A/N: hello, well thanks to those who have read, and a huge thanks to those whom took the time to review! Here, have a pancake thank you card. Well, on with the story! Wait... (Sniffs the air) I... smell... DOUGHTUTS! But, I'm over with my doughnut crave, ever since last December of last year! I've move on to Onion Rings! Well, just go read the story....
Full Summary: After being accused a murder right after the Tournament, Ron 'runs away' to America, hoping to start over anew. But three years later, his wife is struck by a curse that will end her life in one year. There is no cure for the curse, except a powerful potion. But no one knows how to brew it, well, except one. So leaving his wife at a famous wizard hospital in California, Ron and his three year-old Daughter go to England, where the only man who knows how to brew it lives. And that man is Severus Snapes, Potion Professor at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So here are the big questions: will his family and friends accept Ron again again? And will his wife's life be saved?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any song/ quote that I will use. They belong to their respectable owners/ creators. But anything that I have made up belongs to me!
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X o Chapter One: Illusionary Paradise o X
That is...having seen tomorrow's dreams already
That is...a forgotten page in an old book
What isn't an unsufficient meaning?
Even so, I am searching for insufficient things
Only you have the map, so
I'll just stay alone in the fog
I will go on a journey to the illusion
Deep in my heart, your heaven
Like memories held completely in the future
Similar to predicting becoming emotionally attached
Scenery never seen, I remember
It's closer and farther than anything else
Where is the place I'm going to?
Now a voice is beginning to sing
It's reaching me, leading me... Raising me to heaven
I keep acscending toward the side of the sun, and greenery sprouts on the hill
Those days, when I slept with a tired face
I dreamed only dreams that would never come true
But now, only my longings continue into tomorrow
I know I can open the door...
Just one more night will pass, and green eggplant will stand on the hill
I see it directly below
Your heaven, just yours
Where is the place I'm going to?
I'll just stay alone in the fog
I will go on a journey to the illusion
I want to return to your heaven
That is...already having seen tomorrow's dreams...
-Gensou Rakuen (Illusionary Paradise), Noir
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"Honey!" Layla called out to her husband. "Honey! Casper!" She called out again from the second level of their home.
"Yes? What is it?" Casper yelled back from his office on the first floor.
Layla walked down the stairs and over to Casper's office. "Elaine and I are going shopping. You know, to look at stuff for her 'wedding night'." She informed him as she entered the room. She wore a dark purple witch robe over a white laced off the shoulder top and a pair of blue jeans that she bought four years ago that still fit her and look really good on her too.
"That's nice... who is she marrying again? Rick? Dick? Hick?" Casper began to list off random names that all sound likes...
"His name is Nick, Casper. Remember? He played the chaser position at W.A?" she asked as she checked her purse.
"Oh... never really liked him, always gave me the bad eye... maybe because I'm British?" Layla rolled her eyes at her husband.
"Remember to pick Amory up at my parent's place at four-o-clock sharp. They have to go to some charity banquet at four thirty." She kissed him on the lips and headed off. "I'll see you later, love!"
POP!
And she left to Penguin Avenue, the local and richest wizard-shopping place in Los Angeles. Casper sighed. Now he had some time by himself. How long has it been since he left England and his old life? Almost three years. It's the end of October, back at Hogwarts he would be in his seventh and last year there.
But instead of being an underage wizard and student, he is a full legal wizard working as an Auror and vice CEO for the Wizard Games branch under the U. S magic branch; he does his work so good that even the Secretary of Magic knows his name. He made himself a new life here, heck his British accent isn't as bad as before.
Lost in his thoughts he fell asleep and was soon awaken. "Master Casper, sir. Pease wake up. You must go and pick up Miss Amory now." Casper woke up and stared down at the house elf.
"What time is it, Moppy?" He asked as she got off his chair and walked out of his office and to the fireplace.
"It is four-o-two, Master Casper, sir." He answered. Casper nodded and took a hand full of Floo powder.
"Glory Estate!" He yelled, threw the powder and disappeared into the green flames.
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"Did you have fun, Amory?" Casper asked his two-year-old daughter as they arrived back home. She nodded. "That's my little angel." He told her and began to walk up the stairs to his child's room when there was a popping noise in the living room. "Teddy?" Casper asked as he saw his friend. He was ghostly pale. "What's wrong?" he asked slowly holding Amory a bit more protectively.
"There has been an Death Eater attack at Penguin Av." Teddy stated grimly. Even though Harry Potter killed the dark lord last year, there were still Death Eaters all over the world trying to continue his work.
"What? Are Layla and Elaine all right?" Casper asked setting he child on the ground to let her walk around, but she just cling to her father's pant leg.
"I don't know, but we have to head over to Citrus Medical Center quick!" Teddy was very worried over his two best female friends. Ron nodded but looked down at Amory. "Bring her too, just incase." Teddy offered the idea. Casper picked up his daughter and they appareted (sp?) to the hospital.
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Casper took a seat at the waiting room with Amory while Teddy went up to the front desk to ask the nurses. There was no room in the waiting room; every seat or seatable spot was taken over by worried families and friends of the injured. Casper picked up his daughter and lend against a wall.
"Here, sir, take my seat." A boy only ten years old offered. Casper took it thankfully but only Amory sat, Casper wanted to stand. "Are they okay?" Casper asked as Teddy came walking in.
"Elaine only had some cuts and bruises, all could be healed with simple spells." Teddy answered his friend's desperate question. "But Layla... the doctor wants to meet us." He said.
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Teddy watched over Amory, his goddaughter, as the doctor spoke to his best friend. "Amory do you want something to drink?" Teddy asked the two-year old. She shook her head. "How bout something to eat?" he asked again. Nope, she didn't want any food. Teddy sighed as he bounced his goddaughter on his knee, "Do you want anything at all?"
"I wanna my mommy." Amory stated innocently.
Teddy thought for a second, "Your mommy is sick right now, you can't see her yet."
"Why?" she asked looking up at her godfather.
"Well, uh... because... because..." Teddy tried to think of something. Just then a new person entered the private waiting room. "Elaine!" Teddy cried in relief, one because Elaine looks well (all besides the bandage wrapped around her head) and the other reason because he didn't have to explain to Amory why she couldn't see her mother.
"So happy to see me, hm?" Elaine asked raising her eyebrow. "I heard about Layla, where's Casper?"
Teddy handed Amory to her godmother, whom settled her on her lap. "Casper is talking to the doctor. Do you know what happen to Layla, you were there?"
"Actually, I was in a store when the attack started, I tired finding her but when I a dodged a spell I hit my head against something a passed out." She looked down a noticed that her goddaughter was sleeping.
"Where's your fiancé?" Teddy asked while helping Elaine place Amory on another chair so she could sleep more peacefully.
"Nick is a news reporter, the attack is over and he is at Penguin Av. covering the story." Elaine answered. Teddy nodded understandingly. "Where's Layla's family?" she asked.
"They can't get here. So we're here to represent her family." Teddy replied. "In a sense we are like family to Layla."
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"I'm sure you've heard of this hex, Mr. Witterberg." Doctor Ni looked up from his papers.
Casper looked deathly pale. "The Niru Hex." He answered. Of course Casper has heard of the hex. He closed his eyes; he didn't want this happening to his wife.
Dr. Ni leaned back into his chair. "The Niru Hex was created many, many centuries, hell even before Hogwarts, by a powerful wizard who wanted to destroy another wizard that seemed like a threat to his country and power. The hex when first cast makes the victim very sleepy and his, or hers, eyes turn red for two hours. Slowly the hex absorbs the victim's life energy until there is none, but it is painful. It takes to about a year until the process of taking the life energy in complete."
Dr. Ni looked at Casper. "Your wife one year to live."
"There's no cure." Casper whispered.
"Actually, there is and it works." Casper looked up at the doctor with hope in his eyes. "It was discovered fifty years ago by a potion master, but he died taking the cure with him." Casper looked back down, losing all hope again. "But, Mr. Witterberg, before he died he did pass down the cure to his one and only student."
"Who is this student? Where can I find him?" Casper asked hopefully.
"Well, his name is Severus Snape..." the doctor began. "He is a teacher right now... but you have to ask him to make to cure in person... so that means you have to go where ever he teaches."
"I can't go." Casper replied rather quickly. "Can you go and ask him? Instead of me?"
"Nope, I am a busy doctor, and I have to watch over your wife. I could send my apprentice Ted Yukahama, you know him, to accompany you to Professor's Snape's school." Casper nodded hearing his best friend's name.
"Fine I'll go. Went do I have to leave?" Casper asked getting out of his chair. He clutched his hands to stop them from shaking.
"As soon as possible, maybe tomorrow morning." Doctor Ni replied. "Would you like to see your wife? She should be awake right now. See her, say your goodbyes and stuff, go home, get rest and leave for... England is it? Yes, and leave for England in the morning." The doctor ordered him.
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"Mommy? Will you be okay?" Amory asked her mother. Casper sat at a chair in the corner, Teddy and Elaine already had their visit; Teddy left to get coffee and Elaine stayed outside the door.
"Of course I will, baby. I'll get better before you know it." Layla whispered to her daughter. "I love you, okay?" Layla smiled at her daughter when she said 'I love you too, Mommy.' Layla beckoned for her husband to take Amory. Casper picked up his daughter, opened the door and handed her to Elaine so Layla and himself could have some time to talk.
Just as soon as the door closed Casper turned to Layla and took a seat by her bed. "I've lied to you," he said in a whisper.
Layla looked at her husband. "What do you mean, Hon?"
Casper sighed. "I am not Casper Ronald Witterbreg." He replied. He ran his had through his red hair.
The seventeen year old sifted uncomfortably in her bed. "Then... who are you?"
"My real name is Ronald Arthur Weasley." He answered. "Back in my fourth year at my old school, Hogwarts, I was accused of murdering one of my classmates, an upper year. But somehow I tripped on a Portkey and landed myself here in the States."
"Did you really murder him?" she asked quietly.
"No, someone probably set me up. But my friends, teachers, and family believed that I really did kill him." He answered truthfully. "I'm so sorry-"
"Shh... it's okay, I'll forgive you for lying to Me." she said silencing him. "But on one condition."
"What is that?" he asked with a smile.
She smiled back at him. "When you came back, may I be Layla Grace Glory Weasley?"
"Of course." He kissed her forehead. "I love you, Layla."
"I love you too, Ronald." He kissed her lips. She went back to sleep and Ron left to back home to get some rest.
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A/N: well, cheesy but it will do. Thanks for reading... PLEASE REVIEW AND NO FLAMES! Well, till next time!
-LaLathePanda
Full Summary: After being accused a murder right after the Tournament, Ron 'runs away' to America, hoping to start over anew. But three years later, his wife is struck by a curse that will end her life in one year. There is no cure for the curse, except a powerful potion. But no one knows how to brew it, well, except one. So leaving his wife at a famous wizard hospital in California, Ron and his three year-old Daughter go to England, where the only man who knows how to brew it lives. And that man is Severus Snapes, Potion Professor at Hogwarts: School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. So here are the big questions: will his family and friends accept Ron again again? And will his wife's life be saved?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any song/ quote that I will use. They belong to their respectable owners/ creators. But anything that I have made up belongs to me!
X o X o X
X o Wind o X
X o Chapter One: Illusionary Paradise o X
That is...having seen tomorrow's dreams already
That is...a forgotten page in an old book
What isn't an unsufficient meaning?
Even so, I am searching for insufficient things
Only you have the map, so
I'll just stay alone in the fog
I will go on a journey to the illusion
Deep in my heart, your heaven
Like memories held completely in the future
Similar to predicting becoming emotionally attached
Scenery never seen, I remember
It's closer and farther than anything else
Where is the place I'm going to?
Now a voice is beginning to sing
It's reaching me, leading me... Raising me to heaven
I keep acscending toward the side of the sun, and greenery sprouts on the hill
Those days, when I slept with a tired face
I dreamed only dreams that would never come true
But now, only my longings continue into tomorrow
I know I can open the door...
Just one more night will pass, and green eggplant will stand on the hill
I see it directly below
Your heaven, just yours
Where is the place I'm going to?
I'll just stay alone in the fog
I will go on a journey to the illusion
I want to return to your heaven
That is...already having seen tomorrow's dreams...
-Gensou Rakuen (Illusionary Paradise), Noir
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"Honey!" Layla called out to her husband. "Honey! Casper!" She called out again from the second level of their home.
"Yes? What is it?" Casper yelled back from his office on the first floor.
Layla walked down the stairs and over to Casper's office. "Elaine and I are going shopping. You know, to look at stuff for her 'wedding night'." She informed him as she entered the room. She wore a dark purple witch robe over a white laced off the shoulder top and a pair of blue jeans that she bought four years ago that still fit her and look really good on her too.
"That's nice... who is she marrying again? Rick? Dick? Hick?" Casper began to list off random names that all sound likes...
"His name is Nick, Casper. Remember? He played the chaser position at W.A?" she asked as she checked her purse.
"Oh... never really liked him, always gave me the bad eye... maybe because I'm British?" Layla rolled her eyes at her husband.
"Remember to pick Amory up at my parent's place at four-o-clock sharp. They have to go to some charity banquet at four thirty." She kissed him on the lips and headed off. "I'll see you later, love!"
POP!
And she left to Penguin Avenue, the local and richest wizard-shopping place in Los Angeles. Casper sighed. Now he had some time by himself. How long has it been since he left England and his old life? Almost three years. It's the end of October, back at Hogwarts he would be in his seventh and last year there.
But instead of being an underage wizard and student, he is a full legal wizard working as an Auror and vice CEO for the Wizard Games branch under the U. S magic branch; he does his work so good that even the Secretary of Magic knows his name. He made himself a new life here, heck his British accent isn't as bad as before.
Lost in his thoughts he fell asleep and was soon awaken. "Master Casper, sir. Pease wake up. You must go and pick up Miss Amory now." Casper woke up and stared down at the house elf.
"What time is it, Moppy?" He asked as she got off his chair and walked out of his office and to the fireplace.
"It is four-o-two, Master Casper, sir." He answered. Casper nodded and took a hand full of Floo powder.
"Glory Estate!" He yelled, threw the powder and disappeared into the green flames.
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"Did you have fun, Amory?" Casper asked his two-year-old daughter as they arrived back home. She nodded. "That's my little angel." He told her and began to walk up the stairs to his child's room when there was a popping noise in the living room. "Teddy?" Casper asked as he saw his friend. He was ghostly pale. "What's wrong?" he asked slowly holding Amory a bit more protectively.
"There has been an Death Eater attack at Penguin Av." Teddy stated grimly. Even though Harry Potter killed the dark lord last year, there were still Death Eaters all over the world trying to continue his work.
"What? Are Layla and Elaine all right?" Casper asked setting he child on the ground to let her walk around, but she just cling to her father's pant leg.
"I don't know, but we have to head over to Citrus Medical Center quick!" Teddy was very worried over his two best female friends. Ron nodded but looked down at Amory. "Bring her too, just incase." Teddy offered the idea. Casper picked up his daughter and they appareted (sp?) to the hospital.
X o X o X
Casper took a seat at the waiting room with Amory while Teddy went up to the front desk to ask the nurses. There was no room in the waiting room; every seat or seatable spot was taken over by worried families and friends of the injured. Casper picked up his daughter and lend against a wall.
"Here, sir, take my seat." A boy only ten years old offered. Casper took it thankfully but only Amory sat, Casper wanted to stand. "Are they okay?" Casper asked as Teddy came walking in.
"Elaine only had some cuts and bruises, all could be healed with simple spells." Teddy answered his friend's desperate question. "But Layla... the doctor wants to meet us." He said.
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Teddy watched over Amory, his goddaughter, as the doctor spoke to his best friend. "Amory do you want something to drink?" Teddy asked the two-year old. She shook her head. "How bout something to eat?" he asked again. Nope, she didn't want any food. Teddy sighed as he bounced his goddaughter on his knee, "Do you want anything at all?"
"I wanna my mommy." Amory stated innocently.
Teddy thought for a second, "Your mommy is sick right now, you can't see her yet."
"Why?" she asked looking up at her godfather.
"Well, uh... because... because..." Teddy tried to think of something. Just then a new person entered the private waiting room. "Elaine!" Teddy cried in relief, one because Elaine looks well (all besides the bandage wrapped around her head) and the other reason because he didn't have to explain to Amory why she couldn't see her mother.
"So happy to see me, hm?" Elaine asked raising her eyebrow. "I heard about Layla, where's Casper?"
Teddy handed Amory to her godmother, whom settled her on her lap. "Casper is talking to the doctor. Do you know what happen to Layla, you were there?"
"Actually, I was in a store when the attack started, I tired finding her but when I a dodged a spell I hit my head against something a passed out." She looked down a noticed that her goddaughter was sleeping.
"Where's your fiancé?" Teddy asked while helping Elaine place Amory on another chair so she could sleep more peacefully.
"Nick is a news reporter, the attack is over and he is at Penguin Av. covering the story." Elaine answered. Teddy nodded understandingly. "Where's Layla's family?" she asked.
"They can't get here. So we're here to represent her family." Teddy replied. "In a sense we are like family to Layla."
X o X o X
"I'm sure you've heard of this hex, Mr. Witterberg." Doctor Ni looked up from his papers.
Casper looked deathly pale. "The Niru Hex." He answered. Of course Casper has heard of the hex. He closed his eyes; he didn't want this happening to his wife.
Dr. Ni leaned back into his chair. "The Niru Hex was created many, many centuries, hell even before Hogwarts, by a powerful wizard who wanted to destroy another wizard that seemed like a threat to his country and power. The hex when first cast makes the victim very sleepy and his, or hers, eyes turn red for two hours. Slowly the hex absorbs the victim's life energy until there is none, but it is painful. It takes to about a year until the process of taking the life energy in complete."
Dr. Ni looked at Casper. "Your wife one year to live."
"There's no cure." Casper whispered.
"Actually, there is and it works." Casper looked up at the doctor with hope in his eyes. "It was discovered fifty years ago by a potion master, but he died taking the cure with him." Casper looked back down, losing all hope again. "But, Mr. Witterberg, before he died he did pass down the cure to his one and only student."
"Who is this student? Where can I find him?" Casper asked hopefully.
"Well, his name is Severus Snape..." the doctor began. "He is a teacher right now... but you have to ask him to make to cure in person... so that means you have to go where ever he teaches."
"I can't go." Casper replied rather quickly. "Can you go and ask him? Instead of me?"
"Nope, I am a busy doctor, and I have to watch over your wife. I could send my apprentice Ted Yukahama, you know him, to accompany you to Professor's Snape's school." Casper nodded hearing his best friend's name.
"Fine I'll go. Went do I have to leave?" Casper asked getting out of his chair. He clutched his hands to stop them from shaking.
"As soon as possible, maybe tomorrow morning." Doctor Ni replied. "Would you like to see your wife? She should be awake right now. See her, say your goodbyes and stuff, go home, get rest and leave for... England is it? Yes, and leave for England in the morning." The doctor ordered him.
X o X o X
"Mommy? Will you be okay?" Amory asked her mother. Casper sat at a chair in the corner, Teddy and Elaine already had their visit; Teddy left to get coffee and Elaine stayed outside the door.
"Of course I will, baby. I'll get better before you know it." Layla whispered to her daughter. "I love you, okay?" Layla smiled at her daughter when she said 'I love you too, Mommy.' Layla beckoned for her husband to take Amory. Casper picked up his daughter, opened the door and handed her to Elaine so Layla and himself could have some time to talk.
Just as soon as the door closed Casper turned to Layla and took a seat by her bed. "I've lied to you," he said in a whisper.
Layla looked at her husband. "What do you mean, Hon?"
Casper sighed. "I am not Casper Ronald Witterbreg." He replied. He ran his had through his red hair.
The seventeen year old sifted uncomfortably in her bed. "Then... who are you?"
"My real name is Ronald Arthur Weasley." He answered. "Back in my fourth year at my old school, Hogwarts, I was accused of murdering one of my classmates, an upper year. But somehow I tripped on a Portkey and landed myself here in the States."
"Did you really murder him?" she asked quietly.
"No, someone probably set me up. But my friends, teachers, and family believed that I really did kill him." He answered truthfully. "I'm so sorry-"
"Shh... it's okay, I'll forgive you for lying to Me." she said silencing him. "But on one condition."
"What is that?" he asked with a smile.
She smiled back at him. "When you came back, may I be Layla Grace Glory Weasley?"
"Of course." He kissed her forehead. "I love you, Layla."
"I love you too, Ronald." He kissed her lips. She went back to sleep and Ron left to back home to get some rest.
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A/N: well, cheesy but it will do. Thanks for reading... PLEASE REVIEW AND NO FLAMES! Well, till next time!
-LaLathePanda