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!
PS- I also don't own NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC either. That's a trademarked CD series owned by Universal Records, Sony BMG records and EMI Limited. (That's what the back of the CD case says at least). So don't sue me!
Previously in Sister's Divided: Angel wakes up and Willow doesn't want to be a snack. Xander and Cordy go out to get blood and Xander has a little breakdown, and Buffy is stuck on the flight from hell with the mini hellion version of her ex sitting next to her.
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Six and a half hours, three romance novels, fifteen new tricks on the cat's cradle, four sets of double A batteries, three NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC CD's and half of a crappy in-flight movie later Buffy's flight from hell landed at London's Heathrow Airport. Liam had learned that bugging Buffy would lead him no where so he settled for coloring in her romance novels once she finished reading them. In his defense he thought they must be boring without any pictures in them. Buffy and Mary were both glad the child couldn't read yet or the pictures would be much more interesting than a bunch of scribbles.
Once the group of four had cleared Customs, (Mary vouched for Buffy claiming that Buffy was her niece and they were going to visit family) they went their separate ways. Buffy was headed for a bank to exchange her American money for Euros or British bank notes. She wasn't really sure what was used in England. In reality Buffy's arrival was going much more smoothly than she anticipated; Mary had given her the address and phone number of a decent hotel and made sure Buffy had also taken down Mary's mother's phone number in case of an emergency and an adult was needed for Buffy.
Twenty minutes later Buffy had enough British money to last her three weeks. She was heading to find a bus stop or a taxi stand when it happened. She walked right into her birth mother and her long lost sisters.
"Watch where you're walking! You nearly barreled over our mother!" Buffy looked up quickly and was greeted to the sight of three women, one was pregnant, one had a baby stroller, I think the English people call them prams, Buffy thought, and a sickly frail looking woman who had to be the mother.
Buffy took one good look at the woman who had spoken and gasped. "Tuney? Is that you?"
The three Evans women took one look at Buffy and collectively cried "Elizabeth!"
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Three weeks ago if you had told Helen Evans she would see all of her children together again before her death in October she wouldn't have believed you. Helen had long ago realized she may never see her youngest child, Elizabeth, again. When a child is kidnapped there is usually a reason, or at least a ransom note. In the case involving Elizabeth Evans and Michelle Black there had been no motive at all. Sure the Black family was very wealthy, but if a ransom was wanted why not take the oldest son and make a fortune off of the heir to the money. Scotland Yard had been called in, as well as the local authorities. No one would find a perpetrator. Poor Mrs. Potter had been beaten severely and had miscarried the child she didn't even know she was carrying. The doctors hadn't told the woman, seeing as she was grieving for the two young girls taken from her home. Since her diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma the year before all Helen wanted to do was reunite her family. Now Helen's time was coming to a close and she had just lost her husband of twenty four years, Roger, to a fatal heart attack the month before. So seeing her baby Lizzy standing in front of her that day sparked something inside of Helen. She was now determined to see her baby girl get married and start a family. Cancer or no cancer Helen was going to see the birth of a third grandchild from her youngest child before her death.
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Petunia Evans-Dursley was peeved by the fact that the tiny blond American tourist had almost forced her ailing mother to the ground. The nerve of some people! Can't they see Mother wanted to go out shopping for her grandson and that freak's baby? But once Petunia heard her childhood nickname memories revolving around the blond came flooding out. Elizabeth! Her baby sister! Her NORMAL baby sister! Petunia broke out into one of her rare true smiles and approached Lizzy and enveloped her in a hug before the cries of her newborn son, Dudley, broke the hug up. Her little Diddy-kins wanted his Mummy and wanted her now.
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Lily couldn't believe her eyes. Lizzy was standing right in front of her and looked almost the same. Her blond hair was shoulder length and darker than it used to be. Her green eyes were identical in shade and shape to Lily's and they were full of tears that Lizzy was trying to blink back. Lily noticed that Liz was wearing old jeans with a hole in one knee, a heavy sweater over a sweatshirt, some sneakers, a backpack, and had a ragged looking suitcase next to her. Lily guessed Lizzy had run away from an awful life and was coming back to find her family now that she had escaped.
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Dudley was not happy. His Mummy was paying attention to some stranger lady in the street and not to him. He tried to roll out of his pram but discovered he couldn't move. There was something holding him in place. He couldn't throw his binky at Mummy because he couldn't throw anything anyways. Plus then he wouldn't have his binky. He loved Binky almost as much as Mummy and Daddy. So Dudley cried hoping Mummy would forget about the funny looking lady who nearly ran over Grandmummy.
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Buffy was in shock. She had planned to use the internet in a library to find her family but she hadn't meant to almost run her mother over on her first day in London. Now she was in the backseat of her Mom's car trying not to feel like an 18 wheeler would come out of nowhere and run them over for driving on the wrong side of the road. Squished in the back with her was Lily on her right and Baby Dudley on her left. Apparently Tuney and Lily hated each other now and Tuney expected Lizzy to pick a side. Yeah right. "So Lily what happened after I…went away?"
Lily turned to look at her baby sister and really looked at her for the first time. "A lot." She whispered. "Mrs. Potter lost a baby when those men from the Council beat her up. Mr. Potter just told James and I two weeks after Mrs. Potter died. Sirius' family blames him for what happened to Michelle, and Tuney thinks this happened because I'm a witch. Dad died last year from a heart attack, Mrs. P died when the petrol station she was at blew up six months ago, and Tuney got married last year." Lily lowered her voice, "Personally I think she married a beach whale, but I don't like Vernon very much at all."
"Oh. So you're in the family way. Who knocked you up sis, James or Sirius?" The car burst out into snorts and laughs. Lily turned bright pink at her sister's inquiry. "If James did it I say good for him. If it was Sirius I'll throttle him good for you."
"James and I got married last October."
"Oh. Does that mean I can't throttle Sirius when I see him again? Because that was soooo my game. Tuney didn't even like Chutes and Ladders. Right Petty?"
Petunia whipped around in the passenger's seat to glare at Lizzy for using 'The Name'. "Don't call me that."
"Oops. Sorry. I forgot how touchy about your nicknames you are 'Tunia."
"And for the record girls that was Lily's game. Your Uncle Richard gave it to her for her eighth birthday." Mrs. Evans put in her two cents as they pulled into the driveway of Number Four Privet Drive. "I do hope to see you again Petunia. Call me tomorrow."
"Of course Mum." Petunia said as she removed Dudley's car carrier from the backseat along with some of her purchases. "I'll probably ring you around lunch time if that's all right with you."
"Of course dearie." With that the Evans mobile was on its way to the Evans home, not far from the Dursley's neighborhood.
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Back in Sunnydale Xander whipped his nose on the back of his arm and pushed himself off the sidewalk. Cordelia had come scurrying back in his direction once she realized her boyfriend wasn't behind her. She was worried he had overheated and passed out two blocks back. Thankfully he was getting up to greet her.
"Xander! Thank God! Are you okay? Hey…" Cordy took a good look at her boyfriend's eyes. "Why were you crying?" She pulled his larger hands into her own. "You should know you can tell me and I won't tell a soul. I swear it."
Xander yanked one of his hands back and rubbed some more tears off of his face. "It's just all this stuff is so overwhelming. Willow is my best friend and I might lose her because she really isn't the Willster. Then I started thinking about Jesse."
Cordy understood instantly. "Oh Xander!" She pulled her boyfriend into a hug and let him cry. She guided the two of them to a park bench and they just sat there for a few minutes and Xander wallowed in the misery of no longer having his best male friend around him.
Ten minutes later the couple was strolling back towards the Rosenberg's with a bag of pigs blood and four steaks for dinner.
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Once Xander and Cordy arrived back at the house they saw all hell had broken loose. Angel and Willow were holed up in Willow's room still. Sirius and James were on their cell phones arguing with someone over Buffy's location and Giles looked lost.
"What we miss?" Xander asked Giles as he sat down next to the librarian on the couch.
"Apparently Buffy passed through Customs in London a half hour ago. James' wife Lily just called him to confirm that they have found 'Lizzy' and are taking her home. It seems her birth mother has cancer and isn't expected to live much longer. Finding Buffy has fulfilled Mrs. Evans' lifelong dream."
"Oh." Xander scratched the back of his head. "Well Cordy and I got the blood for Deadboy and some steaks for us humans for dinner."
"Very good then." Giles stood up and went into the kitchen to inspect the meet and the large containers of blood in the fridge. With nothing better to do Xander followed Giles to help heat up some blood for Angel.
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"Okay Lils. I get it. I'll let everyone here know that Buffy is safe and sound with you and your Mum. Love you too. Sirius and I will be home by Thursday with Buffy's friends and Michelle. Okay then. Bye-bye."
Sirius looked up from his book. The two Englishmen were situated in the guestroom/office of the Rosenberg household. "What's the verdict Prongs?"
"Liz is with Helen and Lils at the family home in Surrey. We have to meet up with them before we can report back to Moody with Shell and Liz. What did Moody have to say when you called him?"
"That cell phones suck majorly."
James rolled his eyes. It was no secret that Mad-Eye Moody hated technology that was forced upon them from the Muggle government. With the new threat of Lord Voldemort the two Ministers had decided on a united front between both worlds, which ended up leaving the Wizards and Witches in the Ministry of Magic with brand new laptops, new desktop computers and top of the line cell phones that took international calls anywhere in the world. "What else did he say?"
"Take our time with the girls; they may resist us, yadda yadda, Constant Vigilance blah blah. The usual stuff."
"Okay good. How much time did he say to take?"
"It was more like if you're not back in three weeks we're sending a Search and Rescue Party in after you."
"Sounds right. So when do we tell the Americans and the Irish Vamp we leave for England tomorrow morning?" James asked.
"During dinner. I hear that Cordy and the Xand-man brought home a whole steak for everyone." Sirius was already salivating just think of the meat. "I wish it was time for dinner now!"
Cordy stuck her head in the room, "Do you guys want A-1 on your steaks or not?"
"Yes please!" Both men answered. Cordy could have sworn Sirius was wagging a tail, but brushed it off as her imagination.
"Okay then two steaks with A-1 coming right up! Giles is cooking them all at well done so nobody gets food poisoning. They should be done in twenty minutes." With that Cordy left the room leaving two very hungry men behind her.
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Next Time: Some Angel/Willow fluffiness, Buffy and her mom bond and we all go to England! Yay International Road Trip!