The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 25.- Second chance
In the Great Hall, most of the Gryffindor Students were taking a quick breakfast before leaving for Easter vacation.
Hermione arrived a little late, she had been busy packing. Because she wasn't having classes that day she had dressed in a white blouse and jeans.
"Hermione, where are you going?" Ginny asked when she saw her friend.
"To Japan." Hermione answered sitting down. "Sakura invited me to her brother's weeding. So I'm going."
"You mean you're leaving Harry alone all two weeks?!" Ron said, scandalized.
The Weasleys were going to Scotland to visit Charley.
Harry looked a his girlfriend in silence.
"What?" Hermione asked. "No, Hell no!" she turned to Harry. "Harry, I told you you were invited too."
I did it. Didn't I? Hermione mind-asked.
Yes you did. Tomoyo's voice answered in her head. But he probably forgot. You must remember the first weeks of training are very exhausting.
Yeah. Hermione asked.
"So, Harry? Are you ready?" Hermione asked smiling.
"No, I must have forgotten." Harry replied while taking a sip of pumpkin juice. "I'm sorry Hermy."
"Don't worry, we still have one more hour." Hermione said.
"But the Express leaves in thirty minutes." Ron said.
"But we're not going on the Hogwarts Express." Hermione asked. "Some of Er...Some friends are picking us up."
Harry immediately understood she was about to say: some of Eriol's friends.
Ron said nothing more but finished breakfast and then went to get his things.
Hermione and Harry wished them good trip and then went to the boys dormitory to get Harry's suitcase ready.
One hour after breakfast they took the floo powders to go to the Leaky Cauldron. And once there a limo picked them up. Harry was really surprised.
'This guys must be really rich.' He thought.
They got it and rode to the airport.
"Which is our flight?" Harry asked looking at the list. "I don't see any going to Japan."
"And you won't see it." Tomoyo said. "Because we're traveling in a private flight."
"What?" Harry asked.
"Yes." Shaoran said. "We're traveling in one of my family's planes."
'Ok. This guys must be really multi-rich!' Harry mentally yelled.
Hermione laughed in a low voice.
It's not good to be reading your boyfriend's mind Hermy-chan. Sakura scolded her.
Hermione looked down guiltily.
"Where's your oka-san Tomoyo-chan?" Sakura asked aloud.
"She must be here any moment now. She couldn't come in the limo, she said she needed to do something first." Tomoyo said.
And for those who wish to know what's Sonomi doing.
She was with her things ready, but waiting.
"Severus said he would be here by now." Sonomi murmured. "If I don't hurry I'll have to take a public plane."
"I'm sorry for being late." Severus said appearing just then. "Here." He gave her a red carnation.
"Nadeshiko..." she murmured in a low voice.
"This time I mean it." Severus said.
Sonomi looked at him, a little puzzled.
"You remember one day, a long time ago, you told me this flowers symbolize Eternal Love?" he asked.
Sonomi nodded.
"I mean it." Severus said. "I love you."
He hugged Sonomi and kissed her on the lips.
(N.A.: Ok, Ok, I know this may seem really OOC, but I already began with it so I must finish. Besides, I do believe Snape must have his heart...somewhere. Ok, on with the story.)
"I'm glad you finally accepted to let me be with you." Severus said, still hugging her.
Sonomi just smiled at him, remembering a conversation she had had with his dead husband, weeks ago...
---Flashback---
"Sonomi, my beloved Sonomi." A voice called her.
As an ethereal figure appeared from thin air, right in front of her.
"Daniel..." Sonomi murmured, gasping.
"Sonomi, my beloved wife." Daniel murmured, floating right in front of her.
"Daniel!" she yelled, she tried to hug him, but it was impossible. "What...Why?" she asked.
"Because I'm not a ghost." Daniel explained. "I'm a spirit."
"Tomoyo told me you were corporeal in Halloween." Sonomi stated.
"That was work of her boyfriend, Eriol Hiiragizawa." Daniel said. "I' a spirit, you can see me because it is in your blood."
"Being a medium." Sonomi finished.
"Exactly. You can see me, as well as our nephew Touya, Sakura and Tomoyo just feel us."
"They aren't mediums. They are Sorcerers. Sakura is the Card Mistress and Tomoyo is an Enchantress."
"I know. And I'm really proud of her. She's a beautiful young woman. Full of life, dreams, hopes, wishes, and power. Power that she's using for the good of the world."
"I know." She remembered what had happened in Christmas.
"Don't worry. She'll be safe. She has good friends, and a boyfriend that'll protect her."
"We still miss you Daniel. Life isn't the same without you."
"You can't continue crying for me all your life Sonomi. I'm dead, I died to give you and Tomoyo the opportunity of a life, and I don't want you to waste it. You need to go on."
"But..."
"No buts Sonomi. You've already passed fifteen years of your life alone."
"I've had our daughter. I'm never alone."
"You know what I mean."
"I don't need anyone."
"That's not true. And even you know it. I know there is this man...That guy my brother and his friends used to piss off."
"Severus Snape?"
"Yes him. He loves you. He really does it."
"How can you know that?"
"I may be dead, but not blind my love. Even if I'm not physically here, I'm always watching, taking care of you. And I'll never stop doing that. But you need to go on."
"I don't if I can do it."
"You can. I'm sure of it."
"I've lived this way for fifteen years already."
"And it is time to change that. You deserve to live a life with someone who loves you by your side. I love you, I really do, but I can't be with you anymore. But Snape can, and he will, if you give him a chance."
"We're different. How will I make him understand that?"
"He loves you. He'll understand. Trust me."
"I always do. I never imagined you would be saying this. Of Severus."
"Well, my brother and the Marauders pissed him, but the only thing I may have done against him was stealing the most beautiful woman from him."
"Why do you say that? I don't understand."
"It's obvious my dear. He loves you, he always have. But I never gave him a chance, I took you away."
Sonomi stood in silence. She had known Severus had fancied Nadeshiko, and Lily, but her?
"I must leave now." Daniel said suddenly. "I just came to tell you that. You are the woman I loved, love and will always love. But I'm not with you anymore. And you deserve a second chance. And probably that guy, Severus does too."
And with that, he vanished.
---End of Flashback---
"I never understood why your sudden change of attitude towards me. But I'm glad of it." Severus said. "I'm glad you let me enter your life, and Tomoyo's."
---Flashback---
Daniel had just vanished and Sonomi went outside, she was thinking what she should do, when suddenly she noticed someone. Severus. She hadn't felt his presence, she just saw him, walking straight to her. It was already too late to get away.
"Sonomi I..." Severus started.
"Severus..." Sonomi started at the same time.
"Let me talk, please." Severus silenced her. "I love you. I always have. Since we were studying here at Hogwarts. But you preferred Daniel, and I accepted that. But now he's not here and I am so..." he sighed. "What I'm doing is asking you for a chance. Let me love you, let me be by your side. Always."
"Severus you can't..." Sonomi started.
"Don't tell me I can't love you, it's impossible not to." Severus interrupted.
"No. Wait. Let me finish." Now Sonomi silenced him. "You can't say you love me, if you don't even love me. First listen what I've got to tell you, and once I'm done you can decide whether you truly wish to be by my side or not."
"I would never wish otherwise." Severus insisted.
"Come with me." She said. "We can't talk here."
And she guided him to the Sorcerers' Room.
"I had never seen this room." Severus commented as they went in.
"You aren't supposed to." Sonomi said sitting down.
Severus did likewise.
"This is the Sorcerers' Room." Sonomi explained. "That's why you had never seen it."
"What is that supposed to mean?" Severus asked.
"This Room is reserved only for Sorcerers, like me." Sonomi finally said.
"Sorcerers?! It's impossible!! They're extinct!" Severus.
"What's all this noise?" a voice asked from one of the portraits. Then it saw Severus. "An Intruder!"
"Nothing is going on, and he's not an intruder Rubymoon, calm down." Sonomi talked to the figure in the painting. "I brought him here."
"You know it is forbidden to bring common wizards here." Rubymoon insisted.
"He's not a common wizard. He's my guest. And I say he can be here. Now if you would please leave us alone..." Sonomi said annoyed.
"Ok, Ok. I'll leave. But you'll have to explain this to Master Clow later." And she disappeared.
"What was that?" Severus asked.
"She's Rubymoon." Sonomi explained. "A guardian. And the man he mentioned is Clow Reed, a great Sorcerer."
"I still don't believe this." Severus said.
"But you must. If you wish to enter my life, you must understand. I'm a Sorcerer. It's heritage. Nadeshiko was too, a spiritist."
"You mean Tomoyo..." Severus started.
"Yeah, she too." Sonomi said. "She's an enchantress. And my niece Sakura is the Card Mistress."
"Card Mistress!" Severus yelled. "The Cards! But those are only legends!"
"No, they are not." Sonomi said. "They are real. Li and Hiiragizawa are Sorcerers too, by blood. Granger I believe is a part-sorcerer part-witch, very rare, and valuable."
"That's why she's always hanging with your daughter and their friends."
"Exactly."
"This is too difficult to believe. Almost impossible."
"I know." She stood up and went to Severus, two fingers on his forehead. "You saw it, you heard, and now you remember."
There was a faint glow from Sonomi's fingers and suddenly Severus recovered lost thoughts he had forgotten.
"You erased my memory!" he yelled.
"You must understand why I did it." Sonomi said. "I didn't want to risk you."
"Then why did you decide to tell me, why now?" Severus asked.
"Because I can't keep lying to you." Sonomi said. "Tomoyo is a Sorceress, and she'll continue fighting Voldemort, like that night. Sonner or later you would have seen her, and discovered the truth."
"The Dark Lord doesn't know she's a Sorceress, does he?"
"No. I don't think so. He suspects there are Sorcerers attending Hogwarts. But there's no way he could know it's them. Unless you..."
"I'll never betray you. I swear it. You need to understand it Sonomi. For me this is hard to understand, but anyway I love you too much to betray you. I'll always protect you and my goddaughter, with my own life if necessary."
"I hope we never get to that." Sonomi said.
"So. Do you accept me?"
"The question here should be if you accept me?"
"I do... I always have. I would do anything to be by your side forever."
"Thank you."
And they both kissed. There. Alone. (Alone except for a certain butterfly-like woman who was spying on them from the border of the portrait.)
---End of Flashback---
"I never imagined I could be happy again..." Sonomi murmured.
"I never dreamed I could be happy, not even once." Severus said.
"It's late." Sonomi said looking at her watch. "I must hurry or they'll leave me."
"I'll probably see you one of this days." Severus said.
"Yes." Sonomi nodded. "I'll be waiting for you. You know where to find me."
"I'll see if I can take off one day or two. With all the things the Dark Lords want us to do." Severus said tired.
"Just promise me you'll take care, and be very careful." Sonomi said. "I don't wan you hurt."
"I'll be careful, I promise." Severus said.
"Okay, I must leave now." She said getting off his embrace. "Sayonara."
"Sayonara." He replied.
"O daijini(Take care) koibito(my love, my beloved)" she added before disapparating.
Severus just stood there, in silence.
Sonomi finally apparated on a dark alley, next to the Airport's Entrance. She walked fast to where the teens were waiting.
"Okay." Tomoyo said after noticing her mother had arrived. "We may leave now."
"Follow me." Shaoran said.
And they all went to the doors.
"Excuse me. You need a special entrance to come this way." A man told them.
"I'm Li Xiao Lang, heir of the Li Clan. My family's plane is waiting for us to take us to Japan." Shaoran said in Chinese."
"I'm sorry Sir." The man excused. "This way please."
They followed him to the ground. There, Wei was waiting for them.
"Master Shaoran, glad to see you again." The old man said happily.
"I'm glad to see you too Wei." Shaoran said smiling.
Something Harry had never seen him do before.
"Ah, Mistress Sakura, Miss Tomoyo, Master Hiiragizawa." Wei said as he bowed to each in turn.
The Sorcerers bowed at him too.
"I'm afraid I don't know the rest." Wei said looking at Harry, Hermione and Sonomi.
"This is my oka-san, Sonomi Daidouji." Tomoyo introduced her mother.
"A pleasure Ma'am." Wei said bowing.
"This are Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, friends of ours, from Hogwarts." Sakura explained.
"Glad to meet you too, Mr. Potter, Miss Granger." Wei said.
"The pleasure is ours Mr. Wei." Hermione bowed to him.
Harry imitated her. He didn't know much about Oriental costumes.
Everyone got on board.
The plane was small, but comfortable, with rows of two seats, loveseats. They could recline and turn into small beds. They had T.V. a VCR, DVD player, food, and drinks. Enough to entertain the whole trip.
Sakura sat with Shaoran in the first row, then Tomoyo with Eriol in the second, the next where Harry and Hermione, and finally Sonomi and Wei.
As Harry already knew about Tomoyo's and Eriol's relationship, and he had promised to keep it a secret to the rest of the school, they had no need of hiding it.
"Li seems to be a very important person, don't you think Hermy?" Harry asked his girlfriend in a low voice.
"He is." Hermione said. "For what I've read his family is the richest in all Hong Kong. And they're ancient. That's why they call themselves a Clan, because of the time when their family started."
Harry nodded.
Just then the plane took off.
Meanwhile Tomoyo had noticed the flower in her mother's hand.
"What is it hime?" Eriol asked.
"I'm glad for my mother." Tomoyo answered.
"So you know it." Eriol said.
"It would be impossible to hide it to me. I would eventually find out." Tomoyo said. "I'm sincerely happy. She always thought she should respect my father's memory. But I think the same way as he does, she deserves a second chance."
"How do you know your father thinks likewise?" Eriol asked raising an eyebrow
"Himitsu desu." Tomoyo answered him smiling.
But it was obvious. I mean, it was her father they were talking about.
Sonomi heard what Tomoyo said and smile, as she took hold of the flower.
"Eternal Love..." she murmured. "A Second chance...I took it. I hope this was the right choice."
It took me a while to get the inspiration to write this chapter but I think it was worth it. Dedicated to the relationship I created between Sonomi and Severus. You see I already told you what happened on Valentine's Day, when Daniel appeared in front of Sonomi.
If you noticed also this chapter was long. From a time to now I've writing longer chapters, I don't know why. Well, anyway, that doesn't matters.
Getting to what does matter. A couple of people requested me to change the couple Touya/Kaho, to Touya/Yukito; I'm sorry but I'll have to refuse. I don't write Yaoi, I respect those who like it, I have read some stories(although not with them as the main characters). The weeding will still be of Touya with Kaho. My sincere apologies, I hope you continue reading this fic even without that couple.
Also, some people are supporting me to write a sequel, so know I'm revising this story to see which things will attach to the plot of the second part. What I mean is that some things I've started in this fic I probably won't finish them until the second.
Please leave me a review and tell me who support this sequel.
P.S. A Special request, I would like to know from where are you guys who are reading my fics. I would be very happy if you wrote your country in the review(if you wish to.). Arigato.
Sayonara.