Disclaimer: Yet again I would like to state that I don't own anything from the Harry Potter or the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The only thing that is mine is the plot.
A/N: Sorry this took me like forever but I got a bit distracted with the new school year starting (YAY I'm a junior) and some family issues. I'll try to start updating a bit faster than I have just stick with me. A few things are different in this story in it Blaise Zambini will be a girl NOT a boy and the Slytherin common room is in a tower on the opposite end of the castle from the Gryffindors. Again all criticism is welcomed so review. Thanx...
Chapter Nine:
Rooms, Boredom, and Maps
As they followed the Dracula poser through many different hidden passages as they ascended to the third floor where they stopped in front of a blank wall at the end of a corridor found behind a wall tapestry. "This is the entrance to the common room the password is 'pureblood.' Be sure NOT to tell anyone outside of the house," Professor Snape told them as the wall slid open to reveal the common room.
Compared to the rest of the castle this place was depressing to say the least. The floor and walls were a dull grey stone that made it look more like a prison, if it weren't for the green carpet that rested in front of the large fireplace and the antique green furniture that looked really uncomfortable.
"Well isn't this just homey..." mumbled Faith as her and Buffy followed their Head of House to a portrait on the left wall of a young women in victorian clothing.
"Now this will be your room. The password is up to you," he said before turning to leave the room. But before he left he turned back to them and said, "Don't think your any better than the other students. The Headmaster just thought this would be better considering WHY you were all sent here."
"Isn't he just a bundle of sunshine. What do you think our password should be?" Buffy asked turning to Faith who was busy looking around the empty common room.
"Don't you think its a little weird that no body is in here? Dinner just got out and they go to bed...thats just wrong," Faith said not really paying any attention to Buffy or what she was saying for that matter.
"Well would you want to hang out in this room for long, talk about depressing..." Buffy said looking around the room just like Faith had moments before. "So what should our password be?"
"I don't know... it has to be something no one could figure out," Faith replied trying to think of a good password that would be impossible to uncover.
"How about Scooby's forever?" Buffy asked thinking of the stupid nickname Xander had given them when they all started magic school all those years ago.
"God no, Xander would never let us live that down. What about 'Hellmouth' not many people know about it?" Faith suggested remembering the hellmouth underneath the library of their old school. She would never understand why anybody would build a school on that thing.
"Okay, that works..." Buffy agreed turning to the portrait where the young girl was smiling at them.
"Hello there, I'm Darla. Whats the password?" she asked as she started looking at her fingernails in what could only be described as her bordem.
"Hellmouth," Faith told the painting as it swung forward to reveal their private room. It was much better than they common room was it actually looked like a comfortable place to stay. The floor wasn't stone like the common room but had a nice soft tan carpeting, the wall to were different they were painted green. It was a comfortable size with large windows which let the moonlight come in. The two beds, desks, and dressers were the only furniture in the room with the exception of their large trunks. To the right was a solitary door which turned out to lead to their very own bathroom.
"This isn't to shabby..." was all Faith said as she took the bed on the left of the room.
"Yep, not bad at all. Hey there Freya!" Buffy greeted her beautiful pheonix as she immediately went to stroke its beautiful crimson and black feathers.
"So what do we do now, B?" questioned Faith as she stopped petting her own puppy which she named Kali.
"I don't know?" replied Buffy, "It's not like we can explore the school or something that would be against the 'rules.' Stupid rules."
Faith's face lit up in a mischievous gleam, "What they don't know doesn't hurt them." With that said both girls exited their room and the slytherin common room to explore the castle.
In the Gryffindor Common room sat Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny, and a very unhappy looking Harry Potter as they were gathered in a far corner of the large room away from all their fellow house members.
"I can't believe that stupid hat!" was all Harry would say as he glared at the wall. This had been going on ever since the sorting and no one could get the boy to shut up about it not to mention talk about something else.
"Come on Harry you don't even know if its really her..." Hermione tried to tell him again.
"I know my own friend when I see her!" replied Harry sending his glare in her direction for even questioning that he was right.
"But you can't be positive. I mean we never heard the new students names, maybe its just some girl who looks like Buffy," Neville tried to reason.
"Neville's right you don't know her name and you won't know it until tomorrow so relax," Ginny tried to reason with him.
"Why don't you just check the Marauder's map?" questioned Ron as he was eating a pile of choclate frogs. That seemed to get Harry's attention as he went running to the boys dormitories. It wasn't long until he was running back to them with a goofy grin firmly planted on his face like a kid in a candy shop.
"Ron you're a genius," was all Harry said before he started scanning the map looking for the name 'Buffy Summers.'
"Yes, but didn't everyone already know that..."
"There she is!" Harry practically yelled causing the rest of the common room to look at him as if he were insane. This didn't seem to faze him in the slightest though as he looked at his small group of friends with a triumphant grin planted on his face. "And you thought I was wrong..."
"So its not like you can do anything about it now. You have to wait until tomorrow," Ginny said with a relieved expression hoping that now Harry would be able to relax for the time being.
"She's leaving," Harry stated after his gaze drifted back to the old parchment completely ignoring Ginny.
"Harry be serious... she can't be leaving its already 9 o'clock no one's aloud out of the dormitory's now," Neville reminded him as he clutched on to his toad.
"Neville's right. She's probably just going into the common room or something to become acquainted with her new housemates," Hermione agreed with Neville. "I mean, who in there right mind would leave the common room after hours on the first day of term. It's rediculus."
"Really is that why the map shows Buffy and some girl named Faith Osborne exiting the Slytherin common room right now," Harry responded with a eyebrow quirked at Hermione actually being wrong about something.
"..."
"That's what I thought," Harry said after Hermione's silence as he got up from his seat on the floor and ran up the stairs leading to the boys dorms.
"What is he doing this time?" Ron voiced everyone's question as they watched the unruly haired boy disappear.
"I'm pretty sure its not going to be good..."