Disclaimer: I am not Joss, nor am I J.K. Rowlings, but I like to borrow
characters for a little while.
Author's Note: Buffy's mom is younger, despite the fact that she will not be appearing. I enjoy cliff hangers and I'll try not to rush! Set after Season Two, so Buffy is about 17 and Oliver would be just a smidge older! Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter 3: More Explaining and Diagon Alley
Buffy looked between her father and Giles and then at Dumbledore, she gave a heavy sigh.
"Can we do this later? Cause I am kind of hungry and would prefer to eat now." She asked, hoping to avoid the issue for a little while longer. Snape nodded and Giles nodded slowly.
"But don't think that we are going to forget about this." Giles said, as him and Snape made their way to the dinning hall chatting.
"They've certainly become best friends." Buffy said, looking at Dumbledore, "I thought they hated each other. Or rather Dad hated him." Dumbledore chuckled and showed Buffy where Anlon could go, so that he could get food. Dumbledore then led Buffy to the dinning hall, he delighted in the way the slayer's eyes were drawn up to the ceiling.
"It's an enchantment." Dumbledore told her. She gazed up as she could see the sky through the ceiling.
"Who did it?" Buffy asked, loving it thoroughly, "And can they do it to my room?"
"I did," Dumbledore told her, flashing her a smile when she looked at him in shock. "And I might be able to do your room too, but we will have to ask your father." Dumbledore told her. Buffy waited for all of five seconds, before she went sprinting to Snape and Giles.
"Dad?" she asked, in what Giles referred to as her "puppy dog" face, "Is it alright for Dumbledore to enchant my room, so the ceiling is like the dinning hall?" she asked, missing the gasps that came from the other teachers, when Buffy had referred to Snape as her father, but Snape hadn't. The thought running through all their heads was that maybe Giles was Buffy's father and not Snape, but that idea was quickly changed.
"I guess, but if your school work goes down or you don't get enough sleep, then it goes." He told her and the teachers gasped again. Snape had a child! Dumbledore smiled at the rest of the faculty.
"School work?" Buffy asked, "Last time I looked it was summer and there was no school work for this girl!"
"Yes, well that was before you were going to a wizarding school where you needed to make up the last two years you would have missed, in order to catch up with the rest of your class, before the school year starts." Snape said and him and Giles laughed when her face fell.
"But on a good note, he'll have to take you shopping so that you can get a wand and uniform and books and a familiar." Giles said to her and Buffy broke into a huge smile, while Snape simply glared at him and Giles smirked at him.
"I thought I would act as her familiar," Anlon said, coming into the dining hall, getting more gasps from the teachers.
"You're kind of big." Snape told him and Anlon's face fell and Buffy petted him. The teachers gasped in shock that Snape would have gotten Buffy a griffin and that the griffin would have stayed with her.
"Yes," Dumbledore said, clearing his throat and directing everyone's attention to him, "I would like to introduce you to Buffy Summers or is it Snape?" Dumbledore asked and Buffy looked at Snape to see what he was going to say. "And Anlon, who will be staying with Buffy in her room, so please do not be frightened of him."
"We have yet to decided which name she will be using." He said simply, sending a comforting glance to Buffy, who was returning the curious stares she got from the teachers. Buffy began to shift uncomfortably at the amount of attention she was receiving and stepped closer to Anlon, for support.
"Do I have something on my nose?" she asked, leaning over to ask Giles, who smiled and shook his head.
"No," Snape told her, "They are just interested in my daughter, since I have never mentioned having family before now." Snape proceeded to his seat and motioned Buffy and Giles into the seats next to him. Buffy decided to act as though she did not notice that everyone was staring at her and walked nonchalantly to the table where she took a seat next to her father, Giles laughed and took the seat next to Buffy.
"So," Buffy asked, looking at Snape, "When are we going shopping?" Snape looked a little frightened to be going shopping with a teenage girl and Giles started to laugh. Before he could reply, food suddenly appeared before them, causing Buffy to gasp in surprise.
"Where did it come from?" Buffy asked, eyeing the food with a curious distrust, glaring at her Watcher when he laughed.
"I'm sorry," Giles said, not sounding like he really meant it. "It is just such a delight having you here, because you are so unused to everyone using magic." Snape nodded his agreement, although he was happy to have his daughter there in general.
"It was magic." Snape said, "Dumbledore uses his magic to call the house elves and they magically make the food appear before us. It is quite safe to eat." Snape told her as he watched her poke at the food, as though it would reach up and bite her. Snape and Giles picked up their forks and began to eat, trying to coax the slayer into eating. She eyed them; waiting a few minutes, almost afraid that they would both disappear or that they would be killed by simply eating the food. When it appeared that the food was not going to harm them, she picked up her fork and began to eat. She picked up her goblet and she sniffed, wrinkling her nose in disgust.
"Uhh. What is this?" She asked and Giles and Snape laughed, once again receiving a glare from Buffy.
"It is pumpkin cider." Snape told her. "It is quite good." Buffy took a tiny sip and she quickly spit it back into the cup.
"I'll take my soda over that any day." She told him and gasped again, when her cider was changed to soda and then she smiled happily. Snape gasped when she smiled, because her smile seemed to light up the whole room. Giles smiled behind his goblet as he watched Snape and Buffy interact, he realized that Buffy would finally have a father that loved her.
Dinner ended and everyone went to their rooms, most still trying to get a good look at Buffy and Anlon, who walked behind Buffy. The teachers watched as Buffy smiled and laughed with her watcher and even Snape and were shocked to see that side of Snape and also that Snape had raised someone that was so full of life, it was just mind boggling.
Buffy said goodnight to her watcher and her father at her door and she closed her door, extremely excited for the next day, because Snape was taking her to Diagon Alley! Buffy fell asleep and that night she was not awakened by a nightmare of Angel.
Next Day
Buffy was awakened by the sound of knocking, stumbling out of bed she made her way to the door. Upon opening the door, she found her dad standing there.
"Yes?" she asked.
"We will be leaving in a half hour." Snape told her, obviously Giles had told him that Buffy took a long time to get ready. She stared at him for a second, trying to figure out where she was going and then she remembered! Shopping! She slammed the door and rushed to get a change of clothes and then rushed to the bathroom. Taking a quick shower, she changed into a pair of low-rise blue jeans and a white tank top; she pulled her hair back and ran out into the hallway, straight into her dad.
"Well, that didn't take as long as I expected it would." Snape told her, as they began to walk to a fireplace. "You are going to wear that?" he asked and Buffy looked down at her clothes.
"Why is there something wrong with them?"
"Aren't they a little revealing?" Snape asked, thinking of all the boys that would be at Diagon Alley, ogling his daughter.
"No." She said, as she turned to Anlon, "you have to stay here." She told him and she could have sworn that the griffin pouted. Laughing she petted him, "We don't want to attract too much attention."
"Yes, with the way you are dressed, he would go unnoticed," Snape muttered and received a glare from his daughter. He damned the slayer hearing that allowed her to pick up on it; it would make for an interesting year to say the least. "Shall we?" he asked, leading them to the fireplace.
"How are we going to get there?" she asked, when he pulled out a small leather pouch.
"Flew." He stated and then explained. "This fireplace is connected to the fireplaces in Diagon Alley, you are to say the name clearly, throw the powder into the fireplace and then walk through and it will take you there." He explained and handed her the powder.
"Diagon Alley." Buffy stated clearly and then walked through and stumbled into an alley full of people wearing robes like her dad. She felt someone tap her shoulder and she turned, prepared to hit them if necessary and found her dad.
"This way, we need to get your robes made." He told her, as they made their way to the shop that said 'Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.' Buffy shrugged and followed behind, trying to take in as much as the alley as she could.
"Hogwart's." the witch stated and turned to point, "Back that way, another young man is being pinned up as we speak." She told them and then looked at Snape. "What are you doing here professor?" she asked and then she drew him into a coversation about certain potions to use and such. Buffy, being bored, went out back as saw a young man, who was standing on the foot stool.
"Sorry," she muttered as she turned to leave.
"No, it's okay," a Scottish voice told her, "I don't mind. Won't you come back in?" he asked, Buffy nodded and sat down in a seat in the back. "Are you a transfer?" he asked, "I haven't seen you before."
"Uhh, sort of." She told him.
"Sort of?" he asked, confused, either she was or she wasn't.
"I just found about being a wizard and I have to make up for two years, so that I can enter as a third year." She told him, looking at him.
'He's cute and his accent is just yummy!' she thought, looking the boy over.
"I am going to be a seventh year. Have you been sorted?" he asked.
'She's cute. I wonder if she has a boyfriend or which house she is in. She dresses strangely though, although the clothes accent her body.' Oliver thought, eyeing the petite blonde.
"Yes," she told him, shaking her away her thoughts, "Gryffindor." She told him and he smiled.
"I am in Gryffindor too!" he told her.
"All done, you can step down," the witch told him and helped him shrug out of the robe. But as he was stepping down he tripped and landed on Buffy.
"Wood!" Snape yelled, walking in, "I would appreciate it if you would get off of my daughter." He practically growled at the young man and Buffy had to stifle a laugh at the look of disbelief that crossed his face, as he scrambled to get off of her.
"Maybe we should start again." She said, "Hi! I'm Buffy Snape." She said, deciding right then and there to use her father's last name. She held out her hand and Oliver shook it, both of them missing the shocked look that settled on the witch's face.
"Oliver Wood." He replied and Snape glared at him.
'Well, there goes that.' Buffy thought as she watched Oliver practically run to get away from her. She turned to glare at her father, who was looking innocent.
"What?" he asked quite pleased with himself.
"Why did you do that?" she asked. "I know that you are supposed to be protective, but he was nice and no evil vibes." She told him as she stepped up onto the stool, to be fitted for the robes. "Do they have to be black? Can't they be green or something else?"
"I didn't do anything and no, they have to be black."
"School uniform?" she asked and then sighed when he nodded.
'I suppose it could be worse.' She thought to herself.
She was so lost in thought, she didn't hear the witch the first time she told her that she was done. Blushing red, Buffy got off of the stool and followed her father to a shop that read 'Ollivanders: Maker of Fine Wands since 382 b.c.'. An old man, with wide pale eyes walked out from the back of the store.
"Hello, you must be Buffy Snape, the slayer." Ollivander stated. "Here to pick up a wand I suppose?" at her nod, he continued, "I have just the wand for you." He walked out pack and came back shortly. "Eight inches, maple and a drop of vampire blood. Go ahead give it a wave." Buffy waved the wand and grimaced when the shelves splintered, Ollivander grabbed the wand, "Wrong vampire, try this one." He said, handing her a new one and Buffy waved the wand and a slight breeze around the room "Perfect. Eleven inches, holly and a drop of an ensouled vampire."
"Angel." Buffy said, before turning and running out of the store, running right into Oliver Wood, who put his arms around her, to steady her.
"I'm sorry." She cried and the tears started to spill over.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his arms still around her, from where he had caught her. Buffy shook her head and continued to cry more. "Want to talk about it?" he asked, feeling a pull at his heart, watching the tiny blonde cry. "Want to go to Leaky Cauldron and get something to eat?" he offered, when Buffy had said no to the talking. Buffy nodded and Oliver took her hand and led her to the Leaky Cauldron, where Oliver ordered hot chocolate and some fries for them. They sat towards the door and Oliver asked her just everyday mundane questions.
"So, where are you from?"
"Sunnydale, California," at his blank stare, "United States. You?"
"Scotland."
"Explains the yummy accent." Buffy said and then realized what she had said and turned a nice shade of red, while Oliver smiled.
"Buffy Anne Snape!" Snape growled and every single person in the place turned and looked at Buffy. "Don't ever run off like that again. Do you know how worried I was?"
"Sorry dad." Buffy muttered and everyone looked at Snape in shock.
"Yes, she is my bloody daughter." Snape yelled and turned back to his daughter. "Going now." He said, but before she could leave, he turned back to Oliver, "You." He started and Oliver looked extremely scared, "you can teach her how to fly." Oliver looked shocked, Snape was going to entrust his daughter with him for more than two minutes?
"Are we done shopping?" Buffy asked.
"No, we need to pick you up a broom." Snape said and Buffy followed him into another store and gasped. There were so many brooms, although she had no idea what kind she was supposed to get.
"Nifty." She said, looking around.
"We need to get you the newest broom." He told her and they approached the store clerk and soon she had a broom. Following Snape back to the fireplace, they returned to Hogwart's.
"Why don't you put this stuff in your room?" he suggested and Buffy gathered all her stuff and began to her room. "Do you need help?" he asked, because there was so much stuff.
"No," she told him, "Slayer strength does come in handy." She reached her room and gave the password. Opening the door, she put her stuff on the bed and petted Anlon, when she noticed something that hadn't been there before. A birdcage with a phoenix sitting in it, with a note attached.
'Buffy,
I have missed so many of your birthdays and I remembered how Fawkes reacted to you. So, I decided to get you a phoenix as your familiar. She does not have a name yet, but you can name her.
Love,
Your Father.'
Buffy read the note and then opened her door and ran down the hallway to her father's door, where she knocked. When he answered she pulled him into a big hug.
"Not that I'm not enjoying this, but I need to breathe." Snape told her and Buffy quickly let go of him.
"Sorry, I forget my slayer strength sometimes." She told him. "Thank you so much. Hank rarely remembered my birthday and mom was sometimes to busy to celebrate it." Snape felt an irrational anger to the man that had raised his child.
"Your welcome. Now go get some sleep, we start tomorrow at nine and you have a flying lesson with Wood tomorrow afternoon."
Author's Note: Buffy's mom is younger, despite the fact that she will not be appearing. I enjoy cliff hangers and I'll try not to rush! Set after Season Two, so Buffy is about 17 and Oliver would be just a smidge older! Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter 3: More Explaining and Diagon Alley
Buffy looked between her father and Giles and then at Dumbledore, she gave a heavy sigh.
"Can we do this later? Cause I am kind of hungry and would prefer to eat now." She asked, hoping to avoid the issue for a little while longer. Snape nodded and Giles nodded slowly.
"But don't think that we are going to forget about this." Giles said, as him and Snape made their way to the dinning hall chatting.
"They've certainly become best friends." Buffy said, looking at Dumbledore, "I thought they hated each other. Or rather Dad hated him." Dumbledore chuckled and showed Buffy where Anlon could go, so that he could get food. Dumbledore then led Buffy to the dinning hall, he delighted in the way the slayer's eyes were drawn up to the ceiling.
"It's an enchantment." Dumbledore told her. She gazed up as she could see the sky through the ceiling.
"Who did it?" Buffy asked, loving it thoroughly, "And can they do it to my room?"
"I did," Dumbledore told her, flashing her a smile when she looked at him in shock. "And I might be able to do your room too, but we will have to ask your father." Dumbledore told her. Buffy waited for all of five seconds, before she went sprinting to Snape and Giles.
"Dad?" she asked, in what Giles referred to as her "puppy dog" face, "Is it alright for Dumbledore to enchant my room, so the ceiling is like the dinning hall?" she asked, missing the gasps that came from the other teachers, when Buffy had referred to Snape as her father, but Snape hadn't. The thought running through all their heads was that maybe Giles was Buffy's father and not Snape, but that idea was quickly changed.
"I guess, but if your school work goes down or you don't get enough sleep, then it goes." He told her and the teachers gasped again. Snape had a child! Dumbledore smiled at the rest of the faculty.
"School work?" Buffy asked, "Last time I looked it was summer and there was no school work for this girl!"
"Yes, well that was before you were going to a wizarding school where you needed to make up the last two years you would have missed, in order to catch up with the rest of your class, before the school year starts." Snape said and him and Giles laughed when her face fell.
"But on a good note, he'll have to take you shopping so that you can get a wand and uniform and books and a familiar." Giles said to her and Buffy broke into a huge smile, while Snape simply glared at him and Giles smirked at him.
"I thought I would act as her familiar," Anlon said, coming into the dining hall, getting more gasps from the teachers.
"You're kind of big." Snape told him and Anlon's face fell and Buffy petted him. The teachers gasped in shock that Snape would have gotten Buffy a griffin and that the griffin would have stayed with her.
"Yes," Dumbledore said, clearing his throat and directing everyone's attention to him, "I would like to introduce you to Buffy Summers or is it Snape?" Dumbledore asked and Buffy looked at Snape to see what he was going to say. "And Anlon, who will be staying with Buffy in her room, so please do not be frightened of him."
"We have yet to decided which name she will be using." He said simply, sending a comforting glance to Buffy, who was returning the curious stares she got from the teachers. Buffy began to shift uncomfortably at the amount of attention she was receiving and stepped closer to Anlon, for support.
"Do I have something on my nose?" she asked, leaning over to ask Giles, who smiled and shook his head.
"No," Snape told her, "They are just interested in my daughter, since I have never mentioned having family before now." Snape proceeded to his seat and motioned Buffy and Giles into the seats next to him. Buffy decided to act as though she did not notice that everyone was staring at her and walked nonchalantly to the table where she took a seat next to her father, Giles laughed and took the seat next to Buffy.
"So," Buffy asked, looking at Snape, "When are we going shopping?" Snape looked a little frightened to be going shopping with a teenage girl and Giles started to laugh. Before he could reply, food suddenly appeared before them, causing Buffy to gasp in surprise.
"Where did it come from?" Buffy asked, eyeing the food with a curious distrust, glaring at her Watcher when he laughed.
"I'm sorry," Giles said, not sounding like he really meant it. "It is just such a delight having you here, because you are so unused to everyone using magic." Snape nodded his agreement, although he was happy to have his daughter there in general.
"It was magic." Snape said, "Dumbledore uses his magic to call the house elves and they magically make the food appear before us. It is quite safe to eat." Snape told her as he watched her poke at the food, as though it would reach up and bite her. Snape and Giles picked up their forks and began to eat, trying to coax the slayer into eating. She eyed them; waiting a few minutes, almost afraid that they would both disappear or that they would be killed by simply eating the food. When it appeared that the food was not going to harm them, she picked up her fork and began to eat. She picked up her goblet and she sniffed, wrinkling her nose in disgust.
"Uhh. What is this?" She asked and Giles and Snape laughed, once again receiving a glare from Buffy.
"It is pumpkin cider." Snape told her. "It is quite good." Buffy took a tiny sip and she quickly spit it back into the cup.
"I'll take my soda over that any day." She told him and gasped again, when her cider was changed to soda and then she smiled happily. Snape gasped when she smiled, because her smile seemed to light up the whole room. Giles smiled behind his goblet as he watched Snape and Buffy interact, he realized that Buffy would finally have a father that loved her.
Dinner ended and everyone went to their rooms, most still trying to get a good look at Buffy and Anlon, who walked behind Buffy. The teachers watched as Buffy smiled and laughed with her watcher and even Snape and were shocked to see that side of Snape and also that Snape had raised someone that was so full of life, it was just mind boggling.
Buffy said goodnight to her watcher and her father at her door and she closed her door, extremely excited for the next day, because Snape was taking her to Diagon Alley! Buffy fell asleep and that night she was not awakened by a nightmare of Angel.
Next Day
Buffy was awakened by the sound of knocking, stumbling out of bed she made her way to the door. Upon opening the door, she found her dad standing there.
"Yes?" she asked.
"We will be leaving in a half hour." Snape told her, obviously Giles had told him that Buffy took a long time to get ready. She stared at him for a second, trying to figure out where she was going and then she remembered! Shopping! She slammed the door and rushed to get a change of clothes and then rushed to the bathroom. Taking a quick shower, she changed into a pair of low-rise blue jeans and a white tank top; she pulled her hair back and ran out into the hallway, straight into her dad.
"Well, that didn't take as long as I expected it would." Snape told her, as they began to walk to a fireplace. "You are going to wear that?" he asked and Buffy looked down at her clothes.
"Why is there something wrong with them?"
"Aren't they a little revealing?" Snape asked, thinking of all the boys that would be at Diagon Alley, ogling his daughter.
"No." She said, as she turned to Anlon, "you have to stay here." She told him and she could have sworn that the griffin pouted. Laughing she petted him, "We don't want to attract too much attention."
"Yes, with the way you are dressed, he would go unnoticed," Snape muttered and received a glare from his daughter. He damned the slayer hearing that allowed her to pick up on it; it would make for an interesting year to say the least. "Shall we?" he asked, leading them to the fireplace.
"How are we going to get there?" she asked, when he pulled out a small leather pouch.
"Flew." He stated and then explained. "This fireplace is connected to the fireplaces in Diagon Alley, you are to say the name clearly, throw the powder into the fireplace and then walk through and it will take you there." He explained and handed her the powder.
"Diagon Alley." Buffy stated clearly and then walked through and stumbled into an alley full of people wearing robes like her dad. She felt someone tap her shoulder and she turned, prepared to hit them if necessary and found her dad.
"This way, we need to get your robes made." He told her, as they made their way to the shop that said 'Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.' Buffy shrugged and followed behind, trying to take in as much as the alley as she could.
"Hogwart's." the witch stated and turned to point, "Back that way, another young man is being pinned up as we speak." She told them and then looked at Snape. "What are you doing here professor?" she asked and then she drew him into a coversation about certain potions to use and such. Buffy, being bored, went out back as saw a young man, who was standing on the foot stool.
"Sorry," she muttered as she turned to leave.
"No, it's okay," a Scottish voice told her, "I don't mind. Won't you come back in?" he asked, Buffy nodded and sat down in a seat in the back. "Are you a transfer?" he asked, "I haven't seen you before."
"Uhh, sort of." She told him.
"Sort of?" he asked, confused, either she was or she wasn't.
"I just found about being a wizard and I have to make up for two years, so that I can enter as a third year." She told him, looking at him.
'He's cute and his accent is just yummy!' she thought, looking the boy over.
"I am going to be a seventh year. Have you been sorted?" he asked.
'She's cute. I wonder if she has a boyfriend or which house she is in. She dresses strangely though, although the clothes accent her body.' Oliver thought, eyeing the petite blonde.
"Yes," she told him, shaking her away her thoughts, "Gryffindor." She told him and he smiled.
"I am in Gryffindor too!" he told her.
"All done, you can step down," the witch told him and helped him shrug out of the robe. But as he was stepping down he tripped and landed on Buffy.
"Wood!" Snape yelled, walking in, "I would appreciate it if you would get off of my daughter." He practically growled at the young man and Buffy had to stifle a laugh at the look of disbelief that crossed his face, as he scrambled to get off of her.
"Maybe we should start again." She said, "Hi! I'm Buffy Snape." She said, deciding right then and there to use her father's last name. She held out her hand and Oliver shook it, both of them missing the shocked look that settled on the witch's face.
"Oliver Wood." He replied and Snape glared at him.
'Well, there goes that.' Buffy thought as she watched Oliver practically run to get away from her. She turned to glare at her father, who was looking innocent.
"What?" he asked quite pleased with himself.
"Why did you do that?" she asked. "I know that you are supposed to be protective, but he was nice and no evil vibes." She told him as she stepped up onto the stool, to be fitted for the robes. "Do they have to be black? Can't they be green or something else?"
"I didn't do anything and no, they have to be black."
"School uniform?" she asked and then sighed when he nodded.
'I suppose it could be worse.' She thought to herself.
She was so lost in thought, she didn't hear the witch the first time she told her that she was done. Blushing red, Buffy got off of the stool and followed her father to a shop that read 'Ollivanders: Maker of Fine Wands since 382 b.c.'. An old man, with wide pale eyes walked out from the back of the store.
"Hello, you must be Buffy Snape, the slayer." Ollivander stated. "Here to pick up a wand I suppose?" at her nod, he continued, "I have just the wand for you." He walked out pack and came back shortly. "Eight inches, maple and a drop of vampire blood. Go ahead give it a wave." Buffy waved the wand and grimaced when the shelves splintered, Ollivander grabbed the wand, "Wrong vampire, try this one." He said, handing her a new one and Buffy waved the wand and a slight breeze around the room "Perfect. Eleven inches, holly and a drop of an ensouled vampire."
"Angel." Buffy said, before turning and running out of the store, running right into Oliver Wood, who put his arms around her, to steady her.
"I'm sorry." She cried and the tears started to spill over.
"Are you okay?" he asked, his arms still around her, from where he had caught her. Buffy shook her head and continued to cry more. "Want to talk about it?" he asked, feeling a pull at his heart, watching the tiny blonde cry. "Want to go to Leaky Cauldron and get something to eat?" he offered, when Buffy had said no to the talking. Buffy nodded and Oliver took her hand and led her to the Leaky Cauldron, where Oliver ordered hot chocolate and some fries for them. They sat towards the door and Oliver asked her just everyday mundane questions.
"So, where are you from?"
"Sunnydale, California," at his blank stare, "United States. You?"
"Scotland."
"Explains the yummy accent." Buffy said and then realized what she had said and turned a nice shade of red, while Oliver smiled.
"Buffy Anne Snape!" Snape growled and every single person in the place turned and looked at Buffy. "Don't ever run off like that again. Do you know how worried I was?"
"Sorry dad." Buffy muttered and everyone looked at Snape in shock.
"Yes, she is my bloody daughter." Snape yelled and turned back to his daughter. "Going now." He said, but before she could leave, he turned back to Oliver, "You." He started and Oliver looked extremely scared, "you can teach her how to fly." Oliver looked shocked, Snape was going to entrust his daughter with him for more than two minutes?
"Are we done shopping?" Buffy asked.
"No, we need to pick you up a broom." Snape said and Buffy followed him into another store and gasped. There were so many brooms, although she had no idea what kind she was supposed to get.
"Nifty." She said, looking around.
"We need to get you the newest broom." He told her and they approached the store clerk and soon she had a broom. Following Snape back to the fireplace, they returned to Hogwart's.
"Why don't you put this stuff in your room?" he suggested and Buffy gathered all her stuff and began to her room. "Do you need help?" he asked, because there was so much stuff.
"No," she told him, "Slayer strength does come in handy." She reached her room and gave the password. Opening the door, she put her stuff on the bed and petted Anlon, when she noticed something that hadn't been there before. A birdcage with a phoenix sitting in it, with a note attached.
'Buffy,
I have missed so many of your birthdays and I remembered how Fawkes reacted to you. So, I decided to get you a phoenix as your familiar. She does not have a name yet, but you can name her.
Love,
Your Father.'
Buffy read the note and then opened her door and ran down the hallway to her father's door, where she knocked. When he answered she pulled him into a big hug.
"Not that I'm not enjoying this, but I need to breathe." Snape told her and Buffy quickly let go of him.
"Sorry, I forget my slayer strength sometimes." She told him. "Thank you so much. Hank rarely remembered my birthday and mom was sometimes to busy to celebrate it." Snape felt an irrational anger to the man that had raised his child.
"Your welcome. Now go get some sleep, we start tomorrow at nine and you have a flying lesson with Wood tomorrow afternoon."