Luminescence – Harry Potter/Percy Jackson.
Lily Potter couldn't help but beam as she watched her son gnawing on his favourite plush toy, the black wolf that his Godfather Sirius Black had bought for his first birthday, a series of happy noises escaping her son's mouth as he looked up to see her standing in the doorway.
Letting out a noise that Lily translated as 'Mama!' when spoken through a toy, Harry started reaching for her, the toy stuck firmly in his mouth as he made grabby gestures at her. Smiling at her son Lily started forward and scooped him out of the crib, laughing along with Harry as he let out a screeching laugh at the swinging movement she made as she tucked him against her chest.
"How's my little man?" she cooed as Harry took the wolf toy out of his mouth, the black-haired infant pausing for a moment with a confused expression before sneezing suddenly, Lily blinking down at her son in shock as he just shook his head to clear it and began babbling loudly at her. As she smiled and nodded seriously she watched as Harry's attention was pulled from her and focused on something behind her instead, his pupils going wide as he stared up at the ceiling. Slowly glancing up over her shoulder Lily rolled her eyes at the new centre of Harry's attention, "How is a light bulb more important than Mama?" she asked indignantly.
"-igh bulb" Harry echoed making her pause, her mouth opening to call for James when suddenly the aforementioned light bulb went out, Lily freezing in shock for a moment before it flickered back on, a glowing ball of light held tight in Harry's fist. "Igh bulb!" Harry repeated proudly as he waved his hand through the air, Lily staring down at him for a moment before she was looking up to blink at the dark light bulb.
"James!" Lily yelled, turning and darting towards the door, making sure not to jostle Harry too much as he poked curiously at the small warmth ball of light in his hand. "James look at this" she exhaled when she and her husband almost ran into each other in the hallway, a panicked look on James' face that she felt guilty for a split second before she remembered Harry. "One second he was staring at the light bulb and next second it went out and he did this" she explained slowly as Harry started playing with the ball, James reaching out to catch it with an awed look on his face, the black-haired man quickly returning it to his son when Harry's face screwed up.
"It's not a lumos" James whispered as he smiled gently down at Harry, "Lumos is just light, that was warm".
"Like a light bulb James" Lily pointed out proudly, both of them beaming down at Harry as the boy's face scrunched up in concentration, the ball of light slowly bleeding a familiar shade of green. "He's going to be a very powerful wizard isn't he?" she asked as they both watched Harry changing the light ball's colour at will.
"Babies are like this Lily" James dismissed uncertainly, "They have the almost unrivalled ability to use accidental magic at will".
"I didn't do things like this, neither did you according to your mother" Lily countered knowingly, "I still remember all the stories she told me about your accidental magic when we got engaged" she clarified as James blushed awkwardly, "Do you think it's his powers? His Demigod ones?"
"I don't know; do they normally manifest this young?" James asked slowly.
"Well I was always cuter than Petunia growing up" Lily confessed slowly, a wicked look forming on her face, "But I never did anything like what you did".
"I was two years old" James muttered as he turned and started back towards the stairs.
"You kidnapped your neighbour's baby and named him 'Floofy'!" Lily called after him, grinning at his whined 'Shut up!'
Heading after her husband Lily settled down onto the sofa beside him, setting Harry down in the playpen next to the couch, leaving him to play with his ball of light as she turned to watch James as he returned to weaving a spell on a block of wood in front of him. Smiling gently as she watched her husband work Lily frowned as she felt the familiar 'ping' of someone stepping through the wards on the house, not recalling one of the Marauders promising to visit Lily stood and moved over to the window before peering out the curtain, dread rising up in her stomach as she spun around to face the curious looking James, "He's here" was all she got out before James was leaping to his feet and snatching up Harry, pushing him into her arms and beginning to herd her towards the staircase.
As the door blew open James spun around, "I'll hold him off" he promised softly as she tightened her grip on Harry and sprinted up the stairs, their son squirming in her arms as she heard shouted spells being thrown around the living room.
"Oh Merlin" Lily blurted as she darted into the nursery and slammed the door behind her, a snarled 'Avada Kedavra' echoing in her ears. "It's okay Harry" she whispered as she moved over to place him in his crib, "Everything's gonna be fine" she promised as she slowly dropped to her knees.
"Gods of Olympus" she whispered slowly as she raised tear-filled eyes to the ceiling, "Hear me! Protect my son, protect my Harry, and I swear on the Styx that I will dedicate my life to serving you" she cried out as she heard footsteps coming up the stairs, "Please! I beg of you! Someone! Mum! Please!" she sobbed out, spinning to her feet as the door was blasted open, Voldemort's red eyes glaring at her from the doorway.
"Your Gods cannot help you now" the Dark Lord hissed as he stepped into the room, "You pathetic Mudblood".
Sniffing Lily raised her jaw higher, "My blood is of Olympus, it's ten times purer than yours" she countered strongly.
"Demigod" Voldemort snarled out as he raised his wand to point it at her, "Severus had asked me to let you live, but creatures like you disgust me".
Mentally pocketing the part about Severus Lily instead put on her best sneer, "And half-blooded freaks like you disgust me" she snapped, "AVADA KEDAVRA!" she screamed, a brilliant beam of green light exploding from the tip of her wand and leaping forward to strike Voldemort in the chest, a shocked expression forming on her face as the Dark Lord swayed backwards.
"Nice try" Voldemort whispered making her freeze, "But you have to mean it. You have to really want them dead" he explained innocently. Before Lily could react there was a flash of light and she was being lifted off her feet and slammed into the wall, magic pinning her against it as she watched Voldemort smirk and turn back to face Harry in his crib, the fifteen-month old infant staring at the Dark Lord with a serious look of disgust on his face.
"Like so" Voldemort dead-panned, "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
As green light flashed through the room Lily heard as clear as day a gentle voice whisper "Would you give your life to me for as long as you lived?" in her mind, her eyes adjusting to the flash of green to see the Killing Curse was mere inches from hitting Harry and the entire room seemed to have frozen in time.
"For as long as I lived and beyond" Lily promised quickly, realising quickly that one of the Gods had answered her prayers, hopefully being Harry's true father.
"And you would pay any price?" the voice asked gently.
"Anything to save him" Lily agreed instantly, "Please".
As she watched a pillar of light shown down from the ceiling, taking the form of a breathtakingly gorgeous blonde man, two swirling suns taking the place of his eyes as the God slowly moved over to Harry and reached out to pluck the Killing Curse from the air. Turning around the God raised his hand and lazily threw the Killing Curse at Voldemort, an unearthly shriek exploding from the man's mouth as a black wraith escaped the disintegrating body.
Returning his attention to Harry, Lily watched as the God bent over her son, "He has been touched by the Killing Curse" the God said softly, light shining from his mouth as if he was just a piece of skin surrounding a mass of light, "I cannot save him" he apologized making Lily's heart sink. "But I can sacrifice his divine side to give him a mortal life" the God offered, "He would have no magic, no powers, but he would be alive".
Even as Lily's mouth opened to agree, a brilliant golden light shone down from the ceiling around Harry, the God stepping back quickly as the light turned blinding and Harry was taken from her sight for a moment, the light turning into a vortex that swirled around her son before being sucked into a point on his forehead, a lightning bolt mark above his right eye visible even to her where she was pinned against the wall.
"It seems Lord Jupiter has blessed your son" the God informed her seriously as he started towards Lily, "Young Hadrian will lead a healthy life with both magic and divine power. But now for my price" the God continued making Lily freeze, not regretting her promise but still a little nervous about what it might cost.
Before she knew what was happening the God was leaning forward and lightly brushing his lips across hers, moving up before she could react to the kiss and brushing his lips across both of her eyes before vanishing suddenly as Lily's body slid down the wall in shock.
Blinking slowly Lily scrambled to her feet and shot over to snatch up her wand and pick up Harry, brushing his fringe out of the way to see the softly glowing lightning bolt scar on his forehead, a single green eye staring at her from the left side of his face while his right eye was a brilliant sky-blue colour. "Oh Harry" she exhaled as she cupped her dazed looking son's face, "I'm so sorry".
Harry's response was to clap his hands and conjure up a ball of light similar to the one he had before, giggling as he played with it, most likely having already completely forgotten about what had just happened in a way that only a baby could.
"I'm so sorry" Lily repeated again, turning to stare at the pile of ash and the yew wand that used to be Voldemort, "I'm so sorry".
LUMINESCENCE
Based on Gabriel Herrol's 'A Roman Half-Blood' challenge. I'm beginning to run out of things to say here, so I'm just going to stop.
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