Never Normal
Rating: PG 13 – FR 13
Pairings: Buffy/Harry, Ron/Hermione
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Buffy characters, series storylines, etc - they belong to their respectable creators.
Timeline: Post-Chosen for Buffy. Post-OotP (fifth book) for Harry Potter… therefore no DH spoilers. This would be because it was after this book that I wrote this. Buffy was 22 at the end of the series, so we'll say that she meet Harry shortly after and married him. Their daughter is about 3. And Harry was born in 1980 and Buffy was born in 1981, so we could just say that no time has changed and they are 26-27 now! This means Harry has been gone for nearly a decade. (He ran off after Sirius died, I believe).
Summary: Buffy and Harry Potter have long pretended to be normal, their past secrets hid from the other. But reality came into play as their daughter is kidnapped, husband and wife must try individually to find a way to bring her back, while pretending to be normal for the other.
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Chapter 10:
Plots
The three ran through the castle trying to find their old mentor. After trying his office and finding it empty, the trip was asking all the students that they ran into. None knew where Dumbledore had gone off to.
They finally caught sight of another familiar figure sulking around the corner. Ron leaned into Harry and whispered, "Are you sure that this is the right way? I'm sure he'd be that way!"
Hermione smacked him hard across the chest. She marched up to their old professor. Ron stared at her in horror but wiped it off his face when she whipped her head around to glare at them once more. Harry laughed at his friend and earned a smack from Ron.
Hermione turned back and walked toward them following a quick conversation from the aging potion's professor. She sighed before repeating what he had told her. "Snape told me that he went off for the weekend. He told me that he was off trying to find your daughter as well. He said that he had contacts."
Harry slammed his fist into the wall. Both Hermione and Ron looked at him not knowing what to tell him, what to do. Their friend was breaking. And they could not find the glue to hold him together.
Harry turned to them with clenched teeth. His bloody fist dropped to his side. A wave of sadness and calmness washed over him. "I'm sorry… I'm so sorry…"
Ron pulled Harry into a hug. He knew nothing else that he could do. So he tried his best to comfort his first best friend. "It's alright Har, it's alright."
Hermione nodded her head and looked at them. "He said we could stay for dinner. I'm famished, so I would very much prefer if we would stay and then continue after."
Ron looked at Harry, hope in his eyes. Harry sighed before saying, "I should be back before Buffy checks the room and sees we're not there."
"You said yourself that she would be distracted by her two friends," Ron pointed out.
Harry nodded in defeat. "Fine."
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"How much further is it?" Xander complained annoyed by how much they had already walked in this strange forest.
"Xander, it is not that much further, now will you please remain silent?" Giles shook his head as Willow and Buffy admired the crazy looking trees and river. "We're almost there."
"Right when it got dark too… schools and darkness… can we stop this trend already?" Xander whined more.
"Xan, it's not that dark," Buffy said without taking her focus from the surrounding scenery.
"Oh says Miss-I-Have-Two-Eyes! And I do believe that you're totally to be blamed for my lack of an eye!" Xander shot back with a grin on his face. He had missed the three of them together… well four including Giles.
Buffy turned to look at him with a smile on her face. She missed this. She missed them. "Eh, you're still here, so shut up!" Buffy joked.
"Well, what can I say?" Xander started side-stepping over to her and wrapping an arm around her, "I'll never leave you. Till death do we part…."
"But that didn't last long, now did it?" Willow cut in.
"Sush you!" Xander grinned and threw one hand out in front of him, palm face down. "Never do we part… even after death."
"One for all…" Willow started, putting in her hand. Buffy's hand followed after hers.
"All for one," the three chorused together.
Giles simply shook his head while still walking. Under his breath, he muttered, "How is the earth still standing?"
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Hundreds of students sat at four separate long tables according to color. Several dozen teachers sat at another table perpendicular to these tables. Three guests joined the teachers.
Rumors spread throughout the school about these guests. Everyone gossiped about the brown-haired man with a lightening bolt scar. Everyone was saying that Harry Potter had finally returned to the magical world. The excitement was huge.
At the table, Harry, Ron, and Hermione ate in silence. They all remembered their glory days at school. And Ron and Hermione remembered the day that Harry didn't show up for the first day of their sixth year. Memory lane: good and bad times.
They reminisced until a loud crack sounded. The crack echoed throughout the hall and, without a second's notice, a hundred dark-clocked figures appeared at the door. And at the center, the same man that Harry Potter had been looking for, stood in front with a malicious smile on his face.
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"Hey Lily," Ceris called after her new friend.
The little girl, halfway down the stairs, turned to look up at the older girl. "Yeah?"
Ceris though before finally saying, "Want to come to my house?"
Lilia Potter grinned. Already having being in this house for two days, she had grown bored. "Yeah!"
With that, Ceris Malfoy ran down the stairs and grabbed Lily's hand. She led her into the kitchen, a fireplace sat on the opposite wall. "Have you ever used floo before?"
Lily shook her head confused.
"Alright. Then go into the fire place and drop this stuff and say, clearly, Malfoy Manor!"
Lily looked at her like she was insane. 'Step in the fire?"
Ceris rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll do it first. But you have to come after me, alright?"
Ceris stepped into the fire and dropped the contents of her palm into the fire. Clearly she shouted, "Malfoy Manor!"
Lily watched her new friend disappear into nothingness. Lily instantly wanted to play this game too. She grabbed the same powder that Ceris had, and she followed action.
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Notes: Review please!
Two months since I first posted this. (And just two months since I joined tth!) There for, for my two month anneveraries, you get another chapter only a day after the last one!
Review please and make me happy!