slayers_desire: (not all butterflies and flowers)
slayers_desire ([personal profile] slayers_desire) wrote2014-12-21 10:27 am

When a key is not a key ((for Harry))

It has started a few weeks ago, with the disturbing nightmares that forced April to wake up in the middle of the night. Nightmares that while connected to her voices, were so real and visual, that it was like she had been there in the moment.

In the moment of a death. It was not like most deaths that she saw through her voices... instead, it was like the person has disappeared. And April knew each time it happened it was like a little piece of the universe had been stolen.

Clark had advised her to go to the research library hidden in Lorne's bar. And that was where she was, when a commotion was raised from the meeting area of the Scoobies. Coming out of the library, she saw her father, Spike, placing Dawn onto a couch. The young girl was flickering... disappearing and reappearing... it was so shocking, she thought she was dreaming again.

"Someone help her! I am nothing without her!" Spike called out.

April frowned. Something was seriously wrong. And her intuition was telling her that whatever was going wrong, had to do with some serious magic. Returning into the library, April used her PINpoint to call up Harry Dresden. Hopefully he could provide some insight...
thepizzalord: (Making calls)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry is in his lab on the Normandy when the rotary phone on his workbench rings. He frowns a little and picks it up. Only a few people have his number at the moment, although word of mouth might've gotten his business cards around a bit more than he expected. Or it could be a social call, who knows. "Harry Dresden, wizard extraordinaire."
thepizzalord: (Shh I'm on da phone)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"April! My favorite vampire. What can I do for you?" She sounds normal enough, but there's something in her tone that makes him suspect something is wrong.
thepizzalord: (Surrounded by tech)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"Disappearing? Like what kind of disappearing?" He can already tell that this is going to be a house call, not just a phone consultation, so he tucks the phone between his ear and his shoulder, and grabs a notepad. Be back in fifteen minutes. If not, just read this again. He tears off the note and sticks it on the outside of the lab door.
thepizzalord: (Looking over the city)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm on my way. Give me thirty seconds." He hangs up the phone and grabs his weapons, never out of arm's reach these days. Staff, blasting rod, sword, pistol, and the few rings he wasn't already wearing. Most of the weapons attach to his hard-shell armor through the leather duster he wears over it, but he keeps the sword unsheathed, and holds it up in front of him. "Portalis," he says, and slashes the sword down. The air parts open in front of him, shimmering blue and swirling with energy around the scar.

A matching portal appears in the library, drawn by the tip of a silver sword that suddenly appears from nothing. And a moment later, a tall wizard squeezes himself through the gap. "Finitum," he says, swinging the sword up through the portal, opposite of how it was created. The hole closes, part of the air still shimmering blue for a moment before it dissipates, wafting away into nothing.
thepizzalord: (Warden sword)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry taps the sword flat against his back and when he lets go, it stays there seemingly by itself. "No problem. Weird magic stuff is my specialty."
thepizzalord: (I'm listening)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"So this kills for sure then?" Harry says, approaching the couch, all his attention focused on Dawn and watching how she's flickering. He's not even sure where to start.
thepizzalord: (Shadow and worry)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
He does, but he doesn't use it lightly, so he doesn't notice just yet. This would be so much easier if Bob was here...

He kneels down next to the couch, frowning at Dawn's condition. "Any other things you've noticed, or is she just going all... Marty McFly, and that's it?"
thepizzalord: (You don't say?)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"A Key?" Harry says, looking up at April. "Like you?"
thepizzalord: (Thinking)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry's memory of the time he looked at April with his Sight is still as vivid in his mind as the day he Saw her, and he looks back at Dawn, wondering what he might See if he did the same to her. "Tell me about it."
thepizzalord: (Serious thought)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-21 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like a muse?" Harry looks at them. "Step away from her, please. Where I won't See you."
thepizzalord: (Intense stare)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-22 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
"If you don't get behind me, yes. No offense but I don't wanna See any more than I have to." Harry isn't sure what he'd See in Spike and the others, but the Sight is distracting enough when he's only looking at what he wants to See. "Just stay out of my line of sight. I haven't quite learned the whole eyes-in-the-back-of-my-head thing or anything."
thepizzalord: (In the dark)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-22 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Harry closes his eyes and breathes deeply, preparing himself to open his Third Eye. It's always a disorienting experience, no matter what he Sees, and depending on the result, he could be incapacitated for a while. When he's ready, he opens his eyes, taking care to look only at Dawn.

At first, he isn't quite sure what he's Seeing. Piles and piles of books, stacks curving impossibly to create a shelter, deeply shadowed. A heart-sized globe of light pulses in the darkness, and he realizes that it's the heart of a girl, curled in on herself, her face hidden against the knees drawn up close to her. The pulsing light pushes traces of itself outward, and he can tell they're supposed to encompass her entire self, but it's being swallowed by darkness before it can reach out.
Edited 2014-12-22 01:19 (UTC)
thepizzalord: (Paranoia)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-22 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Harry takes a closer look at the light, and quickly realizes that it's like staring into the heart of a sun. He looks away, quickly - catches sight of something big and dark out of the corner of his eye - and passes a hand in front of his face, closing his eyes for a moment as his sight returns to normal.

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