A Second Life
Chapter 4; Abductions
The Wandering Myth; After Paige's departure
"That wasn't very nice!" Jason stated calmly
"It wouldn't have hurt her if it hit her." Harry responded without emotion before grinning, "It would've only turned her skin green."
Jason laughed slightly before shaking his head in mock despair. "Only you, love, would use that curse as a joke."
"It was the only thing that I could get from her mind before it shut me out, someone warned her to avoid it. Anything else and she would have gotten confused and ran rather than 'orbed' out." Harry explained with some regret at having had to scare her, "I'm sure that she will realise why I did it."
"Do you think that she was telling the truth about being able to call her?" Jason asked.
Harry frowned and let his eyes fall closed for, what seemed to Jason, a very long minute. "Yes, there is some sort of bond between her and me and through me you."
"Do you trust her then?" Jason asked.
"I think so, I can't see any reason not to, plus it won't hurt to call her if we need to, but I won't get her hurt over helping me." Harry said determinately.
"Come on then Harry, we're going out to eat something since I closed up early." Jason decided.
"Where are we going then?" Harry asked as they left the building.
"Let's go to that restaurant near the London Eye, its always quiet at this time of day." Jason suggested and Harry agreed, it was the first place that they had gone on a date to. Unknown to either of them they weren't the only ones that knew where they were heading. A rat scurried out from behind a paper cup on the pavement and disappeared into the alley beside the pub before vanishing into thin air with a small pop.
Harry and Jason only had to walk to get to the Thames River and then strolled along the bank to the restaurant before settling down for a calm dinner.
It was half way through the meal before it happened, Harry had just gotten up to order a couple of drinks from the bar rather then wait for the waitress and by the time he got back Jason was gone. As he took in the empty seat one of the waiters came up to him and in a rather false French accent informed Harry that his date had left with two men in black robes but didn't seem happy about it.
Harry closed his eyes briefly to trace the bond to his soulmate before apparating and incidentally scaring the hell out of all of the muggles in the room. The advantage of being an Unspeakable was that he could break the secrecy act.
He reappeared in front of three figures just on the edge of the river bank. The two Death Eaters looked shocked for a second before they pulled his soulmate closer to them.
"Don't come any closer Potter or we'll kill him." Harry tensed at the voice of his Godfather's killer, Bellatrix Lestrange. Harry knew she was mad enough to kill Jason even if it got her killed as well and he wasn't sure he could get Jason away from her before a curse could be cast.
'Are you ok love?" Harry asked mentally.
'I'm fine love, just let them take me. They mentioned that they had explosives in all the building around here.' Came the resigned reply.
"Well it's time we left Potter, don't try to follow us or we'll kill him." Even as she finished her sentence Harry flung his hands outwards casting a strong anti-apparition ward even as they tried to dissaparate. Bellatrix was slower then her counterpart so just failed. The other Death Eater was caught midway, splinched and killed instantly.
Harry dived forwards in the confusion and managed to grab hold of Jason's hand just as Bellatrix activated a Portkey and pushed a button on her robes. Harry reappeared violently in a small room and was thrown into a nearby wall by the blast that followed them through. The last thing Harry saw was Jason land on the floor beside him before he fell unconscious.
Malfoy Manor; three hours later
Harry groaned as he woke up and rubbed the side of his head to find a deep gash in the side of his head that would need treatment. He was more worried though for Jason who lay in a small puddle of blood, a gash ran down the side of his face and down his neck. Blood matted his hair.
Harry was beside him in an instant checking his pulse; even though he could still sense him he wanted the proof. Jason's eyes fluttered open at the touch and feel of Harry's mind.
"Hey," Harry said aloud, "How do you feel?"
"Sore." Stated Jason simply. "I feel…" he tried to find the right word but instead settled on sending Harry the feeling of dying instead.
"No!" Harry stated sharply, "I can still heal you!" But it wasn't to be, as soon as Harry reached out his hands over his boyfriend he found a manacle on his wrist that stopped him using his magic. He looked at it in anguish for a moment before tears formed in his eyes.
He sat on the ground beside him for a while before he started to feel it. Pain started to build up in his scar.
"Voldermort's here." Harry explained to Jason when he noticed that his Soulmate was looking at his scar.
"Call her; you know she can get us out of here." Jason suggested weakly picking his head off of the floor with a wince.
"What about Voldermort? I've been trying to track him down for a year now. I can't let this opportunity go to waste." Harry stammered out.
"What about you though, you can't use your magic!" Jason was obviously in pain and it was hurting him to talk.
Harry stopped briefly as a plan formed in his mind. He tested it out, building up his magic just underneath the manacle before pushing it up against it. A burning smell started as his skin burned. The manacle held firm though it was steaming slightly. Harry grinned evilly.
"I can overcome the manacle, but the explosion will take out everything here, I'll wait until Voldermort comes to speak to me then I'll do it." Harry explained quietly.
"What about you?" Jason asked after nodding his agreement.
"I don't know, the blast shouldn't affect me as it is my magic, but I don't know how much magic I'll need to kill him." Harry wondered almost to himself.
"Please come back to me after this, Harry." Jason sobbed with tears in his eyes. "I can't live without you around."
"I can't promise you that love, it's my destiny to kill that monster and if I don't do it he'll kill thousands more than he has already." Harry said slowly to get the point across. "Promise me you won't try to follow."
Jason tried to say a lot in that moment, tried to think of a way to defy him, to stop him from leaving him, but he couldn't. "I promise." He settled on finally.
"If I die, the new wards will remain but my wards on my processions will switch to you with your name as the passwords. I've already fixed with Gringotts to allow access for you to all my family's vaults even without the correct blood." He placed a finger on Jason's lips to stop him from interrupting. "Also, in my desk at home there is a hidden drawer, the concealments and wards on it will drop if I die. In there is a book from my Department's classified library on bonds. It has a section on deaths. It might help you understand the change in your magic afterwards."
He suddenly felt happiness and realised it wasn't his own and defiantly wasn't Jason's.
"Voldermort's just been told that we're here." He bent down and placed a soft kiss on Jason's lips before continuing. "I love you Jason, even after this, I will always love you. Never forget that for an instant."
"I love you too Harry." Jason cried.
Harry stood tall and very carefully stated the name that could save his Soulmate from his own fate.
"Paige!"
Halliwell Manor; Ten minutes ago
It was almost Lunchtime when Billie came running into the room with her mobile in her hand. She ran right past the three sisters, past Leo and the two children to the TV explaining as she went.
"I've just got a message from a friend at college. She said to turn on any channel, it's interrupted everything." She flipped on the TV which was on CNN anyway to see a bird-eye view of an inferno.
Leo was the first to recognise the scenery. "That's central London." The voice finally cut in on the TV.
"For those just joining us this is breaking news from London. A terrorist attack has destroyed the London Eye in an explosion that has completely decimated a large section of the Thames River bank. These pictures are live from England where it is now just past 8pm. Casualties are predicted to be in the hundreds though we won't have an accurate report until a later time." The report went into speculations on the possible groups who could have done this and whether it was connected to the deaths of the previous night.
"Oh my god," Paige stuttered, her hand flying to her mouth. "That's around the corner from Harry and Jason."
Piper stood, "I'm sure they are both fine, besides if we're right about Harry, he'll call if you're needed." She was stopped when Paige suddenly tensed.
"A message from the Elders, they're putting all Whitelighters and Witches on alert." Paige explained, "They say that the attack had a lot of magic involved and they want everyone to be cautious."
They watched the TV for a few more minutes and Piper was about to get up to start the lunch when Paige shot upright from the sofa. "It's Harry, he's calling urgently. I think he's hurting!"
"We're coming too!" Phoebe put in determinedly. Piper nodded her agreement.
"Billie, you stay here, make sure nothing happens while we're gone," Piper told the younger girl as Phoebe and Paige left the room to gather some potions.
Less than ten seconds later they were travelling almost instantly across the Atlantic Ocean to the smaller island with such a longer history than their own country. They emerged from the orbs in a small dimly lit room. They could hear groans of pain and despair from outside the room but inside the room were two figures, one stood before them looking directly at them whilst the other was laid out on the floor.
"Harry!" Paige said, she had only known the young man for a day but still felt the care for him that all Whitelighters felt for a charge. "What happened?"
"They tried to take Jason and I followed. The explosion in London was them. It knocked me out when I arrived here and they took advantage and bound my magic." Harry explained, showing them the iron ring on his wrist.
Piper came up to him and grabbed his wrist and gasped in shock as a jolt flew from her into the manacle like a nasty static shock. No matter what she felt or realised she couldn't pull her hand back. Harry broke the connection by pulling his hand back violently.
"Be careful, it drains the magic from anything it is in contact with. I've pulled my magic away from it but I can't use it without it being drained."
"Can you get it off?" Phoebe asked for the first time from beside Jason on the floor. "Paige? Can you heal him?"
Paige moved towards him. "Stop!" Jason said from the floor. "Detectors."
The sisters looked at Harry to explain this, "It's already surprising your presence hasn't set off any wards, your magic might do." He returned to the matter at hand. "I can get the manacle off but I will have to overload it and therefore destroy everything in the area. I need you to take Jason out of here so that I can kill the Monster that I am fated to." He put emphasis on this to make his point.
Harry stiffened at a sound at the door and before he could make his point the door opened and three Death Eaters walked in. There was silence as they looked at the three neatly dressed witches. Phoebe launched into an attack kicking the closest in the head sending him falling backwards. But both she and Paige were flung backwards by a powerful blasting charm that sent them into the back wall. Piper glared at the two men before snapping her hands forwards and trying to blow them up. The man yelped in pain as a deep wound tore at his shoulder and he crumpled backwards into the wall.
Harry used the shock that followed to dart forwards at the last man and taking his head carefully in his hands he broke the neck of the struggling man.
By the time the body had fallen to the floor Piper was helping Paige off the floor as Phoebe hauled herself up.
Harry spoke harshly but it was obvious it wasn't directed at them. "Voldermort knows you're here and he's pissed." He said rubbing at his scar. "Please Paige, take Jason back to the Myth and heal him, if I survive I will call you."
"I can't just leave you to die." Paige declared.
"You can. It's my fate to kill him. Don't force Jason to die here. He'll die if he isn't healed soon." Harry pointed out. "He's coming now leave."
Harry stepped over to Jason and kissed him gently tears in his eyes.
Voldermort walked through the door just as the over four occupants orbed through the ceiling. As soon as the man was in the room and safely inside the cell's anti-apparition wards he brought the full force of his magic to bear on the manacle. Everything erupted in pain. The iron band shattered into tiny pieces and the room flooded with magic that killed everything in the room instantly including the greatest Dark Lord in a millennia.
To anyone in visual range on the Malfoy manor they saw the whole valley go up in a huge white explosion that left nothing but a crater in the ground without a body or living soul.
Halliwell manor; Immediately afterwards
The four reappeared in the living room. Leo darted up as he saw the sisters appear over the body on the ground.
"What happened?" He asked Piper as Paige's hands started glowing over the young man, healing his wounds in a few long seconds. "Is that her charge?"
Piper spent the next five minutes explaining what had happened and just as she was finishing the voice on the TV caught their attention.
"This news just in, another explosion has occurred near the seaside town of Yarmouth on the east coast of England. Only three hours after the one in London it is unlikely to be a coincidence. We will have images soon but England's Military forces have been placed on a high alert, all travel into the country has been diverted."
The image flickered back to a close up of the large Ferris wheel type structure twisted and lying across the River in London. "Initial casualty counts are at one-hundred and sixteen deaths and over two-hundred injured along the bank of the Thames River. Emergency services are being diverted from surrounding areas to help control the blaze which is resisting all attempts to fight the inferno. A special force from the Government are helping to fight the fire but police have banned us from filming their efforts." Said the on site reporter.
The screen flashed back to show the studio. "We now have images of the second explosion." The screen changed again to show a burning crater in a valley, debris lay amongst the burning forest. "This is a live feed of the situation now, emergency services are now arriving. We are fortunate that the man who made the call to emergency services was filming the forest from a nearby hill. We are uploading his footage now. Please be aware the following images may cause some a degree of shock." There was a pause before a film took over the screen. It showed a manor in the middle of a forest before a blast shot from it smashing out windows before a white light encompassed the screen before fading to show a fireball reaching out throwing debris about.
"The man who filmed this video is now being treated for retinal damage. Casualties are as of yet unknown." The reporter finished.
They left the channel on but Leo turned it down as Piper noticed that Jason had awoken from his brief sleep and was staring at the crater in complete despair. "I can't sense him." He sobbed before burying his head into the cushion. Little Chris made his way to the chair and climbed onto the man who reached out to accept the hug. The sisters could do nothing as they listened to the sobs.
Paige let her eyes close to try to sense her charge but tears crept from her eyes. "I can't sense him either."
A/N; I'm sorry to all those that are pissed at me for killing Harry but that is kind of the whole idea of this story. Please review.