Forsworn
HP/VS
XXV: Peace…for now
"Mr. Branwen, I've got to say you look absolutely shattered. You're practically dead on your feet, my apologies for having you debrief me and explain the situation." Theodore stated, finally acknowledging the state of tiredness and fatigue that ravaged Harry's body.
"I'm only mostly dead, meaning, a little bit alive. I just want to sleep. So, Headmaster, I'll bid you good night and see you in three days." Harry replied, sagging against Velvet.
"Mr. Branwen, a word of caution, I want all my students to be powerful individually and in a cohesive team. If you want respect from your peers, it might be a good idea to not appear…weak." Theodore suggested, but was slightly unnerved by the grin on Harry's face.
"This…is part of the disguise. Headmaster, believe me when I say when even like this I've got enough in reserve to permanently end a student's career."
Theo chuckled "This I'll have to see. The pair of you may go. I believe it's time for dinner."
Velvet grabbed her boyfriends wrist "Food, then sleep…You need a meal, mister, you're too thin…thinner than I'd like."
"That's what she said…Ow, I'm joking, V." Harry winced as Velvet dragged him from the office twisting his ear. The moment they were in the corridor, Velvet captured Harry in a kiss.
"I've missed you so much, I know you've not been gone that long but holy shit, you not being here worried me a lot. More than I'd care to admit." Velvet murmured into the crook of her boyfriends neck.
"I missed you as well. It was so fucking hard, it was one step forwards and three steps backwards with them. Eventually, I got it done, might have destroyed the village but oh well. I got paid, I did my job and now I'm back." Harry rumbled, the need for food was overpowering his other wants and desires.
"Let's get some food." With that Harry followed Velvet, admiring how his back up sword looked good on her.
"Will you want it back? Your other sword?"
"Not yet. It's yours, although if Absolution breaks then yeah…but so far nope."
Velvet turned, rotating at the hip giving Harry a good look at the woman he'd fallen in love with. "Yup, our kids are going to be amazing…if we get that far."
The Dinner Hall was different, where Beacon had long tables and felt very much like a castle; Shade felt more like cafe crossed with a soup kitchen. The tables comfortably sat nine people each, and it was very evident that those whom had attended Beacon and fought were clustered together.
It was Team SSSN, now reunited with a very browbeaten Sun Wukong with them that clocked him first. "Harry! Not here to kill us are you?" Sage asked in a joking manner.
"Only if you intend to prevent me from eating." Harry replied as he swayed dangerously, managed to rally himself and walked to the table being occupied by Team CFVY and ABRN. "ABRN!"
"Harry of HAND, where's the rest of your squad?"
"Causing mass property damage and pissing off the authorities somewhere, but, more than likely heading up to Dicktator General up in Frozenassenheim. I'll join them when I can."
"Branwen."
Harry turned and his eyes widened, he remembered the face "I'm sorry, I…"
"Nolan Porfirio…you saved my ass from a Death Stalker, you kicked it and kinda melted it."
Harry nodded wearily "That was a shit night, I'm sorry about your team. I thought the four of you were annihilated."
Nolan scoffed "We should have been. I should have died there, I thought I was going to die, but I didn't. We didn't die. There's got to be a reason for that, so I'm going to make my life count."
Harry nodded "It's good to see you're alive. I need some food." It was at that moment he felt four shadows block out his light.
"So who's this weakling, that Rumpole fished out of the desert."
"One who is tempted to give fuck you up so hard you're going to be shitting out a prolapsed asshole." Harry snapped his temper finally snapping.
He could barely see, or listen as he was that hungry. However, despite his state he fancied his odds, he always liked his odds. One of the people slammed his hand down on the table "Alright, get up, you need to…"
"Let me guess prove my worth…" Harry retorted, slowly getting out of his seat.
"You…grrack!" The challenger barely started his retort as Harry grabbed his shoulder, pulled him forwards and launched a short sharp jab into the boys throat, Harry slammed the boys head off the table and left him laid out on the floor.
His second attacker dived for him but Harry flipped the chair and kicked it with his heel driving the upturned legs into the testicles, followed by a sickening crunch as Harry kicked him in the temple. The third and fourth both decided to rush him at the exact same time, Harry dropped beneath high attacks and launched two strikes; one each into each abdomen. Harry swayed, grabbed his first attacker and grabbed a knife "You wanted to beat the shit out of me for no reason other than you could, I want to take your life because I can."
With that he nonchalantly began to press the blunted knife into the boys neck. The Beacon Brigade watched in horror and satisfaction, they'd known Harry had been up to his neck in defending the school the only teams to have any idea of just how desperate he had been were NIKL, HAND and RWBY but none of them had been their. Although CFVY knew that HAND had left nothing in reserve. It was like walking through and on a field of glass.
Velvet had returned with two plates of food "Harry! Take the knife off his neck, now. Now the piece of shit that is only being spared by my voice, what the fuck were you doing?"
"Your looney, fucking attacked us when my Team went to introduce ourselves."
"Bullshit…V, they threatened your boyfriend; said something about him not being allowed to eat and then your boyfriend kicked their asses." Coco chimed in.
Harry eyed the one he'd been contemplating killing "You're weaker than a teen who's not eaten for about two days." Velvet fixed Harry with a cold stare.
"Sit…Eat, then we'll talk."
The food was a curry, with naan bread and other bits and pieces. Velvet giggled, as Harry scarfed down his dinner as soon as it arrived. As he finished, Yatsuhashi placed three more plates of curry down. "Eat, you've gone through a ringer."
"Feels like it. Gone through physical, literal and mental hell…I don't know or want to know how long I've been gone but I was carving up…well…Grimm and…other things."
Velvet paled but instead of letting her fear show, she reached out and calmly took his hand. "I'm here, you're here…we're together…" Velvet whispered.
"That's…all that matters." Harry replied definitively, squeezing her hand. "Can…we…get out of here?"
Velvet nodded, and instinctively took him up to CFVY's room. The room was identical to the one they had in Beacon with bunkbeds, but it turned out the ones on the bottom could change into double beds. Velvet pulled hers out into a double. She took Absolution off her boyfriends back, surprised at the lack of response from it, from what she remembered Harry had made it so that anyone bar him taking it would experience pain. "He must have done something to the defences if it's not burning my hands."
The weapons were placed on a mannequin, her mannequin, alongside his katana and her camera. Harry turned to look at her, only for her to dart around his back, wrap her arms around him and sat on the bed; forcing him to lean with his back against her. He responded by allowing her to do such a thing before wresting his head on her legs allowing for his kaleidoscopic eyes to lock onto her brown orbs. "Thanks, Velvet."
"You seem tense, tenser than usual and definitely much tenser than when we first met."
Harry smiled weakly, his eyes glistening with tears "I've missed you, so much!"
"Talk to me, Harry, talk to me. I…want to and need to hear this. I wont think less of you for breaking down, in fact it'd make me feel better than I'm not sleeping with an automaton macho-man who won't share his feelings."
Tears flowing, heavy erratic breathing Harry regaled his tale. The manipulations of Dumbledore, the Ministry, his meeting with Salem and the subsequent story of the two Brother Gods and his gathering of the Hallows elevate him to the position of the 'Balancer' and culminating in his brutal killing of Voldemort and Dumbledore before grabbing his money, Neville and a few potential hopefuls who'd arrived in Patch with Neville before he ended up in the desert and the finding of the Crown and his hair-brained scheme to put NDGO in their place.
Velvet had thankfully remained silent, just stroking Harry's hair and placing her hand on his shoulder near his heart. Just content to listen as her beau divulged everything. She giggled at the last part, she'd heard his ramblings and loved the fact that her hyperviolent and protective boyfriend was going to make a lot of trouble for their peers.
"The Beacon Brigade will back you till the end, love. Now let's get some sleep, tomorrow, I'm taking you shopping."
"I'd love that."
With that the pair fell asleep and for the first time since he'd been away, no nightmares permeated Harry's dreams. The only dream that he found was a house with a big garden a few trees with a hammock strung between them with him and Velvet dozing in with the faint cries of children running around.
Velvet found herself curling into Harry's arms, her ears twitching as she found herself at peace. As she slumbered, she found herself looking at a non-descript house, rather a kids drawing of a house with a massive garden with trees and a hammock. Somewhere she spied an allotment, she smiled as fell asleep. "Yes, I want this." Was her last thought as deep sleep took her.
Coco, Fox and Yatsu entered the room. Fox smiled and he and Yatsu, stealithly as cats covered the sleeping lovers with a blanket. Coco meanwhile had pulled Harry's worn and destroyed boots off his feet. "He needs a shopping trip, anyway boys, I'll see all of you in the morning." Coco whispered.
With that the lights went out as CFVY fell asleep. The night passed smoothly and soon enough the early hours of the morning crept through the blinds, Velvet stirred finding Harry's arms well one was cupping her backside, she was straddling his leg.
She woke as Harry's grunts indicated he was stirring. It was like listening to a localised thunderstorm, strong but soothing. She was pretty sure that quirks with dust properties mimicked the most dust with most beneficial properties. "Thunder and Lightning Dust, and Harry's snoring…I like."
"Morning." Velvet murmured as she reluctantly disengaged herself allowing her to be held against him.
"M'ning." Harry murmured, blearily green eyes met brown.
Velvet grinned impishly at Harry "If this is what waking up next to you feels like, We're going to have to do it more often. Now come on, get dressed, we've got shopping to do."
Harry watched her head to the bathroom and collapsed on the bed "Minx." Before he himself got up to get dressed.
Yatsuhashi looked down at Harry from his bunk "Get a hotel room, I do not want to come back to that aroma in the dorm."
"We'll even supply an excuse." Came Fox's mental comment. Harry blushed a maroon red.