Ch.8- Bad News

AN: 2 days later during Potions (5th year)

The Gryffindor's were impatiently sitting in their least favorite class at the moment, which of course was Snape's! Luckily for them Willow was distracting Severus as much as she could so they could get a passing and he'd forget to give any of them a detention. Like dropping an item loud enough for her boyfriend for him to see her and bending over sexily revealing a LOT of skin. Yes it was immature for her but it worked incredible well. The master potions professor's eye actually twitched when she did this. It was probably because her outfit revealed a lot as is before the bending over. So while she distracted, Ron & Harry could figure out stuff for the blind-date on Saturday.

"Harry, we need to put them together on who is most like the other. So, you know, they don't end up in Azkaban for their action's because they finally snap their rocker" Ron exclaimed. Harry kinda stared at Ron for a second & then thought 'Dear lord, he's actually starting to act like Hermione now!' The two were now a public couple and everyone was happier, probably because they hated the fight's they would get into. Unfortunately for the 2 male Gryffindor's, Willow had heard the pair talking about the hooking up.

"Oh, who are you guy's putting together?" Snape was currently helping some Slytherin's so he didn't know what was going on "err….Buffy & Anya with Padfoot & Moony. You know my godfather and his best buddy". Willow then calmly walked out of the classroom peacefully and headed to the field. Then they looked out the window & saw her, what appeared to be throwing quite a tantrum. Then, finally, Snape realized his love had left the classroom. He looked over to the window in which half of his students were looking out, and saw Willow. He too then scared the students by laughing whole heartedly. After 30 seconds of her anger moment, Willow went inside and headed to her new destination. She didn't care if she was in a class with Angel at the moment.

~D.A.D.A~

'I can't believe we are actually teaching them this!" Buffy thought as Angel was teaching. The two were with the 4th year Gryffindor's & Ravenclaw's. Their topic of the day was actually ghosts and the poor slayer was bored to tears by now. She wanted something to happen 'Anything for the love of Merrick'. But what happened was something the slayer did NOT want.

Willow came in and got her out of the classroom. "BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS EXPLAIN YOURSELF TO ME RIGHT THE HECK NOW, ESPICALLY ABOUT SOMETHING OF A BLIND-DATE!" Everyone was now staring at her as if she had just dug herself out of another grave. Angel didn't look like a happy puppy "Miss Summers, please don't bring your 'love life' into the classroom & that goes for your friends as well. You know very well that that should be talked about in the Great Hall or something. Now you can leave and don't come back until you can contain stuff like this". His voice was very cold as he lectured her & the only time it had been like this was when he had told her to leave 'his town'. The Buffy & Willow left the class, as did the rest of the class because they had been dismissed as well shortly after that.

-Friday afternoon-

All week long Buffy had not shown at D.A.D.A class. Instead she went to Hogsmeade & drank some. It was alcohol only once but the rest of the week was butterbeer. Faith was worried about her fellow slayer but had to watch over good ole Spike by his side in the Hospital Wing. "So how's blondie? I heard she hasn't been showing up to teach class" Spike questioned. Faith didn't bother answering. The rogue slayer just looked at him hating the fact she had to watch him like a crappy television show.

"Faith, um… I need to tell you something. It's important so don't hold your stake up at me all threateningly like! If you lot don't go to Riddle's old house then Dawn will be dead for sure. Voldemort has to kill her on Christmas if her blood is gonna work". Faith then ran to Dumbledore to tell him what she just heard.

~Gryffindor C.R~

Buffy had just gotten back from the pub and felt like talking to Harry about her date the next night. When she entered she overheard Fred & George talking so she stayed silent. "…Bloody weird that was!"

"Yeah, they just up & walked out of the classroom. Or should we say ran, I couldn't really tell. By now they aren't on school grounds". Then they spotted Buffy standing right there.

"Oy, hello Buffy! Fine weather we are having, yes?" Fred said as if trying to seduce her, yet again. The blonde then gave him a disapproving look before asking "who left? And don't say 'whatever are you talking about blah, blah, blah because I heard you".

The two redheads then looked at each other puzzled & questioned "You don't know? Its Wesley & Giles were talking about leaving. Said something about potentials and whatnot before going to wherever they went". Buffy looked very puzzled and left the 2 prankster's to head to the Astronomy tower to do some major thinking.

~ Supper ~

Harry sat at the right of Ginny and across from them were Ron and Hermione. They were in the middle of eating when Dumbledore stood up to make an announcement for all of them. "I have some news for you all. Lord Voldemort has attacked 2 families in muggle Paris. He killed 6 out of 8 members. The 2 orphans will be coming here because they are the last potential's left to train". Everybody knew what that meant so of course everybody was talking about it now.

Everybody except Hermione that is, she looked rather pale in fact. "Guys, I have a feeling I know who Voldemort attacked. The 2 potentials were best friends with my distant cousin Kerby. The three were as close as us before her death. Katie & Meredith were in total shock when they found out about her weird death on the plane. I have been keeping contact with them and they were in muggle Paris in their letter before the connection was all screwy!" Ginny, Ron & Harry looked at their friend sadly. "How are you sure that it was them though?" Ginny asked politely. "It's just a feeling".

Later on that night Hermione did receive an owl from her parents confirming that she was correct. Buffy learned this, and was adjusting to it. The last potentials were coming as the rest had been killed by other means – like the First. She would have to train them for the harsh, cold world. Show them how mean, cruel & hateful life really could be. That was the crappy part of her job now.

-Angel's room-

'Here I am, brooding. Again' Angel realized as he sat in his room thinking on how mean to Buffy he had been earlier that week. She apparently had moved on from him as it looked to him. Too bad the vampire couldn't do the same. Then Angel stood up for no reason at all and left his room to walk around the school. Hoping to take out his anger on any student roaming the halls after hours with hopes of giving detention, he walked in silence in order to catch but didn't get one student. When he was near the students he could of sworn he bumped into someone, but not a soul in sight. After awhile later he was surprised to where his feet had taken him: the Hospital Wing. Angel hadn't been in there since he learned that was where Spike resided. But now seemed like the time when he was supposed to talk to him, no violence though. Dumbledore had put many protection charms on the place {and Spike}, knowing MANY people wanted to hurt him.

Spike was on his bed just lying there in a type of trance, which kind of reminded him of the way Drusilla looked half of the time. "Hello William, well it looks like neither of us get to love Buffy, huh? Just so you know I'm not mad at you surprisingly. I understand what you're currently going through and don't need some other crap being brought up. And I want to help you out with that. That is if you want me to". Spike was now looking at his grand-sire like he had finally flipped his lid. But got a closer look and realized on how serious he really was.

Hey FABULOUS news for y'all! I have FINALLY finished re-writing all the old chapters; which may I say took for freaking ever but am all the way to chapter 13 8) After that is when the new stuff that only I have read and is very rough draft. All the newly re-writes chapters up by New Years

~Vixen519