Imagine: The List
Fic posted by members of Vo's Imaginings YahooGroup

Story Notes:

Thanks to Vo who let me use the idea of the Cosort


Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author.  The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise.  No copyright infringement is intended.

 

February 1993:

Harry was a pariah no one except Ron and Hermione would talk to him

The twins didn’t help either with their comments of “Get out of the way, the Heir is coming through”

He had even had first years crying out to please not petrify them as he walked by

 

Harry was tired of it and was starting to skip meals to avoid everyone

He went to class, but didn’t participate much

 

And now Hermione was petrified leaving Ron as his only companion

 

Ron and Harry were in an unused classroom with Ron comforting Harry

                “I wish I had never come here.” Harry cries out.  “If I hadn’t come back then maybe everything would have been ok.”

 

Suddenly a bright light appears and a woman steps out

                “Is that truly your wish?” She asks.

                “Who are you?” Ron asks with his wand drawn on the woman.

                “My name is Hallie and I am Justice for Lost Childhoods which Harry definitely has.” She looked at Ron for a moment and nods her head, “as has your sister.”

                “What do you mean Ginny has lost her childhood? Nothing has happened to her has it?” Ron gets ready to go hunt down his sister.

                “The day you went shopping in Diagon, you were met by Mr. Malfoy am I correct?”

                Ron nodded; “What has this to do with my sister?”

                “Mr. Malfoy picked up one of your sister’s books then dropped it back in her cauldron did he not?”

                Both Harry and Ron nodded still wondering what this has to do with anything.

                “What he didn’t let you see was that he dropped a diary into the cauldron as well, a very important diary, the diary of the Dark Lord Voldemort when he was younger and in Hogwarts as a student.”

                Ron and Harry were beginning to see where this was going.

                “The diary has been enchanted to hold a piece of Voldemort so that he might possess someone if necessary after he has gone.  If he was still here there would be no need for such an article and he would have kept it near him, but since he is gone…”

                “You mean Ginny is possessed by the Dark Lord?” Ron asked shakily.

                Hallie nodded her head.

                “It is she that has been opening up the Chamber of Secrets to let the Basilisk out hoping to kill all the ‘Unclean’ as Voldemort deems it.”

                “How can we stop her and not hurt her?” Harry asks.

                “As I said when I entered I can grant wishes, though it is only one wish per person and you must be very careful what you wish for there could be unseen consequences. You Ron will speak for your sister, who is even now trying to fight for her freedom. While you Harry, are granted a wish all your own.

 

Harry thought hard and then grabbed some parchment and an ever ready pencil to figure out what his wish was going to be.

                “I wish I had never come to Hogwarts, that I had a family that cared for me, that they got me away from the Dursleys and we went somewhere far away from here, I want to still learn about magic, just not here.”

                He showed Hallie the wish; “Are you sure this is your wish?” She asked.

                Harry nodded his head.

                “And you Ron? What is your wish?”

                Ron had grabbed his own parchment and was writing knowing that his sister’s life depended on it.

                “I wish that the Death Eaters were all captured and tried, found guilty and killed instead of imprisoned since they aren’t worth the time to care for. I want all of the Dark Lord’s objects destroyed so that they can’t hurt anyone ever again.”

                “Are you sure that is your wish?”

                Ron nodded.

                “Very well, Wish Granted, to both of you. May the coming life aid you in your decisions.”

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October 13th 1981:

                Xander born

 

September 1986:

                Even though he is past the cutoff date, Xander is allowed to start school because he passes all of their tests

 

September 1993:

                Xander is in all of Willow’s classes so she has someone she knows there with her

                                He purposely does not do as well as she does in class so that she can feel good about tutoring him

 

 

January 13th 1996:
                Jesse dies

 

Xander was crying in his room

He had been very stoic about everything so that no one would no he had been the one to stake Jesse, but now he could let loose, though he still had to be quiet about it since his father would beat him otherwise for being a sissy.

 

~ooOoo~

She looked down on the boy

He cried himself to sleep and was hurting so bad

She could not bring his friend back, but she could do other things so he could be a better hunter

 

She looked around the town in disgust and then found something interesting, Primals. ‘What were they doing here in Sunnydale?’ She thought to herself and looked deeper, ‘Ah someone who wishes to use them for his own needs.’ She nodded, this could help.

She looked further and found the military base nearby and nodded that that could help as well.

She summoned her magic and, pulling both; all of the Primals as well as a conglomerate of the military up, and planted them into the boy.

The boy glows a bit to show that the spell worked and she faded out, letting him sleep.

 

~ooOoo~

Xander now knows:

                How to make and use every weapon ever made

                How to track and hunt

                How to fight

 

~ooOoo~

Xander woke up with a calm feeling, and changed into his sweats to go for a morning run, then doing PT. Heading back to the house so that he could shower and change.

He grimaced at his wardrobe and, after a shower; he changed clothes into a regular t-shirt and jeans.

He finished tying his shoes and headed off the school, stopping in to get a bite to eat on the way

 

~ooOoo~

February - May 31st 1997:

Start hunting on own

                Keep any books and scrolls

                Keep weapons

                Keep money

                                Use money to get a storage unit for everything

                Sell gems

 

Willow and Mrs. Calendar talk Giles into putting his books on disk

                Note: there is no Moloch

 

Death of the Master

 

September 1997:

Empata

 

October 1997:

Halloween

                Xander rolls up a character

                                It is a combination of Soldiers, Magic User, and a Demon Hunter calling him a Modern Day Watcher knowing:

Pre-History, Sumerian, (Mesopotamian) Aramaic (Cuneiform), (Assyrian) Akkadian (Cuneiform), Babylonian, Phoenician, Etruscan, Hittite, Persian, Farsi, Egyptian (Ancient [Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics] & Modern), Kush, Coptic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek (Ancient [Linear A and B] & Modern), Latin, Watcher Latin, Florentine, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Prussian, Hungarian, Austrian, Scandinavian (Runes),  Finnish, Netherlands (Danish) Swiss, Celtic (Runes), English, Medieval English, Old English, Gaelic (Scotland), Welsh (Wales), Ireland (Gaelic), Russian (Cyrillic), Chinese, Cantonese, Mandarin,  Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Hindi, Pakistani, Mexico (Spanish), Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Common Demon language (Trade), 10 Lesser or more specific Demon languages

Knowledge of not only the Language, but the history of the people as well

                                Both that which is known to the rest of the world and that which is known to the Watchers, as well as Demons

                Better than Willow Computer work and hacking

                Knowledge and Understanding of Math and Science

                Magic

                                Chaos, Blood, Ritual, White, Earth, Portal, Shamanism, Druidic

                Escrima fighting as well as Kenjutsu and Aikijutsu

                Need only 4 hours of sleep

 

September 19th 1999:

Hermione is born

 

March 1st 2000:

Ron is born

 

July 31st 2000:

Harry is born

 

August 19th 2001:

Ginny is born

 

October 31st 2001:

Voldemort kills Harry’s family including Sirius and Remus

                Upon the Dark Lord’s death all of his Dark Objects are destroyed which in turn destroys all of the Horcruxes causing Voldemort’s true death

                                With his death, all of the Death Eaters die as well

 

November 2001:

Harry is placed with his relatives

 

With the death of all of the Death Eaters, Neville’s family is NOT attacked, allowing Neville to grow up with his family intact.

 

January - May 2003:

First Evil

 

January 2004:

The group (minus Xander) discovers a new demon coming and feels that the only way to defeat him is to sacrifice Xander to it (something that it wants them to do)

                With Dawn’s help, Faith ends up finding out what is happening and rescues Xander

 

There he calls out for vengeance against those who had wronged him

                This time he gets D’Hoffryn himself

                                Xander hands him the paper with his wish written very carefully on it

                                                1) Giles:

                                                                Xander wants him to be without his arms or legs and to be plagued with visions of what Xander went through as if he were Xander for the rest of his very LONG life

                                                                Xander wants all of his magic, knowledge, and skills as well as books on DVD since they have the cross-references

                                                2) Willow:

                                                                She is to have her computer abilities as well as her magical abilities taken from her and given to Xander along with her knowledge and skills

                                                                                She will never again be able to use a computer no matter what

                                                                                                The same with magic

                                                                                                                She is to be perfectly normal for the rest of her life

                                                3) Buffy:

                                                                Since she is always saying she hates being a Slayer then take the power away from her forever

                                                                                She has no skills outside of that so she would be back to being the normal one without the money she used to get from her father

                                                4) Finally he wants to be healed

 

WISH GRANTED

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February 2004:

A private demon healer has helped heal the injuries, including the acid burns that cover several areas of his upper body and legs.

 

Xander changes his name to Xander Knight and formally adopts Dawn

               

With Buffy no longer a Slayer, she is forced to help Andrew as caretaker for the active Slayers

                She falls victim of a vampire when she is drunk one night and Xander is forced to take her out.

               

Willow soon killed herself now that she had nothing to separate her from anyone else, and the only thing she can do is research via books since the computer (any computer including calculators and watches) break when she is near them and she can’t seem to do any magic at all.

 

Xander has received the demon’s accounts including any and all properties and objects

                He moves to San Diego to live near the ocean with a private beach

                               

Xander has decided that he should do something with his life and decides to go back to school with his knowledge he could easily get good grades.

                He takes as his Majors: Mythology and Ancient World History

                He takes as his Minor: Linguistics

 

He starts with the spring semester taking a full 20 hour course load to get through his freshman mandatory’s as soon as he can.

 

May 2004:

Hallie comes to visit Xander and the family telling them that she needs a favor for one of her charges (Harry)

                She tells them what is going on and the wish that was made and further tells them that Harry is being abused right now by his guardians and needs a home where he can receive the love he needs.

                                Xander and the others get up and head to their rooms to pack

 

~ooOoo~

Vernon answered the door to find Hallie in a business suit along with Xander, Faith, and Dawn.

“Mr. Dursley, there have been complaints made about abuse to your nephew.  I am here to do a wellness check and to introduce you to your wife’s nephew, by her oldest sister, and his family.”

“Er…Umm…the boy isn’t here, he’s playing with some friends.” Mr. Dursley stuttered out afraid of what they would find.

“That is fine; we will just wait until he gets here then.” Hallie pushed her way in, “Oh what a lovely house.”

Xander grunted and went over to the cupboard door. “I hear someone knocking here.”

“OH! That is probably the boy…er…Harry, playing in there. He has a habit of that. Why don’t you let me get him out of there?”

“That is ok, I can get it, and I’m closer.” Xander threw off the latch and opened the door to find an emaciated Harry lying on his cot.

“Hallie, get an ambulance.” Xander picked up the boy and placed him on the couch in the living room.

Faith glared at the Dursleys before heading over to help Xander, while Hallie was on the phone with emergency services.

Dawn had taken the camera and was taking pictures of Harry and then the cupboard under the stairs.

Xander growled at them letting a little bit of his hyena out so that his eyes glowed, “you had better pray, he recovers.”

Vernon looked and then blew up at them as Hallie had wanted so that they would have an iron case, “YOU! You’re just like HIM! A FREAK! OUT, OUT OF MY HOUSE AND TAKE THE FREAK WITH YOU!”

Hallie blew an air-horn to get him to shut up while Xander got ready to pin him to the wall with Faith ready to do it with knives if needed. Dawn blocked Petunia from leaving and Dudley tried to hide behind his mother.

“That will be all Mr. Dursley. Xander cover him for me.” Hallie motioned for Xander to move and pin Vernon to the wall long enough to handcuff him.

The ambulance drove up with the police right behind them.

Now the whole neighborhood was watching what was going on.

 

Dawn showed the crew where Harry was, while Xander and Faith kept Vernon from moving.

Hallie motioned for the police to come in, showing them her badge; “Gentlemen, My name is Hallie D’Hoffryn and I am with Child Protective Services.  I was given a tip that there was abuse in this home and came to investigate it.” She motioned them to take a good look at Harry while the ambulance crew worked to stabilize him, this caused the two to growl and look at a defeated Vernon and his wife.

The first cop called it in to get investigators out there, while the other took over control of Vernon, giving Xander his cuffs back.

 

The neighborhood watched as Harry was taken out of the house and placed in the ambulance, then away to the hospital and then when more cops showed up along with Child Services.

Dudley was dragged out screaming that he didn’t want to go, while Petunia tried to hide her face when the police brought her out handcuffed.

Vernon was “led” out by two cops and CSI came in to work the scene.

 

Once everyone was on the scene, Hallie told the lead investigator that she and her crew would be heading to the hospital to find out what was going on.

When he muttered about the boy needing a good home, she told him that the reason that she had even been called was because of his cousin (she pointed out Xander) needing to find out how he was. That Xander had seen Harry outside being bullied by his cousin and had gotten a hold of her to find out how he was and if it was possible to take him from his Aunt.

The cop grinned remembering the look and growl Xander had given to Vernon before handing him over.

 

Hallie motioned for Xander and Faith (Dawn had gone with Harry) to get into the car and took them to the hospital.

 

~ooOoo~

While waiting for Harry to get settled into his room in ICU, Xander uses his laptop to cancel his classes for the summer quarter and get a refund (Hallie helps with this)

 

~ooOoo~

When Harry woke up, he felt warm and comfy for the first time in his life. He opened his eyes and found himself in a bed with rails on it and an IV in his arm.

“Hey there;” a voice to his left called.

Harry looked over and saw a man sitting there.

“I’m your cousin Xander;” he pointed to himself then over to Dawn, who was sleeping in her chair, “that is Dawn your adopted cousin, and that lady over there (he pointed to Faith who was by the window) is Faith, an all but adopted member of the family.”

Harry looked at each of them then looked at Xander again, a question in his eyes.

“I called Child Services when I got word that you were being abused.  She brought us over to your uncle’s house and we found you in your cupboard. The Child Service lady, named Hallie by the way, called it in and we got you here as fast as we could.  Hallie told me that your family has been arrested for abuse and that your cousin Dudley is in a home right now throwing a fit from what I last heard.”

Harry croaked out something, before Xander brought a cup to his mouth with a straw, allowing Harry to have some ice water.

“What happens now?” Harry asked afraid that he would have to go to his aunt Marge.

Dawn awoke at the sound of his voice and came over, “Once you are strong enough, you will be going home with us.” She told him.

He looked at the other two who were nodding their heads and smiling at him

Xander took his right hand; “We already have it settled, once you are strong enough to leave the hospital and take the flight to California, you are headed home with us.  Hallie has already arranged it and will be keeping an eye on us to make sure you get treated well. Though she knows she doesn’t have to worry with us.”

Dawn smiled and bounced on her toes. “We already have everything planned.  We have a guest room which we will turn into your room.  It’s already got a full size bed and dresser in it so we only need to get you sheets that you like as well as curtains and clothes and posters and toys and…”

“I think he gets the idea Dawn.” Faith said with a smile in her voice.

 

Harry yawned and smiled; his own room.  He had always wanted his own room and a big bed with soft sheets and blankets. Oh and toys, he would be getting his own toys.

He fell asleep dreaming of toys and his own room.

 

June - August 2004:

Several weeks later, Harry was discharged from the hospital and headed to London to stay in a hotel.  He had never been to a hotel before, and Dawn had said this one had a pool and everything.

Dawn and Xander had already gone shopping for clothes for him to wear as Faith stayed with him.

He was happy that he never woke alone, there was always one of the three there for him and they made sure that the bathroom light was kept on so that he wasn’t afraid like he had been at the Dursleys.

 

Xander had told him that his uncle and aunt had already been tried and convicted for their abuse of him and had been sent away to prison while his fat cousin Dudley was with his uncle’s sister.

 

He had overheard Xander growling about some old man who had tried to stop the Dursleys from being tried and to get him back in their care, but Hallie wouldn’t have it and had him arrested for conspiracy since he seemed to know what had happened in the house.

He was glad; he didn’t want to ever see the Dursleys again.

 

~ooOoo~

It had been a fun week as the new family took Harry all over London to see things. None of them had ever been there so it was an adventure.

They had two hotel rooms with the girls in one and he and Xander sharing another.

Xander had even been there when he woke up from a nightmare.

He had picked him up and placed him in his bed to sleep with him, telling him that he would fight the nightmare monster, telling him a bedtime story about a nightmare who wanted to be nice and her adventures to become a day mare which gave people day dreams.

 

Now it was time to get on the airplane and he was being held by Faith while Xander gave the lady their tickets.

Dawn answered most of his questions about the plane with Xander and Faith piping in their own comments letting him know that they were with him and that there was nothing to be afraid of.

 

~ooOoo~

He didn’t remember arriving in the US; the first thing he remembered was that they were going on the trip and then waking up in an unfamiliar room.

He climbed out of the full size bed and headed out of the room to find the bathroom and the others.

He found them in what looked like a kitchen and climbed up on Xander’s lap.

“Well hey there sport. You sleep ok in your bed?” Xander asked, giving him a hug.

Harry nodded, that answered his question as to where he was. He was at HIS new home and he had been in HIS room.

Xander put him in a booster seat at the table and served him some pancakes.

“Better get something to eat; we have a full day ahead of ourselves.  We are heading to the mall to get you sheets and curtains for your room, that YOU get to pick out, and then we are headed off to the toy store to get you some of your own toys.”

Harry bounced in his booster seat and began eating. TOYS!!!

 

~ooOoo~

Harry helped Dawn make his bed and put away his clothes, and then Xander came in and helped him set up his toy chest where all of his toys were to be when he wasn’t playing with them.

Something he swore he would do so that he (or someone else) wouldn’t step on them and break them.

He had new bookcases for his books which Xander and Dawn as well as Faith telling him that they would help him learn to read all by himself!

 

He fell asleep with his new stuffed bear that they had gotten from Build-A-Bear and he got to make all by himself.

 

~ooOoo~

Xander, Faith, and Dawn were sitting in the living room after they had gotten Harry to sleep.

The boy had bounced all around while they shopped which they found much better, than the scared kid they had while in England.

“So boy toy, what do we do now?” Faith asked Xander.

Xander shrugged then said; “Hallie said to set up a routine for him and this will help him settle in better.  Plus his 4th birthday is at the end of next month so we need to plan that, maybe a small party with just us.  Hallie has already sent word that ‘The Consort has a child’ so the word is out there so outside of enemies in the vamps and rogues we don’t have to worry.  I’ll set up online classes for the fall and probably the winter courses so there is someone here with him.”

He took a drink of his soda; “I want him to go to pre-school, but he needs to be reading before then so we will have our work cut out for us.  However I think that we will be doing good to have him ready for Kindergarten instead.  We can always get play dates for him so that he gets used to other kids.  I’ve already decided that he will be taking kiddy martial arts so I’ll be setting that up as one of his birthday presents.  I want him to be comfortable on the computer as well so we need to buy computer learning programs for him as well as games.”

The other two nodded in agreement.

Xander pointed at Faith; “Wes wants you to come and play big sister for the jr. Slayers since some of them have been acting up and pulling a Buffy and saying that normals should stay out of it and let the ‘Special Ones’ take care of things. Almost had a riot when the hunters there training the girls heard that.”

Dawn and Faith snicker having heard it from one of the hunters. There had been talk of spankings until Faith had pointed out that they might like that.

“In the meantime, there are reports of a Vampire upswing in the club district if you want to do that tonight.”

Faith raised her drink in acknowledgement that she would take care of it.

Xander got up with a stretch, “I am calling it a night since I doubt Harry will let us sleep in.”

Dawn nodded and headed up to bed, while Xander hugged Faith and told her to come home safe.

 

~ooOoo~

San Diego was a bigger version of Sunnydale only without the bad demons. With it being known that ‘The Consort’ was here, most of the clans refused to act up and the only problems now were Vampires and the occasional rogue who didn’t take the hint to take it elsewhere if they wanted to act up.

It was a rare case that caused Xander to come out to hunt, but when it did, there was usually hell to pay and heads literally rolling.

Xander was known as a Consort due to his capture and survival and she and Dawn were considered his ladies.

Since Xander had killed off the demon who had taken him with Faith’s help and Dawn holding the portal so they could make their getaway, Xander had been left with all of the other worldly goods of the demon they had conquered and the fact that Xander now knew “HIS” name, he was pretty much left alone.

The demon had carved symbols into Xander’s flesh and then burned them in so if he took off his illusion necklace and let the demons see what is written there, they usually die a horrible death right there due to the curses laid there.

 

Faith took one last look around before calling it a night and, saying thanks to the Granolith demon that had helped her hunt down the Master Vampire that had caused to problem, headed off for home and her nice soft bed.

 

~ooOoo~

Xander had found that Harry already knew his ABC’s so it was just a matter of teaching him how to use them to spell out words.

Harry had been overjoyed to find that his new guardian was not only going to read to him, but teach him to read as well.

They had made a deal, Harry would read to Xander or Dawn or Faith for one half hour and one of them would read to him before bed for one hour.

He liked it better when Xander read to him, because he did voices to go with the story.

The current book was Star Wars to go with Harry getting to watch it during the week.

Since he already knew the story it was fun to have Xander do the voices of the various characters that Harry had loved in the movies.

 

The new schedule was Harry getting up at around 7-8am and having breakfast with everyone but Faith who was allowed to sleep in till 12 or so since she worked nights.

Harry would then have a math class with Dawn and then a history class with Xander who would then go on to teach him his spelling and reading.

After his nap, he had to see a dr. about his nightmares and about what the Dursleys had done to him so that he could get over it and put it in the past.

On bad days he usually slept in the living room with Xander reading to him and comforting him during his second nap.

He needed the second nap to help with the tiredness that he got from the dr.

It usually only lasted a half hour or so, then he was up and around, though Xander would sometimes talk to him about it as well since Xander hadn’t had good parents either.

 

After his second nap, Harry was allowed to play on the computer with either the games Xander and the family had gotten for him, or one of the learning programs they had gotten for him.

Then it was time for dinner and after that Family Aikido class and after that a bath and then bed.

 

On the weekends, they always headed out when the weather allowed. And Harry’s favorite place was the park where they would set up picnics and he could play with the other kids there.

 

Sometimes when he has been extra good, he was allowed to go down to the beach and play with Xander being the one to normally watch him.

Xander had even taught him to swim.

 

~ooOoo~

Harry’s birthday came and with it surprises for him.

He had never had a party before and wasn’t expecting one

Especially since he didn’t know it was his birthday.

 

His first gift was the fact that Hallie had pushed through the adoption so he was officially a Knight now.

He got a set of Jedi robes and a toy light saber as well as Star Wars sheets and curtains and posters of the ships.

He loved space ships be they real or imagined and Xander had helped him set up models of various ships in his room

He enjoyed the cartoon DVDs he had gotten (he was a fan of Bugs Bunny and Scooby-Doo)

He got his first ever birthday cake and they took pictures to put in his photo album for him.

He was allowed to dress up in his Jedi robes to go to the zoo, where they found out he could talk to snakes.

They told him that was way cool, but he should only do it around family since others might not understand.

 

~ooOoo~

With the announcement of Harry’s adoption, something seemed to relax in Harry and while he was still driven to prove himself, he wasn’t AS driven as he was before. Something they all recognized.

The therapist that Xander had gotten from the council had explained it as Harry feeling that they won’t give him back now. He had validation of his living with them and nothing was going to change that.

He was still pushing to prove himself to them but allowed himself to be bad every once in awhile finding that, though he was punished; they still loved him in the end.

 

Xander was still leery of Harry doing ok in Pre-School so it was decided that he would be home-schooled for now.

He was still seeing his therapist every afternoon and that was one of the problems he faced.

Xander had gotten the workbooks that Harry needed to do to prepare himself for Kindergarten and that plus his friends in Aikido and at the park was as good as they were getting for now.

 

The highpoint of the month of August was Harry slipping and calling Xander dad.

He had been afraid of what Xander would do, but Xander only hugged him and told him that if that was what he wanted to call him, then he could be his dad.

Harry had cried for an hour after that, just hugging Xander like a lifesaver.

 

When he had calmed down, Xander told him that this meant that Dawn was his sister and Faith was an aunt.

Something Harry could agree too.

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