Titanium

Author's notes: Well isn't this exciting! It's the tenth chapter! My god you lot have no idea how amazingly fantastic it feels to say that though technically we've hit chapter eleven, but to me this is more chapter ten. Prologues don't really count in my book. Anyway, to those who have stuck with me this long you're the best! I love you all so very much. I can't wait to finally allow Sirius and Harry to meet their mates. Pretty much as soon as I get their stories told, and Neville to Mirkwood, our story will take a rather large time jump. I just wanted to let you know so that you'd be ready for a rather large skip, and finally the beginning of the main plot! –CJG

Warning: Homosexual relationships, dark themes, violence, language, and angst. If you don't like, please don't read.

Chapter Ten: A Whole New World

Characters: Harrison Potter and Sirius Black. Location: Bag End

They all sat gathered around a small sitting room, most of the younger hobbits sitting happily on the floor, munching openly on cheese and some bread. Sirius sat hunched awkwardly, sitting cross legged on a small hobbit sized chair. His mouth almost full of bread, grey eyes shining brightly, full of mirth and shear entertainment as they shared stories of their adventures around the shire. They were currently immersed on a wild tale about Sam and Rosie, and how even though Samwise was absolutely insane about Rosie he wouldn't ask her for dinner, nor would he even ask her for a pint of ale. Samwise was actually quite offended that they would even think Rosie would be the type of lady to drown her sorrows in ale and mead.

"Samwise, why don't you braid a flower chain for her?" Harrison questioned lightly, in attempt to ease the teasing that Sirius and the hobbits were giving poor Samwise, "You say she's beautiful, so perhaps some flowers would enhance that? I mean, you're a gardener correct?" He paused and watched Sam nod in thought, "Than it'd be perfect, you could pick the loveliest flowers that would suit her best. If you're afraid to tell her who you are, you could always send them anonymously!" Harrison concluded watching impressed looks cross the entirety of the male population in the group. Harrison figured he would be the "girl" of any homosexual relationship he entered into; he always had wanted to be spoiled with flowers and romantic gifts along those lines.

Samwise actually was quite impressed with the idea, and agreed to do it if Harrison helped him braid since he "hadn't a lick of luck with dealings in women". The description Sam used of his lack of sense with women had Harrison rolling in a fit of giggles. Sirius almost fell out of his chair when Samwise said such things. Stuttering a hilarious I don't either, that's why I go for blokes. The statement had set off a whole new set of howling and excited laughter after the shock of his admission had worn off. Sam was still blushing even after Harrison had agreed on braiding with a soft, just show me the flowers, and I'll teach you how to braid them!

The obnoxious behavior began to calm down, and they all soon found themselves sipping thoughtfully on tea. The silence was comfortable, but it was clear by the look Bilbo had on his elegantly aged face that it was time to share their tale. Harrison had to admit that he was not so pleasantly shocked to find that Bilbo was in fact one hundred and ten years old, and that in only a few weeks he would be one hundred and eleven. He couldn't help the sinking feeling that something wasn't right with his lack of age. At first he was actually completely wrong about the age of the Hobbits, and shocked to find that he (though immortal) was the youngest in the group.

He was amazed to find that these awkwardly innocent creatures were almost double his age in some cases, and a six and a half time is age in Bilbo's case! It was odd, he knew that wizards and such aged much differently on his world, but to think that these creatures lived so much differently on this one was shocking to say the least. Even Sirius was extremely impressed that Frodo was around his age! The only one even remotely close to Harrison's age was Pippin, but even he was older by almost ten years.

"So Harrison," Bilbo said finally, after removing the pipe from the corner of his lips, "What is the tale you must tell?"

He had finally asked the question that they were all waiting for the answer to. For some reason even Sirius seemed to be sending off waves of excited magic, causing Harry's core to warm happily. It was honestly lovely to have Sirius almost completely back to normal. Harrison wasn't completely sure if it was an act, or if he was really almost back to normal.

"Well to save too much of a wild back story, we'll tell you the main truth first, and then you can ask more if you believe us." Sirius said with a bit of a smirk, "Harry would do the honors?" Pads questioned with a bit of sarcasm dripping with his boyish grin that was now threatening to tear his face in two.

"I suppose to put it gently, we're not" Harry paused looking at Padfoot before glancing between the expectant faces of the hobbits, "we're not from here." He said lamely, the hobbits exchanged looks, and Pads simply brought his palm to meet his forehead with a sigh, the look he sent his pup was saying that obviously he needed to go a bit more in-depth with his explanation, "Well, to be more politically correct, one would say that we're not from this world, or even this time for that matter."

The room was extremely silent for a few moments, the hobbits staring at Harrison as if he had grown a second head. It was Bilbo who decided it was time to ask a few questions.

"Why are you here then? Well, that was rude; pardon that, what brings you to our world? What about your own?" Bilbo questioned wisely.

"Our world is dead."

A/N: This is a bit odd, but I always seem to forget if I said how old Harry was, I just elected that he was somewhere around 17 or 18, so we'll stick with that for now. If I said older or younger even please let me know. I have a dreadful memory in most cases, so I'll often accidently change things in my story without meaning to, please let me know if I slip up and say a wrong age at any time. Anyway, hopefully you all liked that story, originally I was going to just finish up with Remus's part in Rohan so I'd be set for my time leap, but I didn't really feel like it. So… yeah. Enjoy! Read, review, add to your favorite list, vote on the poll on my page, and make sure to story alert! To those who have already done all this I love you very much and please continue to read in the future! Thanks very much. – CJG