Yes I know, sorry sorry sorry..... I 'm really sorry for the delate. Now with the story!

Thanks to Allen Pitt for the correction of this chap.

Now.... people about PERCY'S DEATH he died, on the fight against Voldemort, I never mentioned this but I think that you guys should now so you wouldn't be confused about it. I might write some other information about it on the next chapters, but I'm not sure about it. If you have anymore questions about it you can always ask to me, I'll be delighted to answer!

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"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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CONSEQUENCES:

Chapter 18: My friend Willy

"You?" The slayer asked frowning. "What are you doing here?" She asked quickly.

"I came here as a messenger" John Brown said, oblivious to the slayer's suspicion, but not very comfortable at being sent as a mere 'messenger'.

"What did you bring?" Xander asked next to him. John Brown looked at him with an eyebrow perfectly raised.

"I had a direct order to give th-" He was abruptly interrupted by the slayer.

"What did you bring?" The slayer asked impatiently. "Whatever it is I'm sure that they can see it"

"That's not the problem," He said softly.

"Then what is it?" She asked frowning even harder.

"It was stolen from me," He said almost gritting his teeth. Everybody in the room stayed in the room speechless.

"Who sent it?" Willow asked.

"Giles" The slayer answered looking directly at John Brown who opted for staying quiet. "How exactly was the 'message' stolen from you?" The slayer asked doubtfully.

"The bag I carried with the information was taken from me at the bus station" He said somewhat embarrassed.

"Who take it? Vampires? Demons?" The slayer continued interrogating.

"I don't know..." The man said again embarrassed.

"And what did you do? You stayed there and let them leave?" The slayer asked showing anger In her voice.

"Buf" Willow said holding the slayer's arm. Buffy sighed and looked hard at the watcher. "What did Giles send?" She asked trying to break the heavy tension in the room.

"Books, information in general and two letters one directed to Miss Summers and another directed to Mr. Weasley"

"Hermione" Ron said to himself smiling full of joy.

"When did you talk to them last?" Harry asked to John Brown.

"We communicated yesterday before I took the plane, they said they were going to the Council," He said diplomatically like.

"And they gave you the package" Malfoy said frowning like the slayer.

"No they gave me the package three days ago" He said confidently "they sent it to me three days ago" He corrected himself. "I received it two days ago"

"If you say so," The slayer said seriously. "So now what? Are you going to stay or is a plane waiting for you?" She asked going directly to the point.

"I was hoping... I could stay here," He said carefully using his words. "Maybe I could help"

"Yes maybe" The slayer said.

"Buf" Willow warned again. The slayer gave her a cold look and repeated.

"Maybe you could help," She repeated and she went out of the room. The Scoobies and the wizards looked at the door where Buffy had gone out.

"Odd" Ron commented breaking the silence.

"Not really" Malfoy said looking at Brown.

"Maybe we should tell you about what we have so far" Xander said passing an arm over John Brown's shoulder, but after this last one gave him a look Xander pulled his arms quickly off Brown.

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Buffy hit the bag in front of her many times. She kicked and punched with moderated strength.

"Letting the stress go?" Draco asked from the stairs in the basement.

"Yup" She hit the bag with the back of her hand sending it to the ground. "Crap" She muttered and went to bring the bag back to its place. Then she remembered something. "Dragon boy?"

"Yes slayer?" He asked while he sat on the stairs.

"Use your mojo and put the punching bag in its place" She said giving him an award winning smile.

"What will I get from that?" He said considering her petition.

"One more day of life" She said cracking her hands menacingly.

"That trick stopped working a long time ago," He said faking a yawn. She pouted.

"I have to work on another then" She said shrugging. "I'll quote Nike on this, just do it" Malloy frowned and she chuckled to herself. "Forget it I'll do it myself" She brought the bag up with almost any effort. "I never asked this, but how did Willow reach the conclusion that the visits we had weren't real?" Buffy asked her thoughts on Spike.

"Her visitor had a very weird attitude and she tried to make Red suicide, the three ghosts that appeared to the weasel, Potty and I casually appeared In the same place. We studied ghosts and they can't appear visible to ones and invisible to some, they are or aren't but can't be selectively invisible," He said quickly. "And of course my father, my real father would never question Voldemort's power" He said smirking.

The slayer stayed thinking on what the wizard had said and left the bag now swinging softly from one side to the other. "You and the other two should start some physical training," She said passing besides Draco and leaving him alone in the basement.

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"That entity transformed itself on those people?" She heard the voice of John Brown asking from the living room, she avoided passing in front of the living room and she just headed herself to her room.

"Yes and..." She heard Xander's voice but then she closed her door and she dropped herself on her bed. Many worries passed on her mind but she dismissed them and fell asleep, with many dreams that passed quickly in the dark of the night, but all of them had the same. Many girls dying killed by the same hooded creatures with the same knives.

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"What are you guys doing?" Buffy asked as she got inside the kitchen the next morning..... afternoon. She saw the clock that said 2 pm.

"We were planning how to find out if Spike has been feeding himself on humans," Anya said boredly.

"Yesterday he came back late, very late" Xander said carefully.

"If you want I'll tell him to move" Buffy suggested.

"Buffy, you know that he should be in a place where we can keep an eye on him" Willow said.

"Yeah knowing that Willy is back for a snack that suggestion should be the best," Anya said while she polished her nails.

"Anya!" Xander warned her.

"It's true, but anyways the whole keeping him at Xander's as a prisoner will only cause that Xander here gets two little holes on his neck, not that I complain but I'm sure that you wouldn't like a vampified friend would you?"

"But we can't just let him go out and make little Will.... Sire vampires" Willow said embarrassed.

"I'll follow him," Buffy offered. "And maybe I can prove if he has been killing people"

"And I could go with you" Harry offered also.

Xander didn't seem too pleased but he nodded. "Anya will be staying in my place in the night and she'll let us know of him"

"What? I didn't offer Xander, I thought you were giving me a house, I'm not going to stay into your house to baby sit a vampire that is back to killing humans, I might not be human but I do have blood you know and what if he-"

"Anya" Xander cut her out. "You'll stay in my house and distract Spike" She glared at Xander.

"Whatever" She said angrily going out of the room. "When I get killed it's all going to be your fault!" She yelled from upstairs.

"And you were going to marry her?" Draco asked amused.

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"If you want you can go home I'll do this on my own" Buffy said after she put her cel phone on her purse, she had just received news from Spike and had to meet him.

"No, I'll go with you" Harry said stubbornly.

"You can-"

"I've been thinking" Harry interrupted her without caring for the slayer's glare. "I don't understand what are we doing here really," He said faking amusement.

"You are here to help" The slayer said with her hands on her hips.

"To do what? Patrol once a month? To help research? To cook?" He asked sarcastically. "You could have asked to another person to come for that!" He yelled at her but Buffy remained silent gaining all the composure she could. "I think you remember what a team is all about" The slayer was about to hit the wizard but she just took a deep breath and started walking leaving the wizard behind her. He followed her not so happy with her come back.

"When we arrive the house, I'll do the talking, because you can only drop your wand, and I doubt there are any wand movements tonight," She said gritting her teeth.

"Whatever you say," Harry muttered. After sometime walking he remembered something she didn't know, or at least he thought she didn't. "Willow found today's morning some missing people, they can be ten or 12"

"Alright" She said coldly.

"She found the vampire you killed the other night, on that list" Harry continued.

"Good" She replied with the same tone.

"Uhm Buffy?" Harry started.

"We are here," She said stopping in front of the door. She prepared herself to kick the door.

"Alohomora" Harry said pointing at the door. She looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"Spike?" She called after carefully opening the door. Spike came from the basement.

"I... I found" The vampire passed his hand harshly over his head. "Down there" He said pointing at the basement's door. Buffy looked at Spike and he understood he had to go first. He started going down the stairs and the slayer just stopped on the middle of it. "I buried them.... I killed..."

"How many." The slayer started looking at the ground. She went down the stairs with Harry behind her following her closely.

"The lady of this house.... Some girls.... I don't remember!" He brushed his eyes with his hands. "Stop talking to me!" He yelled. Then the blonde vampire looked into the space going into some sort of trance.

"Harry" Lily Evans called. Harry Potter looked at the ghost of his mother and he felt the urge to go to hug her but something stopped him.

"You are not real," He said sadly looking at her. She frowned and laughed no long after.

"Harry? I'm real, look!" She exclaimed moving her long dress while she moved her arms. "I'm here" The Boy Who Lived set his eyes away from his mother.

"Just go," He said with his heart aching. He looked at the other side of the room in which now he saw the slayer fighting Spike.

"...hell off!" He started hearing the voice of the slayer, as if someone had turned on a radio. Harry looked at some hands going out from the floor and he started with widen eyes how his mother smirked at this. "You, stupid wizard do something!" The slayer yelled while she tried kicking Spike.

"It's fun to watch Harry" His mother said walking besides him.

"Oh God!" He heard Buffy yelling and he was able to get out of the trance he was in, the vampire started coming completely out and he saw as Spike hit Buffy's arm with a broken bottle.

"STUPEFY!" He yelled and Spike was sent to the other side of the basement. He started fighting off some vampires but after a while and some ducking they were able to reach him. They grabbed both of his arms and sent him to the ground where he stared at Buffy being held by many vampires and Spike coming near her with his vampiric face. "Buffy!" He yelled trying to shrug. Spike transformed his face again and started to step back looking horrified. Buffy didn't lose time and started brushing off the vampires and kicked the ones holding Harry on the floor. Then the two of them killed the last ones, more like Buffy killed them while Harry Stupefy them. Harry raised his wand and pointed at Spike ready to kill him. Spike opened his shirt.

"Do it fast" He begged with his eyes closed and crying. "Kill me!" He yelled and Harry was about to say a spell. "He said he would do it, so do it"

"Who said that?" Buffy said stepping in front of Harry to stop him from cursing Spike.

"Me" Spike said with tears falling on his cheeks. "It was I I was there the whole time laughing and singing, and this song!" He whined and continued crying.

"What are you talking about?" Buffy asked softly to Spike.

"My mother was here," Harry mumbled.

"Your mother?" Buffy asked stepping back frowning.

"A ghost, it wasn't her ... she was watching, it, it was watching you two fighting, the vampires..."The wizard explained.

"Don't make me remember" Spike repeated to himself. "Please make me forget again I don't want to remember" Buffy looked at the vampire with obvious concern showing on her face.

"There's something here," She said. "It's playing with us" She threw her stake to the floor and Spike looked at the pieces of wood crying.

"No please! I can't cry it out... the soul doesn't want to go, I've killed I see them"

"We are not going to kill him," Harry said looking at Buffy.

"That thing.. makes him do things..." Buffy said without being completely able to explain. "We should go home"

"Will you help me?" Spike asked looking with hope at Buffy.

"I'll help you" She reaffirmed.

"How are we taking him to your house?" Harry asked watching with certain alert at Spike. The slayer didn't asnwer to his question.

"You guys definitely need some training" She muttered to herself but letting Harry hear.

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"And you believe him?" Anya asked.

"You didn't see him down there. He really didn't know what he'd done. It wasn't in his control" Buffy defended she looked at Harry for support but Xander interrupted. "Oh, an out of control serial killer. You're right, that is a great houseguest" He said sarcastically and mad. "Wait, is he—is he staying here?" Dawn asked with her eyes widen.

"What?" Draco yelled. "But you can't let him stay here, he'll kill us all!" Harry glared at Draco slightly but enough to make Draco shut up.

"I don't know. But I'm not letting him out of my sight, that's for sure" She said ignoring Draco's comment.

"Buffy, he's been feeding... on human blood. That's gotta do stuff" Willow said with concern.

"We could feed him with I don't know, animal blood.... or something" Harry suggested.

"Buffy you can't help him" Xander said staring directly at Buffy. "He ... isn't in full control of himself," He continued carefully.

"I'm not keeping him around just to help him. I think there was something there, talking to him, making him do things" She said disgusted.

"Controlling him" Harry added. "I... I saw my mom down there" He continued Ron widen his eyes. "And I felt... some sort of... I felt into some sort of trance, I couldn't hear anything... I was"

"About to be controlled" John Brown finished.

"She wasn't... her, she was enjoying everything happening down there" He continued disturbed by the idea.

"Something like what was talking to us?" Willow asked copying it into her notebook.

"Maybe" Harry said passing his hand on his not so combed hair.

"It was the same thing that was talking to Spike?" Willow asked.

"Maybe. But if it was, it's been screwing with Spike big time" Buffy said

"So, you want him around because...?" Xander asked not wanting to accept any reasons to let Spike living on the Summer's residence. "Look, there's something evil working us, and if we are ever gonna have a chance to fight it, we need to learn everything we can about it. This thing has been closer to Spike than any of us" Buffy said seriously.

"I agree with you" John Brown said looking directly at the slayer.

"And if you want to understand it...."Willow said not so willing to accept. "I'm gonna have to get close to Spike." She completed. "Nah, it's too dangerous." Xander said half joking half serious. "I don't have a choice. Whatever this thing is, from beneath us, it's bad, and it's only getting worse" She finished.

"What if his appetite comes back?" Draco asked still worried. "What if he wants a snack at night?" He asked hurried.

A song started sounding and everybody looked around to see where it was coming from. John Brown got a cel phone from his jacket and he opened it gracefully. He stayed in silence. And soon his face was able to match his white shirt he had. His eyes widen. "Alright" He said seriously. "I'll communicate this to the Head" He said. He hung up the phone and placed it gracefully in his jacket. He stood up.

"What?" Buffy asked standing up also, she frowned and looked at Brown with suspicion.

"The Council blew up half an hour ago"

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Oh My God! Hermione and Giles! What happened to them?

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Thanks to:

Hermione Malfoy: ...... I explained a little bit of Percy before the chap. LOL.

Inu Youkai-Hime: thanks for adding me to your c2, it's a real honor! I'm glad that you are liking the story.

rlamb : sorry didn't notice I put luscious, I'll fix it after I'm done with the whole fixing issue ok? Thanks! What about Caleb? John Brown is a watcher by the way. I think he's on the chapter ... Traitor or maybe the one after that. But I think he is in one of those explaining his character a little bit.

Vld: I actually love Glory, she was such a good big bad, arrogant and coky but extremely powerful and the last fight was amazing! The best fight in my opinion. (Angelus/Buffy would be the second). I'm really glad you liked this chapter and I hope you like chap 18. Oh and about the whole Scoobies kicking Buffy out.... we'll see.

cancan227: Uhm let's see..... I have two cookies.

CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur: ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!! Lol. Glory?????? Glory made an appearence????????

Ok so school's is bugging again, they are giving me as many works as they can and I almost have no time, even thought I'll try writing a chapter per week, and if we have a little luck maybe 2 chaps. Anyways I hope once again you liked this chapter. See you guys soon!