Title: XBC
Author: Roth
Rating: T (Just to be safe)
Spoilers: Major spoilers- What About Bob, Birds of a Feather, Rules of Engagement, and Soul Beneficiary
Disclaimer: I don't own The Dresden Files (the television show or the book series). No money being made. Like most people, I work a crappy job to earn my cash (Like the other day, someone bit me).
Summary: An AU to What about Bob. I bet you can guess what happens.
Note: This is my first major endeavor since I finished Blood Relatives over a year ago. The whole story is written, but only the first three chapters are typed and edited. I'm hoping to post chapter each day (Hoping). The first four chapters are very short. Five is the firs long one. Please remember: I am my own beta and this is not a slash. This is also my first Dresden Files fic. Please enjoy.
X.B.C.
Chapter I: Guilt
"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."
-C3P0, Star Wars
He knew when Justin Morningway gave him back his body it would only be for a short while. He'd been expecting his former master to have something up his sleeve to avoid death, but a double programmed only to bring back the real Morningway, and a plot to use Harry as a battery was not what he expected.
Bob felt guilty; he almost considered keeping his body until he learned what would happen to Harry if he did. The ghost was afraid he was going to give himself away by being so adamant on not using his friend, but the Morningway-lite seemed to believe that Bob was on his side. Unfortunately, his great performance also made Harry fully believe Bob had turned against him. The look on Harry's face almost made him break his facade. He managed to remain, in what he guessed would be, "in character."
He never wanted to see Justin Morning alive again. Even if he still practiced black magic, he would never have wanted to see Justin Morningway alive again. Bob, unfortunately, knew that there was no other way. There was one way to make sure Justin Morningway stayed dead, and that was to bring him back and kill him again; that would take care of the double and the real one.
His former master tossed him Harry's hockey stick, and Bob prepared himself for the spell. He knew that if things did not go exactly right, he could possibly kill Harry. It didn't matter that he was killing himself by doing this, both literally and figuratively.
When the spell was complete, Bob watched the reanimated body of Justin Morningway sit up in the coffin, but from the corner of his eye, he saw that Harry was barely holding onto consciousness. It would only be a few minutes before he would fade completely which did not leave Bob a lot of time.
He watched the double climb into the coffin and let out its last "breath." The real Justin Morningway was still pacing the room, berating Harry for having a soul and making the typical bad guy speech. Bob had to wait until Morningway was distracted. If Morningway was at all prepared, well, Bob was pretty sure that neither he nor Harry would be leaving the morgue alive, very little irony in that.
Morningway stood over Harry talking about what a pity it was that Harry would not see what he was going to make the world; Bob knew the time had come.
"Change of Plans!"
TBC