Chapter 23, Theme is I Hate Myself for Losing You by Kelly Clarkson
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. Suezanne, Ichi-can1, MAE, Chipseet, Rocklover91, sp, Emily Redbird, The-Sponge-Who-Could-Fly
Recap: Harry's POV:
A shadowy figure came out of know where. "Hello Sean Harrison. Or should I say Harry Potter?"
"Really professor. Harry Potter? I have now idea who that is. So if you'll excuse me I have charms now."
"Now now my boy. Take a seat. We have very important matters to discuss. Would you care for a lemon drop?" Somethings never change.
"No thank you, but really professor if you wanted a meeting with me all you had to do was ask."
"Where would the fun in that be my boy." The lights turn on fully. Staring across from me are a pair of twinkling eyes. "Now do you mind telling me everything?"
"Everything is a lot, for a man I know manipulates everything, professor. After all you did leave me all of your memories after you died. You did warn me I wouldn't like some of them. I thought of you like a grandfather. I still respect you, but there is no way in hell I'm trusting you."
He looked slightly stricken at the thought of everything, "I must admit I haven't always done the best thing, but I have always tried to do the right thing."
"I know and that is the one reason I don't find myself hating you professor Dumbledore."
Dumbledore's POV:
Ah prophecies, nothing set in stone, but some are more explanatory than others. Particularly when it's about a time travel. A little surface legamancy and well his name is Harry Potter. The question is do I tell him the full truth? Decisions, decisions.
"Well professor tell me what you know. It may increase my opinion of you. Considering you probably used legamancy to figure it out."
"Well, I'll admit I did, but I had to know for sure you see, there is a prophecy."
"Oh joy another one."
"Well it involves a time traveler and a dark lord. Probably Grindelwald."
"I'll be the judge of that.
"Pardon?"
"Where I come from Tom's one of the greatest, most evil dark lords to ever live. I came back in time to change that and somehow I fell in love."
"I still think it must apply to Grindelwald.
Always danger for you
Twisting turning through time,
Falling and flying, landing in another,
Another with a secret to draw the dark lord.
You will not be spared time traveler,
Not this time nor any
Draw him out.
"Ah just what I need. A good ol' prophecy to make my year. So instead of like killing a Dark Lord, I'm playing bait for one because of this Sean Harrison dude? Joy my life wouldn't be complete with out some looming death threat. I honestly have know idea what I would do with myself. Any idea why it must be me?"
Should I tell him. It's better if I don't. I'll give the edited version. "A new student bringing about major reforms in the school in Tom, one the suddenly woke up from a coma doctors predicted would last a year? It wasn't hard." Should I tell him the next little tidbit? "You see the goddess of Deception likes me and helped me slightly by giving me your life in a short summary and how it makes for great entertainment."
"Ugh what is it with god enjoying my misfortune I mean really Fate visits me most often, then there is Death, he hates me because I'm a descendant of the Deathly Hallows brothers. Lucks pretty chill and Malevolent is out to get me for stealing his all time favorite servant, Tom away from him. It's like party in Harry's head."
I couldn't stop a small laugh from escaping. The poor child have Deception show up every now and then is bad enough. She never gives a straight answer. Now now Albus, don't you be telling him lies about me. Wouldn't dream of it.
"I suppose you were talking to Deception?"
"How did you know?"
"I get the whole far off look in my eyes too. Now that you've said what you've need to I have friends that are probably worried about me. If you'll excuse me."
I stared after him wondering if I should have told him. It can wait I suppose.
Hermione's POV:
"Harry's missing." I blurt out.
He glares. "Tell me something I don't know."
"Well (against my better judgment) I thought we could compile our information about Harry and the castle and come up with a list of what might have happened."
"Harry is an inherently good person, so if someone needed help he'd help." I'm surprised the (evil) future Dark Lord picked up on that.
"Why do you think someone has Harry?" I ask puzzled.
"I checked all the place he normally runs to the kitchens, the quidditch pitch, the childcare area. No where to be found." He said it with such a 'duh' tone I wanted to punch him.
"Well who is manipulative and has enough authority to get away with kidnapping a student?" We think for a moment. "Dumbledore." I said, "But didn't you have transfiguration last period?"
"I did but he left because he had 'other matters to attend to'. Harry must have been those other matters."
"Okay that still doesn't explain why my point me spell didn't work." I though hard for a moment. "the room he's in must be unplotable. Is Dumbledore's room unplotable."
"No the teacher quarters aren't allow to be. It's in Guide to the Foundations: Hogwarts."
"Oh my gosh do you know how rare that book is. Heck any Guide to the Foundations."
"I know and if we find Harry I'll lend you the entire four book collection." On the inside my book nerd was jumping for joy.
"Well an unplotable room." I thought back to the Marauder's Map. A room not on it. "The RoR on the seventh floor."
"RoR?"
"Room of Requirement. Anything you need it can make. Oh why didn't I think of it before it makes perfect sense."
We ran up several flights of stairs. Harry was just coming out of the room when we got there. "Harry." I yelled and I ran up to hug him. "I was so worried. Tom and I finally figured out where you were."
I let go a Tom pushed him against the wall and kissed him slowly. I looked away blushing. "Scare me like that again Harry and I won't be happy."
"Well maybe if I wasn't dating a five year old and my best friend could act her age we wouldn't have had this problem because then I wouldn't have found that first year in distress."
"We're sorry Harry."
"Yea I wouldn't do anything to hurt you."
Harry's POV:
I sighed but I forgave them. Tom put his arm around my shoulders and Hermione placed hers along my back. I put my arms around both of them and we waled together to my rooms in the Ravenclaw tower.
Vera, Jack, Dellen and Charlus were already waiting there for us. I suppose it's time to tell them all the truth. "My name is Harry James Potter." Charlus gasps. "Sean Harrison is still in a coma from the events that occurred over the summer. Our minds are slowly merging and once he wakes up we will be coconscious. I haven't been lying to you guys. I've been acting the way me, Harry would be. I thought it was only fair that you guys knew."
"Why?" Vera asked. "Why did you take my brother away?"
"If I wasn't here your brother would have been lying in a bed for a year and a year after that you'd both have been dead."
"What?" She asked horror stricken.
"That's right Sean's strength, muscle mass everything would slowly fade away. His defense power down astronomically you both would have been killed by a mad crazy dark lord name Voldemort, aka Tom Riddle." I looked directly at Tom. "I went back in time with every intention of killing you if you couldn't be saved. Then somewhere along the way I fell in love with you. I don't think I'd be able to kill you now."
"So wait you went back in time to possibly kill your current boyfriend to stop him form murdering everyone. You poor sucker." Dellen said.
"Um what's out relation?" Charlus asked.
"Hi grandpa." I said cheekily.
"I'm your grandfather?"
"Yea and let's just say Dorea's cold exterior will wear down eventually."
"I'm also from the future, but this is my original body. Bushy hair and all. Hermione Granger at your service."
Aftermath:
Vera's POV: I suppose having a time traveler living in my brother's body is better than being in a coma. Harry said he's actually grown to care about me so I mean it's not that bad.
Tom's POV: I still can't believe Harry was going to kill me. I still feel a little used, but I love him so really what is one supposed to do. Well Tom, I know I'd feel used if I were you. How do you even know if his feelings are sincere maybe he's just biding his time waiting to kill you. What about those lowly people you call friends what about your ambitions to destroy the Muggles that treated you so cruelly. He's made you soft. He's just using you. You know your still evil to the core. Why deny it to yourself. Get lost Malevolent Harry loves me right?
Dellen's POV: I always knew there was something off about that kid, but man is that cool. Wouldn't it be fun to share a body with someone. You could talk to yourself with out actually being called crazy.
Charlus' POV: I have a grandson. I get married and have a kid. Dear god I think I might faint, or jump for joy. I MARRY DOREA BLACK. Now if I could only stop grinning like a mad man.
Jack's POV: Finding out one of your good friends is a time traveler is definitely something new. I'm going to write a 'fiction' book about it some day. Also how does one crush on a girl from the future. I mean in the future I'm old enough to be her grandfather.
Hermione's POV: Well now they know. I can only hope they don't hate Harry for it. I let out a sigh. I wish I knew making friends with Harry would have been this much work, although I should have guessed after he saved me from a troll.
That's all folks. I hope you guys had a nice holiday and look forward t many more chapters of this fic. Name the best gift you got or wanted get for what ever holiday you celebrate. I got a new I-Pod Nano and a bunch of HP stuff like an epic movie pop up book be jealous. XD I'm probs pairing Hermione with Jack so... yea.