Chapter Two
Questions and Answers
Buffy and Faith sat on the London street curb watching the people and cars drive slowly past them
"You sure the dude with the funk beard said here?" Faith asked miserably her hands cupping her bored face lightly as she watched another cute guy walk past. Buffy sighed and ran her hand through her blonde curls and watched as Dawn and Xander continued to play another game of Thumb wrestling
"Yeah Dumbledore said to meet us here… about..." Buffy looked down at her watch and then sighed again "Two hours ago", suddenly there was a loud pop behind them and Buffy and Faith quickly turned to see an old man standing there his mouth twitched up in a large smile
"You my dear must be the famous Buffy Summers, Vampire Slayer, and you must be the charming Faith Morgan, Pleasure to meet you I'm Albus Dumbledore sorry to keep you waiting" the man said and stepped forward shaking both Buffy and Faith's hand in turn, he motioned towards the door of the pub and ushered them inside. The Scooby gang looked silently around the dusty pub, the pub was disserted aside from a large group of people sitting at a big long table, most of which had red hair. Buffy exchanged glances with Faith who looked skeptical and followed Dumbledore over to the table, as they stopped in front of it everyone looked up in surprise
"Buffy, Alexander, Willow, Faith, Dawn and Charles I would like you to meet the Order of the Phoenix… with some Hogwarts students as exceptions" Dumbledore said with a slight chuckle, Buffy looked around the table scanning everyone there, Buffy's gaze stopped on two men around her age sitting at the end of the table looking intently at her and Faith. Behind her Buffy knew that Angel had just arrived, Buffy relaxed slightly as Angel came and stood on her right hand side making sure that she knew he was there. One of the two older men stood up in his seat and held out his hand to her
"Pleasure to meet you….I'm Remus Lupin the Defence against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts" Remus grinned as both Buffy, Angel and Faith stepped forward and shook his hand
"It's a pleasure to meet you Professor Lupin, I'm Angel, this is Buffy Summers, Faith Morgan, Willow Rosenberg, Charles Gunn, Xander Harris ,Buffy's little sister Dawn Summers and this is Rupert Giles an old friend of ours" Angel said making the whole groups eyes turn to him, Buffy wanted to sigh in relief, she was always grateful that Angel took the charge away from her whenever he could, she liked the fact that she didn't always have to be leader, Not anymore. For the next five or ten minutes the group spent in introductions, the blonde Slayer discovered that all the red heads were actually one family called the Weasley's and the two older men, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, We professors at Hogwarts and that the younger children's names were Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny. Dawn seemed to instantly bond with Ron and Hermione though Harry didn't seem to keen on chatting, before long Buffy found herself sitting in a chair next to Remus, Sirius and Angel talking intently about Hogwarts and their involvements with it
"So Buffy tell me again what your subject is?" Sirius asked taking a sip of his drink and eyeing Buffy over it, Buffy snuck a side glance at Angel who was sending Sirius death glares from where he was sitting; Buffy chuckled slightly and smiled at Sirius
"It's Muggle Combat; Dumbledore requested that Faith and I come and teach Muggle Combat or in other words Hand to Hand combat and armed Combat… We are just teaching the kids how to fight…" From behind her came a small snort and Buffy turned to see Faith strutting elegantly up to her
"B It is sooo much more then that girl…And you know it" Faith said and plopped herself down not so gracefully next to Buffy and Remus. Buffy sighed and stretched out slowly letting her blonde curls bob up and down on her shoulders, Neither Buffy nor Faith noticed Sirius Black watching Buffy move and talk, Buffy stood up slowly and walked over to Angel and reached inside his leather jacket pocket, flashing him a smile as she went, and reached in and picked out his wallet, Angel grabbed Buffy's wrist before she could turn away
"Don't think I don't know you Buffy Summers, Just because I haven't seen you in at least four years doesn't mean I don't know you… Give back the wallet and take out a twenty" Angel said holding out his hand for his wallet, Buffy grinned wildly and opened up Angel's wallet only to have a small picture fall out. Faith quickly bent down and picked up the picture grinning cheekily
"So Angel… Old lovers die hard?" Faith said turning the picture around the reveal Buffy. Remus, Sirius and Buffy both leaned in for a closer look, there in the photo was Buffy in her prom dress smiling brightly, and Buffy brushed her hand gently on the picture and took it in her hands smiling over at Angel
"I can't believe you kept this… I thought you would have forgotten all about my Prom when you left" Buffy handed Angel back to photo; they both shared a tender smile before Buffy walked of to the bar. Sitting on the bar stool waiting to be served, Buffy could feel the thoughts in her head swarming, would her new life at Hogwarts give her the chance to rekindle her love with Angel? Or would she find someone knew? And why is everyone so keen to know about the subjects she's teaching?