On to chapter four enjoy. Theme song is: Me Against the World by Simple Plan.
Title: Saving Lives is Never Easy
Disclaimer: Me no own (anyone can understand that),
Warnings: Time travel, slash, After Harry's sixth year to the summer before Tom's sixth
Pairings: Tom/Harry
Rating: T
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Previously on SLNE:
Tom's POV:
In the morning there was a knock on the door. A matron walked in and said "Mr. Harrison there is someone here to see you."
"Who is it?" Harrison asked looking confused. The little girl stirred. "There is someone her to see you Harry?" She asked blinking the sleep out of her eyes.
A man walked in with a grey and auburn stripped beard with matching hair. "Hello, Mr. Harrison. My name is-"
"Albus Dumbledore." Harrison finished. Dumbledore had that twinkle in his eye. The one that made me want to hit a wall.
Harry's POV:
What the fuck it dear old Dumbles doing here Fate? Well Harry, you have to go to Hogwarts remember? He's the one that does those visits. I hate my life. Stop snickering. This is his fault to begin with.
"Ah, Professor Dumbledore, what brings you here?" Tom asks. The fake cheeriness is so obvious I think Vera might have picked up on it.
"Why, Tom, I'm here to see Mr. Harrison about coming to our esteemed boarding school. Mr. Harrison may we go to another room?"
I looked at him apprehensively. "Sure professor. You go on a head I need to make sure Vera is taken care of. I'll meet you there." Dumbledore turns and leaves and while he is within earshot I say. "Tom can you make sure Vera gets to her room alright?" I switched to whispered parseltounge so Vera didn't hear. "Make ssssure sssshe doesssn't leave your sssssight I don't trusssst him."
"What would he want with her?" He hissed back.
"Black mail material. I'm a wizssssard of decsssent ssstrength he wantsss me to go to Hogwatssss not another magical ssschool. I don't think he isss above black mailing children." Tom nodded discretely.
Tom's POV:
Harrison is probably right Hogwarts like to have strong wizards to raise the level of learning. "Come on Vera. Let's go to your room and get you all cleaned up for when Harrison gets back."
This is also a good time to further my plan.
"Hey, Tom?" I look down at her. She has a really sad expression on her face. "What does that man want with Harry? He kind of scared me."
"Don't worry." I tell her. She looks up at me I suppose I should do some sort of comforting gesture, so I pat her head awkwardly. "He is just offering Harry a place at a very famous wizard school."
"Oh." That seems to have scared her a bit. "Does that mean Harry's going to leave the orphanage?"
"Yes." I look down and she's close to tears. "What's wrong?" I don't even know why I feel as though I slightly care about what she's feeling.
"Well it just," She sniffles why must children always sniffle. It's called a tissue people. "He promised he'd never leave me alone again."
"What do you mean by again?" This could be my big break though the key piece to the puzzle.
"Well, when all the fighting was going on all the older kids were shooting spells at the bad guys along with all of the teachers and matrons. They were fighting really hard, but the bad guys were shooting lots of green spells and Brian actually jumped in front of them and died." We reach her room, it's empty the other kids must be at breakfast, and I bring her over to her bed where she sits down and pulls me down with her and she starts snuggling in to my side. I start to chant a mantra of it's only for the plan only for the plan. "Harry was fighting really hard and led all the little kid under age 9 to a bomb shelter he found while he was fighting, and we were safe for a little while until the ceiling caved in and it crushed everyone else and I was wedged under a pole and couldn't get out."
"What happened next?" I asked in a very kind understanding tone.
"Harry came back and yelled because everyone else was dead. According to him it was a two day long battle and he has just enough energy to heal my wounds and apperate us to Britain before he collapsed. He says he only survived on luck because everyone else had injured the bad guys, but I think it's cause Harry's cool. Do you think Harry's cool?"
She looks up at me with those big eyes I can see how they're Harrison's weakness because I couldn't say no even if I wanted to. "Yes, Harrison is very cool."
"Think I'm cool Tom? Thanks you're not too bad yourself."
Harry's POV:
"I'm sure you wondering why I'm here Mr. Harrison." Dumbledore says. I look him straight in the eye and I feel him probing at my outer walls, apparently Sean was more successful with it than I was.
"Nope you want to offer me a position at your school because you heard about what happened in Germany and you guys want strong wizards at your school in case Grindlewald decides to attack. You want guys who can fight and win in order to save the school." Luckily Hermione made me read Hogwarts a History, actually that was part of her birthday gift last year, and that was in the book. Man I pown. If your going to say idiotic stuff like that at least spell it correctly in your mind it's pwn. I always wonder how humans come up with these things. Yea well no one want your opinion Fate. Oh it's change no instead of laughter it the sound of a raspberry. Lovely.
"Well, we just thought you should attend Hogwarts instead of our competition." He replies. The twinkle dimming slightly.
"Look cut the crap and I'll go to your fucking school as long as you give special permission for Vera to come with me. We are essentially siblings and Hogwarts Article 5 Section 4 Subsection F states that Siblings with no parents nor anyone outside of Hogwarts to take care of them. The older sibling is allowed to bring the younger with him/her to school regardless of age. And before you bring up the fact that we are not actually siblings allow me to bring up Hogwarts Article 8 Section 12 Subsection K The term sibling any time used in these articles is as follows any person/s that is reliant upon the the other for at least 2 before using one of the proposed articles and must be a magical person/creature to live at Hogwarts. She has been like my little sister for exactly two years, so sucks for you that the founders thought of everything."
That Sean had read so many books. He looked for important relevant information to use in the war. He has a large curse armory and a bunch of protection spells. He want to protect his loved ones, so they never die again. He had so many contingency plans, but in the end he alone couldn't do it. Well that's me now and I won't fail him.
"Well you certainly did your research." He says with the twinkle back probably at my love and blah blah blah. "I'm sure she can come. Expecto Patronum." A silver phoenix glided out from his wand. "Headmaster, Mr. Harrison wishes to bring a sibling to school and he started all the proper bylaws and it's the little girl he saved after the raid."
I smirked to myself, "If that was supposed to be impressive, you failed miesrably because I masteres that spell when I was 15 and it was frequently used for communication during the battles, so sorry it didn't work." I could tell I hit the nail on the head because his twinkle dimmed again. One day I want to make it go out. I mean I cared about him and stuff, but when I looked through his entire pensive my opinion of him changed greatly.
"Really you can cast full corporeal patronus?" He asks and when I nod he asks "Can I see it? I promise I won't let you get in trouble for underage magic."
"Ah why not? Expecto Patronum." I'm a little surprised that Prongs doesn't come out of my wand, but instead a Pegasus. Memories cam flooding in to my head of Sean's dad flying around his head as a child. His animagus for was an eagle, so I guess the closet combination was a Pegasus.
"Oh what a wonderful form it's simply awe inspiring. It takes a powerful wizard to have a magical form." Oh joy now he looks ecstatic. Why did I not realized he was a manipulative bastard? That might be my fault. You see I allowed him to place you with your aunt and well they kind of killed your self-esteem making you sheep like. I should have know you were behind this.
A silver crup came in. "That is fine. The boy may bring his sister along."
"Oh good, so we're done here?" I say. When he nods, I add "Good, bye bye now." I turn and leave, not letting him get another word in.
I walk to Vera's room. And I hear her ask Tom "Do you think Harry's cool?" I kind of wait at the door listening to hear his response. "Yes, Harrison is very cool." Aw that's sweet.
I lean against the doorway and say, "Think I'm cool Tom? Thanks you're not too bad yourself." Vera is giggling. "Oh you think that's funny?" She nods cheerfully even though I can tell she's been crying. "Well then princess how would you like to go to Hogwarts with me and Tom?"
"Really I get to go?" Her eyes were shining with hopefulness.
"You sure do princess. I stated a couple Hogwarts bylaws and tada you're coming to Hogwarts with us." She runs to me and gives me a tackle hug.
"Oh, Tom was so nice, he held me cause I was all sad because I thought you were going to leave me." She's crying again.
"Oh princess I could never leave you."
Tom's POV:
This scene is so sweet it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I mean it's so cute, it's making something inside be burn. I don't know what it is, but it can't be good. We walk down to breakfast and Vera is skipping happily in front of us in a rush to see her friends. I turn to Harrison and I ask "What did he say?"
Harrison says "He was impressed with my research which I did in case something like this happened. And he showed me his patronus to impress me, but I can already cast one so it really didn't help his case to much."
"You can cast a corporeal patronus?" When he nods, I say "Wow you already we above the rest of my... companions, but this show just how intelligent you really are." And how much more interesting this puzzle got. "I can as well my form is and occamy. What's yours?" If his is a magical creature as well I'd be impressed.
"It's a Pegasus." He says. I am impressed. I hope that this... acquaintanceship remain prosperous for us both. "Well actually it changed recently, it used to be my dad's animagus form but the whole orphanage experience changed it." He also appears to be very modest. I can't wait to find out every single one of his secrets. Maybe I should try Legilimency on him.
"Have you ever had Occulemency training?" I ask.
"Yes, quite successfully too. Why?" He asks.
"Because I was going to offer it to you because it's a very important skill to have." I make up quickly.
"Oh thanks for your consideration, maybe we could teach Vera together. It's important she can keep secrets." This is working out better than I planned.
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