The bride and groom begin making their goodbyes when a shot ripped through the air. Olivia stiffened, "MINERVA!"
Olivia stared down at her bracelet as it vibrated and heated up on her wrist. She looked back up into the startled face of James as he suddenly darted toward the exit of the tent and toward the sound of the shot.
Robert and Malcolm were at Olivia's side in a second. "What is it Liv?"
"The Wilson's that's what's wrong…they have her. I can feel it through the bracelet."
Dumbledore, Snape and many of the teachers from Hogwarts surround her now with wands drawn.
Olivia looked over at the worried look on the faces of her children, Tanner, Q and Eve. M took over as her face became serious.
"Robert, Malcolm could you please take my children and guests back to London. You know where I live…please take them to my flat."
Malcolm frowns, "but Min may need us?"
"Then come back soon. We will coördinate the search from the cottage."
Olivia's cousins move to Judi, Ryan and her employees amid protests, but in a moment the group of them disappeared.
Olivia looked to Dumbledore, "Have you a way to track them through my bracelet? I know I don't have the magical ability to do it yet."
"I think between the lot of us we can get you to your cousin. It will be dangerous Olivia and you are not trained well enough to take on wizards that may want to hurt you and your cousin."
Bond and Jack stumbled into the tent. Jack looked dishevelled and he had his gun in his hand.
"I found Jack at the gate…he managed to get a round off to sound warning but he can barely walk let alone talk."
"Madame Pomfrey begins looking over Jack as Dumbledore frowned. "This man is not what he seems, is he?"
Bond and Olivia look at each other and back to the headmaster. "No he is not quite human."
"I thought so…his ability to shake off a killing curse would be the first clue."
Olivia frowned, "how did you know it was a killing curse?"
"By the smell my dear…that type of evil leaves a residual smell, those of us who have witnessed the after effects do not soon forget."
Jack stumbled forward. "Can you send me to her?"
Bond frowns, "You're not going alone Jack."
Olivia adds, "the three of us will go. The bracelet will guide us to her…you can send us close to her location."
Snape moves forward, "I will go with them, I alerted the authorities and the others have begun cleaning the area from the wedding."
Olivia shook her head at Snape. "No professor, the fewer the better and the three of us know how to do this sort of thing."
Dumbledore nodded, "you may need to use your magic Olivia…be careful and remember the self-defence that you have learned in duelling here at the school."
"I will headmaster. Please send word to my cousins to wait for word at Minerva's cottage."
"I will, stand together and I will send the three of you on your way. Safe journey and bring Minerva back to us."
Olivia grasped his hand for a moment and readied her wand as she linked arms with Bond and Jack.
Jack and Bond both look ready to take on an army. They have their side arms ready as the trio began to glow and then disappeared from the celebration tent.
Minerva woke in a small cold room on a small bed. Her arms were uncomfortably tied behind her back and her mouth gagged with a scarf.
There were three wizards with Ronald and Joseph Wilson when they apparated in front of her and Jack at the wedding.
Jack…she saw him fall to the ground…that curse should have killed him but it didn't. Jack cannot be killed, even by magic it seemed. Minerva would have crumbled into tears if he had.
Minerva thought of what it must be like for him to die as they dragged her and took her wand, she saw him move ever so slightly. The Wilsons have no idea…that the man they just cursed had the ability that they have searched for, for years.
Olivia could feel her through their connexion. The bracelets would help them find her…she must stall for time.
The door to the small room opened and Ronald Wilson came in and sat on the bed beside her. Fantastic the truly unstable one was here with her alone. She really hated this man. She could not even feign politeness.
Ronald reached behind her head and removed her gag. Pointing a gun at her as he did this.
"My dear…beautiful Minerva…you will behave or I will shoot you in the knee."
"How charming…what is next you threaten to kill me if I don't magically make you immortal? Once I am dead I can be of no use to you at all."
"Yes…true but my original plan persists and I would like to take a sample of your blood to have analyzed. I want to see how the wizards equalized the process between you and that gorgeous cousin of yours."
"A little mad that she married again Ronald?"
"I was at first but she can easily become a widow again…much like you are my dear."
Minerva frowned. "James will be more than a challenge for you even with wizards in your employ. Jack will make sure you suffer also. Between the two of them I really doubt you will survive this time."
"Jack? The man who was with you? The one that just died from the Avada Kedavra curse? Come on you are not that deluded by celebratory drink are you my dear?"
"Oh…no…Jack is not dead and he is particularly protective of me so I would suggest untying me and getting away as fast as you possibly can. Where are we anyway?"
"So this Jack was your lover? You must not have cared for him all that much. So little remorse, just denial that he is dead. I'm disappointed that you do not feel more kindly towards us now that you have youth again."
"What is it with you and your brother and youth. Some can and do look beyond it. James was in love with Olivia long before you got your mutated paws all over her."
"Youth and vigor are power in this society."
"Not in my world…they must have told you that…your paid wizard lackeys. Age and wisdom are revered and represent power in our world."
"Yes, where as youth and beauty are currency in my world. Have I told you how beautiful you look my dear?"
Ronald rubs his hand up her thigh as Minerva attempted to physically move back away from him.
The door opened suddenly to show Joseph looking harried. "They are here! How did they find us so fast!"
Ronald clamped his hand hard on her leg, his gun hand goes around her neck as he pulls her towards his face. "HOW!"
Minerva smirked at him. "I told you he was still alive. You will not keep him from finding me."
Ronald pulled her to her feet and dragged her into the hall of the old manor home. Minerva remembers this…this is his family home…the one where it all started.
Once they made it to the ballroom, the wizards that helped him join them from other halls, wands out. The sound of gunfire echoed from the front entrance. Shouts are heard and the light of magic being used flashed colours through the cracks around the doorway.
Jack and James burst into the room with Olivia following behind. One of the wizards tossed a spell that Olivia blocked easily.
James snarled and shot him in the head and then shot another one as Ronald screamed "stop!"
Jack moved with determination to the middle of the room with Olivia. Ronald stared at Olivia with eyes that conveyed every desire he ever had for her and every longing of the last 50 years.
Ronald groaned in despair, he looked across at his one true heart's desire as Olivia's second husband came protectively to her side.
He pointed the gun at Minerva's head. "I will kill the witch!"
Everyone froze except for Jack. Jack looked pissed and began running towards Minerva. Screaming…"James…now!"
Ronald instinctively pointed the gun at Jack and fired hitting him in the chest.
Bond shot Ronald in the head as he fell Minerva screamed and knelt beside Jack with worry etched all over her face. Olivia joined her loosening her bonds as they heard shots behind them.
James joined them looking down at Jack who was spitting up blood…Jack rolls to his side and spat up the bullet and laid back down panting…"well…that was pleasant…Min…Min are you OK?"
"You foolish man why are you so worried about me? I can look after myself."
"It is…what we do for those we love."
Minerva cradled his head in her lap and kissed him. Flashes appeared as Dumbledore and some others arrived and took in the scene. Dumbledore handed Minerva her wand. He must have found it at the initial scene.
Joseph was alive and kneeling with James standing over him. He made to move but James punched the man in the face.
"I should kill you for this!"
Olivia grabbed his arm. "James…don't."
Joseph looked at her, "I'm sorry Olivia…I really liked you…honestly…I never wanted to hurt you. He did love you…he always had women that looked, or reminded him of you. I'm sorry I know that he was obsessed and that is not really love."
"That is not comforting Joseph…I do not know what to do with you?"
"I will do my time in jail…where ever you want me too."
"You will Joseph. I do not know how long you will live, but you will be incarcerated. Do you want it to be in our world or in the magical one?
"Our world Olivia. After a while…you come to visit me…eventually won't you."
The pleading look in the handsome man's face softened Olivia.
"Joseph…I am sorry that all this happened. It will take some time…I will consider it."
James frowned at her. "Olivia."
"James…it was never him. I know what a hold his brother had on him and he is gone now, you made sure of it."
Jack and Minerva joined them. Jack now good as new. Olivia embraced Minerva and Dumbledore approached.
"it is time I take you and your new husband to your vacation Olivia."
Bond held his new bride to him as Dumbledore cast a spell that sent them off to the Bahamas.
Minerva and Jack were waiting with Dumbledore for MI6 to come take Joseph Wilson away. The wizards took the bodies, and any living accomplices back to Azkaban.
Jack turned to Minerva. "I hope I didn't scare you back there…it can be surprising…I just needed to distract him long enough for secret agent man to get him. I knew he would not let Ronald live after all of this."
"Jack…I want to go home."
"You read my mind love…read my mind." Jack wiggled his eyebrows at her as she giggled.
Two weeks later:
The sun was out as the warm ocean breeze moved the curtains. James and Olivia's bodies were tangled in the sheets of the bed as they cried out with the pleasure of their love-making.
Suddenly there was a knocking sound as the two lovers looked up. Olivia pulled the sheet up over her as Jack appeared smiling at the foot of their bed.
"Well…well. I always hoped you would be a vocal one Olivia."
"JACK!"
From behind the door Minerva asked, "is it safe to come in now?"
Jack smiled, "come in darling…they're finished."
Bond pulled on his pants and sat on the end of the bed. "To what do we owe this interruption…I thought we were leaving tomorrow by plane…not magical teleportation."
Olivia pulled the sheet around her and ran into the bath. "I'll be back in a moment."
They can hear the shower running as Minerva grabbed Jack's arm and pulled him toward the living room of the house.
"Come on you...just give them time to get cleaned up and then we will get dinner."
Jack smirked at Bond. "Middle of the afternoon eh? Newlyweds." A blissful look crossed Jack's handsome face.
James smirked. "Yes…now get out so we can get decent and Jack...don't picture my wife in your head or I will turn my considerable charms on Minerva."
"You wouldn't dare!"
"Care to make a wager on that?"
"No...I'll stop...i'll stop."
"Good...get out."
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do in there Jimmy boy." Jack winked at him as he headed for the door.
Half an hour later the two cleaned and dressed newlyweds join them in the lounge.
Jack hugged Olivia, "30 minutes…round two?"
"Jack!" Olivia swatted his arm but James just smirked at him holding up his hand with 4 fingers up.
"Jack must you always be so…so graphically inappropriate?" Minerva asked.
"Minerva my darling it is all part of my charm…it is an acquired taste and you and I did not leave your cottage for three days after the wedding and subsequent fiasco."
"Jack!"
Olivia smiled and hugged her cousin. "It is good to be young and flexible again isn't it Min."
"Olivia…don't stoop to his level of…of."
James hugged Minerva, "charm…admit it dear you two are insatiable once you have the right man to hold you."
Minerva hit James' arm, "come on. I for one am hungry and would like to have some seafood."
The four of them go and climb into the rented car. Bond drove them a beach restaurant that he and Olivia had eaten at before.
They eat…they laughed and as the evening came to close the four of them retired to the beach home, James and Olivia rented for their honeymoon.
The next morning the four of them gathered their things and left for a magical trip back to London. Within minutes the four of them were standing in Olivia's flat.
"Thanks for the lift home," James said.
"You're welcome, James. Jack wants to see if the four of us can get together like this from time to time."
Olivia smiles. "This sounds like a good plan…now that we are getting on with our new lives."
James smiled, "we can have some crazy adventures, what with magical airlines and no waiting."
Jack smirked, "my thoughts exactly."
Olivia fixed them tea and they sit down and enjoy laughing about the adventures and misadventures of youth.
Their new lives were in motion and possibilities were endless.
The end.