Gone- A Harry Potter Doctor Who Fan-fiction
Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter or Doctor who- if I owned either both would have considerably different endings.
AU: An accident with the Time-Turner in third year sends Hermione Granger hurtling back through time 20 years to a place where she never expected to be, disguised with no-where else to go she stays at the school hoping someone will realise she is missing in the present and try to rescue her, however her existence has been erased from time creating a chain of events that effect many years into the future so when the Doctor arrives in early 2009 so Donna can visit her family he is met with a changed earth.
Confusion is always the most honest response.- Marty Indik
Chapter Two- Late Arrivals
"Look spaceman I know you can go bloody anywhere in time and space, but right now I want Chiswick 2009, April 23rd – Granddad's birthday"
"You do realise we could go to Raxos first and then to see your granddad, I mean we are in a tim-" Began the Doctor before he was cut off
"Yes I know Time ship, yadi yadda ball of time I know!" Donna put her hands on her hips to emphasise the point, "But by my time its Granddad's birthday and I want to visit him!"
"Alright!" conceded the Doctor fearing the wrath of the ginger haired woman in front of him, "Earth it is" he mumbled before starting to adjust the controls on the TARDIS,
"And make sure its earth!" called Donna from down the corridor where she had headed to go get a coat, and her granddad's present she had picked up from a planet a few days before "No aliens today!"
The doctor cringed at her words; it never was a good thing to say such a thing like that in the TARDIS. Nethertheless the Doctor booted up the engines zooming around the console as he set it to Donna's present day earth time. He was monitoring the time stream slightly while attempting to hit one of the buttons on the other side of the consol with his foot when he noticed it flicker. Shooting it a curious look he lowered his foot to the floor and watched it intently. It flickered again,
"Donna?" called the doctor back down the corridor she had disappeared down,
"What?" came the annoyed reply, she was obviously still riled up from the earlier argument,
"You haven't touched anything have you?" He called back to her, ignoring her tone of voice due to his confusion.
"Why would I touch anything?" She exclaimed walking back into the control room, "It's all a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me" she continued before she noticed the look on the Doctor's face, "Doctor?" she questioned concerned,
The doctor looked up and caught her gaze and his face transformed back into a smile, "Nothing's wrong, probably just a bulb that needs replacing" Donna's eyes followed the Doctors previous gaze and eyed the flickering light,
"The TARDIS required blub replacements?" she asked incredulously
"Well everything does" replied the Doctor defending his beautiful time machine , "Just.." but he trailed off as they felt the familiar bump of them landing and Donna jumped towards the door completely forgetting about the light,
"Comon Doctor, before we miss him going to the pub!" she exclaimed gleefully and pulled on the coat she had grabbed from inside her room before turning back with a tsk to see the doctor investigating the light again having not moved,
"Alright i will see you there" she called back to him already at the TARDIS doors, "This better be earth" she joked before swinging the door open and stepping outside.
The view she was met with was definitely earth, but it was not earth and she had remembered it, the sky was grey and miserable and she felt a wave of despair take over her as she took in the rest of the landscape. There was no-one on the street cars that were normally parked had seemingly been blasted into houses other cars and walls. It wasn't recent carnage- there was plant life erupting between the strewn bricks and plaster and there was rubble all around the street and TARDIS. She stood staring in shock for what felt like hours before a wave of panic descended on her,
"Granddad?" she shouted as she bolted from the TARDIS to where she knew her house was around the corner, just out of view- it looked like it was still standing but she had to know, "Mum?" she called as she felt the feeling of despair and fear grip her further. She thought she heard the doctor shout from behind her but she was determined and kept on running to her childhood home.
When she rounded the corner to her road she was met with even worse destruction, her mother's blue car was wedged into the roof where a tree had also started to grow out on the second floor and there were no signs of life. Donna bit back a sob and called again even though she was losing hope,
"Granddad?"
She was so caught up in the whole emotion of everything she had failed to hear the doctor come up behind her and jumped when he put a hand on her shoulder to stop her running into the house,
"Doc-" she began tears actually running down her face now, but he made a shush motion with his other hand and she was obediently quiet. However the silence that followed was eerie and Donna didn't know if it was her imagination but the sky got darker.
"Let's go back to the TARDIS" the Doctor whispered to Donna and leading her by her shoulder they turned back to head towards the TARDIS when there was a crack like the sound of a car backfire from behind them.
Both of them swung around to the source of the noise expecting something extra terrestrial in origin and were surprised to see a man although he did not look friendly and he raised a stick in his hand toward them. The Doctor reacted first and pulled Donna quickly to the floor where they rolled behind an overturned car as a green light shot towards where they had just been standing.
Staying low the Doctor moved backwards to the corner and the TARDIS still hidden from sight behind it, if they could just reach it the attacker would not know where they had gone as they would be protected by the TARDIS perception filter, still backing up and staying low the Doctor heard the sounds of the man walking up the road to reach them.
"Run" the Doctor whispered to Donna – his ever famous words and she complied, getting up and suddenly darting out from behind the car and around the corner- There was a shout from the man in Latin and another shot of light – this time red hit the ground millimetres from where Donna had just run. The Doctor pulled out his sonic screwdriver from his long jacket pocket and stood up pointing it back at the man who stopped short his own stick held out in front of him, he looked momentarily confused taking in the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and that was all the hesitation the doctor needed and he aimed his screwdriver at the stick that was aimed back at him.
Multicoloured sparks erupted from it as the sound waves hit it causing the man who now he had moved closer could see looked more than worse for wear to howl with pain and drop it. He looked down at his wand and then back to the Doctor in shock but he saw the Doctor had already turned around to run. Cursing out loud he went to pick up his wand and aim the killing curse at the man's back, but nothing happened. He looked down at his wand again in his hand – it looked fine, growling he took after the Doctor instead determined to capture what must be the last free muggles that weren't at Hogwarts without magic if he had too.
But when he rounded the corner the man and woman he had apperated to apprehend were gone. He looked both way's down the destroyed street but there was not a whisper, he looked to the sky where the Demetors hovered they hadn't left meaning the muggles hadn't either, there was still fresh despair to eat off of, they must have been drawn from the camps for some reason.
Grumbling again the Death Eater, Anthony Earl placed his wand flat on his palm and whispered the spell that had found so many hiding muggles and wizards alike in the distant past. But his wand did not move. Getting more frustrated at his wand he tried again but again his wand did not respond. Looking once more he decided to give the humans up as a lost cause, it wasn't like they would last long out here anyway.
He got ready to apperate back to the camp he was based at, and as he turned on the spot he closed his eyes expecting the familiar feeling of being pushed through a small tube to overtake him but nothing happened, and he opened his eyes to find himself in the same place. Bewildered now he went to throw up the distress sparks that hadn't been used in years, the camp was only a few miles away someone would come to his aid. But again nothing happened.
Trying hard not to panic he tried a simple spell that he had learnt while he had attended Hogwarts before the battle but the brick he had been trying to levitate hadn't even twitched. Grumbling, he started his walk to the camp hoping someone would miss him soon enough to save him the full walk- and in the back of his mind he tried to quell the fear that his wand would be unfixable.
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Meanwhile inside the TARDIS Donna had managed to calm herself and was now rounding on the Doctor for answers even though the Doctor hadn't moved or spoken since he ran back into the TARDIS earlier, his gaze and concentration fully on the still flickering light in front of him.
Donna after awhile noticing she didn't have his attention stepped in front of the flickering light, "Doctor?" she prompted, determined to get an answer out of him – her home was destroyed her family possibly dead this was not the time for the man who normally had all the answers to go quiet on her.
He snapped out of it when she blocked his view of the light and he fixed her with a sober gaze, "I've seen men with them powers before" he started before she could ask any questions, "It's just taken me a moment to figure out from where and what it possibly has to do with that light" He moved forward past Donna to look at the area of the console the light was attached to hoping for inspiration
"And?" Donna prompted
"We have to go to Scotland"
"Pardon?" Donna was so thrown off by the remark she forgot to speak for a moment as the Doctor leapt to the TARDIS controls setting her ready to travel but nothing happened, the TARDIS groaned but did not dematerialize,
"Doctor!" Donna snapped, "What is going on and why do you want to go to Scotland?" she questioned her eyes wide and taking a big breath before continuing, "My family is possibly dead and I want to know what the hell is going on!"
The Doctor sighed and sagged against the console, "I met them beings before" he put a hand up to stop Donna as she went to interrupt, "They are aliens, in a way" he started again, "Met them in the early years, year 1000 or so in Scotland, which is why I want to go there, figure out the next step as to why the worlds like that" he shot a glare at the door,
"But the TARDIS isn't moving" Donna stated taking all the information in,
"No" the Doctor mused, "She can't find the time stream which is what" he indicated the flickering light, "That's all about" he groaned and run his hand through his hair, "Looks like we're walking to Scotland"
Donna's brown eyes flashed, "Oh no were not spaceman"
The Doctor shot her a look, "Unless you have any other bright spark ideas?"
Donna smirked, "The TARDIS can fly can't she?" happy to have remembered more information about the Doctors time machine than him her eyes were practically dancing
The Doctor paused and a dumb look crossed over his features, "She can yes" he repeated not believing he had forgotten that important part of his beautiful machine, he supposed Donna only remembered from the time she had been saved from the taxi back when they very first met.
"Right then" Donna started sounding business like and pulling her coat of making sure her Granddad's present was safe inside the pocket still, "End of the road then turn left"
The Doctor shot her a confused look this time looking up from fiddling on the console, "I was thinking I could just fly north" he replied back unsure why she was providing him with road directions, it wasn't like the TARDIS was limited to the ground
"And risk being seen by these alien human things?" Donna retorted, "I know there is a perception filter on this thing but isn't that just when were landed?"
The Doctor stared at her, "You know the next time you say your nothing special I am reminding you of this moment" he beamed
Donna looked at him disapprovingly, "On the contrary spaceman, I just have the common sense aliens like you lack in there" and she leaned forward and poked him on the forehead to make a point. The Doctor stuck his tongue out at her childishly and asked again,
"Left at the end of the road then?" beginning to fiddle with the controls that he hadn't used since his last flight to save Donna.
"Yup" Donna replied and she went to the TARDIS doors and opened one to look outside, "Followed by a right until you reach the traffic lights"
"Alright whoa one direction at a time!" he grumbled and finally managed to coax the TARDIS into flying a few centimetres of the ground, she groaned and complained but soon the TARDIS was in flight. Still grumbling they got off to a very slow start heading towards the end of the road,
"Bloody hell" commented Donna turning from where she was looking out from the door, "You drive slower than granddad"
"Hey!" Defended the Doctor but he knew Donna was joking, soon they got into a rhythm of directions and steering between them Donna remembering to give adequate time for the Doctor to change direction. They soon sped up and the scenery was soon blurred, Donna wasn't sure if it was the tears stinging her eyes that was doing it or they're speed, since standing in the entrance the horrible sickening feeling of despair had crept back but she fought to keep a straight face when relaying information to the Doctor so he wouldn't think her so weak to be affected by something that he could probably fix easily.
After awhile Donna posed a question to the Doctor, "M6, M1 or A1?" she asked being perfectly honest in wanting his opinion about the matter of which road to follow
"Which is the fastest?" he responded
"Well depending on.." she started to say then stopped herself before admitting she had been thinking about traffic, "A1 " she announced to the Doctor, "It's the most straightforward" she added, "Literally" she finished visualising it in her mind's eye from the road map she kept stored in the shared car her and her mother shared. Had shared she corrected a second later and instantly regretted it as another wave of sadness washed over her more intense this time but before she could let the first tear fall a camera flash disturbed her thoughts she looked up confused as they zoomed past a bright yellow camera on the side of the road.
The TARDIS had just been caught speeding, Donna allowed herself to laugh. Not as much as she would have done if that had happened back in their normal earth but a low chuckle. The Doctor looked up and regarded her worriedly but didn't ask her about it eventually her laugher turned to sobs and the Doctor was glad of the straight road that lay ahead and went to comfort his good friend.
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