Ok, first of: I do not own Lizzie McGuire, Harry Potter, or Highlander. Just wanted to make that clear.

Second, I AM NOT writing a fic that takes place during the summer that Lizzie was gone. After I finish this, if someone wants to write a fic for that, they are welcome to as long as they ask and it doesn't contradict anything that I said happened.

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Lizzie McGuire

Changes

Chapter One:

Homecoming

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Miranda Sanchez and David Gordon (Gordo) waited impatiently at the gate for their best friend. Her flight was due any minute, and they were anxious to see Lizzie McGuire again. The four months that she was away was the longest that the trio had been apart. Sure, they had been separated before, but never before was the separation this long, and never before had there been absolutely no contact between Lizzie and her best friends.

Lizzie's departure had been rather sudden. Over the course of a few short days, Lizzie's parents told her that she was adopted, told her that she would be spending the summer with her twin brother, and then she was shipped off to England, of all places.

But today, in only minutes, she would return. They couldn't wait to see her and (despite Gordo's dislike of gossip) hear all about everything.

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Lizzie was really nervous. She had not idea how she was going to handle her friends. See, the problem was that she had been forced to grow up over the summer, and didn't really care about the stuff that her friends did anymore. She knew that she wouldn't do what Kate did. (Kate was one of Lizzie's best friend, but she became 'popular' and now had a habit of calling Lizzie 'Loozie') But she also knew that her friends would be asking her about her trip, about her twin brother, about everything. However, there was very little that she could tell her friends.

She couldn't tell her friends that her brother is the most powerful wizard in history, or that she was likewise the most powerful witch. She couldn't tell her friends that to her, the four months had been almost six years, with all but three months spent in the past. She had trained under Merlin himself. Knights of the Round Table had hit her on. She had learned swordplay from an immortal, which was waiting to continue the training in the present when she returned. Her parents had been murdered by a powerful wizard with more supporters than any could count. This wizard was set to take over the world, and she and her brother were the only wizards who could stop him. But they couldn't do it alone. Her friends didn't know that the last week had been spent not in England, but in New York, where she and her brother had presented their case to the United Nations, which had promised them all the help they asked for.

She couldn't tell them that she didn't fly in, but had used a teleport spell and a memory spell to make sure no one noticed. She couldn't tell them that the secret service had four agents protecting her, and another three "Unspeakables", the wizard equivalent of special forces, were also following her around, just because she was the most important person to Harry, and therefore the most likely person to be kidnapped by Voldermort, the wizard that had killed her parents.

She couldn't tell them that the man escorting her and Harry was the immortal who trained them in swordplay and other weapons. She couldn't tell them that he was five thousand years old.

Most importantly she couldn't tell them that she now had no problems with killing other humans, so long as the were Death Eaters (the servants of Voldermort) or Green Knights (the servants of Morgana, the dark witch she faced off against while in the past).

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Both Gordo and Miranda's faces lit up when they saw their friend. However it was Gordo's that lit up more. For nearly five years he had been in love with her, and she had no idea. Well, he decided that that would change. Soon.

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