This story is based off of Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling
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That morning Hermione woke up stretched and smiled down at akasha, 'ahh finally i got to sleep in' akasha yawned in reply and plopped his head back down on my chest, deciding to ignore me for now.
Nothing notable happened on Friday, it was the same routine they had before Thursday. Now it was Saturday and i have a lot of things planned for today, first breakfast, then do some work in the green house, and finally read the three brothers with tom.
Another thing i want to do was work on my wolfsbane potion. One of the things i have learned about this time line is that wolfsbane was invented by the same person, just 40 years or so early. This gives me more evidence for the, i'm not in my own past but in an alternate version of the past, theory i have been working on, which comes with it's own issues but it will have to do for now.
The wolfsbane potion being invented already gives me the opportunity to work with it, it would be very suspicious and could do harm to the time line if i had invented it. With the help of professor Snape's potions books i hope i can at least alter the current version. Since the problems with the original make it very hard for werewolves to gain access to use it, which is the fact that the ingredients are expensive, you have to take the potion everyday for a week for it to work, and it is very difficult for an average potions maker to make.
Maybe i can eliminate at least one if not more of the issues, most important i think is the amount of times you need to drink the potion. I'll try to narrow it down to one or two doses before the full moon.
I should probably start now if i am going to make any progress before the next full moon especially if i come across any werewolves who need it. Lets see today is May 18th and the next full moon is June 1st, not a lot of time but i will make it work. First things first, breakfast then green house to see if i have some of the ingredients growing, the others i should have stocked in the potions lab.
I stretch once more and push akasha to the side so i can get out of bed to clean up, i'll give him his weekly sponge bath later, he does seem tired after all.
After i finish my shower i dry off and get dressed. I walk into my room and nudge akasha awake, 'i'm about to start cooking breakfast, how about you and nagini go do your hunting' i open my door into the hallway, 'come on lets wake them up.'
With akasha following along i peek into Tom's room. He is still asleep in his usual position of half side/half back with both of his arms stretched out to the side and nagini draped over him.
I walk over and nudge nagini, she gives a tired hiss and plops to Tom's side, lifting her head to stare at me.
I giggle, 'time for you and akasha to go hunting, i'll wake up Tom, i have something special in mind for breakfast' as they make their way downstairs i lean over the edge of his bed and lift him up by his shoulders causeing his head to flop to the side.
I let go of his shoulders and he full body flops back on the bed, he is clearly awake so what to do, "time to wake up tom, i need to introduce you to new food" he merely groans and rolls onto his back.
Alright, if he wants it that way. I sit on the edge of the bed and lean over him with my hands outstretched and before he can react i have my hands on both sides of his head.
I then proceed to shower him in kisses all over his face causeing him to squeal and try to push himself deeper into the mattress. I move on to tickling his sides, discovering that he is very ticklish, he continues to squeal but can't hold back his laughs and giggles either as the sound fills the room.
I lift up his shirt and blow on his stomach for as long as i could, he lets out his loudest squeal yet followed by a peel of giggles that probably filled the whole house.
I sit up and grin at him as he calms down, "are you awake now?"
He finally calms down enough to say, "i'm up, i'm up, geez" he huffs out at me, "why can't i just sleep?"
"Because" i say as i pull out some sweats and a t-shirt to set on his bed, "today i'm introducing you to new food, since you've only had japanese and pizza as far as new food goes, everything else was pretty basic, so you get to watch me cook something new, get dressed and meet me in the kitchen."
I leave him to get dressed, walk downstairs to the kitchen, and prepare the ingredients for chorizo and eggs.
_Tom P.O.V_
I get dressed as quickly as i can in my still tired state, and i notice she must have sent nagini hunting already.
I go downstairs to the kitchen and see mia with the ingredients already out, butter, eggs, and some sort of meat that looks like a sausage.
She waves me over, turns the stove on and puts butter in the pan, "some people prefer using oil but i like using butter, once that heats up enough to melt and sizzle i will put this in" she picks up the meat and cuts away the plastic covering i hadn't noticed before, "This is chorizo, a type of spicy mexican sausage, it's really soft so it's usually mixed in with other stuff whether it be eggs or a sause or something."
So it is a sausage, i watch as she takes the sausage and pulls it apart over the now sizzling pan, that is really soft.
Mia takes a spatula and starts pressing on the meat breaking it apart more and then stiring it around the pan, "you want to get it as spread as possible, and as smoothed out as you can so that it is more of a thick sause consistency, not solid" after a minute of stiring and pressing the meat does seem more on the liquid side, she picks up the bowl of already prepared eggs and pours it over the chorizo, she continues to mix them together, "you want to make sure that the eggs and chorizo mix and not just cooking separately, because then you might as well have made a chorizo omelet instead."
I am mildly confused about what an omlete is, i shrug, she'll probably tell me about that too.
A few minutes later the eggs and chorizo are both thoroughly mixed together and cooked, mia turns off the stove and quickly divides the chorizo and eggs onto two plates that she carries over to the table after setting the pan down, "come and eat tom, it's not overly spicy, just enough to give it a kick, kind of like curry."
I nod, it does smell good so it probably won't taste bad. After blowing on a piece i stabbed with my fork i take a bite, my eyes widen after i chew and swallow, "mia! It's delicious! Curry is still my favorite but this is amazing, much better than eggs and bacon."
She just chuckles at me and continues eating, and as i continue i think of what it would be like if mia hadn't come to wool's orphanage, i wouldn't be in this awesome house with my bedroom and the office with the portraits to talk to, my magic wouldn't be confirmed yet, i would still be scared and angry because of the other children, i would still have to see Mrs. Cole, i would still be eating the same awful food, wearing the same awful clothes, and i wouldn't have nagini, or akasha, or ari, and Mia wouldn't be my mom, i wouldn't know her at all...
And the only reason i'm not crying right now at just the thought is because i don't want mia to worry and ask questions about it. So i continue eating and leave those thoughts for another time.
When we finish and mia is cleaning the dishes she asks, "i will be working in the green house and potions lab until about 4pm with a lunch break, what would you like to do?" She thinks for a minute, "maybe read? Or watch me work but thats probably boreing, go and explore the forest with nagini and akasha? They do go hunting all the time in there, you wouldn't get lost."
I think about it, "finally exploring the woods would be nice, after that i'll read for a while" this will be fun.
Mia turns to me, "alright but you have to stay with them and if you see any magical creatures, stay away until you can remember what they are and if they are generally harmless, even then be careful."
I nod and go up the stairs to my room for my shoes, i hadn't thought of finding any magical creatures in our forest, but i guess its possible, now i'm even more excited even though there could be dangerous ones.
I find nagini and akasha and we set out to the line of trees with them leading the way.
_Hermione P.O.V _
After Tom leaves i get to work tending to the greenhouse, i need to check and make sure that i have the right ingredients for wolfsbane, some ingredients are more effective fresh, while the others are fine stored in jars for a decent period of time.
Aconite, also known as wolfsbane is one of the ingredients that works better fresh. I walk over to where tom and i planted it, looks good, the flowers are even in bloom. I pick the needed amount of leaves for approximately 4 weeks worth of potion just incase i come across more than one werewolf who needs a weeks supply.
I think for a moment of what else i will need, after the transformation they will most likely need more potions for recovery. I go around and get the fresh ingredients needed for 4 vitamix potions, replenishing potions, burning bitterroot balms and calming draught just incase, though i doubt they will need to calm anyone down.
After checking on the rest of my plants i take the ingredients over to my potions lab to start on my potions, good think i stocked it with alot of cauldrons.
I get to work setting up 8 cauldrons along my tables and counters, 4 of them will be for the wolfsbane potions, 1 weeks worth per cauldron. The other 4 with be used for the recovery potions.
I prepare the ingredients next to their corresponding cauldron, once i have done an unholy amount of choping, grinding, and squashing, as per the instructions in professor Snape's books, i start adding the ingredients into the already simmering water base in all of the cauldrons.
The wolfsbane potions all have to simmer for 15 minutes before the next step so i continue on the remaining potions. The calming draught has to simmer for 5 minutes before it's finished and the burning bitterroot balm has to cool and harden a bit before i can transfer it to jars, the vitamix and the replenishing potions are already finished and moved off their burners to cool.
While the calming draught finishes i go back to the wolfsbane which has finished simmering by now, i add in a few ingredients to each then run over to the calming draught to turn off the burner and move it over quickly to cool, i then run back to the wolfsbane to continue the rest of the steps, it would have been ruined had i left it sitting for too long.
All of the ingredients are now in and they need to simmer for a final 10 minutes, by now it has been around 45 minutes since i started and about 1 hour and 30 minutes since tom left to go exploring, i'm not overly worried since i know if tom was in danger he would have called me, and nagini and akasha are with him of course.
While they finish simmering i go over to the cabinets to get out all the jars and bottles needed for storage, i make sure they all have strong stasis charms on them for good measure. I pull out 4 small jars with screw on caps for the burning bitterroot balm, 4 small bottles with corks for the vitamix potions, 4 small bottles with corks for the replenishing potions, and 2 small bottles with corks for the calming draught.
After i fill up about half of them i go over to the wolfsbane potions to turn off the burners and move them to the cooling area, while they sit i finish up ladling the rest of the potions.
Once those are labeled and put away into my purse to bring to work with me monday, i go back to the cabinet and retrieve 28 more small bottles with corks. After i apply the stasis charms i bring them over to the remaining cauldrons putting 7 bottles beside each cauldron. By the time i finish filling up, labeling the bottles and putting them in my purse with the rest it has been about 2 hours or so since tom has left.
Right when i start to debate on if i should make lunch and bring it to him or find him first the snake tattoo on my arm starts to burn and my heart stops for a second, that's tom's tattoo.
I'm no help frazzled, though i didn't think i would have to fight for a while. I take a deep breath and mentally follow the connection to tom's location, i exhale quickly when i realize he is just outside of our property, the wards are not protecting him, ok deep breath, slow exhale. I follow the connection and apparate to where he is as silently as i have ever been.
_Tom P.O.V_
Everytime i have seen the forest from a distance it seemed dence with huge trees, which is still true up close but with the addition of noticing that the sun is still able to get through the dense trees, it's not enough to light up the area completely since it is still mostly shade, it's just not dark which is good for me.
I follow along behind nagini and akasha, them leading me on a path they claim is safe yet guaranteed to show me some cool stuff. After 15 minutes of not seeing anything different except for a stream we passed i ask, 'are you sure there is anything here? I haven't seen anything.'
Nagini chuckle hisses at me, 'of course there is, this whole time actually, you just haven't noticed.'
Really? I look around as i continue following them, i still don't see anything. After a minute i realize i haven't been looking up at the tree branches very often, that must be it.
I look up and study the branches with small amount of light available, for a few minutes it's the same result but i keep looking, after a little bit i notice movement that seemingly hadn't been there before, after a closer look i see a shape that seems to blend in with the tree. It reminds me of the monkeys i saw pictures of while at the orphanage, though this creature is not hairy, its green and hairless with limbs that look too long for it's body that have think skin connecting its fingers and toes together like the frogs in other pictures, but besides that it looks creepy with a wide grin filled with sharp teeth.
It doesn't stay in sight for long as it quickly swings to nearby branches, it seems so familiar, and i'm almost positive it was mentioned in the book mia had me read, what was its name?
As i think and continue walking while trying to follow it's movements, i don't notice a decent sized stick i'm about to step on. When i do it makes a noticeable sharp cracking sound when it breaks, much louder then the normal walking sounds.
The creature from earlier stopped when it heard the noise and i notice a red glow on it's forehead, also familiar from the book, what was the name? It was... it was... oh! It was the Clabbert! Thats right and the red light is them sensing danger.
Although after a minute the red glow stops and it continues swinging, looks like i'm not a threat to it, which is good since i don't want to be one, those teeth are sharp.
After being able to identify a magical creature i look around for more while i follow nagini and akasha, i should have brought the book with me, i'll have to remember for next time.
After awhile i notice a few more small creatures, the first was a fat looking bird that i remembered is called a diricawl, only because when i got too close it poofed away only leaveing feathers behind.
The next one was a short creature with a huge head and small body, when i saw it, it was eating something from the ground, i didn't move closer but when i looked closer it looked like it was eating some sort of spikey mushroom, i'm sure if there was enough light it would be a pinkish color which i remember are called horklump, which are eaten often by gnomes. That means the short creature with a huge head is a gnome which does sound like what i read from the book, i really do need to bring that with me next time.
After a little while i look up and notice the sun has gotten higher in the sky, it will probably be lunch time soon so a little bit longer than i will head back, it hasn't even felt that long since i left too.
After a minute i notice more movement, its another creature with a monkey like apearance though this one is much bigger, so it would be more like an ape. Except this ape seems to shimmer in and out of existence for a second like in the process of turning invisible, long silver hair and big eyes, very familiar, what is it... what is it.. ah! A demiguise. I knew i wanted to see one in person eventually after i read about it. The book said it was peaceful and i doubt it would be visible if it saw me as a threat.
Nagini hisses, 'he has been following us for a little while, i suppose he deems it safe to show himself' she and akasha stop moving, 'be careful tom.'
Well if that isn't permission to play carefully with him i don't know what is. I slowly walk closer and he doesn't move, i crouch and say, "hello, i'm tom, i can't just call you demiguise all the time, and you can't tell me a name so do you mind if i give you a nickname?" He moves forward and ruffles my hair like mia does sometimes, i'll say thats a yes.
After a minute i settle on a name, "how about demi?" I couldn't think of anything else and figured that would be ok.
He ruffles my hair again firmer and faster this time and jumps away and does a fast walk away, he doesn't turn invisible so i assume he wants me to chase him, i can't remember the last time i played with anyone.
So i start chasing after him and ruffle the hair on his back leading to him jumping on my back to ruffle my hair again, this leads to a full on game of chase with nagini and akasha following close by, i end up giggling when demi runs into nagini by accident causing her to let out a annoyed and whiney hiss which causes akasha to let out a hissed chuckle.
After a few more minutes of running around i hear a hissed warning from nagini, 'don't go any farther you're right next to the edge of the wards!'
I didn't register it fast enough and before i know it demi and i are outside of the wards next to a small clearing with nagini and akasha close behind.
We hear footsteps that don't belong to me and demi looks in that direction, then jumps over to me and grabs ahold of my arm pulling me behind one of the bigger trees, nagini then wines around me and demi moves back into the clearing and turns invisible, and just then 5 people come out of the opposite treeline wands out, and looking around.
They steadily make their way through the clearing and in a minute will be too close to my spot for comfort, why didn't demi stay and hide with us?
Just then there is a rustling sound from something other than them and one of the witches notices too, she says, "confundus!" Causeing demi to reappear after he is hit by it. If i remember correctly that charm is to confuse someone, thats probably why he let himself be seen, too confused to consentrate and now it's too late to turn back, they have already seen him.
They surround him, all of their wands pointed towards him, one of the wizards says, "nice shot Laronda" the witch that cast the charm simply nods.
Another wizard says, "what do we do now? I don't remember this being a part of the plan."
The second witch scoffs, "of course you didn't listen, Grindelwald told us to get him an invisibility cloak, and Gray decided we should get the demiguise hair ourselves and get someone to make it for us instead of buying a shity one."
The third and final wizard sighs, "we know that, he means what do we do now that we have it" they have this conversation while still aiming their wands at demi.
The first wizard, possibly gray, says, "we kill it, makes it less of a hassle to get its hair, and this needs to be clean so who wants to do it?"
Oh no... nonono i will not let them kill my friend, i don't know any spells yet and there are 5 adults, nagini can only do so much, what to do, mia would know what to do... thats it, mia's tattoo!
I hold my forearm out infront of me where mia's fox is, i take my wand from my holster and place the point to my tattoo, even though the wand is comfortable to me, useing magic through it feels weird.
As soon as my magic touches the tattoo it comes alive and the tails start wagging back and forth, i only feel a slight sting from activating it.
I only have to wait a few moments and then i hear the slightest displacement of air next to me and i reach for where i am sure mia now stands and i am right feeling mia's arms around me and nagini, i don't look away from demi though.
She says in a hissed whisper, 'what is going on?'
I hiss, 'they are going to kill demi, he is the demiguise, they said they want someone to make an invisibility cloak, someone named Grindelwald told them to get one.'
This causes mia to let out an angry hiss, 'it's not unheard for wizards, besides the cloak makers, to get the hair, but a permit is needed and killing is not necessary, but Grindelwald followers are not known to follow the law, Grindelwald is one of those dark wizards i mentioned before.'
Mia got that scar from a dark wizard, was he involved? Killing demi is bad enough but harming mia is unforgivable, if i didn't hate him before i do now.
Mia nods to herself, 'i will take you to Aberforth you need to stay with him while i take care of these guys' akasha wines around her and she apparates us out of there with a silent pop.
Aberforth is not a stranger to me since we have come here to hog's head several times for lunch and he is nice to us.
We appear with a quiet pop next to Aberforth behind the bar and mia immediately asks, "Aberforth can you watch tom?"
He is surprised and confused but he says, "sure whats going on?" The pub is not that crowded at this time but he leads us to the back room anyway.
Mia continues, "there are 5 Grindelwald followers at the edge of our property i don't want to leave tom alone at the house while i take care of them."
It seems like he was in agreement as soon as she mentioned who's followers they were, she kisses my head, "i will be back in a few minutes" she looks to Aberforth, "contact the Aurors, tom will tell you and them everything he heard them say, tell them to go to the edge of lynn cottage's property in the forest."
With that she is gone in a silent displacement of air back to the forest, and Aberforth sends a goat patronus to the aurors telling them that there are 5 Grindelwald followers at the edge of lynn cottage's property.
