In the waiting room of the Magical Affection Recovery Ward, inside the Loving Angels Arms Hospital, sat Rupert Giles. Ever since Willow's magical rampage had been stopped at the beginning of the Summer, one of the Sunnydale Scooby Club had been present at the hospital every day. Usually it was ether Himself or Jenny Calendar as they could get away without too much fuss. He doubted Zander would care if he caused his family to worry but then again, they would have to sober up long enough to realize he was gone. As he looked across the waiting room blankly as memories began to come up. So much had happened. It was hard to believe that only a year and a half had passed since the Scooby Club had formed.
The first time he had seen Buffy Summers was the middle of the school year before last. She had simply walked into the library asking for schoolbooks. He had tried to introduce himself as her new Watcher and give her a tome on Vampires. She had freaked, as they say, and stormed out into the hallway.
That night he had ran into her again at a local night club called the Bronze. While there he had learned from Buffy that a man had been found dead, killed by vampires, at the school and that a stranger warned Buffy about the Mouth of Hell and the Harvest while on her way to the club. Trying once again to get Buffy to take her calling seriously, he attempted to have her find and hunt a Vampire. It just so happened that Tara, a girl Buffy had made friends with, was talking to a Vampire.
The night ended with Buffy saving Tara and Zander, who tagged along with Buffy when she went looking for Tara, but losing Jessy. Jessy had been a good friend to both Zander and Tara's since early childhood. The group of teenagers had meet at the Library where the situation was explained to them both about Slayers and Vampires. Tara had confessed that she already knew about the Demons as both she and her mother where witches. She had apologized to Zander and said her family told her to never say anything. When Giles asked her why she would walk off with a Vampire, she explained that she was unable to tell because said Vampire had been old enough to hide his demonic aura.
After some more debate the group decided that Buffy would try to save Jessy who was probably still alive in the sewers. Zander and Tara would help Giles research the Harvest. Zander had ended up going with Buffy anyways and saved her life when they fell into a trap the Vampires set involving a turned Jessy. Giles and Tara found out about the Harvest and the Master who was trapped under Sunnydale. It didn't take long to figure they would hit the Bronze in hopes of freeing the Master. When Giles had asked Tara if her mother could help, he found out that Ms. Maclay was fighting cancer and was too weak to get out of bed.
Because of interference from Buffy's mother they arrived at the Bronze just as the Vampires where beginning the Harvest. They were in the ally trying to figure out the best way inside when Willow appeared. The then eleven-year-old redhead was the picture of a cute little kid. She was wearing brown overalls, white shoes, and a rainbow shirt. Her hair was already long enough to reach the middle of her back. She would have seemed completely innocent except for the two vampires fallowing her.
After a tense standoff where Willow kept everyone at bay with a force-field, Giles and the group decided to trust Spike and Drusilla. Willow used magic to unlock the door and they snuck inside. Buffy and Spike charged the Master's vessel Luke who was on stage killing people while the rest of the group attacked the Vampires and tried to get everyone out safely. Giles, Tara, and Zander did what they were able to while Willow vanquished Demons with handfuls of fire. Drusilla stood guard over Willow and destroyed anything that came near her. Zander managed to destroy Jessy and Luke was vanquished by Buffy. The fight had ended with little casualties.
The following afternoon the teenagers and Giles meet in the library to talk about what to do next. Everyone was concerned about Willow and her companions. They didn't know if they were a threat or not. That knight Willow, Spike, and Drusilla came to the library with two new people that Buffy knew. One was Angel and the other was Buffy's younger sister Dawn. Angel, Spike, and Drusilla gave their stories to the group about regaining their souls and so forth. Angel had his back for a hundred years or so and Spike and Drusilla since the early seventy's. The mother of the second Slayer Spike had killed, Nikki Wood, had been a powerful Voodoo Witch and cursed both Himself and Drusilla by restoring their souls.
Dawn was a different story. Apparently, Buffy's little sister had been notified about the Magical World threw Owl Post about how she was a Muggleborn Celestial. Dawn had been attempting self-education online and Willow had realized what Dawn was the moment they meet. Both girls had discussed Magic and training for most of the afternoon before the Harvest. The young redhead had confronted the young blond about her older sister that morning when they met for breakfast. Dawn had explained the odd happenings that had gone down in L.A. and decided to come to the library to get answers.
To say Buffy was angry was an understatement. Not only had Dawn known about magic she had said nothing to help Buffy when she told her parents. Dawn tried to tell Buffy that she hadn't known what the fighting was about since everyone kept her in the dark as usual. After Dawn told her sister that she would be helping the arguing really began. Buffy didn't wont Dawn or Willow hunting demons at all. Giles, Tara, and Zander had all agreed with Buffy and Giles believed that Spike and Drusilla also agreed. Both Vampires loved Willow greatly and wanted her safe.
Willow had shot back with her experience which disturbed everyone. The young Witch had fought the creatures of Sunnydale's night life since she was eight and had been practicing Magic since she was six. Both Spike and Drusilla had confirmed this as it was the Vampiress that had introduced Willow to magic in the first place. It was eventually agreed that nether girl would go out without backup and never just the two of them.
It was a delicate first couple of weeks after that. Everyone in the group trying to find their place in the club and fighting the various evils that would spring up, or the Master would send after them. Buffy becoming the leader was simple destiny. Obviously the ensouled Vampires becoming support fighters was also going to happen. Zander at first was support guy and all-around big brother until the Hyena incident. After the boy had been taken over by the Demon spirit, Willow, Dawn, and Tara bound the creature within him to save not only Zander but the other four kids involved. As a result, Zander kept all the strength and enhanced senses, becoming another support fighter. Giles, and later Jenny Calendar, became the group parent and confidante. Tara's magic as well as Dawns where more for defense and protective wards so both became the researchers and magic support. Willow was pretty much with Tara and Dawn but if need be, she could destroy a small army of monsters.
No matter what evil came to challenge the Scoobies the group meet it head on. They fought and defeated demon after demon and stopped numerous plans of the Master to free himself. In the end though the Master did rise. Buffy died for two minutes until Zander saved her with C.P.R. just in time. Zander had gone with her to fight the Master and was knocked out by the ancient Vampire.
The all-out war that fallowed the Master's rise was epic. An army of close to one hundred Vampires attacked the school. Buffy had fought the master on the roof and Zander, Spike, and Angel had kept other Vampires off her in the hallway. Drucilla and everyone else wound up in the library fighting the Hell Mouth itself as it opened. Willow was forced to put all her considerable might in holding it closed while everyone around her fought to keep the Vampires out. In the end they won, and the world was saved.
The following year was even worse than the last. Fearing the Master could be revived Drusilla ordered Angel and Spike to crush his bones to ash and scatter them at sea. This didn't stop the Anointed One, also known as Collin, from taking over as the big bad. Despite his appearance as a child, Collin was highly intelligent and resourceful. Not to mention every ugly monster wanted to please him and sought to do so by killing the Scoobies.
Eventually Collin tried to use the Judge to end the world. He managed to gather all the scattered pieces from across the world and bring them together in Sunnydale. The resulting fight and near-death experience caused Angel and Buffy to express their love, as it where, which caused Angel to lose his soul. Angel toyed with the Scoobies, killed Collins, and tried to complete the Anointed One's plan to use the Judge to destroy the world. One well-placed rocket ended that fight before it could begin.
It took some time but Willow was able to restore Angel's soul. However, a lot of damage was caused by Angelus before he could be caged again and the Scoobies, Buffy especially, had trust issues. Not long after that a group of low-level demons hired the Order of Taraka for protection so they could awaken Acathala. The battle was hard fought but, in the end, the Scoobies where victorious.
If Giles was honest with himself, he would have to say he saw what happened coming. The moment he had meet Willow in the alley by the Bronze he knew she used Dark Magic. Dark Magic was only evil when used to do evil. It did not make you evil just more susceptible to becoming evil. Willow Potter, as she was known, was one of the nicest kids you could ever meet but one of the greatest nightmares you could ever face.
After Willow killed the men that murdered her parents, she went on a Demon killing spree across Sunnydale. When she got low on magic, she killed a Dark Magic Broker named Rack and continued to hunt down more Demons. The Scoobies realized what was happening and that if Willow continued, she would burn out her very essence and die.
It had been one of the most difficult fights ever fought by the gang. Willow used every spell in the book and then some she made up on the fly to unleash total hell against her friends. She conjured beings from the elements to fight for her and gave herself superhuman strength and durability on par with Slayers. It was Dawn and Tara that figured out a way to bring her to her senses by calling forth the purest essence of magic and forcing it down Willows throat.
The plan backfired in a big way. Not only did it make the young Wicca more powerful it also gave her the empathetic ability to fill the world and all its pain. In her insanity she decided the only logical course of action was to destroy the Earth. If the Powers That Be had not sent Sheila Rosenberg to calm her adopted daughter down, then the World would be gone right now.
After Willow had calmed down, she passed out. Giles was afraid it had been too late, and she had killed herself by destroying her essence. Jenny had managed to contact the Magical World and get Willow admitted to the Hospital. It had been a scary few days, but in the end Willow pulled threw. Giles nor anyone else fully trusted the Wizards so they didn't tell them about Willow's attempted Apocalypse. They gave them the watered-down story and let them draw their own conclusions. Giles still hadn't told them he had known about magic all his life since he was from England and shouldn't have had a clue until he came to America. The Wizarding World had no clue about the Watchers Council, and it was going to stay that way.
The only good thing to come from all of this was that both Dawn and Willow where going to the Wizarding World to learn and be children. After Angelus Joyce, Buffy and Dawn's mother, had figured out what her daughters where up to. She had been trying to stop Dawn from hunting Demons ever since and was going to enroll her at Hogwarts alongside Willow. The A.R.F.M. had been able to pull some strings so Dawn could study overseas. Dawn was not happy about leaving her sister and friends alone to defend Sunnydale but her mom, nor anyone else, was giving her a choice.
Willow had regained cautiousness three days ago and been informed about what was going on. She had given a very teary-eyed apology to her friends and wept for her lost family. The gang forgave her instantly as most of the older members believed it was there fault as well. They had watched Willow become more powerful with each passing day and done nothing about their growing concerns. The young girl always seemed in control and never gave any sign that there was a problem, but Giles believed he should have known because of his own personal experiences.
The Librarian looked up as the door down the hall opened. In walked two people he knew well and one he knew in passing. Joyce, Buffy, and Dawn had come to see Willow today. However, they weren't the ones to catch Giles eye. Behind the three girls was a party of Wizards that the Scoobies had been expecting for some time now. The Watcher confirmed from his memories of a picture he was shown of one Harry Potter. The lightning scar on his forehead was a dead give a way.
Author's Note: I've gotten a few confused reviews about this, so I'll just explain it. Buffy and all related characters are the same age in this story except Willow. She and Dawn are the same age as Harry Potter and all related characters. Buffy Season 3, Harry Potter Book 3. I own nothing. The Year is 1993. Buffy Characters born earlier in timeline than originally.