Chapter 1: Family?

"Wes?" he heard Dawn's voice sometimes later. "Wes, please wake up. Please? I'm scared."

Then he heard he voices. One was sounding snide and he felt he had to retort. His eyes opened and he saw his father being backed against the wall by Severus Snape. Oh, how that man irritated him.

"You know, If I had a face like yours," Wesley said irritated as he was not in the best of moods when just waking up, "I'd try to make up for it with some kind of personality."

Snape spun around and stared at Wesley who was realizing he'd only been out a few minutes by the fact they were still wherever they had landed.

"Yes, Dickhole," Wesley said. "I mean you. Where the hell do you get off putting my father down? You think you have the right to hate everyone not like you? Everyone who ever made fun of you? Hell, I was teased through most of my life for more reasons than I care to get into. Get the hell over it. SO you got teased, so what? It was more than 15 years ago. Grow. Up."

Dawn giggled and Wesley found himself being hugged by his charge.

"Dad," Wesley said. "Could you help me get up please? And then I suppose I need to tell you why we're here?"

"No, first we need to eat," Dawn said eyeing the food being brought in. "Then you can tell them why we're here. You told me you were bringing me someplace safe from Willow and Glory and this place seems to be it."

"Safest place I now is with my Father, Dawnie," Wes said as he rolled to his feet with his father's aid. "Of course, I was aiming for Lupin lodge but the blood tie brought me to him. Hence the landing here. Er....sorry about the table, headmaster."

"No problem at all, Wesley," Albus Dumbledore said as he looked at the young man who was standing next to the teenaged girl. Wesley did indeed look like his father. That was evident. "I would say welcome but I dare say you are tired of hearing inane greetings."

"Oh, always happy to know I'm welcome some place," Wesley said as he and Dawn took seats and the new table that had just appeared in the room. "Dawn, eat slowly pleas. I know Way Jumping made you hungry but I don't want you getting sick."

"Okay, Wes," Dawn said as she made a plate of the platters sitting on the table.

Wesley took a plate as well and fixed himself a sandwich. He looked at the teachers gathered around and sighed.

"Okay," he said. "We're running from an very evil with an a pissed off hell goddess. I needed a safe place for Dawn and I to go and by the way, Ripper and Ethan will be here soon as well, so I thought to use the tie to my father to get here. Or to him. I didn't know e was here. Anyway, I can take on a job if you want me to pay our way here. I can teach defensive spells as well as charms, transfiguration and Exorcism."

"Perhaps you could teach one year in each of those?" Snape said acidly.

Dawn piped up next. "Sure he can," she said. "Wes can do anything. Better than you, I bet. He even kicks Ass over tits...sorry, spike-ism, in potions. Course that is just one of his talents. My Wes can hunt Demons and vampires, read more languages than most of you know and still make a mean cup of java for his snarly boss Angelus. SO, kindly Sod Off dork man. We're doing important stuff and your little temper tantrum just doesn't impress me. I mean, heck Angelus at
Scary Evilness did so what makes you think You can?"

Dawn resumed her seat and looked at Wesley who was trying not to laugh.

Several people were staring and snickering and Dawn stuck her tongue out at Snape causing Wesley to lose it. But only when she added the raspberry.

"Dork Face," Dawn muttered as she sat. "Stupid jerk doesn't know what real Evil is. I mean I've met demons that are bad but humans who were worse than any werewolf could be. Jerk!"

A knife flew off the wall and embedded in the chair an inch from Snape's crotch. He was staring in shock as Wesley started howling with laughter.

'Guess she told you, huh Severus," was all the younger man said.

No one understood why he was laughing but then, no one knew him so it was no shock. Although, Remus was snickering a bit too.