Two Worlds Collide
Mannd
I still don't own GW or HP, no really I don't. This is (so far) my only established couple and yes it is Yaoi SSx06, don't flame me if you don't like. I have one other pairing, but I am not going to tell you hopefully you will be pleasantly surprised, but other than that I have not decided if I am going to make others, but I have seven years (and books) to decide.
Severus Snape sat in the back of a small Italian restaurant just west of Manchester nursing a whiskey and tonic. He had a roaring headache. He sighed as he looked down at his watch; his lover was running late. He took a sip of his drink and closed his eyes rubbing gently at the bridge of his nose; his head was killing him, Bloody Potter. He felt strong hands push his head forward and he sighed, this time with contentment as strong fingers began to massage away the stress of the last two months.
After a moment, the hands stopped, and one reached out and gently touched his face as he heard the chair next to him scrape as the man with miracle hands sat down next to him. "Bad start of term?" Zechs Marquis asked as he signaled the waitress, "dunderheads giving you a rough time?"
Severus opened his eyes and gave a half hearted glare at the man's playful expression but noticed Zechs tension-filled shoulders, "no more than usual," then he shook his head, "one more than usual. The boy is a complete spoiled brat."
Zechs smiled. He knew that Severus had been dreading this child's coming to Hogwarts for years. "He can't be that bad," Zechs soothed.
Severus snorted, "Worse, I'll have you know," then gave a small smile.
"Tell me," Zechs said, and leaned back as the waitress put his standing order of shrimp linguine, salad and rolls on the table. He sighed in happiness as he took the first bite of the steaming dish.
Severus dug into his own pasta dish; the homemade red sauce had just the perfect touch of spices and wine tonight. "He looks just like his father; everyone is always fawning over him and he eats it up," Severus said in disgust. "He had to have his own personally delivered letter before he would consent to coming." Zechs raised his eyebrows at that, "Hagrid was gone overnight, the brat needed an escort to and through Diagon Alley, like the kid's not there every other week being fawned over."
Zechs shook his head, 'the boy does sound like a brat,' he thought, listening as Severus continued, "he never opened a book before coming to class, didn't know any of the simple ingredients then got cheeky with me when I called him on it." Zechs knew that Severus hated cheeky students. "'he's a wonderful polite boy,'" Zechs snorted in laughter as he recognized Minerva McGonagall's Scottish brogue mimicked perfectly by Severus, "'you are projecting your dislike of his father onto the boy, give him a chance Severus'," and the Headmaster's soft tones, "'He's quick witted and understands the material immediately,'" Zechs covered his mouth his eyes dancing at the copied squeaky voice of Flitwick, "'Kid set the sun in the sky, great man Dumbledore,'" Zechs put down his fork as he dissolved into laughter over the fake sniff that Severus added, mimicking Hagrid. "Bah, fools all of them." Severus hid a satisfied smile as he watched the last bit of tension leave his lover's shoulders. "No more talk about him, what have you been up to?"
Zechs sighed as he picked his fork back up and expertly twirled his linguine on it and moodily jabbed a shrimp, Severus raised an eyebrow at his lover's unhappily body language. Zechs studied the bite on his fork before raising troubled blue eyes, "we are looking for the body of a missing boy," he said softly then took the bite of the pasta.
Severus stretched out his hand and gently touched the back of Zechs' hand with his fingers. Severus knew that Zechs hated missing children cases, mostly because they reminded him of his own sister's disappearance and the anguish and fear of not knowing where she was for years. When he had seen her sitting next to his father's old friend, Vice Minister Darlian at a dinner party, he had wanted to reach out and hug her, strangle the man, hug the man. Instead he watched, glad for the mask that he had worn over the years as it hid his face from Darlian, but also helped to hide his emotions at knowing his sister was alive and well after the palace bombing. He still remembered his Father's admonitions to him, "take care of your little sister, Millardo," and his mother's soft hands as she place little Relena into them, "she's a big responsibility, Millardo," she smiled down at the boy's serious expression as he nodded. "I promise I will protect her," the child Millardo had vowed, and his mother run her hands through his blond hair, as he leaned over and kissed Relena's downy head.
He had contented himself to watch her from a distance that night, until the precocious six-year-old girl had surprised him by seeking him out and curtsying in front of him and demanding a dance. Noin had suppressed a laugh, Treize a smile, but Zechs with the utmost correctness bowed back, then swept her up in his arms and out into the dance floor. The girl giggled as she was twirled round and round, and when the dancing was done, he had put her down next to her adopted mother and bowed again. Then he had done the hardest thing he could; turned and walked back to the OZ side of the room.
He watched as Relena had gone up to many of the men in the room, regardless of which side of the issues they were on demanding dances. The child was almost asleep on her feet when she made her way back to Zechs and demanded another dance. This time, Zechs picked her up and slowly danced with her as he made his way to the girl's mother. By the time he had gotten there, she was asleep on his shoulder. She had protested softly when her father had taken her but she snuggled lovingly into the man's chest and Zechs watched as Darlian left the room to put the girl to bed. What later amused him was listening to all of the main supporters of their own issues sighing and saying that the child was why they were fighting as hard as they were for their side of the issue.
"Tell me," Severus said softly as he recalled Zechs from whatever memories he had been lost in.
Zechs took another bite of pasta as he gathered his thoughts, "two years ago, when OZ and the Alliance were still fighting each other, two of the Gundam pilots were forced down, one was injured. 02 found an empty house, the family having just left for a week of vacation, and moved 04 into the house to treat his injures and give him a place to stay while 02 fixed his Gundam. While there they discovered a young boy, the family's nephew locked in the cupboard, with eight bottles of water, twelve packages of crackers and peanut butter, and one coffee can."
Severus blinked in horror, "the family left on vacation and left their nephew behind with no food?"
Zechs nodded, and leaned back as the waitress took their empty plates and put down his tiramisu, and Severus' Spumoni ice cream, "the boys were horrified, but because there was no place they could take him, as they were constantly on the run, they had to leave him behind. The other three pilots were notified and just as horrified, and the five vowed to keep in contact with the boy. You should have heard 02 ranting about the boy's clothes. While he had been growing up you wore what you could because that was all you had, this child was forced to wear his cousin's clothes. His cousin, mind you, must weight over 150 at 11, and the kid was less than one hundred soaking wet. The pilots bought him a new pair of glasses, the first he had ever had that were fit to his eyes, the doctor nearly had a fit that the boy had never been properly tested before.
"They even set up a bank account for the kid, so he could have some money for things. 01 watched him and do you know what he purchased with his first withdrawal? Food! His aunt had just had him lugging in 12 sacks of groceries, which is the normal for a once a week visit for that household, and the first thing the kid buys is food, and not sweets either, an apple, orange, granola bars those kinds of things, mostly things that could be hidden and eaten quickly. 01 broke into the house the next time it was empty and found the boy's stash and filled it. After that all the pilots made sure that it was always filled with water and nutrient bars.
"At first, 02 wanted to harass the boy's guardians, but after one prank, he watched the family's reactions. Instead of everyone laughing except the uncle who the prank had been played on, the boy was blamed and locked in his cupboard for over a week. They watched him, helping him where and when they could while keeping a low profile, then two months ago, the kid up and disappears. When questioned the Uncle at first claimed he had no nephew, but when pushed said that the kid went to St Brutus's School for the Criminally Incurable." Zechs eyes turned flat, "there isn't a school with that name." He pushed aside his empty desert plate and picked up his wine and took a deep swallow, then put it down. Severus gently touched his hand, "no one has seen the kid, most of the neighborhood was told he was a criminal and a delinquent, only a cat lady had anything good to say about him."
They never talked names, that had always been a policy when the two were talking about their jobs, no names, no invasion of privacy and no one can get their ethnical knickers in a twist as their two worlds never met. So Severus was surprised when the question fell out of his mouth, "What's the boy's name?"
"Harry Potter," was the reply and with those two words Severus' whole worldview tumbled.
I apologize for the lateness of this chapter; it was actually the first chapter I wrote for this whole series of one shots. I have one more written for first year, and then I will start working on more. Right now I am writing a chapter on the first Quidditch match, then I have the prank war between Duo and WuFei/Harry during Christmas break. Most of the chapters after will be during summer breaks or times when the G-boys can be at Hogwarts (or the ministry) for some reason or other.
Any Pranks ideas are still welcomed! Thanks to my Beta, you are awesome!
EDIT 02 '11
