When two worlds collide
by Bwriter
Part 11
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Part eleven - FEAR
Giles nabbed Buffy as she was entering his classroom.
"I need a favour."
Buffy frowned, but let him pull her away from the others.
"Sure, what is it?"
Giles nodded in the direction of the classroom.
"I want to use a Boggart, now, the students have seen one before, but I think a refresher wouldn't hurt them."
Buffy frowned harder.
"What is it?"
Giles paused.
"It takes the shape of your greatest fear."
Buffy's eyes widened.
"Are you mad? Giles, I'm a Slayer, do you have any idea about what it is that scares me?"
He sighed.
"I know, but you are the Slayer. I need them to see that, the display with Angel wasn't enough, and there has been no actual fighting in class. You will be in no danger, a simple spell gets rid of it."
Buffy sighed and closed her eyes.
"Fine."
Giles smiled and patter her arm.
"Thank you."
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Willow frowned when Buffy didn't take her seat beside her.
"Class, listen up. Buffy here is going to fight a Boggart."
Everyone frowned.
"Why sir?"
Giles looked at the faces in front of him.
"I want to give you an idea of what the Slayer can do."
Willow, Xander, Cordy and Angel had no clue what was about to happen.
Harry leaned into Willow and whispered in her ear.
"Here's hoping she doesn't fear anything too bad."
Willow frowned, and was about to ask him what he meant, when Giles opened the locked up Boggart.
Willow's eyes widened when she saw herself standing in front of Buffy, as a Vampire.
Buffy looked behind herself, to make sure Willow was really there, before turning her full attention on the Vampire double of her lover.
She had been here before, when Anyanka had tricked Willow into helping her.
She hadn't been able to kill her then, what was she supposed to do now?
Giles sensed her discomfort.
"Buffy, you don't have to kill it, just show the class what you can do."
Sighing, Buffy closed her eyes, willing her brain to come up with a different fear.
It worked, but now she saw a demon before her, one which she had only dreamed of before.
Giles' eyes widened when he saw the Turk-Han. He had only ever saw pictures of one himself.
They were to the Vampire's, what cave-men were to humans.
Buffy smiled. This she could handle.
As she fought, the Boggart changed into several different demons, each one she had faced before, and each one she knew how to defeat.
When Giles had concluded that the class had seen enough, he ended Buffy's current fight with the Master, and the Boggart was once more locked up.
Buffy took a deep breath, and walked over to take a seat by Willow, who leaned into her, regardless of the fact they were in class.
"I love you."
Buffy turned, and grinned, though it was shaky.
"Love you too."
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By lunch, everyone seemed to have heard of Buffy's fight with the Boggart, and she could hear the whispers as she passed groups of people in the halls.
She stopped before she collided with a male body.
"Draco."
He smirked at her, and took a step back.
"Well, if it isn't the Slayer."
Buffy frowned. Whenever she saw him on his own, he seemed fine, but put a thug of either side of him, and he really was a mini Spike.
"What do you want? I have places to be?" She folded her arms, and smirked at the two guys on either side of him.
"Really? Where? Going to see the missus?"
A hard look entered Buffy's eyes and she unfolded her arms.
"Actually, yes. You have a problem with that?"
He snorted, but by the look in his eyes, Buffy knew he was putting on a show.
"Never mind, I have places to be."
She walked away, smiling to herself when he called her name.
Turning, she saw him coming up to her, a hand behind his back.
She saw him mouth the word 'sorry' before he drew his wand.
If she had stopped to think about it, Buffy would have questioned how she knew how to react, but she didn't.
Concentrating on the wand in his hand, Buffy caught it in her own as it flew from his grip.
It was a toss up as to who was more shocked.
Buffy or Draco.
"Cool." Buffy looked up, and smirked at the gaping boy.
"How did you do that?"
Buffy expected his tone to be accusatory, but it wasn't. It was filled with awe.
Shrugging, she pointed to the thugs with him.
"Get rid of the two lackeys and I'll tell you."
Draco immediately turned to tell them to go on.
Buffy was laughing when he turned back.
"I don't know how I did it."
He scowled at her.
"I'm... sorry... about earlier."
Buffy frowned at him.
He sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"For a Gryffindor, your kinda cool."
Buffy nodded in the direction his friends left in.
"So why the big show?"
"I'm a Slytherin. I'm programmed to hate Gryffindors."
Buffy frowned, remembering the Hat's song.
"I mean, I do hate Potter, and the rest. But your cool."
Buffy frowned, and nailed him with her eyes.
"Have you ever tired to get to know Harry and the others?"
He shivered and shook his head no.
"Do you have any idea what my father would do if he found out?"
Buffy heard the fear in his voice, and sent him a smirk, hoping to ease it some.
"Half the fun is when they don't know about it." She reached out behind her, and Draco frowned, until he saw Willow take her hand.
He smiled as he got her meaning.
"Hello."
Buffy smiled at him, he was trying.
Willow frowned, before shrugging.
"Hey."
Turning to her girlfriend, Willow sent her a soft smile.
"Giles is looking for you."
Buffy sighed and leaned in for a kiss.
"See you later."
Willow watched her run off, before turning back to Draco.
"So..." She trailed off. She didn't know him at all.
He sent her a small smile.
"She's kinda cool." He nodded in the direction Buffy took off in.
Willow frowned.
"She is also taken."
He sent her a smile.
"I didn't mean like that, though she is very pretty."
Willow smiled.
"Yeah, she is."
He was about to say more, when he spotted the two thugs heading back.
"You better go before they do something to you."
Willow frowned, before looking in the direction he was.
"Okay, I guess I'll talk to you later."
Draco sent her a smile, before hiding it behind a scowl.
"Okay, but you really have to go now."
Willow turned and walked off, heading down to Hagrid's hut to meet Hermione, hearing one of the boys asking why Draco was talking to a Gryffindor.
She didn't hear his reply, but she did wonder why he had spoken to her... and Buffy.
Harry and the others had told her how he was, so why was he bothering to talk to them, in the non bitchy way?
She let out a scream when she was grabbed from behind.
The last thing she saw before a blindfold was put on her, was the green colours of Slytherin.
She tried screaming, but no sound would come out.
She panicked as she realised that they had put a silencer spell on her.
She knew one thing for sure.
Buffy was going to P I S S E D when she found out.
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