Fabrications of the Mind
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Ch 1: From the Sky They CameJaime, a normal high school senior looking forward to graduation in two days. She's a four foot eleven, brown long wavy hair, brown eyes. She's a part Italian part Indian girl with the tendency to disappoint both the guys and the girls with the fact that she has a boy friend.
Vanessa, a normal college student (which is an oxymoron) who aspires to take over the whirl through her skill in animation. She is five foot eight, long brown hair, brown eyes, a thoroughbred American mutt, and very single.
Both girls live in or near Poulsbo, Washington, USA and are fan - fiction writers who have taken up the Harry Potter books as a part of their fan-fic inspiration. On top of that, and to the misfortune of the Harry Potter world, both will be joining him in just a few moments.
* * *
"Jaime, Jaime, Jaime." Vanessa leans over to look at the computer screen. "I must say, that artist is really good with detail. Don't you?"
"Oh… Yeah." She nods enthusiastically with a big grin.
"Is this the picture that you wanted to show me?"
"No, but I'm sure you don't mind."
"I like the use of colors." Vanessa tilts her head to the side. "And I will have to remember those positions, but I 'm not really into boy-boy action. Poor Harry. However, I must say it is a good picture of Malfoy. Why don't you save it on your disk and I can modify it later."
"Okay. I'm sure Amby wouldn't mind having a copy… Ooo… Look at this one of Snape!"
"Me likes!"
"It's called 'Cold, But Hot'. What a fitting name." Jaime grins.
"You got to save that one. But I think if you want to find what you are looking for you might want to leave the hentai (Pervert) section."
"But I don't mind..."
"Oh, give me that! We have to leave at four, which is in ten minutes. I at least want to check out the section for Voldy."
"Why would you want to go there?"
"Like you have a thing for tall, dark and Karaoke (http://www.angelfire.com/art/illust...pe_karaoke.html). I have a thing for cuties with twisted pasts and I like snakes. Anywise, they say he was quite nice looking when he went to Hogwarts, so I bet he's pretty good looking as a snake as well and I want to see how people decided to draw h… him…"
"Change the page! Change the page. That's just too horrible for words!"
"Either that person really hates Voldy or they don't know how to draw. I'm betting on the drawing bit."
"Well, what do you expect?"
"Something a little more decent then that! Yeash, when I picture him he may look basically like that, but at least he is drawn good… Oh, my."
"…(Blink. Blink) Meow!!! Is that what you were talking about?"
"Hot… Oh yeah, that was what I was talking about. Man, he was sexy before he became a snake! Much better then Snape. Now if I could trick him into being equal partners in his lil' plot…"
"Okay, okay, you had your fun, but I think I remember where I saw that picture now."
"Aw, come on, just a lil' more?"
"We are not leaving until I find that picture of Lupin."
"Okay, here. I don't know why I'm giving this to you. I'm the driver and I can easily throw you over my shoulder and drag you there."
"Because I am cute and annoying?"
"You can say that again." Vanessa shakes her head, "I'll just get the stuff together, so we can leave when you are done."
"I found it! I found it! Damn your slow computer. I finally found it and it's taking so long to load. It's a great piccie of Lupin. I know you will like it, now if it would just load!" Right as the top of Lupin's head is coming into view, the computer wipes it clean and goes on the fritz. "SHMUK A DUCK! V-chan you really need to get this thing fixed!"
"Jaime, stop looking at the screen and grab your disk before I shut off the power. Oh, and you might want to look at the flashing lights and take a clue.... THE POWERS GOING OUT! Just thought you might like to know."
Jaime sticks a finger in her ear and shakes it slightly, "Ow, thanks for telling me."
"Your welcome."
Vanessa, with Jaime's back pack over one shoulder, uses her for balance as she bends over to unplug the computer, while Jaime grabs the disk. Right then the world seems to hit them at full speed. Knocking them into another dimension. (Literally.)
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Meanwhile, in the Harry Potter world, five figures dressed in black robes and silver masks chant with their wands held high around a circle that is filled with dark symbols which glow wickedly in the night. The power between the five surges with a wild force. For an instant a small room with a desk and a strange Muggle device can be seen before the connection breaks and the figure at the head of the circle collapses in pain. Then all is quiet.
"Lord Voldemort? Are you all right?" Wormtail shuffles to his master's side to offer him a hand.
Voldemort shoves him aside and raises to his feet unaided. "Am I all right, isss that what you asssk? The firssst time I usssed thisss ssspell a little boy appeared with sssoiled pantsss. All he could do wasss tell usss about four lovely little booksss called Harry Potter, which portrayed the eventsss that already happened. The sssecond perssson wasss worssse. A letch of a woman who may have had the ability I am Sssearching for, but who couldn't keep her mind clean and nearly forced usss into an orgy. But, now! Now—"
"I'm sorry Master. We will do better next time. I know we will—"
"But, my dear Wormtail, I don't think there will be a next time." He grabs Wormtail around the shoulder.
"No! Please, I will do better. I must do better. I am your servant, your slave—"
"He…he…he, but Wormtail, You misss underssstand me. It wasss a sssuccess." He looks deep into the others eyes with a sly smile then with a snap turns to the others. "All of you! Go to the Moon Shard Foressst to were…he… The dear Ex-Professsor Remusss Lupin resssidesss and retrieve a young lady with long brown hair and brown eyesss. She isss the one we've been looking for. The one who'sss conection to thisss world could very well change the tidesss. Now go!" And with that, he stood alone in the now darkened forest.
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Harry wakes up with a start and bends over in pain. His scar was burning and he knew it meant trouble. The last time this had happened he witnessed Voldemort kill a man through his dream. Later that year Voldemort was restored to full power and possibly even more. Now it was happening again and he knew better then to keep it to himself. He had to tell someone before he forgot.
"Ron, Ron, wake up!" Harry was lucky enough to be able to stay at Ron's house for the end of summer before they went back to Hogwarts. Dumbledore originally wanted for him to stay at his Aunt and Uncles, but under the circumstances of his family treating him harshly to say the least, Dumbledore let him go to Ron's for the last two weeks of summer vacation as long as they didn't do any excess traveling.
"Cherry flavored… wow…mffle…ooo…mmm. No mother. Why can't I stay for the feast… I like cinder blocks. They're good on toast."
"RON! WAKE UP!"
"ACK! A Howler! …Harry! Why did you wake me up! I was having a feast. All of my favorite Quidditch players were there."
"I had another dream with my scar hurting."
"No way! You got to be kidding."
"The dream was of You-Know-Who doing some kind of ritual with four other Death Eaters. There was a surge of energy and a light blue room with a computer in it appeared."
"Computer?"
"A Muggle device that stores information."
"Oh yeah, my dad says it's fun to play a game called 'pong' on those. (If you don't know what pong is I highly suggest you play it. It is the original computer game that no user should go without).
"It was a kind of quick and blurred, but the last thing I saw before being blasted with a paralyzing pain was brown eyes and long brown hair then… Professor Lupin."
"What? We got go tell my dad." Ron jumps out of bed.
Harry grabs him. "Wait!"
"Why?"
"Let's let them sleep a little bit longer. Last time there was no immediate effects and there probably won't be this time. It can wait till morning and we can tell them as I write to Sirus. If we wake them now they will be too worried to get anymore sleep tonight."
"Oh, thanks. You wake me up to tell me about your scar, but you don't want to wake my parents up so that they can get to sleep. What, do you think that I will be able to get to sleep any better?"
"Better then your mother, and I needed to tell someone before I forgot."
"Well, I guess your right on that one. We'll have to wait until morning, but don't forget we will need to talk to Dumbledore too."
"Even if I forget, I know your parents won't. However, let's wait until we are at Hogwarts before we tell Hermione."
"Deal. But next time you try wake me up, you evil howler, I'll let you explode."
Amazingly enough, three hours later, they both got a little shuteye.
* * *
At that moment Remus was nice and asleep in his bed. That is until two clumps hit his one-person bed with a bounce and fell off.
"Get your hand off my ass!"
"Well, I had to grab onto something. Anyways your not much better titty-twister."
"Oh, so that's what that is. No matter how many times you try to disbelieve, their size is no illusion you know (D&D). Either way I was pulling out the cord so I have an excuse for not looking at what I am grabbing."
Remus's instincts told him to grab his wand the moment he woke up, but they weren't ready for this. All he could do was stare at the backs of these two girls as they untangled themselves and got up.
"Hey, did we accidentally stumble into a part of your house that you haven't shown me yet?"
"No," Vanessa turns around and blinks for a moment. "Did you grab the disk?"
"Yeah, why?"
Vanessa picks up Jaime and turns her around. "That's why."
For a moment they stared eye to eye (Sorta…) as Jaime's mouth dropped in shock. Remus…NAKED…naked… REMUS… Remus…NAKED…naked… REMUS…You know we should stop the story right here, just imagining this part over and over… Not a bad thought actually.
And then…
"Stupefy!"
"Petrificus Totalus!"
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Stupefy!"
Four figures in black appear each in a different side of the room. Remus dodges a Stupefy to get hit by the Total Petrifaction spell. While Vanessa gets hit by the Killing curse and the other Stupefy just plain out misses its target. Jaime is now even more effectively stunned then when she saw Remus.
"Why did you only petrify him? He's not needed, you should have killed him."
"He's a friend of Dumbledore's. I thought it would be fun to play with him for a while."
"Kill him and get done with it. We have to return the girl to Lord Voldemort as soon as possible."
Jaime snaps to her senses. "You can't kill Professor Lupin!"
"Oh? And why not?"
"… Because he's a cool, drop dead gorgeous character and… If you do… I won't cooperate."
"Who ever said we needed your cooperation?"
"That guy right behind you." She points behind him to a spot on the wall.
He grabs her arm and puts her into an arm lock. "I am sorry but that won't work on me."
"Fuck a Duck"
"And are you a duck?" the Death Eater questions.
"Why, do you want me to be?" Jaime grins suggestively.
"Hey, what should we do about this one? Who ever threw the Avada Kedavra hit her and she fits the description too." One of the men in black looks up from checking out Vanessa.
"What girl?"
"Aw, sh—"
The figure that was going to kill Remus drops and behind him stands a very pissed Vanessa. "Well, what would you say, I made my save verses death spell (D&D)."
"Stupefy!" Simultaneously two of them attacked at once. The other was frozen were he stood.
Her hair turns spiky blonde and the spells appear to go right through her, her movements are too fast to be perceived. "And now I feel like getting DBZ on your buttocks." The next second her fist is cracking the mask of the person holding Jaime at an angle as to knock him into the other Death Eater eight feet over. "Now there's only one of you left. Wormtail is it?"
"H… How did you know?"
"You're hands are shaking and you were putting a lot of attention into Moony." Her gaze was unwavering as they stood there. "No matter what you've done for Voldemort you know Moony was once nice to you and Harry wouldn't like it if you killed him. People might think ill of you if they knew what you did, but people are stupid. There is always a reason for everything and there is always a way to come back." She returns to normal. "Anywise, it's not like you are attacking me like they were, I can't call it self defense or revenge because you haven't done anything against me yet. So I will just have take care of it when you do give me a reason. Toodles." She smiles at him, shoots a nasty look at the others that are about to get up and then the four are gone. Jaime has barely enough time to catch her, as Vanessa falls in a slight faint.
Seconds later Vanessa pops right up again. "What the hell just happened? Why are we here?"
"You tell me. You were the one who kicked the Death Eater's asses."
"I dunno. One moment I found myself face to face with an Eveda Kidavra thinking about D&D saving throws, and then I got pissed when I came to and thought of Dragon Ball Z. Most of it feels like a dream."
"You do know where we are, don't you?"
"Yes I do, and I think we should probably help our friend there… Should we cure him or clothe him first?" Vanessa turned to her companion who was looking down at Remus with a raised eyebrow, and an expression that clearly said, 'This – Is – Not – An – Expression – On – My – Face', but in fact was. Confusing ain't it?
"Shirt, but definitely no pants… Remus will you bear my children?" Silence. "I will take that as a 'yes'."
"Come on ya horny teenager." Vanessa slips a shirt over his head and covers the rest with a blanket. "Man I wish I didn't say all of those things when I was half here."
"It looks like Petrificus Totalus. Do you know the counter curse?"
"What do you think? I'm not in to this stuff as much as you. However, if I can tap into DBZ I might be able to tap into something that can absorb the spell effects. You think?"
"Might as well give it a try. My mind is drawing a blank." Jaime shrugs.
"Alright. Now Mr. Lupin what I am about to do is for the sake of removing the curse. Now all I have to do is think Sha. Sha." Remus looks inquisitively at the two of them as Vanessa closes her eyes and kisses him. Thirty seconds go by as she tries a variety of things in hope of some kind of result, before Jaime pull's her off.
"Who's the horny teenager? What in the world are you doing?"
"I was trying to tap into Sha. You know, my BESM character who eats energy. He was the only thing I could think about."
"But, that's no fair."
"Oh, did you want to kiss him? His paralyzed right now, yours for the taking." Remus' eyes go wide. "And it looks like he doesn't mind. Anyways, kissing is not really my thing. I was kind of hoping to save my kisses for the man I love, or a boy that I want to make blush, so there." She sticks her tongue out at Jaime. "How about you try something?"
"I don't know what to do."
"Oh, come on. You have no self-confidence."
"Yeah, and I'm proud of it."
"I'm sure you could remember the right spell if you tried. Come on. We are in a book. We can do anything we put our minds to. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work and we can try something else. Okay?"
"Well, aren't you the Sailor Scout of confidence (Sailor Moon). I've never used magic in my life and you expect me to cast one on him?"
"No, just a good faker and that is precisely what I am saying. Cae sera sera. It's your turn to take a shot at it."
"That doesn't sound too reassuring, but okay."
"Now here's his wand. Try to remember what they did when they had to take the curse off of Neville or what they did at the Dueling Club. See? If I can remember that much you surely could remember the spell."
"Finite Incantatem?" At this point you just have to feel sorry for Remus. Luckily, the spell works and Remus relaxes with a sigh before putting a hand out for his wand, which Jaime is glad to hand over before he goes and puts on a pair of pants.
"Did you have fun?" Remus scowled slightly.
"Well, I would have given you some pants, but I am not skilled at those kind of things and I would figure that you would rather dress yourself." Vanessa replied.
"With that little display I doubt you are any of my old students, are you?"
"What gives you that idea?" Jaime bats her eyes innocently.
Vanessa gives a mischievous smile. "That's not necessarily true. We could be spiders that learned how to animagus into humans."
"Ewww, spiders? I'd much rather be a lil' batty."
He smiles and raises an eyebrow at them. "For some odd reason I don't believe you. Would you mind explaining why?"
"…" Both girls look at each other. "Well, we could say no but I doubt that will help anyone." They squint suspiciously at each other for their simultaneous talking.
Jaime breaks away. "Well, honestly we don't know what happened. One moment we were in her computer room, the power starts to flicker, and poof we're here. As for the Death Eaters, we're just two Mug…" Looks at the wand she just handed over and realized what she was saying. "Well, we're just two normal girls."
"How do you know so much about me and what happened at Hogwarts? I get the idea that you are not witches."
Vanessa pouts. "That's not fair. Just because Muggles don't have nearly the skill in learned or natural magic as wizards, doesn't mean we don't have our ways. In fact I happen to be really good at divination… too good for my tastes. Grr, 'big change' my ass."
"So, your saying you divined all of this?"
"No, we read it all in the Harry Potter books from our dimension… Or at least I think we're in another dimension. Personally, I like the idea that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to get the Muggle population to have more of a liking to the wizard world so that they can some day intertwine the two and not have to be so scared of Muggles finding out about them. Frankly, the wizarding community is so prejudges against Muggles that they are creating the very problem they fear," Vanessa says at breakneck speed.
"…How about I make some tea and we can talk about this in a more orderly fashion?"
"Okay!" They both give him innocent smiles. (Which do not fool him in the least. Trying to make out with an immobile person, honestly!)
While Remus goes to grab some cups and tea from the kitchen, Vanessa whispers to Jaime. "I can't help it, this is making me crack up."
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh, don't act all innocent with me. That is the exact problem both of us have. Acting innocent for too long make us crack up."
"Well, what are we suppose to do? Tell him everything about ourselves with absolute truth?"
"Of course not. Come on, look who you're talking to. The face I put on for you is probably the closest I let anyone see, but it's still a face. All I'm saying is we need to get ourselves under control so we don't end this in a giggle fit fest on the floor. I know if one of us starts the other will end up in hysterics as well, and I mean the laughing kind that gives everything away."
Remus comes back in, "Considering you two already know my name, how about you tell me yours?"
Vanessa bows. "My name is Siren Thyl."
Jaime holds out her hand. "Lilliana Jinx."
Remus takes her hand and gives them each a cup of tea. "Now starting with this book, how about you tell me what is going on?"
They tell him all about the Harry Potter books along with all of the prestige they have been getting around the world. He confirms to them that the books are accurate and that Harry will be starting his fifth year.
"We will have to send word to Dumbledore… Just out of curiosity how old are you two?"
Lilliana jumps in before Siren could answer. "Our biological or linear?"
"When were you born?" he sighs.
"I was born in 1984, but I am eighteen."
"You were born in 1984, it's 1996, and you are eighteen?"
Siren drops her head. "I forgot about that! There's a difference in the years. It was kind of noticeable when it is the year 2002 and in the book it says it's March 5, 1995. Well, in that case I was born in 1981 and I'm turning twenty-one this October. This is just going to be odd."
"(Sigh) Well it is two o'clock in the morning. You're probable tired. One of you could sleep in my bed and there's a couch the other can sleep in. I will make sure the Death Eaters don't come back."
"Oh! That's okay. Lilliana and I are from the U.S., while it's two in the morning for you, it's six at night for us. Why don't you get the sleep and we can stay up. We will have to get adjusted to the time difference anyways."
He stands there thinking about it for a moment. On one side, the three of them could leave now and get to Dumbledore easily before the Death Eaters could come back. Then again, they probably won't try anything more tonight and he could use the sleep. He had to say the girls did have luck on their side, if they would have appeared the night before on the full moon they probably would not be standing there. Too bad he didn't have someone like Snape around to brew that potion any more. Sure he wondered on occasion what was in it, but at least he knew what he did at night. Thinking of Snape fondly? He needed sleep bad. "Okay, I will sleep while you two can practice casting spells. I have a variety of spell books; I think I even kept some of my old school books. You can find them in the bookshelves by the fireplace. I will light a fire for you."
They walk out the door into the only other room in the building. The kitchen, dinning room, and living room seem to be combined into one, each with their separate spots. Remus lights a fire then hands them an old torn up book. "I doubt that will be the last time you see a Death Eater, so I want you two to learn how to protect yourselves while I sleep. Okay?"
"Cool." Lilliana looks at the book with excitement flaring in her eyes.
Remus returns to bed as the girls get to work.
"Lilliana?" 'Siren' gives her friend a sarcastic look.
"Siren?" 'Lilly' shoots back.
"Well, at least my name is original. And you said that Lilliana Jinx was not a version of you, that she was an original character that you made up for that story. You know you will have to change that now."
"Well, what's up with the soon to be 'twenty-one', Siren?"
"Hey, I just thought it would be nice to have the freedom of an adult. It sucks to be old enough to have the responsibility, but too young for the advantages. Anyways it's only one year away."
"So, what spells would you like to learn first?"
"I don't know. How about how to make pancakes? I think it would be nice if we made breakfast for him in the morning. For some reason I don't think he has an electric stove."
By morning Lilliana had learned all of the spells she needed to know to be the equal of a first year student and learned all of the spells that Harry had used in the books so she could protect herself. In fact, to her surprise, she got each spell right on the first try. She was really getting the hang of it when she was nearly struck down by a renegade feather.
"Are you trying to kill me?"
"No, but I think the feather is. Either that or it wants to give you a big fat feathery kiss."
"Are you still working on Leviosa?"
"Yep!"
"But that's such an easy spell."
"Oh, yeah? Look who's talking, Miss-Lil'-I-Can-Do-Anything-In-One-Shot."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that every spell I've seen you do you've done it on your first try. While I can't even do a 'simple little' Leviosa."
"How about you try it again and I can help you with it?"
"Okay…Wingardium Leviosa!" The feather stays completely still as the table rises. "Now if that was what I was going for I would have to say I did a good job, but it wasn't. So, got any ideas?"
"It looked perfect to me. Maybe it's your concentration?"
"(Sigh) I was hopping it wasn't that. Well, practice! Practice! Practice! Let's move on."
For the rest of the night Lilliana helped Siren learn how to focus spells. They found out that she was good at doing spells on the fly, but terrible at doing them on purpose. Eventually she does learn how to use magic to make pancakes and they happen to be really good ones at that, even if she had to get very creative with spells.
Very, very creative.
