Epilogue

The next few weeks were entirely, well quiet. No more demons, no more Voldermort, no more danger, well no more than a normal amount for us. Overall it was peaceful and the peace was much needed.

Exams came and went and unsurprisingly top spot in our class was awarded to me with Hermione a close second. Willow would have been insanely proud of me and I wish she could see how much I grew as a student. Even Snape seemed impressed with my exam, well as impressed as he could be of a Gryffindor. Ugh I swear this whole rivalry thing is ridiculous.

We spent a lot of time with Hagrid just chilling. Although we made sure none of us ate anything he served, he wasn't a very good cook. I don't know why he kept trying though. We were nice about turning down food but come on it was pretty obvious by now.

After the whole Gringotts incident Harry and Ron also realized that they're fighting skills weren't up to par and it really wasn't an effective way to get anything done. They begged us every day to train them more and I actually left it to Angel who found it more important than me for them to learn. I mean yeah it was important but I was just tired and didn't feel like it, we needed the break.

So in the end we compromised and taught them some stuff to practice over the summer, but nothing too great, basically just staying in shape stuff. They were pleased that they were at least doing something and at least they cared. In the end that was what mattered, that they had the drive to do it.

Every other free moment I had was spent with Angel. Without the threat of anything we could relax a little and we were spending a lot of time just the two of us. We took walks around the castle, had picnics at the lake, and just basically dated like normal kids.

A lot of the time we were in the library. After talking with Whistler Angel had decided that he wanted to research more about this parallel dimension stuff. Personally I thought he was just torturing himself, but he didn't listen to me. So while he did that I was hanging out with my other friends or looking at books on other stuff.

"Buffy," Harry says waving a hand in front of my face, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Huh?"

"You have to see these pictures."

I look at the album he hands me and gasp. Its pictures of his parents from when they were younger. Overall it was amazing and something he could really cherish. "This is amazing!"

"I know," he smiles and I absolutely understand why this means so much to him. I would absolutely love to have something like this of my parents and friends, but the whole going to hell thing kind of made that impossible.

"So what are your plans this summer?" Ron asks.

"Getting bullied by the Dursley's," Harry snorts.

Angel looks at me and I shrug, we weren't entirely sure, we just figured Whistler would have it settled when we got to the station or else we were going to go insane with worry. "Just hanging out in the US, nothing great," he answers.

"We think," I interject. "um my uncle never really told us."
"So we finally get to meet your Uncle when he picks you up?

I just nod, not sure why it mattered or what was going to happen. "personally I want to meet Harry's family and jinx them."

"Be my guest. On second thought maybe you can accidently trip them or something."

"Angel and I can go all ninja on them."

"That may be frowned upon," he chuckles. "Didn't you do that to someone back in Sunnydale?"

I think about it for a moment, "Which time?"

"Oh it was Cordelia, she told me you went ballistic on her and went crazy. I believe she said that was why the two of us should have been together."

"Oh yeah I kind of attacked her on the first day of school, but it wasn't my fault! I totally thought she was a vampire!"

"Did you get detention?"

"Neh, it wasn't at school. We were at some nightclub in town."

"How old were you?" Harry wonders and raises an eyebrow at the same time that Ron asks what a nightclub is. Angel just glares at my slipup, it's been a while since I've had one of those.

"It wasn't really a nightclub, we just called it that to be cool, it was really just a coffee shop we all did homework in. They're all the rage in the States."

They believe me and Angel still glares, "Smooth Buffy."

"Hey sorry I wasn't thinking."

"Is that why she hated you?" Ron says remembering something I must have said about her.

"I don't know," I tell him honestly. "I've never really understood the workings of Cordy's brain. And I never will want to understand her brain either."

"She hated you because you had me."

"really?"

"It was kind of obvious," he states.

The rest of the train ride is spent relatively carefree. We get a bunch of snacks from the trolley and by the time we get to the station we all pull up I am actually a little full of sugar which has never before happened in my life.

Scratch that it did back in sophomore year when Willow, Xander, and I had our first sleepover and movie fest. God my stomach hurt just thinking about that time.

We all grab our stuff and walk over in the direction that Ron is going and see his parents standing there. It's suddenly apparent where the Wesley's got their red hair from He turns to the three of us, "You three will have to come over and stay with us this summer.

"Do you think we can?"

I turn to Angel and shrug "I'm not completely sure."

I just smile at Ron and hug him, not too hard, and let him go in time to see his cheeks turn bright red. He walks off with his family and the rest of us turn around to look for our respective guardians. Ours is still nowhere in sight when Harry sees his aunt and uncle.

"Guess I'll see you guys in a few months."

We nod and Angel gives Angel a guy hug and I give him a giant, again not too hard, and then ruffle his hair. "I'm going to miss messing your hair up."

"Don't worry I won't cut it just for you, and if I do then it will grow back the next day," he smiles. "You two keep each other out of trouble."

"Only if you try your hardest to stay out of trouble," Angel shoots back at the same time that I say, "not my fault trouble comes looking for us." We all smile and I give him one last quick hug before he too leaves.

Standing alone I start to feel awkward. Most people around us have cleared out so we just sigh and walk out of platform 9 ¾ and into the real world. I'm kind of scared. In this new world I have yet to explore the normal human world and it's a bit unnerving to think about.

"I'm going to miss them," Angel tells me. "I'm not used to people liking me and now I have friends and well now I don't know it's weird."

"It's two months."

"I know but still."

He holds my hand as we wait. Still no one here we walk closer to the exit and eventually we see Whistler waiting outside. "Nice to see you two."

"Hey Whistler," I wave. "So where we headed?"

"The powers have another job for you."
"Ominous much," I mutter and Whistler cracks a small smile.

"How do you feel about spending your vacation in Cleveland?"