DISCLAIMER!!!!! I don't own these characters, just Sirius' adorable little sister Michelle. Joss Whedon and JK Rowling own Buffy and Harry Potter respectively. I'm just playing in their sandboxes with a friend… Oh and this is going up without being given the once over by my beta btw. Without further ado here is more of Sisters Divided. Oh, and reviews would be appreciated big time!
Previously in Sister's Divided: Giles had missed the truth, so when he returned from the kitchen he looked a little flustered and annoyed. "Bloody operator wouldn't reconnect me to the Council in London. All because Quentin threw a hissy fit."
Six faces turned to Giles, the three from the Scoobies were curious as to why Quentin Travers threw a hissy fit at his age, the two American Aurors were surprised that a Muggle could link them to this mysterious 'Council', and a very pissed off Sirius Black looked like he could rip off Giles' head.
Seeing the expression on Sirius' face Giles exclaimed "Dear Lord!" and took cover behind a wall as Sirius lunged after the Watcher.
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Willow threw her hands out and grabbed her brother's shirt as he flew past her. "STOP IT!!! SIRIUS LEAVE GILES ALONE!!!!" Xander and Cordelia offered their assistance to restrain the struggling man as the MFBI Agents helped Giles up from behind the wall. There was a hard glint flashing in Giles' eyes and the Scoobies quickly recognized it as his 'Ripper' look.
When the yelling had started James had appeared back in Willow's living room and watched as the scene unfolded.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!!! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!!!!! HE TOOK YOU AWAY!!! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!!!" Sirius was struggling like a mad man. He was determined to rip Giles apart limb from limb if and when he got his hands on the Watcher.
Willow saw that James had emerged from the other room and was standing in the doorway taking it all in. "James a little help would be appreciated!!"
James snapped out of his stupor and went to, as he calls it 'help'. He walked straight past Willow and threw a right hook at Giles. Giles had seen this coming and swiftly delivered a sucker punch to James' gut leaving the younger Englishmen curled up on the floor gasping for breath as one of the MFBI Agents used a body-binding spell to restrain Sirius.
"Why didn't you guys use those fancy looking stakes earlier when he started going after Giles?" Xander asked once the scuffle was over.
"We were uninformed as to Ms. Black's inability to use magic." replied MFBI Agent Matthews.
"I can to do magick!" Willow cried. "I can float pencils and summon stuff two feet before it falls, and I can re-ensoul vampires!" she cried triumphantly. "Can you guys do that with your fancy stakes? I don't think so."
"What these gentlemen mean Willow is that they use wands to do their magic. As is M-A-G-I-C. Not M-A-G-I-C-K, like the magicks we use Willow." Giles explained as he shot death glares at the two Marauders in the room. "More than likely they have been educated at a magic school and have chosen magical law enforcement as their careers. It's very fascinating actually. We brushed upon the subject at the Watchers Academy but did not elaborate on the subject."
"So you're one of them then," James rasped out.
"Sorry? What was that?" inquired Giles.
"You're one of the bastards that took Michelle and Elizabeth away from us."
"Giles wasn't there James." Willow said defending her friend. "He's Buffy's Watcher. Buffy, I mean Lizzy, is the Slayer."
"Sorry. I must have something in my ear." James looked really confused. "Did you just say that Lizzy, Lily's baby sister, is the Vampire Slayer? Because that's ridiculous. Everybody knows she doesn't exist."
Xander snorted. "Then your precious Lily's baby sister doesn't exist. The Buffster is pretty good at what she does, at least when she does it." Xander paused for a second. "Buffy is Lizzy, and Lizzy is Lily's sister, right?"
Willow nodded. "I'm actually Michelle, but I like willow better for now. Michelle seems kinda odd after going as Willow for so long… Nine years is a long time to be Willow and then switch back to Michelle. It's gonna take some getting used to."
"Tell me about it." Everybody turned to look at Sirius. They had forgotten he was there, and the body binding spell was wearing off. "We've been looking for you and Lizzy for years. Now we just have to look for Lizzy. Any idea where she could be?"
Willow shook her head. "She hasn't used her passport yet, I hacked into the Immigration Data base and she hasn't left the country under the name Buffy Summers. Plus she did take her ATM card with her, but she drained her account in some small town between LA and Sunnydale so we have no idea where she could have gone from there. Buffy is doing a pretty good job of not leaving a cyber trail behind her. There isn't even a paper trail to follow either. Mrs. Summers is thinking about calling the FBI in soon if Buffy doesn't turn up by the time school starts."
"I told Joyce she should involve the FBI earlier than that, Buffy could be long gone by September. Then the FBI and the other authorities would have nothing to go on. But she insists that Buffy may return on her own within the next month and a half." Giles sounded tired; the stress of patrolling without his Slayer was starting to get to him. Since Oz had left town it was harder, there was nobody with supernatural strength to back them up in a fight with a vampire. "I have half a mind to call the FBI myself as it is, but I won't betray Joyce's trust like that. She's been in a funk lately, and I'm afraid we've done nothing to help her out of it."
"Don't beat yourself up Giles. Little Miss Perfect Slayer put her mother in this mood and it will be Miss I Kill Vamps For Fun and Ruin Cordy's Expensive Clothes at the Same Time who will fix it when she gets back. It's not our fault she ran away so it's not our responsibility to pick up all the slack. She's on her own for this one." Everyone looked at Cordy. "What? You know I'm right for once. Buffy's in way over her head right now and needs to fix her own problems. A little mojo from Willow isn't going to fix anything this time. Do we even know if Angel got his soul back?"
Just as Cordy opened her mouth Willow sat thinking about Angel. Where was he? Was he in pain there? Did he have somebody to talk to? Could she do anything to get him back? As these thoughts ran through Willow's head a portal opened up in her bedroom and deposited a very naked and sweaty feral Angel on her bed. Feeling that he was on a soft squishy surface, it reminded him of the feather mattresses he and Darla slept on all those centuries ago, he fell into a deep sleep that left him feeling refreshed for the first time in the 1,000 years he had been in hell.
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"Okay then. Wanna run that by us again? Just much shorter this time without describing everybody's outfits in detail please." An hour and a half later Willow, Xander, Cordy, and Giles had explained everything about Sunnydale and the roles they played in saving the town on multiple occasions. Sirius was only slightly confused, they lost him only when they started ranting and babbling about stupid things people had done that weren't mentioned in many of the stories. James on the other hand had no clue what was going on. It had gone in one ear and out the other and it was he who asked for the story to be condensed and told again.
"Do we really have to?" Willow was exhausted and wanted to take a nap. Turns out having your long lost brother find you and explaining your life story to him takes a lot out of you. "Xander you tell it. I'm going to go get my blanket out of my room." Willow got up as Xander started to tell the Cliff's Notes version of the Scoobies Adventures in Sunnydale.
Willow opened the door to her room and saw the naked outline of Angel on her bed and let out a blood curdling shriek that could wake the dead; in fact that's what it did.
Angel awoke with a start and fell onto the floor. He was confused, dazed, and scared. He didn't know where he was, what was going on, but wait. He recognized the scent of the woman in the doorway. Strawberries. Angel had always thought Willow had smelled like strawberries. He could smell Xander and Cordelia were in the house, Giles too, but those scents didn't register immediately. Angel knew he was safe from harm as long as he was with Willow.
Willow slowly approached Angel; she could tell his eyes were glazed over and he looked thinner than he did when Willow had last seen him. Willow placed her right hand on Angels shoulder and to her surprise he grabbed her into a large bear hug; refusing to let her go when Sirius and Xander tried to rescue her. "Um guys? I think I'm stuck here for a while…and he's kinda naked. This is really embarrassing when you think about it." Willow said.
"I'll go get James and Giles and see if the four of us can pull you out of his arms." Sirius said and left the room.
Sensing that these people wanted to separate him from his Willow, Angel tightened his grip without hurting Willow and nuzzled her neck. He was displaying his ownership over Willow and challenging Xander to try and change that.
Sirius, Giles, James and Cordelia came into Willow's room and tried to help her up, but Angel continued to tighten his grip.
"Okay then. Willow is stuck in the arms of the big strong, hot, and very naked vampire in my room. Did Xander finish the story before I screamed?"
James shook his head. "He got to the part with you and that Oz guy before you screamed. Can you finish it? It sounds a little complicated between the two of you."
Willow bit her lip. "In a sec. Are those guys from the Magical Federal Investigations Bureau still here?"
Sirius shook his head. "Matthews and the other guy left before you screamed. There's some serious Muggle baiting going on two counties over and they went to help out the local authorities and sort out the mess."
"Oh, okay then. Me and Oz. Oz and me. Not much to tell really. He asked me out one day last year and I said yes. We dated for a couple of months before he was attacked by a werewolf. He got turned into one and we worked around his furry little problem every month after that. We broke up at the end of June."
Sirius looked at his little sister. She had dated a werewolf and hadn't dumped him when she found out. That was really good; he couldn't wait to introduce her to Remus when they got back to England. "Why did you break up Shell? When you explained this stuff earlier you guys sounded ridiculously happy together."
"The Dingoes got a record deal from Sony BMG and sent them on a tour of Europe for the summer. Before that happened Oz and his family were moving to Sacramento and Devin was moving the band there to keep them together. We both agreed that a long distance relationship would never work and we're staying friends… Hey Angel! Watch your hands!" Angels hand had drifted to Willow's chest as she was telling her story and settled into the valley between her breasts. Willow grabbed the wayward hand and put in her lap with his other hand. Surprisingly he kept both hands in her lap and played with the belt loops on her pants. "No feeling my heartbeat with your hands Mister." She playfully smacked his hand and Angel whimpered a little. "Oops. I didn't mean it like that Angel. I just want you to behave, you know, like a normal person." Willow had turned around in her stronghold/fortress that was Angel's arms to talk to him. "Okay?"
Angel nodded. He seemed to understand her and was in tune to her tone of voice and her emotions. He yawned a little, smiled and said "Little One! Good to see you Willow.", and fell asleep holding on to Willow.
"Okay. I think I speak for all of us when I say this is pretty creepy." Five sets of eyes looked at Xander. "What? Deadboy is being all possessive over the Willster and I don't like it one bit. No sir-ee. Not one bit. Something big is…"
"Alexander Lavelle Harris if you even think about finishing that sentence then I will beat you into the ground using my new 4 ½ Jimmy Choo stiletto heels from LA. Got that buster?" threatened Cordellia.
"Gotcha babe. Not finishing the sentence that could doom us all. Check."
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Coming up: Sirius and James sit down with Willow and Co. and actually explain her heritage to them, expect some emotional reactions from Xander. Angel wakes up incredibly hungry…and Cordy of all people goes out to buy his blood! (She's slowly turning into the more mature Cordy we see on Angel.) And we may possibly check in on Buffy and her agonizingly long flight from JFK to London. Maybe. Let me know if anybody seems out of character. Reviews on this story and my other one, Daddy's Little Angel make me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside!
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