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

A quick conversation followed and Giles quickly hung up and went back to see his slayer still whimpering and shaking. "Buffy, Willow's taking the next flight out. She'll be here soon. But in the meanwhile, I believe you should go home and rest. I'm sure Harry is just as upset as you."

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Harry held his wife protectively while quietly crying right along with her.

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Hermione's eyes narrowed further. "Just get it." With that Ron disappeared yet again from Lilia Potter's room.

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Chapter 5:

Memory

Harry gently lent over and placed his wife in a laying position in their bed. Buffy slightly stirred, but she did not wake from her slumber. Harry wiped a stand of hair from her face and placed a soft tender kiss on her forehead. He then rose off the bed and stared at his wife for a moment.

He couldn't help but blame himself for bringing all this pain to her, his beautiful wife. He shouldn't have started anything with her, he knew that then, he knew that now. But for so long he had thought he had escaped his past, he truly believed that he would never be found… how wrong he was. And now he was trying to pretend that his friends were merely detectives he had hired, how was he going to explain how they really got her back? If… if they got her back. Harry shook his head trying to be optimistic. Of course they would get her back, of course they would.

Harry could not imagine what his life would be like without his daughter. He could not imagine how he would tell Buffy, how they would have to bury their child and live without her. He could not, and he didn't want to, he was going to find her. He needed to. He needed to find her for himself, for Buffy, and for Lily.

Harry could remember when he found out that Buffy was pregnant. It was one of the most exciting moments of his life and probable one of the most terrifying moments as well. It had been about three months after they married. It was a beautiful morning.

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Harry sat at the kitchen table drinking a cup of tea and eating some toast while reading the Daily Prophet. He was extremely careful with this, he made sure that he got it every morning, subscribing under another name, and only reading it while Buffy was sleeping and vanishing it after reading it. However, this morning Buffy had woken up early to tell him the good news. So when she bounced in, Harry nearly dropped his tea as he quickly slid the paper inside his jacket and pretended that he was simply saving the paper for later.

"Hey!" Buffy greeted as she bounced over to him and sat on his lap letting her kiss him ever so softly.

Harry smiled warmly at her, that had been a close call, but all that was forgotten now that she had kissed him. "G' Morning!"

"So, I've been thinking," She started. "Living in an apartment is pretty cramped for the two of us. And in a few months, with three, it's gonna be even more cramped. So therefore, I think we need to go house shopping!" Buffy finished grinning.

Harry's face held much confusion in it. "Three?" Harry couldn't figure out what she was talking about, so he questioned further. "Is Dawn coming to live with us? I thought that she was doing fine in the dorms at uni."

Buffy rolled her eyes and shock her head.

"Not Dawn? Hum, any other of your friends? Giles has his own place not too far. So what on earth are you talking about?"

Buffy just stared at him and sighed. "You're impossible."

"What?" Harry exclaimed still unbeknownst to what Buffy was trying to get at.

Buffy looked at him in the eye unbelieving that he could be that absent-minded. Obviously mistaken, she took his hand and brought it to her stomach. "I'm pregnant, you moron." Buffy rolled her eyes, but her lips were turned upward in a grin.

Harry's eyes widened and he grinned right along with her. "Are you serious?" Buffy nodded with a 'duh' expression on her face. "That's bloody amazing!" Harry wrapped his arms around her and kissed her passionately. "I love you."

Buffy's grin widened even more. "I love you too."

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Harry took one more glance at his wife before walking from the room. He then composed himself before he entered to a silent room. Fresh tears came to his eyes when he walked in, but the young legend would not allow them to fall. He sighed before approaching Hermione, again sitting on the baby pink carpet of his daughter's room.

Hermione looked up and gave her friend a sympathetic smile. He returned it as best as he could before sitting beside the young women. "Harry, how are you? Honestly?"

Harry looked at her with amusement in his eyes; but when he spoke Hermione could only sense tiredness and pain. "Hermione, if I told you I would be alright, it would be one bloody lie. 'Mione, I can't stand this. I can't stand me being here, while my daughter is somewhere being held captive by Voldemort. I can't stand watching my wife, who has always been so strong, fall apart when I could solve this all. But I'm so bloody afraid to tell her of magic, Hermione, I just, I just… I don't know what to do."

Hermione wrapped her arms around Harry, holding him as if he were a child. Hermione wanted desperately to help him, chase away everything hurting him. He cried, sobbed, while Hermione rocked him motherly.

Ron found them that way. Patiently, in the corner, he waited. He didn't have to wait long though. For moments after he apparated in, a door loudly flew open downstairs and a loud voice echoed up the stairs. "Honey, I'm home!"

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Notes: I know I haven't been big with adding long chapters… but at least I'm consistent, right:P But at least I'm updating weekly, which is better than I have ever done with a fanfic before… I've never had almost the entire story written when I first posted so it makes it so much easier! I hope you're enjoying this; I love reviews- they keep me happy!

Oh, also I'm writing a new story with Faith as Sirius' daughter; though I'm stuck trying to figure out a main conflict plot line—defeating Voldemort, etc. I have minor plot lines: Sirius and Faith, etc. Any suggestions with how to figure out stuff like that, or ideas of what the conflict plot line could be, etc? I'm 42 pages into the story (on notebook paper… but I have small handwriting so its approx 30is word pages, a little more/less) and I have the next couple chapters planned out, but after that I don't know where it goes from there.