Dauntless Dimensions
Chapter 13
Paradoxical
Stephanie had to admit, she enjoyed the summer holiday, and waiting to go to Hogwarts became much more bearable. She had fast become really close with her roommate, Astoria, and snuggling up every night with her new friend was rather pleasant, and she just hoped her fall into such sappiness didn't destroy her bad girl image, before she reminded herself that she had never cared what people thought of her, and still didn't, and that the only opinions that she held any real respect for, in this universe at least, were Harry's and Skulduggery's. She loved Astoria to bits, and enjoyed learning all about the magical world, and all the weird magical games they could play together.
However, Stephanie spent a lot of time with Harry, occasionally sneaking off, aging up, and using that little time to snuggle, and snog each other's brains out. Though, she was rather embarrassed to meet Dora for the first time, but thankfully, she couldn't stay too long as she was at Auror school. Dora was really-hot, and snogging her and Harry together was more than she bargained for because she had to resist because she wanted her first time – she wanted her first time to be with Harry, and to be private, just the two of them, and she was glad her mind couldn't be read for that most of all.
Harry and Stephanie were finally back to school age with Hermione on the Hogwarts Express in a compartment together, as Harry suggested that the other girls not turn away their other friends for him, as they needed friends, and sent Ginny and Luna pouting off to find some other first years to make friends with, and Stephanie was too stubborn to not join Harry and Hermione, even though she had grown rather close to Astoria, Astoria went and joined her sister, so Stephanie looked smug to get her way.
Stephanie had had an amazing time, especially when Ginny and Harry helped her learn to fly on an actual broomstick. Skulduggery was just as amazed as her about how different the rules of magic were compared with their world. Harry had bought a whole slew of brooms for them all to ride and have a good time.
Skulduggery was actually taking some cases for Amelia, as Harry bought him a car to get around in, and sometimes got Sirius or Remus to apparate him places. It helped that he got a rather impressive glamour that made him look like a normal guy, and could be rather intimidating to criminals.
Though, something funny happened the day after the last girl arrived at the cottage, all of them had a good laugh while reading the daily prophet, which had several pictures of Harry effortlessly beating up Gilderoy Lockhart. In addition, several pictures of him beating up Lucius Malfoy. The pair were a laughing stock. But what made the loudest laughter to fill the 'cottage' was that the paper announced, Lockhart to be the new defence teacher, and Hermione knew that Harry and Stephanie were going to make him regret taking the job, and she kind of couldn't wait as she loved them to bits.
The train finally arrived at Hogsmeade station after a lot of fun and games, and Harry teasing Stephanie and Hermione with his fun and cuddly ways that they both accepted, and pretended they didn't enjoy as much as they did, as they both ended up cuddled on his lap, as he lavished them in his love and attention, and spoilt them, as the three took a short nap for the last few hours together.
Harry was happy, Malfoy had not bothered them though, probably scared, and hopefully getting a clue, and trying harder than he had been to become a better person. Harry was rooting for the poor bugger, and promised himself that if the boy needed some help getting an out from his father's ridiculousness, he would give it to him.
When they exited the train, Stephanie pouted as she went off with Hagrid and the other first years, but managed to meet up with Astoria, as they reached the small boats, so holding hands, they climbed into their boat.
Harry and Hermione climbed into an empty carriage that was pulled by a black bony horse-thing with bat like wings, that only Harry seemed to see, and crept Hermione out as he described them. They were Thestrals, and apparently only people who had seen death – well not Lilith, Death - probably, but seen someone die could see them, and it reminded him of Charles, and knew Lilith took good care of his soul, and he was apparently waiting for his chance at another life with reincarnation, as he prepared to be reconstituted into the planet's life stream.
Soon enough they had exited the carriage, and were climbing up the steps into the entrance hall when a water bomb splashed down in front of Harry, and a few girls screamed in shock.
Harry looked up to see Peeves the poltergeist grinning madly at him.
"Do you want my Dumbledore treatment? Because I'm sure I can cause you pain and suffering too?" Harry suggested with an amused smirk.
Peeves's smile faulted for a second before returning full force, "you can't hurt ghosty wee Potty." He then threw another water bomb, which Harry swiped away with a sweep of his right hand and small blast of air, splashing the balloon into the far wall, and causing the poltergeist to pause.
Harry grinned as he clicked the fingers of his left hand, and with a spark, an orange and red flame curled up and around the palm of his hand, to gasps of awe from other students. Peeves wasn't smiling anymore as he stared at the fire as Harry chanted under his breath, and the flames turned pinkish purple.
"A gift from a friend, Peeves," Harry said coolly. "You know what these flames do, don't you?"
The poltergeist nodded quickly as his eyes wouldn't leave those flames. "I… I do, sir… burn me they will… send me from here to wherever I go! Sending flames! Powerful exotism magic. You are dangerous to be able. To know. Lost magic that is, I can tell. I am old, I am. I know. I'll do as you say… please don't send me! I'm scared."
"Now, who is the boss of you?" Harry asked with a smirk, as the flames were a gift from Death to destroy the rest of Voldemort's soul, but they could also be used to send a full spirit like him to the other side, as poltergeists were the full spirit bound to the Earth, rather than in-part like a normal ghost – well that was how it worked in this universal timestream, and her branches. Though, Harry knew instinctually a spirit should sense the danger of the flames, he was impressed that Peeves knew so much more about them.
Peeves gulped looking scared out of his mind. "You-you are," he stuttered.
"Good," Harry smirked. "Now go pester Filtch, and later when Dumbledore's sleeping, wreck his office, okay… but do it nicely because I'm starting to feel sorry for the old guy?"
"Yes sir," he then whizzed off at top speed looking relieved as the flames died out in Harry's hand, as he realised, he may have been dealing in divinity, and he wanted nothing to do with pissing off anyone who might have a connection to the Goddess of Death.
However, Peeves wondered how he could nicely destroy Dumbledore's office, but knew wreaking havoc for Potter was better than probably going to hell, because while he didn't consider himself evil, and he wasn't the worst person in life or death, he was rather a realist about it anyway, and he had lots of regrets and guilt that would certainly drag him down. However, he quickly shook that off, as working to help Potter cause some dippy gits some trouble could add some brownie-points somewhere, right?
Harry ignored all the stunned looking students who watched him gain control of the annoying poltergeist, and led Hermione to the Ravenclaw table. The sorting hat sung its new stupid song, and all the first years were listening with interest but one, who was making funny faces at her 'boyfriend', who in turn was making them back. They were both giggling silently, and really pissing the teachers off, and Astoria was tugging Stephanie's arm, trying to get her to stop while trying not to laugh at them.
Harry looked up at the staff table as Stephanie waited for her name to be, called, once they stopped being annoying, as Astoria stuck her tongue out at Harry with a cheeky wink, as she got her best friend to turn away from Harry, getting her to help with his mischief. Harry saw Dumbledore staring at him looking grave and fearful, and he also saw Lockhart watching him fearfully. Harry grinned at Lockhart, and winked. Snape looked at Lockhart and grinned slyly. He remembered the paper with Potter knocking him out. Damn, he had never thought a Potter would ever make him laugh, but that boy was rather interesting and had ball of steel on him.
Severus knew Potter was not all bad. He was just dishing out vengeance, and knew that he was defiantly on that list, and he would take it just as badly as Dumbledore, but that did not mean he could not enjoy watching the boy attack others. He had to hand it to the boy. He had some Slytherin qualities. In fact, the young Potter was more Slytherin than any real Slytherin's, but then he had to be stupidly courageous to do things like steal all of Dumbledore's possessions and openly flaunt it, and very clever to pull it off.
"Greengrass, Astoria," McGonagall said while glaring at her and the black-haired girl for playing about, as the teacher knew who Astoria was as she looked so like her older sister.
Astoria gave Stephanie a sheepish grin and hurriedly skipped over and took a seat on the stool with the hat sat on her head.
"Hmm…" the hat grumbled in her mind. "Oh, here we go again little SLYTHERIN!" the hat roared out, and she was half surprised, half disappointed, as she had hoped she would be in Ravenclaw with Harry and Hermione, so they would get to play more together.
"Edgley, Stephanie!" McGonagall called out a little while later, and Stephanie buzzed in excitement, as she moved over and took her seat.
"Oh, so… we have another god to shake things up," the hat whispered in her ear, but she kept him from anything important. "I know, Ravenclaw is where you want to be… where you expect to be, but there's somewhere else you need to be. SLYTHERIN!" the hat called and applause started before it stopped as abruptly, and whispers circled.
"I've never heard of her before."
"I think she's a muggle-born."
"No way? A muggle-born in Slytherin?"
Meanwhile, Stephanie offered Harry and Hermione a sheepish grin and wink before she found a seat next to Astoria where they whispered secrets to each other, and McGonagall ushered the sorting to continue. Luna was surprisingly sorted into Gryffindor with Ginny, but they looked relieved they were together anyway, as they chatted happily under their breaths before the sorting was finished.
Later that night, Harry and Stephanie had snuck out of their dorms, and as they snuck along the corridors, Stephanie had told Harry about beating up several boys who thought they were big tough boys attacking a first-year little girl. It took a lot of self-control for Harry not to laugh uproariously, before stalking to their dorm and beating the shit out of them.
However, soon they were standing in the aftermath of their destruction party, in which they had destroyed all four house tables, and points hour glasses, and were now staring up at the normal ceiling.
"So," Harry said in amusement. "It takes two, Thundaga's to destroy the enchantments on the ceiling?"
Stephanie nodded. "You know, we're probably going to have to fix this." Harry nodded with a shrug; the look on Dumbledore's face would be worth it, and they both snickered, as they both looked at the painted walls that read: 'Gilderoy Lockhart likes touching little boys, run away from him, and scream for help!' in pink paint.
They then looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"Come on, Love," Harry said offering his hand. "Let's get out of here."
Harry and Stephanie came down to the great hall the next morning, nervous, as they had met up in their uniforms, and ventured to the Great Hall, hand in hand, but when they reached the hall doors; they stopped. The whole school looked mortified, standing around looking into the hall.
"Not as funny as I thought it would be!" Harry whispered while Stephanie frowned in guilt.
"Ahhhh!" a first-year boy screamed as he noticed Gilderoy Lockhart standing behind him. "Help me; don't let him get me!" he cried out and hid behind Snape who was the nearest teacher other than Lockhart. Snape actually smirked, as Lockhart's face went bright red, and Harry and Stephine couldn't stop the impish smiles, as that was at least funny.
"Can it be fixed, Albus?" McGonagall asked while rolling her eyes at the boy, and drawing everyone's attention back to the headmaster.
"I'm sorry," Dumbledore replied looking around at the teachers and students. "The enchantments for the ceiling have been lost with time. There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid nobody ever thought about reverse engineering the enchantments… a huge oversight on our part now I think about it…"
Suddenly Stephanie saw the world swirling around her, and felt a bit queasy at the sudden motion, as she and Harry boomed through the Sea of Dimensions at dizzying speeds. She looked at Harry to see he was looking very guilty, as they just expected to be able to look up the enchantment, and redo it. It might have even been fun to do something like that. The swirling only lasted a few seconds until it stopped.
Stephanie was now looking into the Great Hall, which had loads of students, though about one hundred and fifty or more less than she remembered yesterday. She saw Harry was his fall age now, and he had used the clothes altering charm they found at the cottage so his robes fit, and Stephanie copied changing her age back, and her robes and uniform to fit before anyone noticed, and removing their patches.
In the great hall, Stephanie saw several people at the staff table. Four of them stood out from the rest: a man with shaggy orange hair wearing scarlet and gold robes, and next to him was the gruffest man she had ever seen wearing green and silver with a rough beard, and next to him, a blonde slim woman wearing yellow and bronze. Last, the woman on the other side of the man in crimson had raven black hair, and was wearing blue robes. Stephanie thought both women were gorgeous.
"Oh my… well, us. Ha… Hiro," Stephanie said at a complete loss. "These are the founders of Hogwarts, aren't they?" she gestured the teacher's table.
Harry looked at her and grinned. "Cool, huh?
"Come on," he continued. "Let's go say hallo, and introduce ourselves… we have to make a good impression, we can't leave for forty-eight… oh, wait, you can take us back… damn. I wanted an excuse to stay a while."
Stephanie giggled. "Well, our excuse can be they are the founders, what more do we need."
"Good point, Valkyrie," he agreed. "Come on then." She nodded and they walked into the noisy hall, and were soon spotted by the teachers and founders, but the students seemed either not to care or not to notice.
To their horror it was Salazar who got up to approach them while the other founders watched in mild interest.
"Try not to break his legs or something stupid, if he's actually the arsehole from the history books," Stephanie whispered.
"If he's rude or insulting, I'll be just as rude and ten times as insulting," Harry whispered back.
Salazar scowled suspiciously at the unexpected guests wearing weird robes.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Salazar said in a squeaky yet gravelly voice. Hiro and Valkyrie shared a look. That was impossible. He looked like he could be a woodsman, and he was rather tall, and had a slash across his face. Their mouths twitched until they burst out into a fit of laughter so loud and hard, they had to hold each other for support. They had now gained the full attention of everyone in the hall.
Godric Gryffindor was watching the strangers laughing, trying his hardest not to laugh himself. The students looked like they hadn't heard what Salazar said, so didn't get the laughter, but he did. Salazar was such an idiot sometimes. He should not have been the one to speak to them, but he hadn't opened his mouth all lunch, so he hadn't noticed.
Godric looked to Rowena and saw she too, like himself was trying almost in vain not to laugh, but Salazar had that effect on brave or foolish people, but he was pretty easy to mess with.
"Sorry?" Hiro said trying to get his breath back. "I'm Hiro Yevon, and this is my… wife, Valkyrie Yevon nee Cain…" he said to her wide-eyed surprise, but thankfully, everyone's attention was on Hiro, and she figured the fact she wasn't even sixteen yet wouldn't matter so far in the past. "We have travelled far to get the secrets of your enchanted ceiling."
"One moment!" Salazar squeaked out and turned to the Slytherin table where a lone boy was shaking in mirth. He had light brown hair, and he was thin, and wore his robes rather loosely. "Emrys!" he hissed squeakily in annoyance. "Undo this, immediately!" he demanded in his squeak, which made the other students have to choke back their laughter.
Hiro looked to Stephanie in shock while she looked to him confused while the hall shook with the chaos of giggling, as even the teachers and other founders laughed.
"Myrddin Emrys," Harry whispered while, Valkyrie still looked confused. "Merlin Ambrosius."
Her eyes widened. "You mean that's like a sixteen or seventeen or whatever year-old Merlin?" she asked and he nodded in agreement. "Like King Arthur and the Knights, and Round Table, and Camelot, and Ava-."
"Yes, Val, yes," Hiro interrupted while Myrddin turned to his teacher with a sigh as the giggling died down; he had bright green eyes full of mischief, but clicked the fingers of his right hand, and with that click, and a 'finite', Salazar turned back to the newcomers as the hall quietened again.
"I apologize for that," Salazar said coolly. His voice was now powerful, and rumbled with strength as he stared at the newcomers with bright green eyes. "Mr. Emrys, has a penchant for jokes. Unfortunately, my sister wouldn't be too pleased with me if I clouted him, into next week, but she is a muggle, so… maybe she never has to find out."
That caused young Emrys to gulp while his housemates smirked at him, and a red-haired girl leaned on Emrys and whispered something in his ear before he rolled his eyes.
"Nimue Ninianne!" Myrddin scolded with a mock look of outrage in his light Welsh accent, but her glare set him straight, and he sighed before he turned back to Salazar while trying not to look too sulky. "Sorry, Uncle. I mean Professor," he said looking down at his feet.
Salazar rolled his eyes, and leaned closer to Hiro and Valkyrie. "She's too good for him, if you ask me," he whispered with a smirk, as he whispered loud enough for everyone to hear which caused a lot of snickering. "Now," he continued standing up straight as even the girl with Myrddin giggled, "you want to learn the enchantments to our ceiling?" he asked in curiosity. "From where do you herald…? Are you starting a rival school within the North Kingdoms?"
"No, of course not," Hiro quickly said shaking his hands in defence, as he engaged lie mode. "Erm… it is our Lord, Sir… em, sorry about laughing; it was rather funny," he said and Myrddin snorted a laugh, and quickly found a fascination with his fork, as his girlfriend poked him, and Salazar glared at him before returning focus to Harry. "Well, our Lord, has heard of your ceiling and wishes for one for his Ballroom. He isn't a very talented mage, Sir, and has no interest passed the mundane tricks for making life easier when it comes to magic, so we were sent to learn this enchantment for him, so that he could wow his guests."
"And what do you offer us, in return, Boy?" Godric Gryffindor asked coolly as he and the two women founders joined them.
Hiro smiled wolfishly. "I can teach you teleportation magic," he said as he knew it didn't exist yet, but was invented around this time or there about.
The founders shared looks of confusion.
"What is teleportation magic?" Rowena Ravenclaw asked in curiosity.
Harry flickered in a whip like crack from where he was, gone, and they turned at another crack, moments later with wide eyes full of awe. He made sure to make it loud and showy, but he could do it slower, which took away the tiny sonic boom from the wind pressure, but he needed to make an impression.
"You can travel miles in but a blink of an eye, as long as you can picture where you want to be," Hiro said with a wicked grin while students looked like they wanted to learn too. "But, be wary of appearing before muggles who may not be too keen on mage. It can also be dangerous if you do it wrong, splinching a limb, probably isn't very nice, which means leaving a body part behind, connected through the apparation field, so as long as you train with it short distance to begin with like I just showed you, it is a rather simple spell for a teacher to put you back together, by forcing your left-behind limb to finish disapparation."
"Is there a way to stop this… apparation?" Salazar asked in concern, as he already felt weird about not quite finishing it, and leaving a leg behind. They would have to make sure all the students who wanted to learn it were extremely proficient before doing it outside of class.
Hiro nodded. "Yes, I know how to create the ward needed to stop it. That's in with this deal, of course, and the charm to help… with those who leave a leg behind."
"It may take months, to a year or more to learn the enchantment," Helga Hufflepuff said thoughtfully. "If your Lord is willing to wait for you, we shall happily trade knowledge."
"Of course," Hiro said with a smile. "Our Lord knew that we would likely take quite a while learning of such difficult magic… perhaps someday we might even improve upon it."
"We can only hope you youngens do so," Godric said with a laugh. "We don't intend that those who come after us never improve upon our genius and knowledge. You should take some standard classes while here, as we cannot be available all day every day, unfortunately, and you'll get to enjoy some school life. You can even teach some of our older students this apparation thing with us, once you have taught us the method for, warding against it, as we don't want students apparating all over the school, and getting up to mischief."
"That would be amazing," Hiro said with a grin while Valkyrie nodded her agreement, and looked rather excited, as she didn't know how to apparate yet, as Harry had been teaching her; they hadn't too much spare time, so her lessons hadn't gotten too far yet.
"Miss. Pendragon," Rowena called and a smartly dressed girl with a silver badge pinned to her chest with a P engraved, stood from the Ravenclaw table. She was pretty with long dark hair, and perfect teeth as she smiled gently at Valkyrie and Hiro. "I believe we have a spare apartment within our tower within the girls Special Wing?"
"Yes, Professor," she agreed with a nod. "The one next to mine is empty."
"Very well," Rowena said with a smile. "If you've finished dinner, could you lead Mr. and Mrs. Yevon, and see them well."
"Of course," she quickly agreed, so turned to Hiro and Valkyrie. "I'm done here, please follow me," she said and they followed after her.
"Do you have a first name?" Valkyrie forced in, as she and Hiro followed the girl through the school, as the girl talked and talked and talked all about Hogwarts and the founders, and about magic, and how clever she was, and that she was apparently in a roundabout way a princess, as her uncle had his own Kingdom in England, but everyone was apparently intimidated by that, and how amazing she was at magic, so she didn't have any friends. Hiro and Valkyrie were both pretty sure it was because she was big-headed, extremely full of herself, and never shut up talking that made her friendless.
"Oh, right, yes," she said, pausing they stopped as she turned to them and gave a curt curtsy. "I am Morgan Pendragon, niece of Uther Pendragon, King of Camelot," she offered her limp right hand out, palm down. "I shall allow you this privilege," she said, and that was probably another reason she didn't have friends.
Harry and Valkyrie both shared a look, before Harry turned a smile to Morgan; the apparently future Dark Lady. Harry internally shrugged, and reached out, and Morgan's dark blue eyes widened in shock as he gently took her fingers, and raised her hand to his lips, bowing politely he kissed the back of her hand, before letting go, and Valkyrie copied with a little mocking curtsy, Morgan was too shocked to notice.
"How many times before now have you been snubbed?" Hiro asked, and her cheeks darkened further, as she held the hand they kissed to her chest with her other hand, as if protecting the kisses they gave her, trying to feel whether it really happened or not.
Morgan looked down. "Every time. They think because my father was only my uncles' brother, that I'm barely a princess."
"You're a flipping sorceress," Valkyrie said with a wicked grin. "And you're pretty, and even through the robes I'm sure your bod is nice and fit. Why would you care about being a princess?"
"I…" Morgan began but looked confused for a moment as she thought about it while her cheeks stained red, and she fiddled with her fingers nervously. "I don't know," she finally replied. "But nobody likes me… I know it's not really because I intimidate them. I hear them whispering behind my back. 'Morgan is a freak'. 'She so weird'. 'She won't shut up talking about her talents'. Some of them even use cusses about me. They say I'm a pathetic little fairy. That I should go and join the Fay. Morgana le Fay; that pathetic French whore called me."
The last Morgan hissed out angrily as her blue eyes darkened while tears trailed down her pale cheeks. Hiro and Valkyrie shared a horrified look, as Morgan shook and started sobbing. Then they reached out, and Morgan tensed as Hiro and Valkyrie pulled Morgan tightly into their arms, and the floodgates broke as she held onto them sobbing her eyes out for several minutes while they tried to sooth her.
However, Morgan eventually pulled back, wiping her eyes on her sleeves as they heard people coming, and turned and continued walking while her cheeks were on fire.
"T-thank you," Morgan whispered as Hiro and Valkyrie followed her.
Valkyrie moved to walk beside Morgan and took her right hand in her left, and linked their fingers. "I'm not the best at making the effort to make friends either," Valkyrie said gently. "People can be scary… you know, what if they reject us? But we'll be here for quite a while, and neighbours, so you, are my new best friend, and I with Hiro's assistance, will help you find yourself."
"R-really?" Morgan asked in confusion and awe, and as Valkyrie nodded, Morgan held her hand in return. With that, Morgan walked with her new friends, and into Ravenclaw tower, a lot more subdued but couldn't help but explain the system to getting into the tower with a riddle the door knocker asked.
"Are the other three houses too stupid for riddles?" Valkyrie interrupted, and the black iron raven door knocker, and Morgan paused, and turned to her, before Morgan turned back to the knocker in surprise.
"That had never crossed my mind," Morgan said thoughtfully. "Knocker, why do we have such lack security when the other three houses each use a password?"
"I know who all those permitted into Ravenclaw are," the knocker said sheepishly to their surprise. "If someone without permission tries me, I give them an impossible riddle or question with no answer. Like one of my favourites – what came first, the chicken or the egg? Nobody knows," the knocker giggled in glee.
"Heh, actually I read about this, it was the Red Junglefowl," Hiro said with a shrug while the Knocker seemed to startle and turn to Hiro. "I'm pretty certain the chicken evolved from it," he said while Valkyrie gave him a weird look. "The question was in a really unfunny joke I heard back home. So, I looked it up… I mean, did some research."
"Well," the Knocker said in thought. "As long as nobody has nothing better to do than look up the family links between species of fowl, I can probably still use this one, and, junglefowl also lay eggs," he said rather cheerfully, as the door swung open. "But you do learn something new every day," he said while Morgan led her new friends into the large blue common room before the door closed behind them.
"You're smart, like me," Morgan said rounding on Hiro. "I like to research weird things like that too sometimes, but come on, follow me, and I'll show you to your room," she said leading them through a side door next to the door that split off up one way for girls' dorms, and up another for boys.
They were led up one of the flights of stairs to a corridor with several doors, to the end where a door sat opposite the entrance. "This is for the head girl, but Nimue is head girl this year with that twit, Myrddin Emrys being head boy for some reason, as he's always pulling silly jokes, but I shall admit that he is rather gifted at magic, and his girlfriend, Nimue is rather nice, and keeps him in check for the most part. It's their last year thankfully, as they're seventh years, but I'm sixth, so hopefully, I'll get the head girl badge then, but don't worry, you can keep the room, as I am perfectly happy with what I have, thank you."
"We'll get settled then," Hiro said with a smile.
"If you want to just, enjoy our company, Hiro is really quite knowledgeable about most standard things, magical," Valkyrie said with a grin, hugging Morgan to her shock before she quickly hugged back, "and if you want to talk about girl things… or boys or girls or whatever, I'm right here to give it a shot, as I probably need some practice with that too."
"Yes, thank you," Morgan readily agreed, "and, my rooms just here," she said gesturing the next door over. "If you need anything, just knock. I'll call on you in the morning, to lead you to breakfast. Its Saturday tomorrow, so no classes; I can show you around, while The Four prepare some timetables for the exchange of knowledge."
"That would be great," Valkyrie said, opening their door. "Good night, Morgan."
"Yes, have some pleasant dreams," Hiro agreed.
"And you both too," she agreed before they parted each other.
Valkyrie sighed as the door closed behind them, and leant up against the it while Harry secured the room before silencing it with some waves of his wand. The room was large and had two lavish sofas, and a coffee table, and three other doors, one to the bathroom, and one to their bedroom, and the other apparently a spare, maybe for visiting parents or something, or maybe the head students were allowed to let their best friend join them.
"Holly shit, we just made friends with Morgana le Fay," Valkyrie said once Hiro gave her a nod that it was safe to speak. "Is this… wait, I can feel it… it doesn't matter, this is your reality, we're here in every timeline from this point on, except those that diverged away from this before we got here, but won't this change our realities future?"
"No, because, I believe that other weird feeling, is because this is a temporal causality," he said thoughtfully. "Some theorists in the possible concept of time travel, say that if time travel happens, that some events in the past likely happened because of temporal interference from the future. It's a paradox where the present only exists the way it does because of somebody or somebodies from the future, and right now; I'm pretty certain this has already happened, but it's time we actually lived it."
"So poor Morgan is going to go bad?" Valkyrie asked sadly. "We can't change her fate?"
Hiro shrugged thoughtfully. "That might not be the way things really went down. History is written by the victor, Val."
"So, Merlin?" she asked in shock.
Hiro shook his head as he pulled her into his arms and she accepted his kiss. "Probably not, but nobody can know what happens between then and now, and that includes us right now, as legend can get in the way of the truth. We're spoiler free, and technically married, or at least they think we are… or… we are gods, we could just say the words and it wouldn't be a fib?"
"Are you actually asking me to marry you?!" Valkyrie exclaimed.
"Yes, right here, right now," he agreed to her widening eyes. "We can have a proper ceremony on your world, once there, you're of age."
"Okay," Valkyrie heard herself whisper, nodding, "okay, I'll marry you, right, the words. I Valkyrie Cain, will love you, Hiro Yevon for all eternity… until the end of the multiverse, and further…" she said in embarrassment as her heart was smashing at her chest.
"And I, Hiro Yevon, will love you, Valkyrie Cain for all eternity… until the end of the multiverse, and further…" he said while they smiled at each other.
"I now pronounce you husband and wife!" they were interrupted with a swirl of light. They looked to the side where a young woman stood with a gentle smile. She had short ruffled white hair, and wore white and gold robes, and was bare foot. She had bright eyes swirling with all the colours, yet they didn't look a mess. "You may now kiss the bride," she said.
Hiro and Valkyrie turned back to each other and leaned in, kissing so gently, before they pulled back at the wolf-wishing, and confetti being thrown at them by a blonde with white feathered wings folded around her.
"Eve, seriously?" Hiro asked with a groan.
"Sorry," she said sheepishly as she clicked her fingers and the confetti disappeared. "I couldn't help myself, since Pan figured you needed witnesses, as I was bringing her, because you wanted to talk, and…" she gestured the girl as she flopped down on the sofa. "The party idea seems like a total bust, as she wasn't going to fall for it."
"I know what might cheer Life up," Hiro said while leaving Valkyrie for a moment.
"Some shoes?" Valkyrie suggested looking at her small bare feet.
"No," Harry disagreed. "Well, yes," he changed his mind while Life frowned and wiggled her toes. "But more importantly, she needs to give Death a Life," he said chuckling to three sets of groans.
"That's a really old joke, Lord Hiro," Eve said with a thoughtful frown. "I think I might have been the first to go there actually."
"Look, Pandora," Hiro said, sitting next to Life, and taking her hand. "You love Lilly more than anyone. Lilly loves you with everything she is. Lilith!" he ordered, and she was suddenly in the corner of the room being all sweet and shy. "I'll do you both a deal. You are both going to kiss, make up, and then use the spare bedroom to really make up, and if you ever have a tiff with each other again, find me, and hopefully by then I'll be a fully trained psychiatrist, specialising in couples, deal?"
They both nodded shyly as Lilith shuffled from her corner, and stood before Pandora. "Sorry I said your platypuses were stupid, and an evolutionary mistake. I went and watched some for-a while, and they are kind of cute, for, I don't know, duck-otter things."
"It's okay, I forgive-!"
"Wait, what the hell?" Hiro demanded, shocking them to turn to him. "You've been torturing yourselves by being apart over platypus?"
"I love platypus," Pandora said shyly. "They're so funny looking and adorable."
Hiro took a few deep calming breaths while Eve was outright laughing, and Valkyrie was biting her lip. Hiro just sighed in frustration, took, Valkyrie's hand, and dragged her into the main bedroom, closing the door behind them.
Pandora shrugged. "Wanna have some fun?" she asked her wife, and she nodded eagerly as Pandora took her hand, and dragged her into the spare room, closing it behind them.
Eve frowned before shrugging, and lying down on the sofa, and sliding her hand up her skirt, as it looked like the only person available to give her some loving was her.
to be continued…