A/N: Just wanna give a shout out to DebsTheSlytherinSnapeFan for the inspiration to try my hand at my own HP/WD crossover. if you haven't read her story Walking Dead Wizard yet you definitely need to! This first chapter is dedicated to you :D
Also! I will NOT be copying what is said exactly as I write. It has been way to long since I have seen the first season and I don't plan on going back to watch it just to be able to write what is said. There may be some parts that are close but for the most part I will be trying to make up my own dialogue that somewhat resembles what is said in the show. If any of you have a problem with that well you know how to hit the back button yes?
I also will not be pairing my FemHarry character with Daryl, I was going to but I am already five chapter's in and have already set it up for Rick/FemHarry. Sorry peeps! I almost put Luna with Rick but the more I ran the idea through my head the more I realized that wouldn't work for me. So far I have no pairing for Luna so if you have anyone that you would like to see her with later on let me know! Merle and Daryl are her cousins so they are off limits!
I have posted this chapter because I want to see what everyone thinks. I have four chapter's done and am working on number five now. I will also be posting Chapter 2 as well so please review! Let me know what you all think!
Disclaimer: I don't own either. Though god knows I wish I did!
Amelia hadn't planned on being in America long, in fact she had planned on spending just a month there before returning to London with her best friend Luna that had gone on her travels with her to settle some things there before they left again to continue their travels. Unfortunately that was now impossible. It seemed to happen over a course of a week, one night they had heard the rumors of people dying only to come back to life and attack others to the next being surrounded by absolute panic. Even in the wizarding districts people were panicking and not thinking rationally or trying to help anyone but themselves.
They took one look at each other and immediately made their way through the crowds in the magical shopping district that was only a little way outside of Atlanta, Georgia where they had been for a week before the outbreak happened and splitting up grabbed everything they could, most which of course was potions and potion ingredients but also books, they let out all of the animals in the animal shop so they could hopefully survive which ended up with both of them finding themselves with a familiar each, they also hit up the food market making sure to get enough supplies for their puppies and then they apparated back to their hotel dropping off the stuff they had gotten along with their new animals and heading out into the mundane side and grabbing all the food, clothes, camping gear, cooking supplies, personal hygiene stuff among many other things that most left behind because really you never knew when it would be needed before heading back to the hotel room.
Once there, Luna immediately unshrunk the seven chests that they had grabbed from the trunk shop from the magical district and immediately cast the charms to preserve the perishable food and for the frozen food while Amelia left and hit up a weapon store that was thankfully empty because surprise surprise it was closed on a Sunday. She immediately resized one of her trunks then summoned the guns into the first compartment before summoning all the ammo into the second before using the third for all the blades in the shop. Once done she apparated back to the room with Luna and set about changing out of her normal everyday clothes into clothes that put it frankly made her look like a complete badass.
Dark blue jeans that was snug, a red tank-top and a black biker cut vest with black combat boots, she put her hair into a braid that hung down on the left side of her chest and she strapped two katanas from the shop on her back as well as one dagger on each side of her waist with a gun on each beside the daggers as well as a dagger each inside her boots. Straightening up she looked to see Luna had done the same. After make sure that one of the compartments was comfortable for their new familiars which included a place to use the bathroom in one of Luna's trunks, they shrunk them down before sticking them into their pockets all except for a camper's book bag each on their backs. Amelia's held their tent and sleeping bags as well as cooking supplies while Luna's held some of their food as well as clothing for them to change into.
They shared a look then disappeared and never looked back.
It had been two months since the initial outbreak, Amelia and Luna had found their way to Atlanta and holed themselves up at the top of an apartment building where they had planned to stay for as long as they could before moving on and avoiding people like the plague. Their survival instincts where still high even though the War had been over for a year before the outbreak happened, it took more than a year to get rid of their knee-jerk response to defend themselves. So naturally they avoided most human contact only helping those with kids when they saw them with a group or helping a group that would have been eaten otherwise. They hadn't planned on joining a group at all or at least not for awhile.
Funny then how things happen that tends to change people's plans huh?
The morning had started out like any other, they had woken up, cooked something to eat, took a shower in the magical tent that they had gotten from the magical alley before dressing and taking it down since they had planned on leaving Atlanta that day. It was as Amelia was taking the wards down that they heard the gunshots.
Groaning Amelia ran her hand through her red locks before sharing a look with her best friend. "Please tell me I didn't just hear that."
Lips twitching Luna cocked her head to the side. "Sadly we both did and we both know you will want to go check it out to see if anyone needs help so might as well not even try to deny it Mia."
Grumbling Amelia picked up her bag and secured it onto her back before looking towards where the shots came from. "Yeah yeah sue me I have a saving people thing, not my fault you know."
Chuckling Luna shook her head before pointing to a distant rooftop in the direction. "Yes well let's apparate there to that rooftop and then see if we can't see what is going on."
"Lead the way then Lu."
They concentrated for a moment before disappearing in near silent pops. Something they had both perfected thanks to their travels. The thing with the magical world was not everyone was as backwards as Magical Britain is. Most place like America, Japan, Australia, etc where more advanced and understanding in things like how magic worked as well as the mundane world.
They had learned how to do most things without their wands, they had learned how to apparate without making nary a sound as well as other stuff like what runes to use to make electronics and other mundane things work around magic and how to put up the appropriate wards to keep themselves safe. Once they landed they immediately went over to the side of the roof and laid down taking out binoculars and doing a sweep of the area.
What Amelia saw made her blood boil. On a roof about a block away was a group of people, they watched as the tall black male got into a fight with an older white male that looked to have grown up in harsh condition's to the officer handcuffing him to the pipe and leaving him there. She was thankful that she had cast a listening charm so they could hear the groups conversation. One the group had left she frowned as she listened to one of them make a comment about a bag of guns and the other's saying they needed to leave and get back to the quarry.
Once she was sure they were gone, she canceled the charm before sitting up and looking at Luna. "They left him, those assholes left him Luna! How could anyone be so heartless!"
"I don't know Mia but it's alright we can help him out yeah? Then we can help him back to his group, I heard the female say something about a brother which means he is going to want to go back for him, whether he stays or not however..." She trailed off and bit her lip.
"Yeah well we need to get him un-cuffed before he does something stupid and then get him something drink and probably eat as well, we can go from there once he is more aware." Amelia replied before sighing. "Why do I get the feeling we are going to have to stay with this group?"
Laughing Luna patted her friend on the shoulder. "Who knows? Let's just go before he tries to cut his hand off."
Rolling her eyes Amelia and Luna both apparated to a roof next to the one the guy was on before jumping across with ease. They saw him trying to do exactly as Luna predicted he would try and was trying to saw through his own hand. Grimacing Amelia stunned him before pulling out dittany and dropping a few drops on the wound before wrapping it with a medical bandage after unlocking the cuffs. Then between them they were able to get him into the store next door after making sure it was clear of any walkers.
She left Luna tending to the man as she went back to the roof and summoning the bag of guns the officer had commented on. She then spent the next ten minutes grabbing everything she could into two of the six bags she had with her. As she scavenged, she thought back to the conversation she had with Hermione over their connected mirrors the day after they had left their hotel room.
Flashback
It had been a full twelve hours after they had left their hotel room. They had set up camp for the night in a small patch of woods, she set her bag down as she sat in front of the fireplace in the magical tent and pulled out her mirror.
"Hermione Granger." She spoke clearly and waited a bit impatiently for the connection to go through. What felt like forever but was really only a few minutes passed before the face of her other best friend appeared in the mirror.
"AMELIA! MINERVA! SEVERUS! AMELIA'S OKAY!" Tears streamed down her best friend's face as she took in her appearance. She heard hurried footsteps before Minerva and Severus both appeared in the mirror behind her friend.
"Oh thank Merlin you are alright Miss Potter, is Miss Lovegood alright as well?" Minerva asked, the relief showed clearly on her face. Amelia beckoned Luna over and angled the mirror so they could see them both.
"We are fine, how is everyone at Hogwarts? Nobody bitten or anything I hope?" Amelia questioned.
"Everyone is fine Amelia, the wards went on full lockdown this morning, nobody can get in or out at the moment." Severus replied, the relief he felt as seeing her and Luna both not showing on his face but in his voice. It had taken a few months for him to recover after the war and in that time he had sat down with Amelia and discussed everything that had happened. He had found out that he had been lied to about her upbringing as well as things that he hadn't known about like the fact that Molly, Ginerva and Ronald had all been stealing from her family vaults that she hadn't even know she had until after the war.
It had taken a few days but at the end they had an understanding and had put their past firmly behind them, he even gave her lessons to reteach her how to brew potion's correctly once he learned that she had been really looking forward to his class and had shown him through her memory of how she had been taking notes that very first lesson and then had started to study as much as she could on the side at night when she couldn't sleep not just potion's but anything that caught her fancy.
"How are the rest of the Weasleys? Did they make it before the wards locked down?" Amelia questioned.
Hermione was the one to reply. "They made it, the other three refused to leave the burrow though, Arthur tried to get them to come with but Molly refused and you know how Ron and Ginny are, they stayed with her."
Snorting Amelia shook her head. "What of Augusta and Neville?"
"They came two days ago, as a matter of fact most of the Order is here as well as a majority of your DA group, the only ones that didn't make it was the Creevey brother's but I am sure they are just fine." Minerva promptly replied.
Sighing in relief Amelia nodded her head. Before looking her best friend in the eyes. "Your parents Mione?"
Tears welled up before she shook her head. "They didn't make it, I went there first before making my way here. They were already gone when I got there."
"Oh I'm so sorry Mione." Amelia said wishing she could hug her best friend.
"It's alright, do you know what this is Mia? I mean how could this be happening? People don't just die and come back from the dead without dark magic being involved!" Hermione questioned.
"I don't know Mione but I can assure it that it's not dark magic, these things aren't like the inferi are, you can't burn them and kill them that way, you have to aim for the brain. Once hit, it stops them completely."
"You have to be kidding me! You mean to tell me that they are actual freaking zombies?!" Hermione replied
Amelia and Luna couldn't help but laugh at her reaction. "Sadly that's exactly what I am saying, the killing curse won't work either, I've tried. The only thing that will work on them spell wise is a bombarda or a reducto to the head, we came across a group of them trying to attack a family earlier today, that's how we know to go for the head, after that we ran across another group as we were looking for some supplies and tested out what spells would be useful." Luna replied.
"Do you know what caused this though? I mean it's affecting the magical world as well." Minerva questioned.
Shaking her head Amelia replied. "I don't know Minnie, it's a disease of some sort I think. I'm planning on trying to make it to the CDC to see if they have answers, I don't know if they do or not but who knows?"
"How long will it take you guys to get there Amelia?" Severus questioned.
"I don't know a month maybe two? We plan on traveling on foot, it's to hectic and dangerous to apparate without knowing the area. I don't want to apparate someplace and end up bitten because I didn't know for a fact that the area was clear."
"That's understandable, Amelia, Diagon Alley fell already. It was overrun the day I found my parents and came here." Hermione said.
"SHIT! What about the goblins? Did they make it?" Amelia questioned.
"Yeah they locked down Gringotts. They let anyone in that could get in before they were forced to shut the doors." This time Severus replied.
Sighing in relief Amelia nodded once. "Alright, Mione I am going to send you a laptop and the instructions on how to get it running on magic through the box, see if you can't get in touch with any of the CDC's in the world. It won't need the regular internet, but you probably won't be able to do anything except e-mail people so once you get that set up let me know the address. When I finally make it to the CDC I will have them send you any of the information they have, if anyone can find an answer to this it'll be you, Severus and Draco."
"I can do that Mia." Hermione said, a familiar light entering her eyes at the challenge presenting her.
"Good, we will send you through vials of blood of these things once we get the chance okay? I will also find some mundane lab equipment, it might just take magical and mundane means to find a cure."
"What are two planning on doing aside from heading towards the CDC?" Severus questioned.
"We are going to gather what information that we can about these things, hopefully it will help. We will keep everyone up dated through the DA coins, hopefully those that didn't make it to Hogwarts will stay safe with the information that we can gather." Luna replied.
"Alright, you two stay safe. Might want to try to find a group eventually that you two can join, there is strength and safety in numbers." Minerva said sternly.
Chuckling Amelia nodded. "Eventually we may have to but I will try to put it off as long as I can, you all know I don't like being around people."
"We know Mia." Hermione replied softly.
After that the conversation shifted and they spoke for the next twenty minutes about different things before saying good-bye. Even though she knew logically it would be better, she really really didn't want to find a group and she dreaded the day that they ended up doing so.
Shaking her head Amelia brought herself out of the memory to put the last few items in the bag before apparating back onto the roof of the building Luna was holed up in with the male they had rescued.
As she headed inside she really hoped that they could return the man to his brother and leave but the feeling in her gut said otherwise and she didn't know how to feel about that.
How little did she know that their meeting with the group would change things for both of them, whether is was for the best or worse that remained to be seen.
