Out of the Blue
Chapter 8 – I'm a werewolf, can we date?
DISCLAIMER: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, and Harry Potter to J.K. Rowling. I don't own anything…
RATING: PG-13 (T) to R (M) - violence, language, angst, horror, mild sexual interactions, etc. If you can watch BTVS/AtS and read HP, I doubt you'll have any problem with this story.
TIMELINE: Takes place after season two in BTVS, and during the marauders last year at Hogwarts.
SUMMARY: BTVS/HP crossover. Life sucked for Buffy Summers. After taking her refuge to LA, she had hoped she would finally have some of that peace the Hellmouth couldn't provide. She should have known she was hoping for the impossible. When she gets propelled into another dimension, her life changes forever - but is it for the better or for worse?
CENTRAL PAIRING: Buffy/Remus
OTHER PAIRINGS: James/Lily, Sirius/OC
Special Thanks to: My Beta - CharmedChick
"Huh?"
Buffy stared at Dumbledore like he'd grown an extra head.
"What do you mean?"
"A werewolf mates for life, Buffy, and when a werewolf finds its chosen mate, he cannot harm her, or him. It's like a hidden desire to protect the person, and the wolf does not want to hurt the person in question."
"So you're saying the werewolf, whoever that is, has found its mate? And I'm it? Are we like...meant to be? Written in the stars, that kind of thing?"
'Huh. And here I thought Angel was my soulmate...but then again, maybe it wasn't meant to be...and it's not like I'll ever get a chance to find out...' she thought sadly.
"Well, yes, you are the mate of the werewolf. With other words, the wolf's chosen. But if you feel the same, that is another question."
"Oh, good..." Buffy muttered. She wouldn't be forced to be dating/seeing/marrying this other werewolf. She could still choose, and wouldn't fall head over heels for a person she didn't know because it was written in the stars. She could still date Remus...she smiled. During her 'visit' here, she found she was slowly getting used to the idea of this new dimension-thingy, and was dead serious on making the best of the situation, and move on with her life, without her past hunting her. And she was fairly sure she was falling for the handsome Gryffindor, so why fight it?
Buffy went down to the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall, looking around.
'Who could it be...? Who's the werewolf...?' She felt anxious, and frightened. What if the werewolf in question became possessive? No matter if she liked him back or not?
She wished she'd asked Dumbledore more questions...
'I'm going to look it up in the library...'
She almost snorted out loud. She, Buffy Summers, wanted to go to a library to research...voluntarily.
She sat down beside Lily, and started to look for Remus instead. Breakfast was almost over, and he still hadn't shown. She sighed and turned to Lily.
"Do you know were Remus is?"
Lily opened her mouth to answer, but before she was able to, the doors swung open, and revealed a tired-looking Remus. He smiled, and went over to them.
"Morning..."
"Hey...slept alright?"
Remus snorted.
"Yeah, right..." He sat down heavily, and Buffy looked at him worriedly.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Just tired." Remus managed to give Buffy a small grin, but Buffy looked skeptical.
"You sure? 'Cause you look like h...oh God, Remus! What did you do!" Buffy exclaimed when she spotted the bandages on Remus' arms. He hastily tried to hide them under the table, but Buffy grabbed them carefully, looking at them with a worried face. Around them, the rest of the students looked at them curiously.
"What happened!"
Remus felt how his face started to take on a bright tone of red, and he hastily hid his arms behind his back.
"Just an accident," he tried, hoping Buffy wouldn't put two and two together...
"An accident?" Buffy looked closer, and saw that some blood had started to show through the bandages.
"You really should get these changed."
Remus looked at his bandages and groaned.
"Not again...Madame Pomfrey has already switched them twice this morning..."
He started to leave.
"Hey! What about breakfast?" Buffy asked.
"Not hungry."
Buffy frowned and turnedat Lily.
"Is it just me, or is Remus hiding something?"
Lily shrugged.
"I'm sure it's nothing. He probably got hurt during one of the marauders pranks or something. Don't worry." Buffy looked at the redhead for a long time. Lily refused to meet her eyes, and this only made Buffy's suspicion grow. Something was bugging her in the back of her mind, but she couldn't figure out exactly what. She finally sighed, and turned back to her food.
After several failed tries to forget the thought of Remus, Buffy finally got up, and hurried out of the Great Hall, hoping to spot him, so she could talk to him. After a short while, she spotted the marauders, walking with Remus towards the hospital wing.
"You know, Moony," she heard James say, as she his behind the closest corner. She had to use every ounce of her Slayer hearing to catch what they were saying - she couldn't get any closer without being noticed - and the marauders moved farther away from her every step they took.
"You shouldn't hurt yourself like that."
Buffy almost gasped. Remus had done this to himself? Why?
"It's not like I can help it..." Remus said, grumpily.
What did he mean?
"Sorry, Moony. We should have been there, but we saw Buffy, and decided to follow her - she staked a vampire, it was wicked cool!" Sirius said, "It was like 'hit, bang, boom, and DUST!"
If the situation hadn't been so serious (no pun intended), Buffy would have laughed at Sirius amazement.
"It's fine...I wish I'd been there..." Remus said miserably, and Sirius and James grinned.
This time, Buffy really had to work to hear anything at all.
"Don't worry; I'm sure you'll get to see some Buffy in action - probably closer than we did..."
Remus didn't seem to notice the double meaning of the sentence - instead he sighed.
"Look, Moony," James said. "Maybe you should justtell her the truth."
Remus looked at him like he was crazy.
"The truth? Yeah, what a great idea: 'Hey, Buffy, I'm a werewolf, can we date?" Remus said, ironically. "Yeah, I'm sure that will work out just fine..."
Buffy frowned. Wear-what? She sighed- not even her Slayer hearing seemed to be enough to catch what they said. But she had a rising suspicion that she knew what.
"What was that?" Remus asked, and Buffy snuck closer into the shadows. She didn't want them to find her here - it would be embarrassing. It didn't even hit her that Remus had heard her sigh- while Buffy had trouble hearing what they were talking about. If it had, Buffy would've found it strange- how could Remus have better hearing than hers?
"What was what?" Sirius asked, and looked around. "Did you hear something?"
"I'm sure he was just imagining things..." Peter piped up, and James glared at the rat. If Remus said he heard something, then he heard something.
"Let's go..." Remus said nervously - if someone had heard them...
"It was probably just the wind," Sirius tried to assure him, although he was worried too. What if one of the Slytherins...?
"Yeah..." Remus said slowly, but he didn't look convinced.
"Oh, you poor dear," Madame Pomfrey said when Remus came in, and James and Sirius grinned, while Remus looked embarrassed. It was obvious to the marauders that if Lily Evans was the "Teacher's pet," then Remus was the "Nurse's pet".
"Did you have a rough night?" She asked, as she magically summoned some new bandages from a box in the corner. She frowned in worry - Remus seemed to have lost a lot of blood this time - he was paler than usual, and bled more than usual. Almost as bad as he had when he had first come to Hogwarts.
James and Sirius gave each other guilty looks- if they hadn't been busy "watching some Buffy-in-action", they would have been with Remus when the transformation started - and then he wouldn't have hurt himself, they thought. However, Remus caught their looks, and frowned, then shook his head, as a sign on that he didn't blame them - if he had been one of them, he would've rather watched Buffy too. This didn't help - they still looked guilty.
"It is too bad your transformations are so hard...poor child..." Madame muttered, as she muttered a charm over Remus wounds, and bandaged them again.
"What happened last night? You haven't looked this bad since..." She sighed, and shook her head. "Here, drink this. It's a blood clottingpotion - it should stop the bleeding," she said, and gave Remus a clear, green liquid from a bottle. Sirius wrinkled his nose - it looked disgusting. Remus however, swallowed it without a second thought - he was obviously used to it.
"It's too bad they haven't invented some kind of potion thatreduces the pain during transformations..." Madame Pomfrey said. "It would be so much more useful than that new one against warts - we already have loads of those."
Sirius grinned, but Remus snorted.
"It will never happen," he said. "Who would work for helping a werewolf?"
Madame Pomfrey scowled.
"Don't be so negative, Remus. Try to see things from the bright side. Now, I want you to go early to rest today, and don't exhaust yourself."
"Yes, Poppy," Remus mumbled with a small smile playing on his lips.
"There, you're free to go. And remember - rest! You will go directly to sleep, I don't care if it's barely been breakfast. No lessons, no reading - I mean it, Remus - NO reading!" Madame Pomfrey said when she saw Remus' starting protest.
"But...you've never stopped me from reading before!"
"But you have not looked this bad in a long time! And you're bleeding awfully. You need your rest. Poor child...it's too bad..."
Remus, James and Sirius rolled their eyes.
Buffy was sitting in Gryffindor common-room. She was pretty sure she knew what was going on...or partly, anyway. Last night, she'd met a werewolf. And he was her mate. Last night she'd seen the marauders in the woods, claiming they'd seen her, and wanted to see her slay. The werewolf had been bleeding from its front legs. Remus had been bleeding from his arms this morning. The marauders had been talking about how Remus had hurt himself, but couldn't help it. Remus had been saying he was a 'wear'-something. Buffy wasn't an idiot - she was pretty sure she knew now. She sighed. There was only one way to find out if she was right...
The portrait hole flew open, and the marauders entered. Buffy rose from her chair.
"Hi guys. Umm...can I talk to Remus for a sec? Alone?" She added, and the marauders gave each other a look. What was going on? She couldn't know...could she?
"Sure. Come on, let's go," James said, and started to leave for his dorm, Sirius and Peter following. Remus looked really nervous now, and gave Buffy a worried look.
"Sit," Buffy said sternly. Remus obeyed.
"Now, I would like to know what the HELL is going ON?" Buffy raised her voice, and Remus looked really shocked.
"I...I...don't understand..." he finally stammered.
"You don't understand? Well, let me spell it out for you: You've been lying to me, right?"
"What...? No!"
"No? NO?" Buffy almost shrieked now, and the other students in the common room hastily gathered their things together and left. They had a feeling this was a private conversation.
"Buffy, I..."
Buffy looked him straight in his amber eyes, this time, she didn't drown in them, since Remus looked terrified, and not mysterious slash hot slash Godlike slash sexy.
"Look me in the eyes, Moony, and tell me the truth: Do you trust me?"
There was a brief pause, and then...
"...Yes!"
"Then why the HELL have you been lying to me! Tell me the truth for once! Are. You. A. Werewolf?
Remus sat quiet, looking down on his feet. So someone had been listening.
That was answer enough for Buffy. She sighed.
"I can't believe it! You didn't think that would be important to tell me!"
"I...I..."
"You WHAT!"
"I was afraid!" Remus suddenly found himself standing up. "Afraid of what you would think of me!"
"What I would...?" Buffy looked confused, until she understood.
"Oh...you thought that I would..."
Remus looked down on his feet again, ashamed, before speaking up, slowly.
"You have to understand, Buffy, that almost everyone is afraid of werewolves and don't understand they're human beings. They think they're evil beasts, and a lot of people take pleasure in hunting them down, and kill them. And your reaction at Ollivander's...well, you didn't seem to like them very much, and I didn't think I could trust you. You have to understand that being a werewolf isn't something to brag about."
Suddenly Buffy saw everything in a new light. It wasn't about trust; it was about how she would react. Of course Remus was afraid that she would shun him away - a lot of people probably did. Buffy smiled sadly, and gave the werewolf a hug. He looked startled for a moment, before lending into her embrace.
"Don't ever, ever believe that I would hate you, Moony," she whispered, tears in her eyes.
"Don't ever do that. You are a beautiful person, and you would never harm anyone. Everyone who knows you knows that. Sure, maybe in your wolf-form, but that's judt one day out of the month - or is it three?"
Remus shook his head numbly.
"Why would you think it would be three?"
"Oh, let's just say I've had experience with werewolves before," Buffy said. "In Sunnydale, I had this friend who was a werewolf, and he transformed three days out of the month - the day before, during and after the full-moon."
Remus looked horrified at hearing this, so Buffy smiled.
"Don't worry - I don't think it hurt - it didn't seem like it. Maybe it's just one of the things that differs my world from yours." She gave him a peek on the cheek, before starting to leave. Remus flushed.
"I have to go, Lily's waiting in the library." Halfway out of the portrait hole, though, Buffy turned around with a stern look, reminding himof Professor McGonagall.
"But don't you ever keep something like that from me again! I'm sneaky, I'll find out somehow..." She winked, then she looked thoughtful.
"The hair in my wand...it's yours." It wasn't a question.
Remus flushed again, and that was answer enough. Buffy grinned.
"Nice to know."
After Buffy'd left, Remus looked after her in wonder, touching the spot on the cheek were Buffy had kissed him. He smiled.
Buffy smiled. Remus was her mate...
'What was I worried about?' She thought, and her smile grew to a full-fledged grin.
'Oh, yeah...he loves me...'
A/N: Hope you liked it, please tell me what you think ands REVIEW! -Make puppy-dog-eyes-
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