Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Torchwood. No profit is being made from this writing.

Pairings, prompts, and generator urls can be found at the end of every chapter.

Warnings: Mentions femslash, spoilers for Torchwood's Greeks Bearing Gifts and HP's Goblet of Fire & Order of the Phoenix

Cho Chang stared in horror at the woman before her.

After the devastation of Cedric's death and the disaster she made of the Harry Potter situation, Cho had sworn off wizards all together. One of her trips to the Muggle world had facilitated a chance meeting with said woman standing in front of her.

This beautiful, intelligent, and amazingly clever woman who Cho quickly found herself falling in love with. The woman had opened her eyes to a different kind of magic and showed her the world around her in a vastly different light with the help of a simple pendant.

Mind reading was something powerful wizards and witches could learn. Cho had never tried, certainly didn't think she was powerful enough to learn the art. In Cho's mind, Legilimency was a branch of magic best left to the likes of Dumbledore, You-Know-Who, and Harry Potter.

Mary opened Cho's eyes, showed her the minds and thoughts of others with a witty flare and a stunning smile. How could Cho not possibly fall in love?

It was a fabulous whirlwind romance … until the man with the American accent showed up at the door with a set of odd-looking handcuffs, and her beautiful Mary changed.

The woman whom Cho had loved for the last year had suddenly turned into something that put all the magical creatures Cho could name to shame. The tall and spindly-limbed being that was Mary's true form was even more beautiful and impressive than her human shape.

The change, Cho was horrified to find, was more than skin deep however. This new and wonderful creature was also hateful, malicious, and terrifying to behold.

Pale eyes set into a near transparent blue face watched her with scorn and tears built in Cho's own eyes.

"They're wrong," Cho stated. "You love me; I know you love. It's all there in your head." Shaking fingers palmed the gem nestled at the base of her throat.

A bubbly laugh echoed around the courtyard of the home they had shared for months. "Who do you think created that technology? Besides, didn't I tell you I didn't need that silly little necklace?"

Mary had indeed told Cho such when the woman had first given the piece of jewelry to her, but Cho hadn't thought much of it at the time. It was stupid of her. Had she not just compared this brand of magic to Legilimency, and didn't Legilimency have Occlumency? Surely, this simple bit of metal and gem would have something to block its use.

"You feel nothing for me at all? After a year of living together, you feel nothing?" Cho couldn't stop herself from asking.

The misty face reformed into something like caring as a long, blue finger caressed her cheek. Cho found herself closing her eyes and leaning into the hand. It was a whisper of touch, a tickling sensation, nothing more than butterfly wings on her skin.

"I needed you. I knew the moment I saw you that you were different from those around you. You shone brighter, like a sun in my mind, and oh, how you cried out for me. Listening to your mind was so very simple; I knew everything about you in seconds. I thought you would protect me; I thought you could stop them from finding me. It had nothing to do with love." There might have been a touch of sorrow, or maybe just scorn, in the being's voice, but it was vanished a moment later. "I know, sweetheart, it's all so very sad," Mary cooed, "but true."

Cho felt her heart breaking, all those carefully glued together pieces coming undone. Her heart was shattering once more and it was not something that she could stop.

There was a quick beeping sound from the large device locked around Mary's wrists.

Before Cho could say or do anything the portkey-like device jerked another of her loved ones away, and Cho knew with certainty that, like Cedric, she would never see Mary again.

The tears came in deep, gasping sobs and her body collapsed, fingers clawing and digging into the hard earth beneath her.

Cho never saw the nicely suited man doctoring her morning tea or the Asian woman scanning her home with a device to remove all alien traces. She also never saw the American and the scruffy fellow raiding her house and fixing it to look like the home of a single woman while the dark haired woman stood awkwardly above her unsure of how to comfort her.

Come morning, Cho Chang would never remember the alien being she shared her life and love with over the past year. She would never remember the despair and gut-wrenching pain of Mary's betrayal that she felt at this moment.

Maybe it was all for the better.

Fin

Pairing: Cho Chang/Mary

Prompt: Sad, but true.

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