The Magic Within
Chapter 2
"Who Is Ruvik?"
Disclaimer: Once more, I DO NOT OWN EITHER THE EVIL WITHIN OR HARRY POTTER IF I DID HARRY POTTER WOULD'VE BEEN YAOI AND THE EVIL WITHIN WOULD NOT BE AS AWESOME AS IT IS. Also, I would not be writing fanfiction if i owned either so nyeh. :3
EDIT: Thank you to Mordollwen Castiel for pointing out there was a problem with the document, I have no idea what went wrong there, So I am reuploading it, hopefully it's readable this time ;-;
Once the two had continued on their way, they found themselves in a seemingly abandoned village. They snuck around the few zombies they saw, before hiding in one of the buildings after taking out the fat zombie hiding inside. They heard someone speaking, then running noises. Harry went to investigate, and ended up saving a dude in a lab coat that set Harry's "Coward" senses off. The man introduced himself as Doctor Jimenez, and said that he had been chased into the village while he had been following his patient Leslie. Once the "good doctor" made the suggestion for himself to draw away the zombies while they opened the gate, Harry nixed that plan.
"Um, no. How the hell do you plan to do that without getting yourself killed? Are you athletic? Can you run for long periods of time at a really fast pace? Do you have excellent hiding abilities? Obviously not or I wouldn't have had to save your bloody arse. There's more than one way to gut a fish, or in this case, there's more than one way to cause a distraction." The doctor looked annoyed that his plan had been vetoed, but Sebastian looked confused.
"And how do you plan on distracting them then?" Jimenez asked, his tone hostile. Harry's grin spoke of mischief as he pulled something out of his bag. "Is that a, bottlerocket?" indeed that was what it looked like, it was long, slender, and it had a place to be anchored into something like a bottle rocket. Harry nodded.
"Yup." he popped the "p." "However, it is not an ordinary bottle rocket. This my friend, and doctor, is a fireworks designed specifically to cause chaos and mischief. And make sparks in specific shapes. It was invented by a couple of my friends who ran a joke shop." George never was the same after Fred died, but he kept inventing,in the spirit of continuing their dream. Harry had helped for awhile before he left England, and he still kept in touch through letters and packages. It was how he'd gotten the firework.
"I just have to find a spot to set this off and voila! A perfect distraction of reasonable size. Course, we should probably get something to open the gate first, cuz I don't know of many spells that can melt metal. I mean I could just burn the gate down, but I think that would be counterproductive don't you?" He was rambling, but he could care less. Jimenez looked at Harry like he was already insane, but Sebastian understood perfectly.
"I agree. Burning down the gate would just call attention, no matter how much the firework distracts them. Where can we find something to open it though?" Jimenez cleared his throat, his tone fearful and meek.
"Well, I did, see a chainsaw in the larger barn, I don't know if it works but I saw it. Would that work?" Harry had the feeling Jimenez saw more than that, and the sense that he wasn't telling everything came back full force.
"Did you see anything else? Anything around the chainsaw?" His expression made it clear he was not amused, which made Jimenez start sweating nervously.
"There were a few of the, creatures in the barn. However it should be little difficulty for you to retrieve the chainsaw." Harry wasn't buying it fully, but he figured Jimenez wasn't going to tell more than that. He then told Jimenez to hide, then once the gate was open to sprint through it.
"Because you're better off hiding than getting in the way of people actually doing the work." He glared at Jimenez as he left to hide, the obvious coward. Aside from looks Harry was so getting Wormtail vibes off of this dude. He sighed, shook his head, then turned to Sebastian.
"I'll go set off the firework, you go look for that chainsaw alright? I trust you, I don't trust mr. I'm-a-doctor-so-what-i-say-is-more-important-than-what-you-have-to-say." Sebastian nodded. The doctor was coming off as a jerk, Harry was a cop and had been nothing but straightforward with him. While Sebastian went off in search of the chainsaw, Harry went looking for a place to set off the firework close enough to distract the zombies, but not close enough that Sebastian would be seen once he found the chainsaw and started opening the gate. Once he found a secure place, ((an alley near the way Sebastian and he had come in through, which was also blocked off now,)) He wiggled the bottle rocket into a bottle he'd found, then used a small incendio to light the wick, making sure the bottle was secure before he ran to hide, waiting for it to go off. A minute later and he was not disappointed. The firework shot off, quickly making sparks in the shape of a large phoenix which spiraled upwards with loud sizzling noises. Harry heard the growls of the creatures, and he hurried to get away from the area. He heard loud growling, almost roaring, and he looked down from where he stood on the second floor of a house by the gate, to see Sebastian running away from a very fat creature with the chainsaw. As Harry ran to help, firing off a Bombarda as he did, he thought to himself that he'd been accurate about the doctor not telling them everything. The creature flew back, as he'd aimed a little too low, but he didn't stop moving, slowly getting back up. Sebastian threw a grenade at it, which when it blew up it didn't appear to do much, though he stopped moving. Course, then it just had to get weird, and fat man turned into, Blood droplets? Confused, Harry followed the line of droplets to- Hey that's the dude from the Hospital that knocked him out! The man turned around and seemed to flicker, though Harry wanted to get a word in edgewise.
"I'm still mad at you for the Hospital! Bloody bastard!" He growled, moving as if to chase after the man, who smirked before he flickered out of existence. Harry made a frustrated growling noise, kicking the dirt. Sebastian looked at him.
"You know him?" He asked, confused.
"Not exactly." He sighed. "He knocked me out, back at the hospital. I'd found a patient, looked like a teenager, really pale blond hair and like, pale blue eyes, kept muttering "Hurts" to himself. Then just before that dude showed up, (About to stab me with a friggin syringe!) he practically shouted "Coming!" ugh! I'm still mad about it too. I survived a bloody magical war, and i get knocked out that easily!" He grunted, irritated with himself more than anything. Sebastian gave a wry laugh.
"Well, I don't think he's anywhere near normal, even by your standards I would guess. Gah it feels like I'm losing my mind."
Harry frowned.
"Hang on, I have a few potions that may help." He dug into the pouch (It was NOT a fanny pack ((It totally is))) and pulled out a sky blue colored potion with swirls of royal purple. "It's called the Draught of Peace. Helps calm turbulent thoughts, and it helps one think clearer. Well, It's also useful for clearing one's mind before going to sleep but, not everybody uses it like that." He grinned sheepishly.
"Well, it's better than nothing. Thanks." Sebastian said gratefully, taking the vial, opening it, and sniffing it.
"It's better to down it in one, they aren't the most pleasant taste, though this is one of the better ones." Harry grinned, watching as Sebastian did as suggested, throwing it back and swallowing it with a scrunched face. He sighed as it kicked in, and he felt his thoughts clear and settle.
"Wow." He smiled ruely. "Wish i'd had that when i was working on my wife's case."
Harry frowned. "I'm, really sorry that she's missing still, but maybe she left for a reason? Maybe she was involved with something, and left for your safety? There's a lot of reasons someone can disappear. Honestly at this point i would just try and live my life, properly living it, not just surviving like you're doing now, and hope that I would meet them again someday, if it's ever possible. Maybe she's dead, maybe she got taken, maybe she was involved with something, but at this point? Sebastian it's been years. If she hasn't come back, maybe she can't. For now let's just focus on figuring out what the hell is going on and getting out alive. Alright?" He spoke honestly, but not without empathy. After all, he'd lost so many people, and he believed he could understand the thought of wanting to hold onto the hope of them coming back one day, especially since there was no proof she didn't leave willingly, but there was no clear reason for her to leave suddenly and without prior warning or notice.
Sebastian nodded grimly before going to pick up the chainsaw and moving to cut the door mechanism. Harry sighed, spotting the Doctor sticking his head out of a nearby house's balcony. He turned back to the gate once he heard it open, hurrying to follow him through it. Jimenez came running up behind them, then followed them, saying that he was following his patient, and he had an obligation to protect his patients and blah blah blah, blah blah. Harry stopped listening, and kept walking. Soon they heard yelling, Harry recognized it as the voice of the boy from the hospital, and Jimenez and Sebastian recognized the voice as Leslie, Jimenez's patient. They ran to follow, going through a spattering of houses, eventually coming to a building that Jimenez referred to as his brother's hospice. Harry was getting a bad feeling already. He and Sebastian went in first, making their way downstairs to find Jimenez's brother, "Valerio," had turned into one of those things. Sebastian dealt with him, then Harry followed a noise into the next room, finding the boy from the hospital. He went over, grabbing the boy's arms gently.
"Hey, hey, are you alright? Have you been injured?" Jimenez came rushing over, being halted by harry raising a hand.
"One person near him at a time, he's scared. Don't crowd him." He turned back to the boy, obviously Leslie.
"Leslie, you're alright. You've got people here to protect you. Are you hurt?" Slowly but surely He was calming, nodding slowly to Harry's calm questions and moving closer to him.
"Coming…. Something….coming." Harry tensed, pulling out his gun. Jimenez looked at him like he was crazy for taking the word of a clearly disturbed person, but Harry knew that the last time Leslie said that that burned dude had shown up, so Harry was very much inclined to listen to him. Sebastian, who had followed Harry into the room soon after he'd gone in, followed Harry's lead and pulled out his gun, pointing towards the door. It slammed open, Harry opening fire immediately and making… something, become visible briefly. Sebastian followed it,Harry stood by Leslie, making sure he didn't get hurt. There was no way in hell he was gonna let an innocent get hurt. Leslie reminded him of a more scared, anxious and out of it male Luna, with the blue eyes and the pale blonde hair. He was not leaving someone like that to get hurt without a fight. Once Sebastian took care of the thing, with a little help from Harry shooting it once it became visible, Harry moved Leslie into the hall, keeping him calm while Sebastian covered their backs and Jimenez grumbled. However, once they came to where the stairs used to be, they were forced to stop.
"We must be collectively losing our minds." Sebastian groused, which made Leslie start repeating it, getting progressively louder before abruptly stopping. Harry, who had turned to face Leslie once the "Fit" started, caught sight of the man again. Jimenez gasped, seemed he had caught sight of him as well.
"Ruvik" Jimenez whispered. The man, obviously this Ruvik, turned and began walking away. Sebastian moved to follow, ignoring Jimenez's cry for him not to. Suddenly, everything flickered, and Sebastian and "Ruvik" were gone. Harry turned to Jimenez, only to find him gone as well. Harry looked at Leslie, who was thankfully still there and clinging to his arm now.
"Scared, scared, scared."
Harry sighed. "Hey now, we'll be, well I can't guarantee we'll be fine but I can promise I will do everything I can to make sure you aren't hurt alright?"Harry made Leslie look him in the eye, showing he was serious. Leslie smiled.
"Protect, protect."
Harry grinned.
"Alright. Now we just have to find a way out. Ooookay, this is not where we were before. Where the hell are we now?"He had straightened to look around, and found that they were now in what appeared to be some kind of factory. Lovely.
"Alright. Stick close, alright Leslie?"
"Close, close."
"Oh how I wish that didn't sound so ominous." Now, the only question going through his mind?
'Who the fuck are you Ruvik?'
And that's it for now! I took into account some helpful reviews and attempted to fix some of the problems pointed out. I hope this reads smoother, and that you guys enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it! Also, Since Sebastian is technically a background character, I was only planning on having him there for some of the more important moments. Though, this will in fact differ kinda majorly from evil within canon around the time Sebastian meets up with Joseph and Kidman during the bus scene. If you have not finished playing and/or watching a playthrough of the evil within/the evil within DLC, then: SPOILER WARNING, THIS STORY WILL IN FACT CONTAIN MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE EVIL WITHIN AND THE KIDMAN DLC. Course, canon divergence, but still, plot spoilers and info spoilers. But, if you have in fact finished and or watched it being played, I am in fact going off of the playthrough by Markiplier, so if I miss any information from before the divergence,please let me know and I will look up and correct the oversight. Thank you for the encouragement and the patience, and I hope I can get the third chapter out quickly. OH! Yes, Harry and Leslie will get separated at one point soon, but Harry will not reunite with Sebastian until the Victoriano Mansion and the flashback/memory situation. :3 I have plans~
Goodnight and thank you again Lovelies!
Lola~