Title: Blatant Disregard of the Rules
Author: Tempest
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters recognizable from Vampire Diaries or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They belong to L.J. Smith and Joss Whedon respectively. I make no money off these works. No copyright infringement intended.

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She wished she could talk to Willow, but Willow was off teaching at some school for wizardry. Hogports. Hogwarts. Some weird name like that. All she knew was the place didn't have a phone. Or television. Or the internet. Or electricity. What kind of backwater school was Willow trapped in?

It sounded like the plot of a bad children's series – a certifiable nightmare.

Giles was on vacation. Since when did Giles vacation like a normal person? He was in Tahiti on some sort of "spiritual enlightenment", which, coincidentally enough, didn't include a phone, or a television, or the internet, or electricity, either.

She didn't understand the kind of hell her friends were willing to put themselves through.

Back to the horror at hand, vampires that walk during the day. She chased one through the streets, but he managed to escape. He looked like the vampire she first encountered, but he was different. She didn't know if he could walk in the daylight or not. She bet he could though.

They had to be crazy. Why else would they go around blatantly disregarding the rules of vampirism? The very first rule of being a vampire was, "Thou shalt die in the sunlight." It wasn't a hard rule to follow. You were hit by the sunlight. You turned into maggot food. End story.

Vampires like them made her job a lot harder than it should be.

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Author's notes: For the record, I like the Harry Potter books before any fangirls try to scratch my eyes out. This has just been sitting here. This isn't really meant to be updated regularly. It's more like a "whenever Tempest feels like getting off her lazy ass and writing something random for this story" kinda thing. Be encouraged, though, because I think I almost have a complete outline written for a novel-length VD/BTVS crossover ready.