DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter or Doctor Who, or Narnia for that matter, although this plot is mine. I have no real desire to own the three series, although I rather wish I had my own TARDIS.
Author's Note: Here we go with the another chapter of You Are Not Alone. ALLONS-Y!
UPDATE - 15/7/2012: Style and spacing consistency updated on all chapters, minor grammar corrections.
Chapter Thirty Eight: Task the Third
The Great Hall Antechamber
Hogwarts, Scotland, Earth, 1995 CE
Breakfast came on the morning of the Third Task, and Professor McGonagall directed Harry into a small antechamber. Harry found himself in a small room off the Hall, noticing he was the only champion to be there yet. He barely concealed a snort to see the other parents and family being extra courteous to the Queen, but was shaken out of his musing by twin yells of 'Jamie!' and he just had time to bend down to their level before he felt the impact from the two youngest British princesses.
'Hey Bea. Genie. How are my two favourite girls?' Harry asked the now five and four year old girls.
'Don't let Lulu hear you say that!' Bea said cheekily with a wit beyond her years.
After Harry finished greeting his young cousins, he stood and made his way over to his grandmother and Aunt Diana. As Harry greeted his family, their chatting was interrupted by another double yell from Beatrice and Eugenie, this time of 'Lulu!' Evidently McGonagall had told Lucy where Harry was.
Lucy continued over to her grandmother-in-law, little princesses in tow, embarrassing Harry thoroughly by kissing him on the cheek, before proceeding to have an animated conversation about the year so far with the Queen. Harry realised she was telling her about the second task when he saw Lucy blushing prettily.
The Great Hall
Hogwarts, Scotland, Earth, 1995 CE
The feast that night seemed to peter out over time until Dumbledore stood up and made the announcement that all the champions had been dreading. 'Would all the champions please make their way down to the maze now please?'
Harry sighed and stood, listening numbly to the encouragement from family and friends, barely taking in the encouraging smile from his bondmate next to him. He turned to walk out of the Hall when he heard Lucy call his name. He turned back to her and was surprised as her cool, soft hands pulled his lips down to hers in the most fiery passionate kiss they had shared. When they finally broke apart they barely registered the cheers and wolf whistles from the Hall, both flushed bright red as Lucy smiled coyly at him and whispered, 'For luck.'
All Harry could say in reply was 'Wow!' One last tender hug was shared before he hugged his grandmother, aunt and both his little cousins before he finally left the Hall to head down to the maze, not noticing that Lucy was now sitting at Gryffindor table, ducking her now bright red face as all their friends and Harry's family good-naturedly ribbed her about what they were dubbing the "kiss of the century".
The Champion's Tent
Outside the Maze
'That was some kiss, Harry!' Cedric said before he was joined by Viktor and Fleur snickering, none of the champions noticing the black raven take flight out of the tent and soar away over the maze into the darkness.
Harry blushed bright red and muttered some sort of thanks before wandering away to sit in the corner and go over his plan for the task in his head, trying not to think about THAT kiss.
'Okay! Champions, the order for the night is this,' Bagman said enthusiastically, before shuddering as he looked over at Harry who was shooting an icy glare at the man he had still not forgiven for the "Second Task Incident". 'His Highness will enter first,' Bagman continued, much less enthusiastically, 'followed by Mister Diggory, then Herr Krum and finally Mademoiselle Delacour.' The champions rolling their eyes at the attempt to use various languages.
'In five minutes time, you will be accompanied by a family member out into the arena and from there the final task will begin.' Crouch explained before the family members entered, and Harry did not fail to notice that three of the four members were the Queen, and the Ministers for Magic of both Britain and France and the fourth was a high ranking member of the Bulgarian aristocracy.
The Maze Entrance
The crowd erupted as the four champions entered the forecourt of the maze, Viktor first led by his father, then Fleur led by her father Pierre Delacour, French Minister for Magic, then Cedric and his father Amos, British Minister for Magic and finally Harry and the Queen of Great Britain. Above all the din, thanks to their mental link, Harry could hear Lucy, 'Good luck my love! Stay safe!'
'I promise Lu. I love you.' Harry replied mentally before waiting for the whistle blast that signalled his entry into the maze, and he was certainly not afraid to admit that he was completely scared.
He listened impatiently as Ludo Bagman, ever the showman entered into a longwinded summary of points, running through from fourth to first. 'And in first place, with the first ever maximum score in history, Harry Potter-Windsor. Mister Potter-Windsor will enter first, on my whistle, three, two, one.' The whistle sounded sharp through the crisp night air and the crowd cheered as he entered the maze, lighting his wand tip as he did so, feeling the now familiar weight of Frœkn on his back. Harry heard a crunching noise behind him and the entrance to the maze closed, the hedges magically snapping together.
Harry continued moving forwards, deeper into the maze, and by the time the whistle had sounded for the fourth time, and all champions were in the maze, he was very concerned that he had yet to encounter any of the so called obstacles within the maze. He faintly heard the sound of wings flapping over his head, but discounted as he continued deeper.
Eventually though, he came upon a dementor. His Press Secretary, Remus Lupin, had taught Lucy and himself how to repel dementors, just in case, and so he summoned up thoughts of the kiss he had shared with Lucy before the task and bellowed, 'EXPECTO PATRONUM!' A silver lion coalesced from his wand and Harry was surprised to notice that the lion gradually became gold and more solid, engulfing the dementor and rending it to dust. The lion turned back to Harry with a regal look, and Harry muttered, 'Aslan!' The regal lion nodded before disappearing, back into the ether.
Harry used the Four Point Spell, 'Point me!', ascertaining the direction he needed to go and continued through the maze, deeper and deeper, moving past a strange mist which flipped earth and sky. He battled one of Hagrid's strange creatures, a Blast-Ended Skrewt he thought, and then encountered Cedric battling with an Imperioused Viktor, together the Hogwarts students were able to defeat the crazed Bulgarian and sent up red sparks before continuing onwards.
Harry continued, hitting many dead ends, but he could sense that he was moving deeper into the maze and soon he came face to face with a sphinx, and after a short conversation he was face to face with a riddle;
'First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end.
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for the hard-to-find word.
Now string them together and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?'
Harry decided to work through it bit by bit, hearing four clues, and was thankful that the sphinx allowed him to pull out a small notebook and a fountain pen, and he wrote out the four individual clues each in a quarter of the page, starting with the first, he muttered to himself, 'Imposter...no...hmmm, secrets...a spy!' He carefully wrote 'spy' in the first quarter and moved onto the second. After a few minutes Harry realised the simplicity of this clue and added the letter 'd' to the second quarter, moving onto the third. 'Hard-to-find, er, what's hard-to-find?' He muttered, then, it hit him. 'Of course!' he wrote 'er' in the third quarter and looked at the fourth part of the clue, 'Spy...d...er...Spider!' He answered with a triumphant cry, knowing the Doctor would have got it almost straight away.
The sphinx nodded and moved to the side and Harry moved on, and he could tell he was now approaching the very centre of the maze.
A short time later, he and Cedric had once again been forced to work together to defeat a large Acromantula, resulting in Harry breaking his leg, and were now in an argument over who should take the Triwizard Cup. Eventually they agreed to take it together, and they immediately felt a hook behind their navels as the portkey activated.
Back at the spectator area, pandemonium erupted. Once the Triwizard Cup had been touched, the hedges disappeared and the various obstacles were magically neutralised, and yet Harry and Cedric were nowhere to be seen. 'Stay safe Harry, please! I need you!' Lucy thought, hoping that their mental link was working. She didn't hear a reply, but she felt calm, as though she had been wrapped in one of his hugs.
The Graveyard
Little Hangleton, Yorkshire, England, Earth, 1995 CE
Hundreds of miles later and Harry and Cedric were deposited in a graveyard just fifty metres away from a cauldron and the largest headstone in the cemetery, a large depiction of a winged Grim Reaper. Harry had just enough time and presence of mind to disillusion Frœkn before he heard a high-pitched voice say, 'Kill the spare.'
Harry watched in despair as a man walked out of the gloom, Harry recognising him as Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew, then Wormtail raised his wand and spoke the dreaded words, 'Avada Kedavra.' Harry's yell went unnoticed as Cedric was thrown backwards by the green light impacting him. Neither Harry nor Wormtail noticed that Cedric's body was thrown back against the portkey, vanishing back to Hogwarts.
The Maze Entrance
Hogwarts, Scotland, Earth, 1995 CE
Lucy saw the dead body of Cedric deposited in front of the Headmaster, but she didn't take the time to think about it, pulling a small key on a chain out from under her shirt she snuck away to a secluded part of the grounds and was thankful that Harry's TARDIS answered her call. She unlocked the correct compartment and dropped down into the console room, and remembering the basic lessons she had received from Harry, Ro, the Doctor and Master, she focussed on Harry and used her new Time Lady instincts and set the coordinates, setting the TARDIS to silent before it took flight.
Harry's TARDIS, The Time Vortex
Lucy managed to calm her breathing as she barely managed to keep the time machine in her control, never having flown it on her own before, flying onwards towards her love.
The Graveyard
Little Hangleton, Yorkshire, England, Earth, 1995 CE
Of the occupants of the graveyard, only Harry sensed the arrival of the TARDIS and he barely caught a glimpse of Lucy, now hiding behind a headstone, and he sent her a mental message not to intervene unless absolutely necessary.
Wormtail followed a ritual to bring Lord Voldemort back to life using his own hand, the bone of Voldemort's father and the blood of the enemy, Harry Potter. Harry winced as the knife but into his arm, but he remained calm and watched how things played out, both he and the hidden Lucy watching as the resurrected Voldemort stepped out of the cauldron and was robed.
Harry dodged curses from every which way, unsheathing Frœkn and cutting down several of Voldemort's Death Eaters with the sword, even landing a large gash across Lord Voldemort's chest before he joined Lucy and together they slipped into Harry's TARDIS and flew away from the scene.
Voldemort meanwhile managed to heal his large gash and only now did he realise that his heart was beating twice as fast as he expected, and after consulting with one of his Death Eaters, Frederick Vaisey, who earned his living as a Healer, discovered he now seemed to have two hearts, but no other benefits from the ritual.
The Hospital Wing
Hogwarts, Scotland, Earth, 1995 CE
After arriving back at Hogwarts, Harry had reached the end of his adrenaline high and had collapsed. Lucy had very nearly panicked but eventually had managed to get him to the hospital wing, and now she was sitting with most of Harry's family, waiting for him to wait from the dreamless sleep Madam Pomfrey had placed him under.