Disclaimer: I am not Joss, nor am I J.K. Rowlings or anything else, but me.
Author's Note: Sorry that it took so long to update!!! Realize my bad! Harry got a Firebolt not another Nimbus.. So I'll be fixing that!
Chapter 15
"I can't see what's going to stop us tomorrow" Oliver said, pacing the length of the room, after their quidditch practice, "Unless- Harry, Buffy, you haven't sorted your dementor problems out, have you?"
"Yeah." Buffy and Harry said together, Harry thinking of his pitiful excuse for a Patronus, while Buffy thought of her pretty black leopard.
"Dumbledore won't let the dementors near the field, Oliver." Fred pointed out.
"Let's hope not." Wood replied, he didn't know how much more Buffy could take of rehashing her past before she snapped. "Anyway, good work, everyone. Let's get back to the tower, we've gotta.."
"Turn in early." Buffy finished for him and everyone started to laugh. "We know, O wise leader."
"Actually, Ron wanted to ride the Firebolt, so I'm gonna stay her for a bit." Harry told them, as the rest of the team made their way to the tower.
"I want a shower." Buffy said, looking down at her sweat covered clothes, "I must smell horribly."
"You don't smell." Oliver told her and Buffy flushed.
"You're sweet." Buffy told him, "A terrible liar, but sweet." The words brought back a tidal wave of memories that were not as painful as they used to be. Buffy sighed, ever since she had faced the dementors her memories had been closer to the top, the good as well as the bad.
"What was the heavy sigh for?" Oliver asked as they walked into the tower and into the common area.
"Are you making Buffy sigh already, Oliver?" Xander asked and Oliver flushed bright red from the comment while Buffy sent Xander a glare that sent him scurrying behind Willow.
"Don't hide behind me, hyena boy." Willow told him, "you made your bed, now sleep in it."
"Oh, come on Will, don't be like that." Xander protested and then tacked on as an afterthought, "And I didn't make my bed." Buffy started to laugh, her laughter so infectious, that everyone else was soon joining in.
"Thanks guys, I needed that." she told them and made her way to her room, "I'm gonna go shower and then it's off to patrol for me."
"Uh, Buff," Xander said, "I may not have been here that long, but aren't the showers the other way?"
"Yes, but I need clothes to change into," Buffy replied and Xander looked thoughtful.
"Highly overrated." he told her and they began to laugh again. Oliver looked on and realized just how much Buffy needed her friends to keep her grounded and sane.
"Remember, full moon." Oz reminded her, "you might want to take the tranq gun."
"You aren't planning to get loose are you?" she asked, silently adding Lupin onto the question.
"Nah, but you never know when you're going to meet one." Oz told her, communicating that no one had seen Lupin that day.
"Thanks." she told him and went back up to the room, calling down, "Can someone get the gun from Giles?"
"I'll do it." Willow said, "I was gonna go over with Oz anyways." Willow and Oz got up and left the room, leaving a pondering Hermione behind, while the rest of the group went about preparing for bed or class the next day.
Forbidden Forrest
Buffy walked cautiously through the forest, she knew that wolf-Lupin was wandering around the forest looking for something yummy to eat, like her. She twisted her head around when she heard a snap, peering into the darkness for the being that made the noise, but only crickets greeted her.
"Great, way to jump." she muttered to herself, turning around to walk further into the forest, when she saw brown fur running towards her. Reacting instinctively, she jumped up, cocking the tranq gun and shooting at the form as it ran underneath her, hitting it on the shoulder. It went down, skidding from the momentum of the rush and then lumbered to it's feet, turning on Buffy and rushing back towards her.
"Why don't they ever stay down on the first shot?" she asked, pointing the gun and giving off another shot, the werewolf going down hard, before trying to lumber back to it's feet and then collapsing.
"Took you long enough." she muttered, approaching the werewolf carefully, nudging it with her foot. "Great." she sighed, bending to pick up the werewolf, with the intention to bring him back to the castle.
"You didn't have to get me a gift." a soft, aristocratic feminine voice said. Buffy whirled around facing the way that the voice had come, her stance shifting with ease into a fighting stance.
"He's not for you." Buffy said firmly, moving to stand in front of Lupin, glaring at the woman in front of her, who was in a red sheathed dress that v-ed in the front, her blonde hair tumbling around her shoulders.
"But you are." she stated firmly, moving closer to Buffy, who was starting to feel like a caged lion that they had caught in the wilderness.
"No."
"But you are, my key." the woman hissed, leaping at Buffy only to give out a startled yelp when Anlon landed between them, stopping her advance. "Move."
"I will not." Anlon stated firmly, "Get out of here." he told Buffy, not wishing to name her, should the Goddess not know the name already. Buffy looked at Anlon, realizing that the Goddess was afraid of him for some reason and was backing up away from him trying not to make it noticeable. Nodding Buffy grabbed a hold of Lupin and apparented to a room in the basement of Hogwarts that was werewolf friendly, with a noticeable pop.
"You can't protect her forever!"
"I need not." he acknowledged, "only for the next couple of months and then she is useless to you."
"You are not with her all of the time." the Goddess accused, trying to break through Anlon's self-confidence.
"I need not be." he replied and left it at that, watching the Goddess move away from him. "You may be immune, just remember He is not." Anlon took off into the air, leaving the Goddess to her thoughts.
Room in the Basement
Willow read quietly to Oz through the door that separated them. She could hear him roaming around, looking for a way to escape so that he could have a tasty Willow treat.
"Ahh!" Willow screamed when Buffy suddenly appeared next to her. "Would you stop doing that?" she besieged, before noticing that Buffy was holding wolf- Lupin and gave a little shriek, moving away from her.
"Could you open one of the doors?" Buffy asked anxiously as she felt Lupin begin to stir. Willow quickly opened the door and Buffy laid Lupin in the room, before slamming the door shut behind her, just as he woke up and tried to pounce on her again, only to fall back down to the ground as the drug worked it's way out of his system.
"Do you shoot every werewolf you meet?" Willow asked teasingly.
"No," Buffy replied with a huge smile on her face, "only the good looking ones."
"Only the good looking ones what?" Oliver asked stepping into the dungeon.
"Get to meet my dad." Buffy said, laughing as Oliver cringed at the mention of Snape. "Not to mention my mother." Willow and Buffy laughed even harder when Oliver turned a ghostly white. Ever since her birthday one of her parents would find some reason to talk to him and it usually ended with his life being threatened should he harmed her. "Where's Giles?"
"He's waiting for you." Oliver told her, "he sent me to check and see if you had returned yet."
"And what were you doing with Giles?" Buffy asked, wiggling her eyebrows, causing Willow to go off into another fit of laughter as Oliver turned so red that the Weasley's would have felt proud. "That's so cute."
"I always knew that you could make a cute boy speechless, you had it in you." Willow said, wiping an imaginary tear from her eye, "my little slayer is all grown up." Buffy and Willow went off into a fit of laughter, while Oliver glared at them, before jumping when one of the werewolf's rushed the door.
"Jumpy?" Buffy asked innocently.
"I thought that Oz was the only one?"
"You know better."
"You found him then?"
"Of course, did you doubt me?" she asked, wanting to see his reaction. He shook his head and turned to leave the room, offering his arm. "Oh a gentleman, how rare a find!" Oliver shook his head again, laughing softly, before leading Buffy to Giles' room, where he was waiting to hear how the night's patrol went.
"And?" Giles asked trailing the word off so that it was a question.
"Safe and sound.." Buffy told him and then added, "And unconscious." Giles winced and looked at her with a stern look. "What! It wasn't like he gave me much of a choice. He chased after me, of course I could have given him to Glory."
"Buffy, you must realize that you can't shoot every were.." Giles began his lecture, "Glory?" the horror growing, "As in indestructible God?"
"Ya that would be the one." she replied, sitting down in one of the chairs.
"What God?" Oliver asked looking slightly confused, until he remembered the research that they had done the week before. "Her?"
"Yes." she said, "Although she wouldn't come within ten feet of me when Anlon showed up."
"What?" Oliver asked, "I thought she was an indestructible being, why would she be afraid of Anlon?" Buffy shrugged and Giles looked perplexed, taking his glasses off and chewing, thoughtfully, on the end of them.
"This requires research." Giles told them and Buffy began to feel better, knowing that her watcher would get to the bottom of everything. Getting up from her seat, she turned and left the room, Oliver following her example.
"Would you have told me that you saw Glory if I hadn't been there?" Oliver asked frightened that Buffy didn't feel that she could trust anyone.
"I don't want to worry anyone needlessly." Buffy told him and Oliver looked at her with a shocked look on his face.
"Buffy, we care about you," Oliver told her, "I care about you. What happens to you matters to me!" he walked off before Buffy could say anything else, leaving her standing in the corridor by herself a bit perplexed. Walking to her parents room, she tapped on the door to let them know that she was back from patrol and then made her way to the tower, slipping into her bed and falling asleep.
Morning
"Get up!" Willow told her, shaking the slayer and then jumping back as she came awake with a start, ready to fight. "Why is that always your first instinct?"
"Cause I'm the slayer." Buffy told her sleepily trying to go back to sleep.
"You need to get up, we gotta teach that class today." Willow reminded her and Buffy cracked one eye open and looked at her. Willow smiled gently and nodded, Buffy jumped out of the bed and rushed to the bathroom, muttering about Dumbledore and his early classes.
"Who do we have first?" Buffy asked as they made their way to the room that Dumbledore had given them. They had worked hard on the room, putting mats around the room on the floor, placing various weapons on the wall, only to be taken down by one of them and the rest of the room was bare.
"Gryffindor." Willow told her and Buffy smiled, maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all, "And Slytherin." Buffy's smile immediately dropped, until she realized that the Slytherin Prince was her friend, of sorts, he would keep his housemates in line or she would just use them as her examples.
"That's okay, we can use the Slytherin's to show the rest of the students what we expect them to do." Buffy told her with an evil grin on her face, causing Willow to burst out laughing. They sat at the front of the class as the students entered the class, laughing when the Slytherins gave them an evil glare, while Draco glared at their glaring.
"Alright guys," Buffy said, "form a circle." she waited until they had formed the circle a big gap between the Slytherins and Gryfindors. "This is the new class that everyone is required to take. Willow will be teaching wandless magic half of the time and the other half I will be teaching defense moves. Any questions?"
"Why you?" one of the Slytherins asked.
"I figured that would have been all of school by now." Buffy said in surprise, "I'm the slayer."
"What's a slayer?" one of the first years asked.
"Into every generation there is one with the strength and courage to fight the forces of darkness. She is the slayer." Willow said and they both laughed.
"I fight evil."
"Then why are the Slytherins here?" Fred asked and the Gryfindors burst out laughing.
"They are just misled, not completely evil." Buffy pointed out.
"I will be teaching wandless magic, now.." Willow began and was cut off.
"You can't do magic without a wand." someone said snottily.
"Sure you can." Willow replied levitating the student that had spoken and then continued on, the student still in the air, "You have to have emotional control and be able to focus." she set the student down, "But I won't be teaching you to do that. I will be teaching you protection spells in case you get caught without your wand, or it is somehow broken."
"Where did Dumbledore find you people?" Buffy heard one of the students mutter under his breath.
"Well," Buffy said as though the rest of the class had heard the question, "he found us on the mouth of Hell."
"What is the mouth of Hell?"
"Exactly what it sounds like." Willow said and got a glare for it. "It's a place were all magic converges and everything is drawn to it, all sorts of creatures. But because it is a convergences it is close to the dimension of Hell and can be opened in certain spots."
"Has it ever opened?"
"Yea." Buffy said, "Twice."
"What happened?"
"Well, I died the first time and then killed the evil vampire, sealing the Hellmouth closed again." Buffy told them, laughing at the gasps went around the room, "And the second time we killed the demons that were trying to open it."
"I thought slayers were supposed to keep their identiy a secret and not have friends or anything like that."
"We didn't give her much choice." Willow reassured them, "First day there, we lost a friend and discovered Buffy and Giles talking in the library about it, since that day we've stuck by her side."
"Have you fought any famous vampires?" Hermione asked while Willow and Buffy shared a look.
"Who do you consider famous?" Buffy asked interested.
"The Master!"
"William the Bloody!" Draco shouted and then smirked when Willow looked at him curiously.
"Dracula!" and on they went as Willow and Buffy silently where laughing.
"Angelus." Oliver said quietly knowing that Buffy would hear him. She inhaled sharply and looked directly at him.
"Ya," Buffy said, "I've fought some of them. The Master was who killed me and then I killed him."
"But the book says that he lives in an underground cave trapped." Hermione told her.
"The book is wrong." Buffy said a little harshly and Willow immediately took over.
"There was this prophecy that Buffy would fight the Master and she would die." Willow began, "Well, being only sixteen she didn't want to die. Now Buffy hadn't been raised in the normal Council setting and was free wheeled and dangerous, she trusted who she wanted and not who she was told to. Well, she watched as I struggled after a vicious vampire attack and realized that she had to go, it was her destiny. She went into the cave and she faced the Master and she died. Our friend Xander had followed her down and gave her CPR. She came back and she kicked ass, killing the Master."
"I haven't met Dracula." Buffy told them, since the class was still in awe over what they had heard, "But I have fought Spike."
"Whose Spike?"
"William the Bloody." Draco answered smiling at the two girls in the front of the room. Before Willow or Buffy could ask any questions the bell rang and the students left.
"Oliver," Buffy said when she saw him getting to leave, "Can we talk?"
"Not right now," he told her walking towards the door, "I have to get to class." Buffy watched him, with tears glistening in her eyes, as he walked out of the classroom. Willow walked up behind her and pulled her friend into her arms.
"How come I wasn't invited to the group hug?" Xander asked, immediately Willow and Buffy opened their arms and Xander walked into them.
"I've gotta talk to Giles." Buffy said and the other two let her go watching as she fled the room, rushing past a barely awake Oz.
"What's going on?"
Author's Note: Sorry that it took so long to update!!! Realize my bad! Harry got a Firebolt not another Nimbus.. So I'll be fixing that!
Chapter 15
"I can't see what's going to stop us tomorrow" Oliver said, pacing the length of the room, after their quidditch practice, "Unless- Harry, Buffy, you haven't sorted your dementor problems out, have you?"
"Yeah." Buffy and Harry said together, Harry thinking of his pitiful excuse for a Patronus, while Buffy thought of her pretty black leopard.
"Dumbledore won't let the dementors near the field, Oliver." Fred pointed out.
"Let's hope not." Wood replied, he didn't know how much more Buffy could take of rehashing her past before she snapped. "Anyway, good work, everyone. Let's get back to the tower, we've gotta.."
"Turn in early." Buffy finished for him and everyone started to laugh. "We know, O wise leader."
"Actually, Ron wanted to ride the Firebolt, so I'm gonna stay her for a bit." Harry told them, as the rest of the team made their way to the tower.
"I want a shower." Buffy said, looking down at her sweat covered clothes, "I must smell horribly."
"You don't smell." Oliver told her and Buffy flushed.
"You're sweet." Buffy told him, "A terrible liar, but sweet." The words brought back a tidal wave of memories that were not as painful as they used to be. Buffy sighed, ever since she had faced the dementors her memories had been closer to the top, the good as well as the bad.
"What was the heavy sigh for?" Oliver asked as they walked into the tower and into the common area.
"Are you making Buffy sigh already, Oliver?" Xander asked and Oliver flushed bright red from the comment while Buffy sent Xander a glare that sent him scurrying behind Willow.
"Don't hide behind me, hyena boy." Willow told him, "you made your bed, now sleep in it."
"Oh, come on Will, don't be like that." Xander protested and then tacked on as an afterthought, "And I didn't make my bed." Buffy started to laugh, her laughter so infectious, that everyone else was soon joining in.
"Thanks guys, I needed that." she told them and made her way to her room, "I'm gonna go shower and then it's off to patrol for me."
"Uh, Buff," Xander said, "I may not have been here that long, but aren't the showers the other way?"
"Yes, but I need clothes to change into," Buffy replied and Xander looked thoughtful.
"Highly overrated." he told her and they began to laugh again. Oliver looked on and realized just how much Buffy needed her friends to keep her grounded and sane.
"Remember, full moon." Oz reminded her, "you might want to take the tranq gun."
"You aren't planning to get loose are you?" she asked, silently adding Lupin onto the question.
"Nah, but you never know when you're going to meet one." Oz told her, communicating that no one had seen Lupin that day.
"Thanks." she told him and went back up to the room, calling down, "Can someone get the gun from Giles?"
"I'll do it." Willow said, "I was gonna go over with Oz anyways." Willow and Oz got up and left the room, leaving a pondering Hermione behind, while the rest of the group went about preparing for bed or class the next day.
Forbidden Forrest
Buffy walked cautiously through the forest, she knew that wolf-Lupin was wandering around the forest looking for something yummy to eat, like her. She twisted her head around when she heard a snap, peering into the darkness for the being that made the noise, but only crickets greeted her.
"Great, way to jump." she muttered to herself, turning around to walk further into the forest, when she saw brown fur running towards her. Reacting instinctively, she jumped up, cocking the tranq gun and shooting at the form as it ran underneath her, hitting it on the shoulder. It went down, skidding from the momentum of the rush and then lumbered to it's feet, turning on Buffy and rushing back towards her.
"Why don't they ever stay down on the first shot?" she asked, pointing the gun and giving off another shot, the werewolf going down hard, before trying to lumber back to it's feet and then collapsing.
"Took you long enough." she muttered, approaching the werewolf carefully, nudging it with her foot. "Great." she sighed, bending to pick up the werewolf, with the intention to bring him back to the castle.
"You didn't have to get me a gift." a soft, aristocratic feminine voice said. Buffy whirled around facing the way that the voice had come, her stance shifting with ease into a fighting stance.
"He's not for you." Buffy said firmly, moving to stand in front of Lupin, glaring at the woman in front of her, who was in a red sheathed dress that v-ed in the front, her blonde hair tumbling around her shoulders.
"But you are." she stated firmly, moving closer to Buffy, who was starting to feel like a caged lion that they had caught in the wilderness.
"No."
"But you are, my key." the woman hissed, leaping at Buffy only to give out a startled yelp when Anlon landed between them, stopping her advance. "Move."
"I will not." Anlon stated firmly, "Get out of here." he told Buffy, not wishing to name her, should the Goddess not know the name already. Buffy looked at Anlon, realizing that the Goddess was afraid of him for some reason and was backing up away from him trying not to make it noticeable. Nodding Buffy grabbed a hold of Lupin and apparented to a room in the basement of Hogwarts that was werewolf friendly, with a noticeable pop.
"You can't protect her forever!"
"I need not." he acknowledged, "only for the next couple of months and then she is useless to you."
"You are not with her all of the time." the Goddess accused, trying to break through Anlon's self-confidence.
"I need not be." he replied and left it at that, watching the Goddess move away from him. "You may be immune, just remember He is not." Anlon took off into the air, leaving the Goddess to her thoughts.
Room in the Basement
Willow read quietly to Oz through the door that separated them. She could hear him roaming around, looking for a way to escape so that he could have a tasty Willow treat.
"Ahh!" Willow screamed when Buffy suddenly appeared next to her. "Would you stop doing that?" she besieged, before noticing that Buffy was holding wolf- Lupin and gave a little shriek, moving away from her.
"Could you open one of the doors?" Buffy asked anxiously as she felt Lupin begin to stir. Willow quickly opened the door and Buffy laid Lupin in the room, before slamming the door shut behind her, just as he woke up and tried to pounce on her again, only to fall back down to the ground as the drug worked it's way out of his system.
"Do you shoot every werewolf you meet?" Willow asked teasingly.
"No," Buffy replied with a huge smile on her face, "only the good looking ones."
"Only the good looking ones what?" Oliver asked stepping into the dungeon.
"Get to meet my dad." Buffy said, laughing as Oliver cringed at the mention of Snape. "Not to mention my mother." Willow and Buffy laughed even harder when Oliver turned a ghostly white. Ever since her birthday one of her parents would find some reason to talk to him and it usually ended with his life being threatened should he harmed her. "Where's Giles?"
"He's waiting for you." Oliver told her, "he sent me to check and see if you had returned yet."
"And what were you doing with Giles?" Buffy asked, wiggling her eyebrows, causing Willow to go off into another fit of laughter as Oliver turned so red that the Weasley's would have felt proud. "That's so cute."
"I always knew that you could make a cute boy speechless, you had it in you." Willow said, wiping an imaginary tear from her eye, "my little slayer is all grown up." Buffy and Willow went off into a fit of laughter, while Oliver glared at them, before jumping when one of the werewolf's rushed the door.
"Jumpy?" Buffy asked innocently.
"I thought that Oz was the only one?"
"You know better."
"You found him then?"
"Of course, did you doubt me?" she asked, wanting to see his reaction. He shook his head and turned to leave the room, offering his arm. "Oh a gentleman, how rare a find!" Oliver shook his head again, laughing softly, before leading Buffy to Giles' room, where he was waiting to hear how the night's patrol went.
"And?" Giles asked trailing the word off so that it was a question.
"Safe and sound.." Buffy told him and then added, "And unconscious." Giles winced and looked at her with a stern look. "What! It wasn't like he gave me much of a choice. He chased after me, of course I could have given him to Glory."
"Buffy, you must realize that you can't shoot every were.." Giles began his lecture, "Glory?" the horror growing, "As in indestructible God?"
"Ya that would be the one." she replied, sitting down in one of the chairs.
"What God?" Oliver asked looking slightly confused, until he remembered the research that they had done the week before. "Her?"
"Yes." she said, "Although she wouldn't come within ten feet of me when Anlon showed up."
"What?" Oliver asked, "I thought she was an indestructible being, why would she be afraid of Anlon?" Buffy shrugged and Giles looked perplexed, taking his glasses off and chewing, thoughtfully, on the end of them.
"This requires research." Giles told them and Buffy began to feel better, knowing that her watcher would get to the bottom of everything. Getting up from her seat, she turned and left the room, Oliver following her example.
"Would you have told me that you saw Glory if I hadn't been there?" Oliver asked frightened that Buffy didn't feel that she could trust anyone.
"I don't want to worry anyone needlessly." Buffy told him and Oliver looked at her with a shocked look on his face.
"Buffy, we care about you," Oliver told her, "I care about you. What happens to you matters to me!" he walked off before Buffy could say anything else, leaving her standing in the corridor by herself a bit perplexed. Walking to her parents room, she tapped on the door to let them know that she was back from patrol and then made her way to the tower, slipping into her bed and falling asleep.
Morning
"Get up!" Willow told her, shaking the slayer and then jumping back as she came awake with a start, ready to fight. "Why is that always your first instinct?"
"Cause I'm the slayer." Buffy told her sleepily trying to go back to sleep.
"You need to get up, we gotta teach that class today." Willow reminded her and Buffy cracked one eye open and looked at her. Willow smiled gently and nodded, Buffy jumped out of the bed and rushed to the bathroom, muttering about Dumbledore and his early classes.
"Who do we have first?" Buffy asked as they made their way to the room that Dumbledore had given them. They had worked hard on the room, putting mats around the room on the floor, placing various weapons on the wall, only to be taken down by one of them and the rest of the room was bare.
"Gryffindor." Willow told her and Buffy smiled, maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all, "And Slytherin." Buffy's smile immediately dropped, until she realized that the Slytherin Prince was her friend, of sorts, he would keep his housemates in line or she would just use them as her examples.
"That's okay, we can use the Slytherin's to show the rest of the students what we expect them to do." Buffy told her with an evil grin on her face, causing Willow to burst out laughing. They sat at the front of the class as the students entered the class, laughing when the Slytherins gave them an evil glare, while Draco glared at their glaring.
"Alright guys," Buffy said, "form a circle." she waited until they had formed the circle a big gap between the Slytherins and Gryfindors. "This is the new class that everyone is required to take. Willow will be teaching wandless magic half of the time and the other half I will be teaching defense moves. Any questions?"
"Why you?" one of the Slytherins asked.
"I figured that would have been all of school by now." Buffy said in surprise, "I'm the slayer."
"What's a slayer?" one of the first years asked.
"Into every generation there is one with the strength and courage to fight the forces of darkness. She is the slayer." Willow said and they both laughed.
"I fight evil."
"Then why are the Slytherins here?" Fred asked and the Gryfindors burst out laughing.
"They are just misled, not completely evil." Buffy pointed out.
"I will be teaching wandless magic, now.." Willow began and was cut off.
"You can't do magic without a wand." someone said snottily.
"Sure you can." Willow replied levitating the student that had spoken and then continued on, the student still in the air, "You have to have emotional control and be able to focus." she set the student down, "But I won't be teaching you to do that. I will be teaching you protection spells in case you get caught without your wand, or it is somehow broken."
"Where did Dumbledore find you people?" Buffy heard one of the students mutter under his breath.
"Well," Buffy said as though the rest of the class had heard the question, "he found us on the mouth of Hell."
"What is the mouth of Hell?"
"Exactly what it sounds like." Willow said and got a glare for it. "It's a place were all magic converges and everything is drawn to it, all sorts of creatures. But because it is a convergences it is close to the dimension of Hell and can be opened in certain spots."
"Has it ever opened?"
"Yea." Buffy said, "Twice."
"What happened?"
"Well, I died the first time and then killed the evil vampire, sealing the Hellmouth closed again." Buffy told them, laughing at the gasps went around the room, "And the second time we killed the demons that were trying to open it."
"I thought slayers were supposed to keep their identiy a secret and not have friends or anything like that."
"We didn't give her much choice." Willow reassured them, "First day there, we lost a friend and discovered Buffy and Giles talking in the library about it, since that day we've stuck by her side."
"Have you fought any famous vampires?" Hermione asked while Willow and Buffy shared a look.
"Who do you consider famous?" Buffy asked interested.
"The Master!"
"William the Bloody!" Draco shouted and then smirked when Willow looked at him curiously.
"Dracula!" and on they went as Willow and Buffy silently where laughing.
"Angelus." Oliver said quietly knowing that Buffy would hear him. She inhaled sharply and looked directly at him.
"Ya," Buffy said, "I've fought some of them. The Master was who killed me and then I killed him."
"But the book says that he lives in an underground cave trapped." Hermione told her.
"The book is wrong." Buffy said a little harshly and Willow immediately took over.
"There was this prophecy that Buffy would fight the Master and she would die." Willow began, "Well, being only sixteen she didn't want to die. Now Buffy hadn't been raised in the normal Council setting and was free wheeled and dangerous, she trusted who she wanted and not who she was told to. Well, she watched as I struggled after a vicious vampire attack and realized that she had to go, it was her destiny. She went into the cave and she faced the Master and she died. Our friend Xander had followed her down and gave her CPR. She came back and she kicked ass, killing the Master."
"I haven't met Dracula." Buffy told them, since the class was still in awe over what they had heard, "But I have fought Spike."
"Whose Spike?"
"William the Bloody." Draco answered smiling at the two girls in the front of the room. Before Willow or Buffy could ask any questions the bell rang and the students left.
"Oliver," Buffy said when she saw him getting to leave, "Can we talk?"
"Not right now," he told her walking towards the door, "I have to get to class." Buffy watched him, with tears glistening in her eyes, as he walked out of the classroom. Willow walked up behind her and pulled her friend into her arms.
"How come I wasn't invited to the group hug?" Xander asked, immediately Willow and Buffy opened their arms and Xander walked into them.
"I've gotta talk to Giles." Buffy said and the other two let her go watching as she fled the room, rushing past a barely awake Oz.
"What's going on?"