That night after dinner Harry found a deserted classroom and pulled his invisibility cloak out of his bag and put it on. He then walked out of the room and followed the Slytherins to their house. He caught sight of Buffy heading for the front doors and followed her instead. She started toward the forest and Harry became nervous. The forest was forbidden for a reason. Didn't she know that? Harry didn't want to blow his cover unless he had to. He saw her pull her wand from her robes wait. That isn't a wand is that a stake?

"Buffy, over here!" Harry looked in the direction of the voice and saw about six people.

"Xander!" Buffy exclaimed running over to him and giving him a hug. "You made it." She then hugged a red headed girl (for whom Harry had mistakenly thought was Ginny at first.) and onto an older man.

"We came to help you out with the vamp slayage, Buffster." 'Xander' said.

'Vamp slayage?' Harry frowned taking a step closer to the group.

The boy standing next to Xander sniffed the air. "Some one's here."

Buffy went into fighting stance and looked around. The tall man that had been next to her strode over to where Harry was standing and looked around. "Angel!" she yelled just as said person reached toward Harry who was frozen in place. "There are vampires in the woo-"

One of the vampires grabbed her from behind and she flipped him over her as another one attacked. There were about four vampires and Xander and Anya were trying to tackle one to the ground. Willow and Oz were attempting to stake another with Giles' help while Buffy and Angel were fighting the other two. Buffy had knocked her vampire down and straddled him. She was about ready to stake him when he knocked her stake out of her hands and threw her off of him. She flew into Harry, who tumbled to the ground, his cloak falling off in the process.

"That was my only stake!" Buffy yelled at the vampire. She got up and reached down to help whomever she had fallen on. Her eyes widened. "Harry?" Buffy looked at him, then at the vampire that was running toward them. 'Great, I have no stake.' She looked back at Harry who had his wand raised and an idea struck her. Buffy grabbed the wand out of his hands, and plunged it into the vampire's chest as Harry protested. She handed his wand back to him and said thanks.

Everyone gathered around and the second Harry saw Angel his eyes widened. Angel was still in game face.

"Oh, um, Angel is a vampire." Buffy laughed nervously. When she saw the look on Harry's face she clarified. "Don't worry, he's a good vampire."

"A good vampire." Harry repeated disbelievingly.

"Yeah, he has a soul."

Harry raised his eyebrows.

"It's a long story, Harry."

"Angel killed a gypsy and her clan cursed him with a soul." Xander said.

"Apparently not that long." Buffy sighed and said "Look Harry, it's late and Draco is showing me around Hogsmeade tomorrow, so can we talk about this later?"

"Sure, you can meet Ron, Hermione, and me in the Three Broomsticks around 3:00 pm."

"Harry, Ron and Hermione can't know." Buffy said slightly alarmed.

Harry looked confused. "But they already know about vampires and werewolves. Everyone does."

Buffy didn't see the point in arguing because she would have to bring up the fact that she is the slayer. So she agreed. She said good night to everyone and that she would see them all tomorrow (with the exception of Angel) and she headed back up to the castle with Harry.

"So, those were your friends?" he said.

"Yeah, those were my friends. You probably think I'm a freak now don't you?"

Harry stopped. He put his hand on her shoulder and looked into her eyes. "Buffy, I could never think that you are a freak. So what if you have vampires and werewolves for friends. I have a werewolf and house elves for friends." He squeezed her shoulder gently.

She smiled at him then frowned. "What is a house elf anyway?"

Harry laughed and told her about S.P.E.W. and Dobby's life with the Malfoys.

"Really? Draco doesn't seem like the animal cruelty type."

Harry scoffed. "Malfoy doesn't seem like a lot of things. That doesn't mean he isn't." They had reached the front doors and Buffy was about to go in when Harry grabbed her hand. "Wait. here, get under the cloak. Filch might be lurking about." he said holding it open for her. Buffy got under it and they headed for the Slytherin common room.

"This is a cool cape, Harry." she whispered to him as they reached the common room.

"Thanks, and it's not a cape. It's a cloak." Buffy just smiled.

"Thanks for walking me back Harry," she grabbed his hand and kissed him on the cheek. "It was really sweet of you."

Harry looked shocked. "Um, ah, it was n- no trouble really." he stuttered.

"Well goodnight Harry, I'll see you tomorrow ." Buffy smiled, said the password and went inside letting go of his hand.

Harry just stood there bringing his hand up to his cheek. After a second he snuck back to the Gryffindor common room smiling all the way.

Once Buffy entered the common room she scanned it looking for anyone who might still be up. Her eyes landed on two figures. Pansy and Draco were sitting on the couch. She was talking and he looked like he was tuning her out until he noticed Buffy. He stood up.

"Where have you been? We were supposed to study. Pansy even offered to help." he said frowning at her.

"I'm sorry, but I got a letter telling ,me that my friends had arrived tonight."

Draco rolled his eyes and headed back over to the sofa. "So are you going to study now?".

Buffy walked over and sat down next to Pansy and Draco sat down on her other side. She was studying Runespoores and as she was scanning through the paragraph, her eyes landed on a certain line. "Draco, what is a parselmouth?"

Draco looked up at her and to the word she was pointing at. "A parselmouth is a witch or wizard who can talk to snakes."

"Really? Wow! I didn't think that talking to snakes was normal. It's great that I don't have to hide it now." she said relieved.

Draco stared at her shocked while Pansy looked jealous. "You can talk to snakes?" she asked.

"Yeah, that's normal… right?" Buffy looked from Pansy to Draco worriedly.

"No, Buffy, being a parselmouth isn't normal. It is very rare." Draco said carefully. Suddenly a thoughtful expression came across his features. "When did you find out that you were a parselmouth?"

"Well, it was a couple of years ago in Los Angeles, I was over at my friend's house and her Pomeranian was in the backyard. I saw this huge snake heading right for her dog.. It was the neighbor's snake.

"Anyway, I could hear what it was saying: 'kill, kill.' so I raced outside and I knew I wasn't going to make it in time so I screamed for it to stop… and it did. The snake looked at me .I was still running and I managed to get to the poor dog before the snake did. It said that the dog I was holding was its dinner. I told it that Bear was my friends pet and not its dinner and to go find something else to eat (preferably another snake) before I got a shovel and chopped its head off. It didn't want to die so it left.

"I later heard that the snake tried to eat the neighbor's baby. It was decapitated shortly after that." Buffy shuddered. "I really don't like snakes."

The clock struck one and Draco groaned. "We should really get to bed. We leave for Hogsmeade at nine tomorrow morning" he said.

"Good night Draco." Pansy said.

"Yeah, night Drake … what? It's short for Draco." Buffy said when seeing Pansy roll her eyes and Draco raise his eyebrows.

He said "whatever." and they headed toward their dormitories. Draco wondered what his father would think of Buffy being a parselmouth. He would probably be pleased. He would see his mother and father tomorrow when he introduced Buffy to them. He had the whole day planned out. First they would visit with his parents shortly, then he would show Buffy around Hogsmeade. After that they would meet her friends and they would have butter beers at the Three Broomsticks. He would have to find an excuse to get away and meet his parents after that.

Buffy went to sleep that night thinking of what tomorrow would bring her. She thought about Harry and Draco and her feelings for each of them. She didn't know who she liked. Harry was really nice and he was cute too. Draco was a little bit of a mystery. Buffy thought about what Harry had said about Draco that night and found it very hard to believe but then remembered that Draco wasn't the nicest person around certain people especially Harry, Ron, and Hermione. She decided that she would ask him why that was later. Harry was nice to everyone except Draco and his friends. Buffy rolled over and saved those thoughts for tomorrow. She was exhausted.

Harry, once he was back in the Gryffindor common room, saw Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sitting by the fire place doing home work.

Hermione noticed him walk in and frowned at him. "Harry, where have you been?" she said.

Harry sat down on the sofa. "I followed Buffy to the forbidden forest."

"The forbidden forest? Why was she going there?" Ron asked and gave him a confused look.

"Her friends were there."

"What were her friends doing there?" said Hermione.

"I don't know but there were vampires in the forest. She was fighting them."

"What? Vampires?" Ron said and jumped out of his favorite chair placed next to the fire.

"Well, it is the forbidden forest, Ron." Hermione said.

"Why would she fight them?" Ginny asked as Ron sat back down.

"I don't know but she was good. It looked like she had done it before. Her friends even killed some." Harry frowned. " She used my wand to stake one."

Ron laughed at that and Hermione had a thoughtful look. "She staked a vampire with your wand?" he snickered.

"How was she able to kill it without using a spell Harry? Vampires are really strong." Ginny said.

Harry shrugged. "She just did."

"I have some books that I took out for some light reading. I think there was something in one of them that mentioned something about someone being able to do that.. I'll go get it." Hermione ran up to the girls dormitory and came back down a few minutes later. She was holding what looked to a very heavy book titled 'Ancient Mythological Creatures'. She set it down on the table in font of them and started flipping through it.

"Here it is." she said landing on a page with a picture of a girl wearing tribal makeup. Her hair was in dreadlocks and she looked like a predator. The caption under the was titled 'the first slayer'.

"Slayer? What is a slayer?" Ron asked.

Hermione read the page. "It says that into every generation, a slayer is born, one girl in all the world, A Chosen One. She is born with the strength and skill to hunt and kill the vampires, demons and forces of darkness. To stop the spread of their evil. She is the slayer."

She read some more. "It also says that when one slayer dies another is born. The slayer was created by three tribal elders who found a girl and chained her to the earth they unleashed a demon and she absorbed it's power, making her faster, stronger, and able to heal quickly. Thus making her the first in the slayer line. The slayer's life is doomed to be short lived for she alone will fight the force's of darkness until the day that she no longer can and evil takes her life. A new slayer will be born to carry on the Slayer line until she to is killed. The slayer will rarely make it to her eighteenth year."

"Do you think that Buffy could be the slayer Hermione?" Ron asked.

"It's possible." she said.

"Well we will find out tomorrow at the Three Broomsticks. Buffy is meeting us there." Harry said. Then a thought struck him. "In Divination Trelawney was telling Buffy that she is surrounded by death nightly and that she was going to die. I heard Buffy mutter that it was too late for that."

"Wait. So Buffy died?" Ron said in disbelief.

"That explains it!" Hermione exclaimed and slammed the book shut in excitement.

"Explains what?" Ginny said.

"I asked Buffy why she was just now stating at Hogwarts and she said that the Ministry placed her under a cloaking spell that was supposed to ware off when she was eleven and it didn't. The only way that the spell would wear off after that is if she died."

"So she did die?" Ron was wide eyed.

"Why was she placed under the spell in the first place?" Harry wanted to know.

"Maybe it was because she is the slayer." Ginny said.

Hermione thought about that then dismissed it. "No. A new slayer is only called when the last slayer dies. She was placed under the spell when she was two or three. She couldn't have been the slayer then. Slayers usually only live a few years after they are called."

The clock chimed one and Hermione glanced at it. "It's late. We can figure this out tomorrow." she said. They all got and went to bed thinking about what they had learned that night.

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