringing some trash food with him.

"Buffy! Phone!" The witch upstairs yelled.

"Coming!" The slayer yelled while she ran to the kitchen and grabbed the phone on the living room. Everybody stayed looking at the slayer while her face color changed. "He isn't there? How is... no you hear me! Where the hell is..." She hung up the phone.

"Anything wrong?" Dawn asked concerned for her sister.

"No, nothing's wrong" The slayer said quickly.

"Buffy" Willow said coming from downstairs. "Did they...?" She shut up when she saw the audience.

"No, they don't but... I'm sure they are ok," The blonde slayer said softly.

"They they whom?" Ron asked now concerned. "Your watcher and Mione?" The boy said concerned. Now everybody was looking at Buffy and sighed.

"They left the Council two days ago and no one has heard a word from them, but I'm sure that they'll be alright" The slayer assured them.

"But did they say they would call?" Ron asked.

"No" The slayer lied but none of them noticed, or at least that's what she thought.

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"Monica Castiello" Hermione said in front of an open door. "Why don't I have such a good feeling about this?" She asked to the watcher behind her.

"Because the door was open and in most of the American movies when the door is open something bad happened," The watcher said a little nervously. Hermione looked at him amused. "Have I mentioned I've spent the last seven years of my life in Sunnydale with Buffy, Willow and Xander" The girl chuckled. "I suppose I'll go first" The watcher whispered. He touched the already open door and pushed it a little bit so it would open completely. They found a dead girl in the entrance. "Oh, dear God! Robson, are you here? Robson!" He looked around carefully and the witch walked behind him with her wand out. Hermione knelt beside the dead girl's body and checked for a pulse - she shook her head solemnly. The watcher looked horrified. He started looking for Robson and he found him near a chair in the next room. Giles went to his side quickly understand the grave situation. "You too?" The slayer's watcher took off his glasses and started crying. "Dear God, I thought you—" The watcher was interrupted by Robson who flashed hi eyes open.

"Gather them. It's started." The dying man said. "It's all right. I understand. I'll take care of it—" Giles said understanding but was interrupted by the witch screaming.

"Petrificus Totalus!" The girl yelled and Giles had time to turn and looked how a black robed man fell to the ground rigid. With an axe that fell not long after. "Well that was a spell I hadn't relied on for a while," The girl said, regaining her composure and brushing her hair away from her face. "Mr. Giles?" She asked concerned.

"Thank you" The man said solemnly and closed the eyes of his now dead friend. "We should gather the information Robson had" Giles said gaining himself his composure.

"What should we do with..."? She looked at the hooded man.

"I'll take care of it, you go and recollect everything you think can help us" Hermione nodded and quickly got out of the room. She collected certain books, some uncommon potion ingredients and some instruments she thought could work.

"Mr. Giles?" She called from the room afraid of what she could find on the room next door. The watcher came out of the room and she didn't have the guts to ask him for the hooded man.

"We should go to the Council as soon as possible, I think there's something we forgot there" The watcher said blankly and Hermione nodded without asking anything, soon she transformed a random object into a port key and they disappeared from the house.

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"When were you going to tell us?" Xander asked angrily to Buffy. "After he tries raping you again?" He said almost whispering.

"He won't, he can't I can stop him" The slayer finishes.

"Why didn't you tell us Buffy?" Willow asked more controlled than her friend.

"When we found him..."The slayer started.

"We?" Xander asked frowning.

"Harry and I" She replied. "We found him on that basement he was delusional, I didn't understand half of what he was saying," She confessed.

"So what?" Xander asked.

"I talked to him after, he got his soul back" The slayer conveniently forgot to say 'for me', but that was another case.

"How?" The witch wondered surprised.

"I don't know, I don't know" The slayer repeated to herself.

"How do you know is true?" Xander asked suspicious.

"It is true" A voice from the door said the three friends turned quickly to find Anya on the door.

"What are you doing here?" Xander asked without being harsh or snapping.

"Something's coming, everybody is feeling it," She said quickly.

"We know" Buffy said.

"And I... I ... wanted to be on the right side," She said with lots of effort. "If Hally would hear me, she'd kill me" She smiled sheepishly. "I don't know if you guys will accept me but I thought that maybe you'll like to have a demon on your side, you can make tons of wishes!" She said merrily. The three of them raised their eyebrows. "Or not"

"About Spike's soul" Xander started without looking at Anya directly. "How do you know?"

"Oh we ...demons can sense and... well see these kinds of things," She explained.

"When did you see him?" Xander asked kind of hurt.

"Last week, on the Bronze" She replied. "Oh and didn't you guys forgot something downstairs?"

"No" Willow said thinking. "Why?"

"Oh, no I just thought you forgot that Spike is still on the door and Dawn is now threatening to cut off his ..."Willow covered Anya's mouth. Buffy and Xander went quickly downstairs. "So?" She said after some silence. "I'm in?"

"Welcome back" The witch, said smiling fondly at the demon.

"Oh and Willow I forgot to ask you" Anya said.

"Yes?"

"Are you still evil?" Anya asked with an eyebrow raised.

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"Dawn" Buffy said from the stairs while she went down.

"Wow, Buffy how is it that the Malfoy look alike can't come inside?" Ron asked interested while Malfoy glared at him.

"He is a vampire" They were all surprised by this. "With a ..."

"Chip" Spike interrupted quickly. Willow and Anya went down the stairs.

"A ship?" Draco asked. "How the hell is he a vampire with a ship?" Draco looked at Spike. "What do we care if he in fact has a ship?"

"Well the army put it on his big head" Xander answered glaring at the vampire.

"How in the bloody hells did they got a ship into his head?" Ron asked now looking at Spike as if he was some sort of freak. "Where they wizards?" He asked looking at Buffy.

"I doubt it," She answered.

"So why is he there and can't come here?" Harry asked changing the subject.

"He's a vampire"

"We all know that now" Spike said annoyed.

"And vampires can't come in without an invitation" Willow completed.

"Never invite anyone into this house, I don't care how much you trust them or whatever but if it is after sunset and you have just met the person she or he stays out understood?" Captain Buffy asked to the three wizards who just nodded.

"Why are you friends with a vampire?" Harry asked looking at Spike. "Aren't they evil?"

"Yes we are" Spike said "And we like eating idiots like you for dinner" He muttered at last winning a hit on the back of his head by Buffy.

"He won't harm you, he can't" She said uncomfortable. "Come in Spike" The vampire went inside the house and transformed quickly his face

"I think I'll eat the scar face first" He licked one of his fangs.

"Spike" Buffy warned. She looked at the three wizards who were now pointing at Spike with their wands.

"One move vampire and you'll be ashes," Draco threatened, and Spike started laughing.

"Shut it kid" The vampire said changing his face to a normal one once again, he walked to the living room sitting on the couch. "Slayer, what's the problem?" Buffy sighed. Everybody on the living room decided not to sit near Spike for different reasons.

"A Gnarl demon" She said simply and in some way the conversation seemed to be of two and the others didn't feel very included into it.

"We are going to the kitchen to eat this is boring" Draco said walking to the kitchen.

"Don't touch any electric device!" She yelled. "Who's going to watch him?" The two other wizards walked out of the room with Xander; and Dawn, Willow and Anya decided to continue their research and update Anya about it. Dawn eyeing at Spike several times.

"I can take care of that" The vampire said t the slayer.

"No, this thing can paralyze you with just a scratch, he has-"

"Poison on his claws and his teeth and then when their victims are paralyzed he starts cutting this skin strips" He completed.

"Yeah well what if it paralyzes you?" The slayer asked the vampire.

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"Who is he?" Ron asked while they eat some cereal without milk.

"He's Buffy's..."Xander started but Anya cit him.

"Ex" The demon said.

"But it's complicated" Xander added.

"With Buffy it always is" Anya teased.

"But he is a vampire" Ron said.

"So, I'm a demon" Anya said. Ron gulped and stepped back.

"Anya!" Xander warned. The vengeance demon rolled her eyes. She grabbed the cereal box and brought her with her to the living room.

"So how's that they got that ship into the vampire's head? Like a mini ship, like those that are armed inside of the bottles?" Draco asked curiously.

"A ship?" The Scooby said out loud. "No you idiot, a chip C-H-I-P chip!"

"Like cookies kind of chip?" Draco asked dreamily.

"Argh, hopeless" Xander said going out of the room.

"I agree with him mate," Harry said patting Draco's shoulder and following Xander.

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"Where's Spike?" Harry asked when he came into the room.

"He went to.... his house" Buffy said absently.

"Why?" Ron said now incorporating himself to the room.

"He's not going to help with the demon," She said simply.

"Then how are we going to get rid of? him, it, that thing" Ron asked.

"We are going to find him, you guys are going to do the whole stupidy thinguie and then I'll finish him," She said standing up and opening her yellow truck of weapons. She brought out an axe.

"I would like the dagger with the red thinguie on it's blade" Dawn said standing next to her sister.

"You are staying" The slayer said without negotiation.

"But, but" Dawn started.

"No buts, you are staying, you are going to do your homework because I know you have" The slayer said quickly.

"If you want we can stay here also" Draco suggested. "You know to protect the brat" Dawn glared at Draco the hardest she ever had. "All right the glaring brat" He smiled sweetly at her.

"Hold it you two, peroxide prince, you are coming what else did you come from if it's not to fight big bads? Oh and talking about fights, I would really like if you guys could start to train something so when some one brakes that pretty sticks of yours you don't stay there waiting to be killed got it?" The slayer said while she hided carefully many weapons on her outfit. Two stakes on each side of her hips. A dagger and a stake on each boot. The axe was on her hand and a few stakes were perfectly hidden on her coat.

"Are you going to war?" Ron asked looking at her while she hid all her weapons.

"No, I'm just going for a little walk" The slayer said after winking at the red head, at the male red head. "Dawn order a pizza if you want, Anya are you going to stay?" The slayer asked the vengeance demon.

"No, I'm going with Xander" The demon replied confidently. Most of the people in the room frowned.

"Alright, Will?" The slayer asked.

"I was going to finish a work in the library but I can stay here with Dawnie" Willow said smiling to the youngster of the Summer's residence.

"You can go" Dawn or Dawnie said apprehensively to the witch. "It isn't your fault I have to stay in the house locked up as if I was some sort of pris-" The girl's rant was cut off by the slamming door. Her sister and the three wizards had gone away. "And sometimes I feel ignored" The witch chuckled to herself.

"You can come if you like with me Dawnie, your homework can be done there" The girl shook her head.

"I have a date with the tv and the phone" The witch smiled and went upstairs to pick the things she would need for the library.

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"That was bloody amazing Buffy!" The red head wizard said excited while his partners walked behind the slayer and him, one simply disappointed the other simply annoyed.

"It was good to see that at least one wizard could hold onto his wooden stick during the whole fight" The slayer said throwing hints to the two wizards behind. "Ron, you'll be a really good patrolling partner, next time you can come with me," She said cheerfully. The wizard threw an arm over the slayer's petite shoulders and she did the same.

"Watch out world!" Draco said from behind dramatically.

"Here they come!" Harry finished and Buffy and Ron glared at them coldly.

"I should have left that thing alive so you guys would have stayed paralyzed for a long time" She said regretting her choices. "I know my microwave would have appreciated that," The blonde behind her glared at her back and she just continued walking.

"Guys I'm going to do a... little patrol, you guys can go home from here?" She asked stopping on the street they had reached.

"Sure, but don't you want us to go with you?" Ron asked.

"Actually I would like sometime alone, long time since I don't patrol alone, slayer stuff you know" She said and they nodded without understanding what she was talking about. "Just don't let those sticks of yours go, Ron I trust you to take them home safe" The red head blushed and the wizards started walking on their way to the Summer's residence. The slayer sighed watching them go. She did need some time alone.

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"That was definitely weird" Draco said breaking the silence.

"Yup it was" Ron agreed.

"She could have made a better excuse," Draco added.

"Yeah" Again Ron agreed.

"Probably she went to visit the vampire," Draco kept adding.

"Son" Some one behind the wizards said, the three of them turned because they did not recognize the voice. As Harry Potter turned, he found himself staring at James Potter.

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"Buffy?" The vampire laughed "Buffy Summers?"

"Have we—"Buffy started obviously not recognizing the guy/vampire. "Oh, uh. Webs? Holden Webster. We went to school together. European History. I let you crib off my Vaclav Havel essay that time. You—you really don't remember me?" Holden asked. "Sure! Sure" She lied.

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"Dad" The Boy who lived said more like a statement than a question. James Potter smiled with that cocky natural attitude of his but it was especially warm to his son. "What are you-" Harry Potter frowned and looked at his father with suspicion. Both of his friends didn't know what to do and were next to him in silence. Or at least that's what he thought. "Who are you?" He asked suspiciously. James Potter looked at his boy with mischief playing in his eyes and he laughed.

"Who am I? Harry James Potter" He said sternly his son's name. "I'm your father"

"You are for real," The son said whispering. "How?" He asked to his father.

"I came to warn you Harry, I came to make sure you will be alright when the next battle comes" James Potter said now with the same look he had when Dumbledore explained him his little un born son's destiny.

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"She?" Willow asked confused to the spirit or ghost of the dead girl in front of her.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you or anything—" The girl said taken back but the witch interrupted her. "Who asked you? What are you talking about?" The witch asked now nervous suspicious and confused and the same time. "She says she still sings." The girl said smiling.

"What?" The witch asked equally confused.

"Remember that time on the bridge when you sang to each other? Well, she says even though you can't hear it, she still sings to you." The witch entered into a state of shock. "Tara?" She asked after a while in silence.

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"What are you doing here?" Draco asked coldly at his father in front of him.

"Draco, my son" His father said as a greeting. "I was expecting a warmer greeting" He sneered.

"How is that you are here?" Draco asked still looking at his father with a mixture of hatred and disgust.

"It doesn't matter, what really matters is what I came here for" Lucious Malfoy said smirking.

"And you plan on telling me when?" Draco asked, a little curious.

"Patience, Patience" His father said with a cold smile. "You'll know soon"

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"Well, there is one thing—one thing you could do to stop it."

"What? Anything" Willow asked to the girl in front of her with her eyes wide open. "And you could see her. You wouldn't have to talk through me" The girl commented. "Tara?" Willow said softly. "That's what you want, isn't it?" The girl asked the obvious.

"Of course"

"So go. Be with her. Everybody will be safe, and you'll be together again. It's not that bad. Really. It's just like going to sleep" The girl said quickly and Willow suspects that something's wrong. She stood up cautiously.

"Who are you?" She asked seriously.

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"Percy!" Ron exclaimed with excitement. "You are here!" The boy moved to hug his elder brother but his elder stopped him.

"I don't have much time Ron," He said with the same tone he always used for his brother. "I came to alert you from what is coming" He said seriously.

"What is coming?" Ron asked concerned.

"You should leave this place Ronald, the only thing that this place holds for you is death, if you stay here you will be risking your life and the ones you love" His brother said wisely.

"But, but"

"You have to go from here, you hear me? Harry won't be able to succeed on this, Buffy won't be able to succeed" Percy Weasly said seriously. "Please Ronald, leave this place," He begged before disappearing into the thin air.

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"What do you mean? How do you know Spike?" Buffy asked looking at Holden concerned.

"What do you mean, how? He was the guy that, um—oh, what's the word?" He thinks hard. "Sired" Buffy completed not very happy now. "Yeah, he was the guy that sired me" Holden said casually.

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"Warn me?" Harry Potter asked confused.

"Yes" James Potter said gravely. "A war is coming soon"

"I know that's why we are here, something's coming and we are here to help them stop it" Harry Potter said confidently.

"You won't if Buffy Summers is the leader, she can't win this war, it's written" James said to his son.

"But"

"If she guides you to that war Harry, you'll die, your friends will die and the humanity will pay for her mistakes" James said looking at Harry with sadness. "If she leads every one will die and this world will be consumed by darkness" He finished gravely.

"But if not her who?" The Boy who lived asked worried.

"From beneath you it devours" James Potter said giving one last sad smile to his only child and disappearing.

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"Things are coming, Dawn. Listen, things are on their way. I love you, and I love Buffy, but she won't be there for you." Joyce's spirit or ghost said quickly to Dawn.

"What? Why are you—?" The girl started obviously confused. "When it's bad, Buffy won't choose you. She'll be against you" Joyce finished; the vision of Joyce started to fade. "No! No, don't go! Please, don't go!" Dawn begged. Joyce disappeared entirely. Dawn, sitting in the middle of the living room floor, sobbed.

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"Why are you here?" Draco Malfoy asked starting to loose his patience.

"Things are coming and I want you to be on the right side Draco, things that are more powerful that you can't imagine," He said seriously.

"Oh yes father I'll go really fast to join the dark side" The younger blonde said sarcastically.

"You did it before" His father remembered. "Why not return to the days from all, this new power will not fail my child. It's different from the Dark Lord, this is unbeatable, not even that girl will be able to fight back" Draco frowned and looked at his father concerned but not for anything he had said.

"I'll think about it" Draco said absently.

"You'll have-" Luscious started but was suddenly cut off by his son.

"I'll think about it ok?" He almost yelled. Luscious Malfoy smirked and left or disappeared leaving nothing behind.

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"Suicide thing was too far, huh? Hmm. You seemed so ripe" The girl said cynically.

"Tell me who you are." Willow insisted dryly. "I stand by my opinion. The world would be a better place if you took a razorblade to your wrist—" The girl leaned forward. "Stop" Willow said. "I can see it now" She said while she stood up. "Candlelight, the Indigo Girls playing, picture of your dead girlfriend on your bloody lap" "Stop it!" Willow ordered. "Oh, baby, you left such a big hole. It hurt so bad" She mocked and then went serious, she leaned forward again. "You don't know hurt. This last year's gonna seem like cake after what I put you and your friends through, and I am not a fan of easy death. Fact is, the whole good-versus-evil, balancing the scales thing—I'm over it. I'm done with the mortal coil. But believe me, I'm going for a big finish" "From beneath you, it devours" Willow said understanding. "Oh, not it. Me." She said leaning back and sporting a wicked grin.

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"What should we do about what he said?" Harry asked after his father disappeared.

"Don't pay him attention, he always talked a lot of shi- things" Draco said bitterly.

"I don't understand how did he come here," Ron admitted.

"Probably some death eater that hasn't been found decided to give us a special reunion" Draco said.

"Why would a death eater bring my father's ghost?" Harry asked frowning.

"Are you on something?" Draco asked looking at Harry as if he was a freak. "That was my father Potter. Lucious Malfy is not your father"

"My father James Potter was the one appearing" Harry said now frowning even harder.

"Percy was here also," Ron said softly.

"Also?" Both, Potter and Malfoy asked at the same time.

"It's obvious that Harry got a visit from his dad an you from your father Draco, I got my visit from Percy" He said blankly.

"What did they say to you?" Draco asked curious and concerned.

"We should better discuss this in the house" Harry reasoned and Draco nodded after Ron.

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"Dawn?!" Buffy asked concerned as soon as she saw the house. "Dawnie are you here?!"

"We are here" Willow's voice came from upstairs. Buffy jumped quickly the stairs.

"Dawn? Are you alright?"The slayer hurried herself inside the room only to find a meeting going on at her house. "What happened?" She asked her sister.

"Mom-"

"All of us except Anya and Xander received these 'visits'" Willow said. Buffy frowned and Willow continued. "Dawn saw your mom and she says there was another spirit in the room that did this"

"You saw mom?" Buffy asked sad. The young Summers nodded without looking at her sister's eye.

"Draco and Harry both saw their father's, Ron saw his brother and I saw... Cassie"

"Cassie?" Buffy asked frowning.

"She said she was communicating with Tara" The witch commented. "But none of this spirits were real" Willow said. "Some one is trying to pull us apart" The witch concluded.

"From beneath you it devours" Harry said absently from his place. "That's what my... that thing said at the end"

After some minutes of silence the Scoobies and Co decided to clean a little bit the mess downstairs.

"I'll bring the new windows tomorrow" Xander said sitting on the now, crystal-free floor.

"We could do some barriers in the house to avoid any visits for the night" Harry offered. Buffy nodded.

"Well at least I wasn't the one ruining the microwave" Draco teased. Buffy just smiled while most of the rest chuckled.

"Well there are some-" She was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Buffy" Xander said coming into the room.

"Yes?" The slayer asked slowly standing up.

"Miss Summers" John Brown was at the door.

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John Brown!!! Mwahahahahaha, does anybody want to take a wild guess?

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Thanks to:

Lils: Lol. I'm still on the C2 search to know if I can find were to look the already created comunities.

Vld: well, I really hated the episode that they kick Buffy out of the house. I really hated all of those idiots, and I loved when Spike got pissed because of this. I would have done the exact same thing. I mean who the hell do they think they are?? Bastards. Lol.

Well they have to be civilized to each other now don't they? I mean they are working together and all that.

HermioneMalfoy: lol.::cleans the mud of herself:: lol.

Lightdemondarkangel: I'm sad now, so unfair. No prob, I hope you like the rest of the story.

Timetwist: Don't worry soon more nutty Spike. Oh and I like to make fights with Buffy more real, you know that she gets hit and all. Because I haven't seen many episodes of Buffy on which she wins easily without rolling on the ground or being sent with a major hit to the other side of the fighting place, only sometimes when she fights newbies. But that's it.

About Ron I think he's one of the best characters JK created. I believe he's the one that gives the humor to most of the situations. As you say he's a little dense, but aren't boys dense sometimes? Well at least I know many Ron-alike guys. Dense but not stupid.

CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur: rotf??? lmfao I know, or at least I think I know but the first is new...... lol.

So what did you guys think of the chap? Lie it? Hate it? Think it's weird? Prefer shorter chapters in shorter time?

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