Never Normal
Rating: PG 13 – FR 13
Pairings: Buffy/Harry, Ron/Hermione
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Buffy characters, series storylines, etc - they belong to their respectable creators.
Timeline: Post-Chosen for Buffy. Post-OotP (fifth book) for Harry Potter… therefore no DH spoilers. This would be because it was after this book that I wrote this. Buffy was 22 at the end of the series, so we'll say that she meet Harry shortly after and married him. Their daughter is about 3 and Harry and Buffy are about 26-28. This means Harry has been gone for nearly a decade. (He ran off after Sirius died, I believe).
Summary: Buffy and Harry Potter have long pretended to be normal, their past secrets hid from the other. But reality came into play as their daughter is kidnapped, husband and wife must try individually to find a way to bring her back, while pretending to be normal for the other.
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Last time on Never Normal
Harry nodded his head and walked towards his wife. An arm slid around her and guided her from their daughter's room. Hermione looked sadly after their forms and Ron wrapped his arms around her once more. She leaned into his chest and sighed, "Ron, I never, ever want to lose Millie or Jacob!"
Ron looked down at his wife while he rocked her. Ron blocked away tears and forced a smile to his lips. "I promise."
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Chapter 4:
Lie
"Harry, please, just tell me that she's alive," Buffy whispered from where she sat on their bed. Harry looked at his amazing wife and didn't know what to say to her. She was breaking down in front of him and he had no clue what to do. How could he tell her the truth? How could he tell her that everything that reality had told her was just a glimpse of the real world? He pushed himself off from the wall and sat beside his crumbling wife. Buffy immediately leaned against him needing comfort and support. "Lie to me, please Har, just tell me she's alright."
Harry nodded his head, tears falling slowly from his green eyes. "She's alright, Buffy, Lily's alright. She has to be."
"You're not as good as Giles…" Buffy whispered trying to crack a joke that would somehow make her better, but her small smile did not last long before she broke down into sobs.
Harry held his wife protectively while quietly crying right along with her.
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"Ron! I found a trace," Hermione shouted out to her husband from her sitting position on the ground. Ron came quickly to her side. "No doubt that it was Voldemort or any of the Death Eaters… though the person is definitely strong… so someone high up or Voldemort himself came to get her."
"So now how do we find where they went?" Ron questioned hoping that they would be able to find Lily quickly.
"Well for starters, he's probably back in England… well… back as in… he's here if we're in England… oh I really need to ask Harry where we are!" Hermione's train of thought had wandered from her question.
"So, oh brilliant one, where in England would he be?" Hermione raised an eyebrow in annoyance at him and wondered why she possibly married this idiot. "Or does that happen to be the reason why we're here?"
Hermione sighed while Ron just grinned at her. "Ron, go back to headquarters and check if they've found him, and if not come back with some ingredients for a tracing potion." She ordered. It was Ron's turn to sigh but he nodded. With a quick kiss goodbye, Ron disappeared from the room.
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Giles shot another glass of hard liquor down his throat. He had been waiting at his house going over possibilities and finally concluded to the worst results, hence the liquor. And now all Giles wanted to do was to find Lily and bring her home before all his old troubles break into their lives.
Yes, Giles knew. He knew all about the other world, the one aside from both demons and humans. A magical realm in this world, yes, Giles knew all about it. He only wished that he didn't. But even though Giles knew who had taken his slayer's daughter, he hadn't a clue as to where he could find her, or Tom.
Tom, the name brought back many memories. But Rupert Giles didn't want to remember, all he wanted to do was forget magic, Tom, his mother, father, everyone. But somehow no matter how much he tried nothing would let him forget. No matter how hard he tried, Giles could not forget the world he was born in, the family that had raised him, and the brother that had ruined everything.
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"Hermione, love, here's all I could find. I couldn't find the white powdery stuff," Ron told Hermione the moment he apperated in. Hermione grabbed the materials from Ron's hands and shock her head in annoyance. "Sorry!"
Hermione sat down on the soft floor. Ron watched as his wife placed the ingredients in front of her. He noticed her eyes narrow and then silently she thought,
"Ron, go to your Mum's and ask for vitrum, I believe it works as a substitute."
"You believe?" Ron started at her incredulously.
Hermione's eyes narrowed further. "Just get it." With that Ron disappeared yet again from Lilia Potter's room.
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Notes: Not that good of a chapter, I know. It's a filler chapter and you get to see Giles and some story with that. Anyway, not as many reviews for the last chapter, sad, hopefully people are liking this, I like it:P Oh, and I made a fanart for the story also. Its at Twisting the Hellmouth, my username is the same and the title is "The Art of Never Normal."