Out of the Blue

Chapter 9 – Why not with me?

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


When Remus walked into the dorm he shared with the other marauders, they got up and faced him worriedly.

"What did she say?"

"Is she mad of something?"

"Is she leaving?"

"Are you dating?"

The last comment came from James, who saw Remus being unable to hide his grin.

Remus shook his head.

"Something, she was, no and definitely no!" Remus answered.

"Well, tell us!" Sirius said. "You're our best friend, tell us!"

Remus gave him a thoughtful look, teasing him.

"You know, Sirius, I never really punished you for that argument we had when Buffy first came here...in fact, we never even finished. Maybe I shouldn't let you know anything!"

Sirius swallowed. 'I knew teasing him was a bad idea...'

"Well," he tried, "Prongs will tell me everything later anyway...right? Prongs?"

James grinned. For a moment he played with the thought to not let Sirius in, but decided it would be too cruel.

"Count on it," he promised, but when Sirius sighed with happiness, he added:

"But I would watch out for things in your bed from now on...you'll never know what you can find..." All the color left Sirius' face, and Peter and Remus snickered.

'I knew teasing Remus was a really, really bad idea...'

When the marauders went to bed that night, they had tons fun watching Sirius check his bed before lying down.


"Lily...," Buffy asked. The girls had been awake long after their roommates; Sandra Blake and Zanna Blake had gone to sleep. (They were twins) Since there had been an extra bed in their dorm, Buffy had been able to move in with them.

"Mmhm...?"

Buffy was quiet for a long time, thinking about how she would formulate the question without revealing Remus' condition.

"What do you think about werewolves?"

Lily turned to look at her.

"I have nothing against Remus or any other werewolves- they're people just like us, they've just been more unlucky."

Buffy looked so shocked, so Lily had to giggle.

"Yes, I knew. I've known ever since we studied them in our third year. No one knows that I know though - except maybe Dumbledore. I think he knows almost everything that's going on in this school."

Buffy nodded. It made sense. Professor Bubblegum seemed to know a lot.

"Have you told Remus you know?"

Lily shook her head.

"Not exactly. But I think he knows that I know though. I've been giving him some hints...and I'm not sure, but I think the others might be Animagi..."

"Ani-what?"

Lily grinned.

"Animagi. They are witches and wizards who can turn themselves into an animal."

"Oh. So the guys are this ani-thingy?"

Lily nodded.

"I think so anyway. I stumbled upon them once in the library, reading about the spell...not sure if they've managed to pull it off, though. I guess it's because they wanted to be able to keep Remus company during his transformations - a werewolfis only dangerous to humans."

Buffy stared at Lily in awe. 'She really is smart...and that explains why James and Sirius could be in the Forest to keep Remus company...'

"It's very advanced magic. I'm actually impressed, if they managed to do it...You're not even allowed to try until you're eighteen, so if they did pull it off, that's less impressive. It's very dangerous, and very hard. There aren't many wizards or witches who have power enough to pull it off. They could have ended up half-cat, half-human for example. It's really tricky if you don't know for sure what you're supposed to do. I wish I knew what kind of animals they were...well, if they've done it, of course. But knowing the marauders, it would be just like them totry a thing like that." Lily sighed, and Buffy thought about it for a moment.

"Maybe we can..."

"What do you mean?" Lily frowned. "You can't really see on a person what kind of animal you turn into. Well, I guess some of their personality resembles the Animagus, but that's not enough to go on. Every person has so many different traits and personalities hidden inside, it's impossible to figure out which one resembles the animal."

"Well...what about nicknames?" Buffy said. Lily stared at her for awhile, until she understood what she meant. She sniggered.

"Right...I should have thought of that. Kind of stupid, really, to name themselves after their Animagus-form. I mean, for being so afraid of people finding them out, isn't it really stupid to leave an open clue like that?"

They both laughed.

"Anyway...well, Moony is Remus - the werewolf. Easy enough. Peter...Wormtail."

"A worm?" Lily suggested.

"Eew," Buffy said. "Nah. I can't believe he would be a worm. It's too easy. I think we have to include the tail...maybe something with a tail that looks like a worm?"

Lily nodded in agreement.

"That's probaply right. A lizard?"

They both shuddered at the thought of a big, green lizard crawling around the castle and in their beds.

"I hope not!"

Lily thought a bit more.

"I got it! A rat!"

"Of course!" Buffy agreed. "It suits him perfectly. Small, shy..." (She was going to add 'cowardly, ugly, and mainly creepy in a rat-ty way', but she didn't think Lily would be too pleased with her if she did)

"Alright...Sirius. Padfoot. Something with padded feet?"

"Or paws..." Buffy said. "Maybe he's a bear? Or a dog?"

"A dog...yeah, I'm sure you're right! I could swear he's a big and black one."

The girls snickered again.

"That only leaves James 'The bloody prat' Potter," Lily said, and Buffy covered her mouth with her hands to hide her laughter.

"You don't mean that!"

"Oh, yes I do!" Silence. "Sometimes." Silence. "Not so often as usual." Silence. "But he is, now and then."

Buffy rolled her eyes.

"Alright. James- Prongs. Something with antlers?"

"A deer?" Lily suggested sweetly, and Buffy burst out into peels of laughter.

"I'm sure he would be delighted to hear that! 'Oh, James!" She said in a dramatic voice.

"'I am so glad you are willing to show me your more feminine sides...my deer!'"

After finally being able to settle down their laughter (it took awhile), Buffy spoke up again.

"Honestly, though, I guess he must be a stag or something."

"A stag? For what? To resemble his ego?" Lily snorted, and Buffy hid a smile under her covers.

"I think it's supposed to resemble his more majestic part - and that came out more wrong than I intended..." she added, and the girls roared with laughter once again.

"Can you be quiet...?" One of the other girls mumbled, before rolling over so she faced the wall. Buffy wasn't sure whom.

"Sorry Zanna," Lily apologized.

"I'm Sandra!" The girl said indicated.

"Oh...well, you look the same to me." Buffy and Lily once again laughed, earning a pillow each in the back.

"PILLOW FIGHT!" Buffy screamed, waking up the other Blake sister, and soon the war had begun. Buffy was careful not to use her Slayer strength- killing someone in a pillow fight could be a little hard to explain...


Two hours later, Peter was still laying awake in his bed, listening to all the sounds around him. He thought about Vol - you-know-who. He had said he would fight against him, yes, but only because the others had. In his mind, he didn't know what he would be able to do. He had never been really good in anything... He sighed, and then thought about Buffy. It had been awhile since she had arrived, and he felt something he hadn't felt before, rising in him every time he watched her. He found himself doing it more and more often now.

'I think I'm...I think I like her...,' he suddenly realized, and smiled. He, Peter, liked a girl.

'Just wait 'til the others hear about it...' His smile suddenly faltered. Somehow, he had a feeling the others wouldn't like it. Why he didn't know, but he just knew they wouldn't. And he had a weird feeling that Buffy would like it even less. Of all the days Buffy'd been here, she hadn't spent any time with Peter, if he didn't happen to be with the others. In fact, she barely even spoken to him at all.

'She only talks with Remus...,' Peter thought, jealously, although he knew she spoke to James and Sirius too - but not with him.

'Why not with me?' He thought. 'It's not like I'm ugly, or mean or something. If she can hang out with a 'person' like Remus...' he snorted. When Remus had told them that Buffy knew about his lycanthrope, and had been okay with it, Peter had been horrified. Sure, Peter hung out with Remus, and accepted him, but only because James and Sirius did. In his mind, he wanted to stay as far away from Remus as possible...even though the werewolf was a good 'study-buddy', and very helpful and nice in all kind of ways.

'Damn werewolves...evil beasts they are...,' he thought, and then he became horrified at the thought. This was his friend he was thinking about! Remus had never harmed him. He shuddered out of his thoughts, and two seconds later, he was fast asleep, snoring terribly loudly.

Around him, the other marauders slept peacefully, completely unaware of Peter's real thoughts.


"Prongs! Watch this!" Sirius screamed happily, and rose in the air on a flying motorbike.

"You're crazy!" James laughed. "I can't believe you actually enchanted it to fly!"

"As long as the muggles don't find out about it," Remus said, he had to raise his voice so Sirius would hear over the motor-sound. "I don't really see a problem. Do you think you could make it fly less loudly!"

Sirius stared at him.

"Less loudly!" he screamed, "Moony, my dear friend, it's the sound thatmakes the motorbike so SPECIAL!"

"Well, I have to say it suits you!" Buffy laughed, "you're big and black too!"

"Hahaha, really funny, Buff," Sirius said ironically, but laughed anyway. Suddenly, he heard a cry, and a red-head ran out of a building.

"SIRUS BLACK," she shrieked, "TURN OFF THAT HORRIBLE MOTORBIKE THIS INSTANT! YOU'RE WAKING HARRY!"

"Take it easy, Lils...you sound like my mother..."

"NOW!"

"Yeah, yeah..." Sirius muttered, and turned the bike off. Then he turned to James, shaking his head slowly.

"If I had known being a Godfather was such of a tough responsibility, I would never have agreed."


Peter found himself standing in the Forbidden Forest.

Suddenly, a black hooded figure swept over to him.

"Mr. Pettigrew. I'm so glad you found your way here," the voice said, dryly.

"Lcuius...I...I don't understand why we would meet here...it's so d-dark..." Peter stammered. The man, who obviously were Lucius Malfoy, laughed, and turned to another hooded figure beside him.

"Did you hear him, Bella? Poor little Peter is afraid...!"

Soon all the others around him where laughing too.

"Alright, that's enough," a voice said, and Peter found he'd gone cold in less than a second. He turned his eyes upwards, and looked into two small, red, eyes- the eyes of Lord Voldemort.

"Mr. Pettigrew. I see you came after all."

"Y-yes, my Lord. H-how could I not?"

Voldemort snorted.

"Spare me from your pleasantries, Pettigrew- or should I say, 'Wormtail?'"

Peter shuddered.

"Why are you here, Mr. Pettigrew?"

"I-I want to..."

"You want to...?" Voldemort asked, "...join me? Is that what you want?"

Peter nodded. "Y-yes, my lord."

Voldemort stared at him for a moment.

"You do realize that being in my forces doesn't mean pleasantries or holidays, Mr. Pettigrew, hmm?"

"Y-yes, my Lord. I-I am willing to pay any price...just...let me in..."

"What about your friends? Black, Lupin...Evans...Summers...and Potter!" Voldemort spat out all their names, and Peter winced.

"Th-they don't matter, my Lord..."

"Not even...Summers?"

Peter bit his lip. Buffy...beautiful Buffy... but... no. She didn't matter. None of them did. She wasn't worth it. Only trouble...how could she choose Remusover of him?

"No, my Lord. None of them do."

Voldemort chuckled.

"Very well." Voldemort raised his wand, and Peter screamed in pain when it started to burn intothe skin on his left arm. When he looked, he saw that a green skull seemed to have been tattooed into his skin.

"Welcome to the Death Eaters, then, Mr. Pettigrew."

Voldemort laughed again.

"CRUCIO!"


"Remus!"

"Buffy!"

Remus saw himself running towards her on the Quidditch pitch- Gryffindor had won a crushing victory against Slytherin: 320 points to50. This meant the house cup was theirs.

"Did you see me up there?" Buffy asked him excitedly, her eyes twinkled with happiness.

"You were great!" Remus said. James coughed, and Remus hastily corrected himself.

"You were good too, Prongs," he assured him.

"Damn straight I was! Who made that last goal, huh?" James asked, grinning from ear to ear like a madman.

Remus and Buffy looked at each other, raising their eyebrows.

"Buffy did," Remus said. "I did," Buffy agreed.

"You didn't!" James protested, "I did! You must've seen it! That trick! It must've been worth at least a million galleons...!" There was a brief pause. "All right, maybe not a million, but maybe a hundred? I mean, I flew straight towards the keeper, without stopping - he almost wet his pants by the way, and then he moved, and I scored!" James explained, waving his arms around, as he wanted to make more impact on what he just had said.

"Yes, you did, Jamie, but what you didn't notice was that Buffy scored another goal when you were doing the victory-dance on your broom," Sirius said, laughing at James crushed look.

"But..." His lips seemed to tremble. He hadn't even noticed Sirius' use of the nickname he hated.

"...But it was the last game - my last game at Hogwarts. I was supposed toscore the last goal...sum it up..."

"...Well, if you hadn't been busy doing the victory-dance on your broom, I'm sure the goal would have been yours," Buffy quipped, and then turned her face to Remus, and gave him a smacking kiss in front of everybody. Remus looked shocked for a moment, and then he grinned, and lend in for another kiss. Buffy giggled at James face - it was unbelievable.

"Eeew, they're making out...in public!" Sirius complained and pretended to cover his eyes with his hands. A girl Remus didn't recognize rolled her eyes.

"Grow up, Sirius," she said, but couldn't help but smile.

James looked like a fish - his jaw was hanging open, and his eyes seemed to be ready to fall out of his eye sockets any minute.

"When? What? How? When?"

"Oh, shush you," Lily said, and gave James a kiss too. "Feel better?" she asked with a teasing smile. James woke up out of his trance and started to grin too.

"Much," he said, and tried to move in for another kiss, like Remus had, but Lily only held up a warning finger.

"No! Bad stag!" She said, but smiled.

Remus grinned at the scene in front of him - it was like it should be. They were all together, and it was all good.

"So...Remus...are you doing something special tonight? Except celebrating the Gryffindor victory?" Buffy asked, and looked him seductively in the eyes.

Remus grinned again. Yes, it was all like it should be...


James found himself standing in front of Lily Evans, holding a ring in his hands.

"Lily. I know that I can be a real prat sometimes...and I know that I can be horribly immature. But even if I am a thick-headed stag, I still love you. Lily, I love you so much, and I have loved you ever since I first saw that beautiful face of yours, and I want to wake up everyday and see it. Lily Evans, will you marry me?"

It was quiet for a long while, and James thought he'd made a horrible mistake.

"YES!"

She jumped up in his arms, and kissed him hard.

"YES, YES I DO! James, I'll marry you. I love you..."

James saw the picture change, but he didn't mind. It was a very pleasant dream thus far, and as long as he didn't wake up, or the next image was a divorce, who was he to complain?

"James..." Lily walked towards him, and he lit up.

"Do you want to hold him? He's been crying for you..."

James took the bundle in his arms.

"Oh, you missed your daddy, didn't you? Yes, you did, yes, you did...¦!"

Lily rolled her eyes, but looked proudly on their son, and her husband holding him.

"Are you a marauder, my dear Harry? Are you? Yes, you are! You are going to be a success at Hogwarts," James cuddled, "and all the girls are going to run their legs off for you, and..."

"Okay, that's enough," Lily said, "James, he's barely one!"

"Sorry, Lils, but I can't help it..."

Suddenly, it became dark. James looked worriedly through the window, and felt all the colordrain from his face.

"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off..."The image changed once again, and James found himself standing in front of a horrible person...no, not person...monster. Then there was a flash of blinding green light, and then...nothing. James woke up, sweating horribly. In another bed, in another room, Buffy and Lily woke up of the same dream.


A/N: Tadaah! How do you like. -Grins and laughs like a maniac- Heh. Hope you didn't think I let the Animagus secret come out too soon, but I had to insert it somewhere, and that was the only place that seemed right. By the way, is it anyone else here who hates Wormtail? REVIEW!

/Ida