The Rani.
Into the Wizarding World.
Lily Potter sighed as she slaved over the mashed potatoes, hating the fact she was a glorified housewife, which had never been the future she'd imagined for herself, but the magical world was like that. There were so many loopholes and traps for the unsuspecting and the unwary, as Lily was in that regard, and there was no realistic way out for her, unless she committed suicide. Considering her actions for the last decade or so, that was understandable. Never, in all her life, would Lily Evans have imagined herself to abandon a child, on the word of an old man who couldn't resist poking his long nose in peoples lives, but Lily Potter had, without question. Now she was wishing she could go back in time and stop herself from making that mistake. But she couldn't. The war had taken its toll on her and her family. The revelation that Ursula, her daughter, the one she and her husband, James, had given up for adoption all those years ago, was the real child Voldemort had targeted, had been a bombshell on their lives.
It didn't help that Dumbledore's statement was that he'd made a simple mistake, considering the girl didn't possess a drop of magic in her veins after the attack. Lily recalled only too well how shocked and horrified she'd been when the announcement had been made. Ursula had been the more powerful of the twins when they'd been born, and Dumbledore had never truly bothered hypothesising why it had happened. Ursula had never hidden her dislike of the man when she'd been an infant. Whenever the man invited himself round to their place to visit them - taking an unhealthy interest in both children and worrying Lily because it struck her as creepy and unnecessary - Ursula would try and get away from him, like he was something disgusting she was trying to escape from.
Dumbledore's latest announcement on the subject hadn't been wanted by the Potters, it hadn't helped. Since that night, the Potters had been inundated with letters asking why the hell they'd listened to Dumbledore in the first place, and Lily herself wondered why she herself had gone along with the plan in the first place. She was the girl's mother, for Christ's sake!
Lily looked around the cottage they were staying in. The cottage belonged to the Potter family, and was one of the most secure places in the world, that was why the Order were using it against Voldemort. The Order had been remobilised, but Lily didn't think the rapidity would help. Most of the old guard were ancient, letting their skills run down into laziness and lethargy. Dumbledore's aims weren't to try and fight Voldemort and the death eaters, it was to spy on her daughter, who was running a worldwide industrial organisation! Lily was stunned by that, especially of the picture of her. Ursula had certainly grown up. She resembled her mother, except her face was colder, harder, more impassive. Her eyes, glittering emeralds, were her primary and most outstanding feature, but even they betrayed no emotion. The image, mirrorlike, was a horrifying revelation that it was probably Lily and James's fault that Ursula had turned out like that.
" Hello, Mother," A cold voice spoke from behind her, and made Lily jump.
Turning slowly, Lily only caught a glimpse of ice cold emeralds and dark hair when she felt a jolt of what felt like electricity go through her body...
" Wakey, wakey."
Lily woke up, and she found herself lying on the ground of the drawing room. Usually there were couches arranged in a circle around the TV, but the furniture had been moved, pushed aside against the walls. Lily tried to move, but she found that her hands were bound. As she struggled, she felt something against her throat. Lily's eyes widened when she realised there was something like a noose around her neck, but fortunately it wasn't tightened so she couldn't breath.
Lily's attention had been riveted to the fact she was bound that she didn't notice the figure in the room with her, but when she heard footsteps approach her, her eyes widened.
Towering over her, wearing black trousers, a white shirt and a black jacket, her long hair in a ponytail emphasising her oval shaped face, was her daughter, Ursula. Lily's first thoughts were joy, joy at seeing her daughter, then fear when she remembered she was tied up like a turkey.
" Ursula, let me go." She ordered, trying hard not to let her fear show. Ursula regarded her coldly, Lily shivered. Her daughter resembled her so much, but looking at Ursula was like looking into a mirror where the opposite of her personality was shown. Her eyes were glints of shining ice.
" Why would I do that?" Ursula said, her musical voice harsh and cold.
Lily gulped, the noose was tightened around her throat. Ursula walked over to her, breathing into her face. " Let me tell you how it's going to be," she hissed. " I ask the questions, and if you try anything, I'll shoot you in the leg, or I'll electrocute you, either's good in my world." To prove her point, she pulled out a handgun. She held up the magazine in front of Lily before slotting it with a professionalism that made Lily swallow.
" I'm your mother," Lily said desperately, hoping to get through to her.
" I know. Lily Potter, formely Lily Evans, daughter of Marie and Thomas Evans, sister to Petunia, who went and married the managing director of Grunnings, a company I bought and fired the bastard, he wasn't happy about that." Ursual smiled maliciously, then her face became deadpan when Lily looked at her in astonishment. " Why would you do that?" Lily asked. She knew that if Petunia found out her daughter had bought the company her useless lump of a husband got himself fired by her, she'd hit the roof, and their relationship was non existent.
" One, I was sick to death of him and his bigotry. I infiltrated the company, or didn't Sam Granger bother to tell you about my methods? Don't look at me like that, mother," Ursula spat. " Did you really think your pathetic little spy wouldn't be noticed, did you truly think I'm that naive? My technology's the most sought after on Earth. I've got to handle the spies and sabatoers. I watch everything that goes on, a termite couldn't get inside my facilities without my knowledge."
Ursula sat down, her eyes partially closed as she clasped her hands together, almost in prayer. " What disappoints me is how easy you people make it to find out about you? Yes, I know everything about the magical world. If I'm going to exterminate you, I'll need to know everything."
Lily couldn't believe what she was hearing. She'd had doubts about the wisdom about spying on Ursuala's business to find out what she was doing without actually bothering to go in and talk to her, now her daughter had found out and she apparently knew more about the magical world than they did about her. What frightened Lily was the matter of fact way she'd said she was going to exterminate them.
Lily licked her dry lips, " Why would you want to exterminate us?"
Ursula wasn't interested in going through her plans, she'd deliberately let out a piece of information to smoke her enemies out, and Lily Potter would make an excellent messenger. She reached out to a little black box, and pressed something. Lily arched her back in pain, wincing slightly as the electricity went through her body. When Ursula let her go, Lily gasped.
" Remember my rules," Ursula snapped, " if you answer my questions properly, then I let you go, and if you don't," she shrugged. " I'll shoot you, and don't think I'll care. I've no feelings, for you, or for anyone. I'm a high functioning sociopath. Now, question number one; what made you so arrogant to decide that spying on me was the best course of action?"
When Lily didn't answer right away, Ursula's hand went to her taser. " I won't ask again."
Lily was frightened, she'd tried to apparate out, the wards of the cottage allowed her to as a member of the Potter family, but it felt as if her magic wasn't working. The electric shock had been painful for her, and she wasn't keen on letting it happen again.
" We were desperate," Lily said quickly before her uncaring daughter pressed the button to electrocute her. " We-we'd only just found that your brother wasn't the boy who lived. We needed to know more about you before Voldemort, the dark lord who tried to kill you, came after you."
" Go on,"
Lily started babbling, hoping that an order member, anyone would get home quickly to save her. What Lily didn't realise was that the dampening field was purely dimensional. They were inside a pocket dimension. " We found out that Samantha Granger worked for you, from her cousin Hermione, and through her we managed to get her to spy on you. Ursula, please listen to me, I didn't want this, but I was powerless to stop it."
Ursula's eyes were icy and blank as she haughtily stared at her mother. " How did you get Samantha Granger to spy on me? Don't brush me around, I'm good with telling when someone's lying."
Lily had hoped never to think about the means ever again. " We blackmailed her," she admitted. " we told her that her cousin could easily be expelled for some reason, and she would be told Samantha was to blame."
Ursula nodded in understanding, it made sense. " Creating a rift in the family," she shook her head in awe, a smirk on her face, " and you people call yourselves the Light side. Blackmail, espionage, which I do understand the need for, and the topping," for the first time she smiled, a crooked and ugly smirk. " You abandon your own children when they don't fill in criteria, or even when some stupid old man decides to throw a child away. Tell me, in all these years, did you never once think you'd made a fatal mistake? Because let me tell you, by the time I'm finished, you people will wish you'd never, ever given rise to thugs like Lord Voldemort. Take this message to Dumbledore, I'm going to kill him. Then I will kill you, then father, then Darren, then I'm going to kill Voldemort and his thugs, at the same time, then I'll kill the innocents. Hopefully the survivors will take that as an omen, and grow up and stop creating saviors and dark lords. Tell them that when you wake up."
Ursula threw a small capsule at her mothers face. It landed on the floor, and a blast of green smoke exploded into her face...
Lily woke up to her husband shaking her. " Lily," James was saying panicking. He and the order had returned to headquarters, and they'd found his wife tied up by her neck and her feet and hands bound. " Lily, Lily wake up."
Lily peered at him blearily, mumbling, " James? James, Ursula was here."
James was horrified, " Ursula did this?"
" She knows, she knows everything about the magical world." She looked past her husband, and glared at Dumbledore, who was standing right behind.
" I hope your happy Albus, with your little games of spies and abandonment. We've pushed her, and now she's going to kill us all!"
Dumbledore didn't like that, and in typical fashion he tried to downplay what Lily was saying to them. " Now, Lily, I'm sure your exaggerating..."
By now Lily had recovered from the effects of the gas, and was furious. " Exaggerating? My daughter turned up, held me prisoner and electrocuted me. She knows about us spying on her, Albus. You cannot ignore that. She's already threaten to exterminate a lot of people in our world, and all you do is stand there looking wise, but in truth you've honestly got no control over her. She means it, she already knows about us. She even said she fired my brother in law when she took over his company."
Ursula's TARDIS was a monument to her genius, and she'd only been used it for the last few weeks. In that time she'd travelled backwards through time and space. The console room was black and silver, the console was round with a cylindrical glass column in the centre, pulsing blue light. All around the room were couches and bookshelves. There were also pieces of technology, and a table with complex chemistry experiments, and more sinister were the human head in a jaw, twitching slightly, eyes slightless, twitching through electricity.
Then there were the dinosaurs suspended in a glutinous liquid, but Ursula was smiling, thinking to herself " Phase one."
