Chapter 19! Hey, hope you guys had a nice Thanksgiving. Theme is almost by bowling for soup :D
Title: Saving Lives is Never Easy
Disclaimer: As if I would own Harry Potter, however I do own Vera, Trevor, Felicity, Jack, Dellen and fate and death's personalities.
Warnings: Time travel, slash, After Harry's sixth year to the summer before Tom's sixth
Pairings: Tom/Harry
Rating: T
I'd like to thank you people that read this. Particularly Suezanne, ah yes Dumbledore will never be able to resist meddling. Lientjuhh thanks :D. Lina 03 glad you like it keep reading. Madd Girl well Malevolent is just another god, like fate and death, except he plays with Tom. Katsy 17 thankles for ze review. Suichi's Water Harry never hated Dumbles he more like distrusts him and know he's a meddling old coot. KhairrulJBlack thanks for the review. Imalena no they will have a few interesting lovers spats... the first one will be occurring soon... Rocklover91 thanks for the review. Blood Wolfe 92 I sent a review response to your account to help clear things up. Tell me if it helped. Wildfury thanks for reviewing. no worries Sean... well we have a few story arcs to go the frst arc was at the orphanage, the second has been from Hogwarts till this chapter stars the newest arch.
WARNING: intense POV switches coming up.
Recap: Harry's POV:
Tom and I are most likely soul mates. Well is it really Tom and I or Tom and Sean. Or could it be because our souls merged together making us the right one for Tom? Well whatever the reason, I'm feeling a little more confident about Saturday.
Tom's POV:
Today is Saturday. The day of the first quidditch match. The rivalry of all rivalries Gryffindor versus Slytherin. The day where I actually decide weather I'm actually human, or if I am truly an abomination that hates everything and everyone. Do I love Sean Harrison? Are we actually soul mates? All signs point to me saying yes, unless of course something terrible happens.
Harry's POV:
It's finally Saturday. Am I happy? Kinda. Nervous? Hell ya! Am I going to say yes? At this point I think I have to. Could fate be right? Could the Malevolent character show up and destroy our relationship before it begins? Sure Tom may have been the definition of Malevolent, probably making him this dudes favorite minion in his quest to conquer the world, but I think Tom's good side will win out. His love for me (is there really any? An angry voice sounded in my head), will conquer this god. (If he loves you. This is Voldemort we're talking about.) Why does that voice sound like Ron's, probably cause that's what he would be saying at a time like this.
Vera's POV:
"Is it ready?" I ask testily.
"Some of the spells you asking us to do are quite complex." Jack shoots back with an equal level of annoyence.
"Yea will you just chill." Dellen says.
"The match doesn't start for hours." Charlus finish Dellen's point. I wish they'd stop doing that. It gets on your nerves after a while. We've been arrange this since the whole by the lake thing. I'm sure if I could do magic I'd have finished it by now. Okay that may have been a slight exaggeration.
"Done." They say in unison. Thank god. I hope Harry and Tom like it.
Tom's POV:
Hello Tom. What do you want. A better question, who are you? And the number one question, Why the hell are you in my head? Would you like my answers in order of how you asked them? Or by order of importance? This guy is a bloody idiot. Oh I assure you I am no idiot. Now then, by order of importance, I am the god Malevolent, and by being a god I have access to my favorite mino- I mean the people I favor's heads. So your like some god invading my personal bubble lovely. I am here to talk you out of saying yes to Sean Harrison's request or should I say Harry Potter's?
Harry's POV:
Harry? We have a problem. That's never good. Malevolent just told Tom your true identity. Death is sending you something he promised a while ago to help you, but it won't get there for at least a few hours. Oh so the man I love is probably hating me right now and will never agree to go out with me and he'll become Voldemort and I'll have to kill him all over again, although this time it will be infinitesimally harder because I'm in love with him. Great job Fate and the rest of you gods up there thanks for nothing I mean reall- Harry we want you and Tom to be together. It will be so much better for us up here watching the romance drama unfolding and all the hot kissing scenes. Great yea worrying about gods being voyeurs later, what about Tom? Death is trying to get rid of Malevolent and Luck is trying to make Tom's luck bad so he falls down the steps and forgets what was just said. We can't out right harm people, but it may work. It's the best chance we've got.
Vera bursts in. "Come on Harry we have to eat before the match." I hope this plan works Fate or else I'm doomed. Even if it doesn't Love is gunning for you guys to get together and what she wants she gets. It just may take a few more years than originally planed. And I mean Mayhem is trying keep you guys a part because the mayhem that would occur would be slightly greater, but you also have Friendship on your side and- I get it you guys are split, gosh you'd think there would be war going on in Germany you'd be placing you interest in not in the lives of two teenage boys. Well technically it's three. Thanks for reminding me of that little tidbit.
Tom's POV:
What do you mean by Harry Potter? Nothing just that your friend is- I felt the presence leave my brain, but another takes it's place. Do not worry about what he said. I am death, he's an idiot listen to him and I'll be claiming you a lot sooner than if you and Sean Harrison date. Wait I said, but he had already left my mind. Rosier trips on his robes and pushes me.
Harry's POV:
I did it, so there is nothing to worry about. I'm luck. Nice to finally be the one doing the talking. It's nice to meet you you seem to be better than the other gods I know. I'm a happy go lucky kinda a guy. I also enjoy making bad puns Humor hates that, but I think it's quite punny. I laugh a little partially out of hysteria, can't my life be normal. Hey I've always been on your side. I gave you your dumb luck so be a little nicer. Oh yea thank you, you seem to be the only god on my side almost all the time so thanks. No problem kid Potter's have always been lucky. Some time way back in the 14th century it was acceptable for gods to have kids with mortals. Each had a main line they favored. Mine was the Potter's. Your like my great grandson with a lot of greats in there. I smile. Thanks for your help. No prob bob later gator. He's not to bad.
"Harry come on it's time to go to the pitch."
"No wait where's Tom." We glance around the hall. "I'm going to see if he's in the hospital wing."
Tom's POV:
I slowly got up. A jumble of words comes to my ears. Most clearly is the nurse's "Mr. Riddle are you alright? You should be fine now. Just a small bump. The rest of the words and faces were ignored instead I looked at Harrison's face and his hand clutching mine and I felt at peace.
"Can I go to the match?"
She looked hesitant. "I'll make sure he's okay and at the first sign of any trouble I'll bring him back."
"Oh alright go enjoy the game." I smile as Harrison helped me up.
We got down to the pitch and Jack and Vera were waiting for us. "Charlus and Dellen were here too, but they're beaters on the team, so they had to get ready. Are you ready for your surprise?"
"Yea." Harrison said. He turned towards me. "They've been keeping it secret for days."
Vera handed me my broom. "Fly to the top of that tower." She said pointing up at the one right above us. "There is a platform with a climate charm, a notice me not charm and quite a few wards so you can't fall off. It's the perfect place for you guys to go. Charlus lent us his invisibility cloak so you wouldn't be seen going up there."
Harry's POV:
I stare at the cloak in Vera's hand. How many times did I sneak out of the tower with it on. I always carried it around the most precious item I ever received from my father. It's so surreal. "I assume she had you guys do the spell work?"
"That she did, down right slave driver she is." Jack smiled. "But if anyone deserves happiness it's you Harrison."
"Thanks Jack. Come on Tom." Tom got on the broom behind me. I tossed the invisibility cloak on like an old friend and rode to the platform. There were candles and lunch there waiting for us.
"What's the point of the candles? It's broad daylight."
"Vera must have thought it would set the mood. Do you want to watch the match before we talk?"
"Let's just talk now."
I looked him in the eye and said, "Okay."
"I like you a lot and I think we're soul mates that being said-" I cut him off. "Tom I have to tell you something."
It's now or never. "Tom, my name isn't Sean Harrison. It's Harry Potter."
Tom's POV:
"I think you have some explaining to do."
"Well I can't tell you everything, but in my time you were a psychotic madman who had lost all of his charms and good looks. You were a snake faced monster named Voldemort. When I came here I realized you had yet to kill anyone and that maybe I could save you. Maybe I could make it so you wouldn't go on a killing spree. I know you have a darker side to you, but I want to help you."
"Did you come here with intentions to kill me?" I asked. I was praying he'd say no, that my sweet innocent yet crafty and cunning Harrison, or rather Harry would tell me know.
"In all honesty?" He turned his eyes down and said meekly "Yes."
"Why?" On some level I really didn't want to know.
"It's because of your counter part that my parents were dead and I had to grow up with abusive relatives. That my god father died, that my best friend would never walk again. You know what else, my friend Luna had a vision of the future that they all died, so that's why I decided to go back in time and change things. No one actually cares about me."
"What really happened to Sean?" I ask in morbid fascination.
"He's in a coma at the moment. Soon we should become co-conscious."
"Who am I soul mates with?"
"Probably me. My form was always a black panther. Sean's was just a leopard. And the wand I have is mine from the original time line. I really do love you Tom."
"Have you been acting like Sean or Harry?"
"Harry, with bit of Sean are memories are merging and stuff. More and more as he leaves he coma. In the original time line he woke up the following summer. It should be quicker though because he's in my head."
I reach out and cup Harrison's -no Harry's- face "I love you too. But I need to think on this a little."
I remembered what happened right before my fall. About what both Death and Malevolent said. I'm going to trust Harry. I'm going to trust him, but I'm not going to say yes, yet.
Harry's POV:
It feels so good to tell Tom he doesn't seem so surprised. "I thought you'd hate me."
"I'm surprised you don't hate me even though I apparently killed everyone you loved."
"That wasn't you. I love you Tom. I don't think I could ever hate you outright. Not any more." I placed my head on his shoulder and jumped when I herd Present is here. Something started forming in the middle of the pitch. I decided to borrow a line from Neville "Why is it always me?"
That's all she wrote folks hope you liked it. Long chapter hope you like it it had a lot of stuff in ti hope it wasn't to confusing. Review please... how many of you actually listen to the songs at the top of the chapter? And was this chapter confusing if it was I'll give a better recap at the top of the next chapter.