AN: I'm going to have to rewatch TVD series before I'm able to finish this or have a chance at getting very far, but I've been reading a lot of HP X TVD crossovers lately and it made me really, really want to write my own.
I swear this is how all my stories start. I read someone else's and one tiny part of their story sticks in my brain and digs and digs and digs until I'm sitting here stuck with a muse that makes my fingers twitch with the desire for my keyboard to type out the beat of my story.
Can you tell I'm feeling slightly poetic? Anyways, on with the story. We hopes.
By the way, I'm not accounting for time lines or anything so just…pretend it works in that aspect. Thanks in advance.
Alyssa Selene Potter was more than a little tired of the wizarding world. She had dealt with their wishy-washy opinion of her throughout the majority of the years she was meant to attend Hogwarts.
Now, after defeating Magical Britain's Dark Lord and making sure he was finally well and truly dead, she was ready to give up on the magical world. They still wouldn't leave her alone. Honestly, she was meant to be starting her seventh year and instead she wanted nothing more than to disappear off the face of the world.
She sighed as she looked out the kitchen window at her aunt and uncle's. Was it so wrong to simply want some peace?
And that was when it hit her. Why shouldn't she have some peace? She had lost everyone she could consider family in the war. Her parents when she was just a baby, her godfather had fallen to his cousin in the battle of the ministry, her pseudo-uncle had followed not long after when he was caught in crossfire.
She had found out her so-called friends were only her friends on orders from Dumbledore who had died at the end of her sixth year and thus stopped paying them to be her friend and spy on her.
Over the summer, she had found the last horcrux with the goblins' help, killed Voldemort, and been hailed the official heroine of the wizarding world.
She was tired of them. They were all mindless, useless sheep.
Decision made, she finished the last of the dishes she had been working on and went upstairs to pack her things.
Half an hour later, Alyssa called out to her aunt. "Aunt Petunia! I'm leaving! I won't be back!"
Her aunt looked at her curiously from the sitting room but then shrugged and nodded. Totally normal; her relatives didn't care about her. That was just fine though, she had never needed anyone to care for her. She was just fine on her own.
She stepped out the front door and apparated to Malfoy Manor. She had gotten her apparition license only a week ago. The Malfoys had become her friends after she had pled on their behalf during some of the Death Eater trials.
Because of that she didn't even bother to knock as she strode inside the house. "DRACO!" She yelled up the stairs.
She heard a loud thump and then Draco appeared at the top of the staircase.
"Alyssa? What are you doing here?"
"Planning to leave the magical world for a while. Wanted your help to pick my newest place of residence."
He gave her an odd look then nodded his acceptance. "What about your NEWTs?"
"I took them last week at the ministry. I was really only going back for seventh year because I didn't know what else to do. But I've decided to go play in the muggle world for a while. Maybe go to school. I was thinking America."
Draco looked only a bit surprised, to his credit. He led her into the sitting room and called an elf to bring coffee for them. He was smart enough to know better than try to serve Alyssa tea. She was strictly a coffee girl.
Any preference on location?" He asked curiously.
"No. I picked out a bunch of places in a bunch of states and wrote them down. They're all in this bag." She pulled out a bag filled with scraps of muggle paper. "Pick one." She said with a shrug.
He leaned forward and pulled out a piece of paper before unfolding it and reading in a very official voice, "Mystic Falls, Virginia."
"Awesome. I already had the goblins set up emancipation for me in the wizarding and muggle worlds in case I decided something like this so that's all sorted out. I'll just need to pick and buy a house, move in and furnish it!"
Draco saw the first smile cross Alyssa's face since the end of fifth year and it made him smile as well. He had come to value Alyssa as both a best friend and little sister.
"You'll come visit, right?"
"Of course I will. And you'll be able to visit me as well. I'll show you the joys of the muggle world." She gave him puppy dog eyes and he couldn't help but nod his acceptance.
Draco had gotten her a portkey to Mystic Falls without alerting the ministry of what was going on and she had portkeyed in. Her first order of business? Visiting a Realtor and getting the into works as well as checking into an inn or something.
She decided to find an inn first so she wouldn't have to lug the Merlin damned trunk around. Sure everything was in it's bottomless depth and spelled to be feather light but the thing was still awkward to drag around all day.
After checking in, and hadn't that been an issue all on it's own with the woman wanting to know her life story, she went looking for a real estate agency. It took her twenty minutes and two wrong turns but she ended up outside a small agency. She sighed. Stupid small town.
Entering the building, she smiled at the woman in the main room. "Hello, I'm looking to buy a house."
"You seem a little young."
Alyssa raised an eyebrow. "Not that it's any business of yours but I'm emancipated. My parents died and left me their estate but I needed a change of scenery."
"Ah." The woman got up and went to an office, said something quietly then gave Alyssa a fake smile. "She'll be happy to see you."
Alyssa rolled her eyes and headed into the office. "Let's get this out of the way right now. Keep your attitude and opinions to yourself and I'll gave you a $5,000 dollar bonus just for that." Her tone was slightly dark.
The woman's mouth dropped open but she nodded obediently.
"Fantastic."
It took an hour before she and the woman, who's name was Anna, had compiled a list of possible houses and several that Alyssa had liked but hadn't exactly been crazy about the location of, as well as several apartments that she insisted Alyssa would like if she just saw them in person.
Then they were in Anna's car to go look. That was another thing Alyssa would need to do. Buy a car. The goblins had arranged for a muggle driver's license out of the state of Michigan. Who knew why Michigan but whatever.
In the end, she liked two of the apartments she was shown and one house. In a surprise move, to Anna not her so much, she bought the house as well as the apartment.
The apartment she decided would serve as her primary residence especially while she was attending muggle school and the house would serve as her residence over the summer breaks as well as house anyone who came to visit her. Like Draco.
With both deeds bought and paid for, she would only need to stay at the inn for the night if she couldn't manage to furnish the apartment before the end of the day.
The house could wait and, seeing as how it was still morning, Alyssa was sure she could manage to furnish it before it got too late.
After obtaining keys and the appropriate paperwork, she asked Anna where the nearest car dealership was.
Because of that, she had to obtain exact coordinates and apparated to an alley close to it before strolling onto the lot.
An hour later, she was driving off the lot with a shiny new SUV. She drove to a furniture store and was soon signing papers for same day delivery on two sets of bedroom furniture, a set of livingroom furniture, dining room furniture, office furniture, laundry room appliances and a large fridge for the kitchen.
The cashier had, entertainingly, been horrified by the final total but she had shrugged and handed over the credit card the goblins had set up for her with a bright smile. She also handed a copy of the apartment key to him for the delivery guys and said she also had a house to furnish and if they did a good job she would be returning there for that.
They had nodded with happy smiles and had assured her it would be done quite quickly and, with a large bonus, she became priority delivery.
While they were doing that, she headed off to the nearest walmart. She had happily loaded up a cart with technology. A large flat screen tv, desktop computer, laptop, cell phone and several gaming systems all made their way into her cart along with just about every video game they had either for those systems or her computer and a copy of almost every movie they sold. As a last minute thought she also grabbed an iPad and iPod.
She had paid for that right then and brought all of that out to her car before heading back in and heading for various departments to pick up bathroom products, kitchen ware, different paint colors and tools, plenty of books, and then headed for groceries.
By the time she finally made it to the checkout again, she had two carts she was dragging along and she would still have to go back out to obtain a new muggle wardrobe to fit in better. It was all she could do not to drop dead of exhaustion. Well, that might be exaggerating but she certainly felt like it could be a possibility.
The newest look of horror she had caused brightened her outlook as she dragged the carts out to the car. She glanced around carefully then used her magic to direct everything into the back of the car.
She pushed the carts into the cart corrals and got in, headed back to the apartment.
Walking in, she was happy to note the delivery people had already been there and everything was already set up. It took many trips, but she finally had everything in the middle of the apartment's livingroom.
Magic separated the food out and sent it to be put away as she wanted it, she did the same with everything else aside from the technology.
She manually managed to install the tv so it was wall mounted. The dvds were in a very large bookcase on one side of the tv and the games were in a large bookcase on the other side.
The game systems were placed and connected on an entertainment center below the tv as she used a cord organizer she had bought to make those look a bit more sleek.
Next came the desktop computer that she carted into the third bedroom she had decided would be her office and hooked it all up on the desk. She placed several other things in there as well such as desk organizers, paper organizers and various things like pens and pencils.
The laptop just got plugged in and tossed onto the couch and so did the tablet and iPod.
The phone was currently charging in her car and she sighed softly again before heading back down to start on clothes shopping. She also needed to remember to drop back by the inn to check out and grab her trunk.
It was four hours later when she finally returned home. She tiredly used her magic to send all her new clothes into her walk in closet as well as sort out and place the items from her trunk. The second bedroom's furniture got shrunk down and placed in a box in it's closet before she used magic to set up the perfect potions room. She also used magic to disguise and ward the room from anyone seeing it or entering it. She left all her magic things in it's closet then headed out again.
She was too tired to cook so she headed for the only thing that resembled a restaurant in this town. The Mystic Grill.
AN: And that is the end of the first chapter. Honestly, I'm finding it quite hard to write crossover. I wonder if other crossover writers have this much difficulty or if it's just because I really, really need to rewatch TVD.
Xoxo,
Angel