HARRY POTTER POV
I got out of bed and went downstairs to make something to eat. I was starving, I hadn't eaten at all while in the future. There was a knock at my door. I frowned, not many knew where I lived and I wasn't expecting anyone. "Winky, would you answer the door?"
"Of course Master Potter!" the House Elf popped into the kitchen. She rushed out and to the entrance. I returned to the bacon I was cooking. "Master I bring guest!"
"Thanks Winky," I said without turning around. "And Winky when are you going to stop with calling me, Master?"
"Never Master Harry!" Winky popped out of the kitchen. Probably to finish cleaning or some chore around the building. I turned around and saw the Doctor. He was leaning against the door frame.
"Hello Doctor," I softly said.
"You knew she would disappear."
I was quiet for a moment. "I know the laws of time. Laws Wizards set up, but reasonable laws all the same. You couldn't know I was from your future. I couldn't tell or stop what happened at Torchwood. Though I did warn her. I told her to make sure her grasp was solid, or that you would lose her." I flipped the bacon.
The Doctor walked into the kitchen and leaned against the counter by the stove. "You could have told me. I'm a Time Lord."
"I especially couldn't tell you. With a single clue you would change your decisions and the outcome may not have been favorable. Either she held on or not. She couldn't, she's in a parallel world. At least she's not dead." I removed the bacon and put it on a plate that I set aside earlier. I then grabbed two eggs and cracked them over the greasy pan. I threw the shells out. "Would you like something to eat? I could cook you something up." The Doctor shook his head no. He left the kitchen and headed to the dinning room. I finished preparing breakfast and left the cooking mess for the House Elves. They usually struggled to find something to do unless I left simple thing like cleaning the kitchen.
I sat down across from the Doctor. "I got to say good bye…."
"Good. I know I wasn't much help with Torchwood or even the Isolus, but —"
"No, that is my fault. The Isolus brought up the issue of my ignoring you, and I swore to myself that I would change that…. But at Torchwood….. I did it again. You were just visiting Jackie, hoping to talk to me. When Rose and I showed up, we quickly realized you had yet to be sent to 2012 and help with Chloe. So we knew we couldn't tell you what was happening or what we knew… or even learned from you." The Doctor sighed. "Ironic that you just went through the same thing with us and were better at it…. Rose struggled to not talk about it with you. I on the other hand was intrigued with the ghosts and ignored you once again."
"Doctor it's alright. As I told Rose I'm used to it. Being the last priority, it's how I was raised." I finished my breakfast. "Though I am curious how you found my house….."
The Doctor looked at me confused. "You told me….. After we saved Donna Noble from the Racnoss… You have no clue what I'm talking about do you?"
"Not one." I agreed. "Who's Donna Noble?"
"A runaway bride I met and helped save the world from giant spiders."
I hummed. My empty breakfast plate disappeared and a warm cup of tea replaced it. I took a sip, sweet and wonderful.
"It would seem we are meeting in a wacky order….. You help a past me, and then I work with the present you… this is going to get confusing…."
"Would keeping some form of a time line help?" I asked.
"Yeah…" the Doctor groaned in frustration.
"How about a journal? I can spell two so only the writer can read the words, therefore neither knows the future from a peek, accidental or not."
"That would be great."
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(GRIDLOCK: season 3 episode 3)
I was sitting in my living room writing in my new journal. After the Doctor agreed to do the journals I had pulled out two leather bound notebooks. One was blue and the other green. The Doctor took the green one surprisingly. I placed the charms on the booklets and the Doctor left. I sighed.
I had mine charmed to never run out of paper. The Doctor left before I could ask if he wanted other charms placed on the booklet. I also made it so that I could organize the booklet according to other time travelers I meet in the future. The Doctor most likely wasn't the only one to travel all of space and time.
I had just finished writing my last entry, for now, on helping the Doctor and Rose with the Islous. I closed the book when a certain golden glow surrounded me. I sighed, time to travel it would seem.
Suddenly I was in a….. dump, was the only way to look at it. The rain only made it worse, though it did seem to be stopping.
"Harry!" I turned around to see a Doctor. There was a girl with him….. Great.
"Doctor, didn't think I would seeing you so soon." I said walking over to them.
"Oh?" The Doctor perked, pulling out his green journal. He opened it looking at his entries. "When was the last you saw me?"
"When I gave you that journal, silly," I chuckled. "Two days ago."
The Doctor groaned and put away the journal. "It's been a few months for me, but I haven't seen a future you yet. and I was hoping for a past Harry to pester."
I rolled my eyes. "So who's your friend?" I focused on the irritated woman. The Doctor probably used me as a way to ignore a question.
The Doctor grinned. "Harry this is Martha Jones. Martha this is Harry Potter."
Martha blinks in surprise. "Harry Potter? The same multi-million CEO of Potter Corporations and
Marauders' Pranks?"
The Doctor looked confused. I rubbed the back of my head. Busted. "Yea…"
The Doctor looked at me then at Martha, then back at me. "Wait! You never told me any of that!"
"You knew I was famous….." I muttered.
"That's different! I didn't know you were A-list famous!"
"Then you don't know that he's," Maetha pointed at me, "also a ward of the Queen's and the 15th in line for the throne. Due to him inheriting the Lordships of Potter, Black, Peverell, and having most of the Lords in England, and some in France, owing him life debts."
The Doctor's jaw dropped. I sighed. "You really know a lot, most don't know about the life debts. I try to ignore those, I want nothing to do with that when I was only doing what was right."
Neither the Doctor or Martha were able to reply due to three shops opening up.
"You want happy? I can give you happy!" one said. The other two mentioning other moods they were selling. The three salespeople continued yammering about there products, the same products mind….
"Are the selling drugs?" Martha asked.
"No, I think there selling moods," the Doctor answered.
"Same thing isn't it?" Martha asked.
"Not really…. But I see where your coming from," I answered.
A woman walked up to one of the stands.
"What can I get you love?" the saleswoman asked.
"I want to buy forget," the woman relied.
"I have forget my darling. What strength? How much you want forgotten?" the saleswoman said.
"My mother and father. They went to the motor way."
The saleswoman looked sadly at the woman. "Now that's so sad." The saleswoman reached for a something at the counter. "Try this," she haded the woman a patch, "forget 43. That'll be two credit." The woman payed the saleswoman.
The Doctor walked over to the woman, Martha and I following. "Hey, hold on for a minute. What happened to your parents?"
"They drove off," the woman said.
"Yeah, but they may drive back," the Doctor said.
The woman disagreed. "Everyone goes to the motor way in the end. I've lost them."
"But they couldn't have gone far. You could find them," the Doctor insisted. I saw that the woman would use the patch no matter what was said, it was a waste of breath trying to stop her. It was her choice anyway. The woman ignored the Doctor and placed the patch on her neck. "No, don't do that!"
The woman smiled. "I'm sorry what were you saying?"
"Your parents, your mother and father. They're on the motor way." The Doctor said, trying to get her to remember.
"Are they?" the woman asked. "That's nice." I raised an eyebrow. The patch actually worked…. would it work if you removed it, or did it have to stay on? "I'm sorry, I won't keep you." The woman walked off.
"That's the human race a few billion years in the future?" Martha asked the Doctor. She walked to the Doctor's side. "Filling their heads with chemicals…." I hummed. It wasn't a wrong statement.
An arm come around my neck, and a gun pointed at my head. "Shit!" I yelled.
The Doctor and Martha turned to see my assailant. "I'm sorry we just need three." A woman appeared in my view pointing a gun at the Doctor and Martha. The one holding me, a man, dragged me backwards. I was forced to follow, unable to use my magic with the gun pointed at my head… and due to my wand being in a leg wand holder.
The woman and Doctor started yelling at each other, I was having a hard time understanding what the two were saying. Martha was beside the Doctor, but focused on man's arm and gun by my head.
I was dragged through a doorway and then forced to run through a deserted hall way. I fought of course the whole way. When we got outside and I saw a vehicle type thing, I knew I had to get away at that moment. I elbowed the guy in the stomach. He grunted and I was about to run back up the stairs when I tripped. I saw that the woman was able to trip me without me noticing her foot. The woman sat on my back and held my arms down.
"Give us some sleep!"
A rush of fear ran through me. "Don't you dare!" I fought the woman's hold, and would of succeeded had it not been for the man placing a patch on my neck.
I blacked out.
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My vision was blurry as I woke up. I looked around, I was in a small space. I looked over and saw my kidnappers on the other end of the small space. I was still groggy, and then remembered about the patch. I felt around my neck and removed the patch. Sleep fell away. I saw a gun in front of me….. a fake gun. They used fake guns?! I could have gotten away so easily….. I sighed, well at least I have my wand…. but I'm not sure I should use it in such a small space.
I stood up, careful of the low ceiling. The woman was talking about clear air for some reason. "Take me back." They turned to me. "Just take me back to my friends. That's all I want." I wasn't the most threatening, but unlike them I wasn't going to use a fake gun.
"I'm really sorry. Ummm, What's your name?" the woman asked with a smile.
I raised an eyebrow. "Harry."
"I'm Jane, and this is Milo," the woman said.
"Great…. Now that we're all friends now, take me back to where you kidnapped me." I said with fake cheer.
"We really are sorry. We just needed access to the fast lane, but I promise as soon as we arrive we'll drop you off and you can go back and find your friends."
My eyebrows twitched. It was hard to make me angry these days, but this woman really got under my skin. "Are you being serious? You expect me to be a what? Be a 'good boy'? You kidnapped me!"
"I swear!" She pushed her hair to show me a patch on her neck. "See honesty patch."
"Apparently being honest means your honest working people. Not my kidnappers" I replied sarcastically. "That means nothing to me!" I looked out the window. "Where are we anyway?"
Milo answered. "We're on the motor way."
I sighed and laid back on the bed ignoring the two idiots for a moment. I placed a silencing charm around myself. "Expecto Patronum!" I whispered. A wispy snowy owl appeared. "I need you to deliver a message to the Doctor." The owl nodded. "We're heading to the fast lane on the motor way. The man's name is Milo and the woman is Jane." I stopped the message, and the owl flew off.
I cancelled the silencing charm and turned back to my curious onlookers.
"So what was the reason you needed to kidnap me? Obviously it's the fast lane, but why you need to use the fast lane?"
Milo smiled. "We couldn't stay in Pharmacy Town…." Milo reached over to Jane.
"Cause of me," Jane smiled. "I'm pregnant. We only discovered it last week. The scans say it's going to be a boy." The mother-to-be excitedly explained.
I smiled mockingly. "Great, allow me to congratulate you on kidnapping someone while being pregnant!" I glared at the two kidnappers. "And your wearing that thing on your neck?! Your having a baby! Do you have any idea what that may do to the baby?!" I ripped the patch of the woman's neck. The woman looked insulted and in pain from the patch removal.
Milo calmly said, "We'll go as fast as we can. Take the motorway to the Brookline Flyer, and then it will take awhile. There's no fast lane, it's just ordinary roads, but it'll be fine. We'll still get there with plenty of time."
Jane was rubbing her neck, nodding in agreement with Milo…. and like she was in need on some loving….. I groaned. I was stuck here with a horny pregnant woman, and her boyfriend.
"How long is this going to take?" I asked.
"About six years," stated Jane.
My jaw dropped. "SIX YEARS?!"
"It'll just be in time for him to start school," Jane smiled at Milo. Milo smiled and laughed in joy.
"RELEASE ME!" I yelled. I looked around the….car for a way out. I got a door open only to start chocking on the air. I quickly closed it trying to breath.
"It's a bit late for that….." Jane muttered.
I growled in frustration. I would have apperated, but that was bad idea with being in a moving vehicle and not knowing where to apparite to….
"Want something to eat?" Jane asked. I just grabbed the bag of cracker she offered and ignored the two. I would not live here for the next six bloody years.
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I ignored the idiots that kidnapped me. Though Milo was trying to interact with me, show that we were making progress.
"See, 10 layers to go and we're scorching." Milo pointed at the monitor. Then I heard a sound…. it sounded like an animal….. or something moving…..
I stood and approached the front of the car. "What was that?" The sound repeated, but more…. like a roar of some kind? And it sounded like.. "It's coming from underneath?"
Jane turned to Milo. "It's that noise isn't? It's like Kate said, the stories are true."
"What stories?" I asked.
"It's the sound of the air vents, the exhaust fumes travel down. Therefore there would air vents at the bottom." Milo said with confidence. That was no air vent….
Jane smiled and looked at me excited. "But the stories are much better! They say that people go missing on the motor way. Some just vanish, never to be seen again, cause there is something living down there in the smoke. Something huge!" Yep we have an issue….. "And hungry, and if you get lost on the road it's waiting for you." HUGE problem is what we have!
"It's just the air vents," Milo said. THE HELL IT WAS AIR VENTS! THERES A CREATURE DOWN THERE! "Now for the next layer."
"Tell me Milo, does it look like the air vents are working?" I asked hoping I could talk some sense into these people. Fighting aliens was the Doctors thing! Not mine!
"No," Jane said instead.
"Then what is that sound?" I ask. "Cause it's not the air vents."
Milo shook his head. "Nah, that' kid stuff." He got back on the radio.
I'm surrounded by idiots!
Suddenly the monitor showed a woman which then lead to a song being played. Milo and Jane just started singing the song. A slow song a song of sorrow and hope. I sighed and gave them their moment in silence.
"Proceed to the fast lane. Please drive safe." the monitor said.
"We made it!" Milo said. My stomach knotted, unease running through my system. Milo dropped us down to the fast lane and speed up. This so was not my day…..
We reached the exits to Brooklyn Tunnels, but all were closed. "What are we going to do?!" Jane yelled at Milo.
"We keep going round, by the time we come back they'll be open." Milo calmly said.
The car shook. I groaned this day was the worst day ever! There was a roar sound like noise. "What the hell is that?!" Jane demands.
"Something that's alive," I muttered, while Milo came up with more…. mechanical solutions.
"Nothing could breath those fumes down here!" Milo said trying to calm Jane.
"Calling 46-59- diamond 6" came a voice through the radio. Milo answered, and rather rudely if I had to say. The conversation was not looking good….. I knew it! I really wished I wasn't kidnapped and was still with the Doctor! After hearing screams and the driving yelling they were caught, I took the damned radio from the idiot.
"What's got you?" I asked.
"I don't know!"
"Calm down. Take a breath and look around. What has you?" I state trying to keep the other driver calm.
"Just get out of here!" the driver screamed back. Jane was freaking out, crying and asking questions no one had answers to. We lost contact with the other driver.
"Drive! Get us out of here!" I yell at Milo.
"But where?"
"The street!" I say back to the panicking idiot. How do I end up in these situations?! "And FAST!"
The car was rocking side to side. And the car was filled with yelling from the two idiots who dragged me into this situation. "Turn everything off!" I yell over the two idiots. "Something is attracting there attention. They cant see with all this fog!"
"What if your wrong?" Milo yelled back.
"Just do it!" Finally Milo listened and stopped the power. The car was still. Nothing happened. Finally the two idiots relaxed.
"They stopped," Jane whispered.
"But their still out there…" Milo whispered.
"Now we just need to figure out a plan…." I whispered.
"Well we need to figure out something soon. If we don't turn the engines back on we won't be able to breath." Milo said. And the day just keeps get better…..
"How long?" I asked in misery.
"About eight minutes…." Milo answered, but didn't seem hopeful. "Maximum."
The time past too quickly. We would soon be forced to turn to damn care back on.
"How much's air's left?" Jane asked.
"Two minutes." Milo answer.
I hummed. "Milo move, I'm driving." Milo seemed he wanted to protest, but I quickly removed him from the driving seat and sat him down behind the car chairs.
"You know I never asked where's home?" Jane asked trying to make small chat.
"Earth, England, in the year 2006" I muttered. She didn't hear me, and asked me to repeat. "A lot farther than ten miles in six years, lets say." I sighed. "I'm not even sure how I got here…. But I was just so happy to see the Doctor… I just wanted to see him. I don't even know where I am. But I trust the Doctor. I may not know him well, but he saved my life. He protects the innocent, and he'll help here too. Trust me, he'll help."
Milo leaned forward and turned on the car. I grabbed the wheel and drove like a mad man. It's a good thing my seeker reflects were being of use in this type of driving. While it was rough I was having a blast! Maybe this wasn't so bad! I laughed while to other two screamed in fear!
One of the creatures caught us, but I was able to shake us lose.
"Hello I'm the Doctor! All of you drive up!" the Doctor showed up on the monotony screen.
"Doctor!" I yelled in joy.
"Harry! Drive up!" the Doctor yelled and I immediately listened. The sun shown through.
"That's the sky… the real sky…" Jane whispered. I smiled. Milo kissed Jane while I drove up and smiled at the two idiots. I drove following the instructions that the Doctor must have uploaded. Milo and Jane left after I ran off yelling my good byes.
I ran into the building. I saw Martha sitting there. "Harry!" she yelled and hugged me. "Thank god! Your alright!"
I chuckled. "Yep." I looked behind her. "Where's the Doctor?" There were skeletons all over, but I preferred the bones to actual fresh.
"He's over there," Martha pointed. Sadness was headed from her tone. "The Face of Beau is dying." She answered when she noticed my questioning look. We quietly walked over to the Doctor. He was siting next to a large… alien head.
The Doctor turned to us. "Come say hello. This is the Face of Beau, and this is Haen, she's a cat." He turned to the head. "He's the one that saved you, Harry. Not me."
"My Lord gave his life to this city. And now he's dying." the cat explained. Martha crouched by the cat lady. I sighed am focused my death sight at the Face of Beau. A trick I learned after facing so much death in the war. Death was clinging to the alien. He was barely hanging on. I smiled softly. I walked and gently rested a hand on his cheek.
"Don't say that," the Doctor said.
"It's good to breath the air once more," the Face of Beau said.
"Who is he?" Martha asked.
"I don't even know," the Doctor said.
"You don't know who is now, but you will later on, Doctor," I said. I could feel the stares being directed my way. "He loves you Doctor. Every achievement he did was in your name. And the last words he will speak are for your benefit and interest."
"What makes you say that?" Martha asked.
"I can see his life strands. He's barely hanging on. Though the life he lead was very long indeed, billions upon billions of years…" I muttered at the end.
"Everything has it's time," the Face of Beau said, agreeing with my statement. He looked at the Doctor and then at me, "You both know that better than most, old friends."
"There's a legend," Haen started.
"There's no need for that," The Doctor interrupted.
Haen continued with her thought. "It says, the Face of Beau will speak it's final secret to a traveler." She turned to the Doctor.
"Who needs secret, ah?" the Doctor was fighting the inevitable.
"I have seen so much," the Face of Beau said. "Perhaps too much, I am the last of my kind. as you are the last of yours, Doctor."
"That's why we have to survive," the Doctor insisted, but not denying the death coming. "Both of us." The Doctor paused. "Don't go."
"I must, but know this. You are not alone." And with that the Face of Beau died. The Doctor looked confused by the Face of Beau's last words. I sighed and stood. I summoned Death to my side.
"Master," Death bowed. "You called?"
I nodded. "Make sure this soul is taken good care of. He has live a long and hard life. He deserves peace." Death nodded and took the soul of the Face of Beau with him. I turned to see Haen crying over her dead friend, while Martha and the Doctor stared at me with confusion. "Maybe another time," I told them. "Let's focus on what his last word meant. You are not alone, Doctor." Though it would seem my time traveling would have terrible timing. A golden glow surrounded me. I sighed, "Well this is my stop. See you next time Doctor." I turned to Martha. "See you later, Martha." and then I was back in my living room.