Ronald turned in time to see a metal pole headed towards him awkwardly. He grabbed it and pulled it towards him, as the lights flickered and alarms began to sound in the building.
Olivia was pulled off-balance and into the maniacs arms. She began hitting him with all the strength she could muster, but the drugs were beginning to take hold. The room was spinning and alarms ringing out.
Ronald pushed her down on the bed and began to take off his clothes. It was time and he was not going to wait any longer.
Joseph came to, and began to get up. The first thing he saw was his brother disrobing and Olivia struggling on the bed in an absolute panic.
"STOP!"
Ronald turned to his brother's voice and with a snarl he yelled. "Leave the room…I am taking her now…I have waited 50 years and you are not going to come between us."
Joseph didn't know what to do. He was his brother and they had been through everything together.
Shots were heard in the corridor and suddenly the bright light of a magic wand threw the door open and hitting Joseph to the floor again.
The witch had arrived.
Minerva saw Joseph and stupefied him as Jack ran in around her. Jack ran and grabbed Ronald off Olivia.
Jack tossed Ronald to the floor and looked down on the panicked face of Olivia.
"It's all right Olivia…we've got you now." Jack picked Olivia up and cradled her in his arms.
Ronald was beyond all reason and looked at Minerva in disgust. "You bitch! Again you come between us."
"That would be witch not bitch and I would remain still if I were you."
Olivia reached her hand up to touch Jack's face. "Jack…is that you?"
Bond entered after running the halls, moving all the occupants to the exit and into the waiting arms of the MI6 team.
Bond took in the scene and his heart clenched, as he saw a young M being cradled in Jack's arms. The wonder in M's expression as she recognized Jack practically does Bond in.
"It's me Olivia and you were right."
Olivia smiled. "About what?"
"It had been 50 years since I've seen you and I do look the same, but then so do you."
Olivia chuckled as she turned to look at her cousin and reach out her hand to her. Minerva smiled and took her hand.
Ronald took the momentary distraction to lunge at Minerva. Bond pulled her out-of-the-way and landed a punch to the man's face, making him crumble to the floor in a heap.
Olivia looked at Bond. "I thought I told you to keep my cousin away and safe."
"You did ma'am but she told me we were coming and she magically kidnapped me to Cardiff."
"Minerva…you always find a way…countermanding my orders…so stubborn."
Jack still held Olivia much to the dismay of Bond who grabbed Ronald off the floor to drag him out.
"Bond…let me." Minerva said a few words and the two Wilson men levitated and floated to the door.
Olivia began to cry out in pain and Bond rushed to her side. "M…what's wrong?"
"Second injection…to make…me…immortal."
Olivia grabbed Jack's coat and pulled him towards her face and whispered. "I don't…want…to…be."
Olivia passed out in his arms and Jack headed for the door with Bond close behind. Jack was as panicked as Bond, as he ran along behind him to the car opening the door.
"What did she say?" Bond asked.
"She doesn't want to be like me…I don't blame her but it would be…"
"Nice…you want her to be immortal so you can be together."
"It would be less lonely…even if we do not remain together but to know she is out there and 300 years later I could track Olivia down and we could meet in a pub and share stories. Listen…I do not advertise to the world that I cannot die and I expect you people to respect that."
"If you help her I would promise you the moon."
Jack winked at Bond. "Ooooh and I bet you say that to all the girls…smooth talker."
Bond smirked as Minerva climbed in after depositing the Wilson's in with the MI6 agents.
"I do hope you two are getting along and I do not have to immobilize you when you should be getting us back to your hub. You have a doctor on call correct?"
Jack nodded to her as he hit his communicator. "Owen I need you ready to assist a woman as soon as we arrive."
Bond looked at Minerva in the back cradling her cousin's head in her lap. "What if Torchwood cannot do anything for her?"
"Then I will take her to Hogwarts but I doubt magic will be able to do anything to heal this. I found a syringe on the floor and will send it to Severus as soon as I can. An owl will be at the entrance to the hub by the time we arrive."
Jack looked confused. "An owl?"
Bond smiled. "Magical post but I do hope it is as fast as email."
"I will use a spell to make it instantaneous."
Olivia stirred and crumples into a ball, groaning. All of the lines on her face are vanishing and her skin is pink and new as she sweats through the cramps. Bond watched her with rapt attention from the front passenger seat.
Minerva looked down on her cousin wishing that she had a blanket to cover her. The small slip she was wearing leaves little to the imagination. Ronald wanted her dressed like this.
Olivia suddenly cried out in pain and Bond's worried look is reflected on both Minerva's and Jack's faces.
Bond turned to look at Jack. "Drive faster."
They arrived at the hub and Bond jumped out to take Olivia in his arms this time, as Jack helped Minerva from the vehicle and she spoke to an owl. Bond ran into the lift and descended into the hub to a waiting doctor.
Bond put her on the table and the doctor began to examine her. Bond cannot get over her appearance.
The doctor shouts questions at Bond as he helped restrain her, while an IV needle into her vein and a blood sample taken from the other. The doctor was joined by Q and they look at her blood through the microscope to see what was happening to her.
M comes in and out of consciousness and saw the worried face of James Bond. Even more surprising to her she felt him holding her hand.
Minerva joined James' side as the contents of her blood are discussed. Minerva moved away and asked Tanner to go pick up a Madame Pomfrey from the train station and he and Ianto go.
Jack asked Minerva who was coming and she explained to the lot of them that Madame Pomfrey was a wizard healer and she will bring the analysis of the drugs in M's system back to Hogwarts. By magical means she would be at the train station in Cardiff in very little time.
Owen stepped forward and said that whatever was happening was not complete so there may still be time to reverse the procedure. "Does M wish to retain the youth or completely reverse the procedure?"
Jack looked down on her on the table. "She told me she does not want to be immortal not that she's opposed to being young."
Minerva frowned. "I know my cousin and I do not think that she is vain enough to want something this unnatural to happen to herself. However, that being said she will learn to live with it as long as immortality is off the table as Mr. Harkness said."
Minerva and Jack looked to Bond. "What…I do not care if she is young or old…I felt this way about her before and that is not going to change anytime soon."
Owen came forward with Q. "The youth process is not stabilizing if you could question the men that did this it may help some."
Jack and Bond look at each other and nod. "We will go do that…Q please come with us."
"If you are a relative ma'am perhaps a stable DNA sample from you may help."
"I have a sample of her DNA right here…this bracelet has a drop of her blood and a hair from when we were 16."
"I'm afraid it will have to be replaced later for your jewelry, because I will have to destroy it."
"If it will help I don't care."
Bond and Jack went to visit the Wilson brothers, as Tanner and Ianto returned with a woman in the 19th century clothing, that witches seemed to enjoy wearing.
"Minerva…what has happened?"
Minerva told her friend, who then joined the doctor to examine Olivia. Owen asked her if she was able to get the DNA out of the artifact any easier than he could, and she nodded and used her wand to assist.
Owen's amazed at the process and the two of them began to discuss medical issues while Minerva brushed the now long hair from her cousin's brow.
"Olivia what will we do…I cannot imagine a life without you. We have been together since birth."
Olivia's eyes fluttered open. "Minerva…you're still here?"
"Yes…yes I am here."
"I feel like shit."
Minerva laughs. "I know darling, but you look fantastic."
Olivia laughed but it turned quickly into a cough. "Will this kill me?"
"We don't know…there is a doctor and a magic healer here to assist but it is not slowing down."
"It…it was suppose to stop…today they were adding immortality to the mix. Joseph said it was the first time they ever took so many years off…I am the experimental bunny for an immortality curse."
"Yes, well that does complicate the matter love. Jack says he wouldn't mind you being immortal with him."
Olivia chuckled again, trying to ignore the discomfort of her mutating body.
"I bet he would…but I couldn't bear it…I had a hard enough time losing Nigel. Can you imagine everyone you have ever knew or loved…died before your eyes?"
"No and you will not have to. Q, Jack and Bond have gone to get information from the Wilson's and we will do something."
"Here I'm, younger and I cannot even enjoy it."
"Yes…looks more painful than aging."
"It bloody well is. How old am I now?"
"You look like you are around 30, but you looked older when we found you so you're still ageing in reverse."
Madame Pomfrey and Owen stepped forward. Owen looked down on Olivia and checks her pupils with a light. "Since you are conscious we would like to discuss a blood transfusion to slow the drug coursing through you. Madame Pomfrey informs me that you are a match Professor. If we were to cycle the blood between the two of you, it should slow the process, but it may also work as it is on her, on you."
Minerva looked to Pomfrey. "Really…you think it will help Olivia…stop the speed of the process?"
"Yes Minerva but it will be extremely painful for you and you will go through the same thing as her. We believe that it will stop her progress and equalize between the two of you, however her blood will be infused with your magical abilities also."
"Olivia has always had those abilities she had just never had the training."
Olivia looked shocked. "What do you mean?"
"The day in the woods after I told you…remember. You made a flower grow without the use of a wand and only a witch can do that."
"Really…why did you never tell me?"
"You said you wanted to stay in the muggle world."
"I remember that…you don't have to put yourself through this Minerva."
"But I will Olivia…I have to…blood sisters remember."
The doctor prepared Minerva and laid her out beside her cousin they work the direct transfusion taking blood from Minerva and into Olivia and then back to Minerva.
This is how it appeared when Q, Bond and Jack returned to see Minerva convulsing until the witch healer did a spell to calm the churning bodies of the two women.
Owen moved to speak with them. "Did you find out anything?"
"Not really Owen…there was a magic potion but it was augmented with god knows what. Have you stabilized her?"
"No, she was going to continue to age in reverse. I do think that the immortality serum jump started the age reversal again. Madame Pomfrey was able to magically remove some of the elements and believes that if we equalize it between the two women it will burn itself out and leave them both younger."
Bond heaved a sigh as he looked down from the riser over the medical bay, on the two women. Minerva had begun to change.
"It's working already."
Jack sighed. "The only problem with immortality is that you have to die once to find out it has happened so the test is a bitch to say the least."
"That is not going to happen on my watch. M does not die today…she just can't." Bond pointed down at Minerva as they watched her hair regain colour and her body began to change.
The healer from Hogwarts stood between them chanting in latin and waving her wand over the two.
Tanner and Ianto joined them above the medical area and watched on in amazement at the swirling magic before them.
Jack grasped a shoulder of Bond's and Q's. "Fella's if you have ever been praying men…then I think this is the opportune moment."
To be continued...