Bewitched by You (A Marvel/Harry Potter Crossover) COMPLETED

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Only You

They had been gone so long—or maybe it was no time at all? It was hard to tell the passage of time, here, it felt like forever and the passing of mere seconds, all at once—that Thor honestly thought he might have drifted off, buried in his own thoughts.

The rumbling of the walls drew him from his stupor and he turned to watch the stone box of a room. The structure shuddered and trembled, sending tremors through the ground around it.

Wide-eyed, he looked over his shoulder. Indeed, the vibrations were running out into the rest of the ruins, causing them to shift and sway.

"Oh, I do not believe they meant for this to happen."

"Thor!" His name was accompanied by a loud thudding from the other side of the wall.

"Bucky?!"

Another resounding thud—he got the distinct impression the other man was kicking wall. This was not good; Bucky was as strong as Steve, his strikes should have put a hole through the wall with ease.

"I can't find the way out and this place is coming down around us!"

"I think I remember. Hold on!"

Thor rushed to the portion of the room he'd seen Loki sink an arm through, but only found solid stone. "No good. I think it may have closed the entrance as part of its self-destruct process!"

"Shit!"

Another violent rumble passed through. Thor nodded as he fought to maintain his footing. "I should say."

He backpedaled, hefting Mjolnir.

* * * * *

Bucky stepped back, eyeing the wall. If he couldn't take it down alone, then maybe if they struck it from both sides at the same time they could—

"I am going to need you to duck!"

Bucky frowned, shaking his head. "What?" Had he misheard that? Thor had just told him to . . . . His eyes shot wide. "Oh, shit."

He all but threw Hermione's and Loki's unconscious bodies into the farthest corner. Curling over them, he braced himself.

The war hammer came flying through the wall, debris scattering everywhere. Bucky swallowed a groan at the chunks of very not-astral-reflection stone pelting his back. If he ever met the people who constructed this damned room, he was murdering them.

"Not yet!"

Bucky looked up in time to see Mjolnir circling back, crashing around and spraying more stone across the room as it returned to Thor's hand.

The next thing he knew, Thor was pulling Loki out from beneath him.

"We have a problem."

Bucky scowled as he stood, lifting Hermione as he followed Thor from the room. "Another one?"

Nodding, Thor shouted over his shoulder as he started running through the ruins. "There's a . . . chance I may have created a shockwave when I broke through the room."

"Which means?"

Thor was at least relieved the Midgardian was keeping pace with him, now that he'd caught up. "I do not know how to get back, only Loki does. We need to get them a safe distance from here before that wave bounces back and decimates these ruins."

Bucky groaned, even as they both pushed themselves to run faster. "I sort of hate you a little, right now."

"Yes?" Thor considered that a moment, and nodded. "Well, good. Now we are even!"