Title: Four Joined Souls

Author: Caliadragon

Category: AU, Crossover

Fandom: Buffy/Harry Potter

Warnings: None really

Pairing: Xander/Harry/Spike/Severus

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Archiving: Any list I send it to, those with previous permission and BC

Summary: Willow casts a spell, but it doesn't turn out the way it's supposed to.

AN: Don't ask me where this came from and I won't tell you I have no idea.

Spoilers: Season 7, but without 'Dirty Girls', Up to book 4

Thanks to Edi for the beta andto Kei and Zus for the translation.

Four Joined Souls

by Caliadragon

Willow sat surrounded by candles, one at each corner. At the east the candle was red, for passion. At the west the candle was yellow, for friendship. At the north the candle was white, for purity, and at the south the candle was pink, for love. Each color and each candle represented a person and an emotion. Inside the circle she had all four elements represented.

Outside the circle she was surrounded by her closest friends. Buffy, Xander, Giles and Dawn. They were the four who made up her life and her heart. Buffy was her strength. Xander her heart. Giles her knowledge, and Dawn her innocence.

Spike, Kennedy, Andrew and Faith were there as well. Spike represented her redemption. Kennedy her future. Andrew her individuality and Faith her passion.

She invoked the spirits and made use of the elements, lighting the candles with little more than a thought. Then she began to chant the spell:

Quatre 's li'en tant qu'un

Emptiness dit, 's jointives

pour l'rnit't au del'e

quatre 's bondissent en tant qu'une.

As the spell reached its end, light poured through the room. It caught Xander and Spike in its web and lifted them from the others. As they floated just outside the circle and in front of Willow, two more figures emerged, wrapped in light. For a moment no one moved or even breathed. Then slowly, gently, the light released the four bodies and let them sink to the floor.

Xander looked over at Spike and beyond him to the two men who were looking at them all in shock and suspicion. "What the bloody hell was that?" the older of the pair growled.

Xander sighed, "Willow."

"Oops."

"What do you mean 'Oops'?" Harry demanded. Where were they?

"Well I cast a joining spell, but I guess it didn't do what we thought it would do."

"Joining spell? What kind of joining spell?" Severus asked, furious.

"A soul binding spell," Giles answered as he straightened away from the wall.

"Ripper?" Severus asked, stunned.

"Hello Severus, welcome to the hellmouth." Giles' voice held a thread of amusement.

The End