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The Third Time is a Charm	By : ladyedgecombe Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 45346 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don’t own the HP Universe. I admire. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I don’t make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while but I promise to put them back

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Chapter 16: Becca's Plans

Doc looked at Becca as she started to sit down at the table with a cup of tea and a biscuit. She had just thrown up all of her breakfast and was hungry again. She told herself that if this is what being pregnant was, she definitely was not going to repeat the experience again. Even if this was not her child and Harry and Severus would be raising it.

"Rebecca Elizabeth Prince, I would say the fist thing I want to know is how this condition happened." Uh oh, she was in trouble now. She had been hoping to avoid this discussion with Doc, but it seemed that it was going to take place anyway. Doc was looking at her sternly and he almost never resorted to calling her by her full name and she had known him most of her life.

"Uh, well... you see, the bond activated and...uhm, surely I don't need to tell you what happens when it does that. I mean, really, you already know about the birdsandthebees." Becca was hesitant at first but then her words were so fast they almost weren't distinguishable as separate words but one long one. She was cautious about speaking with him but she knew that she owed the other two men, the soulmates, an explanation, and she was never one to back down from her responsibilities. She waited for the barrage of questions to come as she sat there and took a sip of tea for a little courage. Oh, Merlin, she thought, eight months of not being able to indulge in a little alcohol. Not that she drank much but every now and then a she would pamper herself to a little wine.

Severus spoke up for the young woman, first because he thought Harry should hear the problem from him and second he didn't want anyone thinking that Becca had kept information from him. "Becca and I had a discussion yesterday," he started "and she told me that the dreams probably activated the bond to be stronger and push for us to complete it as she was trying to project feelings of well being and love. She has already told me that Evan was not actually to have been conceived yet and now our son will be born almost three years earlier than he should have been. What I don't know is who she is and how would she know information about our future son?" Severus then quirked his eyebrow in that wonderful manner of his that demanded answers immediately.

Doc stood up and looked at the other three with a resigned sigh coming from the lips on his handsome features. "We will leave so you three can have some privacy. Becca, I hope you come up with some good contingencies to this plan of yours. Maybe you should let these two help. Tell them everything you can. I do know that the last thing they will tolerate is being kept in the dark and you're not being one hundred percent open and upfront with them." The healer then turned to the two men to address them. "Severus, Harry, I will hope to see you in say two hours. Hopefully that will be enough time to hash out some of the problems with this plan of Becca's." With that the Doc and the other healers nodded their heads in respect and left the kitchen area.

"Wait" Harry said looking up in confusion "does he know us? He sounded like he knew us personally."

Becca nodded her head and looked at Severus and Harry "From another timeline, yes he knows you. We all do." Becca sighed and squirmed a little in her seat getting more comfortable. "Would either of you want some tea or some refreshments before we get started? This will take awhile." Severus just motioned with his hand for the young woman to stay seated and got up to make some coffee. Then he thought better of it and made tea. He didn't want Becca to have to leave the room because the smell didn't agree with her stomach. He was still trying to wrap his brain around the idea that he was going to be a father. Oh, Merlin.

"What you first need to know is that I am a Time Spirit. Our family has been the keepers of time and able to move back and forth for over one hundred years. I have come back to help straighten out some things that went wrong with this time frame to help the war effort. It is not going well and this was the only thing to do." Becca paused and took a sip of tea, grimaced and then applied a heating charm. Then she continued, "Nothing that has happened after the death of Harry's parents has been right. I came back after Dumbledore left you with the Dursley's the first time and told him to find another way. What I didn't know was that he was as corrupt as Voldemort, just for a different cause."

"Are you saying we can go back in time and save my parents?" Harry looked at her incredulously and hopeful.

"No, but I am getting to that, please just hear me out then you can ask questions."

Harry's down crested face just nodded once as he slumped in his chair. He was hoping they could do something, but evidently there was more to this.

Becca continued. "After I came back the first time, it should have changed the time line to protect you Harry. But again, that old fool put you with those horrible people and wouldn't let anyone near you. Then I came back a second time. This time I not only went to Dumbledore, but also Professor McGonagall and then went to Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. They didn't listen to me or couldn't figure a way around the circumstances even though I told Dumbledore that Sirius was not the Secret Keeper for the Potters. Remus tried but Dumbledore threatened to alert the Ministry that he was a werewolf. He could have been locked up and certainly would never have seen you again. Sirius went after Pettigrew even after I told him not to, that it would turn out bad. He didn't believe that Dumbledore would let him go to Azkaban. "

"You mean Dumbledore knew my Godfather was innocent and still let him go to prison?" Harry was taking this really hard and Becca wondered just how much she could continue to tell him. He was getting more upset by the minute and she really could not blame him. She was just as upset as he was.

"Kreacher!" Becca called the little house elf. When he appeared she told him to get two calming potions from Doc and bring them back. Maybe that would keep Harry from making himself sick again. She really should have waited for them to be examined first but she knew they probably would not have waited to get the answers they were looking for. They wanted answers NOW and she could empathize with them.

When Kreacher reappeared he handed the vials to Becca, bowed and left to wait to be called again. She handed them to Severus, knowing he would want to inspect them before letting his mate ingest anything. The older man uncorked a vial and smelled it, then took a drop on his finger to taste it then nodded his head and handed it to his mate. "Harry, take just a little sip and try to calm down. I believe this young woman has a solution and we need to hear her out." Harry looked up with tears in his eyes, after having been reminded of all the things in his life that had gone wrong and took a sip of the potion. After a few minutes he was noticeably calmer. After he wiped the tears from his face he settled down and nodded for the young woman to continue. Becca started talking again.

"After the second time, when I was ignored and things continued I could not come back again without some help. Fate allows one brief visit to change a wrong action in time. Then Magic allows another if things still turn out wrong. The rules do not allow you to pop in and out of time at will and they do not allow you to keep changing things till they are right. It upsets the whole balance of time. Every new visit is another ripple that changes other things that were not meant to be changed. Every Time Spirit is only allowed three visits to a given point in history, to change an event, but only if the first two brief visits fail. Time itself allows for a third visit, but only if it is really needed and the circumstances are of a tremendous global disaster. The Third Time Charm has to be invoked to use Time to change history. After the third time, what happens will happen and that is the end of it. In this case, if I had not interceded, Harry would be dead and the war would continue till the world just died. Too many people get caught up in it and even the muggles get involved, the bombs start falling and the radiation poison kills most everyone but those that live underground and even then there is more war. It doesn't end well."

Becca paused for a few minutes, took another sip of her tea and nibbled on a shortbread biscuit. "I came back to save you, Harry. I didn't know that the bond would activate and cause you to complete it. Evan Prince was not born until a year after you graduate. Obviously I made a mistake and misjudged the feeling I was filtering though the dreams. I am deeply sorry to have made you a father so young." Becca's face looked distraught and worried but Harry was quick to put out his hand to cover hers and reassure her.

"We would have had kids eventually, and I have never been young. I have worked as a slave since I was three or four years old and have never been a child." Becca knew this but it didn't make it any easier. "Can you tell us who exactly you are and what time you come from?"

Becca nodded and sighed, this was not easy. "Yes, I am a seventh child of the seventh child born to Evan Prince, your first born son and I am also your great grand daughter, and I have come back about one hundred and seven years give or take a few months. Right now in my time, Severus is one hundred and forty two years old and you have been bonded for over one hundred and five years." She stayed silent and waited for a reaction. That kind of bombshell of news was much too much to assimilate in a mere breath. Severus dropped his tea cup and Harry just stared at her.

"You said Prince?"

"Yes, you and Severus change your name to his mother's original name Prince. Most of the wizarding world had forgotten about his mother descending from the Prince line. It was to hide your identities."

After about a minute of waiting for some reaction, Becca was beginning to think maybe she should go find Doc to see if they might need something for shock. Just as she was thinking this, Severus took the remaining vial of calming potion and upended it into his mouth. He swallowed hard and looked back at the young woman, no, his great granddaughter and said, "Could you repeat that, I don't think I heard you correctly."

Harry suddenly came out of his stupor and held a hand up just as Becca was opening her mouth. He turned to Severus "Love, she said she is our great granddaughter and has come back one hundred and seven years. Oh, and we have been bonded over one hundred and five years." Harry smirked at the gob smacked potions professor barely containing his laughter. He had a family and from what she was saying, it turns out to be a big one. His heart warmed with such hope he wasn't sure he could contain it all.

"Yes, Harry, I believe I already heard that." The older man said dryly. He sat there, his expressionless mask completely gone and didn't move.

"Well, you did ask. Just trying to help, love." Harry smiled and winked at Becca. She let out a sigh of relief; this may not be as bad as she thought it would be. At least Harry was taking it well.

"Right now", Becca went on with her story, "you are in a facility you built that stands between time lines. Time has no basis here. I was going to stay here a few days before going to the original time line interruption on October 31, 1981 and intervene with what Dumbledore has done and raise Harry myself. I was hoping you two would want to come with me. I have invoked the Third Time Charm to do that so I can return for a third time back to that pivotal point in history. Now I don't know if you would want the option to come with me, I didn't know you would already have a son on the way and you may want to settle someplace quiet and just be left alone. It is your decision and I will abide by it, but I can't transfer the fetus back to Harry's body. It is extremely stressful to the baby and not recommended except for the direst of circumstances. It could injure or kill the child. At the time you were so badly injured I didn't have another choice."

"If we decide to go our own way, what will you do?" Severus asked thinking about how Harry hated being famous and he just wanted to live peacefully. It didn't sound like that was what Becca was talking about.

"I will have the baby, but I suggest we go to the U.S. and have it there. Then when you take possession of the child, I will have to continue and come back to this place then go to the Dursley's and take care of the younger Harry."

"So there will be two of us?" Harry asked. The Emerald Green looking at her confused.

"Essentially yes, there will be you the Harry of your time line and the baby Harry from the new created one. In order to make the drastic changes that are needed to correct this error, I had to activate the Third Time Charm. It will essentially take the pivotal night of October 31st and create a whole new existence while this time line destroys itself as it already is. Of course it will happen faster without you two, but it is going to happen."

"So you can't go back to your time when this is over?" Severus queried.

"No, my time is gone to me and I can"t go back. The only way to make sure the time line doesn't get destroyed again is to stay and intervene with the knowledge I have of the past and how to destroy both Evil Lords."

"What do you mean both Evil Lords?" Harry again.

"Albus Dumbledore has committed more crimes in the name of the greater good than you can imagine. You are not the only one that has had a hard time Harry. I have knowledge of other things as well."

"So you are calling him a second Evil Lord?" Severus thinking that he was serving two masters each with their own agenda and none of it good. No wonder the war was still going on.

"What would you call a megalomaniac with his own agenda that has tried to enslave Harry to steal his powers? Putting blocks on his gifts so he can't do his best and putting him in front of Voldemort repeatedly without proper training?"

Severus nodded but Harry looked incredulously between the two several times before asking. "Were the blocks and enslavement from Voldemort or from Dumbledore?"

"Both actually, Harry." Becca replied "You were given a gift, it was an ancient spell. Your parents knew they would not live and also knew you had a great destiny even before you were born. The problem is they also told Dumbledore about a dream they had from the four founders of Hogwarts. Your mother was actually a descendent of Ravenclaw and your father of Gryffindor. In the Ravenclaw vault there was a spell book of ancient and very ritualistic spells. One of them was a way for the parents to pass on their powers to their infant. This spell was originally used in pureblood families for the first born male. It had to be preformed before you were born and still in your mother's womb and had to be in a specifically made ritual room. It has been lost except among the oldest of families. Eventually it was left unused in time as the spell allows upon the death of the parents to have their powers transferred to the one blessed. It caused problems in some of the greedier families as the first born would kill the parents to get their powers. The spell was actually outlawed about two or three hundred years ago as more muggleborns were entering the picture and the ministry didn't want such a division of power levels between the purebloods and the muggleborns. Voldemort's curse hit you at the same time the power transfer happened, hence there was an interruption of the killing curse and it rebounded back to the sender."

"So my mother dying for me really did save me?"

"Yes, in a way. Her powers transferred to you as soon as Voldemort killed her and your father's were already transferring. It doesn't take long and when the power boosts of two very powerful magical people hit at once with your own powers, well, let's just say good ole Voldie didn't stand a chance." Becca chuckled at that and look at the men. This was perhaps the first time the two of them had heard of such a thing and she wanted to give them time before continuing. "The truth of the matter is that if he had sent the killing curse to you first, Harry, you would not have survived anymore than anyone else would have. His arrogance and failure to find out more about the prophecy in the first place is what saved you. If he had only gone after the child and left the parents the outcome would have been completely different."

"This is why I cannot change the events to save your parents. You should view their sacrifice for what it was; an event that set in motion to end the war. If the prophecy had been more specific, we would have known which Dark or Evil Lord you were suppose to have the power to vanquish and actually you did vanquish Voldemort as a fifteen month old baby he just didn't die. The wizarding world should never have looked at you to kill him. It is not in your nature to kill; your magical core is too pure for that to happen. In another time line, you did kill him then went into such a depression you eventually died. In another time line, you killed him but Severus died. This mission is not about just you Harry; it is about your children. They do great and wonderful things and help the wizarding world become stronger and yet go back to the true old ways. I have some books you will want to read and information on each timeline. I have pensieve memories and information on the way to defeat Voldemort early before the war starts up again."

"What happens if we go back with you?" Severus asked.

I suggest then that we go back far enough and have Evan born on the same day as Harry and raise them both as twin brothers. It would give Harry a real playmate that he can bond with and allow us the time to prepare for when Voldemort attacks Godric's Hollow. It would also give him a different identity, Harry Potter does not have a twin therefore little Harry cannot possibly be the child we would be raising. But I must stress, we cannot interfere with those events. If Harry's parents don't die, there is no power transfer and little Harry dies with his parents. Then Voldemort continues before we can do anything to stop him and more people die. I also don't want the Dursley's to lay one hand on that child. I don't care about Dumbledore and his blood wards. They were pathetic. Wards based on blood and family and love; there was no family there for Harry and certainly no love. They were a waste of time. I have something different in mind."

"Where would you hide him then? He always said the blood wards were the only thing keeping him safe." Severus argued. He really wanted to know what she was going to do.

"Where do you hide anything you don't want found? Out in the open where everyone can see it." At Severus' puzzled expression she continued. "I will have number five Privet Drive and an underground facility that runs for several houses. He will be raised in the same muggle neighborhood and with Dumbledore's blood wards in place, but that won't be the only blood wards. Baby Harry will actually get his Hogwarts letter at #4 Privet Drive the cupboard under the stairs, but it will be about fifteen meters under the stairs. He will have his own bedroom, his own house elves, his own tutors and his Uncle Sev, Uncle Harry and Aunt Becca to protect him along with his cousin Evan to play with. If you come it will be all three of us and younger Harry, if you don't want to come then I am sure that my blood will suffice for the wards. Gorbink, you met at Gringotts, is from my time and will come help and there is another you haven't met yet, a light elf named Shashi who also will be there help. The facility will be built by goblins before the neighborhood is built and Shashi will help train him. Both he and Gorbink have much they can teach Harry before he has to go to Hogwarts. He won't live with Petunia and Vernon and he will grow up to be a self confident and intelligent well educated wizard as he was intended to from the beginning. The goblin builders will have runes imbedded into the structure for extra protection. Not even Dumbledore will be able to get at him when he is there."

After another hour of explanations and what she had planned, Becca got up from her seat and faced the two men still sitting with an expression of complete amazement. "I will leave you gentlemen to go get your physicals and think on what I have presented to you. We can speak some more later."

Becca cleaned her tea cup refreshing it with more tea. She was tired and her mouth was dry from so much talking. She hoped the two men would forgive her for her blunder and come with her, but she couldn't blame them if they did not want to take their child into a war zone. Even with a secure facility no one would know about.
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