For the second month in a row, Draco awoke as he transformed back to human with his head in Xander's lap on the couch. Xander tucked a blanket around him, rubbed his back and murmured some nonsense meant to comfort. Severus watched through slitted eye lids.

"I'm not a bloody girl," Draco snapped at Xander.

"Oookay, you're fine and dandy this morning," Xander shot back sarcastically.

Draco felt Severus' intensely curious gaze. "I don't need fussed at like I'm a helpless girl."

Xander shook his head. "Drake, most of the girls I know could break every bone in my body without working up a sweat. Not so much used to the helpless kinda girl. Even the ones I know without the Slayer extras aren't helpless. Just making sure you're okay."

"I'm going to my bed," Draco snapped. His attempt at a dignified exit didn't go as planned as still cramped and aching legs didn't want to hold him. Xander stood and offered his arm. Draco glared.

"If I wanted to treat you like a girl I'd pick you up, carry you and offer to bring you chocolate later."

Severus snorted from his chair. Draco glared at him. Xander helped him up. Draco found himself half-dragged to his bedroom as he stumbled on still-painfull legs. He gave a sigh of relief as he got into the bed and under the covers without embarassing himself. "Alright, Mr. Manly Man, if you're good, I gotta take a shower and get some coffee in me and head over to the admin building before all the helpless girls around here decide to start riots, wars, get arrested, burn something down or whatever. Scowly's going to be around most of the day. Be nice to him, cause you are not making your own Wolfyjuice."

Draco sneered at him.

Xander rolled his eyes and left the room.

"Was there a point to your little fit earlier?" Severus asked as he entered Draco's room a while later with two cups of steaming tea.

Draco glared.

"You've fallen for the bloody muggle, haven't you?" Severus smirked. "Drink your tea."

Draco sat up and reached for the tea. He sniffed it cautiously. One of Severus' less vile pain potions had been added to it. He took a sip, it wasn't that awful mixed into the tea with honey as it was. "You do realize werewolves have heightened senses of smell and taste all the month through, simply at their sharpest before the transformation. Besides that, you taught me, I would have noticed the potion, regardless."

"Most information on werewolves is utter superstision or the stupidity the Ministry stands by. Who would I ask? Lupin?"

"You could ask any of them around here."

Severus snorted. "I might understand one word in six of the answer."

"They're not quite that bad. I'm sure you'd get one in four," Draco smirked.

"So is this for appearances?"

"What?"

"That he put you in this room--"

Draco's eyes widened. "You think--" he gasped horrified.

Severus snorted. "How could I not?" He nearly laughed at the completely shocked look on his godson's face. "Very well, obviously I was mistaken the two of you aren't together." Yet Severus amended silently. "I'll delay the death threats, then."

Draco gaped.

"Though if you force me to watch another Austin Powers movie marathon I shall kill you both."

"I thought you would enjoy them," Draco smirked.

"Brat," Severus said, in a tone that lacked his usual scathing edge and amounted to fond, at least in Severus' range of tones. "I need to get back to Hogwarts. But I'll be here in three weeks, classes will be out. I plan on staying the full two months of summer break. Albus wanted me to enquire about the possibility of Lupin finding employment with the council here."

"I --you would have to speak to Xander but I don't see a problem, there's certainly enough around here for several more people to do, magically or not."

"He is a werewolf and one they don't have to put up with."

"Xander was friends with a werewolf in high school and aparently roomed with William the Bloody on a couple of occasions."

"The man is a lunatic." Severus sneered.

"The point is the Council stance on were's and the personal stance of those here for the most part, as long as a were takes precautions to be safe on the moon, they don't care a whit."

~*~

Draco was put in charge of converting rooms in the boys dormitory into flats for Severus and Lupin. One would permanently be Severus' as long as he was employed by the Council. Between Willow and Kelly they connected a very illegal but stunning private floo system which would take Severus from his quarters or Dumbledore's office in Hogwarts to his flat or Xander's office at the Council Compound.

Draco found himself in Xander's office a week later, rather proud of his accomplishments with the converted dormitory house. Lupin was technically hired to help him sort out the Science Building which was going to be converted into the Potions Lab.

"You gonna be okay with this Lupin guy yourself?" Xander asked, barely glancing up from his laptop set up next to the still stubbornly "sealed" computer Robin Wood had left.

"Yes, why?"

"We're not sure yet." Xander frowned and agressively tapped the keyborad keys. "We've got some portents but we're not getting a lock on anything. Portents three days before the Summer Solstice is not of the good. One of the top six most magically powerful days of the year, hellmouth, apocalyptic style portents with nothing we can trace it to..."

"Do you need help?"

"Yeah, but I want the Potions Lab at least barely functional in less than ten hours, even if you just got one table set up and the stinky weeds and crap's boxes open. Just in case we need it." He typed more and stared impatiently at the screen. More typing.

POP!

Lupin arrived, Xander barely glanced up. "Hey, welcome and all that crap. You get to hit the ground running we're in apocalypse mode at the moment. Drake, keep him from hexing appliances and you two get to work on that lab, I need something functioning ASAP. We'll go over your paperwork when the world isn't ending okay--you've got health, dental, room and board, wolf juice is provided by the council--Scowly makes it and he's supposed to be the best so you shouldn't have to worry about that. We'll negotiate the salary bit and how exactly it's getting paid-galleons or dollars or whatever. Can be direct deposited to Gringotts or muggle bank. You get maimed or turned into a vegetable, the Council will see to your care the rest of your life. I'll need the Wizarding Green Card, a W-2 filled out, and a current copy of your Will and a Living Will/medical power of attorney on file." Xander said as he typed away. "Oh fuck, Drake we need the potions lab yesterday. We've got sixty eight hours to stop this demon--Will, Dawn and Andrew are getting further research for me. The potion takes sixty-seven hours to make and we still have to locate the bastards. Nothing like having three minute breathing room to stop the world from ending. Move it, guys. Will emailed a copy of the recipe to your inbox."

"Alright, Lupin. Just leave your things we'll come back for them later." Draco said.

"Er, yes,"

"Xander floo Dumbledore, we need a time turner."

"A wha?"

"He can get one --"

"You floo Dumbly but make it quick, and if we can get Scowly's skinny ass over here all the better. I gotta go talk to Faith." Xander said taking off out of the office.

"Er, Scowly?"

"Severus," Draco smirked and reached for the plastic X-men pencil box on the mantle, which Xander insisted was a perfectly normal and acceptable container for floo powder. "Dumbledore's Office Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"Draco, did Remus arrive--"

"Yes, Lupin's fine. The world's ending in sixty-eight hours, we need Severus and a time turner."

To his credit Dumbledore only blinked twice. "Of course, my dear boy, anything else,"

"That should do it I think."

"Classes are over in two hours"

"That will do. One of the Slayers will be waiting in Xander's office for him. We've got to get to work."

"Certainly, let me know if we can get you anything else."

Draco waved the floo connection closed and drug a stunned Lupin behind him. "Wait here, you can't apparate inside any of the buildings but the grounds you can. I need to get my computer."

He left the gaping Lupin standing in front of the administration building and apparated to his and Xander's house. He emerged a couple minutes later with the almost completely magical laptop Xander had gotten Willow to make. He didn't like the bloody thing but he did know how to use it, at least the Willow-made magical one which would respond to voice commands. He was slowly learning the wholly muggle computers as well since everything the Council did seemed to involve the blasted things.

He apparated to the Library and ran inside, not bothering to search he tapped his wand to his throat "Sonorus--ALLIE I NEED YOUR HELP! I'M AT THE MAIN DESK QUIETUS"

The quiet slayer appeared, running towards him at full tilt.

"Apocalypse. I need you to run the suitcases in Xander's office to the second flat in the boys dormitory. The one with R. Lupin on the door. And then I need you to go back to Xander's office and wait for Severus to show up. Get him over to the Science Building when he gets here."

"Okay" she murmured quietly.

"Thanks, Allie," Draco said and ran out of the library, then apparated back to Lupin.

"Can you follow an apparition signature?"

"Yes"

"Follow me,"