Buffy heard the humming and walked toward the dark forest that contridicted itself as it was bathed in sunlight. She saw Harry suddenly appear next to her and she looked at him startled and said "What are you doing here?"
He shrugged at her and she said quietly "Someone is close." So they walked side by side together.
She looked startled when she saw a young Cayden smiling eerily at her and he sang in a quiet soft voice.
"If you go out in the woods today, you're in for a big surprise."
He stopped and pointed to a younger Dawn who was a little way down in a blue dress smiling at Buffy. Buffy looked at Harry who seemed content to just stare curiously at both of them, so she motioned that they should follow.
They walked to Dawn who suddenly started skipping and singing.
"Follow the yellow brick road, Follow the yellow brick road"
"She's there, She's there, She's there……"
"Follow the yellow brick road, Follow the yellow brick, Follow the yellow brick, Follow the yellow brick road"
The Sun suddenly disappeared and the moon shone bright above them
Harry turned to Buffy and said quietly "You have very strange dreams."
Buffy shrugged and continued to follow Dawn when Dawn suddenly morphed into Cayden and a younger version of Harry suddenly appeared together and they both turned around with a grim expression and sang in the eerie voice.
"So if you go out in the woods tonight you better not close your eyes."
Then suddenly Glory with a creepy looking man that Buffy that She thought was Voldemort emerged out of the shadows behind Cayden and Glory said "Hello Precious, I've been looking for you."
As Glory brought a knife to Cayden throat and the creepy man did the same to young Harry, when the first blood dripped down Buffy woke up to herself screaming.
She sat there for a minute breathing deeply in and out before the door burst open and Harry was standing in front of her looking confused. Buffy looked at him calmly and said "When did you arrive?"
He was very pale as he said "Late last night. Are you alright? I heard you scream?"
Buffy stared at him a little suspicious not too sure if he had the same dream and if he did why exactly they were sharing dreams. She spoke in a steady voice and said "I had a bad dream…"
Harry seemed to pale more as he said "With the creepy singing and the slashing of throats." At her nod he sat down heavily on her bed and said "Bloody hell…."
Buffy smiled for the first time and said "Yeah my thoughts exactly."
They sat there for a few minutes before Buffy said "So how you feeling?" Harry looked at her straight in the eyes and said "A little confused." Buffy leant back into the pillow and said "tell me about it!"
He smiled a small smile and said "I looked up the information about the slayer in the library; you're supposed to be a myth. Although the demons you said you fought are real enough. And now we're sharing dreams. A little confusing…"
Buffy smiled again and said "Well your Minister knows I am real, as does Dumbledore. The Oh so Great Minister decided I was too much a threat to be teaching the students, well assistant teaching anyway, so you get the privilege instead."
Harry said quietly "Some privilege" but he shot her a grin to show he was joking and she cuffed him gently on the head and said "HEY!" He gave a small laugh but then frowned and said "The letters they made up for a lot, but the trust thing, it wasn't really about just the letters. It's been years since I've known you. I can't just suddenly start trusting and talking and doing all the best friend stuff just like that."
Buffy nodded and said "Yeah that's cool. (She saw him look uncomfortable) look Harry, I'm not pushing for anything. It takes time to build a friendship and I'm cool with that. But even though we're not the great of friends right now, we could be. But for now I'm alright with whatever you want."
He nodded and said "Well right now, I kind of want to know why we're sharing a dream, that's the second one."
She smiled a tight smile and said "Well the first one was sharing the Voldemort connection right? (at his startled expression) Dumbledore told me." He looked slightly angry at that and Buffy knew what he was thinking and said "Look Dumbledore only told me because I was freaking over the connection with the dreams. You already knew about the Voldy connection because you're taking the whole occuml… Protecting the mind thing with Snape and I knew that because Snape for some reason decided I should learn it too and he had to tell me you were taking them cause I didn't exactly trust Snape enough to enter my mind."
Harry looked confused again and Buffy once again launched into an explanation "Look, my mind, I just don't like the idea of people being in it. I'm not saying you shouldn't trust Snape. I don't trust anyone with the going into my mind. Hell I still don't. I, like you have some trust issues. Things I'm not ready to discuss."
Harry nodded again and said "What's the second connection then?"
Buffy grimaced and said "That would be a slayer dream. I don't think that was Voldemort connection, but I think you had a cameo from the obvious. Your big bad has joined forced with my big bad. Although somehow I think there is a little more going on then that. Voldy from what I gather wouldn't be big on the worshipping of my big bad. And from what small info I know about my big bad, she doesn't exactly play well with others. So maybe if we're lucky she will wipe Voldy out and then I wipe her out. Or maybe they will wipe each other out, that would be nice."
Harry gapped at her and said "Wait. So you're uh 'big bad' might be able to wipe Voldy,er Voldemortout? Is that even possible? Who is she? How does she have the power to do that? And what about that song doesn't that mean they are in the forbidden forest?"
Buffy laughed,although below the surface she was freaking out but didn't want Harry to worry about something that was her problem. She merely said "Look don't worry about her. (At his face) Ok look let's put this down to not ready to talk about thing but will tell you eventually. I'm sure you have stuff like that. You know secrets, things only you and a select few know about? It isn't a trust thing but a less people know the less people that can get hurt. Understand?"
Harry understood but it didn't stop the fact that she was keeping something from him. But then again he was keeping quite a lot from her and she had trusted him with a lot more than he had trusted her.
The things that made him not trust had diminished a fair amount. The slayer thing explained away quite a bit. The letters explained. Even the Snape thing he could understand, although didn't mean he had to like it. Yes he understood that Snape was her brother and sister's father but this was the man that tormented him every chance he got. Was there a law saying he had to like this situation? Hell no! But what he still couldn't understand was the connection she seemed to have with Snape. The fact that they seemed to like each other as friends and were civil to each other. Snape was evil, there was nothing that told him otherwise.
Then there was the Umbridge fact. Buffy had brushed off the detentions like they were nothing and she had left him with Umbridge. Put them together and the fact that a slayer turned evil could be real bad and he could easily come to the conclusion that Buffy might just be playing him. She could have joined Snape and Umbridge and setting him against Voldermort.
But of course then there was the facts. That she was the slayer, a warrior for the light, They were sharing dreams which seemed real, Dumbeldore trusted herand she didn't seem that evil.
He sighed and looked up at her and then at his watch which showed it was 6:30am. He said softly "Yeah I understand. I'm going to go get ready for breakfast. Not going to get any more sleep." She waved him off and he slid quietly out her door. He walked down the hallway and to Sirius' door and knocked quietly. Upon hearing a soft "Come" he entered and sat next to his Godfather who was lying on the bed looking at him through sleep filled eyes.
He smiled at the sight and said softly "Hey can we talk?"
Sirius smiled sleepily at his godson and said "Harry, What time is it?" He bit his lip and said "half past six." Sirius yawned and said "Guessing it must be pretty serious if you're willing to be up at this hour."
Harry chuckled at the unintentional pun and said "I just need someone as a sounding board and you're the only person I really trust."
Sirius smiled at this and sat up a little and put his arms around Harry and said "And I will always be here to be your sounding board."
He broke into a full out smile and said "Yeah?"
Sirius ruffled his hair and said "You betcha kiddo."
Author note: I am actually pretty proud of this chapter. Which means it most likely sucks. Anyway I hope you like the song, I like it. Again which will mean it will probably suck. Lol., Anyway this is a longer chapter since I took longer to update once again. But hey inspiration hit and this chapter is now up. Hope you like and it doesn't actually suck. Can you tell my self esteem is kind of low?lol. Anywho feel free to raise my self esteem and tell me what you think. But not pushing you cause it is your choice and I don't push for things like that. Lol. 'Hint hint' :-)