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!
AN: I know that there's no way it can be dinner time in California and London at the same time, so just allow me to use my creative license because I'm waaaaaaay too lazy to look up the actual time difference. So please accept this as is and don't flame me for having made a boo-boo or two on some stuff. As it is this and An Even Fuller House are un-beta-d and I sometimes overlook silly little things like having 'that' instead of 'the' or 'meet' instead of 'meat'. I'll go back and fix everything later.
Previously in Sister's Divided: Buffy entertains a little girl, literally runs over her mother, Cordelia and Xander have a moment of cuteness, buy steaks for everybody and the Brits plan a trip back to the motherland.
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"So Lizzy do you want to go into town tonight and paint the town red?" Lily asked her little sister after dinner. The Evans women had spent the day talking and catching up; when Helen had gone up to take a nap shortly after arriving home Lily had been faced with the daunting task of explaining her mother's illness and the absence of their father to Elizabeth.
"Not really Lils. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Daddy is gone and Mum is sick."
Lily rolled her eyes and flopped down on to the sofa next to Buffy. "We won't go clubbing, seeing as I can't in my condition," Lily poked her stomach and squealed in delight as the baby kicked the spot she had touched. "All we'd do is go in to London pop into the Leaky Cauldron grab some Butter Beers for the road 'cause Mum loves them and wander around the Tower and the Tower Bridge for a bit before popping back here to crash for the night. Plus we can keep talking without worrying about waking up Mum if we get too loud." Lily looked around the room as if she was checking for spies or wire taps. "Plus I might even let you drive once we get back into Surrey!" she added in a sing-song voice.
Buffy's spirits boosted a little bit. "I'm in! Let's go!" Buffy ran up the stairs and into her childhood bedroom which for the most part had remained untouched and grabbed a jacket, a cross, Mr. Pointy, some Holy Water and her favorite bejeweled dagger. How the dagger had made it through Customs Buffy didn't know and didn't care at the moment. Ten minutes later she and Lily were on their way into London.
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"Wait so you only agreed to go out with James because Remus asked you to? I don't believe it!" An hour after Buffy and Lily had left the house in the suburbs and had now run into Lily's friend Remus Lupin.
"Better believe it Elizabeth." Remus said before taking another swig of his drink. "James was moping around the common room moaning to us when he was supposed to be doing his rounds as Head Boy. So I had enough of his behavior and talked Lils into taking him out to dinner on the next Hogsmeade weekend."
Lily shook her head and sipped her iced tea. "I took him out and was actually surprised that buried underneath the annoying prankster that had become my best friend was a gentleman completely and totally in love with me. It's too bad it took me four years to realize that."
Buffy smiled, she loved hearing stories like this but was saddened because she could have been there to see these stories unfold herself if things had gone differently. Before Buffy could add anything else to the conversation a familiar Cockney accent interrupted her train of thought and made her reach for Mr. Pointy in her purse.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Buffy whirled around in her seat and almost groaned. Sure enough it had to be William the Bloody, aka Spike, one of the most violent and vicious vampires in the history of the world.
Buffy glowered at the unwanted pest and all growled out "Go away Spike. I'm so not in the mood to deal with you right now."
"Somebody is a bit touchy tonight. What's up luv?" Spike grabbed an empty seat from a nearby table and sat himself down in between Lily and Buffy. "Still strung up over Peaches?"
Buffy actually punched Spike that time, on the arm, but it was still a punch. "Don't call him that! And I thought I told you to never bring Him up in a conversation if we ever met again."
Spike smirked and pulled out a cigarette, lit it and took a drag before he retorted "You also mentioned killing me if you ever saw me again Pet. What's stopping you?"
"The fact that my pregnant older sister doesn't need to see me kill a piece of filth like you is what's stopping me. Screw off Spike. Go bother Drusilla or something." Buffy said sounding annoyed with the bleach blond vampire.
"Who's your friend Lizzy?" Lily asked curiously. After all her little sister had mentioned only one British man during her tirade on her life in Sunnydale and Lily highly doubted the man to her right was Mr. Giles.
Spike smirked, after all the name Lizzy could be used as blackmail material at a future date. "Yeah Liz. Aren't you gonna introduce me to your sister and friend?" Spike looked at Remus for moment and smirked. "Make that your sister and your new werewolf buddy. Decided to replace Oz already? How very un-Scooby like of you Slayer!"
"Shut up Spike!" Buffy hissed.
Remus looked at Spike in shock. "H-h-h-how did you know that I'm a…"
"Werewolf?" Spike supplied for Remus. "You reek of wolf mate. Vampire senses and all." Spike added at Remus and Lily's confused looks.
Lily's jaw dropped. Something had clicked in her brain. "Elizabeth! Would you care to explain why William the Bloody is sitting in between us shooting the breeze and not ripping out our throats?"
Buffy bit her lip to think of a suitable answer. "He's… um… err… He's on pigs' blood! That's it! Spike's on an anti-human diet at the moment."
Lily and Remus might have believed Buffy if Spike hadn't snorted. "And you're the bloody Queen of Sheba."
Lily gave Buffy 'the Look' and said "You have some explaining to do Elizabeth Anne."
"Oopsy?"
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"Dinner is ready you guys!" Cordelia stuck her head into the room and informed James and Sirius a half hour after taking their orders. "You might want to hurry up if you want any coleslaw; Xander is a bottomless pit and will eat all of it if you're not out there in two minutes."
James' jaw dropped. "Are you serious?"
Cordy smirked. "I'm Cordelia remember? He's Sirius." She pointed to Sirius who had a full out smile because she was using his favorite pun. "And yes I'm not joking. He eats everything you put in front of him."
Not doubting Cordelia on her boyfriend's eating patterns the two Englishmen ran from the guestroom/study to the kitchen to ensure they got something other than steak for dinner that evening.
As the mismatched group of British and American citizens sat down to eat dinner Xander asked Giles "Have you been able to get Angel to let go of Wills yet? She needs to eat something soon or she's gonna pass out G-man."
"Don't call me that Xander, and yes I have tried to remove Willow from Angel's grasp but have been unsuccessful in my attempts." Giles said as he polished off the last of the potato salad that Cordelia had purchased at the deli. "Could one of you two gentlemen do something to remove her from her current pos…?"
"GILES!!!!" Willow cried from her bedroom. The five people in the kitchen made a mad dash for Willow's bedroom.
"What's wrong?" Giles asked when he saw her.
"Angel vamped out and started liking my neck. Did you guys forget to grab the blood like you said you were going to? I think he's reeeeaaallly hungry."
"I'll get it Willster." Xander volunteered and he reappeared after a moment with two containers of pigs blood and handed them to his best friend. "Here you go Willow."
Willow accepted the offered blood and removed the lid to the container. As soon as the lid was off Angel shifted his head from the crook of Willows neck (there were no puncture holes thankfully) and he reached for the container. Willow handed it to him and helped him hold it up to his mouth so he could feed.
"He's like a big baby!" Willow squealed in delight as he quickly finished his first quart of blood and made the motion to grab the second quart in Xander's hand.
"Blood! I'm hungry! Give me the blood!" Angel grunted when the container was moved out of his reach.
"He talks like one too." Cordelia said, unimpressed with Angel's speech skills. "So when are you guys going back to London? Is there any chance that I could come with you and I don't know go shopping?" She asked Sirius and James. The two men in question were too busy watching Michelle feed blood to her overgrown 'baby'…vampire.
"Uhhh…James you tell them." Sirius said as he tightened his grip on his obviously wooden wand as he watched his baby sister feed a very powerful vampire blood like he was a helpless newborn kitten.
"Right then Padfoot. What my dear friend here was trying to say in that 'uhhh' was that we need to go back by the end of the week, preferably tomorrow morning. We've been asked to escort all of you to London so we can work some things out and reunite you with your friend Buffy who happens to be my sister-in-law Lizzy." James said to the occupants of Willow's bedroom.
Xander looked a little confused. "You want to take us to England to go to some top secret magical community government building and we can go see the Buffster?"
"Pretty much." Sirius grunted out still glaring at Angel.
"And how are we going to get a slightly homicidal and territorial vampire on a plane to England without tipping off security that something isn't right with Angel?" Xander asked.
James grinned his most dangerous smile. It was the smile that made first year students run in terror and sent professors to find the Headmaster. James had a plan. "You'll just have to wait and see in the morning. We're going to leave very early considering Angel's 'skin condition', and one of you will have to drive for a bit. Sirius and I can't drive and there's no time to teach us now."
Willow looked from James to her friend and back again. Then she smiled an evil smile similar to one Sirius had displayed earlier that day. "SHOTGUN!!!" she shouted and went back to giving 'her' vampire a sponge bath and helping him into a pair of Ira Rosenberg's old sweatpants.
"No way!" Cordelia cried. "I'm the only one of us with a car so I should get shotgun!"
Willow gave Cordelia her 'Resolve Face' and ultimately won that argument without opening her mouth.
Giles and Xander agreed to the 'International Road Trip from Hell' (IRTFH) and left with Cordelia to get some clothes for a weeklong trip to Europe.
"So my darling little sister," Sirius started when he and Willow were left alone with Angel. "How about we get this guy off of you and we start talking about your life here in Sunnydale."
Willow looked at her brother and just squinted her eyes enough to make him squirm. "You're judging me because I'm letting a vampire hold on to me because I'm the only familiar person he latched onto when he showed up here in my room? I thought you were all 'Oh dark and dangerous creatures? They aren't all that bad! Just ask my best friend the werewolf!' Do you have anything to say for yourself Mr. Hypocrite?"
Sirius hung his head in shame. Michelle had a point; he was behaving rather rudely. For all he knew this Angel guy could be a pretty decent man.
Willow smiled seeing the look of defeat on her older brother's face. That's score One for Team Willow and Zero for Team Sirius she thought to herself happily.
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Okay I lied. Next chapter is the International Road Trip from Hell. I promise. Sorry this is a day late. Last night was my Grandpa's 81st Birthday party so I didn't have time to get this up between Driver's Ed and the party. But on the plus side I got to see my adorable eight month old cousin. On the not so plus side my friend's cousin just weaseled his way out of being my prom date. She's gonna kick him in the balls for me next time she sees him. So on Friday don't look for an update from me, I'm gonna be at my PROM!!!!!! (Without a date…maybe…) And because I won't be updating next week here's a double update!!!
Reviews would make me feel soooooo much better btw. And if you'll excuse me the Kid's Choice Awards are on in less than a half hour so gibby out!