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Chapter 10
"No," Willow told the boy and then looked back at Buffy, completely ignoring Draco. "Oz and I are staying but Xander is going home." She told Buffy and Buffy looked slightly relived at that statement. "He wanted me to tell you that he was so.."
"Don't." Buffy told her, holding up her hand. "What we need to do though, is go tell Dumbledore, although knowing him, he has already figured out that you guys are staying." Willow shrugged and let it go and then followed Buffy through the maze of the school, until they came before a phoenix, where Dumbledore met them.
"Ah, Ms. Rosenberg, so glad to hear that you will be staying, I have already dispatched a note to your parents, along with permission slips for Hogsmeade. They should be arriving any minute." As Dumbledore said these two owls flew through the window and dropped their bundle into Dumbledore's waiting arms, he opened them and read them quickly. "You are all set to go." He told them and then looked at Buffy, "Could you show them around?" Buffy nodded and he continued, "You may go to Hogsmeade today with Buffy and tomorrow I will have her and Professor Snape take you out to Diagon Alley and then we will sort you."
Willow nodded feeling slightly overwhelmed, while Oz took it all in stride, could you expect different? Buffy led them towards the carriages that were waiting for the students, to take them to Hogsmeade. Oliver, Buffy, Willow, and Oz got into one carriage; while Anlon waited beside the carriage, ready to follow the carriage from the air.
"Does he go everywhere with you?" Willow asked, looking at Anlon curiously.
"Yes, I do." He replied for himself and while Willow didn't look too shocked at him talking she was still pretty shocked.
"Mouth looks better closed, Will." Buffy told her and Willow turned bright red, while Oliver simply laughed, Oz leaned over and whispered in her ear
"I dunno, you look pretty cute doing.." Oz trailed off and Willow turned a brighter shade of red, causing everyone to laugh. They were jolted when the carriage began to move, they watched as Anlon took off into the air.
"What's it like being a wizard?" Willow asked, changing the subject, Oliver simply stared at her, because he had never known anything else. "How long have you been a wizard?"
"Since I was a baby." He stated, since he had met Buffy he realized that not every wizard was found at birth. "How long have you done magic?"
"Just since I tried to curse Angel.." Willow trailed off, looking at Buffy anxiously, because she wasn't sure if she should mention Angel at all.
"You cursed someone?" he asked, shocked.
"Well, with a soul." She told him, "Or at least I tried to."
"Why would you need to curse someone with a soul?" he questioned, unaware that Angel was a vampire.
"Because he was a vampire." Buffy filled in for Willow, who was trying to look at anything but her.
"Was?"
"Yes, he's in hell."
"Did you kill him?"
"Yes." She told him and then looked out the window. Oliver looked slightly confused and looked to Oz and Willow for help, both of whom where trying not to make eye contact with him and not succeeding.
"So, what should we expect at Hogsmeade?" Willow asked, Oliver realized what she was doing, but decided to let it go. He launched into a big speech about what was at Hogsmeade and everything else, until they arrived there. By the time he was done, Willow practically ran out of the carriage to go and see the fun things he had described.
"Wait until the carriage stops, Will." Buffy teased and the red head stuck her tongue out, but waited until the carriage stopped.
"Who are you?" They heard as they got out of the carriage, Buffy and Oliver looked up at the voice.
"Hey guys." Buffy said, "These are my friends, Oz and Willow, they are going to be going to school here." She told them "This is Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley.."
"That's why he asked if I was related to you!" Willow exclaimed, taking a good look at Ron. "My hair is darker. Men! Can't tell the difference." She teased and Ron turned as bright as his hair.
"Pleasure to meet you all." Willow said.
"Hi." Oz said, giving his normal monosyllabic sentences.
"Where's Harry?" Oliver asked, Ron and Hermione looked at each other.
"He had to stay behind, because his uncle and aunt wouldn't sign his permission slip, because.." Hermione trailed off, but Buffy finished it for her.
"They're anal?" she questioned and the group shared a laugh. Oliver caught Ron and Hermione's eye, motioning for them to led Oz and Willow away so he could spend alone time with Buffy.
"Hey, man, are you okay?" Ron asked and Hermione hit him. "What?"
"You are so dense." She told him and then turned to face Willow and Oz.
"Willow? Oz? Would you like to go with us?" she offered. Willow and Oz looked at them and shrugged, deciding to go along with it, Buffy had all the protection that she could get, because Anlon was trying to look inconspicuous in the background.
"Sure."
"Alright." Buffy said and then looked at them. "Meet us back at the Three Broomsticks in like an hour or so." Willow and Oz nodded, before following the terrible trio out into the streets.
Oliver looked at Buffy, who was looking around Hogsmeade, seemingly oblivious to everything that had just happened. He began to lead her to the candy store, he promised that he wouldn't let her try anything that would hop in her stomach or that he himself wouldn't eat.
Buffy looked around Hogsmeade trying to pinpoint the location of the feeling she was getting. She could feel something that wasn't human, but wasn't evil, more like it was scared or afraid to show itself, but the only thing that she could see was a big black dog. She looked at it intently and she could have sworn that the dog winked at her! She shook her head and followed Oliver to the candy store, while every now and then peering over her shoulder to see if the dog was still there.
Buffy spotted the dog throughout the entire day and it distracted her from Oliver.
"We can leave." Oliver suggested, as they approached the Shrieking Shack.
"No, no." she told him, "it's just I keep seeing this dog and I swear that it is human." Oliver looked at her, once again reminded that no matter how much power she might have, she was still new to the wizarding world.
"Well, humans can shift into animals." He told her and watched as she looked intently for the dog that had been following her, her eyes settled on the shack, she started towards it, but he held her back.
"What?" she questioned, "you just told me that someone has been following me around all day, I want to know why."
"How do you know he or she is in there?" he asked, clearly not wanting to enter the shack any time in the near future.
"Because I can feel him."
"Him?"
"Well, everyone feels a bit different to me, but they have an aspect that always feels the same, gender. I can generally tell what demon or something is there, because I can feel it. But here everything is so new and my senses are going hay wire." She told him and Oliver nodded, not really understanding what she had said, but sort of getting the gist of it all. She started off towards the shack again, Anlon landing next to her and walking beside them.
"Sorry big guy," she said, petting him, "I don't think you are going to fit inside the door. How about you keep watch and don't let a big black dog out?" Anlon nodded, not liking Buffy going in there, but there was nothing that he could do.
Buffy and Oliver stepped cautiously into the building.
"Hello?" she called out and Oliver put his hand over her mouth.
"What are you doing?" he hissed in her ear, she glared at him until he let her go.
"Well I'm not real subtle and I can feel him in here, so I thought I would try the direct approach." She told him. "There isn't much that I can't face, so unless it is Lupin all werewolfy and stuff then we should be all set. Although I have gotten the best of Oz when he goes all wolfy on us." She said, leading them further into the building.
"You may as well come out, I can feel you." She said, waiting all of five seconds, before walking over to the closet and opening it. Inside was the dog that had been following them all day. "K. Morph back or whatever into human shape." She told the dog, who just cocked it's head to the side and looked at her thoughtfully. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." She offered and she began to reach out to the dog's mind, forming a picture of the dog-reverting back to human shape.
Oliver gasped when the dog suddenly shifted into a naked man!
"How did you do that?" the man questioned, dazed that someone could force him to morph.
"I have no idea," she told him truthfully, but before he could ask any more questions she cut him off, "Who are you?" she asked, looking at him, she blushed when she realized that he was naked. She conjured robes for him and turned around while he dressed. "Well?" she asked, impatiently, tapping her foot, she studied him some more and then it clicked! "You're Sirus Black!" she said and Oliver reached for his wand, while Black tried to shift back, but was stopped by Buffy.
Buffy stepped between the two guys and motioned for Oliver to go to the other room.
"I'm not leaving you alone with him!" he told her. "I'm not moving one.." Buffy motioned for Black to follow her into the other room, "inch."
"How do you know you can trust me?" he asked.
"I can feel it." She told him, "You feel differently then most of the wizards I've met, your somewhat like Lupin, except the feeling is more controlled and less wild, I guess that would be because of he's a werewolf."
"What do you mean that you can feel me?" he asked and Buffy sighed.
"alright, I'll answer, but then you have to." She told him and he nodded his agreement. "Well, I'm the slayer." He gasped.
"But the slayer is just a myth!" he exclaimed.
"Ya, well that would have saved me allot of trouble." She told him and then continued, "But Serverus Snape is my real father, and so that makes me part witch or whatever."
"Snape is your father?" he asked, clearly unable to believe that Snape could father such a beautiful child.
"Yes, well mom raised me and I took after her."
"I think a thank God would be in order." He told her and Buffy laughed, when Oliver suddenly stepped into the room.
"Are you going to play nice?" Buffy asked and Oliver nodded, "Good. Well as I was saying. As far as Dumbledore can figure, because I am the slayer the magic that was in me and the magic that makes me the slayer merged and I able to do things that I shouldn't be able to."
"Like what?" he asked, curious about the girl that was supposed to be a myth.
"I can apparate around Hogwarts. We aren't sure if I can apparent into Hogwart's and he didn't want me to try, but I can go anywhere I want. As you can tell, I have some degree of control over other people."
"Is that how you made me shift?"
"I think so. He told me because I am basically a predator I have more "basic/primal" skills." She told them in her stuffy British accent, "Whatever that means. So, enough about me and more about you." Black shifted uncomfortably, not knowing what to say. "C'mon, I already know that you are Sirus Black escaped prisoner.. yada yada ya. What I want to know is why you've been following me around all day."
"Because you smell like Harry." He explained, "I thought you might be meeting him or something. I am Harry's godfather."
"Nope, Harry couldn't come, because of his aunt and uncle. And I smell like him, because I hang out with him. Did I mention that the whole smelling thing is gross?" she asked, "Vampires do it, Angel tracked me once.." she trailed off as she realized what she was saying. Black looked at Oliver who just shrugged, because he wasn't sure what was going on either.
"Buffy? Oliver?" they heard from outside the house, Buffy quickly looked around, trying to figure out what time it was.
"I think we are late." She told Oliver and then looked at Black, "Are you staying here?"
"Yes."
"Alright, I'll be back later so we can talk and I'll get you some food." She told him and he nodded.
"How are you going to get outside, without them knowing that you came out from here?" he asked and Buffy winked at him, before grabbing Oliver's hand and apparenting them outside, behind the group.
"There you guys are!" Buffy said, pretending that they had been searching for them. "C'mon I'm starved." She winked at Black one more time, before turning to leave.
"Hard to believe that that is Snape's child isn't?" Lupin said from behind Black.
"Very." Black replied. "You do realize that she knew you were here the entire time right?"
"Yes, but we have an understanding." Was the only reply.
Author's Note: I am still not really at home, so I apologize for late updates and for the bad spelling. Reviews are always wanted and welcome.
Chapter 10
"No," Willow told the boy and then looked back at Buffy, completely ignoring Draco. "Oz and I are staying but Xander is going home." She told Buffy and Buffy looked slightly relived at that statement. "He wanted me to tell you that he was so.."
"Don't." Buffy told her, holding up her hand. "What we need to do though, is go tell Dumbledore, although knowing him, he has already figured out that you guys are staying." Willow shrugged and let it go and then followed Buffy through the maze of the school, until they came before a phoenix, where Dumbledore met them.
"Ah, Ms. Rosenberg, so glad to hear that you will be staying, I have already dispatched a note to your parents, along with permission slips for Hogsmeade. They should be arriving any minute." As Dumbledore said these two owls flew through the window and dropped their bundle into Dumbledore's waiting arms, he opened them and read them quickly. "You are all set to go." He told them and then looked at Buffy, "Could you show them around?" Buffy nodded and he continued, "You may go to Hogsmeade today with Buffy and tomorrow I will have her and Professor Snape take you out to Diagon Alley and then we will sort you."
Willow nodded feeling slightly overwhelmed, while Oz took it all in stride, could you expect different? Buffy led them towards the carriages that were waiting for the students, to take them to Hogsmeade. Oliver, Buffy, Willow, and Oz got into one carriage; while Anlon waited beside the carriage, ready to follow the carriage from the air.
"Does he go everywhere with you?" Willow asked, looking at Anlon curiously.
"Yes, I do." He replied for himself and while Willow didn't look too shocked at him talking she was still pretty shocked.
"Mouth looks better closed, Will." Buffy told her and Willow turned bright red, while Oliver simply laughed, Oz leaned over and whispered in her ear
"I dunno, you look pretty cute doing.." Oz trailed off and Willow turned a brighter shade of red, causing everyone to laugh. They were jolted when the carriage began to move, they watched as Anlon took off into the air.
"What's it like being a wizard?" Willow asked, changing the subject, Oliver simply stared at her, because he had never known anything else. "How long have you been a wizard?"
"Since I was a baby." He stated, since he had met Buffy he realized that not every wizard was found at birth. "How long have you done magic?"
"Just since I tried to curse Angel.." Willow trailed off, looking at Buffy anxiously, because she wasn't sure if she should mention Angel at all.
"You cursed someone?" he asked, shocked.
"Well, with a soul." She told him, "Or at least I tried to."
"Why would you need to curse someone with a soul?" he questioned, unaware that Angel was a vampire.
"Because he was a vampire." Buffy filled in for Willow, who was trying to look at anything but her.
"Was?"
"Yes, he's in hell."
"Did you kill him?"
"Yes." She told him and then looked out the window. Oliver looked slightly confused and looked to Oz and Willow for help, both of whom where trying not to make eye contact with him and not succeeding.
"So, what should we expect at Hogsmeade?" Willow asked, Oliver realized what she was doing, but decided to let it go. He launched into a big speech about what was at Hogsmeade and everything else, until they arrived there. By the time he was done, Willow practically ran out of the carriage to go and see the fun things he had described.
"Wait until the carriage stops, Will." Buffy teased and the red head stuck her tongue out, but waited until the carriage stopped.
"Who are you?" They heard as they got out of the carriage, Buffy and Oliver looked up at the voice.
"Hey guys." Buffy said, "These are my friends, Oz and Willow, they are going to be going to school here." She told them "This is Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley.."
"That's why he asked if I was related to you!" Willow exclaimed, taking a good look at Ron. "My hair is darker. Men! Can't tell the difference." She teased and Ron turned as bright as his hair.
"Pleasure to meet you all." Willow said.
"Hi." Oz said, giving his normal monosyllabic sentences.
"Where's Harry?" Oliver asked, Ron and Hermione looked at each other.
"He had to stay behind, because his uncle and aunt wouldn't sign his permission slip, because.." Hermione trailed off, but Buffy finished it for her.
"They're anal?" she questioned and the group shared a laugh. Oliver caught Ron and Hermione's eye, motioning for them to led Oz and Willow away so he could spend alone time with Buffy.
"Hey, man, are you okay?" Ron asked and Hermione hit him. "What?"
"You are so dense." She told him and then turned to face Willow and Oz.
"Willow? Oz? Would you like to go with us?" she offered. Willow and Oz looked at them and shrugged, deciding to go along with it, Buffy had all the protection that she could get, because Anlon was trying to look inconspicuous in the background.
"Sure."
"Alright." Buffy said and then looked at them. "Meet us back at the Three Broomsticks in like an hour or so." Willow and Oz nodded, before following the terrible trio out into the streets.
Oliver looked at Buffy, who was looking around Hogsmeade, seemingly oblivious to everything that had just happened. He began to lead her to the candy store, he promised that he wouldn't let her try anything that would hop in her stomach or that he himself wouldn't eat.
Buffy looked around Hogsmeade trying to pinpoint the location of the feeling she was getting. She could feel something that wasn't human, but wasn't evil, more like it was scared or afraid to show itself, but the only thing that she could see was a big black dog. She looked at it intently and she could have sworn that the dog winked at her! She shook her head and followed Oliver to the candy store, while every now and then peering over her shoulder to see if the dog was still there.
Buffy spotted the dog throughout the entire day and it distracted her from Oliver.
"We can leave." Oliver suggested, as they approached the Shrieking Shack.
"No, no." she told him, "it's just I keep seeing this dog and I swear that it is human." Oliver looked at her, once again reminded that no matter how much power she might have, she was still new to the wizarding world.
"Well, humans can shift into animals." He told her and watched as she looked intently for the dog that had been following her, her eyes settled on the shack, she started towards it, but he held her back.
"What?" she questioned, "you just told me that someone has been following me around all day, I want to know why."
"How do you know he or she is in there?" he asked, clearly not wanting to enter the shack any time in the near future.
"Because I can feel him."
"Him?"
"Well, everyone feels a bit different to me, but they have an aspect that always feels the same, gender. I can generally tell what demon or something is there, because I can feel it. But here everything is so new and my senses are going hay wire." She told him and Oliver nodded, not really understanding what she had said, but sort of getting the gist of it all. She started off towards the shack again, Anlon landing next to her and walking beside them.
"Sorry big guy," she said, petting him, "I don't think you are going to fit inside the door. How about you keep watch and don't let a big black dog out?" Anlon nodded, not liking Buffy going in there, but there was nothing that he could do.
Buffy and Oliver stepped cautiously into the building.
"Hello?" she called out and Oliver put his hand over her mouth.
"What are you doing?" he hissed in her ear, she glared at him until he let her go.
"Well I'm not real subtle and I can feel him in here, so I thought I would try the direct approach." She told him. "There isn't much that I can't face, so unless it is Lupin all werewolfy and stuff then we should be all set. Although I have gotten the best of Oz when he goes all wolfy on us." She said, leading them further into the building.
"You may as well come out, I can feel you." She said, waiting all of five seconds, before walking over to the closet and opening it. Inside was the dog that had been following them all day. "K. Morph back or whatever into human shape." She told the dog, who just cocked it's head to the side and looked at her thoughtfully. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." She offered and she began to reach out to the dog's mind, forming a picture of the dog-reverting back to human shape.
Oliver gasped when the dog suddenly shifted into a naked man!
"How did you do that?" the man questioned, dazed that someone could force him to morph.
"I have no idea," she told him truthfully, but before he could ask any more questions she cut him off, "Who are you?" she asked, looking at him, she blushed when she realized that he was naked. She conjured robes for him and turned around while he dressed. "Well?" she asked, impatiently, tapping her foot, she studied him some more and then it clicked! "You're Sirus Black!" she said and Oliver reached for his wand, while Black tried to shift back, but was stopped by Buffy.
Buffy stepped between the two guys and motioned for Oliver to go to the other room.
"I'm not leaving you alone with him!" he told her. "I'm not moving one.." Buffy motioned for Black to follow her into the other room, "inch."
"How do you know you can trust me?" he asked.
"I can feel it." She told him, "You feel differently then most of the wizards I've met, your somewhat like Lupin, except the feeling is more controlled and less wild, I guess that would be because of he's a werewolf."
"What do you mean that you can feel me?" he asked and Buffy sighed.
"alright, I'll answer, but then you have to." She told him and he nodded his agreement. "Well, I'm the slayer." He gasped.
"But the slayer is just a myth!" he exclaimed.
"Ya, well that would have saved me allot of trouble." She told him and then continued, "But Serverus Snape is my real father, and so that makes me part witch or whatever."
"Snape is your father?" he asked, clearly unable to believe that Snape could father such a beautiful child.
"Yes, well mom raised me and I took after her."
"I think a thank God would be in order." He told her and Buffy laughed, when Oliver suddenly stepped into the room.
"Are you going to play nice?" Buffy asked and Oliver nodded, "Good. Well as I was saying. As far as Dumbledore can figure, because I am the slayer the magic that was in me and the magic that makes me the slayer merged and I able to do things that I shouldn't be able to."
"Like what?" he asked, curious about the girl that was supposed to be a myth.
"I can apparate around Hogwarts. We aren't sure if I can apparent into Hogwart's and he didn't want me to try, but I can go anywhere I want. As you can tell, I have some degree of control over other people."
"Is that how you made me shift?"
"I think so. He told me because I am basically a predator I have more "basic/primal" skills." She told them in her stuffy British accent, "Whatever that means. So, enough about me and more about you." Black shifted uncomfortably, not knowing what to say. "C'mon, I already know that you are Sirus Black escaped prisoner.. yada yada ya. What I want to know is why you've been following me around all day."
"Because you smell like Harry." He explained, "I thought you might be meeting him or something. I am Harry's godfather."
"Nope, Harry couldn't come, because of his aunt and uncle. And I smell like him, because I hang out with him. Did I mention that the whole smelling thing is gross?" she asked, "Vampires do it, Angel tracked me once.." she trailed off as she realized what she was saying. Black looked at Oliver who just shrugged, because he wasn't sure what was going on either.
"Buffy? Oliver?" they heard from outside the house, Buffy quickly looked around, trying to figure out what time it was.
"I think we are late." She told Oliver and then looked at Black, "Are you staying here?"
"Yes."
"Alright, I'll be back later so we can talk and I'll get you some food." She told him and he nodded.
"How are you going to get outside, without them knowing that you came out from here?" he asked and Buffy winked at him, before grabbing Oliver's hand and apparenting them outside, behind the group.
"There you guys are!" Buffy said, pretending that they had been searching for them. "C'mon I'm starved." She winked at Black one more time, before turning to leave.
"Hard to believe that that is Snape's child isn't?" Lupin said from behind Black.
"Very." Black replied. "You do realize that she knew you were here the entire time right?"
"Yes, but we have an understanding." Was the only reply.