The Wilson brothers sat in plexiglass enclosures side by side. Not at all happy about the circumstances that led to their incarceration.
Ronald was fuming and Joseph depressed with all that they had now gone. His damn brother's obsession had robbed them of the freedom to enjoy their extended and comfortable lives.
Ronald cannot believe that she slipped through his fingers again. There was no concern about jail, he had paid off enough judges and lawyers to prevent incarceration for long.
Olivia could have had them killed, they are under her control now. Ronald was going to have to play this contrite and beg forgiveness just to stay alive. They could escape to the magic world, he had friends there.
The door to the brig opened as two men move into the room followed by the witches. M and Minerva moved in front of the clear doors.
M paced in front of them and stopped before Joseph's cell.
"Joseph Wilson. Have you been coerced into following your older brother in this…this dangerous chemical change in your appearance?"
Joseph stood and moved to the glass in front of Olivia. "It stabilized? You look around 40 and so do you. How did you manage to stabilize her and is she immortal Minerva?"
"My cousin is asking the questions not you Mr. Wilson."
"I am not immortal and will age at a regular pace. Answer my question Joseph."
"Yes."
Ronald leapt to his feet and began to pace his cell, anger floating off him in waves. The two women moved in front of Ronald's cell.
"Ronald Wilson. Why did you do this?"
Ronald's surprised by the quiet way M asked him this. He dragged his eyes from the floor to look directly into Olivia's dark blue orbs. His heart constricted shocking him to the core. She was still so beautiful, and not at all the haughty bitch he was expecting at this moment.
"I…I…why? I was given anything I wanted…I worked hard, made deals, met the right people. I made connections around the globe, and carried the family business to greatness. The only thing I ever wanted but was denied, was you."
"So you felt I would respond to you how? You kidnapped me…experimented on me and threatened to physically assault me to what end?"
"I wasn't thinking…I know that what I did was wrong, but you didn't have much time left so I had to act."
"What do you mean…not much time left?"
"Age…Olivia. It takes everything away. At tops you would have 15-20 uncomfortable years left to you. If I made you younger, or if the immortality serum worked we could be together forever."
"So in appreciation I would fall at your feet and promise you love because of this assault?"
"Yes."
"This was the entirety of your intention, to make me young, and make me love you?"
"Yes…I've no interest in destabilizing governments really. I already have connections enough to get what I want from them."
M pondered his answer, but didn't completely believe him. She waved Minerva forward and nodded her head at her cousin. Minerva pulled her wand out of the sleeve of her blouse and pointed it at Ronald Wilson.
Minerva chants and the wand glows. The light travels through the barrier and surrounds Ronald Wilson.
Ronald attempted to back away but the light found him. It tugged at his consciousness and he felt it in his mind. It ended suddenly.
Minerva pulled her into the corner with Bond and Tanner. "He is telling the truth, partially but they cannot be jailed here in your world. He has too many connections. I suggest I call for their removal to Azkaban prison. They will undergo trial in our system, and be properly detained with less chance of escape."
Bond frowned. "This is an unusual case. Is what the two of them have done a crime in witch land?"
"Yes, it is Mr. Bond. We may dress like we belong in the 19th century but I can assure you our legal system echoes the modern-day laws of Great Britain."
Tanner smiled. "I for one will be glad to do away with these two and never have to worry about them in our world again. When will they be moved?"
"We will go to Diagon alley and I will alert the authorities and then I will arrange pick up."
"I am going with the two of you to make sure you are safe."
Minerva smirked at James. "Who do you think can take better care of her in a threat situation Bond?"
"Yes, well still, I would like to see this place, and keep an eye on M."
"I bet you do. M are all your agents so stubbornly protective of you?"
M blushed silently cursing her cousin. "Are we going to stand here all day? Come on let's go do some magical shopping. Do I need anything from my flat?"
Minerva smiled at her cousin's attempt to change the subject. "We will go there this evening and I will help you pack."
The four of them left the cell block and walk through the corridors of MI6. Tanner spoke up. "Is work settled then ma'am?"
"Yes Tanner. I will take 2 months leave and a Mr. Mallory will be stepping in as temporary M in my absence."
Bond frowns. "What…can't Tanner do it for the time being?"
"No Bond, the PM thinks it is prudent to have someone in place to take over permanently incase…"
"Incase you don't come back to us." Bond continued.
"Yes; I may wish to stay there and begin a new life."
"I never thought you would give this up M, not so easily as this."
"I have time to decide 007. Anyway this will be easier than explaining what in hell happened to me."
"But…I…can't we…Mallory…what do we know of him?"
They reach the garage and Tanner proceeded to the upper offices as the three leave. "Olivia will be fine Bond and I told you I will arrange for you to come visit the village. I have a home there that the two of you can use as a love nest."
"Minerva! What are you implying?"
"Nothing my dear but if you don't do something with this extremely high-strung agent of yours he may hurt himself, or someone else just from the sheer frustration of missing you."
Bond settled into the driver's seat and turned back to look at the two women. "I am very grateful for the offer Minerva. I would be delighted to come visits on any weekend I am not working."
Olivia crossed her arms in mock indignation. "I doubt you will manage it. While on missions, another woman will turn your head right around, and you will resign and sail away into the sunset with her."
"Olivia; I know you don't understand all of this yet, but I am looking forward to convincing you. Even if you are brutal with your insults and implications of my lack of fidelity."
"You left before, after working years to become a 00. The only thing you ever wanted, and I get a bloody email saying thanks, but so long. Pretty brunette with long legs and a sad back story has bewitched me and I'm off to sail about the world."
"M…stop it! She has nothing to do with this."
"Can't even manage to say her name Bond?"
"Yes I can; Vesper has nothing to do with this. She helped me heal…spent all her energy on me…and I was for a few weeks the most important thing in her life and she was the same to me. It was amazing yes…and it taught me something very important about myself."
"What did it teach you…not to trust women?"
"No…it taught me that I could love and be loved in return."
"Still Bond…that has nothing to do with me. I am only your boss."
"Keep telling yourself that if it make you more comfortable M. Where to Minerva?"
"I will drive us magically so the two of you can fight underlying feelings and argue some more. I'm intrigued to see what happens."
Minerva's wand glows and takes control of the car as they weave throughout London traffic to the entrance to Diagon alley.
"Minerva…why are you taking sides with him."
"Olivia our bodies may have regressed but your child like attitude need not have come back. You always were a spoilt only child demanding a lot of attention."
Bond smirked in the rear view mirror. "I can imagine she was. How many brothers do you have Minerva and are they both magical?"
"Two, Malcolm and Robert Jr. and yes they are both magical much to the agony of my poor muggle father."
"So magical people fall in love with muggles?"
"Yes, Bond there is still hope that she will fall in love with you, and still enjoy a muggle lifestyle."
"Minerva! Step out of my relationship with Bond please…if you like him so much why don't you jump into bed with him?"
Minerva and Bond laugh at how flustered Olivia was becoming. "He doesn't want me dear."
"I find it hard to believe he wants the woman who bitches at him and sends him off to dangerous lands to get abused and possibly killed either!"
"Yes, that is true you are a heartless shrew of a woman who takes no responsibility at all for her agents, gives them every consideration and back up available…our death rates are far below the average of every other SIS agency in the world."
"So you noticed."
"I noticed a long time ago M. I noticed when you were hurting because Nigel was ill and you needed to go to work, agonizing over your priorities. I notice the way your eyes glimmer when you're amused by something and how you snap at me when I try to make you smile."
M was fidgeting and becoming uncomfortable. Minerva pat her knee and smiled. "Don't be stubborn. You know he is your special one. He is the only agent that I knew by name because you speak of him so often to me."
"But it is too inappropriate. My job does not allow…"
"Job…you are on a leave for 2 months Olivia…they have nothing to do with your heart. What if they had told you that you needed to divorce Nigel because he was a security risk…what would you have done?"
"I would have told them to kiss my ass."
"Exactly…now keep that indignation in your mind if they ever say anything about your personal love life. Now it is time for you to actually start having a love life Olivia."
"Can we change the subject now?"
"Yes we can dear cousin because we are here and so is Jack it would seem."
Jack Harkness was waiting on the curb beside an ordinary brick wall alley, smirking as they stop the car. Jack opened the back door and offered his hand to Minerva as Bond opened the other side and helped M out.
M refused to take his arm, not wanting physical contact with him, until she could figure out what the hell was going on, in her suddenly very unusual life.
"Jack how did you know…where the entrance is?"
"My dear Minerva…I did mention that I had business here in London and that business was to find out anything I could from my not entirely human agents and other organizations that will remain nameless, about the magical world. I found out about the train station…and this entrance. I am dying to see inside so I decided to meet you here."
M smiled at Jack as he wrapped her in a hug, his hands cupping her bottom as he did. Minerva used her wand to shock his fingers off her cousin's behind.
Jack winked at her. "Jealous…my lovely, I was getting to you."
Minerva was then wrapped in a sudden hug and her bottom grabbed. Minerva's wand glowed and Jack let go but kissed her quickly before she escaped his grasp completely.
"Jack! You incorrigible ragamuffin…stop that."
"Why would I stop…you are not married and Bond is not currently crushing on you? Come on…what a foursome we would make…can you imagine…weekends together switching partners…it could be incredible."
Olivia's brows rose as she moved beside her cousin facing the wall at the end of the alley.
"Jack! That's not happening."
Jack elbowed Bond and whispered. "Work on her would you. It would be fantastic!"
Bond smirked at him. "You are assuming that I want to share."
"Wow…a 00 agent that is claiming possible monogamy. That is new but totally understandable with her."
"So we understand each other."
"Yes; don't hurt her or I will take her away from you."
Minerva opened the portal as Bond and Jack end their conversation and reach the wall.
The sights and sounds of Diagon alley overwhelm and instantly entertain them. Minerva changed her clothing back to her witch attire by wand.
Minerva guided them to Ollivander's wand shop first, to have him test Olivia. Ollivander watched them enter and moved to the wand area. "Minerva, is that you?"
"Yes; well I am finding myself much younger as is my cousin Olivia. We are here because years ago my dear cousin was invited to Hogwarts without her ever knowing. My father declined on her behalf. We would now like to rectify that mistake and Olivia will need a wand."
"Please hand me your wand my dear."
Minerva gave him her wand and he looked it over.
"Olivia my dear please give me your hand."
Olivia moved forward and took the man's hand. He holds her hand closing his eyes, while caressing it.
Bond and Jack looked on in amazement as the wizard works.
"Please hold your cousin's wand Olivia."
Olivia takes the wand and feels it tingle in her hand.
"No…no, that won't do...let me see."
Ollivander moved to the boxes and pulled one out and dusted off the box. "This one is almost the same as Minerva's but with more of the fiery phoenix within. I think this will complement your volatile nature."
"How do you know I have a volatile nature Mr. Ollivander?"
Bond and Jack began laughing behind Olivia and she turned to glare at them before turning back to the wand maker.
Olivia took the wand and looked at her cousin. Thinking back to Minerva's instructions from the distant past, she moved to a potted plant on the counter before them and said the words.
"Engorgio!"
The plant began to overflow the pot and Minerva smiled at her surprised and excited cousin.
"Well done, Olivia! You remembered the spell."
Ollivander smiled and noded. "That is the perfect wand for you. You do not feel it tingle and rejection like holding your cousin's wand?"
"No; this feels good. Warm and familiar somehow."
Purchase made they wandered the streets until they came to the jewellery shop. The women wanted something more fashionable than the wooden bangles of their adolescence and decide on enchanted lockets.
Bond insisted that they get three tokens this time so he was included. Minerva and Olivia choose a gold and silver locket each and James took a ring that he could place on a gold chain or on his finger. The spells were made and the three of them linked through the bonds of love and magic.
They left the shop to get some food and drinks. It was not very busy in Diagon alley today. The children were not yet here to do their back to school shopping. Classes began in a month and this gave Minerva and Olivia time to begin her lessons before they arrived.
Bond pulled Jack aside. "I'm surprised that you didn't want to get one too or are you really that fickle with your flirtations that you don't really care?"
"I care. In fact I had my doctor place a small sensor in each of them while they underwent treatment. It is alien tech and only I and possibly an alien doctor friend of mine can trace them. I also took scans of the entrance to this place and can now come here when I have a craving for magical items."
"When M finds out she'll be pissed."
"That is why I didn't tell her. If M is in trouble you know I can find her in an emergency. Their world is behind a veil and should anything happen we could not find her without the help of a magic user. These two are a magnet for trouble so I doubt all will be smooth sailing at this school."
"I would think their world would be safer."
"I've listened to the people here and they have wars too. Do you really want to risk her going somewhere that we cannot get to her?"
"No. Can I get one of those scanners or at least give one to Q."
"Already left him one in his office the day we arrived."
"Do you always have plans for so far in advance?"
"This isn't far in advance for someone like me."
"Right…immortal, I forgot. So who is this doctor friend that gave you the technology?"
"Who? That's about right. M may have an inkling of him…he began Torchwood."
"Another immortal?"
"Not quite…but close. He is trustworthy and loves this planet…protects it from alien invasion all the time."
"Really? All the time? Here I am just dealing with the scum of humanity in the interests of one nation…the world is far smaller now."
"Welcome to my life."
"What are your plans after this excursion?"
"I am going back to the hub to get back to work and you? What will you do to charm Olivia?"
"I don't know…dinner, candle light and weekends at Minerva's as often as I can."
"M will not make it easy on you."
"I know…but she is worth the effort."
"Good luck mate and don't break her heart or you will deal with me…and I don't die."
"I won't…I plan to take this slow and do it right."
"This has nothing to do with the fact she is a hot looking 40-year-old now does it?"
"No…I told you before I have felt this way for a long time."
M and Minerva join them at the table in the Leaky Cauldron with some butter beer.
"Minerva you sly matchmaking witch you. James told me how you ignited the fire under his ass to court your beautiful cousin."
Olivia looked up at him in surprise. "What now? You said what exactly Minerva?"
"I told him the truth…that you spoke of him often and that he is your dear boy just as I repeated in the car."
Olivia began to flush and look into her beer. Bond grabbed her knee under the table. "I for one am ecstatic that she did M. I never had the guts to let you know my feelings, even with Nigel's death you always seemed to barely tolerate me."
Olivia clasped his hand that was resting on her knee and intertwined her fingers with his. "Minerva alway did say I needed a kick in the ass where romance is concerned and she has not been proven wrong yet."
Bond frowned. "Yet?"
"She did the same to me when I met Nigel."
Jack chuckled. "Good skills but what about yourself Minerva?"
Minerva frowns and shakes her head. "No…I am past that now."
Bond and Jack both exclaim. "What!"
They look at each other and back to the lovely ginger haired witch. "My husband died and I cannot bring myself to see any other…to busy with the children anyway."
Olivia smirks. "You are forcing me into relationships so now I can do the same for you…we will be spending a few months together and I will be sticking my nose into all the eligible teachers you have at your school…maybe from the village."
Bond scowls. "Forced?"
"You know that I mean, forced to acknowledge feelings that I buried and never expected to see the light of day."
"So you do have strong feelings?"
"Wipe that smirk off your face 007."
"Never!"
Minerva smiles at the two love birds and it makes her heart ache a bit. "I am going to send your trunk of supplies off to Hogwarts and have a bed brought to my suite. Now we have to go visit the authorities and take care of the Wilson brothers."
"Yes, how will they deal with them…take our statements and then we bring them to MI6 to collect them?"
"No Olivia, we make the statements and Dementors will go collect them instantly and take them to prison to await trial. The two of us will be the witnesses against them and they may even interview James and Jack."
Bond looks across the table at Minerva with confusion. "Dementors?"
"A Dementor is a dark creature, one of the foulest to inhabit the world. Dementors feed off human happiness, causing depression and despair to anyone near them. They are the guards of Azkaban prison."
Minerva's three guests are silence and shocked. "Yes, I know it seems extreme but with the rise of he who shall not be named it seemed necessary to keep his followers under proper guard."
Jack shakes his head. "He who shall not be named?"
Minerva uses her wand and three copies of the history of the world volume 14 land on the table in front of them.
"This is easier…our world echoes your own so when the world wars were happening in your reality there were serious repercussions in our world…wizarding wars the pure bloods versus the muggle-bloods. This prejudice runs deep within our society but as with the case of my parents sometime witches fall in love with muggles and give up the magical world. That is why I never told you about your abilities Olivia. You never could have given up Nigel to live with us."
"What about now…you want to teach me and I want to learn but I cannot live in your world completely."
"I know and I will be having long discussion about this with Dumbledore but I think we may need you on the outside and able to use magic. Just think of it as you becoming our agent…our magical 00 for future emergencies."
"M for magical agent…head of MI6. I think I might enjoy that."
Bond smiles. "The evil terrorists of the world will not know what hit them."
Jack raised his glass to toast. "Here is to magical possibilities. I am going to come visit with James in a month's time and I would be delighted if you would come to dinner with me Minerva? Or we could make it a foursome?"
Jack wiggled his eyebrows suggestively causing M to laugh at her prim cousin who had no idea what to make of Captain Jack Harkness.
M answered for her. "It's a date Jack."
"With that good news I will say good day to you and get back to where I'm needed." Jack took M's hand in his and kissed it. Then he walked up to Minerva who was looking at him with something akin to exasperated confusion.
Jack pulled her into his arms and leans into her suddenly dipping her into a deep kiss that left her breathless. "Jack!"
"Til we meet again my lovely ginger witch." Jack brought her back to standing and pulled her hand to his mouth, as he kissed it staring deeply into her beautiful wide eyes.
