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The Ark and the Desert	By : Dreamwind Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 4005 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter 2

Unnamed Planet, The Ark; 2254

Severus could barley hold back the string of curses. They had spent a week studying the system of underground caves, marveling at the bioluminescent forest and the aquifer that was more of an underground sea. They had found several large caverns all across the main content that were large enough to build a new city, a new castle to teach the children in as well as setting up a forest for the more wild magical beings and creatures and still have land enough to set up farming for food and potions supplies. The above ground land, while hotter than comfortable and with a lower oxygen content than in the caverns, was still perfectly useful. They had found several different species of herbivores and so far there were no large predators. As such the number of animals had grown massive enough to support a small supply of dragons. It would take a bit of work to set up a proper reserve that would be able to handle the dragons and their human caretakers. Fortunately such a job was no longer as dangerous as it had been before the Eugenics War. A few of their muggles had been able to alter the dragons genetics enough to make them trainable like a dog.

Still, Severus was irritated beyond belief. The Council was sitting there whining about how they would have to build underground, which would limit the population growth and how they needed a planet they could live ON and not under. Never in his tenure as a teacher had he wanted to strangle anyone as badly as he did now, not even Longbottom after he blew a hole through the floor and ceiling of his classroom!

His left eye twitching Severus snapped. “You people are unbelievable! Do you think we have unlimited supplies or energy to sail through this god forsaken blackness forever?” Here Severus made a scoffing noise deep in his throat and cast looks at the Council as if to say he was overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of their stupidity. “The potions needed to keep everyone asleep and ageless will only last another two, perhaps three years. After that people will begin to awaken and we will have no place to put them. If the planet bothers you, though luck. Plant the colonists here for now and send small teams further a field to scout out more planets. Then they can return if something better is found but we won’t have a crisis on our hands.”

“I would ask you to keep your place, Mr. Snape. You are not a Council mem-“ started one of the older British representatives.

“Oh shut up!” Harry glared at the man. “You can’t keep thinking he’s a Death Eater and use it to prevent any of his ideas from being placed in the forum for discussion. Professor Snape worked as a double agent to protect you and the rest of us when he did not have to, and at great expense to his own life.”

More muttering broke out among the rest of the Council and Minister Quinns went red, his jowls shaking with his fury. Harry knew all to well how much the man blamed Severus for everything that Voldemort and the Death Eaters did, but he could not allow one man’s irrational hatred to endanger the rest of their people. “Professor Snape has pointed out a plan that can work. This planet may not be ideal. It may be too hot and the best lands may be underground but in the hundreds of years we have been in space this is still the best magical match we have come across. If it took this long to find it, how long and how far do you think we’ll have to go to find another?”

It never failed to amuse Severus how Harry Bloody Potter would jump to his defense. The boy could hardly stand him while a student but Severus shows him a few memories and suddenly the boy loves him. Only a Gryffindor. "If you have no better suggestions perhaps we should begin to awaken the people with the skills to start building structures for houses."
Councilor Binns, a lamentable descendant of the ghostly professor, glared at both Severus and Potter before curtly nodding his agreement. Even then the council spent another five hours deciding on a layout for the city in the first cave and which Muggles and Wizards would need to be awakened to construct it.
There was no way to fit everyone in the first cavern and still have room for a few small farms and a park but there were three other caverns of a similar size about two miles out from the first and another seven larger caverns at least a days walk away. Once the appiration points for those had been set they could start on the secondary cities and more of the farming lands. One of the three caverns adjoining the first was already set aside for the school to be built in and although he would never sat it out loud, Severus was excited to start building it. An entirely new school to be founded and he would be partially responsible for it's design. He would be a Founder!
"Well, Professor how do you think it'll turn out," asked Harry.
A smirk stretched across his features and a single dark eyebrow rose to his hairline as he gazed at Lily's son, the savior of the entire Wizarding World. "I think we shall be tested by the unexpected as we always are when you are involved, Potter."
Harry laughed softly and shook his head. Some things would never change and knowing that Snape was one of those things was very reassuring.

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Starfleet Academy, San Francisco, Earth; 2255
Leonard McCoy didn't know what God he had pissed off in the past but he was certain he must have done something spectacularly horrible to be divorced, to lose his daughter to his ex-wife’s high priced lawyers, to be fired from his job because of said ex-wife and to then be taken in as a Starfleet Cadet all in the span if two months. If all of that and the fact he would have to be working in SPACE within three years wasn't bad enough, he got to the quarters assigned to him to find he was in a dorm with dozens of pubecently challenged, hormonal idiots and the biggest one of all was going to be his roommate!

Trying desperately not to grind his teeth into itty bitty stubs, Leonard yanked opened his dirty duffle bag and started to pull out the few pairs of cloths he had left after his wife had, so kindly, burnt the rest. He could hear Jim humming some god awful 20th century pop tune from the other side of the room and it left Leonard hard pressed not to throw a shoe at the kid. He supposed that in truth the kid wasn't being that annoying but Leonard was still a bit nauseous from the shuttle ride from Riverside to San Francisco.
"Hey, Bones," warbled Jim, "what say we head out and find some decent food."
The vein by Leonard's eye began to tick. "Let's not, kid."
"Oh come on," whined Jim. "Stop being such a grumpy gus all the time."
"Kid, you've known me all'a five hours."
"Oh come on. It feels like a lifetime, Bones." Jim smiled and quickly slung an arm over Leonard's shoulder. "We've bonded now over liquid courage and bitchy women...Hell, you've even thrown up on me already. I'd say that pretty much makes us BFF's!"
"Oh Lord, what are a five year old girl?" Bones tried in vain to get of Jim Kirk's grasp, but the eager young man seemed to have arms like an octopus. Leonard couldn't help the shiver that went down his spine as he tried again to twist out of Jim's arms, only to have those arms slide over his body and lock over one of Leonard's shoulders and under the ribs on the other side.
"Man you are a riot, Bones." Jim leaned his head on Leonard's shoulder and smiled. "You may doubt me now but in a couple years you'll be looking back and be grateful that you made friends with James T Kirk."
Leonard let out a loud groan and gave in to his new roommate. He could try and sneak away later when the kid was distracted by something shinny.
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Agartha City, Planet Nibiru; 2255

Harry was continually impressed by what they had managed to create in such a sort time. The first city was certainly designed to impress anyone entering into the cavern from outside. They had spelled the ceiling to resemble the one in Hogwarts great hall, the sky outside mirrored above them, the warm light of the sun shinning down on the city and the lush forested park that circled around the city. Their magic hadn’t just created the sky above, which only appeared during the daytime and canceled out after the sun set. They had also used magic alongside muggle skills to create the buildings. They had a strong resemblance to a cross between Greek and ancient Egyptian architecture and had been created by skilled witches and wizard turning the stone in the cavern into a liquid and magicing it into shape before allowing the spell to return the rock to its normal, hardened state. The glowing star moss was still there all around the cavern and at night it perfectly simulated a starry sky.

Harry smiled and glanced at Snape who stood beside him, scowling like always. With the first city completed they could now move onto the next two caverns. Harry, like Snape, was excited to get to design the new castle that would become the school for the magical children. The muggle children already had their school built in this cavern along with the majority of the shops, which formed the center of the city. Hundreds of homes already circled the outer edge of Agartha city backing up to the orchards and forested area of the cavern. While it wasn’t enough space for everyone on the Ark, it was enough housing for the number of people needed to build the cities. And after the rest of the people were awoken they would be given the chance to choose a home in any of the caverns and would be allowed to have the home customized to suit their family. Already they had people suggesting homes be carved into the walls of the cavern, rising up the walls to look down over the city like a muggle high-rise. Of course it sounded neat and Harry could hardly wait to see what the design teams would come up with, but he was far more interested in starting to work with the team on the school.

Originally he was supposed to be working with the team who was going to start building the second city, Thuvaraiyam Pathi, which was going to have a strong India-Asia style to it. But it didn’t interest him as much as building a new school that Dumbledore would be proud of. He wanted to know that any children he had could come here to a school as warm as Hogwarts was and filled with just as many mysterious passageways and hidden rooms. He wanted them to giggle over moving staircases and suites of armor that would salute them when they came back inside from a Quidditch game. And while Harry was sure many of the others who had already been assigned to the construction of the school would want the same thing, he just had to be a part of it. So had had tracked down Professor McGonagall and Snape and convinced them to let him help. After all he still had the Marauder’s Map that they could use as a guide.

“So…” Harry gave Snape a small smile as the older wizard turned to look at him. “They decided on a name for the school cave?”

“Not that you would recognize the name, Potter, but they decided to call the school cavern Dinas Affaraon after a magical Druid city that was lost sometime after the Romans came.”

“Quite a mouthful and it took how long to get everyone to agree to that name?”

“Far longer than should have been required.” Scowled Snape.

Harry chuckled and watched as and green, black and silver Fairy came flying towards them from the council building below. “I’m guessing you suggested the name.”

Snape’s scowl was all the affirmation Harry needed. Even after all this time and every thing that had happened the representatives of the former UK still harbored mistrust for Snape. The other representatives didn’t seem to hold the same grudges, but then they hadn’t been a schoolmate of Snape’s or one of his students. So they weren’t as biased by the personality he had had to adopt to survive during Voldemort’s reign. Harry shook his head and tried not to laugh as he remembered how good Snape was at intimidating the Council into following the ‘proper path.’ Half the time the council didn’t seem to realize how much power Snape was wielding. Snape was good at building his plans in layers upon layers. Of course he was even better at tricking people into thinking they were doing what they wanted when it was really just another part of Snape’s growing plan. Besides Professor McGonagall, Harry was probably the only person who understood what Snape was doing and what he was trying to accomplish and that was only because they had all known Dumbledore so long that they were used to him doing the same. And in all truth Snape’s plan wasn’t all that different from what Harry was sure Dumbledore would have wanted.

“Severus Snape! Severus Snape,” called out the approaching Fairy. “Message for Severus Snape!”

“Yes, yes. I get it so shut your gob,” snapped Snape.

The Fairy tossed a very ‘Snape’ style glare at Snape before coming to a stop just in front of him. Harry was rather fond of this Fairy and had actually dubbed it Mini Snape after he had noticed it discreetly following Snape around one day. Of course it helped that the Fairy was in Snape’s favorite colors as well, of course that could be because Mini Snape was trying to mimic Snape. Some of the other Fairies had begun to do that as well lately, usually to people that they around most often or to people that their magic seemed to have feel to.

Mini Snape had shoulder length black hair, much like Snape’s own, black eyes, Slytherin green skin and black and silver wings that had a few points of the same rich green. Mini Snape could also be very charming when he wanted but like Snape he could be verbally vicious when needed and Harry had caught him dressing down a young pureblood who had said some rather unacceptable things about Professor McGonagall and Harry had had a flashback to Snape doing the same thing years ago before they had left Earth.

“Council has agreed upon a scheduled time for the meeting to begin. Lunch shall be served at 11:30 and the meeting shall take place afterwards in chamber 7 of the Council Building.” Mini Snape fluttered in place for a moment longer, glancing over at Harry with a warm look before speeding off back towards the city.

*~*~*~*~*

Starfleet Academy, San Francisco, Earth; Mid 2256

Leonard knew something was wrong the moment he walked back into his dorm. Jim had his computer playing back angsty 21^st century music. If he guessed right this time it was Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri playing. Jim was sprawled in the beat up old recliner they had found, a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels held loosely by the neck. Leonard winced as he caught sight of Jim red, puffy eyes and the distant look in the blue orbs. He had seen this coming for a couple months now but he had hoped it would have at a different time. The Kobayashi Maru sim was bad enough on it’s own, although he doubted it would make Jim cry and then get drunk and listen to music like this.

No, there was something more going on and Leonard was starting to think it was all the fault of Jim’s girlfriend. They had been dating for ten months now, and it was obvious from the beginning, at least to Leonard, that one day he was going to be spending a long night consoling Jim after Carol tore his heart out and fed it to him. Carol was a good woman and an amazing scientist, but it was obvious that like that girl Uhura that was constantly fighting with Jim like an angry cat, that she was very focused about her long-term goal. Her goal, which was to be one of the best and most respected scientists in the Federation, was certainly not going to coincide with the life she could build with Jim. Then there was the problem that Carol seemed upset that Jim was ‘wasting’ himself and his intelligence by doing the Command track, by training to be a solider, a murderer in her mind. Carol wanted Starfleet to truly be just about science and exploration and seemed to forget that Starfleet couldn’t do that and keep the scientists safe without some form of military section. But Jim loved her, loved her so much that he had even gone out and looked at different wedding rings for the last week.

“Jim,” Leonard called out softly, setting his hand on Jim’s slumped shoulder. “Come on, Jim lets get you cleaned up and filled with some good food.” Leonard moved to face Jim and crouched down at the others feet. “I can go to the store and we can have some homemade chicken fried steak, collard greens and maybe some grits. I’ll even buy a peach pie. Does that sound good?”

Jim snorted and brought the bottle back up to his lips, taking a long drink. “It doesn’t matter, Bones. Nothing I do does. Not to anyone.”

“Oh, bless my heart.” Leonard carefully gripped Jim’s hand and pried out the bottle, setting it aside out of Jim’s reach. “That’s not true at all. You matter to me don’t you and I’m a damn sight better looking and better company than Carol.”

Jim let out a small snorting laughed before looking up, his gaze finally meeting Leonard’s own. “Yeah, Bones.”

“Come on then. I’ll start a shower for you and when your done I’ll have some coffee ready and then we can go to the grocer and I’ll make that dinner I promised.”

“I asked her, you know. To marry me.” Jim glanced down and licked his lips, his eyes closing as he swallowed hard. “She’s pregnant with my baby. She told me just before I asked her and she got mad when I asked her to marry me. Said she didn’t need a husband just because she was pregnant. She said…” Jim swallowed again and a tear slipped out past his tightly closed eyes. “She said she wasn’t sure she was going to keep the baby. That it would just hold her back and she didn’t want a reason for me to stay in her life any longer if I wasn’t going to drop the Command track.”

“Lord,” swore Leonard. “I know you don’t wanna hear it Jim, but you’re going to be better off without her. Maybe right now you won’t feel that way, I certainly didn’t when I got divorced, but now…now I am happy not to be tied to Jocelyn anymore. I love my daughter but she’s about the only good thing that came out of my time married to that shrew of a woman. And if Carol doesn’t get an abortion, then you could certainly get legal rights to visit the child or even get full custody if she decides to give it up for adoption. Either way, I’ll support you.”

“Thanks, Bones.” Jim gave a grunt but accepted Leonard’s offer of help up and out of the chair.

Tbc…

AN:
1. Agartha – The first city the Wiazards build on their new planet it is named after a legendary city at the Earth's core.
2. Nibiru - A mythological planet described by the Babylonians, this was chosen to be the name of the new Wizarding World by the Council.
3. Thuvaraiyam Pathi – The second city on Nibiru, it named after a it was a sunken island some 150 miles off the south coast of India which was found In Ayyavazhi mythology.
4. Dinas Affaraon A magical Druid city hidden among the hills of Snowdonia. This is the cave city that the magical school is built in.
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