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"Buffy" Her watcher started. "These are the potentials slayers"
"And the potentials slayers slash witches" A British girl said smirking.
"Oh Shut up Diane!" Another girl snapped.
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CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 22: Learning
"Slayers and witches?" Buffy asked shocked.
"It was one of the discoveries we made while we stayed in the Council" Hermione explained as she got out of the protective arms around her. "Normally the potentials that are witches aren't selected as slayers" The witch explained.
"Do you like that?" One of the Americans said smugly to the British witch/potential.
"Oh shut it!" The British girl snapped glaring slightly at the witch who had provided the information.
"…Ignoring the comments" Buffy said breaking the tension between the potentials.
"So potentials slash witches, as Diane nicely put it," The bushy brown haired girl said. "Aren't usually trained to become slayers, and usually they aren't even told of their possible destiny"
"Why is that you saying usually so much creeps me out?" The slayer asked looking slightly warned to future dislikeable information.
"I thought you wouldn't catch that," The witch muttered with her cheeks pinker. "When a witch is selected or called as the slayer, she would start her training as the slayer and her witchcraft would be mostly forbidden, she may use magic but only on maximum danger" The witch explained carefully, she pulled a book from under the table. She started passing some pages and she then grabbed the papers that were on the page where she decided to leave open the book. On big black letters you could read the title: CRUCIAMENTUM.
"Let me guess" The slayer said sarcastically and the witch passed her the book without the papers.
"The slayer was forbidden to use her witchcraft and if she survived until her eighteen birthday then she would be stripped of her powers, the slayer kind would be re-installed when she passed the test if she passed it, the witch kind would be stripped off permanently" The witch said affected by the decisions of the Council.
"So Diane here would be just like us at the end of the day right?" One of the Americans said finding that idea highly amusing. Most of the people in the room glared at the potential but she just shrugged.
"I suppose" The witch said not so sure about answering.
"…All planned, when this whole The First thing ends you have a room in the Institute waiting for you, I talked to Donna and she is more than happy to reserve it for you" The blonde girl entered with her arm around the red headed witch.
"Mandy" The slayer said glaring at the blonde witch.
"Buffy you are back from patrolling!" The witch said excited, she moved through the crowd and she hugged Buffy. She hugged Buffy, because Buffy didn't hug back.
"What are you doing here?" The slayer asked not hiding the fact of her displeasure.
"I helped your friends locating your watcher and the carrot's girlfriend," She explained apparently oblivious to the slayer's glare.
"And…" The slayer pushed.
"Well I thought it would be nice to return to dear ole Sunnydale!" She said giving an Oscar winning grin. An empty stomach interrupted the conversation. All of the people in the kitchen turned to see one of the girls looking slightly pale.
"Have we mentioned that we've been on a enlightening tour for a day and we haven't eat a thing?" The girl asked annoyed.
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"Good to be back?" Buffy asked to the black haired guy.
"Yeah, it's nice to have a little rest" Harry said giving her a little grin as he pulled off his shoes. "I heard about Spike," He said after a while of silence. "I'm sorry"
"I thought you better than anyone would understand how annoying it is that everybody is sorry for everything," The slayer said pushing herself of the marc of the door.
"Sorry" He said grinning at her. "So care to share about Buffy the Vampire Slayer's adventure while I was absent?" He asked, the slayer smiled a little bit and sat on his bed besides him.
"I have to warn you that it might take a while," The slayer said seriously.
"I have the whole night to hear, after that I might not have more free time to hear it," The man who lived said seriously also.
"I thought you wanted a little rest?" The slayer asked rising an eyebrow and smirking.
"I can always get a big rest after you finish the tale of your adventures" He said solemnly.
"And after you finish yours, because the whole meeting with Mandy, that is worth a story" The slayer said.
None of them saw the man in the shadows of the room smirking to himself.
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"… Couldn't sleep" One of the girls whined.
It had been the same for the following week, teenage girls complaining of their private time on the bathroom, a limited time which wasn't enough for them; teenage girls complaining because of the uncomfortability of sleeping with Cindy, Crissy, Mili, or whoever they didn't like at the moment. Complaining about the food, about the training and about the lack of action.
The disputes between Hermione and Willow were becoming unbearable it was a verbal fight in which no one understood half of what they were saying, only Mandy seemed to understand a little bit more than the rest. Draco and Ron decided to make up all the time they were apart and all they fights they missed, so obviously there was a lovely and enjoyable atmosphere on the Summer's residence, add sarcasm to the sentence.
Buffy had decided to make the cold war on Mandy and Dawn had decided not to speak anymore to Draco. Xander and Anya had been tensed around each other for something else apart from the whole weeding fiasco. Giles had been of the Residence for some hours and then he would go to investigate for some stuff, he would return only to sleep, and he was almost never seen by the people in the Summer's residence.
Mr. Brown had done the Giles Act also. Strange? You bet. And to add more, Jonathan had decided to redeem himself by taking on house duties. Now on these crazy days you would seem him washing the dishes and cleaning the bedrooms carefully.
"Do you have it or not?" Harry Potter asked Draco Malfoy.
"Of course I do, I just don't know where" The blonde gave a sheepish smile to Harry and the last one just rolled his eyes.
"I'm going to ask Hermione or Ron," He said leaving the room.
"I suggest Ron!" Draco yelled from his seat, Harry's head appeared on the doorframe.
"Why?" Harry asked.
"World war six" Draco explained.
"Three" Dawn said while she served some cereal on her plate.
"What?" Draco asked.
"World war three not six" She explained without looking at him.
"Actually for us wizards it is World War six, only that because you are a muggle you haven't experienced the Magical wars" He returned smugly. Dawn just rolled her eyes.
"Harry, could you tell Buffy that if she goes patrolling later could she bring some food, 'cause the girls eat like cows?"
"We certainly do not!" Molly, the girl with the British accent said. "That was Kennedy for sure"
"I'll tell her" Harry assured. He left the room in look for Ron and as he passed the witches room he heard as Hermione recited the uses of a plant he didn't remember of, he shrugged and went inside the room where Ron was looking to the window in trance. "Ron?"
"Mmm" He answered still looking at the window.
"Anything wrong mate?" Harry asked worried.
"I've been thinking" He started and turned to see Harry. "Do you remember when Mr. Brown came?" The man who lived nodded. "Well he said he had lost some information didn't he?" Harry nodded once again. "Why hasn't Hermione, or Mr. Giles in any case, asked if we received that information?"
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"You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I'm telling you why, Santa Close is coming to town!" Jonathan sang merrily.
"Who sings Christmas songs in the middle of September?" Annabelle, one of the potentials, asked Dawn.
"He does," Dawn answered while rolling her eyes "he's already starting to try convincing Buffy to decorate the house" Dawn explained moving with her foot some of the bags in the floor. "You guys should really start organizing your stuff, this house's a mess"
"Hey!" Diane whined. "It was already a mess when we arrived, we just make it more… obvious" She grinned.
"So Dawn, it must be fun having the slayer as your sister" Annabelle started. "I mean, you can learn how to fight without the need of being a potential or the slayer herself, not having the whole destiny crap hunting you"
"If you see it that way" Dawn muttered.
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"God they are going to finish all the money I have" Buffy whined while putting more cereal supermarket cart.
"I thought the Council had given you some money," Harry said putting in the car some vegetables at which Buffy looked disgusted. "They need something to make their diet balanced," He said before Buffy pulled it out of the car.
"So I suppose we have to grab fruits also" She said annoyed.
"Exactly, you are catching my…" He stayed thinking.
"Drill" Buffy completed amused. "You could almost pass as a Yank if it wasn't for that pretty accent of yours"
"I'll take that as a compliment, even though I'm not sure it was" Harry said grabbing some juice and getting it into the car as Buffy pushed it grabbing here and there some snacks. "Do you have any plans of rescuing Spike?"
"Many, but each less possible than the others" She answered getting in line pay. "You?"
"You mentioned that you had fought with the First before right?" He asked already knowing the answer, she nodded anyways. "Where did all of this happened?" Buffy's eyes widened in realization.
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"I'm just saying that maybe it would be fun going as a group" Draco suggested after Harry and Buffy had given the plan to the whole group.
"So what are we going to do Buffy?" Willow asked from her place.
"Buffy" Giles stopped her before she gave an answer. The door's sound was heard and everybody turned to look at Mr. Brown coming in.
"I hope you weren't all waiting for me," He said smiling.
"We didn't even notice your absence" Dawn muttered but shut up after Draco hit her softly with his elbow.
"So this is a social gathering, what's the topic?" He asked.
"Actually I was going to go out with some of the girls to patrol, so nothing new" Buffy answered before anyone else did. Some of the girls gave her a look, but she remained immune to it.
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"I will take much pleasure by saying I told you so" Kennedy said smugly.
"Well she could have warned me couldn't she?" Molly hissed quickly, while glaring at the blonde vampire slayer.
"The last time I checked my job was to save the world from big baddies, not to baby sit potentials with no common fashion sense" She replied smirking to herself, while she walked ahead of them with her arms crossed on her chest, careful not to step on mud.
"How-"Molly started but was interrupted by an angry witch behind her.
"The slayers have heightened senses, meaning she can hear your hissing and whispering, so take my advice if you want to whine or complain do it mentally" Mandy said looking with total disgust at the mud behind her. "Next time could we try go on your little adventures before it rains?" She asked sarcastically.
"I thought you knew I'm not a seer to know when it's going to rain, plus, don't you come from ole rainy England?" The slayer said with an amused tone. "The girls need to learn to blend themselves, and their outfits to the occasion, what better example that going out after raining" She jumped over a small pool of mud and who knows what else.
"Now my new boots are completely damaged," Molly whined looking at her now dark brown boots.
"Shh" The slayer said stopping dead on her tracks. She made a sign with her fingers for them not to make a sound and she walked slowly ahead careful not to step on a branch or let her position be known to what was waiting her ahead.
"This is so exciting" One of the girls behind whispered. The rest of the potentials glared at her and stayed looking at the slayer moving slowly to the clearing ahead.
They saw the slayer turning and pointing at Mandy, she ordered her to come and Mandy went to the place where Buffy was, imitating the past movements of the slayer.
"What-" Buffy's hand tapped her mouth and Buffy pointed her head, Mandy nodded after realizing what the sign meant. After some time in which the potentials looked at every tinny movement the slayer and the witch made, to figure what their plan was, they saw the retreat of the slayer with Mandy following her closely. Samantha, one of the potentials was about to question this, but the slayer put once again her index finger on her mouth, so they stayed quiet. Buffy passed the line of slayers and she continued walking with the potentials now coming behind her.
After they were back on the center of the cemetery were the trees were in less quantity and the graves numbers were higher the slayer stopped and let the potentials gather around her.
"We are going back," She announced. The whining was about to start when the slayer repeated her followed by "I was communicating with you, not asking for your opinions, so start moving back to the house" Mandy now took the leadership on the line and she was followed by the resigned potentials. Buffy waited a little bit on the place they had gathered and she saw as some of the last potentials gave her curious glances. She turned to see once again the clearing. She bit her lip unsure of what to do, but her curiosity beat her and before she knew it she was walking to the clearing once again.
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The mistery of the clearing on the next chapter and many unfinished business.
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