Title: Reflections of My Strange Love Life 1/1
Author: AdriennePierson Rated: PG Pairing: Buffy/Remus Genre: BtVS/HP Crossover Disclaimer: If I owned either of these franchises, I wouldn’t be the poor college student that I am. Distribution: Ask please. Author's Notes. One part ficlet that I may expand on at a later point in time. Trying to finish my other stories first that I will start posting probably next week. This doesn’t have too many spoilers too look out for unless you have no clue about any of the relationships that Buffy was in during the seven seasons of the show. Please review and let me know what you think, if any criticism is given, please make it constructive and not mean. Thankx! :) Oh and in my little world OoTP never happened...Long Live Sirius Black!
Reflections of My Strange Love Life
Remus Lupin sat in the middle of Sunnydale on the porch of a certain 1630 Revello Drive, wondering just what had kept him here after that final fight. He remembered the day they found out that Voldemort had decided that he would try and open the Hellmouth to gain power and destroy the Muggle world. Their informant had come from the most unlikely source, Draco Malfoy. Apparently during his 7th year he had become a spy for the Order. After an exchange program in which Muggles that knew about magic had come to Hogwarts he’s had a change of heart. Of course on the outside he was still the same conceited little ferret that he had always been. But in private he had gone to Dumbledore and become a spy.
Of course, what had made him change his ways...
The same thing that normally makes any man try to be better...a beautiful girl. Who also happened to be Muggle.
Hence the reason he was in Sunnydale. This little Muggle wasn’t any normally girl, she was the sister to the Slayer, Buffy Summers, who happened to protect said Hellmouth that Voldemort had tried to open.
After a long battle the Order and the ‘Scoobies’ came out on the winning side having few casualties.
But that was months ago...
‘So why am I still here?’ Remus thought to himself.
Draco Malfoy had decided to stay. After the final battle he had told Dawn how he felt and they had decided to go from there.
Remus himself had been offered a job by Rupert Giles to become a researcher for the Watchers Council. Of course he thought that once they found out about his condition that he would change his mind, but he didn’t. Seems that a member of their team used to be a werewolf and they had no problem with him being one. Of course that still didn’t explain why he was still on the Hellmouth. He could do research from anywhere in the world with the technology that the Muggles had invented.
‘Of course old man you really know what the reason is...quite trying to fool yourself,’ he thought harshly as a young blond known as Buffy Summers walked out of the front door to get away from the crowd inside who had come to visit.
During the planning and training and preparing for the final battle Remus and Buffy had become very close. Right before the final battle she had given him a long, passionate kiss and gone off to fight. He’d hoped that they would have talked about it but in the following weeks it hadn’t been brought up. He’d finally chalked it up to being caused by a high pressure situation that neither thought they’d return from. He didn’t know who to go to for advice, Sirius would tease him, Giles would likely beat him and there was no one else near his age that he would go to about a problem such as this. He was so confused, he really liked her, had maybe even begun to fall in love with her, but was afraid that after she’d had time to think about things that she had changed her mind. Mainly because he was a werewolf, not that he’d disagree with her, but it still hurt knowing that he’d never know love like that because of his condition.
He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn’t realize Buffy had sat down right beside him.
She too had been confused since they had kissed.
‘Maybe he’s having second thoughts...maybe he thinks I’m too young for him or too strong or my life expectancy is too short,’ she thought bitterly. ‘Well, only one way to find out...’
“Remus, can we talk.”
Remus was startled out of his thoughts by the blond beauty beside him.
“Of course, what’s wrong?” he asked.
“Well I’m not quite sure, but the fact that you’ve been ignoring me for the past few weeks tells me that something is,” she stated. “I’d just like to know what I did wrong. If it was because I kissed you then we can forget it ever happened. But if you are going to be staying here in Sunnydale helping out we need to resolve this tension between us.”
“Look Buffy, I understand if you want to forget it ever happened,” Remus said, disappointment coming out through his tone. “I should be used to it by now. Look I’ll just go pack and be out of here when Sirius and Harry leave,” he concluded as he moved to get up and leave.
“Stop! I don’t want you to leave and I don’t regret what happened. I really like you Remus, I don’t care if you are a werewolf,” Buffy assured him. “You are a wonderful man, just because you change in to a puppy three days a month doesn’t me I don’t want to be with you.”
“I’m a little more dangerous than a puppy,” he admonished.
“If you take your potion, which you will, you’ll be fine,” she argued. “Besides have you seen my track record with guys vampire cursed with soul, jerk who uses me for a one night stand, secret military man and vampire with a chip. You’ll fit in just fine.”
“But Buffy,” Remus argued back, “I want you to have a normal relationship. I’m old, I can’t offer you a family...hell, this is the first stable job I’ve had in years. It’s just not meant for me to have a relationship with someone...I’ll just go pack now. Excuse me,” he said as he tried to get up and leave again.
“Don’t you dare pull that ‘I know what’s better for you than you do’ crap on me!” she fumed. “I’m so sick of all the men in my life thinking they know what’s best for me. You’re not ancient, geez you’ll probably out live me, slayer with expiration date here,” she said waving her hand. “Maybe I don’t want normal...what is normal anyway, I don’t think it really exists. As for a family, why can’t that happen...because of the werewolf thing, it doesn’t pass through from the father like that. And a stable job, that doesn’t matter, you have one now and the only way you’ll lose that is if you quit, Giles sure isn’t going to fire you.”
“You’re really not giving me a choice are you,” he asked smiling and cupping the side of her face with his right hand.
“No I’m not,” she said covering his hand with her own. “I tend to fight for what I want and I want you,” she continued, pecking his lips with her own. “I think I’m falling in love with you and I’d like to see what can happen.”
“Well, I think I’m falling gin love with you too and I know I’d love to see where this goes,” he replied. “By the way, you aren’t going to have an expiration date, you’ll grow old and have many children, Giles and I and whoever I have to bring into this will make sure that happens. I just want you to be happy Buffy.”
“I am. I’m happier than I have been in a long while,” she told him.
“Now you know that Sirius will never let me hear the end of this. Nor Rupert,” Remus joked.
“No, they won’t,” she said. “So let’s get back inside and let the tormenting commence.”
His reply was to fling her over his shoulder and carry her inside laughing the whole way and thinking.
‘Maybe our strange love lives are finally beginning to look up.’
