Harry Potter and the Vampire Slayers
Chapter 37 – Miracles.
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 lying beside 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.
PAIRINGS: Buffy/Charlie, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Dawn, James/Lily, Oliver/Vi, Faith/Remus, Willow/Tara, Sirius/Amy, etc.
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Just Me: No problemo! Yeah, I thought it was time for some forgiveness...this chapter really becomes a/an good one/opening for Willow - will say no more, you'll just have to read it. But her suffer-in-silence period ended last chap. Yeah, he did, and he does love Faith. No when I think of it, I guess he could have stunned Lucy instead, but you know, heat of the battle and all. Plus, he's a blonde bastard. LOL. As for getting in trouble...hmmm...maybe. -Smirks evilly- Buffy and Charlie is mentioned in passing here, more of them to come soon.
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Madame Pomfrey was checking on her patients in the Hospital wing - Parvati Patil, with a bad cold, and Seamus Finnegan, who was sick from the 'Eating the most Pumpkin Pastries'- competition. She almost snorted as she gave Parvati a bottle of pepper-up potion. Pumpkin Pastries! Really! Children these days... Suddenly, there was a blinding flash of light, and two bloody figures appeared in the middle of the room. The room's occupants gasped, as they recognized them.
"Professor Lupin? Professor Lehane...Faith?" Neville exclaimed, and Parvati gasped. Remus looked up.
"Help Faith," he managed to croak out, before passing out.
Madame Pomfrey immediately sprung to action. She saw that even though Remus was out cold, Faith was by far the worst and needed immediate attention. She barely noticed how the gossip Queen in Hogwarts, Parvati, ran out - everyone had to find out about this!
Also Seamus left, although he left for Dumbledore's office, using his common sense - the Headmaster would need to be informed - he was sure that what had just transpired was important.
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In the mean time, it was a tired and gloomy group of people assembled in Dumbledore's office, waiting for any news from the 'rescue-party'. Dumbledore was sitting behind his desk, sucking on a lemon-drop, seemingly ignorant to the world, while Harry was pacing around, mad he hadn't been allowed to go. Dawn was sitting in a chair, biting her nails. Charlie was leaning towards a wall, arms crossed. Xander and Anya had had to leave for classes, and so had Giles, because he had classes to teach - he didn't dare leave the students to be taught by Andrew alone. Tara didn't have a class to teach until later that afternoon, so both she and Oz were staring at each other, each one of them trying to break the ice from time to time. Every second, one of them would open their mouths to say something, but then shut them again just as quick.
Suddenly, the doors flew open, revealing a disheveled Seamus Finnigan.
"Mr Finnigan," Dumbledore said. "What can I do for you?"
Seamus looked startled for a moment as he saw so many of the staff being there, plus Dawn and Harry, all watching him, before he seemingly got a grip on himself.
"I - was - hospital-wing," he panted. "Professor Lupin- Faith - showed. Unconscious. Bleeding. Not - sure - if - they - make it." Dawn and Harry rushed out of the room, followed quickly by everyone else except Dumbledore.
"Mr. Finnigan," Dumbledore asked. "Was it only Remus and Faith? No one else?"
Seamus, who by now had regained his breath, shook his head.
"No, they were alone."
"I see...well, why don't you go back to your classes?" Dumbledore asked, blue eyes twinkling.
"Thank you for telling me this." He popped another lemon drop into his mouth, leaning back in his seat. Seamus gave him a confused look, before leaving.
Dumbledore didn't have to wait long before the rest of the rescuers appeared in a heap in the middle of his office.
"Ah, the lost warriors return - and Miss Rosenberg as well - I wasn't aware you went with them?" Buffy just gave him a small smile, as she stood up, legs shaking from exhaustion and emptied magical sources. Buffy was immediately there, steadying her. James stood up, lifting up Lily.
"I'll go to the Hospital wing," he said. "I'm sure the others can fill you in."
"Wait, Mr. Potter - James," Dumbledore said. "Madame Pomfrey is quite busy at the moment."
"I'm sure she can spare my wife a second..." James looked confused. "She hit her shoulder pretty bad..."
"Oh, you misunderstand me," Dumbledore said kindly. "A little while before you appeared, two others appeared - right in the Hospital wing. Mr. Lupin - Remus, and Miss Lehane - Faith. My source, Mr. Finnigan, who is a student to most of you, informed me that they both looked quite bad, and he obviously wasn't sure if they'd make it. I think the best kind of action is not to interrupt Poppy, and let her do her jo - "
No one was listening. Everyone had already rushed out.
Dumbledore sighed.
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When the group reached the hospital wing, they hastily came to a stop. In the middle of the floor was a big puddle of blood. Dawn and Harry were sitting by the wall near the door, both looking very pale. They soon understood the reason for it, as they followed the trail of blood from the floor to two different beds - in one, Remus was laying, pale as a ghost, and in the second, Faith, looking even worse. Her entire body was covered in cuts and bruises, and you could barely see her because of all of the blood. Sirius, James and Lily hastily walked over to Harry and Dawn to comfort them, even though Lily was hurt herself.
Tara and Oz were whispering to each other, Oz standing beside them, putting in comments every now and then. Willow hastily joined them, gaining a relieved smile from Tara, and small one from Oz, wrinkles covering his tired features. Buffy thought she heard the words 'healing' and 'spell', but she wasn't sure. She couldn't take her eyes of her sister Slayer.
Charlie came up to Buffy and hugged her tight, whispering comforting words in her ear, but she barely heard them. Amy rushed up to Pomfrey's side, saying she was a Healer, and wondered what she could do to help. They soon started to work together on Faith's pale, still form.
After awhile, Amy looked up.
"We need blood-replenishing potion - has anyone seen Snape?"
Sirius growled a bit down his throat, but didn't say anything. Oz offered to go get him.
"I can go find him.What does he look like?"
"Tall, dark and greasy," James muttered. "Resides in his dungeons - follow the smell. When you smell something akin to rotten eggs, you know you're on the right trail. Oh, and he looks like a vampire too."
Lily smacked him.
"James!" She hissed. "Grow up!"
"What?" James protested. "It's true!"
Lily just glared.
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Oz hurried down, following his nose, as he didn't know his way around here. Unfortunately, he didn't feel any smell of rotten eggs, so he asked a student for the way.
The student apparently came from the dungeons and a lesson with Snape, but it had been interrupted when Snape suddenly had made a hiss of pain and clutched his for-arm, before dismissing them. Remus had told Oz enough to realize what this meant - Snape had been summoned to a Death Eater meeting. He hastily asked the student if he knew where Snape stored his potions, but the student had shaken his head with wide-eyes, before rushing away.
Oz had no choice but return to the Hospital wing empty handed. As he told the Scoobies the bad news, Buffy let out a scream in frustration.
"We have to do something!"
"Well, we could always use the muggle way of blood transfusion - taking it from someone else, but in this case it wouldn't make much different - Faith has lost too much..." Amy trailed off.
"But it could help? At least for awhile?" Buffy asked. "I'll do it then."
"Do you have the right blood-type?"
Buffy's face fell.
"I don't know. Does anyone know Faith's?"
Everybody shook their heads, and Amy sighed. "Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and hope for the best...unless someone got the universal type - O?"
Again, shakes of heads.
"Well, there's an entire school of people! Someone must have it!" Dawn said.
"By the time we find someone willing, it might be too late," Poppy said sadly. "I'm afraid I've done all I could...we should take her to St. Mungos, but another port-key travel would kill her. I'm sorry." She moved over to Remus, and Amy went to tend to Lily's shoulder. Willow tentatively raised her hand in the air.
"Uhh...guys...I might have a way..."
Everybody's heads turned to look at Willow who flushed in embarrassment.
"There's this spell - it's white magic, don't worry - " she hastily added when she saw their faces. "But I can't do it alone. I've emptied my magical sources, so I'll need one of you - or all of you, it depends - to borrow me some of yours...it's risky, but it might be the only way. I would have borrowed from the castle or the magic in the air, but it could go awry, or lower the castle's defenses and that would be mega bad."
Tara took Willow's hand.
"I think you can do it," she said. "You have my energy."
Buffy hastily went up to her.
"Mine as well. I mean, I've already loaned you some, what's a little bit more?"
"Me too," Dawn stood up. "I mean, the key's energy must be uber-powerful, right?"
"And dangerous," Buffy said, turning to Dawn. "I won't let you do it. Your magic - the key's magic - is the thing that keeps you together as a human. I won't risk you turning back to a green mystical ball of energy."
Dawn's face fell.
"Fine..." she grumbled. She would have protested more, but she didn't fancy turning back into a ball of energy more than Buffy did - she liked her life.
"Think I can help?" Oz asked. "I feel kinda useless over here...not sure if I'm magical, but I wouldn't mind taking some of my werewolf strength away - I wouldn't mind if you removed my werewolf-essence," he finished with a cheeky grin. The others blinked. Huh. Oz surely had changed - that was the longest sentence they'd heard from him in a long while.
"Well, it couldn't hurt," Willow said, smiling at her ex.
Harry stood up.
"I want to help too," he said.
James and Lily gave their son a shocked look.
"Harry! You can't!"
"Why not?" Harry said stubbornly.
"You need your powers if - " Lily left the sentence hanging. ' - If you're going to defeat Voldemort...' she finished silently to herself.
"Oh, you think I would be wasting my powers? Is that it?" Harry scoffed. "Right. You're all worried about me because I'm a pretty little weapon against Voldemort."
James and Lily looked shocked - and hurt.
"Harry! You're our son! We don't want you to get hurt! And we definitely don't want you to face Voldemort! And we most definitely do NOT - I repeat - NOT - see you as a weapon!"
Harry's features softened.
"I'm sorry. I just feel so used sometimes..." he muttered. "And useless. I want to help. Please." Then he grinned. "Plus, this 'power that the Dark Lord knows not' must count for something right?"
James and Lily gave each other hesitant looks.
"Well...it's just we think that power has already been used...and that he has overcome it. We have this theory that it was Lily's love in your blood...and since Voldemort took some of it and used it to return to a body...well, the chances are that power is useless."
Harry looked disappointed.
"Well," he said. "I don't care. I still want to help. And nothing you say will stop me."
He walked over to Willow, and James and Lily sighed in defeat.
"Fine. But then we will help too. The more power the better, right?"
Willow and her 'co-workers' walked over to Faith's bed. She let her hands hover over Faith's chest for a moment, as she closed her eyes.
"I need you to touch me," Willow mumbled. "We need to be linked." Tara hastily grabbed hold of Willow's right shoulder, and Buffy her left. Oz grabbed hold of Tara's hand, and Harry Buffy's. And lastly, Lily took Oz', and James Harry's, before they linked their hands together.
"I'd rather you didn't do this," James muttered to his wife. "You're hurt."
Lily just gave him a glare in return, and James sighed.
"Fine...forget I said anything."
"Amy...Sirius...Charlie...Poppy," Willow said. "I need you to be ready to interfere if something bad happens - break the link. But only if I say so - unless something really feels wrong to you, understood? I don't think I will break...but I'm not sure. It's a mighty powerful spell - in the lines of the one I used to activate all the Slayer's..."
The others gasped. That must take a lot of power.
"...So if I'm not careful, I might scrape you bare on your magic completely. I don't want that to happen, and neither do you. Are you still in?"
The group gulped, but nodded.
"Right."
Willow took a deep breath, and started to chant something in Latin. A wind seemed to fill the room, and all the lights flickered out, but the room stayed bright. Small white orbs of energy seemed to emerge from Willow's hands, and herhair slowly turned white. Those who watched, gasped. She looked beautiful!
The orbs started to spin and hover over Faith's chest in a circle - there were just as many as the people in the chain behind Willow, and slowly one after they caught up with each other, and joined one another, turning all the small orbs into a big orb of bright energy. The orb spun faster and faster, and seemingly started to bury itself in Faith's chest, bit after bit.
Sweat had appeared on Willow's forehead, and she was panting heavily - the other's behind her weren't much better off. Finally, the orb sunk down in Faith's chest completely, and with a flash of light, it was gone. The group fell backwards in a heap at the floor and all the lights flickered on as well.
Willow sat up, gasping, and stood up shakily, looking over at Faith. The others got up one after one, leaning on each other for balance. What they saw made their eyes widen.
All traces of blood in the room - at the floor, on the sheets, towels, on Faith - were gone. Everything looked sparkling clean, and Faith was laying in her bed, seemingly sleeping peacefully, all signs of illness and wounds gone completely. As they looked over to Remus, they saw he looked the same - the magic they'd done must have stretched over the entire room and healed Remus as well. When she took a look at her shoulder, Lily saw that was healed too.
"It's a miracle..." Poppy muttered. "A miracle..."
"Harry?" Sirius asked his Godson carefully. Harry looked up, and the occupants of the room gasped as they saw his eyes. They seemed to be even more green and sparkling than usual, and his scar wasn't as visible as it was before - it no longer looked red and infected as it had been ever since Voldemort's return, but looked like a normally healed scar standing out against the skin in whiteness.
"Oh, My Goodness..." Lily muttered, as she touched it carefully. Harry gave them all weird looks.
"What? What's wrong?"
A/N: Tadaa! I hope you liked it! My first light-magical-uber-big-spell-thingy! LOL. REVIEW!
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