Chapter 26! Theme is Happy Together by The Turtles
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. Chipseet, Suezanne, Imalena, Windstorm124, Emily Redbird, Ichi-can, Tom Riddle III
Recap: Harry's POV:
Before I knew it it was the middle of November. I decided not to prank Heartworth because as it turns out he's the Hufflepuff seeker. It will be fun to massacre him tomorrow in a completely legal way that will actually get my house points. I sighed happily as I drifted off to sleep in Tom's arms.
I put on my blue robes. It's going to weird not playing for Gryffindor, but I'm sure I'll get over it. Sharon gave us a pep talk. "Okay, this is the first match of the season. We're going to win, but we're not just going to win we're going to crush Hufflepuff. I want us to win by at least 70 points. Can we crush them?"
"Yea." we said with varying levels of enthusiasm.
"I said are we going to crush them?"
"YEA!"
"That's what I like to hear. Let's go out there and win it."
We ran out as the commenter, some Hufflepuff named Conner, said all our names. "And their new seeker HARRRRIIIIIIISSSSSSSOOOOONNNN. It's today we'll see if he's here for talent or luck ladies and gentleman." Luck, ha. If there is one thing I am genuinely good at it's Quidditch.
The quaffle was thrown in the air and I zoomed off, smiling. This will be fun.
Tom's POV:
I was tempted to go to the library and pretend that Harry wasn't playing a deadly sport where someone cursed a bludger before. The only thing that kept me there was knowing that maybe if I was here I could save him again. We were all in the Ravenclaw stands together. Even those three girls who have taken to hanging around us. I honestly don't know why Harry sees fit to 'increase our number of friends', I don't have friends I have lackeys and Harry.
Harry started into a sweeping spiral. "What's he doing?" Vera asked.
The annoying red head, the female Ravenclaw one, answered. "It's a standard seeker maneuver. It's a great way to look for the snitch."
Harry went near vertical in his chase with that Hufflepuff responsible for his injuries hot on his tail. "Has he seen the snitch?" Vera asked again.
Hermione didn't even look up from her book "No." she flipped a page. "Harry likes to play with his opponents first."
She was right as he pulled up suddenly and started climbing. The dumb Hufflepuff nearly crashed into the ground. He still followed Harry.
He went back to his big looping searching. He dived again the idiotic Hufflepuff diving with him. It looked as though a bludger was going to hit them. The bludger hit the Hufflepuff, but Harry pulled a 'dive roll' according the stupider Gryffindor. Why Harry forces me near them is beyond me, sometime. Other times they're not terrible. See Tom maybe it's best if you left Harry, left him and his annoying crew behind. Go back to your snakes. Discover the chamber of secrets. Destroy the mudbloods of the world. You don't have to put on this good guy facade. It won't get you anywhere. Becoming the minister? Please, you deserve to be an emperor.
Stop get out of my head. I felt his presence slowly retreat. I went back to watch the game. Just in time to see the other seeker crash into the ground hard and Harry skim the top of the grass snitch in hand. From the look on everyone's face the whole thing was as impressive as I thought it would be and as terrifying. From what I saw he was near vertical, again, and pulled up less than a foot away from the ground.
We ran down from the stands, rather they ran. I walked at a steady, fast pace. I heard the heartless captain say to Harry. "You didn't need to be so mean Harrison. You could have hurt him."
"Do you remember when I had to miss practice on Halloween because I was in the infirmity. I was there because he cursed me. I dodged of course, but tripped into a bed of venomous flowers. This was revenge, completely legal, too. I even got house points for it."
"Alright, I'll let it slide this time Harrison, but a great catch really, I thought you were going to crash."
"I have yet to have an accident with a broom, unless it was tampered with. I don't plan on starting now. Tom!" He exclaimed when he saw me. He ran to me, with his eyes lit up. I couldn't tell him how nerve wracked I was. Not with his eyes shining like that. Malevolent is right I'm turning into a sap. Only for Harry I thought. We belong together. He's the only one for me. I listened as he chatted about the match and I felt conflicting unidentifiable emotions. I shoved them aside and focused on Harry. My Harry, I felt a fondness for him that I never felt before.
Harry's POV:
Tom was deep in thought but he does that a lot. I held his hand as we walked to to Ravenclaw tower to celebrate our 200 point victory over the puffs. Vera was holding my other hand. Hermione and Jack were talking avidly to my right and on Tom's other side, Dellen was shamelessly flirting with the girl and Charlus was trying to bring his friend in. It wasn't working.
The weeks to December passed in similar fashion. It looked like Amanda was winning Dellen's affection, if only because she was more polite about turning him down. Eve and Mindy have come to ignore him. Charlus and Mindy talk about quidditch, a lot. And Eve joins 'Mione and Jack on their spell talks. She leaves when they start flirting. Vera is quite happily all over the place scheming. I'm a little afraid about what she's up to. Me too. Okay who the hell are you. Sean, and I think I should be asking you that question. "I'm going to my room." I said to my friends that were in the sitting room. "I don't feel well. Please leave me alone."
Okay we're alone now. I've gone through your memories so I can see why your here. I'll accept you into my body. I'll even let you take the led for now. I'm weak right now. Just let me talk to Vera for a sec. Oh and do you trust these guys? With my life. Tell them about me then. Okay, just so you know fate told me that we may have to fight for who ever get dominance of the body after your healed. I've seen all your memories. As I was waking up that last week or so. Oh so those noises were you? I thought I was going crazy. Just so you know I'm going along with this for two reasons, one because right now I don't have a choice and two you don't seem like a bad person, but change that I'll find a way to evict you. I'm here to stop people from being killed, I'm not going to hurt your loved ones.
I walked down stairs and put up the strongest privacy ward I knew. I laced it with a few tricky wards. Eavesdroppers will be harmed. "I need you all to swear on your magic, not that I don't trust you guys because I do, but this is sensitive information with Grindelwald after me..."
"What?" The girls asked in unison. Right haven't told them yet.
"I'll explain after you've made the vow." There was some minor grumbling but they complied. "Sean has woken up. We've gone coconscious."
"What?" Amanda, Eve, and Mindy asked in unison. I explained everything from the beginning.
"Let me get this straight, your inhabiting his body because you were going to kill Tom?" Mindy asked again after Amanda and Eve asked the exact same question.
"Yes, you good now?" they nodded. "Okay then. Vera, Sean want's to talk to you."
I felt as though I was being pushed aside and watching through a television. "Hey princess." He said in a weak voice, it was a little different than my voice.
"Sean." She threw herself into his arms.
"Easy there princess. Harry's been taking good care of you right?"
"Yea. He been great." She was teary eyed. I felt like I was intruding. Don't just wait until you and Tom start making out... At least he's good looking, but be careful, Voldemort may be lurking in there. I know. It's one of my worst fears. "Princess I've got to go now. I love you."
"Love you too." She said.
I wiggled my (our?) fingers a bit. Getting used to them again. It's a weird feeling. "Hey don't worry. He's not going any where. I promise."
"Okay." She continued resting on me. I patted her head. Life around here was sure going to get interesting.
Tom's POV:
What does this mean for you and Harry now? We're going to be fine. Right?
Okay done, short? Yes. Filler? Kinda. Necessary? Definitely. I hope you all stay tuned for the next chappie... It should be much better :D. Question is what is your dream phone? See I got a blackberry yesterday... that's also why this was a little late... tehee?
