A/N: Okay so this story is very far away from what I normally write. This is a crossover between Harry Potter and BBT. The main characters will be Harry and Zack with appearances by Penny, Sheldon, Leonard and Amy, possibly the others but I have not decided. It takes place during season 7, around the time of Itchy Brain. I know this is not a favorite among viewers but it works for the purposes of this story. Zack knows the wedding to Penny was real. I have not yet decided who will end up with who yet but it may end up with Zack and Penny. Again it has not been decided. I know one pairing that will not happen and that is Shenny so to my fellow Shamies this is safe.
This story was originally written by percyjacksonfan135 who has decided to give up writing the story. She has happily turned the reigns over to me and given me full permission to finish it as I wish. I had so much fun writing it with her I took her up on the offer.
As always with all my stories I own nothing BBT related and in this case I own nothing Harry Potter related either.
November, 2013:
Nine-year-old Harry James Potter was lying in his cupboard under the stairs. He was starving. He had barely eaten a few morsels this evening. His cousin always took his portion. Harry tried to get to the table first for this very reason. Dudley was sure to take everything for himself. His aunt and uncle never said a word about it. They just didn't care enough about Harry. Now they were fast asleep, but Harry didn't dare get anything to eat just yet. He never showed it, but he was terrified of his relatives. He had to be sure they were asleep for a long time. He would then sneak out and grab some leftovers. His aunt and uncle never seemed to notice that there was less food. They thought Dudley ate it so they never bothered to yell. If they found out it was Harry, he would be in big trouble.
Harry was very sore this evening so he didn't feel much like eating anyway. He usually did all the chores around the house, but today, he wasn't fast enough so his uncle Vernon decided to teach him a lesson. That was why his back was sore. He was very stiff and it was extremely cramped in the cupboard where he slept. Harry was always in the cupboard, he was very rarely allowed to be out. He thought he deserved it. His aunt and uncle never led him believe otherwise. They called him a freak just because strange things would happen around him. He couldn't help any of it. He just wanted things to be normal but they never seemed to be when he was alone or afraid. He wished there was someone out there that could help him. He had been told by his aunt that there was no one and he was stuck with them just like they were stuck with him. It was all because his no good father (that is what Aunt Petunia would say) got himself hit by that car. If they hadn't been killed, Petunia would have a better life and not be stuck with the freak of a son her weird sister had left her. She would always say if there was any other place she could send him she would but no one would take him. There was no other family as her parents were in hiding. Harry asked on several occasions why but Aunt Petunia just told him to mind his business and would give him more chores to do. He never asked about his father's parents.
Harry had lived at Number 4 Privet Drive since he was one. But no one would ever know he lived there. There were no pictures of him. He was never allowed to have any taken of him because Vernon and Petunia did not want anyone to know Harry was related to them. Harry attended the same school as his cousin Dudley. He had no escape from his family even there. He had no friends because Dudley was a bully. And he would get no help from anyone because of this. One day when one of Dudley's friends was being particularly nasty to Harry, a young girl stepped up to defend him. A couple of days later a few other girls whom were friends with Dudley, pushed her around. She never came to his rescue again but sat in silence while the kids pushed him around. The teachers were no help either. Anytime a teacher would call Vernon or Petunia about Dudley's behaviors, they would find themselves on the receiving end of a write-up. Simply no one could fight the Dursleys. When Harry was around seven, strange things started happening to him, things he couldn't control. When Vernon and Petunia realized what was happening to him, they reigned him in even more. They would beat him if they would get a call. When he was running away from some of the bullies at school, he somehow ended up on the roof and tried to tell the teacher the wind must have blown him when he jumped. He begged her not to call the Dursley's but she did anyway and Harry was locked in his cabinet for two weeks.
One another day, Harry had accidently let a snake escape from its enclosure at the zoo. He was there for Dudley's birthday, something his aunt and uncle always tried to avoid because of his odd behaviors. But because his normal sitter was sick and could not watch him, they had no choice but to take him with them. Dudley was not happy and was afraid Harry would ruin his birthday. It turned out that he did as Dudley ended up trapped in the enclosure with the other snakes. Luckily nothing happened to him but it still traumatized him and earned Harry the worst punishment of his life. He was beaten and then thrown into the cupboard. Uncle Vernon said he would not be allowed out until school started again. School was still two months away as the summer holiday had just started. It had been two weeks since that incident and Vernon was letting Harry out for meals and chores but that was it. He was not allowed to go outside at all. As Harry was falling asleep thinking about how his life could be so much different, a strange thing was happening thousands of miles away.
In Pasadena, Ca. Zack Johnson suddenly had the strangest feeling that something was wrong. He had been having these types of feelings for most of his life and he was almost never wrong. He didn't know why he would get like this but it was almost like he was given a gift. His mother used to tell him that he was special. But she also wanted him to hide his gift from others. She didn't want him to be an outcast like she had been because of her lack of talent. He didn't have the same gifts that her family members had but he had something. She wasn't even sure what it was but she knew it wasn't common. She only ever told her uncle about him and his special talent.
Zack Johnson was a middle school English teacher. A lot of people who didn't know him thought he was a little on the stupid side, when in reality, he was a lot sharper and understood more than people gave him credit for. He had hidden his smarts from almost everyone. It was something that helped him cope throughout school. He got good enough grades to go to college and become a teacher but he could have been so much more. He probably wouldn't have turned out to be a scientist like his wife's friends were but he may have had more of an understanding of the topic. He always enjoyed learning from them even if they did make fun of him. If he had shown his true side, they may not have let him in because he was just not quite smart enough. Zack knew compassion and love. It was that, which allowed Zack to realize what was going on thousands of miles away on an entirely different continent. It was as though this particular feeling was trying to tell him something. It was then that Zack realized that whatever this feeling was, it was not a good one. It nagged at him as he graded papers and tests for his students and it nagged at him now, especially as he thought about the reasons he married Penny.
When Zack and Penny went to that chapel in Las Vegas they didn't realize at first that the wedding was real. As he thought about it more and more, the young man realized that he made a terrible mistake in not going with her when she went back to her apartment on Los Robles. As many times as he tried to tell her they were married, she just never believed. It genuinely hurt him to realize that his own wife didn't think that the cheesy, chapel wedding was real. He genuinely loved her and he wanted her to be happy, but he also greatly regretted not going along with her. As his thoughts grew more and more somber, something like a magnetic pole came stronger and stronger until the young man suddenly felt that a small weight had been deposited into his arms.
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. I can tell you the chapters will be updated regularly as 11 have already been written. I am just polishing them up to make the story my own.
If you liked it please review.
I am okay if this is not your cup of tea. I can tell you all, I will not be stopping this story because of someone's love or hate of a character. This is why we call this fanfiction.
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