Chapter Three

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Chapter Three

“Excuse me, would you be able to spare a few sheets of parchment, please?”

“Sure” Buffy smiled before bending over to grab the paper from her bag, reminding herself to start putting up her hair. Setting back up, she handed the items to her companion.

“By the way, my name’s Eliza.” Maybe a new friend would be nice, she thought.

“Oh, oh Neville is my name.”

Buffy smiled realizing she had smiled more in this guy’s presence then she had since Giles received the phone call. It felt nice.

“Hey Summers, what are you doing?”

Buffy’s eyes snapped towards the door, startled to hear her last name.

There were four boys standing there, but what caught her attention was the one in front. Her cousin, Sebastian Summers. Her eyes widened in shock, she had believed that she would never see her relatives again. The same ones that she would have been living with if the council had not been after her. The same ones that were suppose to believe she was dead.

They had found her.

Sebastian dropped his bag and opened his arms. Buffy gave no thought to deny who she was; she jumped up and flew to him. She sobbed as his arms encircled her. She heard his words as his embrace tightened to the point of suffocating, even for a slayer. Or that could be from the emotions threatening to overwhelm her.

As that thought entered her mind, she heard the boy, Neville, ask something. It was like cold water in her face.

“Buffy? But she just said her name was Eliza!”

Neville’s words were like a splash of could water. No, he can not stay here, must not remember she was alive! Maybe Dumbledore could help, or, or Snape. Sebastian being here would only lead to badness; Travers would notice something, anything, and follow him, would find out she was alive, would kill her family, it would start all over again, and again it would be her fault, simply because she was alive. She would loose the last of her family. She would not let that happen, she just had to find a way to fix this before it was too late.

Buffy gently pulled herself from her cousin’s arms. Roughly wiping away the tears, she searched desperately for a solution.

“Why are you calling yourself Eliza?”

Well shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! Apparently he heard the question too.

Opening her mouth to reply, Buffy drew a blank. The only reasonable explanation would be the truth, but would he believe it?! She was still having trouble dealing with it let alone having to explain it!

“That is a good question that deserves a good answer, but it might be best if we discuss this in my office.”

All eyes turned to the door to see Dumbledore standing there.

“Come, come, it would be best it you all came. Eliza dear, your father has been summoned to join us.” And with that he turned leaving the five boys and one girl no choice but to follow.

Sebastian pulled Buff back into his arms. Something was going on, but the important thing was that she was alive. And he had no intention of losing her again.

Buffy was scared. If he could find her that meant Travers could find her, which meant that her remaining family was in danger. She allowed her cousin to embrace her. Danger or not, right now it made her feel safe and loved, something she had almost forgotten the feeling of in the short time since this all began. She was going to enjoy it while it lasted, allowing him to lead her out followed by the rest of the group.



Everyone was seated around the office, Snape standing in a dark corner. All eyes were pointed at Buffy while her eyes remained focused on her hands. ‘Start at the beginning’ Dumbledore had kindly stated. Start at the beginning, ya, she could do that as long as she did not look at her cousin. It helped that she knew that this time she would not be carted off to the loony bin, she had back up.

Slowly the words began to tumble out of her mouth, stumbling at first, and then smoothing out as her mind traveled to the then and left the now. She told them everything, starting with the dreams, the true beginning, what she felt, about her parents, the fighting and blaming, it all came out.

Then suddenly, even though they were coming upon the completion of the fourth hour of her talking, she arrived at the point that destroyed her, her death.

“It was a relief, knowing I had survived. I mean, I still had the nightmares, but what were they compared to the ones I was having before, except this time I knew how it was going to end, even while dreaming it, but I was alive, I had bested the prophecy. The following week I only had staked one vampire, I knew that Giles and Angel could handle the hellmouth; I was looking forward to spending the whole summer with Dad. He told me we were going to visit you for a month. How was I supposed to know that he would sell me out? How was I supposed to know that me living was going to cost Mom, Dad, and Giles their lives?

“I was visiting Giles one last time before I left because Daddy wanted to talk to Mom. I tried not to hope, I really did, but the thought keep popping up, maybe, just maybe they were getting back together. While I was there, Giles got a phone call, something had happened, Mom and Dad were at the hospital.” A sob escaped her, her hand flying to her mouth as if to catch anymore that might try to escape. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Sebastian leaning towards her, she stood up and quickly went to the bird. She had to at least try to remain detached or she would never finish.

“The final report was, as you know, Mom went postal when Dad told her he was going to fight for custody and shot him, then turned the gun on herself. What you don’t know was the council had offered him the sum of one million dollars for me. And he agreed. After I left, some men would show up and would put a spell on Mom. It would make her decide that my going with Dad was for the best, or that is what they told him. They did not want to pay, so they killed them both and made it look like murder/suicide. Apparently not all at the council are worthless, someone, who I don’t know, called Giles and told him what was going on. So Giles called in a favor from an old friend, the plan, fake my death, me hide out here, six months later he was going to ‘die’ and come find me. But there was a problem, one that none of us could ever counted on. So used to fighting in the supernatural world, we forgot about the real world.” Buffy closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she was almost done, and just a little bit more.

“Giles’ friend was there before morning turns out he was a wizard. He made something look like me, it looked so real, so life like. I remember thinking is this what I would have looked like if I had not lived?

“Giles left to take the dummy me off after they broke the neck; it was to look like a demon finally won. He never made it to the park. A drunk driver, one person, one human, changed all that. He fell asleep at the wheel after drinking all night. He had lost his job and instead of going home he decide it was better if he got drunk. Then he didn’t have the guts to call his wife, so he drove, fell asleep, crossed lanes in front of Giles. He was going 60 in a 35, Giles’ side crushed on impact. The dummy me was thrown from the car, making it look like I had died from a broken neck. Giles’ friend, I don’t think I ever did ask him his name, took me away as soon as we found out. A little magic here and a little magic there, and suddenly I am Eliza.”

Suddenly Buffy was standing in front of Sebastian, holding his hands.

“So you see, you have to forget you found me, you have to leave me here and go home! I don’t think I could bear it if more of my family died because of me!” Buffy’s eyes pleaded with him to understand.

“Buffy, I can’t just lea…”

“But you have to! If the council...”

“My dear,” Dumbledore interpreted her this time, “I believe what Mr. Summers is trying to say it that he has to finish the school year before he can leave.”

“Huh?”

“Buffy, I go to school here, I am a wizard.” Sebastian said gently.

For the first time, Buffy actually looked at him. Her eyes grew wide as she took in the school uniform.

“So you didn’t come here looking for me?”

“No, we thought that you were dead.”

“Oh. And you are a wizard?”

“Yes.” He stated simply.

It was too much. The joy of seeing him, then the panic, having to relive the past, then panic again, only to find out that he was a wizard. It was too much for Buffy to deal with and for the second time in her life she fainted.








AN: I have never read the books, only seen the movie and do not remember a Summers mentioned anywhere. I was made aware of this person on the website 'Bloody Summers'
(http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/kattersdc/index.html), through the story 'the slayer and the phoenix' where it is refernce on Page 229 of the book 'the Goblet of Fire’. It is also listed on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Harry_Potter_books#Ravenclaws).

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