Harry Potter and the Vampire Slayers
Chapter 36 – Avada Kedavra.
DISCLAIMER: Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon, and Harry Potter to J.K. Rowling. I don't own anything.
TIMELINE: AU. Set ten years before (Around 1988) "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone", during and after Harry Potter book 5, "Order of the Phoenix"(2003). During and after BTVS season 7, "Chosen". Pretend HP book one happened in 1999 during Buffy season three )
SUMMARY: BTVS/HP crossover. There are always 'what ifs', and what 'could've happened'. What if the supposedly dead James and Lily Potter find themselves lyingbeside a shattered hellmouth? What if Buffy Summers and the rest of the Scoobies had found them? Surprised the couple was when they found out that they had unknowingly traveled forward into the future and that they would finally get a chance to see their now grown son. With the Scoobies following them, they have no idea of the impact of what they will find out when they step foot into the Wizarding World after many years of absence. War, love, death, betrayal, happiness, and despair are just six of the many things they will stumble upon.
PAIRINGS: Buffy/Charlie, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Dawn, James/Lily, Oliver/Vi, Faith/Remus, Willow/Tara, Sirius/Amy, etc.
Reviews respond:
Willow Evenstar: Hi Cece! Glad you liked it!
Rasputan: You did, huh? Yeah, I know it went pretty fast - sorry. Glad you liked Remus' recation.
ELlen: Thanks...unfortunately, my gran didn't make it. -Sigh-
CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur: Yeah, I hoped so too - but she didn't make it - she didn't wake up, and so they shut the respirator down, and she, well... -sigh- Happy you liked the chapter! Yeah, wolf in shining armor. LOL. Happy you liked Oz return and Willow's offer!
lolalita: Happy you liked it - although I know it was short...
mika: Hi! Glad you liked the return of the Oz. Yeah, Remus' reaction was kinda nice to write. I was pendling back and forth with ideas - should he be calm, or frustrated or mad? I think the reaction got to be something between calm and mad - perfect Remus reaction. LOL. Remus vision was not a Slayer vision - Faith sent out a call for help, and since they're bonded, and her help turned into a vision for Remus, 'kay? I know it's kind of far-reached, but let's just pretend it was something like that, 'cause I don't have a logical explanation.
William Fakespeare: Hi! Tara will stay in the land of the living - probably.
Piscean Wisdom: Yeah, I'm sorry too. Unfortunately, she left us (for real this time) sometime during thusday. Well, I think was Tara said is pretty much right - last time she went evil, people went way to easy on her - let's hug eachother - all forgotten. This time, I think it would take longer for them to forgive her, and Willow needs to earn their trust again. I think that if Willow is so hurt over their distanse to her, she would work harder - and in the end feel like she really deserved their forgiveness. And she has talked to Spike, and she has people who knows what she goes through, like Faith. She knows she's not alone - so suicide is not an issue.
Beth512: Faith - dying? Hmm...I guess it does sound a little weird. LOL. But Sirius and Amy - yeah, you're right - works perfect. Maybe I should let Sirius be forgiven, hmm? Here it's cloudy.
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Special thanks to: My beta - CharmedChick
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Faith shivered where she was lying on the floor, bathed in her own blood. How long had she been here? Hours? Days? Weeks? It felt like forever. She had started to hope someone would come in and put an end to her misery. She was so tired... she moaned in pain as she tried to move. Her muscles and body ached and she felt dizzy from all the blood loss. Suddenly the door opened. Faith forced herself to move her eyes to the door, where a dark
shadow with red eyes stood. She gritted her teeth against the pain and gave him what she hoped was a dazzling smile, even though she knew it was probably more a grimace than anything else.
"Lord Voldie himself," she gasped. "To what do Iowe the honor? I am afraid I don't have anything to offer - the teapot is empty, but I've got a very nice pool of blood right here if you'd like some. I'm not sure what snake-imitators eat," she bit out.
Lord Voldemort stepped up to her and snarled as he kicked on her body. Faith bit herself hard in the tongue to keep herself from screaming out in pain.
"I'm not here for a tea-party," he said. "I'm afraid it is all business."
"Oh." Faith said. "Too bad I was never one for businessmen."
"CRUCIO!"
This time Faith couldn't help but scream out in pain. If she'd thought it hurt when the Death Eater practiced it on her, it hurt thousand times more now.
Finally, Voldemort lifted the curse. He started pacing around slowly around her.
"I could make the pain stop," he said slowly. "I would like you to join me, Faith. Together, we could rule the world, and you would sit on my right side with more power than you can ever imagine."
"Oh, I can imagine quite a lot," Faith bit out. Voldemort ignored her.
"You would be my queen, Faith, and you could have everything you wished for."
Faith let out a dry laugh. "Everything I wish for? Was that what you offered Willow? No wonder she turned you down."
This time, Voldemort reacted, and stopped his pacing.
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, come on!" Faith said through gritted teeth. "If she wanted to make a wish, all she has to do is call a vengeance demon! They're cooler, and they have a way better fashion sense."
Voldemort let out a scream in frustration.
"CRUCIO!"
This time, Faith was under the curse for a long time. She was burning. It felt like her soul was ripped away from inside out. Black spots clouded her vision, and she had trouble breathing. Someone was screaming...herself?
Finally, the curse was lifted, and Faith heard Voldemort leave the room. She wasn't aware of her surroundings anymore. Everything was so dark...it hurt so much...
"Help me..." she thought. In her mind, she saw a man with light-brown, graying hair, smiling at her. But she could no longer remember his name...
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Remus was sitting under a window at the Malfoy Manor, along with Buffy, Lily, James, Sirius and that other woman, Amy. Willow was standing a bit away from them.
"So what's the plan?" Buffy hissed. "Sneak attack or front attack?"
Remus shrugged. "I don't know."
Sirius whistled. "Wow. Moony doesn't know something - ow!"
Lily had smacked Sirius on the back of his head. "Shut up! I think we should try to draw as little attention to us as possible. Sneak attack."
"I vote for front attack!" James said, raising his hand, Sirius following.
"Aye," he said. Buffy frowned. "I think I want a front attack too," she said. "And then we improvise." Also she raised her hand. Remus rolled his eyes as the others started to bicker behind him. Then, he started to crawl
towards the entrance. Nobody noticed he left except Willow, who followed him uncertainly.
Remus looked surprised for a moment, then Willow smiled.
"Faith stood up for me," she said. "I want to help. What's your plan, boss?"
"Well," Remus said. "I think a surprise attack is the way to go. Think you can handle that?"
Willow nodded. "I'm the distraction - you go find Faith. When the others stop fighting, they can help me."
"Right."
Willow walked up to the door, and concentrated on the magic in the earth around her. She shuddered. It felt dark...evil. She didn't want to use that. She focused inside of herself until she found her center, and started to
think up things that made her happy. Days with Jesse, Xander, the Scoobies, Oz, Tara... She lifted her hands, and focused that power outwards, to her fingertips. The door exploded off its hinges with a bright flash.
The others finally noticed them, and ran over to her.
"Willow!" Buffy exclaimed. "What are you doing?"
Willow shrugged.
"Remus wanted a surprise attack," she said. In that moment, Death Eaters started to come out of the house, attacking them. Willow sent a blast of white light - her light magic - towards a Death Eater. "And we are the
distraction."
Buffy grinned. "I can work with that," she said, and sent a Death Eater flying. Around them, Lily, James, Sirius and Amy were hurling hexes. Nobody noticed when Remus sneaked inside.
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Lucius hurried down the corridors, down to the holding cell where the Slayer was. He'd since long ago figured out the attack outside was because they wanted Faith - and what better way to stop them than waiting in her cell?
As he stepped in, he let out a snarl of distaste as he saw the blood covered figure on the floor. He smiled evilly.
"So, Slayer," he said. "Do you hear that noise outside?" He didn't wait for an answer. "That is the nice sound of your friends being defeated. It was my pleasure to defeat the werewolf - Lupin..."
Faith's shaking form suddenly stopped shivering.
"That's right...his screams were a joyous sound to my ears."
He bent down over Faith and sent a cutting hex to her body. Faith screamed.
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Remus hurried down the corridors, listening for any sound his enhanced werewolf hearing could pick up. Suddenly, he heard a scream of pain.
"Faith..."
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Memories flashed pass Faith's eyes as the torture continued. Flashes of her life, of someone else's life...there was the graying man's face again. Out of nowhere, a name appeared.
"REMUS!"
Lucius laughed.
"It's no use, you whore! Do you really think he'll come to you? Your wolf in shining armor?"
Out of the shadows, the dark form of Lord Voldemort stepped out.
"That's enough, Lucius," he said. "We need to join the fight outside...as much as I hate to admit it...we're losing. He walked over to Faith.
"So...have you decided?"
Faith let out a whimper of pain. Everything was so blurry...what was she supposed to say?
"No..." she whispered. "I won't join you."
Voldemort looked down on her with distaste.
"No? Well...then I guess I won't have any use for you - "
Suddenly, the cell-door blasted open.
Voldemort turned around, and snarled at the sight of Remus.
"Well, well, well..." he said. "So the wolf showed up after all..." They started to circle each other. Voldemort rolled his eyes. "As much as I would love to stay, I don't want to waste my time on scum like you...I need to help my worthless servants outside. Lucius, I trust you can handle this?"
Lucius grinned. "It would be an honor, my Lord."
Voldemort turned around, his cloak swirling behind him as he left. Remus turned his focus to Lucius Malfoy instead. He sent his first curse flying, a bludgeoning charm, but Lucius easily ducked, and sent a cutting hex towards
Remus, which he easily deflected.
Lucius grinned.
"Your girlfriend is quite pretty," he said. "I wouldn't mind giving her a go later."
A fire started to burn in Remus' eyes, and he sent three hexes towards Lucius at once.
Lucius smirked.
"Looks like I hit a soft spot."
Then the real dueling began.
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"I love this!" James said, as he sent a hex towards a Death Eater. Lily rolled her eyes.
"Boys," she muttered. Amy, who was protecting her left flank, grinned in agreement.
"Yeah...but he's right - it is quite funny."
"Not when you get hit," Lily said, as she sidestepped a curse.
"Who said anything about getting hit?"
Suddenly, the dark shadow of Lord Voldemort came up in the door opening. Lily swallowed.
"I think it's very possible we will be."
James and Sirius eyes widened, and they started to back away.
"Eh...Buffy...Willow," James said. "How long did we have to play distraction?"
Buffy gulped.
"I don't know...anyone got an idea?"
Sirius nodded slowly. "I got one - RUN!"
The others didn't need any encouragement, and they started running towards the woods, ducking hexes as they ran. Willow ran backwards, working on putting up a shield. Buffy ran beside her.
"Will?" She said.
"What?"
"I just wanted to say I'm glad you're my friend."
Willow looked surprised.
"I am? I mean, you are?"
Buffy grinned.
"Yeah. No hard feelings, alright?"
"No hard feelings," Willow agreed. "So...we're okay?"
Buffy gave her friend a searching look.
"We will be," she said.
Willow grinned, relieved, but exhausted. She had pretty much emptied her magical source today, since she didn't want to use the dark magic around her. Buffy saw this.
"Want some cool Slayer strength to help you keep that shield thingy up?"
Willow looked surprised, then she smiled.
"If you want to share."
Buffy grinned, and took her friend's hand. Willow felt how the power of the Slayer surged through her, giving her a renewed strength.
"Better?" Buffy asked, and Willow nodded.
"Much. Thank you."
Buffy smiled.
"You're welcome."
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Remus and Lucius had both gotten their fair share of hits. Remus was bleeding from his shoulder, and was limping quite badly, but Lucius wasn't better off. He hated to admit it, but the werewolf was better than he had thought. His right arm, his ordinary wand arm, had taken a bad hit from a bludgeoning charm, and was hanging limp and useless by his side, and he was bleeding from a gash on his forehead, which stopped him from seeing completely.
But Lucius had the advantage of that he didn't care if a stray curse hit the Slayer, while Remus was doing everything he could not to hit her.
Lucius snarled, and sent a hex towards Faith instead, hoping to distract the werewolf. It worked. As the red hex - another cutting hex - shot towards Faith, Remus' look turned to her - Lucius took his chance.
"CRUCIO!" The red curse hit Remus straight in the chest, and he fell down, screaming.
Lucius stood bent over him, enjoying the pain he saw in Remus' face.
"So it ends here..." Lucius said, and lifted the curse for a second, as he moved closer to Remus, hovering above him. "Your little rescue mission failed...your whore will bleed to Death...and I am going to torture you to insanity like dear Bella did to the Longbottoms - how do you like that?"
Remus mumbled something.
"What did you say?" Lucius asked. Remus eyes flew open.
"I said - you're right."
Lucius stared at him in confusion. Then...
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
A body fell to the floor.
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Lily, James, Sirius and Amy had taken refuge in the middle of the forest, waiting for Buffy and Willow to appear. When they finally did, James had already made a portkey.
"Come on!" Sirius said.
"Wait!" Buffy exclaimed. "What about Remus and Faith?"
James gave Buffy a grim look.
"I'm afraid they're on their own."
"What? We can't just leave them!"
A curse came flying through the trees, hitting Lily in the shoulder, sending her crashing into a tree.
"I'm afraid we don't have a choice," Amy said, as James helped his wife sit up.
"We can only hope for the best."
Buffy took a last look over her shoulder towards the Malfoy Manor, before she grabbed the portkey along everyone else.
She felt a pull in her navel, and a second later, the place where they had stood, where empty.
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"What did you say?" Lucius asked. Remus eyes flew open.
"I said - you're right."
Remus grabbed his wand, and pointed it at Lucius' chest. He stared at Remus in confusion, as he felt the pointy end against his heart.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Lucius Malfoy's body fell to the side, dead. Remus sat up, gasping in pain. He turned his eyes to the dead body of Lucius Malfoy beside him. He shuddered. He hadn't wanted to, but he had to. He crawled over to Faith, checking after a pulse. He almost cried in relief as he felt it, it was weak, but it was there. He let his tears fall freely, as he saw the damage Faith's body had taken from hours and hours of torture. There was so much blood...
"Portus," he muttered, pointing a wand at a tissue he'd had in his pocket. He grabbed hold of Faith with one arm, and the tissue with the other. Then, he felt a pull in his navel, and they were gone.
A/N: Hope you liked! Thank you all who gave their support while grams was in hospital - it feels really nice knowing they're people who cares - even if they don't even really know us. Unfortunately she didn't make it, and left us for real sometime during thusday afternoon. Again, thanks for all your support.
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