Chapter 2 - Pete's World

A/N: It's been a long time I know, and this chapter could be longer but got writers block. Next one should be up soon and is longer. Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Harry Potter I'm just having harmless fun.

I refused to believe that I was stuck there in Pete's world, and the Doctor telling me it was impossible just made me feel much more determined to prove him wrong. Mum worried about me, I stuck my head down in Torchwood's R&D department so much that I needed to be reminded to do things like eat and sleep. After three months of this Pete put his foot down and made me take a month leave. I was rather lost on what to do at first. But then my magic started playing up, it seemed to be slipping out past my control too often. Fortunately for me in this universe there wasn't any secrecy between the wizarding world and muggle, at least not since the cybermen drove them out into the open. The wizarding world may not have had the ear pieces like most the muggle world, but during the struggle after the Doctor and me stopped them, when cybermen were forcing people along to be upgraded they got hit hard. A lot of curses don't work on cybermen.

Pete took me to see a wizard he knew to see if he can help me. Turns out much to my astonishment that wizard was none other than Severus Snape. I ended up spilling everything about being a muggle born witch from another universe, the Doctor and Bad Wolf, and how in the other universe he was my potions professor at Hogwarts, and a whole lot else; and this was just a knee jerk reaction to that stare he gives people. I guess I'm something of a pavlovian dog when it comes to him and that stare because it had always meant trouble for me since I was eleven years old.

This Severus Snape though is a lot more pleasant to be around. He has his dark side too, and still knows more about the dark arts than just about anyone; but there had been no Tom Riddle in this universe to tempt him down that path and has used his knowledge for good. He's also is married to Lilly, Harry's mother. Lilly picked him over James in this universe. So there was never a Harry Potter here either. They had two children who were lost to the cybermen, one of which was named Harry, but he wasn't our Harry.

Lilly was quite astonished she ever could marry James potter in any universe when I told her all about it. She hated James because 'he was a show off and a bully'. Lilly felt bad for Harry though, and I knew then this Lilly would have done anything to protect her children too, but she didn't get a chance.

"Your problem Rose is you're agitated. Happens to the best of us sometimes, but the more powerful the witch or wizard the more likely it is to happen. Accidental magic is also loosed when there is change and growth in the level of power a witch or wizard possesses, which happens on an almost constant basis when growing up, that's why children tend to let it slip and do accidental magic all the time. It doesn't start to level out until around puberty which is why we don't teach children magic until they are eleven. From what you tell me of this Bad Wolf entity that is changing you, you are probably experiencing a similar problem. The level of your magical ability is greatly expanding and your mind is having problems keeping hold of it."

"But why didn't it start happening sooner? I was in stressful situations all the time with the Doctor. And this has only just started."

"Well I'm guessing this TARDIS which was responsible for Bad Wolf was controlling your changes somehow, making them less severe, but now your here it can't help anymore."

"'She', not it, the TARDIS is a lady and hates it when people assume she's just a machine. Probably why she likes the Doctor so much, he's one of the few Time Lords who never has treated her as such. She's also my best friend next to him, could always talk to her and tell her what's on my mind."

"Sorry, 'She' was able to help until now. As for why your magic wasn't playing up until recently, you were very fixated on your work until Pete forced you to take a holiday. You need to find things to concentrate on and relax. Meditation is good. Making potions is another because it takes a lot of concentration. Since I've not got the foggiest idea how to meditate, I'm going to be helping you learn to make potions."

"I was never any good at potions. My potions just about do what they are supposed to, I've never melted a cauldron like Neville did all the time, but they've never perfect or anything near it."

"Yes but you've never had this me teach you before. I may have never taught at Hogwarts but I'm a patient person. Also you'll have my undivided attention."

So that's how I ended up spending the next month in what would have been Harry and Ron's worst nightmare, but actually was kind of fun. This Severus Snape was a lot more patient, had a sense of humour, and didn't berate when I got something wrong. I spent so much time at Lilly and Severus house is practically lived there that month, and we became friends.

Severus was right, it did help. I'd learned to slip into a state of concentration while preparing potions, and random bits of magic stopped happening around me. I went back to work but it was healthier now I had made some friends, so didn't spend every moment on the job. I still spent two days a week under Severus tutorage, and soon learned how to slip into that meditative state without making anything. Also Severus was amazed how quickly I learned new things, and frankly so was I. It was like my brain had so much more room in it, worked faster, and absorbed new knowledge like a sponge. I could also put the parts of a mental puzzle together so much faster, and come to a conclusion within moments.

When I suddenly started to instinctively understand quantum physics, and other things at a level beyond earth I knew something was up. I managed to discretely run some tests on my DNA and was amazed to find I wasn't even human anymore; my DNA was now triple stranded with the third strand only showing up on temporal scanners.

Before long I started working with Severus on creating new spells, he apparently never met anyone else before who can invent them. I stared a side project with him that Pete funded; we wanted to find a way to shield modern electronics from magical interference. We both thought things had become too backwards in the wizarding world by separating themselves. Things was going to change now they were no longer separate and soon Wizards will want to use the internet, a mobile phone, an iPad, a computer, a television, or any other thing that required advanced electronics. Severus being ever the Slytherin wanted to get on top of that market and Pete ever the businessman saw the opportunity to make money. As for me, I was interested to know if the same shielding magic or technology could shield against different types of radiation/energy I will need protection against when traveling between worlds.

It took a couple years, and some crazy adventures for me in between because I joined a Torchwood field unit a year before, but we did it. We invented a modified shielding charm that can be put on any muggle object to make it work anywhere, even in Hogwarts. Have to admit it was fun meeting alternate versions of some of my old professors when we went to Hogwarts to test it, although it felt a little weird that there never was an Albus Dumbledore in this universe.

After that Severus decided he wanted to join Torchwood, more to see if there was any tech he could copy with spells and make money than anything, but he also wanted to do something useful and he was put on my team. It soon became clear it was an advantage to have a couple spell casters on our side, made things so much easier to just stun our opponents when we met non friendlies. Severus and myself where a pretty good team when it came to that, always coming up with modified spells when some species proved resistant to the original.

I have to admit the heart wrenching ache I felt from missing the Doctor was still there, but I'd learned to stand on my own and who I can be without him, and I can even see that just maybe I'd be alright someday.

Then the stars started to go out, and we heard less and less chatter on extra-terrestrial communication channels. Suddenly my dimension cannon started working, and Severus insisted on coming with me to find the Doctor, said Lilly would hex him within an inch of his life if he didn't come along to help protect me. I should have refused, or tied him up in a chair back in Torchwood, or something to that effect.

This was our 30th parallel universe, and we didn't land on earth. We found ourselves in a crashing space ship and no way out. The ship crashed and I blacked out, when I awoke I found myself in a church of some kind if the alter Severus was lying on had anything to go by. I ran up to him but in a heart wrenching moment I knew he was dead; he was still and not breathing, as well as being so pale. Severus has always been pale, I used to tease him about being a few shades of albino, but now he really was that and cold to the touch.

I let out a giant sob and that's when I noticed all the people for the first time. They were all women, wearing ritualistic robes in a style I had once seen a depiction of on the TARDIS and my breath hitched in my throat. Each woman was holding a chalice of some sort of steaming liquid.

"We are sorry Bad Wolf, oh goddess of time, but your friend is beyond the help of our elixir."

"Elixir? What elixir? Who are you people and where am I? And how did you know that name?"

"We are the Sisterhood of Karn, you crash landed here in a spaceship. We saw it coming. We can also see what will happen if you don't master Bad Wolf and it is bleak. You are needed to interface a weapon the doctor needs to use to stop the time war. If the time war isn't stopped all of reality, every reality will cease to be."

"Is that what is happening? With the stars disappearing?"

"Yes, although in this case in a separate incident. Yet another reason you need to listen. You died in the crash."

"How could I have? I'm here talking to you now aren't I?"

"We gave you some of the elixir, we could revive you because your body has changed significantly enough to regenerate, and you just died too soon to trigger the process."

"Well thanks for saving me."

"You only have about four minutes to live."

"What! Not so thanks then, what's the point if I'm only gonna live a few minutes!"

"Oddly the same thing happened to the Doctor a few months back; lots of ships have been crashing here since the war started. We did the same for him as we are about to offer you in exchange for his involvement in the war. He was born to be the one who ends it, just like you are to be the interface; not to destroy Gallifrey but to save it. You are needed to keep the timelines from collapsing and to show the Doctor there is another way."

"Still dying here, you're forgetting about that."

"We can give you an elixir to trigger you're regeneration. Time Lord Science is advanced here; we can make you whatever you need to be." She pointed at the versions goblets people are holding. "Man or woman, slim or fat, young or old, choose. Coward or brave, life of the party or grumpy, it's all here."

"What I need is to be myself, the doctor won't believe it's me otherwise, or Torchwood might me up into bits to see how I work."

"Thought so, I prepared this one earlier."

I took the goblet. "Will it hurt?"

"Yes."

"Good, now get back." I drained the goblet and felt a terrible burning sensation in every nerve in my body. It got worse and worse until I burst into golden glowing flames, and I could feel things shifting, growing, mending, and changing inside me; the second heart was going to take some getting used to for a start. The flames died once they finished their work and I took stalk of myself as much as I could without a mirror, I was the same outwardly at least. Inside though was another story. My organs I knew was different and not only a second heart. I can now think quicker, move faster, perceive more with about twenty more senses, and other things I will discover as I go along.