(THE LAZARUS EXPERIMENT: season 3 episode 6)
HARRY POTTER POV
I was still unsure how was roped into this party by Malfoy. I thought over the events leading up to the event that would 'change what it meant to be human.' Malfoy had knocked at my door, and while he was a friend, we weren't close. He told me there may be a muggle-magic issue, but only certain Lords from the Magical World could get in like Malfoy, or myself. So the nagging had began and somehow I ending up at the party for the Lazarus Laboratories. I don't remember agreeing to going either…
Malfoy said we were going to have dinner and talk. But that I need to dress for where we were going. So Malfoy had forced me to wear the best money could buy… Dressed me according and then dragged me off. Though we enter a party instead of a restaurant…. I sighed. Malfoy played me, and got what he wanted. Me at the party, that was holding something that may use magic and expose the Magical World. It would be rude to leave now…. After all Malfoy did drag me here for help…. And from everyone I saw, I was his only help.
I grabbed some food from one of the waiter trays. I hadn't eaten. I looked around the group of people. It was still early, and people were still arriving. Though the lights went out, and focused on the machine in the middle of the party. Everyone must have come in.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Professor Lazarus," said the old man standing at the machine. "And tonight I am going to preform a miracle. It is, I believe, the most importance advance, in relevance with the atom. The biggest leap since Armstrong stepped on the moon. Tonight you will watch and wonder, tomorrow you will awake to a world which will be changed forever." With that said the old man opened the door to the machine and entered.
"Potter," Malfoy said. I turned to Malfoy. "What you think?"
"Don't know yet…" I muttered. From the world spoken, there was no mention of something magic, only science. Though we would have to wait for the test to happen to make a conclusion.
The machine was pulsing energy. Blue waves surrounded the machine, where the Professor was located. After awhile the machine and waves spun faster. Then the warning alarms went off. Well…. that wasn't good.
"It's overloading!" said a familiar voice. I looked to my right. My eyes widening, the Doctor! The computers and electronics started to explode. The Doctor ran to the area holding the computer and started pushing buttons.
"Someone stop him! Get him away from those controls!" yelled an old lady. No one did of course, but the Doctor did yell back at the old lady.
"If this thing goes off it'll take the whole building with it and everything within it's range! You want that to happen?!" Finally the Doctor pulled the plug on the machine, literally.
The machine came to a stop. They energy stopped pushing and the machine stopped spinning. My lip twitched. Something bad was about to happen. Martha rushed to open the container. The Doctor ran to see what had happened to the Professor. Smoke rushed out, and a …. young man stepped out. He touched his face, smooth now. The man smiled and stepped out of the container.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Richard Lazarus, I'm 76 years old. And I am reborn!" yelled the man. Everyone started clapping in joy and excitement.
"This is not good," Malfoy said.
"Yeah…"I muttered.
While the paparazzi were focussed on the Professor. I walk over to Martha and the Doctor. Malfoy following me, of course.
"It can't be the same guy," Martha said. "It has to be a trick."
"It's not a trick. I wish it were." The Doctor said staring at the Professor.
"What just happened then?" Martha asked.
I answered before the Doctor could. "He change what it means to be human."
Martha and the Doctor turned to me. I smiled. "Harry!" Martha rushed to hug me. The Doctor walked over, but had a smile on his face.
"Harry, good to see you!" the Doctor said when Martha released me. I smiled, and opened my mouth to ask when he last saw me, but someone cleared their throat.
I looked at Malfoy in annoyance. "Doctor, Martha, allow me to introduce Draco Malfoy. A complete prat," I said. Draco glared at me.
"Really, Potter? Was that necessary? After all I went to get you into this party?"
"You mean the party you tricked me into going? The party I said 'no I will not go' for three weeks straight. That party?" I smiled with mockery. We continued to bicker, and it seemed the Doctor and Martha felt uncomfortable and left us to our argument. When I noticed that I stopped and looked around for the Doctor.
The Doctor and Martha were leaving the party, but farther into the building. I followed after them, and since Malfoy was still cursing me he stayed at the party. I walked the halls looking for the Doctor and Martha.
"Amazing.." I heard. I went up one room ahead and saw the two people I was looking for in a lab room. I walked into the room. They didn't notice my entering, focused on what was displayed on the computer.
"What?" Martha asked.
"That's Lazarus's DNA."
"I don't see anything…" Martha said.
"Look at it!"
"Oh My God! Did that just change?" Martha insisted. The Doctor nodded. "But it couldn't have…"
"But it did," the Doctor said.
"It's impossible," Martha stated.
"And that's two impossible things we've seen tonight," the Doctor told her. He smiled at Martha. "Don't you love it when that happens?"
"That means Lazarus has changed his own molecular patterns," Martha said looking at the computer. I walked over to see the computer.
"How would he do that?" I asked. Martha jumped and looked at me in surprise.
The Doctor just went on to explain how Lazarus being young changed his DNA. "Hyper sonic wave lengths destabilized the cell structure and reprogrammed ….." It was then the Doctor lost me in the alien technologies workings. I barely understood Earth science speak, there was no way I understood a word the Doctor just said. Thankfully, the Doctor dumbed it down. "Basically, he hacked his own genes and restructured them to rejuvenate."
"But their still mutating," Martha commented.
"He missed something," the Doctor muttered. "Something in his DNA has been activated and it won't stabilize. Something that is trying to change him."
"Change him into what?" I asked.
"I don't know." The Doctor said. "But we do need to find out."
"Trish said he was going upstairs," Martha said. The Doctor rushed out of the lab with Martha and I following behind.
We got into elevator and stepped out on the one floor.
I whistled at the ridiculous office.
"This is his office all right," Martha muttered.
"So where is he?" the Doctor questioned.
I hummed. Martha just said, "Don't know. Let's try back at the reception….." Martha's face become one of surprise. I followed where she was looking. I raised and eyebrow, a leg was sticking out from behind the desk. We rushed to the other side of the desk. Martha gasped. "Is that Lady Thore?"
"Used to be." The Doctor said. I hummed. I looked around the room again, looking for a camera. "Now it's just a shell, all the energy drained out of her." the Doctor looked up. "Like the juices squeezed out of an orange."
"So Lazarus already changed," I observed. "Would he do it again? Since you say he's still changing, will he need more energy?"
"Possibly." The Doctor said.
Martha rushed to the elevators. The Doctor and Martha rushed into the one elevator that opened. I felt I should stay put, and placed a disillusionment charm on myself.
Another set of elevators opened, revealing the young Lazarus and a young woman.
"You seem very young to have such a responsible position," Lazarus commented. The woman smiled. "Have much experience?"
"Not really," the woman admitted. The two continued to flirt. The woman stepped ahead of Lazarus and headed for the roof. Lazarus looked at the woman like she was his prey, something to feed from. Good thing I stayed. I followed the two up to the roof.
Once on the roof the flirting continued. Eventually the woman asked to touch his face, to touch the proof of the man's now young appearance. With that the flirting stopped and talk of the results of the experiment began.
"Is it like you expected?" the woman asked.
"I find that nothing is exactly like you expect. There's always something to surprise you." He paused. "Between the idea and reality. Between a motion and the act —"
"Falls the shadow." I turned to see the Doctor and Martha finally caught up. I dropped the charm.
"About time, Doctor," I said walking over. The Doctor raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. Lazarus and the woman looked confused with my sudden appearance…. as did Martha.
Trish looked at Martha. "Martha what you doing here?"
"Trish, get away from him," Martha said. I just stood quietly next to the Doctor.
"What? Don't tell me what to do," the woman, Trish, said.
"I wouldn't think you had time for poetry ledgers." The Doctor said to the mutating man. "What with you being so busy fighting the laws of nature."
"Your right Doctor," Lazarus said. "One lifetime has been to short for me to do everything I like.
How much I get done in two, three, or four." the Professor grinned.
"Doesn't work like that," the Doctor told Lazarus. "Some people live in twenty then others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person."
"But if it was the right person," Lazarus said. "What a gift that would be."
"Or what a curse," the Doctor remarks. "look at what you've done to yourself."
"Who are you to judge me?" Lazarus challenged.
"Over here Trish," Martha begged.
Trish marched over to Martha. "You have to spoil everything don't you?! Every time I find someone nice, you just have to ruin it." I raised an eyebrow at that. Man.. women were brutal and mean. Thank Merlin I'm gay.
Lazarus started to transform. Damn that looked painful….. and ugly.
"He's a monster!" Martha said. But then looked behind Trish and was speechless.
"I know he is a bit freaky, but it works for …" Trish saw my pointing to look behind her and turned around. Just in time to see the good Professor finish his transformation. I wasn't really sure what to call him… A giant ….. creature? It'll have to do. "What is that?"
"Run!" the Doctor yelled. the girls and I quickly followed the command. The girls ran down the stairs. The Doctor closed the door to….. lock it?
Just too be on the sure side, "Colloportus!" I cast and then ran after the girls, the Doctor following.
We ran to the elevators. "Are you okay?" Martha asked Trish.
"I was gonna snog him," Trish said in shock.
"This is just a question, but why aren't we taking the stairs?" I asked. Then the building started stating 'Security One' and locking us in. Fantastic!
"What's happening?" Martha asked.
"An intrusion, it triggers a security lock down." Trish said. "It kills the power, and then closes all the exits."
"He must be breaking through that door," stated the Doctor.
"You don't say," I muttered, not that anyone heard me.
"Come on!" The Doctor runs down the stair.
"Oh now we use the stairs," I muttered while running behind the Doctor.
"He's in!" Martha yelled.
"We don't have much time!" The Doctor continued down the stairs. The girls falling behind due to wearing heels.
Finally we reached the reception floor, where the party was held. While rushing into the room the Doctor asked Trish about an exit, which she gave a positive answer. The Doctor then sent Martha to take care of the exit with the….. metal wand I saw when I first meet the Doctor.
The Doctor rushed to the stand. "Listen to me! You people are in serious dangerous right now! You need to get out of here!" To which led to the people disagreeing, until they saw the monster Lazarus become than they ran.
"Potter!" Draco appeared by my side.
"No magic, but a bit of miscalculated science." I turned to Malfoy. "See you didn't need me." I joked.
People were running, but the one woman that had yelled at the Doctor about his announcement of danger. Lazarus finally got the meal he wanted…. The dead woman dropped to the floor. Martha got the doors open and everyone rushed out the doors.
The Doctor tried distracting Lazarus before he would claim his next victim. Draco and I helped get the people out of the building.
Though Lazarus became enraged by what the Doctor said. So much so that he gave chase when the Doctor ran.
I ran after the Doctor and the creature.
Just as was about to run into the boiler room, when the Doctor ran out. "Harry! Hello!" He grabbed my hand and ran down the hall. The Doctor rushed us into one of the labs. He released my hand and looked around. He then jumped on the one table that fiddled with the fire alarm. Something hit the doors.
"Doctor, I hope you have a plan," was all I said. The Doctor jumped off the table and started adjusting hoses at each table. The doors crashed opened. We crouched down, out of view due to the tables.
"Oh, hide and seek Doctor. How disappointing." The Doctor reached out over the tables fiddling with someone each time he reached up. I had my wand in hand, ready to fight. "Why won't you come out and face me?!"
"Have you looked in the mirror lately?" The Doctor mocked, but the Doctor had stopped moving and stood, facing Lazarus. I stood up also. "Why would I want to face that?"
The Doctor grabbed my hand and we ran again. This time the Doctor hit something on the wall. Lazarus was right behind us. Then the lab exploded, with Lazarus inside. The Doctor and I forced to the ground by the explosion. We quickly got up and ran.
We ran into Martha. "What you doing here?" exclaimed the Doctor.
"I came to return this." Martha handed over the Doctor's metal wand. "I thought you may need it."
"How did you…"
"The explosion, I knew that was you." Martha answered. "Did you kill him?"
Lazarus was coming up behind us. "Ummm guys, we need to go…." I said.
Martha and the Doctor looked at Lazarus.
"Mostly annoyed I would say!" The Doctor answered Martha while pushing her to run. I followed the two.
We ran back into the reception area. I looked at the machine. "Doctor get inside!" The Doctor noticed where I was pointing, and rushed Martha inside also.
"Harry!" The Doctor looked at me.
I smiled. "I'm good." I cast the disillusionment charm. The Doctors eyes widened before he quickly closed the doors. Lazarus walked around the machine. The thing Lazarus had built. He would never destroy this piece of garbage. I was careful to stay silent. I didn't want to give myself away. In my distraction of being quiet, Lazarus turned on the machine. Not GOOD!
I didn't know what to do! This was technology, I don't do technology! I was still panicking when a bright pulse shoot through the room. It threw me across the room. "Harry!" The Doctor was by my side. "Harry, talk to me." I felt blood fall down my face. I felt a pulse surround me. Golden light field my vision.
I smiled. "I'm fine. But it seems time is calling for me. See you around, Doctor." With that said I disappeared into time and space.