TITLE: The Midnight hour

AUTHOR: Branwen777

RATING: M/R/NC-17

GENRE: Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Drama, Angst, Action …

WARNING: Slash (Male/Male), Violence, References to abuse, Language, Mature Scenes, Angst …

DISCLAIMER: I don’t own anything from the Twilight or the Harry Potter books … I’m just playing around with them. : )

SUMMARY: Having defeated Voldemort at the end of his fifth year Harry swears off magic after the wizarding world turns on him believing that he is becoming the next Dark Lord. Harry flees England and goes into hiding in the small secluded town of Forks Washington. He changes his identity to Orion Black, hoping for a chance to start a new life as a normal muggle teenager. But of course nothing can ever be normal for Harry Potter, especially after he meets the Cullen’s. He knows exactly what they are, having fought against their kind during the war. But if it is revealed that he knows then he’ll have to reveal who he really is, and with the wizarding world out to get him, can he trust the Cullen’s with his own secret?

Once was a time
I'd give my world to you
But it was never enough
Swore by your hand
But you never told the truth
That's when I saw myself in you...

I'm rotten inside
I'm weak & I'm frightened
Of the things that you might find
I'm rotten inside again
I'm weak & I'm firightened
Of the things that you might find...

What could I
Do to make everything alright
Left me again
Like I always thought you'd do
That's when I saw myself in you...

I'm rotten inside
I'm weak & I'm frightened
Of the things that you might find
I'm rotten inside again
I'm weak & I'm frightened
Of the things that you might find...

That you might find...

And though I try
I can't forget
The way you looked at me
And said...

I'm rotten inside
I'm weak & I'm frightened
Of the things that you might find
I'm rotten inside again
I'm weak & I'm firightened
Of the things that you might find...

Rotten Inside: Earshot

PREFACE

I'd never given much thought to how I would die. When you’ve spent every second of your pathetic life with the knowledge that you were most likely going to die any moment now by any number of reasons the, “how is it going to happen?” doesn’t really seem to matter all that much anymore only the “how quickly can we get it over with?”.

By all rights I should have been dead a long time ago — but then again I wouldn’t be who I am — now would I … and the whole fucking world would have gone to hell by now...

Not that I’d cared all that much to begin with.

I hadn’t cared for anything in a very long time. Since probably the age of four — when my uncle had taken his first swing…

But then I saw him — He was my one exception to …well … everything.

Ironically, he made me feel more human than I had ever felt in my entire life. He gave me back my purpose, my reason … When all I’d wanted was to disappear … to stop existing. He made me want to live, if just to see his face every morning when I woke up. My life became his. I existed only for him — because of him.

I made him my everything, because without him I had nothing … I was nothing.

But it couldn’t last. I knew from the beginning that it wouldn’t. Nothing so perfect ever did — Not for me at least. There was always a flaw, always something waiting to catch me off guard …and of course it had to be of my own making.

That’s what had led me to this moment … to this point — to my death. I wasn’t scared. I was surprisingly calm. As I should have been. I had been preparing for this moment my entire life.

My own life meant nothing to me. It never had … but his life — his life meant everything. His existence meant more to me than anything … there was no world for me without him in it.

They had called me the next Dark Lord. They had tried to control me, beat me into submission. They turned on me before I could turn on them … and perhaps … they had been right all along, because as of right now I would bring the whole fucking world to its knees to protect him — I would destroy every single one of them to allow him and his family their existence.

I would make sure that he and his family stayed safe. That they did not suffer another day of their eternal existence. I would take their pain away and if I had to I would gladly make it my own.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something in the end … perhaps I wasn’t as far gone as I believed … as I felt in my mind.

I still loved him.

In this world of darkness and pain and numbness that I had fallen into … I still held onto that one truth.

I would never stop loving him. I clung to that emotion with all that I had left in me. It kept me sane — the only thing that kept the darkness from completely taking over me. I still loved him … as long as I could feel that I was still … human.

I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing this now. I would still be holed up somewhere, cut off from both worlds … alone but safe.

I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end. I had never expected to fall in love. I had never expected to have a family. They had given me the world. They had given me a life — and now … it was my turn to give it back.

Sorry about the long Authors Note, but it’s important so please don’t skip it!!!

So here’s the prologue for my Harry Potter/Twilight crossover I’ve been promising a few people I’d try to write. I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people make a request on the same story. I had four people ask me if I would consider writing this crossover in one day.

Well, you’ve finally broken me down! LOL

I have video's and banners out already for this story, also the MP3 for the song above that inspired a lot of this fic … the links are on my profile page.

If you would like to see how I’m picturing Harry for this story then the banners are a good place to look. Also the video's are more like a major scene from the story rather than a trailer, but you’ll see what I’m talking about if you watch them. It’s kind of like a mini movie.

Also, I know that a lot of you aren’t big fans of first person (honestly I never thought I was either), but Harry’s POV will be written in first person, because I am using a lot of the books. I’m not following them completely as you will see in the coming chapters, but like in this chapter I do use a lot of the quotes and scenes. However! Edward’s POV will not be first person, and also anyone else’s POV I might use will not be in first person. Only Harry’s … and actually I think it makes the story a lot less confusing to read like that, with all the POV switches, and I’m surprisingly finding that first person is a lot easier to write.

Also if you’ve never read the Twilight books or watched the movie, but you still want to read this fic then I think it could be a stand alone … however, on my profile page I do have a link where you can watch the whole movie online and download the books if you want to check them out and get to know the Cullen’s and the world of Forks better.

I’d love to hear what you guys think.

Thanks!