Connections

Title: Connections

Author: Caliadragon

Category: AU, Crossover

Fandomffy/ffy/Harry Potter

Warnings: Slash, Violence, Multiple Partners, Humor, Mpreg

Part: 9/?

Pairing: Xander/Harry/Spike/Severus

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Archiving: Any list I send it to, those with previous permission and
BC

Summary: The newly joined get to know one another and more of Giles'
past comes to light.

Sequel to Four Joined Souls. You'll need to read that to understand
this.
http://adultfan.nexcess.net/aff/story.php?no=6589


Spoilers: Season 7, but without 'Dirty Girls', Up to book 4

Thanks to Edi for the beta.



AN: Obviously this is AU. Which means that everything you know about
the end of Buffy and the last few seasons of Angel are null and void
in this fic. So if you're into canon, you don't want to read anything
here. Also this takes place after Harry and the others have graduated
from Hogwarts, but due to the war and Voldermort Harry and the others
live on the grounds of Hogwarts. I've said it before and I'll say it
again. No Spoilers for OotP.









Chapter 9









Los Angeles...









It was only a matter of a few hours before everyone was ready to go.
Xander had grown quiet as time went on. The others were beginning to
wonder what he was thinking. They were a little worried. As time
went by he had sat with Willow and begun to withdraw into himself.



It was Buffy that drew him from his thoughts. "Xander, what is
it?" Xander looked up at her and she could see rage shining in
his eyes. She gulped, she had only seen that look in Xander's eye a
few times. Usually it meant trouble.


"I want the person responsible for this. I want them to pay for
hurting Willow. For hurting all of us. Wes the the Council had
something to do with this. Unfortunately they're all dead, but
someone is still working this spell on Willow. I want them,"
he said coldly.


"We will get them," Buffy promised. She would not lose
Willow. They had all come too far and fought too hard to get where
they were. Xander had a strange and fascinating future waiting for
him.


She had also been talking to the older wizard and he had thought
there was a way to overcome Angel's curse. The last few hours had
been spent waiting for the others to finish packing and talking to
Angel.


She knew there was something between Angel and Xander that neither
was wil to to talk about. This last year had awakened her to what
was going on around her. Including the undercurrents between her
best friend and the man she loved more than life itself


She knew it was cowardly, but she didn't want to know what it was
between them. She knew very well that whatever it was, what she
suspected it was, would make it impossible for her to go back to
Angel.


Xander was surprised when Harry walked over to him and sat at his
side, gently taking his hand. "It will be alright, you'll see.
The Headmaster will find the answer, he always has before,"
Harry reassured him, thinking of the curse and the pain he had
suffered the year before.


Unknown to those present the two dark haired young men had more in
common than anyone could possibly forsee. Not even his best friends
knew the trauma and the horror he had suffered through. Like Xander,
he had kept many things to himself.


Severus and Spike had spent the last few hours talking. The subjects
of their discussion were sitting side by side. Each was telling what
they knew about the young men that they had found themselves sworn
to. Both men were uncomfortable with the knoge tge that their two
young mates had spent entirely too much of their lives fighting for
what was right and being preyed upon, by both their friends and by
the enemy itself.


They realized that, while they were joined to the two boys, they had
a long way to go to win the intimate trust that very few people ever
got from the pair.


For a former Death Eater and a former soulless Vampire this seemed a
momentous task. How do you win the love of two young men that
represent everything you had once betrayed?



_____________________________________________________


Hogwarts.....


Xander walked through the doors of Hogwarts and froze with
astonishment and wonder. He walked to the closest wall and began to
run his hands over it. Anya cocked her head to the side and made a
small sound. Buffy looked away from Xander's strange antics to ask
Anya: "What's wrong, An?"


"Xander's touching the wall the way he used to touch me in
bed," Anya answered bluntly.


Buffy blushed and Spike whistled. "Wow!" Draco said in
wonder.


"This is the most beautiful building I have ever been in. Look
at this, Buff, this building has to be ancient and it still looks
like it's just a few years old. Whoever built this was a
genius." Xander turned from the wall and ran over to the
stairways. The paintings shocked the Californians by moving to keep
Xander in sight. They had never seen anyone as interested in the
building as Xander was.

Severus watched his young husband as he did a slow turn; his face had
a look of love and rapture on it. "So beautiful," Xander
murmured, entranced by Hogwarts itself.

He ran a hand up the banister in a soft caress and smiled in wonder.
"This is like Disneyland and Christmas all mixed in one
gift." Buffy giggled and walked to the enamoured Xander. He
took her hand absently as he looked around him.


"Would you like a tour after you get settled?" Harry asked,
amused and fascinated.


"Do I have to wait that long?" Xander asked, disappointed.


Harry laughed and shook his head. "I'll show you around now if
you like. We can do the dungeons first, it's where we will probably
be living now that we're promised to a vampire and Snape."


Xander nodded and allowed Harry to take his hand and lead him away.
Buffy laughed and followed by extension, since he hadn't released her
hand.


Giles shook his head and turned to the Headmaster and Severus.
"Perhaps you could show us where we'll be bedding down, and take
us to the infirmary to have Poppy check over Willow."


Albus nodded and proceeded to lead the group away. None of them knew
that Hogwarts itself was listening, and falling for the dark haired
mortal boy that had come home with the other raven haired youth that
the building had bonded to. The only other person that Hogwarts had
reshaped herself to comfort and protect. Harry Potter and Xander
Harris were the only two direct descendants of Slytherin and
Gryffindor and, in a twist of fate, their mates were the last in the
lines of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

Time and fate had twisted the vampire and the human into something
beyond these traits, but before bitterness and cynicism had infected
them, William had been a true Hufflepuff. While Severus still
possessed the intellegence of a true Ravenclaw.


the next generation of the founders had come together and Hogwarts
intended to keep them this time.


tbc.


AN: I got the idea for Xander talking to the building from Oreocat
and a challenge she made.