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: (Bad cop)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"I can open one of the Ways between the worlds and scry there. It should be able to give us at least a direction to start looking. But I don't know if your world has anything like the Ways."
thepizzalord: (Looking over the city)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Anything outside the mortal realm, really, not counting the Outer Gates. The Ways are mostly Faerie, although there's a lot of in-between stuff, including some people's ideas of an underworld or the homes of other supernatural nasties that aren't the Fae."
thepizzalord: (Going undercover)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Could be the right place to look, if they aren't here. I can open the Ways, but we'd need to be in the right sort of place. They don't map straight over our realm one-to-one; you might go five feet in Faerie and come out miles away from where you started here. They kind of tend to map to places of similar... feel, I guess. Opening a Way in a prison would lead you somewhere pretty dark and dangerous, opening one in a peaceful field would probably be one of the light and fluffy parts of Faerie. We need a center of knowledge."
thepizzalord: (Reading)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Harry nods. "Somewhere where you can find information on almost anything you want. Sort of like the Nexus library, but it has to be here, on this Earth. Magical knowledge, mundane knowledge, you name it. If I was at home, I'd want to go wherever the Archive is hanging her hat at the moment, but we don't have that luxury here."
thepizzalord: (I'm listening)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Harry considers that. "Are they the kind of folks we want to say hello to?"
thepizzalord: (Bad day)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't be a good idea then, even if we could get away with it. Breaking in where you aren't wanted, opening a Way on hostile territory, is a great way to open a gateway to getting yourself killed. Any other candidates?" He's fairly certain that the Watcher library will do, if they have no better choices. But it's better to be thorough.
thepizzalord: (Oh no way)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
"The Conduit?" Harry repeats. "You wanna elaborate on that a bit?"
thepizzalord: (You don't say?)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
That certainly has his attention. "That sounds as good as the Archive. Anyone know where to find this Conduit?"
thepizzalord: (Doing shit with crystals)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds perfect then." Harry wraps up the twine from the crystal and slips the entire thing into a little Ziplock baggie, to keep the coating fresh. "I'll need a compass. Got one of those in your magical back room?" he asks Wes.
thepizzalord: (Shadow and worry)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"If this doesn't work, I might be out of ideas," Harry confides in April, while the other two are away.
thepizzalord: (Headache)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe, but I don't know what it is, or how we could extend it to Dawn. For all we know, it might just be that you live in another universe these days."
thepizzalord: (Anyone out there?)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"If worse comes to worst, we'll give it a shot. If nothing else, maybe the Nexus can help." What he doesn't say is that any other Keys won't be so lucky, if no one knows who or where they are.

Harry takes the compass from Wes, tucking both it and the crystal into his pocket for the time being.
thepizzalord: (Questions)

[personal profile] thepizzalord 2014-12-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Harry's eyebrows go up as he watches Spike summon the Conduit. No magic circle is a risky, risky business when it comes to summonings, but he sure hopes Spike knows what he's doing. "That easy, huh?"

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