A/N: Soooo, new chapter and all *grins*. I think you'll like it especially considering the stupid decisions that the American government made lately.
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Chapter 32: America beware – Harry Potter is Coming!
"Did he really just faint?" Loki asked in disbelief.
Dean walked over to the angel and waved a hand in front of his face. When he got no reaction, he felt for a pulse to make sure that the vessel at least was alive.
"Seems to be the case," he finally replied.
Loki blinked a few times before he began to laugh…loudly, he even fell off the chair from laughing so hard.
"You…that…," he tried to get out between bouts of laughter. "Do you…have…any…idea how…hard…it is…to get…an angel…to faint?"
"Achievement unlocked!" Harry snickered.
"You definitely play too many games on that laptop of yours," Sam snorted while shaking his head.
"What? Do you really think I use the internet only for porn?" he cheekily retorted.
"Er…WHAT?"
"Didn't you know? The internet is for porn!"
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Everyone bar Loki, who was still lying on the floor laughing, even more now with what Harry was doing, stared at Harry as if he had finally lost it.
"Normal people don't just use the internet for porn," Sam finally stated dryly sending Harry into a bout of laughter because he had unknowingly used the same words as they were used in the version of the song he knew.
With amusement, Harry nodded towards Dean who stood next to the passed out angel and looking confused.
"Sorry but he's not normal," Sam told Harry.
Harry narrowed his eyes and nodded towards Loki.
"Even less normal," Sam deadpanned.
That made Harry snicker until he was also laughing. In the end, he reached into his pouch that he got from Loki on Christmas and pulled out his laptop and opened it. After a quick search on the net, he turned it around while setting the volume to maximum.
Turning it around so that the others could hear and see the video he played, he carefully watched their faces.
"You're not even twelve!" Mary said in the end, shocked what the child had access to.
"So what? Between Loki, my godfather, who is even more immature than Loki is, and yes, this is possible, as well as Dean and Sam I can honestly say that this is the least worrisome thing. Then there were also my so-called relatives…let's just say that they were certainly NOT role models."
When he thought about his relatives, suddenly another thought occurred to him, one that he conveniently ignored until now. He looked at Loki and hummed lowly in contemplation.
"Say Loki, what happened to Dudley? Didn't you say that he stayed with big balloon Marge? But how could he then have appeared as a ghost on that day?" he asked the pagan god.
Loki who had calmed down by now sighed. "Don't look at me like that, this wasn't my doing. It seems that Dudley had a little meeting with the hellhound of that woman that didn't end well," he finally brought out. "As I said it wasn't something I did, but I would be lying if I were to say that it was a bad thing to happen."
"You mean Ripper? Huh, interesting; but what do you mean that it wasn't a bad thing to happen?"
Loki warily looked at Harry not knowing whether he should tell the boy or not but in the end he decided that it would be worse if he kept it a secret, he didn't want to lose Harry's trust over something like this.
"From what I heard from Crowley the boy got even worse once he lived with his aunt. While he already was a bully under his parents' tutelage, he became outright criminal once they were dead. I don't know whether it was because of his parents' death or if his aunt encouraged it, but one of the victims of him and his little gang ended up in the hospital with several broken bones," Loki said in a grave voice.
Harry looked down at his hands that were fiddling with the hem of his shirt. It wasn't that he wished for Dudley to die since he was still a child but with how bad he became it seems that it was the lesser of two evils.
"Ah well, it isn't as if anything can be done about it after all," Harry sighed. "What are we going to do about the angel?"
"Huh, I don't know," Loki muttered.
Alastair in the meantime gave the still unconscious angel a contemplative look, a smirk slowly creeping up her face. She stood up, walked over to Dean and leaned down and whispered something in his ear. Dean looked at her, raising an eyebrow.
"Are you sure?" he asked tentatively.
"Why not?" Alastair replied, her smile now positively evil.
Dean looked at her for a long moment before he smiled similarly.
"What have you two planned?" Loki questioned warily.
"We're going to corrupt ourselves an angel," Dean answered.
That however set Loki off for some reason. "I'm not going to allow you two to torture some innocent angel," he growled threateningly. "It isn't his fault that he was sent to do what he did."
"And we're not going to torture him, at least not in the way you're thinking about," Dean retorted his smirk not wavering for one second despite the glare Loki was sending him and Alastair.
It took Loki a moment, but he finally caught on with what the two demons had planned, and he started to laugh. "Oh, that's just…you two know how to get to my pocket dimension," he told them, now smirking mischievously. "Have fun you two!"
Dean nodded and vanished together with the angel in a cloud of black smoke closely followed by Alastair. Harry though seemed to have gotten lost. The others also looked confusedly at Loki.
"Can someone please explain to me what just happened?" he asked.
"Sorry kiddo, but I fear that Mary will rip my head off if I told you," Loki shrugged apologetically.
That, however, seemed to have been the clue the others needed as everyone's eyes widened while Harry furrowed his brows, thinking through what the pagan had said. It took him a minute, but in the end, he got what Loki had hinted at.
"Oh!" was all he said to that setting Loki off into peals of laughter.
"You, my dear, know far too much for your age," Mary scolded him lightly.
Harry shrugged trying to suppress a yawn.
That was when Loki looked at the clock and saw how late it was. "Anyway, I think it would be a good idea for you to go to bed now," Loki told Harry with a soft smile.
Harry tried to stifle another yawn. "I have to agree with you."
"Ye'll have to share a bedroom with Sam," Bobby told him. "But I don't think that this will be a problem. It's the one on the first floor on the left."
Harry nodded and followed by Loki he went up the stairs. He quickly got ready for bed and not soon later he laid down with Loki sitting on the edge of his bed looking worriedly at the pagan. While dealing with the angel had distracted him somewhat, his mind constantly turned back to Dudley.
"Don't worry about Dudley, Harry, he isn't worth you losing sleep over him," Loki said while tucking him in having an inkling about what was going through Harry's head.
"I know I shouldn't feel bad with everything he did to me, but he wasn't much older than I am. He…he just didn't deserve it," Harry again looked down.
Loki gently cupped his cheek. "I agree, but it is nothing we can change, now sleep."
"G'night Lo," Harry mumbled already halfway to Morpheus' realm. "And thank you."
"Good night Harry," Loki replied with a fond smile, stroking a strand out of the face of the peacefully sleeping child. "You're welcome."
"You're a good father even if he isn't really your child," Mary's low voice floated over to him from the door.
Loki chuckled lowly while he got up and walked over to the door. "I think I'm more of an older brother to him."
With a last look at Harry, he silently closed the door.
In Loki's pocket dimension a certain angel started to regain consciousness once again only to find himself lying on a large bed. He sat up and looked around in confusion, seeing Dean sitting in a chair at a desk not far from the bed and maintaining what he knew was a gun. Letting his gaze wander he saw Alastair standing in front of a large window with her back towards him and staring out on the grounds.
"Ah, our sunshine has finally woken," Dean spoke up putting down the trigger mechanism of the gun he was currently cleaning.
"Where am I?" Castiel asked his confusion clearly showing.
"In Loki's pocket dimension. If I were you I wouldn't even try to get away," Dean replied with a smirk.
"As if a mere pagan god would be able to contain an angel of the lord," Castiel said while trying to get out of wherever he was, but he quickly found out that he couldn't.
"Don't ask me what he did but it seems to work," Dean now smirked.
"What do you want?" Castiel now looked a bit wary.
"To Corrupt you…what else?" he retorted. "You know this entire thing here can go two ways. First, the easy way. You admit that there is nothing you can do against it and just surrender. Second, the hard way. You see Alastair has waited for a long time for the opportunity to corrupt an angel."
Castiel's eyes widened in shock before they narrowed in determination. "Torture me all you want, I won't break," he challenged them.
That made Alastair smirk and turn around. "Oh, my sweet, clueless angel. I don't need to torture you to break you, at least not in the way you expect," she purred while prowling over to the angel in a way like a predator would stalk its prey.
When she reached him, she pushed him over before she followed him, climbing on top of him.
Dean who watched his girlfriend had to swallow hard – this was so damned hot.
The next three days were quite calm. Loki and Harry went out for a few times while Sam and Dean picked up a hunt not far away from where Bobby was living. It was just a simple salt and burn job though they managed to muck it up a little much to the other's amusement. Bobby in the meantime did some research on the seals on Lucifer's cage to be prepared when one broke that they didn't want to and Alastair stayed with Castiel. All in all, it was quite peaceful until Sirius suddenly showed up.
"Hey guys, guess who's here!" he shouted through Bobby's house.
Harry instantly came dashing down the stairs and bumped into his godfather hugging him close, completely missing the snowy owl that took off and hooted reproachfully.
"Hey Siri, how are you?" Harry asked after letting go of his godfather.
"I'm good, but I think you forgot someone," Sirius laughed and pointed towards the owl.
"Hedwig?" Harry exclaimed. "What are you doing here? I thought I left you with Severus?"
"It seemed that she didn't want to stay with this old git," Sirius retorted.
"Oy, stop insulting Severus," Harry said mock hurt.
Sirius laughed upon hearing that. "What were you up to Harry? Pranked the hell out of everyone?"
"Nah, but Loki and I want to go to Washington D.C. today, and I have a nice little prank prepared," Harry said with an impish smile.
"What kind of prank?" Sirius eagerly wanted to know, but Harry's grin only widened. "Oh come on you can't just leave me hanging like that!"
"You'll see soon enough," Harry snickered. "It should annoy the hell out of a few people."
"Fine have your way," Sirius retorted sulkily before wandering off seeing if he could find something more interesting to do.
Harry shook his head and walked over to Hedwig who had settled down on the back of a chair. Stroking her white feathers, he waited for Loki to show up and take him for his outing.
"Hey girl, it wasn't that I didn't want to take you with me, but I thought you'd be more comfortable at Hogwarts than travelling all around the world," he told her.
Hedwig though hooted as if she wanted to say that she wanted to stay with her human. Harry snickered lowly when he heard footsteps coming closer.
"Ah Harry, there you are. Ready to go?" Loki piped up when his gaze fell on Hedwig. "Hedwig? I thought she stayed at Hogwarts?!"
"It seems she's more comfortable coming with us," Harry shrugged. "So off to Washington, I want to see the White House."
"I don't know what you find so interesting about this building," Loki muttered leaning against the fence separating the front lawn of the White House from the street.
"Except that it contains one of the most powerful people on the planet?" Harry retorted with a mischievous grin towards the pagan.
Had Loki looked at Harry at that moment he would have been worried in an instant, but as it was, he was lazily observing the tourists who had their cameras out and were taking photos of the building or of friends, family or whomever else posing in front of it. Wondering just why he was entertaining Harry with this he looked out for something to make this trip a bit more…interesting.
The first thing that told him that something wasn't as it was supposed to be – and that without his doing – was when people suddenly gasped and more cameras than before flashed, taking photos of something behind him. What really showed him that something had happened were the sudden shouts, that clearly were of military nature, at some distance behind him. The thing that let him finally turn around in confusion were the commands to search the close vicinity for whoever did whatever said person did.
However, Loki was in no way prepared for what he would find when he turned around. Over the entire front of the White House, a banner was taut with huge lettering on it and soldiers running around over the grounds trying to find out who and better yet how that banner was placed there.
The banner read five words:
LOKI FOR PRESIDENT – CHOCOLATE RULES!
A/N: Loki as a president…that's a thought isn't it? 'til next chapter!
