Part Four
Willow slept for three more days. Madam Pompfrey was forced to feed her intravenously and while direly wanting to send her to St.Mungo's was persuaded against it by Professor Dumbledore. When Willow did come to, she was rather confused. Her name was Willow Rosenberg. She had grown up in Sunnydale Ca., over top of a hellmouth and had parents who she saw rarely. She had become a powerful witch, dated a vampire, saved the world half a dozen times and nearly destroyed it. Being poisoned by Wolfram and Hart had killed her.
Her name was Willow Rosenberg. Her mother had died in bringing her to life and her father was killed at the hands of Lord Voldemort when she was nine. She had lived in Liverpool with her father's brother Martin and had attended Hogwarts School of witchcraft and Wizardry. She had fallen in love with one of her classmates .a boy with a hooked nose and shiny hair. She had vowed to destroy any dark wizards and became an Auror for that exact purpose.
Willow's eyes widened and then she forced them shut. Deep breaths. In, out, in, out. Erk! It wasn't working. She knew that her memories couldn't possibly both be real! It. Was. Impossible!!! Willow sat up in bed and put one hand against her forehead. Think. She had to think rationally. Where was she? Well, that was an easy one. She was at Hogwarts. At that comment from herself Willow nearly panicked. While one side of her felt completely at ease, the other was running about screaming within her head. She brushed a stray lock of dark red hair beneath her hair and nearly jumped out of her skin when a calm voice said. "Well at least some things don't change, you used to do that all the time." Willow sat up a little straighter and then opened her eyes to see a blonde woman both of her arguing sides knew. Summer-sky blue eyes and blonde hair came to her with a name, Tara.
"Tara?" Willow's face lit up with happiness. Well sort of weird happiness. She got a flash of images, faces and names, and voices flashing across her mind as quick as lightning. "Y-you should be with the one you love." A hesitant smile. "I am." "Y-you mean?" another flash "I was lost, but you found me." Another flash. "Things break apart, they break apart so bad" flash "can't you just be kissing me now?" flash a bullet, the window breaking Tara's eyes filled with confusion "Baby what happened to your shirt?" flash a shy smile flash a warm body Willow's hands reached up to her temples. Another flash two girls in jeans and t-shirts. "Hi, I'm Willow." The other girl smiled softly "M-my name's Tara, Tara McClay. Flash. Two girls running down the hall late at night, both stifling giggles flash sitting on the train back home. "Tara?" "Yeah Will?" "We'll be best friends forever right?" flash an eagle owl swooping through the window with a hastily penned note. "Willow, I need to talk to you h-he got mum" flash Tara crying as Willow hugged her, Willow murmuring reassurances that everything would turn out all right while her eyes hardened flash a mischievous grin flash As suddenly as they had started the images stopped.
Willow's vision swam for a brief moment before the Hogwarts infirmary came back into focus. "Tara?" "Yes Willow." "What was that?" Tara met her eyes and after a long moment let out a sentence that hung in the air like fog.
"Do you believe in Fate?"
Willow now sat in the headmaster's office looking at Tara while they waited for professor Dumbledore. He had told them to go up to his office. Willow hadn't seen him yet, just heard his voice. So now both of them were in Dumbledore's office. Tara sitting in one of the chairs and Willow leaning against the far wall. She didn't think anything strange was going on but she felt naked, she had woken up in muggle clothes without her wand. She wanted to know how she had gotten here, as neither of the two voices who had disagreed on everything here except for the fact that Tara's name was Tara and her own name was Willow had an answer. She heard the door open and in walked Dumbledore, an instant after her mind registered him as Professor Dumbledore former transfiguration teacher and Headmaster of Hogwarts another array of images cascaded upon her. "Ms.Rosenberg?" "Yes sir?" welcome to Hogwarts. Your mother would have been proud" flash "Professor Dumbledore I have to go to St.Mungo's! Please sir! It's well.you- know-who! He's gotten Tara's mum! She needs me!" A serious expression crossed Dumbledore's face as he walked towards his office. "Yes, indeed. Come along then," flash "Glad to see both you and Ms. McClay are back to school." "Yes we are, but sir?" "Yes?" "I don't think I'm going to need that appointment with Professor Mcgonagall any longer, I'm going to become an Auror." "And when did you decide that exactly?" A hardened expression crossed Willow's face "When he took my father away first, and then when he made Tara cry." Flash "Willow!" "Yes!?" "Hurry and get to the potters, I've just received word, he's gotten Lily and James!" Willow watched as her vision ran again and saw that Dumbledore had sat down at his desk.
"Dumbledore.what is happening to me?" He steepled his fingers and looked straight at her. "Willow, do you believe in fate?" "Tara has asked me the same thing, all I want to know is how the heck I got to Hogwarts, why I can't find my wand and why the heck anytime I see a person around here I get flashes if my past!?"
"Well.going one question at a time. You arrived at Hogwarts by falling through Severus' ceiling." Willow's eyes widened. "It's impossible to apparate inside Hogwarts."
"Well I never said that you apparated, simply that you had fallen through the ceiling. The reason you can't find your wand is because, to put it simply, you've never had one. You arrived in muggle clothing because that is all you have ever worn. And the reason you get flashes of your past whenever you see a person is because, you are living that past." Willow's started out a sentence "well.but.I mean.with the.and..how." each word was punctuated with a random arm movement and she slumped down into a chair. "Why did you want to know whether or not I believed in fate?"
"Because in both your and Tara's cases it would seem that fate has decided to use you for its whims. It would explain the reason you fell through ceilings and the reason for your double memories." Willow looked over at Tara. "So you have memories of that other place.that other world?"
"Yes, and we were.f-fairly I-intimate there." At Tara's blushed face Willow flushed. It was another moment before Willow responded. "I.you died in my arms.I think I understand now." She stood up quietly and looked at Dumbledore. "Do I have an account at Gringotts, I'm rather uncomfortable being without a wand and I'd like to get some robes." Dumbledore nodded once. "You should have an account at Gringotts, as Tara did when she arrived here. "You can go to Diagon Alley as soon as you please."
"Thank-You." And with that Willow turn and walked out of the room and down the stairs. She had an intense need to just walk around for a few days. It was so strange being here, she remembered lessons at Hogwarts and Midnight adventures and yet the stones beneath her feet were new and strange to her. As t was she didn't see anyone else in the hall until she ran into them. Or rather him. Severus Snape. She could tell who it was as soon as she bumped into him and though she knew she shouldn't look at him she subconsciously lifted her eyes to meet his so that she could apologize. As soon as she several things happened. His eyes widened and recognition bloomed in them. Her cheeks flushed and the memories cascaded down on her. "Do you see that boy over there? Sirius Black, do you think he's cute?" Tara turned to Willow asking anxiously. "I dunno, he's allright I suppose, just not my type. He's such a showoff" as the words left her mouth Willow's eyes rested instead upon a boy sitting further away, his dark hair covering his face flash "Why do you fancy Sirius Tara, he's so cruel, he and James. They're both so purposely cruel towards people." A sly smile "Severus Snape you mean?" Willow's widened and a heated flush covered her cheeks. Flash "have you heard, rumor has it Severus joined the death eaters." flash Dumbledore's solemn face "Severus Snape has come to us, he has turned against the dark lord though he once followed him." flash Severus Snape sitting out by the lake in his seventh year, reading a book. Flash Snape smiling towards Willow's direction the images ended and Willow's eyes widened. She swallowed almost audibly. "S-sorry about that Severus.I should go" As she rushed off Willow didn't hear Snape's response.
"Wait Willow.are you allright?"
Willow slept for three more days. Madam Pompfrey was forced to feed her intravenously and while direly wanting to send her to St.Mungo's was persuaded against it by Professor Dumbledore. When Willow did come to, she was rather confused. Her name was Willow Rosenberg. She had grown up in Sunnydale Ca., over top of a hellmouth and had parents who she saw rarely. She had become a powerful witch, dated a vampire, saved the world half a dozen times and nearly destroyed it. Being poisoned by Wolfram and Hart had killed her.
Her name was Willow Rosenberg. Her mother had died in bringing her to life and her father was killed at the hands of Lord Voldemort when she was nine. She had lived in Liverpool with her father's brother Martin and had attended Hogwarts School of witchcraft and Wizardry. She had fallen in love with one of her classmates .a boy with a hooked nose and shiny hair. She had vowed to destroy any dark wizards and became an Auror for that exact purpose.
Willow's eyes widened and then she forced them shut. Deep breaths. In, out, in, out. Erk! It wasn't working. She knew that her memories couldn't possibly both be real! It. Was. Impossible!!! Willow sat up in bed and put one hand against her forehead. Think. She had to think rationally. Where was she? Well, that was an easy one. She was at Hogwarts. At that comment from herself Willow nearly panicked. While one side of her felt completely at ease, the other was running about screaming within her head. She brushed a stray lock of dark red hair beneath her hair and nearly jumped out of her skin when a calm voice said. "Well at least some things don't change, you used to do that all the time." Willow sat up a little straighter and then opened her eyes to see a blonde woman both of her arguing sides knew. Summer-sky blue eyes and blonde hair came to her with a name, Tara.
"Tara?" Willow's face lit up with happiness. Well sort of weird happiness. She got a flash of images, faces and names, and voices flashing across her mind as quick as lightning. "Y-you should be with the one you love." A hesitant smile. "I am." "Y-you mean?" another flash "I was lost, but you found me." Another flash. "Things break apart, they break apart so bad" flash "can't you just be kissing me now?" flash a bullet, the window breaking Tara's eyes filled with confusion "Baby what happened to your shirt?" flash a shy smile flash a warm body Willow's hands reached up to her temples. Another flash two girls in jeans and t-shirts. "Hi, I'm Willow." The other girl smiled softly "M-my name's Tara, Tara McClay. Flash. Two girls running down the hall late at night, both stifling giggles flash sitting on the train back home. "Tara?" "Yeah Will?" "We'll be best friends forever right?" flash an eagle owl swooping through the window with a hastily penned note. "Willow, I need to talk to you h-he got mum" flash Tara crying as Willow hugged her, Willow murmuring reassurances that everything would turn out all right while her eyes hardened flash a mischievous grin flash As suddenly as they had started the images stopped.
Willow's vision swam for a brief moment before the Hogwarts infirmary came back into focus. "Tara?" "Yes Willow." "What was that?" Tara met her eyes and after a long moment let out a sentence that hung in the air like fog.
"Do you believe in Fate?"
Willow now sat in the headmaster's office looking at Tara while they waited for professor Dumbledore. He had told them to go up to his office. Willow hadn't seen him yet, just heard his voice. So now both of them were in Dumbledore's office. Tara sitting in one of the chairs and Willow leaning against the far wall. She didn't think anything strange was going on but she felt naked, she had woken up in muggle clothes without her wand. She wanted to know how she had gotten here, as neither of the two voices who had disagreed on everything here except for the fact that Tara's name was Tara and her own name was Willow had an answer. She heard the door open and in walked Dumbledore, an instant after her mind registered him as Professor Dumbledore former transfiguration teacher and Headmaster of Hogwarts another array of images cascaded upon her. "Ms.Rosenberg?" "Yes sir?" welcome to Hogwarts. Your mother would have been proud" flash "Professor Dumbledore I have to go to St.Mungo's! Please sir! It's well.you- know-who! He's gotten Tara's mum! She needs me!" A serious expression crossed Dumbledore's face as he walked towards his office. "Yes, indeed. Come along then," flash "Glad to see both you and Ms. McClay are back to school." "Yes we are, but sir?" "Yes?" "I don't think I'm going to need that appointment with Professor Mcgonagall any longer, I'm going to become an Auror." "And when did you decide that exactly?" A hardened expression crossed Willow's face "When he took my father away first, and then when he made Tara cry." Flash "Willow!" "Yes!?" "Hurry and get to the potters, I've just received word, he's gotten Lily and James!" Willow watched as her vision ran again and saw that Dumbledore had sat down at his desk.
"Dumbledore.what is happening to me?" He steepled his fingers and looked straight at her. "Willow, do you believe in fate?" "Tara has asked me the same thing, all I want to know is how the heck I got to Hogwarts, why I can't find my wand and why the heck anytime I see a person around here I get flashes if my past!?"
"Well.going one question at a time. You arrived at Hogwarts by falling through Severus' ceiling." Willow's eyes widened. "It's impossible to apparate inside Hogwarts."
"Well I never said that you apparated, simply that you had fallen through the ceiling. The reason you can't find your wand is because, to put it simply, you've never had one. You arrived in muggle clothing because that is all you have ever worn. And the reason you get flashes of your past whenever you see a person is because, you are living that past." Willow's started out a sentence "well.but.I mean.with the.and..how." each word was punctuated with a random arm movement and she slumped down into a chair. "Why did you want to know whether or not I believed in fate?"
"Because in both your and Tara's cases it would seem that fate has decided to use you for its whims. It would explain the reason you fell through ceilings and the reason for your double memories." Willow looked over at Tara. "So you have memories of that other place.that other world?"
"Yes, and we were.f-fairly I-intimate there." At Tara's blushed face Willow flushed. It was another moment before Willow responded. "I.you died in my arms.I think I understand now." She stood up quietly and looked at Dumbledore. "Do I have an account at Gringotts, I'm rather uncomfortable being without a wand and I'd like to get some robes." Dumbledore nodded once. "You should have an account at Gringotts, as Tara did when she arrived here. "You can go to Diagon Alley as soon as you please."
"Thank-You." And with that Willow turn and walked out of the room and down the stairs. She had an intense need to just walk around for a few days. It was so strange being here, she remembered lessons at Hogwarts and Midnight adventures and yet the stones beneath her feet were new and strange to her. As t was she didn't see anyone else in the hall until she ran into them. Or rather him. Severus Snape. She could tell who it was as soon as she bumped into him and though she knew she shouldn't look at him she subconsciously lifted her eyes to meet his so that she could apologize. As soon as she several things happened. His eyes widened and recognition bloomed in them. Her cheeks flushed and the memories cascaded down on her. "Do you see that boy over there? Sirius Black, do you think he's cute?" Tara turned to Willow asking anxiously. "I dunno, he's allright I suppose, just not my type. He's such a showoff" as the words left her mouth Willow's eyes rested instead upon a boy sitting further away, his dark hair covering his face flash "Why do you fancy Sirius Tara, he's so cruel, he and James. They're both so purposely cruel towards people." A sly smile "Severus Snape you mean?" Willow's widened and a heated flush covered her cheeks. Flash "have you heard, rumor has it Severus joined the death eaters." flash Dumbledore's solemn face "Severus Snape has come to us, he has turned against the dark lord though he once followed him." flash Severus Snape sitting out by the lake in his seventh year, reading a book. Flash Snape smiling towards Willow's direction the images ended and Willow's eyes widened. She swallowed almost audibly. "S-sorry about that Severus.I should go" As she rushed off Willow didn't hear Snape's response.
"Wait Willow.are you allright?"