Aug. 7th - Fly Away With Me
Title: Fly Away With Me
Author: 3am_moonlight
Crossover: BtVS / Harry Potter (J.K.R.)
Rating: Gen / Teen
Word Count: 800 796
Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & HP & the Philosopher's Stone
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon and the Potterverse belong to J.K.R.
Summary: In which there are retreating soul-sucking things, a glowy thing, and a daring escape.
Author's Note: Written for Day 07 of the 2019 August Fic-A-Day.
A/N 2: Follows 'Narrow Escape' and 'Hiding Places'.
Edit Aug. 10th: I'm back again from a short vacation and I've run this through a spell-checking program, ;)
By the time Buffy regained consciousness, there was something nearby emitting a lot of happiness in stark contrast to the demonic creatures who had made her relive all of her worst memories and made her feel like she would never find any kind of happiness ever again. The evil things were rapidly retreating and she was feeling better by the second. As she pushed the bad memories away, she got back up again and saw that Harry was petting what looked like a stag made of nothing but magical light and happiness, something she most definitely approved of.
As she watched it dissolved into a white mist before disappearing completely and she pouted since it took the wonderful happiness with it. "What happened and what kind of demons were they and what was the glowy stag?"
Harry's eyes looked wide behind his black glasses and he was kind of grinning like a lunatic. A quick look around revealed that Hermione had also passed out but was coming around if the groaning coming from her direction was an indication. He then went on rambling about how it hadn't been his father who had cast the Patronus who saved them, but him. It had been part of one of their earlier chats while waiting for the pertinent things to happen.
The demonic things turned out to be a kind of magical creature called Dementors who fed off of people's happiness and apparently ate souls through kissing. How's that for creepy?
Then Harry got the brilliant idea for them to fly the mythological creature up to the office where his godfather was being kept.
"Ah, Harry? You do realize there are three of us and only one of that thing?"
That stumped the teenager, but not his friend. "Hippogriffs are very strong and you're, well, short for an adult. I'm sure it'll be fine. We won't be flying far, just up there." She pointed to the West Tower and Buffy followed her line of sight.
Then she added, with a slightly weary look at the creature. "Hippogriffs are very proud and they will attack if you insult them. That's why Buckbeak attacked Malfoy, he insulted him. Malfoy retaliated by attempting to get Buckbeak executed."
Buffy couldn't help but stare. "Was he warned beforehand?"
"Yes," the two teenagers replied almost in unison. Then Hermione, clearly the ever-helpful student, added. "It happened during our first Care of Magical Creature class so there were lots of witnesses, but none of them were willing to speak up during the hearing and he was convicted."
"Then why did it go through?" The reply didn't make her happy at all. The more she learned about this little community the less she approved.
As they got closer Harry began explaining how to approach the Hippogriff, and then went ahead to show them.
Buffy watched as the young wizard went forward and established eye-contact with the odd-looking creature and then bowed low while keeping the eye-contact until the Hippogriff knelt as well. Both rose and Harry went close to pat Buckbeak's beak. Buffy and Hermione repeated the gestures so they could all get on its back. Harry sat in the front, Hermione sat behind him, and Buffy was last.
An interesting flight later, where Buffy was certain Harry suddenly became very aware that his friend was female, and both Hermione and Buffy were let off on top of the Tower while Harry flew down to get his godfather. After all, it was one thing for the three of them to fly on the half-bird, half horse, but adding a full-grown man, even one that was half-starved, was a bad idea.
The man was both very thankful and very confused as to how his godson came to fly a Hippogriff or how he was capable of being there when he had been told Harry was unconscious in the Hospital Wing.
"Look, Mr. Black -"
"Sirius". The man interjected.
She humored the man and began again. "Look, Sirius. There isn't a lot of time. You, we, need to leave this castle. So, get back on Buckbeak and I'll explain once we get somewhere not here. Okay?"
With encouragement from Harry and Hermione, they got back onto the creature, got as comfortable as they were able to and then were off after saying a quick goodbye. After some waving the two teens ran inside to make sure they didn't mess up the timeline.
Less than three hours ago she had been jumping off of a different tower to save her sister and the world, now she was leaving the tower of a magical castle on a stolen mythological creature with an escaped prisoner as her 'driver'/guide to this strange insular community.
How was this her life or afterlife or whatever?
Author: 3am_moonlight
Crossover: BtVS / Harry Potter (J.K.R.)
Rating: Gen / Teen
Word Count: 800 796
Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & HP & the Philosopher's Stone
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon and the Potterverse belong to J.K.R.
Summary: In which there are retreating soul-sucking things, a glowy thing, and a daring escape.
Author's Note: Written for Day 07 of the 2019 August Fic-A-Day.
A/N 2: Follows 'Narrow Escape' and 'Hiding Places'.
Edit Aug. 10th: I'm back again from a short vacation and I've run this through a spell-checking program, ;)
By the time Buffy regained consciousness, there was something nearby emitting a lot of happiness in stark contrast to the demonic creatures who had made her relive all of her worst memories and made her feel like she would never find any kind of happiness ever again. The evil things were rapidly retreating and she was feeling better by the second. As she pushed the bad memories away, she got back up again and saw that Harry was petting what looked like a stag made of nothing but magical light and happiness, something she most definitely approved of.
As she watched it dissolved into a white mist before disappearing completely and she pouted since it took the wonderful happiness with it. "What happened and what kind of demons were they and what was the glowy stag?"
Harry's eyes looked wide behind his black glasses and he was kind of grinning like a lunatic. A quick look around revealed that Hermione had also passed out but was coming around if the groaning coming from her direction was an indication. He then went on rambling about how it hadn't been his father who had cast the Patronus who saved them, but him. It had been part of one of their earlier chats while waiting for the pertinent things to happen.
The demonic things turned out to be a kind of magical creature called Dementors who fed off of people's happiness and apparently ate souls through kissing. How's that for creepy?
Then Harry got the brilliant idea for them to fly the mythological creature up to the office where his godfather was being kept.
"Ah, Harry? You do realize there are three of us and only one of that thing?"
That stumped the teenager, but not his friend. "Hippogriffs are very strong and you're, well, short for an adult. I'm sure it'll be fine. We won't be flying far, just up there." She pointed to the West Tower and Buffy followed her line of sight.
Then she added, with a slightly weary look at the creature. "Hippogriffs are very proud and they will attack if you insult them. That's why Buckbeak attacked Malfoy, he insulted him. Malfoy retaliated by attempting to get Buckbeak executed."
Buffy couldn't help but stare. "Was he warned beforehand?"
"Yes," the two teenagers replied almost in unison. Then Hermione, clearly the ever-helpful student, added. "It happened during our first Care of Magical Creature class so there were lots of witnesses, but none of them were willing to speak up during the hearing and he was convicted."
"Then why did it go through?" The reply didn't make her happy at all. The more she learned about this little community the less she approved.
As they got closer Harry began explaining how to approach the Hippogriff, and then went ahead to show them.
Buffy watched as the young wizard went forward and established eye-contact with the odd-looking creature and then bowed low while keeping the eye-contact until the Hippogriff knelt as well. Both rose and Harry went close to pat Buckbeak's beak. Buffy and Hermione repeated the gestures so they could all get on its back. Harry sat in the front, Hermione sat behind him, and Buffy was last.
An interesting flight later, where Buffy was certain Harry suddenly became very aware that his friend was female, and both Hermione and Buffy were let off on top of the Tower while Harry flew down to get his godfather. After all, it was one thing for the three of them to fly on the half-bird, half horse, but adding a full-grown man, even one that was half-starved, was a bad idea.
The man was both very thankful and very confused as to how his godson came to fly a Hippogriff or how he was capable of being there when he had been told Harry was unconscious in the Hospital Wing.
"Look, Mr. Black -"
"Sirius". The man interjected.
She humored the man and began again. "Look, Sirius. There isn't a lot of time. You, we, need to leave this castle. So, get back on Buckbeak and I'll explain once we get somewhere not here. Okay?"
With encouragement from Harry and Hermione, they got back onto the creature, got as comfortable as they were able to and then were off after saying a quick goodbye. After some waving the two teens ran inside to make sure they didn't mess up the timeline.
Less than three hours ago she had been jumping off of a different tower to save her sister and the world, now she was leaving the tower of a magical castle on a stolen mythological creature with an escaped prisoner as her 'driver'/guide to this strange insular community.
How was this her life or afterlife or whatever?