Concurrent Existences
Chapter 11: Goodbye, Time Turner.
It all began with getting hit.
The bombs fuse now lit.
Now gone like a murmur.
Bye bye, Time-Turner.
Kinky.
It seemed her Bella would be insatiable for while. Not getting any for several years would do that to a person.
Mmm, not that she was complaining.
Both witches were indisposed for several hours, but felt energized as they woke up. They assumed it was some kind of magic synchronization from the artifacts that the two witches never actually took off.
Hermione had again cast Protinam Tempus for the final time to reach the time she wanted. The time period being one week before she had actually left. There would be no problem as long as she didn't directly interact with her past self. She needed to do some adjusting to quell some annoyances and put in some precautions in place.
One week before she left should be enough.
The witches didn't really have a place to hide out since the present-time Hermione still existed here, so instead, they stuck to the Shrieking Shack. It was nice to see that the things they conjured around a year ago had only been dusted over. A quick Scourgify and both were beginning to get comfortable. One more than the other.
"Luv, rub my feet." Bellatrix literally didn't have a care in the world or just didn't give a fuck. In all truth, the dark witch probably didn't. As long as no one removed her from her little witch, she would likely not budge too much.
The two witches had a week, but Hermione barely needed an hour to do what she had to do, so she put it off for a while. Hermione and the dark witch did need a breather after all. It was amusing that this was probably the first real break she had not counting the eight months in the past anyway.
First thing was to alter her dark witch. Bellatrix Lestrange being alive would cause an uproar after all. There would still be an uproar with the discovery of the new and improved Bellatrix, but not as bad if they really knew who she was. Well, it should be fine, while the truth was hidden anyway.
Hermione realized she was hiding a criminal, planning on lying to her friends and making sweet, sweet love to her torturess. She admits that she already has a couple of screws loose, maybe a chunk lost in the morality department as well.
The brunette knew she was a teensy bit masochistic as well. I mean, who in the right mind would go through all the painful crap following Harry around. Maybe, she could blame Dumbledore for that one too?
"Bella, I know you've been thinking about our ages and most likely how you'll be able to come out from hiding since you're technically dead and I've planned for it. I just don't know if you'll like it." Hermione was a bit nervous. Her plan still could be rejected. She could just force the dark witch and cast the spell, but that might destroy things between them.
Hermione was planning on doing it regardless though.
Hermione didn't have a lot left to lose and Bellatrix was something she could not lose. The dark witch had become something of an anchor. Both realized at some point without saying it that they were each other's anchors.
One would be lost without the other.
Both of them had lost pieces of their whole and only by being together would let them feel complete.
"Out with it, luv. I did say I'd go with your bollocks plan no matter what." Bellatrix was sure this was going to be another untested spell.
"Do you know what this is?" Hermione brought out a stone. It was nondescript, but the emanating energy could be felt. It seems like Hermione had been gathering other things.
Bellatrix looked at the stone and began magically prodding it. It wasn't like any other stone that she'd encountered yet. "Another ancient relic? It doesn't seem that old though." She had been locked away in Azkaban, she could only guess so much.
"It's the Sorcerer's Stone, actually it is just an incomplete Philosophers Stone, but that would serve what I need to do with it." Hermione had seen documents about the stone, a lot of them in fact trying to recreate the stone. Dumbledore had destroyed the one that Harry acquired, but creating one from notes and leftovers wasn't that hard.
"A bloodstone? Don't Philosophers stones need blood sacrifices to be made? Why, I didn't think you cared that much!"
"A true Philosophers stone, yes, but this is incomplete. I created it without all the sacrifices and everything. It also has a very limited use, which I plan to use in conjunction with the Time Turner." Hermione held what was left of the Time Turner. The Sands that used to fall continuously onto the other side of the glass was slowly disappearing. It was indeed decaying. Hermione cleared her throat indicating she wasn't done.
"I plan to use the stone to supersaturate the Time Turner with energy. After the Time Turner is ready, I'll have a spell of my own to use the Time Turner one last time as a conduit to restore your time." The Philosophers stone was said to be the ingredient of a youth potion, it was actually true as documented within the Department of Mysteries. There were logs of past experiments by rogue spellcasters that dealt with the creation and manipulation of the Philosophers stone, mostly failures, but others got close enough to utilize it.
"Let me guess, this is untested? Not pretty enough for you anymore?" The dark witch gave out a pout. On a serious note, Bellatrix was pretty sure she had never heard of a Time Turner used in that manner. The result of such a spell could be anything. This kind of thing was probably undocumented and her witch was going to use her as a test dummy.
"No! You're still as beautiful as ever!" Hermione just blurted out, covering her mouth just after. She meant it, but it was still embarrassing saying it out loud.
Bellatrix eyed Hermione and knew that it was all genuine. There was no reason to lie. There was no reason to save her from death anyway. Without the little witch, she would be dead. Well, the death toll would have increased several dozen bodies too if she had actually been in the final battle. She sighed. There was no other way to hide her identity anyway. She didn't want to change her face and be behind a fake identity her whole life. This would still have a fake identity, but not so much.
"Oh, and we can just say you're Sirius' daughter from... a muggle?" Hermione added before the elder witch would blow a fuse.
"Using experimental magic that could destroy me is fine and all, but you want me to be Sirius' love child?! I'll be Potter's cousin! Are you daft!?" Bellatrix thought the idea was ridiculous. It made sense, but still! Why did logic have to be so annoying?
Hermione just laughed. The priorities were all wrong. Bellatrix didn't care if she was experimented upon, that the backfire could kill her, she was more concerned about being closer related to Harry and being a lovechild of Sirius.
The banter went on for quite a while, but Bellatrix knew they didn't have many choices. She decided to just go with it since she has promised her little witch. Didn't mean she'd like it though.
"So, who's going to be my mum?" Bellatrix gave a deadpan question, but kind of serious about it.
Bellatrix kind of wanted to strangle her cute witch. Button nose, cute messy brown hair and some small cute tits she loved squeezing, lovely girl, but still wanted to strangle her.
"My mum would be me!?" The little witch was suggesting for her to fornication with her cousin? Well, pretend fornication with her cousin. Bellatrix shivered in disgust and wanted to gag. Every single time she recalled Sirius, the only image that came to mind was an ugly, mangy, stray dog.
"Well, concerning your soon-to-be age, we can only use you, Andromeda or Narcissa as a possible biological mother, but both your sisters are alive and would create much more problems than using you since you are, well, technically deceased." The dark witch was sure Hermione was doing this to get back at her somehow. Her back story would be a bunch of bullshit all tied together.
Hermione wasn't done with her explanation though. "We could always use a random muggle as your biological mother, but that may cause another set of problems. I also doubt you would liked to be called a half blood if ever. You'd blow a fuse." Bellatrix wanted to throttle the muggle-born now. The girl was absolutely right, she'd lose it if people tried to antagonize her because of blood status, well, about anything really. And yes, she did understand the muggle saying.
Tests made on her blood would also easily disprove the fact. The Ministry did love their tests.
A bit more explanation and cajoling had eased the dark witch somewhat. Looking like a younger version of Bellatrix had to come from somewhere. She could have suggested having Rodolphus being the father, but that might be worse than Sirius. It was also easier that Sirius was part of the light side. Besides, she didn't want people thinking Rodolphus had gotten her pregnant. Though, she didn't want people thinking Sirius got her pregnant as well.
Well, shite. Damned both ways.
In the end, Bellatrix conceded to Hermione's points. She would just have to make it work. They'd create more of a back story soon, but it seemed like the brunette had most things planned out already. Little know-it-all, her cute little know-it-all.
The raven haired witch was ready as she'd ever be. If the spell kills her then too bad. If the spell works then she'd have smoother skin than before, great. If the spell ages her, well, she wouldn't think about that just yet.
Time to get this shite over with.
Excessive experimentation on frozen bunnies and several hundred read texts on the subject of the Philosophers stone still had not gotten Hermione the full confidence to just directly strike Bellatrix with the spell.
The time she was stuck in the time limbo, Hermione didn't actually plan to use a semi-complete Philosophers Stone in conjunction with a dysfunctional Time Turner to turn her semi-evil ex-Death Eater girlfriend into a younger version of herself.
Her research on the Philosophers Stone had been a general type of study. Creating a true Philosophers Stone was impossible as well unless she was going to sacrifice several hundred lives. She could have actually done just that during the time limbo, but no.
On the other hand, it was excitement beyond what she could remember.
The chance to actually use a powerful Spell on someone. She did not know when she got this particular trait of being highly curious on a mad scientist type level, but no normal person would have read nearly all books on every possible thing right? Every possible important thing anyway. The Divination section remained untouched.
Not reading that rubbish.
If things went wrong, well, it would be bad. The witch could lose her dark girlfriend, the spell could implode or whatever else could happen, she had to be crazy to even attempt this.
Maybe she was.
Just a bit.
"Ready?" Hermione was trying to be nonchalant about it, but the giddiness on her was easily seen.
"Morgana, you look like you're going to devour me whole with those eyes. Yes, yes, quickly do your brilliant spell." Bellatrix was a tad bit nervous, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
"Windgardium Leviosa." The stone and the Time Turner began to levitate in front of Hermione with the stone near her palm and the Time Turner in front of it facing towards the dark witch. The stone began to slowly spin as a small magical circle appeared around it.
"Lacesso!" A blue jet of energy shot from her palm straight into the Sorcerer's Stone. Hermione began to concentrate. Each part of the stone had a part in the spell. Her armlet was being used as a conduit first to further maintain the spell with less strain. No mistakes could be made.
She didn't want the exploding bunny happening again. Enchanting bunnies, don't do it at home.
Bellatrix watched on in wonder. The stream of blue energy was enchanting. She could feel the stone in front of her begin to slowly fracture into smaller pieces. Each tiny piece of the stone seemed to be part of a different area of the tiny spell circle around it.
"Potestatem Migratio!" Both hands were up in the air as Hermione continued to channel the spell. Her ring foci had been activated to slowly integrate the fractures of the stone into each grain of sand. Every ounce of power from the shards began to migrate and combined. This process would normally be impossible for just one witch or wizard to do without multiple foci.
The dark witch was pretty sure the light show was about to end. Each fragment had slowly bonded with the decaying Time-Turner's grains of sand and the result was the temporal empowerment of the Time-Turner. It really didn't look stable though. She could sense a time distortion slowly being created. It looked like she was screwed.
Bugger. Could have used another good shag. She does look hot channeling spells.
Hermione was oblivious to Bellatrix's thoughts as she activated her earring foci to further contain the growing time distortion that could cause- well, she didn't know what the hell it could cause. The process was complete though.
Sink or swim!
"Reducto!" The spell instantly reduced the energized artifact into dust, but Hermione continued her casting, maintaining everything.
"Infundere!" Hermione's last artifact, the earring, was finally activated. Each and every particle of dust began to infuse themselves straight into the dark witch. Hermione could feel the bond of every single particle connect to Bella's magical core and body.
It was working. It was working!
The end of the chain of spells neared. Only the activation spell was needed. The time distortion around Bella could be seen now. Bellatrix's body continued to magically shift between all her ages, sometimes it seemed as if the dark witch was also shifting between dimensions.
The merging of the innervated dust particles to Bellatrix was almost done. More possibilities continued to shift around the time distortion until Hermione felt the last bit of sand fully combine.
All three artifacts quickly focused on the last spell needed to activate it.
"Tempus Revocatas!" The infused particles of time magic inside Bellatrix's core began to resonate to the time spell.
Blinding light.
How cliché, again.
Then nothing.
Infundere - Infusion
Potestatem Migratio - Power Migration
Lacesso - Innervate
Tempus Revocatas - Time Reversal
AN: Happy New Year! Thanks for the feedback! We are now one week before Hermione's present time! Finally there!
Hopefully, everyone enjoys this chapter! Little more revealed on their fabricated backstory.
Hermione's experimental chain spell magics~ So much could go wrong! But, Hermione's awesome, so they mostly work. Oh, just to clarify Philosophers Stone / Bloodstone = Infinite Uses, Sorcerer's Stone = Limited/One time use.
I wonder what'll happen to Bella? Will Bella be stuck in time?! Did Bella get disintegrated?! (Prolly not or it would kill the story.)
Questions, comments, constructive criticism and suggestions are always appreciated! (Point out any errors and plot holes too! I'll fix them, promise!)
Edit: Minor grammar corrections!