faelans_folly | [Closed] Harry

Another streak of light flashes outside and hells bells I am ducking and covering and heading for the nearest shelter. Big brave wizard scared of an itty bitty thunder, well yeah kinda. May have caused the thunder or you know it could just have been that the spell I was working just happened to time itself to a freaking thunderstorm and hey, it isn't my fault. Yeah, I don't believe me either. Harry's going to kill me.

Solo wizardry, this is where it gets me. Okay, so I should've known better. Me and magic? It's temptation and bad things and all kinds of dark side but the spell was just there and it was so easy. And yeah all I wanted was a little bit of magic, bit of age on Harry so he'd stop treating me like a kid and now, yeah storms and I'm hoping that's all that's gone awry. Road to Faerie is paved with good intentions right?

I duck, t-shirt plastering against my skin as the rain covers me and I run heading towards home. Harry's home. He better not be in, he's going to say I told you so and all kinds. And HELLS BELLS the wards. Apprenticing 101 Take Down the Jedi Master's wards before you fry yourself alive.

I mutter a word, slinking through before raising them up behind me. Storms behind me but Harry's home is ahead. And that's safe right? I couldn't have gotten the spell that wrong, could I?

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youngpadawan

Harry thought she was distracting, this was definitely different. He'd never thought that before or if he did, he had far better control than younger, blushing Harry. It was kind of hot really, how distracted he was. Leaning against the door she glanced around her room before dropping her towel and going to find some clothes.

By the time she came out, she had finished the beer and wore her standard, Molly cybergoth fare. The only thing that was different was the lack of bra and the inclusion of a pair of evil looking bunny slippers. Thank Monty Python for those.

"So, I don't know where to start? Like what do you want to know?" Molly asked, bending down to take another beer.

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wizard4hire

I wasn't sure what she had on was all that less distracting but I wasn't going to complain again. Really, she should feel comfortable dressing however she wanted. The slippers were pretty amusing though.

"Why don't you explain to me exactly what you did," I said, trying to sound disapproving but not harsh.

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youngpadawan

"I lit my candles, set my wards, I cleared my mind and I directed my energy into a spell. I used 'mutare vetustioribus'." Molly said, simply with a shrug. The fact that Harry had cast his spell the other side of town had not helped, the fact she wasn't focused and thought of him, the fact the storm happened, the fact that she'd gotten her Latin mixed up had definitely not helped. Mutare vetustioribus, it meant change from the past and not what Molly thought at all. "That's it, it should have changed me not anyone else."

Molly nudged Harry with her knee, skirt drifting higher as she sat beside him and tucked her legs and slippers beneath her ass.

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wizard4hire

I didn't know my Latin well enough, correspondence course and all that, to be sure if what she had said was correct. Besides, it was about the intent anyway and not the words. Whatever she did or said, it seemed like her intent was maybe to bring a younger version of me here, or make me younger. Or maybe something else interfered, I don't know.

The way she nudged my leg was pretty familiar and it made me wonder what sort of relationship my older self had with her.

"Wait, why were you casting the spell in the first place?"

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youngpadawan

Molly's knee brushed along his thigh as she leaned back, relaxing into the couch. At his question, Molly looked at him with a guilty face.

"I- I was trying to make myself older? So, that someone would stop treating me like a kid and start seeing me as a woman," Molly said, giving him a look as she picked the edge of the beer label and slid her hand around the bottom of the bottle. "See, I was only trying to change me not anyone else."

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wizard4hire

"You realize that casting a powerful spell like this and screwing up is probably not the best way to go about that?" I suggested. Insensitive, yes, but I'm the one that's displaced out of time here so I think I have a right to be grumpy.

Swallowing hard at the feel of her leg brushing against mine I shifted a bit on the couch to face her and put some distance between us.

"Do you have any idea what the White Council would do if they found out about this? I don't even know how we can hide it from them."

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youngpadawan

Molly made a face at him, tucking a strand of pink hair around her finger absentmindedly. Looking up at him with a soft, apologetic look she played with one of her ear piercings to try and not feel the guilt.

"Well... then it is a good idea that there isn't a White Council here then isn't it? Or anywhere near here." Molly said, pressing her lips together as she crinkled her nose a little. That might have been why she hadn't felt so bad about casting it. And behind Harry's back too. This place didn't limit her and the dark side part of her really liked that. "We're sort of marooned here? No way home. Cut off from the outside."

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wizard4hire

"What?!"

I admit, I lost my cool a little bit. This was a bit too much, because I had things I needed to do. Okay, not needed because the Souther Chicago Retirement Home could probably find someone else to help with dance classes. But there were things I wanted to do and those things were in Chicago.

"So not only am I in the wrong time, I'm in some kind of prison? What did you do to me? I don't even know your name and you've completely kidnapped me because you wanted to play grown up. AND YOU'RE ALREADY AN ADULT!"

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youngpadawan

And Obi-Wan was pissed. She'd quote Yoda at him but she really did kind of feel guilty about the whole thing.

"It's Molly, my name is Molly. Molly Carpenter, you might have met my dad Michael?" Molly said, running a hand through her hair in frustration. Her shirt pulled taut around her breasts at the action, she looked at him guilty before sighing. "Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pull you into it. It was just supposed to be me. And the whole prison thing? Was not me. It's this place, me and Harry have been stuck here for a while now. That one is on the universe. And you... Harry doesn't look at me like I'm an adult. Trust me, I've tried."

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wizard4hire

"Alright, Molly, I'm sorry for blaming you for the kidnapping. Or at least the greater kidnapping of being stuck here," I told her. I'm pretty sure she's still partially responsible for the other part but since she's apologized and there's nothing to do about it I won't get into that now.

"And don't do that, don't tell me about the future. Do you not watch or read any sci fi stuff? That is a recipe to cause huge problems."

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youngpadawan

"It's not like I'm telling you the entire plot of Star Wars Episode I." Molly said flippantly before making a face as she realised she'd just told Harry there was an episode one. "Harry, for the love of everything. Don't watch it. Just... trust me. Don't do it."

She sighed, knowing she shouldn't have told him that or this or anything. Time travel, if that was what this was, was hard. "I- what can I say? I mean, what happens if you're stuck here for a while. Are you just going to shack up in here until we figure something out? Or- what can I tell you?"

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wizard4hire

"Don't say anything," I told her. I was pretty sure that there wasn't anything she needed to say because it wasn't risking undoing the fabric of reality or anything like that. That might not happen but with my luck I didn't want to risk it.

"Look," I said, running my fingers through my hair. "You're going to have to treat me like a stranger, not like the Harry you knew."

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youngpadawan

"Yeah, that's pretty easy for you to say. You don't know me but I sort of know you, or the you that you will become." Molly said, making a face. This was getting entirely confusing. Molly sighed, pushing her knee against his before stretching one of her long legs out. "So, okay let's start this again. Hi, I'm Molly."

Molly held out her hand, biting her pierced lip as she flashed Harry a wry grin.

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wizard4hire

"Hi, I'm Harry," I said, turning to shake her hand. She clearly knew that but I wasn't going to press that point. I don't want to make her think she can treat me like 'her' Harry because that's just far, far too weird for me and could get into a lot of trouble with her assuming things that will cause problems.

"Nice to meet you, I guess."