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A/N: Finally an update! I am so so so very sorry that this took so long. School got really hectic with projects, reports, etc. I will try my hardest in the future to update at least once a month but I can't make any promises due to school. Thanx!
Chapter Ten:
Close but No Cigar
Buffy and Faith were surprised to find that the corridors were completely empty of all signs of life unless you counted the moving portraits. There was no one there; no ghosts no teachers. It was a strange revelation to find that no one was patrolling the corridors like they had at good old Sunnydale Institute of Magic did. It was like they thought none of the students snuck out at night… well for all Buffy and Faith knew none of them did. Course now that they were at Hogwarts things were bound to change. The teachers didn't call Buffy and Faith the terrible two for nothing.
"B, where is everybody? Sneaking out isn't nearly as fun if there's no one to hide from," Faith said after they had been wondering around the corridors for a good 10 minutes.
"I have no idea… it's giving me the wiggins though," was all Buffy replied as she shuttered at the freakiness of not having to sneak around all the professors. It was called 'sneaking out' for a reason. "I can't remember one night that we almost didn't get caught by Snyder."
"Haha! I miss his bald head and his short temper. He and I had some good times," Faith said at the mention of their old Headmaster Snyder in regard to all the fun times she would annoy him and watch as his face turned purple.
"Good times good times."
"So where are we going anyway…" started Faith before she saw Buffy stop suddenly in front of her. "Did you hear something B?"
"Footsteps… someone's coming this way," Buffy said before grabbing Faith's hand and dragging her into a hidden passageway on there right.
Moments earlier….
"Harry, this is ridiculous you can't leave the dormitory, it's already way past curfew. You're going to get caught," Hermione scolded Harry began putting his invisibility cloak on and headed to the portrait door.
"Don't worry so much 'Mione everything is going to be fine," was all she got back as Harry disappeared and the portrait hole slammed shut.
"When is he ever going to learn?"
Harry was on a mission and nothing was going to get in his way. With his trusty map in hand he swiftly moved beneath the invisibility cloak toward the area marked 'Buffy Summers' on the map. He was getting closer and closer and he just couldn't wait to talk to his old friend.
As he got within a few yards away from Buffy and her mystery companion Harry could hear them chatting away talking about a 'bald man'... whoever that was. He was almost there when they began to run away.
"Bloody Hell!" was all he could gasp out as his speed increased if that were even possible. "She's trying to give me a bloody heart attack." The pursuit continued for what seemed like hours to Harry until he couldn't take it anymore and just yelled out "BUFFY!" to their retreating forms.
When Buffy heard her name she couldn't help but stop the voice just sounded so familiar. She couldn't place it though she just knew she trusted the mysterious voice like she would trust one of her best friends… that's when it clicked.
"Harry?" she questioned as she turned around with all of her slayer speed only to find… nothing.
"Am I missing something here?" Faith asked as she looked behind them for their pursuer only to find the hall empty. "This is seriously messed up something was following us and I could of sworn I heard it yell out your name…"
Before Faith could even finish her ponderings a strange boy around their age with messy black hair appeared right in front of them, he stood there with a wicked grin on his handsome face staring directly at Buffy. Faith knew he was attractive but it was plainly clear to her that he only had eyes for B… typical.
"B, am I missing something here?" she questioned as her best friend launched herself at the boy… no man, in a fierce hug.
"I take it your glad to see me?" the guy laughed as he hugged Buffy back if possible more fiercely than she was.
"Harry what are you doing here? I didn't know you were magical…" she questioned as she let go of him with the biggest smile on her face that Faith had ever seen.
"B, what's going on? Who is this guy?" Faith asked confused as to what was going on. She had never seen this guy before and it wasn't uncommon for Buffy to get in trouble because of a guy from her past.
"Oh Faith, this is my old best friend Harry Potter. Harry this is Faith Osbourne."
"Wait! Do you mean THE Harry Potter? The guy who defeated whats-his-face?" Faith practically screamed in surprise. No way in her wildest dreams would she have thought Buffy would ever know Harry Potter.
"What do you mean THE Harry Potter? What's going on Harry? You've got some splaining' to do?" Buffy stated looking at Harry with the patented 'tell-me-or-else glare' she had inherited from Willow.
To Be Continued….