Chapter 21. Finally. So Giles won't be going back to England in my story. He will always be in the Scooby gang. Dracula episode will be totally AU because I don't remember it and I don't really care what happened. Once again riley is out of the picture and I don't think spike will make an appearance this chapter. I haven't decided yet. I'm going to try to get all of my chapters written up early just posted a Harry potter/beauty and the beast one shot. Check it out. ;)

Dear reviewer whose name I can ever remember. Necromancer Xander? Never. Well, not in this fic anyways. I have plans for the deathly hallows, but I'm open to suggestion. My ideas are never concrete.

I might not be able to post again until Monday. Sorry.

Im definitely leaving this at a cliff hanger and im expectingt tons of flames for the ending. Don't worry this is just a lesson and it will all work out in the end.

"Talking"

"thinking"

Chapter 21

"Harry. Harry." Harry blinked as a hand waved in front of his face. He blinked repeatedly and then focused on Buffy's face.

"Sorry about that, love. I must have zoned out." He smiled sheepishly and Buffy just grinned and shook her head at him.

"Don't worry about it." Harry knew that if he had been Xander than he would've been yelled at and then threatened about being laid off of patrol duty.

"What were you saying?" Harry pushed those thoughts to the side and focused his attention on the blonde in front of him.

"I said that I ran into Dracula last night when I went on patrol. He was so weird for a vampire! All suave and hotness and strange powers. I thought the whole bat thing was a myth!" this sent her and Willow into a fit of girl talk. Harry turned to Xander and rolled his eyes. The other boy hid his grin behind his hand.

"Shouldn't you stake him? I mean he is a vampire." Harry asked, he wondered what she would say. Buffy was the most hypocritical person that he had ever met when it came to vampires. She had let a vampire go free from punishment just because he used to have a soul. Harry knew that the whole Buffy/Angel thing was complicated, but if he were her he would have staked Angel a long time ago. Angelus had tortured and killed people that the Scooby gang had cared about. Hell Giles had been tortured as well yet angel was still walking.

"Well, he seems alright. Just kind of old fashioned and I heard from Spike that the older a vampire is the less inclined they are to wreak havoc."

Harry would have called bullshit on that if Willow had not burst into the conversation with a long stream of complicated babble that Harry did not feel like deciphering.

He turned to Xander and the other boy just shook his head. Sometimes Buffy was just so stupid that he wanted to stake her.

Xander POV

Xander scowled in his seat as Buffy and Willow started talking about how amazing Dracula was. He was just another vampire to Xander and in his opinion he needed to be staked. Having Dracula around could be nothing, but trouble. They needed to be more careful and when he voiced his opinion he was shot down harshly.

"Don't be so stupid Xander." Okay, so maybe it wasn't harshly, but dammit he had said something that was just common sense. He didn't understand why Giles didn't say another to the girls. Were they right or did Giles not really care as long as Dracula stayed away from them?

He turned to Harry and grinned as Harry rolled his eyes. At least someone understood. Xander knew from the look in Harry's eyes that he had decided the same thing as Xander. If they ever had the chance they would stake Dracula.

He stood up abruptly and headed to the door.

"Well, I'm heading home guys I'll see you later."

Only Tara, Harry and Giles said goodbye. Buffy and Willow were too engrossed in their conversation to really care. Xander walked out into the night and headed home. He would not make it very far before he was stopped.

Harry POV

Harry left not long after Xander. Much to his disgust the girls were still talking about Dracula. When he left he had been followed out the door by a chorus of 'good byes' and 'be carefuls' from everyone. Harry shook his head and headed to Xander's house.

Xander POV

Xander blinked in surprise as tall, dark and vampy stepped in front of him. He was attractive in a Dracula type of way…oh. This was Dracula. Well, that makes more sense.

"Look at me in the eyes, boy."

Xander couldn't help himself; he looked straight into those dark brown almost black eyes. And the moment he did, he was lost.

"You are close to the slayer you will be useful. You are now my servant, you will always support me. Always obey me." Dracula's voice was dark and hypnotic and oh so seductive. Xander couldn't help, but obey.

"Master."

Harry POV

Harry walked faster trying to catch sight of Xander. He had not left that long after the other boy and he should be able to catch up with him soon. Or at least he hoped so. He liked walking around at night with Xander. They would talk about whatever striked their fancy and a vampire almost always found them. Xander and Harry were both danger magnets, but they could take care of themselves against the minions.

Harry spotted Xander and jogged slightly to catch up.

"Xander!"

Xander didn't turn around. He stayed standing there as if he had not heard Harry. As Harry came closer he saw a tall man stand in front of Xander talking to him. The man turned to look at Harry and stared at Harry as if he was a piece of meat. It made him uneasy. The man left before Harry made it to Xander and both of the boys were left staring at the figure.

"Xander are you alright? Who was that?" Harry grabbed Xander's arm and gently turned him so he could see the brown haired boy's face. Xander's chocolate brown eyes focused on him before he smiled.

"Nah, I'm fine. Just a bit surprised" Xander tried to pacify Harry.

Harry frowned, "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm okay." Harry didn't believe him, but didn't say anything. It was probably none of his business. It probably concerned a subject that they did not talk about. Harry just nodded and they set off towards Xander's house again.

"Hey Harry, maybe Buffy and Willow were right. Maybe, Dracula wont be that bad." Harry turned to stare at Xander.

"Xander, Dracula is dangerous. He should not be trusted."

"I think we were overreacting earlier. He seems pretty cool to me." Xander's voice was calm and light hearted. Harry wanted to believe him. He valued Xander's opinion highly, but something about this just seemed wrong. He would talk to Xander about it in the morning after they both rested a bit. Xander had probably just been getting less sleep lately. It's too bad that it would be too late for both of them by then.

Harry POV

Harry was cold. He groaned sleepily and rolled over reaching for Xander. One of his eyes cracked open to survey the room, but Xander was not there. He listened for a second and the scowled curling up in the covers and pillows on the bed. The TV was on in the living room and Xander must have gone in there.

When he watched TV at night he usually fell asleep in front of it. Harry would usually get up out of the bed and bring Xander a cover to spread over him. Xander didn't sleep in the living room often, but when he did he bitched and moaned in the morning because he would have a crick in his neck. He never lay down on the couch, just sat and fell asleep with his head leaning against the back of the couch. It was kind of cute really.

Harry wiggled a little bit trying to summon the energy to get out of the bed and bring Xander a cover. He stopped as he heard a low chuckle.

Harry sat up in the bed quickly and turned toward the sound. Standing at the foot of his bed was the man he had seen speaking to Xander earlier. Dracula.

He swallowed his fear and eyed the man. Neither of them said anything for a few moments. Harry briefly wondered how the vampire got inside of the house before the dark figure smiled at him.

"You are quite interesting, you and your friend. Such lovely young men."

"What have you done to Xander?" Harry cursed his lack of wand and his minimal knowledge of offensive runes. If he survived this he would learn all he could.

"Nothing your friend is fine. Come in Xander." Dracula motioned toward the door and Xander walked through. He smiled at Harry reassuringly and Harry felt his fear lessening. If Xander was here everything would be alright. Right?

"It's going to be okay, Harry. Don't you trust me?" Xander asked. He crawled on the bed toward Harry and hugged the younger boy. Harry bit his lip and nodded. He gasped as Xander suddenly spun him around facing Dracula. The arms around him tightened slightly and Harry leaned back into Xander's chest watching as the vampire drew closer and closer to them.

"Look me in the eye." Against his better judgment Harry did. His occulmency collided with Dracula's mind tricks and he saw the vampire's surprise. Dracula suddenly smiled at him and moved even closer. Close enough to kiss.

Harry didn't want to kiss him. Never him.

"Xander, what's going on?" Harry was afraid again and he tried to get out of Xander's arms. Something was wrong. This was wrong.

"Just trust me Harry."

Before Harry could scream sharp fangs bit into his neck and he lost himself to Dracula.

Harry trusted Xander, but this time he shouldn't have.

Wow, I can't wait for the next chapter. tell me what you think. once again i had to disrupt thier relationship it was going to smoothly and harry's dependency on xander was going to come back and bite him in the ass.

next chapter: xander and harry's life under the thrall of dracula and why they are so reluctant to break it (-hint hint-)