Out of the Blue
Chapter 28 – Freakishly healthy.
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/Eliza
Special Thanks to: My Beta - CharmedChick
When Remus woke up, he felt more content then he had in a long time, and the wolf was silent. He sighed happily, and snuggled closer to Buffy, who instinctively moved closer to him as well. Then he frowned, as he noticed a small scar after a bite mark at the side of her neck. Not after the Master - the vampire bite was on the other side - but from human teeth. His teeth, he realized, as the night flashed back to him.
"Mine", Remus growled huskily as he looked into her eyes.
"Yours", Buffy agreed, and Remus bit lightly into the side of her neck, marking her as his mate forever. He heard Buffy gasp slightly at the new sensation of being connected to him like that, on a completely new level, in many ways like a binding or the promises made in a marriage.
Remus blushed, as he recalled what they had done...and it had been amazing. Then he grinned. Buffy was truly his, and she wasn't going anywhere. Suddenly, he froze. What was the clock? As on cue, a clock appeared out of nowhere, and Remus blood drained from his face. He looked frantically out of the window, which also had appeared, and realized the sun was fading - the moon was rising.
"Oh, shit!" Remus flew out of the bed, and got dressed quickly. Buffy started to wake up.
"Rem...?"
"Full-moon," Remus muttered, and Buffy's eyes widened, as she realized what he meant.
"Uh oh..."
"You took the words out of my mouth," Remus said, putting his shoes on. These where unfortunately one of his best muggle clothes, and he knew they would all be shredded to pieces tonight, as he didn't have the chance to change into something which didn't matter if it got destroyed.
Buffy had flown up now too, and got dressed as well - Remus barely paid her any attention. He only had one word on his brain - hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry...
As they ran out of the corridor, they suddenly met professor McGonagall. Her eyes widened.
"Mr. Lupin!" She said. "What are you still doing inside!" Then she turned to Buffy.
"And you, Miss Summers, shouldn't you be in your dorm room - sleeping!" She gave Remus a reprimanding look.
"Yeah, yeah," Buffy said, waving her statement off. "We're in a bit of a hurry here..."
Then they ran past her, and continued to find the closest exit, ignoring McGonagall's call about irresponsibility, and taken points from Gryffindor for (in Buffy's case) being out after curfew.
Buffy and Remus met up with James and Sirius (Peter was nowhere to be seen) halfway to the Womping Willow.
"Where have you been!" Sirius hissed. "We were just on our way back to the castle to look for you, mate!"
"Long story," Buffy explained.
"We forgot the time," Remus said.
"Apparently not that long," Buffy said.
"And what is she doing here!" James exclaimed. "Not that I'm not happy or anything, but what are you thinking! She's not an animagus, she'll get hurt!"
Remus froze, and then looked up at the moon, soon completely visible behind the clouds.
"Run," he said, fear clearly visible in his eyes, but Buffy refused.
"No," she said. "James and Sirius can defend me if they have to, and I can defend me if I have to, but I'm not leaving. You're not gonna hurt me."
"GO!" Remus said again, but Buffy stubbornly stayed. The moon came into sight, and Remus let out a scream in agony, as his limbs and body transformed, and his clothes were destroyed. Buffy watched wide-eyed as her boyfriend turned into the beast she'd already seen, and thought beautiful, but it was one thing seeing him after the transformation, and another thing during it. Buffy's eyes filled with tears. It looked so painful... She was barely aware of James and Sirius turning into Prongs and Padfoot beside of her. Then, the transformation stopped, and the wolf stood there, watching her with something akin to curiosity.
"Hey, Moony," she said, taking a small step closer, ignoring Padfoot's barks telling her to stay away. Prongs got ready to jump between them, in case Moony would attack her.
Moony watched the girl curiously. He recognized her. He liked her. He let out a howl of happiness, and Buffy grinned, letting the wolf jump at her, licking her face. She laughed at Prongs' and Padfoot - she guessed their expressions were their animal ones for shock.
She turned to them still grinning.
"Told ya he wouldn't hurt me."
Moony let out a growl, as if to warn his pack mates to stay away from her, that she was his, and Buffy rolled her eyes and turned to him with a scowl. She hit him lightly on the nose, and Moony whimpered.
"No. Bad wolf. They are my friends, and your friends, and they're not gonna hurt me, or you, understand?"
Prongs and Padfoot were both sure he would attack Buffy, but instead, he just wiggled his tail in something they recognized as agreement. To say they were shocked was an understatement.
Buffy grinned.
"So, up for some Forest exploring?"
The next day, when Remus woke up in the shack, he found James and Sirius waiting there for him, with new clothes.
As soon as he woke up, they ambushed him with questions.
"Why didn't you attack Buffy?"
"How did she understand you?"
"How did Buffy know you wouldn't hurt her?"
"Why..."
"...Okay, okay! One question at the time. I don't know why. I don't remember anything I do as Moony. And I don't know how she understood me, but I have my suspicions as to why she knew I wouldn't hurt her - but not suspicions I want to share with you."
Sirius and James pouted.
"Aww, man! Come on!"
"Nope," Remus said. "Where's Buffy?"
James and Sirius smirked at each other, and Remus glared at them.
"Fine, fine, we'll tell you," James said. "Dumbledore's office."
Remus eyes widened.
"Nothing happened, right?"
Sirius shook his head.
"No. Apparently there was some kind of fight in the library yesterday, and Buffy was an eyewitness, so Dumbledore wanted her statement as to what happened."
Remus eyes widened. Oh shit...the library...Peter...
"You didn't happen to see Wormtail yesterday, did you?" James asked. "I looked for him last night, before we were going to meet you in the Shack, but...hey, where are you going?"
Remus had already rushed through the door.
Sirius and James blinked.
"Well, that was..."
"...Unexpected."
"Yeah. For being the night after a transformation, he seemed..."
"...Freakishly healthy."
"Tell me about it."
Remus rushed up to the Headmasters office, and was just about to start a guessing game for the password, when the gargoyle swung open, revealing Buffy.
"Buffy!"
"Rem!" Buffy looked surprised. "Are you okay? You don't need to go to the hospital wing or anything?"
Remus shook his head. "No. Just a bit sore, and some muscles are aching, but I'm fine."
Buffy regarded him for a moment.
"Hmm...nope, you're not. Hospital-wing it is."
She started to drag him with her.
"What did Dumbledore want?" He asked after awhile.
"Professor DD? Oh, he wanted to know about the struggle in the library last afternoon. Apparently Madame Pince came to him, demanding him to strip you of your prefect badge because of your immature acting, vandalisation of school property, and the attacking of a fellow student for no apparent reason," Buffy said shrugging. Remus had grown white as a sheet.
'I'm not a prefect...Dumbledore knows I'm a werewolf...he'll think I lost control...I'll be expelled...I won't be able to take my NEWT's...I'll be shipped off to Azkaban...I'll be executed..."
"Hello, Remus?" Buffy snapped with her fingers in front of Remus eyes. "Are you there?"
Remus gulped, and Buffy watched him oddly. Then her eyes widened in understanding.
"Oh...you think you're going to be punished?"
Remus only nodded.
"Oh, you're not. I explained what happened - that you came in, and saw Peter grope me as I resisted - it was all in defense."
Remus gave her a blank look.
"In defense?"
"Uh-hu. He understood, and said werewolves can tend to be a bit possessive when it comes to their mates. And I might have said something like 'who knows what could have happened if you hadn't showed up and saved the day', but I know he knows I could have pried Peter off easily after I got over my shock." Buffy looked him in the eyes.
"You're not being punished. Dumbledore had your ban from the library lifted, and restored all the points and removed the detention. Then he gave you five points for defending a fellow student, and Peter a detention for eh...feeling up a fellow student." She gave him a small grin.
"He did say though you should have done something less drastic than hitting Peter, but said that during the circumstances - us dating and all - it didn't really matter. It all worked out for the best, don't you think?"
Remus nodded dumbly as the things Buffy told him sank in.
"Where's Peter?" He finally said.
Buffy shrugged.
"Don't know. Pince said you broke his nose though."
Remus winced. "Ouch. I didn't mean that."
Buffy shrugged.
"Don't worry. If you hadn't showed up, I would probably have castrated him instead."
Remus gave Buffy a look that clearly said 'pain', and she laughed.
"I wouldn't do it to you, so you got nothing to worry about. Unless you piss me off," she said sweetly, making Remus sweat quite a bit. Note to self - don't do that.
As they entered the hospital wing, they heard someone whine from another bed.
"Oh, quit your whining, Pettigrew," Madame Pomfrey said. "I gave you a pain killing potion, and your nose is almost back to normal."
Remus froze, and made a motion to turn around, but Buffy stopped him and shook her head.
"Just ignore him."
"Oh, Remus!" Madame Pomfrey said. (The whining from the bed instantly stopped) "I just wondered when I would get a visit from you! And...Miss Summers, is it?"
Buffy nodded.
"Yep. I'm playing escort." She gave Remus a playful glare. "The little wolf tried to run away - afraid of the hospital wing, are we, Moony?" She said mockingly. Remus stuck out his tongue at her, and Buffy smirked.
Madame Pomfrey nodded.
"It's good that you brought him here...even if he's feeling well. I suppose you know about his..."
"...Special situation. Yes. No other students who can overhear?" She asked, looking around.
"Oh, no, only Mr. Pettigrew, but since he already know about Remus'...illness, there is no need to be secretive about it. Sit down, Remus."
Remus sat down on a bed, glaring at the drapery behind which he guessed Peter's bed was standing.
"Remus?" Remus looked up.
"Uh-hu?"
"I didn't know you and the nurse was on first name basis?"
"Oh, well, we are. That kind of happens when you come here at least once every month for six years - that's how long Poppy's been here. Before her it was another nurse, much nastier. Almost a little like professor Shrikin in personality - she didn't like werewolves, and really didn't like treating me - she got enough after only my first year, and that's when Pomfrey came."
Buffy nodded in understanding. Pomfrey came back with a bottle of a blue liquid.
"Here you go, Remus, dear. It should ease the ache in any muscles and any soreness you might have. If you feel worse towards the evening, you know where to find me. I trust your friends will make sure to contact me if anything happens."
Remus nodded, and made a motion to stand up, when the drapery in front of Peter's bed flew open, revealing their fellow 'friend' and marauder. His nose was quite red and a bit swollen. Remus scowled, and Buffy narrowed her eyes at him.
"There, Mr. Pettigrew - the potion should have taken effect by now, and your nose should be almost healed. It might itch a bit for a while, but do not touch it. I don't see any reason for you to stay here any longer as long as you take it easy."
Peter gave Remus a frightened look.
"But..."
"No buts. No need to miss your lessons if it isn't necessary."
The walk back to the Gryffindor common room was a quiet one. Finally, the portrait of the Fat Lady came into view, but Remus stopped Peter from entering after Buffy.
"I just want to make one thing clear, Peter," he said. Peter gulped but nodded. "Buffy and I are together, as in a c o u p l e. I just wanted to make that clear so you don't make another mistake like the one yesterday."
Peter squeaked out a yes.
"And another thing - you may not have known we were together at the time, but you must have seen we were interested in each other, so when you made your pass on Buffy, it was pretty much unforgivable. You don't do that to your friends," Remus said, staring into Peter's eyes. Peter nodded quickly, before turning his look away.
"I'm not going to yell at you, but I just want you to know this is your only warning. If I so much as see you look at Buffy in any other way than a pure friendly one, then I won't be so lenient. In fact, you should be very happy if the only damage you get is a broken nose. And I know for a fact that Buffy was seriously considering castrating you last night, so you might want to take that into consideration as well."
Peter stared at Remus wide-eyed, nodding.
Remus grinned, and clapped him on the back.
"Good, just so we're clear." Then he gave him another blazing glare in warning, before stepping into the portrait hole. If he had turned around, he would have seen the look of pure hatred and loathing Peter sent him behind his back.
As soon as Remus stepped into the common room, Sirius threw an arm over his shoulders, leading him towards the fireplace and the sofas.
"So...Moony, my dear friend," Sirius said. "Care to share?"
Remus blushed, but decided to play innocent.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
Sirius smirked.
"No? Well...let me tell you. One - you came with Buffy to the Womping Willow last night. Two - you're pretty much soaring on clouds. Three - you didn't hurt Buffy. Conclusion - something happened. Did you get lucky?" He said grinning, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. Remus blushed, and smacked Sirius upon the head.
"Oh, shut up. Where's James?"
"He decided I was too much of a boring company, so he took his fair lady Lily with him to have a nice walk around the lake," Sirius said, sighing, and getting a disgusted expression at the mention 'walk around the lake'.
"I'm telling you, Moony, that guy is so smitten it's sad. I'm afraid we've forever lost him to the romantic life. Poor Lily has completely turned his head around."
Remus snickered.
"Well, as long as Prongs is happy about it."
Sirius snorted. "Happy isn't the right world. More like ecstatic. He's unbelievably, extremely happy. I swear James will propose and get married to her before anyone else. And I'm sure they will have at least five little kids before he turns thirty! He's almost skipping around, and the only thing he can talk about is 'Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily. Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily.'"
"Someone called?"
Sirius froze, and his eyes widened. He gulped and slowly turned around, hastily putting on a plastic smile.
"Lily-kins! How nice of you to drop by! Heheh..."
Lily raised her eyebrows.
"Really?" She said dryly. "And here I was, thinking the exact opposite."
Sirius let out a faked laugh. Behind him, Remus was doing his best not to burst out laughing. Sirius was so dead.
"Where's Jamie?" Sirius asked.
"Oh, he was going to get me a drink from the kitchens," she said sweetly.
Sirius couldn't help but smirk, and turned his head back to Remus for a second, miming the word 'smitten'.
"You know, Sirius," Lily said slowly when Sirius turned back to her. "I wonder what Eliza would say if she knew about your attitude towards anything romantic in a relationship."
All color drained from Sirius' face, and his eyes widened.
"W-what?" He stammered.
"Yes, that's right," Lily said. "Do you really want to find out what she would do if a little bird - let's say a red-colored one, whispered in her ear..." She trailed off, giving Sirius a smug look.
"Y-you wouldn't!" Sirius said, horrified. Lily smirked.
"Oh, believe me, I would. I happen to know Eliza likes boys who are very attentive to her...I wonder what she would do if she knew her boyfriend wasn't, hmm?"
Sirius gulped, then got up from his place and practically ran out of the common room.
"Hey, Padfoot!" Remus called after him. "Where are you going!"
"To get Eliza a drink!"
The portrait hole slammed shut. Remus and Lily gave each other a look, before bursting out laughing.
"Whipped," Remus stated, when he'd finished laughing.
"Totally," Lily agreed, and gave Remus a look. Then, they burst out laughing again.
A/N: And I am back! -Listens to my reader's cheers- And I'm happier than ever! I've read the HBP and it was soooooo great!
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