Out of the Blue

Chapter 30 – Not a commercial show.

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


A/N WARNING:Chaptercontains a little spoiler from the HBP!
At the twentieth of April, James turned eighteen. The marauders all thought it was something to celebrate, since it was the last birthday of the marauder's that would be celebrated before gradation, and therefore, they all threw him a big surprise party one night after Quidditch practice. James wasn't really surprised, but happy nonetheless, since his birthday was the perfect excuse to relax and take it easy, without being called a hypocrite by his teammates for doing exactly what he didn't want them to do: Take a break. Afterwards, everyone was in a much better mood.

The days turned into weeks, and the Quidditch season was almost over - the only thing missing to complete it was the grand finale. The last game, and it would stand between the two rivaling houses - Gryffindor and Slytherin, red and gold against green and silver, the lion against the snake. And both wanted the cup and the honor and the glory that came with it.

Remus, Lily, Peter and Eliza made their way up to the Gryffindor stand, and Sirius went to the commentator box, beside the teacher's stands. Buffy was in the changing rooms with the rest of the team - nobody doubted James was right now giving them a last pep-talk before the game...


"...NICK! GIVE ME BACK MY HAIRBRUSH! RIGHT IN THIS INSTANT"

Nick, one of the Gryffindor beaters, laughed, and ran away from a very pissed off Michaela Duncan, chaser, hairbrush between his teeth. The rest of the team rolled their eyes, while James stood by the door, already dressed and ready, stomping his foot impatiently. He had given up trying to bring order fifteen minutes ago. It was useless.

"Catch me if you can, Micha!" Nick said, as he took out the hairbrush of his mouth, waving it around.

Buffy raised her eyebrows. Lover's-spat or something?

"ALRIGHT!" James finally had had enough. Nick stopped, and Michaela snapped the hairbrush back, just to drop it again directly afterwards.

"Oh, gross Nick! You've drooled on it!"

Nick just smirked, and James glared, giving them his best 'don't-piss-off-James-Potter-face'.

"ATTENTION!"

"Yes, sir!" Buffy said, earning herself another glare. The team hastily grabbed their brooms, and stood on a line, doing their best not to start laughing at a pacing James.

"Okay. This is it. We have beaten Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. And we can do it again. Now. Today. We. Are. The. Best. Damn. Team," James said, as he hit his fist in his palm as if to make a point.

"And we're going to win. Everyone knows the lions are the kings. And today, we are going to show the snakes we always will be."

"Yes, sir!" The team chorused. James glared again.

"I am proud of this team. We have the best beaters."

Nick Vandom and Sam Bryant pretended to wipe tears from their eyes.

"The coolest keeper."

Gregory Morgan grinned, and made a mock bow.

"A seeker who's the fastest ever."

"Aww, that's so sweet!" Amanda Lorne said.

"And...we have two chasers who never misses the goalposts."

"Thank you, thank you." Buffy and Michaela Duncan said.

"And we also have a third chaser. Me. The captain of this team. And together, we are unbeatable. And today, we are going to show it to the world! ARE YOU WITH ME?"

"YES, SIR!"

"AND STOP CALLING ME SIR!"


"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GIRLS AND BOYS, PROFESSORS AND OTHERS! WELCOME TO THE LAST QUIDDITCH GAME FOR THE SEASON! TODAY, MY FRIENDS, IS THE DAY WE ALL WILL KNOW IF IT IS THE BRAVE LIONS, OR THE COWARDLY SNAKES WHO GETS THE CUP!"

"BLACK!"

"I'm just telling the truth, Minnie. AND HERE COME THE SNEAKY SNAKES - CRONWELL, DAVIES, MCBLAKE, HEMINGWAY, HENDRICKSON, KIRK AAAAND KIRK NUMBER TWO! IF SHE WASN'T A SLYTHERIN AND I WASN'T ALREADY DATING THE BEAUTIFUL ELIZADE MORT, I MIGHT HAVE GIVEN HER A CHANCE!"

"SIRIUS!" Both McGonagall and Eliza screeched.

"Sorry darling, Sorry Minnie. ANYWAY, ONTO THE REAL TEAM! THE LIONS!"

The stands erupted in cheers - well, all stand except the Slytherin one of course.

"NOW WHEN WE FINALLY CAN INTRODUCETHOSE WITH THE TRUE TALENT - IN BED, AND OUT OF IT - "

"BLACK!"

"YEAH, YEAH. THE TEAM WITH THE TRUE TALENT - THE GRYFFINDOR TEAM - MORGAN, BRYANT, VANDOM, LORNE, DUNCAN, SUMMERS AAAAND OUR VERY OWN POTTER! LET THE GAME BEGIN!"

"THE QUAFFLE IS IN IMMEDIATE POSSESSION BY HENDRICKSON FOR THE SNEAKY SNAKES - I DON'T THINK HE'LL EVER GET A GIRLFRIEND - "

" - BLACK!"

"...SORRY! BUT THANKS TO A WELL PLACED BLUDGER FROM BRYANT, HE DROPS THE QUAFFLE, WHICH IS TAKEN BY DUNCAN - TOO BAD YOU DIDN'T HIT HIS HEAD, BRYANT!"

"BLACK, I'M WARNING YOU!"

"Whatever. DUNCAN SPEEDS THROUGH THE PITCH, PASSES TO SUMMERS, WHO PASSES BACK TO DUNCAN - AND SHE SCORES! TEN-ZERO FOR THE LIONS - TAKE THAT, YOU SNEAKY BASTARDS! IT'S OBVIOUS WHO HAS THE TALENT - AND THE LOOKS!"

"BLACK!"

"SORRY! SNEAK-TEAM IS ONCE AGAIN IN POSSESSION OF THE QUAFFLE - HENDRICKSON FLIES THE BEST HE CAN WITH IT - IT'S NOT VERY GOOD."

"BLACK FOR THE LAST TIME - THE GAME!"

"Yeah, yeah...AFTER MINNIE DOES HER BEST TO TAKE THE FUN OUT OF MY COMMENTING, HENDRICKSON SHOOTS - MORGAN SAVES! THROWS THE QUAFFLE TO SUMMERS, TO DUNCAN, BACK TO SUMMERS - TWENTY-ZERO TO GRYFFINDOR! THAT WAS A GOAL WITH STYLE, BUFF! NEXT TIME, TRY TO SHOW A BIT MORE SKIN!"

"SIRIUS!" Sirius grinned as he saw Remus give him a glare from his stand. As he turned back to the game, he suddenly saw something red in his vision, and then...

"OUCH! WHAT THE HELL!" Sirius grabbed his nose on where the Quaffle had hit him. As he looked up, he saw Buffy grabbing it again, grinning and sticking out her tongue at him.

"AFTER SUMMERS DECIDED TO HIT ON ME, SIRIUS - 'I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY OWN GOOD' - BLACK, SHE ZOOMS BACK TO THE GAME, AND PASSES TO POTTER, DUNCAN, BACK TO POTTER - WHO SCORES! THIRTY-ZERO TO THE RED AND GOLD LIONS - THETEAM WITH THE REAL BALLS...AND MELONS - "

"BLACK! CAN YOU FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE COMMENT ON THE GAME!"

"Spoiling my fun..." Sirius grumbled. "ANYWAY, IT SEEMS SLYTHERIN HAS JUST A HARD TIME SCORING ON THE PITCH AS OUTSIDE IT! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME ONE IN THEIR TEAM HAD A GOOD SHAG!"

"BLACK!"

"What? I'm just stating a fact, professor! GRYFFINDOR ONCE AGAIN IN POSSESSION - DUNCAN SCORES! BY THE WAY, IF YOU NEED A GOOD PLACE TO SNOG, THE ASTRONOMY TOWER IS BOOKED FOR THE WHOLE WEEK, EXCEPT SATURDAY - TALK TO ME AFTER THE GAME IF YOU ARE INT- Hey!"

McGonagall had grabbed the megaphone from Sirius with force.

"This is not a commercial show, Black," she hissed. "Comment onthe game, or else..."

"Fine," Sirius grumbled and took the megaphone back.

"AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE MINNIE HERE SO RUDELY INTERRUPTED, THE ATRONOMY TOW - NO! IT'S MINE!"

Sirius and McGonagall were now having some kind of pulling contest with the megaphone in their stand. Half of the spectators where watching them. Every now and then, Sirius managed to put in a comment.

" - DROP -"

" - KILL -"

" - MINE -"

Finally they stopped, when Sirius pulled a bit harder than he meant to, making McGonagall loose her balance and fall backwards, into professor Slughorn's arms.

"AND SIRIUS 'I AM UNBEATABLE' BLACK IS THE WINNER! Minnie - don't look at me like that! Your own Sluggy knight in shining armor came to your rescue, right? - Be grateful! ATTENTION EVERYBODY! OUR DEAR TRANSFIGURATION PROFESSOR IS ABOUT TO BE SHAGGED BY OUR OWN PROFESSOR 'MY HOBBY IS TO WORSHIP LILY EVANS' SLUGHORN!"

Sirius saw Lily glare daggers at Sirius' from where she was standing. Sirius gave her a cheeky grin, and was just about to keep commenting when he heard McGonagall's voice - more lazed with unreleased fury than ever.

"BLACK!"

Sirius gulped, and started running, McGonagall after, making the spectators flee in every direction, as he kept commenting.

"AND IT'S KIRK NUMBER TWO WITH THE QUAFFLE..."

Sirius said, as he jumped over a bench with ducking people, panting.

"...AND ANOTHER SAVE BY MORGAN! GOOD JOB! NOBODY CAN SCORE ON YOU TODAY - UNLESS YOUR NAME IS CECILIA KANE, FIFTH-YEAR PREFECT IN GRYFFINDOR - I'VE HEARD THE RUMOURS, FOLKS! OUR SIXTH YEAR KEEPER MANAGED TO KEEP HER TO HIMSELF - FOR SOME WELL DESERVED SNOGGING - OR SHAGGING, WHO KNOWS?"

He ducked a spell sent by McGonagall's wand, before shaking his head.

"I'm too old for this..." he muttered. Finally, McGonagall gave up, and Sirius chose to stand in a corner as far away from his Head of House as possible.

The game continued, and soon it turned nasty. It became more and more obvious as to which team played honestly, and which team played dirty. When Gryffindor had 140, to Slytherin's 10, they started to do all sorts of dirty tricks. It helped. Suddenly, the points where 40 to 140 instead, and Michaela Duncan, one of the Gryffindor chasers, had been knocked of her broom and wasn't moving.

"AFTER A DIRTY, UNBELIEVABLE, CHEATY, SNEAKY TRICK PLAYED BY SLYTHERIN CHASER KIRK NUMBER ONE, MICHAELA DUNCAN, GRYFFINDOR CHASER, IS OUT OF THE GAME! NO WORRIES, MICHA! WE'LL WIN THIS BITCH FOR YOU ANYWAY! AND I'M SURE NICK VANDOM WILL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF KIRK FOR HURTING HIS HONEY!"

"BLACK!"

"Well, I guess it's up to us now," James said, after the game continued. Buffy nodded, and took off with the Quaffle to make a penalty shot.

"AND SHE SCORES! ONEHUNDREDANDFIFTY TO FORTY - MAYBE YOU SNAKES SHOULD PRACTISE MORE AND BULLY LESS!"

For once, McGonagall weren't bothering to correct him.

"AND HERE COMES KIRK NUMBER TWO! AND - HE SCORES - BOLLOCKS! ONEHUNDREDANDFIFTY TO FIFTY...AND IT'S POTTER IN POSSESSION! AND HE'S ALONE AGAINST THE KEEPER - AND HE SCORES! ONEHUNDREDANDSIXT - WAIT, WAS THAT THE SNITCH!"

Yes, it was. Amanda Lorne had spotted the snitch, and was now diving towards it rapidly, the Slytherin seeker far behind.

James let out a scream of victory, and stood up on his broom, doing some sort of dance on it. Buffy rolled her eyes, and grabbed the Quaffle, flying back to the goalposts, and scoring one more time, making the score one hundred and seventy to fifty. Sirius announcing her score got drowned from the cheers from the stands - Amanda had caught the snitch.

"AFTER AN AMAZING DIVE BY AMANDA LORNE, THE SNITCH IS OURS! FINAL SCORE: THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY AGAINST SLYTHERIN'S PITIFUL FIFTY - GRYFFINDOR WINS!"


"Remus!"

"Buffy!"

Remus ran towards the Quidditch pitch and Buffy. He couldn't believe it! They won! 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. Then he frowned.

"Déja vu..." he muttered. Buffy looked at him worriedly.

"What?"

"Oh, nothing. I just..." Remus frowned again. Why did this all feel so familiar? Finally he shrugged it off as imagination. James coughed to get their attention, and Remus turned back to his friend.

"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 to score 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. Eliza 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...


The days passed by, and all the seventh years found themselves starting to study for their NEWT's even more than before. Plus, none of the chosen in McGonagall's Transfiguration class had had any success in Transforming, or even finding out their 'inner-animal' (neither Buffy nor Eliza had even been chosen for testing it - obviously, McGonagall didn't think they had the talent, which could be right in Eliza's case, or she simply didn't like them, which Buffy figured was the reason for her not being chosen - she was actually quite good at Transfiguration, if you didn't count that episode with the pen-snitches), and the students were all getting frustrated, for different reasons. Eliza sighed, and threw away her quill.

"Gah!" She said. "I don't get this. Lily, help me out."

Lily moved over to where Eliza sat, trying to make out something that made sense about her Arithmancy notes.

"Sorry. I can't make out a thing of your scribble-scrabble," she said, and Eliza glared.

"Nothing is wrong with my handwriting, thank you."

"Oh, no? Then why can't you make out what it says!"

Eliza stuck out her tongue, and James raised tow hands to keep them apart.

"Girls, girls, take it easy," he said.

"Aww, why did you have to do that!" Sirius complained from his chair. "I was hoping for a chick-fight!"

Eliza and Lily turned their attention away from each other, and gave Sirius a glare instead, which hastily shut him up.

Buffy smirked from where she was sitting in Remus' lap, studying abandoned a long time ago. Ever since her study-spree, Buffy had decided to take it easy with the NEWT's and hope it all worked out fine - it wasn't worth killing herself over. Now, when she saw her friends' frustration, she didn't think she'd ever made a better decision.

Eliza seemed to have had the same thought, because now even she threw away her quill and notebook, and moved over to sit in Sirius lap instead. Lily looked up from her book, and saw all her friends were smirking at her. With a sigh, even she laid down her work, and sat down in James' lap. Peter was watching Remus and Buffy jealously from the floor, but made sure to do it discretely, so they wouldn't notice.


"Finally!" James exclaimed after being done with his NEWT's for Herbology. Now a day of rest waited, before it was time to deal with their last exam, in Transfiguration. James grinned. That was the one subject he knew he wouldn't have any problems with - at all. He made a small jump, and did some sort of victory dance, not much different from the one he'd made on his broom.

Lily shook her head, and rolled her eyes at her boyfriend. He could be such of a baby sometimes. But she couldn't help but smile.

"So, what are you guys going to do after Hogwarts?" Eliza asked.

Sirius and James looked at each other.

"Auror," they both said simultaneously.

"Buffy? What about you?"

Buffy shrugged. "Don't know. I guess an Auror would be cool, but I'm not sure...I mean, I already hunt demons and vampires and stuff - I think that's enough. I want to do something normal - violence-free. I've been thinking of becoming a healer or a mediwitch or something."

"Yeah, I've been thinking about that too," Eliza said. "Or maybe work in the Magical Law Enforcement squad...I think that's what I want. Lily?"

Lily blushed and mumbled something. James looked amused.

"Sorry, Lils, honey. I didn't quite catch that."

"I said the ministry mayhave shown some interest in me and maywant me to become an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, alright?"

The silence was deafening. James' jaw practically hit the floor.

"What? What about the Department of Mysteries?" Buffy asked, looking confused.

Remus finally seemed to wake up.

"It's a hidden department in the Ministry of magic. No one really knows what the Unspeakables down there work with - it's all very hush, hush. If Lily has been offered to work as one, then it's really fantastic. I've never heard of someone so young being offered the chanceto work there."

"Oh," Buffy said. "So...are you going to accept?"

Lily shrugged.

"Not sure. I've been thinking of some other things...but an Unspeakable - it's really tempting. So I will probably accept."

The other's nodded.

"Peter?"

Peter squeaked out he wasn't sure.

"Remus?"

Remus sighed. "Well, I wanted to be an Auror, but the Auror academy would never accept me due to my - illness. My second choice is becoming a teacher."

"Oh, Rem, that's great!" Buffy said. "You'd be a fantastic teacher! The students would love you!"

"Yeah, if anyone would hire me..." Remus muttered, and Buffy gave him a glare.

"Stop being so negative! Of course people will hire you!"

Remus just smiled sadly. "We'll see."


A week later, they were all done with their NEWT's, and Buffy (who hadn't done it in sixth year for obvious reasons), Eliza (who hadn't turned seventeen until December last year and therefor, neither she had taken it in sixth year), Sirius (same reason as Eliza, except his birthday had been in November) and Peter (who had failed all times he'd tried before) had alsotaken their apparition licenses(Lily, James and Remus had come with them for moral support) - they all had passed with flying colors, except Peter, but in the end, even he managed to get it right. It was seven very happy friends that left the Ministry and apparated to Hogsmeade before walking up to Hogwarts.
A/N: There! I hope you all enjoyed it! And, just so you know - next chap will contain...GRADUATION! After that, the marauder's will have left school and Hogwarts behind, and we move into war-times. Please REVIEW!

/Ida