Chapter 48 - Chapter 47
The world was ending. There was simply no denying it anymore. It might have started with the stars going out, but it hadn't stopped there, even if they might have hoped it would. Whatever Delphini Riddle had done, she'd irrevocably damaged their timeline.
As Lily Evans Potter walks down a corridor, wringing her hands together in front of her, she bites her lower lip, trying to put certain images out of her mind. However, it's all but impossible to stop thinking about them. All but impossible to not remember what just happened less than an hour ago.
There'd been a moment in time, about a week long, where the last of the stars in the night sky had… gone. It was just them on the Planet Earth, circling around their Sun. All magical telescopes confirmed it. They were suddenly woefully alone in the universe.
However, many in the magical community had taken this as a sign that they were simply superior to the rest of the universe, the idiots. They claimed that their magic was protecting the world from whatever had erased the rest of the universe. As the week after the last star went out had dragged on and on, more and more of those types had spoken up, so confident and self-assured in their rightness.
And then the first muggles had started to vanish. Or maybe they'd been vanishing all along? It was hard to say, because much like with the stars, the muggle world couldn't actually comprehend their own erasure. Without magic, they were oblivious to the complete and total annihilation happening around them. Not just muggle humans, but also mundane animals. Entire ecosystems were going dark all over the planet.
It took the magical world a little while to realize this, but once they did a lot of the folk who claimed they were magically protecting Earth from destruction shut up. Not all of them though. There would always be the bigots. The racists. The idiots. Plenty of those Magic Supremacists wanted to claim that since it was only muggles vanishing, they were fine. The Magical World would endure.
In fact, by their reasoning, this was a GOOD thing. There'd been too many muggles anyways, they would say. Most in the Wizarding World hadn't even realized how many there were these days. Billions? Surely it didn't matter if some of them vanished, right? It would only allow the Wizarding World to reclaim some land, to expand outwards.
The loudest idiots in that camp would preach about turning the entirety of Earth into a world of magic. Of no longer needing the Statute of Secrecy, of no longer needing to hide themselves from the muggles who would shortly no longer exist. And maybe if it really was going to end with the muggles, that would have even been a viable path forward.
But Lily and her family knew better. Harry, Hermione, all of the other women in Harry's harem… they all knew that this wouldn't end with the muggles. Whatever Delphini had done, it was erasing their timeline. It might have started at the furthest reaches of their universe, like a fraying tapestry slowly unraveling inwards, but that didn't mean they were safe. It just meant they hadn't been erased yet.
The idiots were probably right about one thing. Their magic WAS what protected them and allowed them to last this long. Which said interesting things about the Sun in their Solar System, and ITS magical nature. Lily had actually always theorized about that. About how magic had possibly even come to exist on their planet in the first place. Where did it come from?
Well, she had an answer now, even if she didn't like it one bit. Their star, the star that the Earth revolved around, was the only magical star in the entire universe. Truly, it was one of a kind. Meanwhile, Earth was seemingly perfectly distanced away from it to get the right amount of energy to not only allow for the existence of intelligent life, but also magical intelligent life as well.
Lily had the answer to some age-old questions… but it came at the cost of everything. Because just an hour ago, the last two muggles in all of existence had finally vanished. And that meant despite what those idiotic Magic Supremacists might say… the Wizarding World was next.
Ugh, there were parties being thrown in distant magical communities right now. Celebrations from idiots who thought that the planet had been returned to its rightful owners. That with the muggles gone, they could finally begin to expand outward. Only Lily and her family knew better, out of the hopes that they wouldn't cause a panic. But still, she almost wishes they HAD told everyone else the truth. She would almost prefer a panic over their happiness coming at the expense of the muggles.
Finally reaching a door, the beautiful buxom red head slips on through into a bedroom. There's only one person waiting for her there… her son, Harry Potter. He rises from his seat as she enters, looking at her concerned. And seeing his green eyes staring at her with such worry, Lily… Lily breaks.
"T-They're gone, Harry… they're g-gone…"
Harry's face falls, before twisting into a grimace. Nevertheless, he opens his arms wide and Lily stumbles into them as he wraps her up in a big bear hug, allowing her to sob into his chest. His hand runs through her hair and he lets out a heavy sigh, even as he holds her close.
"Not long now then, I suppose…"
No. Not long at all. Technically, they'd had a plan for some time now. However, the more both Lily and Hermione had looked into it, the more they'd realized that using the modified time turners too early would be disastrous. Not only did they not know WHEN exactly to go, but they also didn't have the power necessary to truly transport themselves back in time en masse.
However… if they used the End for their own purposes, they would have that power. Which was why they'd waited all this time, allowing the muggle world to vanish and bringing the timeline closer and closer to the brink. Because their best chance of fixing this, of reverting whatever changes Delphini had made and restoring their timeline… it would only come at the very last moment, right before everything vanished.
That didn't make it any easier though. Pulling back from Harry's chest, Lily grabs her son by the face and pulls him into a desperate, tongue-filled kiss. On his end, Harry doesn't even hesitate to reciprocate. His tongue wrestles with her tongue and his hands slide from her sides to her ass, groping and squeezing her buttocks in a strictly nonplatonic fashion. She and her boy have had this relationship for quite a while now, and she doesn't regret it one bit.
She has to believe James would understand. That he would want his son and his wife to be happy, even if it's in a rather unconventional way. Harry is so much like James it's not even funny. He looks like his father but with her eyes, and he's… he's so powerful. So strong.
Lily doesn't hesitate to wrap her limbs around him when Harry suddenly grips down on her ass and yanks her up into the air. Her arms around his neck, her legs around his waist. He doesn't carry her aloft like that for long, of course. Just long enough to spin her around and walk a few feet over to the bed, where she's laid out before him.
A flex of his magic and their clothes vanish, allowing his big fat throbbing cock to flop out and slap down on her sopping wet cunt. Lily moans softly at the feel, wiggling beneath him, her now exposed breasts jiggling and shaking from the movement. Harry, for his part, growls lustfully as he leans over her, fitting his cock against her slit and pushing in while at the same time leaning down to suck at one of her nipples.
Her breasts are so very sensitive, especially where her baby boy is concerned. Lily mewls as he sucks at them, her eyes rolling back in her head as his big fat cock thrusts into her at the same time. He doesn't go overly fast though. In fact, he's downright slow as he begins to penetrate her, pushing in and out of her almost gently while suckling from one teat and then the other.
She loves how he feels inside of her. She loves how good it is, being with him. She doesn't care if society considers it wrong. Truthfully, the Wizarding World has never really worried about it too much. And the muggle world… well, they're not around to complain anymore, are they?
Lily bites her lower lip at that, a pair of shocked and surprised faces suddenly appearing in her mind's eye.
It was only more confirmation that Delphini had targeted their family. The fact that the very last muggles in the world… were Petunia and Vernon Dursley. Her sister and her brother-in-law. Harry's aunt and uncle. That they had somehow lasted the longest, despite not having an ounce of magic in them… well, it made a sick and twisted sort of sense, didn't it?
Equally sick and twisted was the fact that the more muggles vanished, the nicer and kinder both Petunia and Vernon got. As more and more of the mundane population was erased, their minds constantly adapted to make it make sense. Until eventually, Lily wasn't a muggleborn as far as they were concerned. No, they were both squibs. Oh sure, if you asked them to remember their respective parents, they couldn't tell you a thing. But they knew they were wizards and witches, that was for sure!
As a result of becoming 'squibs' in their minds, Petunia and Vernon had actually become relatively tolerable people. Sure, there was still some bitterness on their parts over their lack of magic but magic itself was no longer this freakish sideshow of a thing. Instead it was simply a fact of life, and Petunia… Petunia no longer hated Lily for having it, much to Lily's surprise. In fact, her sister had become downright loving.
Because of this, and also because they had quickly become part of a rapidly shrinking endangered species, Lily had been spending more and more time with them over the past few weeks. Until finally, when confirmation came in from everywhere else in the globe that the last muggles being observed elsewhere had vanished… Lily had spent the last twenty-four hours with the two of them, even staying over at their place.
Part of her had hoped they would be different. That maybe their connection to her and Harry would continue to protect them, as it clearly had so far. But that was a foolish thought. Just as foolish as those idiotic Magic Supremacists who thought they were going to be okay now just because all the muggles were gone.
No. The timeline was still being erased. From the outside slowly spiraling inward. And that meant… Petunia and Vernon's moment had finally come.
Only, it was different this time. Lily had studied the vanishing phenomenon herself across thousands of muggles. She and hundreds of magical researchers across the world had observed the disappearance and erasure of countless mundane people. Each and every time, they had faded into nothing while doing things as normal. As far as could be seen with the naked eye, they didn't even feel it. No pain. No realization.
Not with Petunia and Vernon though. Merlin, she wished it had been like that with them. No, they'd been having tea with her one moment… and then the next, they'd both stopped what they were doing. They'd looked so shocked and surprised as they faded away. Lily knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that they… they had felt it.
As Harry buries himself inside of her, as Lily moans under him, she can't help but whimper in pain from the memory. This causes her son to pull back in concern, looking at her with a furrowed brow.
"Lily?"
Biting her lower lip, Lily shakes her head.
"N-Nothing you did, honey. It's just… they were looking at me, Harry. When they disappeared, they looked right at me. Like they knew. Like they d-didn't want to go…"
Harry takes a moment to digest that before moving onto his side and pulling Lily with him. His cock remains lodged in her cunt, a comforting presence that Lily preferred over going without. But he barely moves as he holds her close, letting her continue sobbing out her heartbreak into his chest. Holding her tightly, running a hand through her red locks, her son whispers into her ear.
"We'll get them back, mom. We'll get them all back. And we'll make Delphini pay for what she did to us. I swear, we're going to fix this."
Lily believes him, of course. They have a plan. And between her son and Hermione Granger, the two have already proven time and time again that they can do anything. Still… it doesn't make it hurt any less.