Title: The Bridge Between Here and Beyond.

Author: P.L.S.

Rating: Mild to Medium Salsa

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Harry Potter, Teen Titans, or any of the DC Comics canon.

Summery: Harry Potter has been chained body and soul to his master for ten years. For him it has been a journey through a dark tunnel and now someone has opened up the other end and he can see the light. But that is no promise that he's going to get free.

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(Chapter Two-The Theory of Relative-ity)

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Emily Winner knew she was the most over looked of the scientists who worked with the alien technology in Starr Labs, she also knew that it made it easier to work on her pet project. Emily was the wife of a certain man who ran about in red spandex and had a very nice butt that was just for her now. Yes, he husband was none other than The Flash and she was very happy to keep that a secret between her, her mother, the core members of the Justice League who all treated her as if she was one of them, and the speed demon who was very slow and loving in the sack.

The blond tossed her hair up in a ponytail as she looked over the print out of the simulation she had ran that morning with the new data that Superman had forwarded onto her. Her pet project was based off of two things that made her wonder some days if she was just dreaming after eating a funky whelk. Ten years ago, just as she and Flash were starting their internet based relationship, a member of the JL and founder of the Titans, Nightwing, vanished and with him went the secrets of magic travel between realities. His serpent, Peter (which struck Emily as a very odd name for a huge ultra poisonous snake with a literal death glare), vanished five years later back to the reality where Nightwing and Peter were born. Since then Emily had been toying with the teleportation technology that the JL had in storage because no one could understand how to use it, the time travel machine that the Titans had in storage because it was a very dangerous bit of machinery that had almost killed Starfire, and several other bits of alien machinery and physics that the JL was now actively collecting just for her to use to figure out how to get to Nightwing.

The inner six of the Titans missed their brother in arms and the Justice League were all longing too see the one that seemed like the genius little brother to them. Well, Batman saw him as his oldest son and Superman considered the missing hero a nephew or godson. It hurt her to see them all so subdued without the missing member, but at least they never stopped living.

Aqualad and Raven, the crown prince of the underwater city of Atlantis and his consort as well as Titans, had five kids and were thinking about having another. Starfire and Cyborg were the proud parents of fraternal twins, Rocketfire and Cannonfire, who were now terrorizing the kindergarten teachers in Jump City. Terra and Beast were like the mother and father of a whole slew of teens who came to Titan Tower School to learn to use whatever gifts they had.

Batman and Catwoman were the adoptive parents of Drake, the new Robin, and Catwoman was currently refusing to carry a child ever. It was rather common to be able to tell if the dark clad couple were on the space station because of Batman's loud reasoning (aka begging). Supergirl and her husband Speedy were currently jumping through legal hoops to adopt a seven year old child who had been the ward of the state since birth. The kid had crossed her path in Metropolis and she was now very determined to become little Raymond String's mommy. Speedy would do anything in the world for his wife but slowly the kid was starting to grow on him as well.

Kids and weddings were now as common as crime stopping for the superheroes of Earth, which in some weird way made everyone feel more at ease, knowing that the folks who saved the world did it not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because of their kids futures. Emily just thought it made it all the easier to pressure Flash into marriage, but she really wasn't up to having a rugrat. Thankfully, Flash wasn't either.

Between them, Hawk Girl, Superman, and Green Lantern, they were working day in, day out on the bridge between here and Nightwing's home reality. All the Lanterns were magic users, conjurers and enchanters to be exact, and as of now the most promising things had come from the Lantern's library or their acquired objects of power. Emily was pouring over a text on powered rune enchantments between trying to place the reactions from the simulator.

It seemed to be the best read out they had seen in months, almost fitting the high standards that Emily was setting for it. But the power needed to drive the machine would need to be magical in nature and very powerful. Unless there was some way to merge the power that Green Lantern had said he would provide and some electrical energy, the project would fail. But so far every test had shown that electricity and magic were in compatible and could be dangerous if mixed.

Her research had dug up a text on the subject by a wizard from some other world, it clearly stated only a warlock's magic could blend magical energy with electrical energy. It was something about artificial power and biological power and that since the warlocks were essentially artificial beings made with pure biological power from the sorcerers they were a bridge between the two. Lanterns were purely biological even if they were rare, there was a very good chance that any of Green Lantern's magic would react in a very deadly way to electricity.

The fact that warlocks were a bridge between natural and artificial was added onto by the fact that warlocks were created to want to please others and grant their masters' every wish and the way that warlocks were never limited to one dimension or reality like all magic users less powerful than the mage sorcerers who used their enslaved as not just genies but as advtars as well. The bonded warlock could be controlled from any distance by the bond their master would create. This bond could allow the sorcerer to possess the warlock and channel power into and out of the slave. Because of this many sorcerers were thought to be gods or goddesses and would often use spells to glean power off of worshipers.

When she had shared this information with Flash he had gotten very pale and very worried. He told her then that Nightwing was a warlock and a rather powerful one who had master a couple other forms of magic, he also told her that Nightwing's nemesis was a mage sorcerer, a very devious and obsessed sorcerer who had been after Nightwing since he was four years old. That was a year ago, and now she fully understood the dread that the others had felt when Flash had passed on the facts about sorcerers and warlocks.

Just a month ago a sorcerer had popped on to the planet for a pit stop on his vacation, she had also seen his warlock, a pure robot of a person. She and Flash had gone to question him on dimensional travel and Green Lantern and Superman showed up as well. Once Nightwing's birth name came up the alien had a look of fear.

He told them to lay off, Slade was the highest of the sorcerers and the most powerful by far. His warlock was known as an angel of death or a grim reaper for anyone who dared cross the High Sorcerer. He was as powerful as his master but very well controlled and conditioned. The words, That beautiful monster's life revolves around Slade, haunted her. It was the smirk, the suggestive voice, and that wistful look of a dirty old man which had her fearing for Nightwing, someone who, while she had never met him, had her caring about his fate.

If everything was as she feared... well, it gave her more drive than ever before to finish the Gateway Mirror.

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The Earth's Lantern was many things in his life, a student, a amateur writer, a shoe salesman, a fry cook, a comic book artist, a defender of Earth and of whomever needed him, an apprenticed conjurer to a senile old man, a conjurer and enchanter who sat on the Galactic Lantern Congress as the active head of his section of the Milky Way. Two things he had no experience in were being a researcher and a scientist. He had never been good at reports and such in high school or in art school, he was absolutely terrible at math in every form but geometry, and now he was wearing those two hats to save his old friend and adopted little brother who had always amazed him with his intelligence and skill at getting the many technophobic heroes to use advanced computers with ease.

Nightwing just had a way of bringing lofty ideas down to earth in bite-sized nuggets of information and facts. He also could make the most intellectual snobs feel dumber than the slugs that he had seen Nightwing chop up and use in a potion. Right now, he just wanted that mischievous smile and grinning set of eyes back to lighten up the JL meetings with his sardonic and, at times, rather lewd commentary. He also missed the young man who dropped by unannounced to have a very serious debate on the breast sizes of the female side of the JL and drink all of Lantern's good imported microbrews. It took a week before he could look at Wonder Woman without his eyes drifting to her bust and her glares as he ogled her. Nightwing hadn't been effected, the kid only showed up to JL meetings if Batman hogtied him and dragged him to the Space Station. He didn't have to live in fear of that blasted Lasso of Truth.

Yes, Nightwing was very much the little brother that Lantern needed to see safe and sound. Especially after he tracked down the hounfour where Nightwing had made contact with the loa who supposedly helped him in forming his protections against Slade. The hougoun told him everything about the ceremony and even connected the loas, who said that since Mait' Carrefour failed Nightwing, Nightwing was in the hands of the one who had summoned him from his home world as a child. It had been six years since that visit, ten since Nightwing vanished in India.

That day had been a mess. Aquaman had called up to the JL Station and reported that Raven was locked in a sensory deprivation chamber after telling his son that Nightwing had left that dimension without calling her. Always before Nightwing called Raven and at least Batman to let them know he was going to his other friends to help them out with their business. They found Peter a week later in a leaden box welded shut and dropped in the Pacific. Peter's magic was the only thing keeping him alive at that point and he was a danger to everyone because without Nightwing, he had no control over his death glares and instincts. It had been Beast and Superman who healed the basilisk, but everyone tried to do what they could.

Peter was their only clue to finding Nightwing, but Peter left their world as soon as he was able. Now it was up to Emily Winner, Flash's wife and total opposite, to figure out how non warlocks and sorcerers could travel like Nightwing and Peter could. They tried to help, but of all of the people she had come to rely on Green Lantern, the worst student of his class at Davidson High, to figure out the magic needed to power the physics that would turn the Gateway Mirror into a bridge. It scared him at first but Emily had something in common with his all but blood brother, she never made him feel like a dunce when spouting off on relativity and space-time, he understood it when she talked about it.

But, oh God, did he miss Nightwing.

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(End Chapter Two- The Theory of Relative-ity)