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Chapter 5 Truth of the Matter
"Always thought Joyce was yours and the bits mom." Spike said softly stepping into the room.
Buffy continued stuffing clothes into a black duffel bag over the sword, twin daggers, and the Scythe to hide the deadly weapons from anyone who might happen to pry through her bag.
"She was our mom in every way that counted. She raised us and she loved us and she didn't give us up." Buffy jerked the zipper closed harder than necessary. The last part had a double meaning and Spike caught it.
Spike grabbed her arm softly turning her around to face him his voice soft "I think its time we had that talk."
"No." Buffy shook her head "Now is really not the time." She bit out bitterly tears in her eyes.
After Dawn's revelation to the group, something they had chosen to kept hidden from the group having enough to deal with with the threat of Glory hanging over their heads. Giles had encouraged Buffy to contact the agency in England that had handled the adoption.
Dawn had been shocked when she saw that her original birth certificate listed her as a twin. She had a twin brother her mother had chosen to keep.
Both of them were dealing with the fact that obviously they had not been wanted.
After a couple of days the Phoenix Adoption Agency had gotten back to them with the information that both their biological parents had passed away and custody of Dawn's twin would fall to Buffy.
They were to met with their biological mother's brother Sirius Black at a place called the Leaky Cauldron to discuss Draco's future.
Willow had done some digging and had discovered that the Phoenix Adoption Agency was a front and that the Leaky Cauldron was a magical hotspot for the gathering of wizards and was rumored to be the entrance to a magical street called Diagon Alley.
What she had gotten off Sirius Black wasn't good, he was listed as a wanted criminal by Interpol for the murder of over a dozen humans on a busy street over sixteen years ago.
She did however confirm the fact that Sirius was their biological uncle, through magic of course.
Giles had a theory that a monks who had created Dawn had done more extensive work than at first thought, not only had they placed her with the Slayer, they had made sure she was born into a family of a powerful pureblooded wizard family, offering her extra protection.
The only thing reassuring they had to go on was a desperate stretch on their part, was the use of the term phoenix in the adoption agencies name. In the mystical world phoenixes had always been a sign of good magic, a phoenix was the symbol of the organization that opposed Voldemort.
Buffy and Dawn were to met Sirius at the pub with Willow and Faith watching their backs. Giles had used her own words to the SITs against her when she had tried to argue against them coming; that no Slayer, not even her, was to be alone.
"That's never really stopped me before." Spike smirked and Buffy tried to hold onto her anger towards him fighting the smile that was trying to creep its way across her lips.
The Slayer stood straight trying to gain a couple of desperately needed inches, her arms crossed across her chest, and told him "Fine, lets talk."
Her eyes flashed as she approached him. "Maybe you have an explanation for why you never even bothered to let me know you were back or even why I had to find out from Andrew, of all people; and don't you even give me that crap about wanting to give me a normal life cause Angel already feed me that line and it was lame then. Newsflash: I'm not normal, I'll never be normal."
Spike scrambled looking outraged "Well I damn well didn't leave you so you should shag the Immortal."
"The Immortal!" Buffy looked sick "Alec and I never, oh god what idiot told you that?"
Spike looked dumbfounded "Andrew."
Buffy rolled her eyes "Figures."
Spike looked relieved "So you two never…"
"God no." Buffy shook her head laughing at the absurdity of that. "We were working undercover to rescue his daughter his daughter from a group of psycho cultist that were going to eat her. Plus, you know, he just got married to one of my Slayers."
"Thank god." Spike grinned and touched Buffy's cheek lovingly relieved by the news that she wasn't in bed with that wanker, that it had all been a ruse. He had honestly thought he had lost her.
Buffy leaned into his touch a soft smile touching her lips "We still got some work to do." she reminded him. Their relationship was far from perfect and there had been so much distrust that they would have to work hard to build something that would last, something that wouldn't fall apart.
Albus Dumbledore looked sadly at the enchanted list before him.
When Hogwarts had been formed a piece of parchment had been enchanted to tract the names of all the underage wizards and witches under their jurisdiction.
Recently a new name had appeared on the list, that of Dawn Malfoy.
He knew it had started, that Narcissa's magic no longer protected the children and that within days, perhaps sooner, other wizards would start to sense them if they focused. They were no longer hidden from the Dark Lord and Dumbledore knew Voldemort would attempt to possess them.
There was a reason Lucius had been so adamant about not siring a female child, a prophesy pertaining to a female that carried the Malfoy blood actually.