Across To Elsewhere

Part One: Fourteen - Dark Mark

A/N: I couldn't help but imagine Hermione as the singer for 'Lost Boy'. Ri would be 'Peter Pan', Goku being 'Wendy', and Voldemort as 'Captain Hook' lolz. Thanks to that I now can't get the image out of my head of the scene in the original cartoon of Peter Pan, when Hook goes skipping across the water- only it's Voldemort and not Hook.

Voldemort *skipping across water*: Pe-t-t-er-er!

Peter Pettigrew: *sees Voldemort skip under the boat* My Lord! My Lord!

A/N 2: This chapter... gosh it hurt to write.

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When the train arrived in London, an alarm went off in Harri's mind. Hermione hadn't been picked up by her parents. 

Immediately Harri had found it odd, considering how Hermione usually received word from her parents well in advance if they weren't able to follow through with a premade plan.

With that in mind Harri decided to accompany her friend to her home. They'd both taken a hackney to the destination, only to find the place surrounded by bobbies and their barricade tape. Dread washed over them both as they took in the many houses on the street that had been tapped off. Harri scooted closer to Hermione when their vehicle stopped in front of her house, which looked far worse off compared to all the others they had passed.

At first the bobbies had tried to get the hackney to move on and had become a bit forceful when the driver at first refused. That's when it was finally understood that Hermione was a resident of the house they were in front of. After proof was given and confirmed, it was then explained that both of her parents were dead (there was too much evidence present to guess otherwise). To Harri and Hermione it was clear as day who did it. The words the bobby read off her record, which had been found burnt onto the back lawn, only confirmed their instant horrified conclusion.

Hermione had lost her parents to Voldemort's followers. Unlike all the other muggles, Voldemort hadn't even left the bodies behind.

To add on to the shock, the same bobby proceeded to ask the distressed young witch if she knew if her parents had enemies all the while the bobby showed some pictures of defilement that had been made to the inside of the home.

At that Harri very nearly broke the statute of secrecy. Harri gave the bobby a very clear image of just how insensitive and inhuman Harri thought she was and dragged the nearly catatonic brunette away from the scene.

Then Harri got Hermione out of there before her friend could snap out of it long enough to break the statute herself. They went back into the hackney and gave the driver the closest address to one of Harri's homes.

They spent the entirety of the summer at Harri's London estate. For the most part Hermione had retreated into her books and only came out to practice some potion making once in a while. 

Much to Harri's relief, she'd finally gotten through to Goku. Between fighting and recovering from said fights he hadn't been in any condition to answer before. Apparently Kuririn's killer was as well known in Goku's world as Voldemort is in Harri's because after his fight Goku actually ran into hundreds of reporters who had wanted to interview him about it. Then Goku told Harri all about how he had to pass a test to speak to Kami, who watched over his world from a Lookout way up in the sky. He had to ask Kami to revive Shenlong so that he could be able to revive those whom Piccolo killed. In return for granting Goku's wish, Kami wanted to train him because, apparently, Piccolo had left behind another 'son' to carry on his evil ways.

It was certainly a shock to learn that Goku had actually met and spoken to such a being without having to die first. (Though he'd come close to it, if his description of his wounds was anything to go by- which distressed Harri.) Though it made her wonder if her own world had such a guardian or not. Through Goku, Harri had asked the question, only to be told that Kami had no clue. His domain was Goku's world only, and he could not see or watch over any other place. What Kami did tell them though was that he recognized the Window Wood.