Disclaimer: None of the nouns within are mine except Leeanne, and she's only half mine because of her last name.
Note to Self: Petunia is eleven years older than Lily, and has Rosetta Leeanne when she's nineteen, Dudley when she's twenty-eight. So that makes Lily seventeen when Harry is born and eight when Lee is born. Leeanne is eighteen when Harry is nine, and Sirius is twenty-six at that time. Lee was born in '71 and Siri in '63, Harry in July of '80.
I don't know if you can legally drink or go to clubs when you're in England when you're sixteen, but there are places that don't care if you're underage as long as you don't blab even here, I've heard, and besides, this is set in Knockturn Alley, where everything's illegal. I'm pretty sure that you can legally have sex at sixteen there, though.
In this story, Unspeakables find and kill or put out of office corrupt government officials (depending on how much evidence is admissible in a court of law) and research or destroy interesting/dangerous artifacts. There are only two subdivisions; Research and Development, and Search and Destroy. Research and Development deals with the study of both politicians and artifacts, and they give names to Search and Destroy so that they can kill the person or destroy the dangerous artifact in question. They're an international organization, sort of the antithesis of the UN/National Confederation of Wizards (whom, I will assume, are like the UN in that they want to settle everything peacefully, when not everything can be settled that way), which kills first and asks questions later.
Summary: AU. Harry Potter/Matrix crossover. There's more to the Matrix than any of them could ever have guessed. Nine-year-old Harry and his two godparents are about to reveal it all. Sirius/OC. Harry/OC.
The Virus, Chapter 1, Disappearing Act
"Lumos."
Leeanne wasn't as surprised as she probably should have been when a woman crashed through her front window. In fact, to the dark-haired woman, she probably didn't seem surprised at all, which was enough to stop the other in her tracks. Lee smiled.
Trinity knew that she shouldn't be standing here gaping at a kid, but she couldn't help it. There was just something about the teen. It wasn't her looks; no, the girl was less than remarkable there. With her short mousey brown and blonde mix hair, honey brown eyes, and tan, smooth complexion, she was nothing to look at (though with those curves, nothing to scoff at either). It was her smile that drew you in, really. She didn't smile that often (that was easy enough to tell), but when she did, it lit up the room. Trinity snapped out of her daze when the girl frowned, looking past her out the door.
"Get in the cupboard," the teen said, gesturing to it.
The girl ran off and Trinity, against her better judgment, got into the cupboard, deciding to trust the teen for now. Seconds later, Trinity heard the telltale splash of hands in dishwater, and the front door slammed open. The girl ran out of the kitchen and into the front hall as if to see who was there.
"Get out of my house!" the teen screeched. Trinity had to cover her ears. "I don't care a wit what government agency you work for, just get out of here! I've had enough of you people running through my house like hoodlums! Get out!"
Looking through the vent in the cupboard door, Trinity could see the teen pointing a wet and soapy knife at the two Agents who had entered .
"Miss, please, calm down. We just want to know if a woman cut through here."
"Yes, yes, she ran out the back. Now out! Get out of my house before I slit your throats, the both of you. Lunatics running all over my house like it's a playground or something, probably trying to steal from me. Honestly! Can't good people be left alone these days, or is that too much to ask? Goodness, I just want some peace!"
As the Agents ran off in the direction she had pointed them, Leeanne yelled after the two, "And if any more of you people even think of stepping foot on my property I'll get out the shotgun out and kill you myself, never mind that hooligan woman!"
There was silence in the house for a minute, and Trinity was just starting to think that the teen had called the Agents back when there was a light knock on the cupboard door and the girl called out, "Okay! They're gone now."
Trinity climbed out slowly.
"What was that?" she asked, eyebrow raised.
"That was good acting skills put to use," Lee said dryly. "Try to keep from bringing filth like that into my house, would you? I have enough to clean up without trying to get rid of the extra taint on top."
"Are you a program?" Trinity asked.
"Is that American slang for 'not an idiot'?" Lee retorted.
She wasn't? Why hadn't she turned into an Agent, then? Now that Trinity thought of it, the whole thing was even more odd. She had never known a program to lie about being one, after all. So Trinity asked the teen a question.
"Do you think this world you live in is real?"
The girl gave her a look that said 'Are you mad?'
"Of course not! I've been able to see the numbers since I was four!"
Trinity blinked. "How'd you like to get out of here, then?"
8Flashback8
"Please Vernon, please! It will stop, I swear, just give her two years! Just two years! It happened with my brother, too, and freakish things stopped happening around him when he was five! Please, these freakish fits will stop; I know they will!"
Petunia didn't mention that her brother had died in a car crash with their parents when he was five. That would only give Vernon more reason to kill Rose.
"She's our daughter, Vernon!"
He seemed to be thinking hard about something.
"If it doesn't stop by the time she's five, we give her to the orphanage," he decided.
"Of course," Petunia said primly.
Inwardly, she sighed with relief. Either way her baby would live. Petunia hated the thought that it might be at an orphanage, but at least she'd be alive.
Three-year-oldRosetta toddled quickly down the stairs, using the walls to make sure she didn't fall. After four days, there was no more accidental magic. Petunia let out a sigh of relief, and Leeanne went back to being her Daddy's Princess again. Rosetta would grow to hate the man just as much as her mother did.
Too bad Petunia didn't believe in divorce.
8End Flashback8
"Sure. Let me leave a note so my folks know I'm not coming back."
"Nox."
