Hello. I made this while waiting for College Teachers to show up. They have this distressing habit of being absentee teachers when its the first day of class, especially when it's Summer Class.

Please, R&R.

Magic, Distress calls and Right Hooks

"In this life, we are either kings or pawns, emperors or fools."
-Napoleon Bonaparte, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Leonard "Bones" McCoy watched the Prisoner that sat delicately in the holding cell. Despite the fact that holding cells in the Enterprise had no chairs, she managed to make sitting on the floor very elegant. Almost like she was holding court and not a prisoner under interrogation.

"What is your name?" the Captain asked.

Those watching included First Officer Spock and Chief Medical Officer McCoy. The others in the bridge that was unoccupied were watching the monitors.

"I am Lillian of Arrendale, Queen of Arren and Holder of the Yggdrasil," she answered. Her accent was strange and lisping. It was pleasing to the ears like a lullaby.

"My name is James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise." The captain said in a strong voice. "We received a distress call from Terran, your planet, that your people were under attack. When we stormed the city, we found no infrastructural damage. Only you, as a prisoner. Our best conclusion was that you were the attacking party and were subdued. Please clarify."

Lillian blinked at the very succinct speech.

"I do not have proof to convince you that I am who I am," she told him. "But in a few hours, I will die."

All three men tensed at that. The dying prisoners were always the dangerous type since they somehow managed to make up for the loss of their life by bringing as many people with them as possible.

She patted the air in front of her condescendingly. "No, no. Be calm. We have five hours left. While we wait, I will tell you the nature of the Yggdrasil and the history of my people."

She smiled at Spock who had relaxed when he felt the sincerity of her words.

"We were once inhabitants of the planet earth. It was where we practiced our magic in secrecy. Before you get into hysterics captain, magic is real. The true wielders of it are my ancestors. Upon the creation of better satellites and technology, discovery was imminent. It was nearly genocide, and they hid deeper. When the other worlds were discovered, we were the first to transfer to a new planet.

"But non-magicals were everywhere. Despite the fact that magic was spread in the other races that enable their mind-reading or abnormal battle prowess, we were wary. So we searched for a planet of our own that we removed from the minds of the non-magical authority. The records were still there but overlooked. We named it Terra."

Here, First Officer Spock interrupted. "This happened before the formation of the Federation?"

A sly smile entered her face. "Yes. I daresay this all happened when the Federation hadn't simplified the universe by quadrants. Does this answer your question?"

A shocked nod.

"The Terra was not perfect. It enhanced our magic but there was a consciousness buried deep into the planet. It had felt our arrival and was as wary of us as we were of the mundane. Some other race had tried to colonize it and the blood shed on the soil had destroyed its natural processes for decades. When my ancestors realized that, they made a pact with the planet in exchange for our residence. They tied it with a promise to never have war and so the planet went to sleep and a small part of its mind became Yggdrasil and latched itself unto my ancestors. And we felt the every motion and breath of every being on the planet."

This time, the Chief Medical Officer interrupted. "Let me get this straight. You offered your body as a hostage to the planet and now you can feel everything going on there?"

Lillian nodded, clapping her hands gently and politely. "Yes, exactly Dr. McCoy. And that is why my bloodline was named queen. Because I am bound to the planet."

"Bound," the captain started.

She nodded. "Yes. The moment you took me from the planet, I was deemed an oathbreaker for it was one of the oaths to never leave the planet. Otherwise, how else could I protect it? I have become slated to die."

All three men started to move to get her out, but she placed a hand to stop them. "Hold sirs. I am not yet finished. I will tell you why the distress call was rung."

The men settled down.

She smiled. "The entire planet watching, my people cannot have open war, but it does not mean it is not happening. I was approached by my childhood nemesis and told that unless I would cede the control of the city to him, he would start to murder the people one by one. And he would do it in such a way that the planet would not be awakened.

"But my people would not have borne that easily. They would have fought and it will inevitably become open war. I knew that and my lady-in-waiting rang the distress call while I was still pondering on what to do. In a way, captain, she quickened the inevitable. So my plea, captain Kirk, is for you to evacuate my people. Save them, please. Save them, since I cannot beg you to save my life."

They scurried around like headless chickens. Well, she mused, looking at the stern-faced doctor in front of her, perhaps not exactly headless.

After the interrogation, Chief Medical Officer McCoy took her to the Medical Bay and sat her down seriously.

"I may not know magic, missy, but I am a doctor. Now, tell me what I can do."

She gave him a sad smile. "Unless you can change the very make-up of my blood, sir, then there is nothing to do. The very nature of the oath binds my blood, my bones and my soul to the planet. Only replacing my blood with someone else's would work."

A strange light entered his eyes and he had her lie down on the examination table.

"I think I can do that," he muttered. "The least I can do is try and what have you got to lose?"

What indeed. She smiled and agreed.

Initially, he moved quickly, setting up needles and blood bags and plastic tubes. She barely winced when the needle entered her. But it all boiled down to waiting so she distracted him from wearing a trench on the floor by talking to him.

"It all comes down to the blood, Dr. McCoy," she told him seriously. "Some of the more ancient passwords of my ancestors needed blood to open it. But the newer ones aren't quite so bloody and would settle for a lock of hair."

"Genetics?" he mused.

"If that is what your people call it. Some vampire myths would say that blood was how they transferred information. One of the stories of our more magical ancestors state that the worst way to be cursed was through blood. So to hurt the parents would be to curse would echo through the heritage, they said."

"Vampires, those are real?" McCoy said, shocked.

"Hmm, werewolves too. The poor fellows have no control over things."

There was a scuffle by the door and suddenly, the captain was there, looking slightly hassled.

"We managed to evacuate most of your people, Queen Lillian. But one of the men says he is sticking to you like glue and wouldn't go to the evacuation site. He wouldn't rest until he saw you."

A deep, silky voice washed over them. It made Bones' eyebrows go up.

"Glue?" the newcomer said. "I am not nearly so useless."

A blonde man strode in the room, ponytail swinging.

Lillian struggled to sit up and gave up when Bones shot her a look. She huffed and turned to look at the blonde man.

"Lucius, why are you here? Where is Draco? How…Is Tom with the evacuees?" she asked.

Lucius rolled his eyes. "Your highness, one at a time. Draco is taking care of the evacuation. Tom, that son-of-a-bitch managed to convince a lot of people that the stories of Yggdrasil are just stories so they settled down to wait."

Lillian sighed sadly. Bones sniffed disapprovingly.

He continued speaking, ignoring the stares he was getting. Lucius drawled in such an aristocratic manner that it was annoying several listeners, particularly the captain. "Most people didn't put much stock to him after Miss Hermione socked him in the jaw."

Lillian's head shot up, her shock plain on her face. "W-wait," she spluttered. "We are talking about my Hermione? The gentle and sweet Hermione who can't even hurt a fly? My Hermione?" His silence spoke for itself and the queen smiled. It lit up her face like a thousand suns shone through it. "I can't believe she punched that riddling bastard!" then she frowned. "I can't believe she didn't give me a chance to try!"

Lucius smirked. "Your majesty, you better believe it! She certainly hasn't been gentle this past couple of hours, in light of your recent oathbreaking. Draco has been on the receiving end of her right hook for questioning her orders."

Then he noticed the tubes of blood attached to her arms, some drawing blood, some replenishing it. "What on earth is going on?"

James Kirk found himself setting the most logical person on his ship against an irate lady-in-waiting.

The Vulcan did not shoot him betrayed looks but he did have a resigned set in his shoulders. The captain did not understand why he felt like he had just thrown his First Officer to the sharks.

The shrieks explained it to him within moments. And when it died down, Lady Hermione was shown to the Medical bay. Kirk rubbed his temples and looked to Spock for an explanation.

"She had a most compelling argument, captain," Spock said sincerely. The livid bruise on his jaw explained everything.

Queen Lillian might have been the one they deemed most important but the Lady Hermione's name was making its rounds in the Enterprise – along with her wicked right hook.

Minutes later, the Lady-in-waiting was said to have removed herself from the Medical bay in tears. Kirk was curious enough to find out why. Spock followed him after a brief moment's hesitation.

A loud argument had erupted in the Med bay and they were priveledged enough to hear the blonde bastard not talking in that annoying aristocratic manner. In fact, he sounded quite distraught.

"She's practically a squib now!" he was exclaiming. Jim mouthed the words to Spock in question and the Vulcan shrugged.

"Well, she's lost her magic and the Yggdrasil but she's alive. That's one thing," Bones was heard to say.

"I think it didn't occur to you, doctor, that our people view magic as our lifeblood. If our people find out, she'll be deemed dead. She's as good as dead anyway!"

The rant was suddenly silenced. A very vivid image entered Kirk's mind. That of the queen placing a hand on Lucius' arm. It was something she would do. Kirk and Spock crept closer to the open door.

"Lucius, I had anticipated this," she was whispering. "And it's not too bad. Our people didn't have queens until Yggdrasil came anyway. If you really want one, I vote on Hermione."

"Anticipated," Lucius spluttered.

"Aha!" Bones erupted, having a eureka moment. "It's all about the blood."

There was a soft rustle. "Very good doctor." Then a sigh, "Please, Lucius. As queen, I was trapped. Now that my shackles are gone, I want to see the universe."

Footsteps walking towards the door had Kirk and Spock scrambling to duck in a nearby hallway.

But they still heard Lucius say clearly, "I have been your guard for years. My entire bloodline has served yours. Don't you think about how I would feel, now that you are declaring yourself dead? Food for thought."

They didn't hear Lillian sigh to Bones, "Stubborn bastard."

Lady Hermione sought out an officer of the starship and found Chief Communications Officer Uhura and Chief Medical Officer McCoy. This was merely a coincidence as the captain was recovering from repeated doses of coffee and First Officer Spock was taking over where the captain had left off in the paperwork.

"So," she started as soon as she slid in the seat in front of the officers having brunch. "What does it take to travel in a starship?"

Both of them exchanged glances and then eyed her warily. "Why do you ask?" Uhura asked.

They hadn't met her yet but stories of her had quickly made it around the ship. Bones might have seen her but she hadn't stayed long for conversation since she had taken one look at the pale and sleeping queen and then burst into tears, running out of the Med Bay. The most whispered rumor was the way Spock had asked for something to cover the livid bruise on his jaw.

Hermione's eyes hardened and flashed with steel, fire and determination. "My queen has lost her magic. It was something we discussed in a moment of weakness, what she would want to do if she was unbound from Yggdrasil and she said that she always wanted to join a starship. Since I'm not abandoning her, I wonder if it's possible to…?"

It was a pretty reasonable request and Uhura started talking about the Starfleet Academy quickly to prevent Bones from muttering dire protestations and pessimistic predictions about the life expectancy of people who travel in starships and explore uncharted territory.

In the middle of the discussion, she started and pulled out a stick which was letting out a sort of alarm.

"What's that?" Uhura asked at the same time a member of the crew summoned both officers to the bridge.

Both of them ran quickly. Hermione joined them and sternly looked at them for any sign of objection. No one raised it, lacking courage under fire.

The queen was already there, looking pale but regal, supporting herself by putting a hand to the captains chair. The captain was also there, awake and downing coffee like mad. Bones looked like he wanted to chastise him for the coffee but quelled any complaints when he saw the state of the Planet Terra.

"Oh shit," Bones cursed. Then he looked to the wavering queen and placed a hand under her elbow. "Are you alright?"

She gave him a wan smile. "I was woken when I felt my body heating up. The blood which you had transferred to those plastic bags evaporated as it boiled by itself."

Terra was covered in a green cloud. From the distant memory of Yggdrasil, she knew those were sophorous clouds.

"Queen Lillian, what is that?" the captain asked.

She started. "That is the sophorous cloud. Touching it or breathing it is lethal. Before the pact of Yggdrasil, we lost armies to it. The survivors lost limbs that touched the cloud. It enters through the pores and poisons the blood. Upon contact, the limb must be amputated to prevent the poison from reaching the brain, or the heart."

Bones looked irritated. "No cure?"

Hermione answered for Lillian. "The skin withered upon contact. So, no." She paused, looking at the ominous, acid-green clouds. "This is only the first part."

"What's the second part?" the captain asked.

He was answered by a cracking sound, of earth trembling and moving like arms smacking ants that crawled on its body.

It was an eerie silence on the bridge. People had watched her interview with the captain and thought she was speaking metaphorically when she said the planet had consciousness. When the earth finally settled and the sophorous clouds dispersed, the planet looked pristine and untouched. It was eerie.

But even more eerie was the queen's smile of happiness.

The Starfleet Academy had a four-year program for cadets and then they were assigned to work on ships. Everybody was surprised when the new crew assigned to the Enterprise was a couple of the refugees they managed to evacuate from the living planet, Terra.

Unsurprisingly, the queen had taken a course on healing. Her bedside manner was excellent, her Professors said. She just needed to have extra lessons on the more intricate parts of the body and stop blushing when faced with a chart of the male's reproductive system.

She had taken the name Lillian Peverell after the ancient surname of her ancestors.

And where she went, her most faithful followed. First was the Lady Hermione, who had taken on the name Granger, stating that the land she had lived on in Terra was a Grange. Shockingly, she had taken up engineering, and upon being questioned by the resident Vulcan, explained that the mechanics of it was a lot like magic.

She and Scotty, the Chief Officer in Engineering, had legendary arguments over the usage of certain parts and only stopped quarrelling through exhaustion, natural calamity and ship disaster.

Second was the blonde bastard, who had signed up as a field agent. He didn't need physical training since he could already knock out his opponents without breaking a sweat and recognize poisons from color and scent alone. What he needed was psychological sessions so he wouldn't cause a break in diplomacy. Nothing could curb his tongue, but anger management helped.

As a joke, his son Draco had chosen Malfoy as a surname, seeing as nobody but the queen had faith in his skill set.

The captain, remembering Lillian's wish to see the universe, occasionally sent her out on harmless missions that Chief Medical Officer McCoy cooked up, like fetching samples of foreign plants that had dubious medicinal value.

Usually in that time, Lucius wore a trench somewhere in the starship – not on the bridge since he had been banned after he pitched a fir when Lillian got chased by man-eating monkeys with extra – long, barbed tails for wrapping around the target, or the meal. And when she came back, she would be treated to an hour long tirade about unnecessary dangers.

Upon complaint to Hermione, the former lady-in-waiting had suggested to "kiss the rant out of him." Since Hermione and Lucius couldn't stand each other, Lillian's shock was appropriate.

But the suggestion was acted on and Spock grudgingly handed money to Hermione.

Having magical people on board did solve problems that often came up during missions. Hermione was very proficient in apparating and sneaking around, and it solved infiltration missions. Lucius was better at battle magic than he was at protecting a target and he often accompanied the captain on the more dangerous retrieval missions. And no lives were lost ever since Lillian joined the medical bay. She often used her still-slightly-but-not-quite-magical blood to give her patients a more speedy recovery.

Some of the magical populace ended up in ships anyway and they always bowed to Lillian whenever they saw her. And always, it irritated Lillian to kingdom come.

"I'm no longer a queen," she ranted one night to Bones. "I don't have a kingdom. The planet your Federation planted us in doesn't need a queen."

"Cariad," Lucius interrupted. That was an endearment that was Wlesh, which absolutely made no sense since Lucius' ancestors were Scottish.

Lillian, instead of being relieved upon seeing her sweetheart, got more irritated. "Oh no! Don't talk to me when I'm still ranting to Bones. When I feel better, I'll find you."

He instantly beat a hasty retreat after confirming the rant with a look from the doctor.

Bones had a long-suffering expression on his face as her diatribe winded down.

"Look," he told her sternly. "You don't excalty get a choice here. People don't get praised for the right things. Maybe their bowing to you is for saving their lives after being an oathbreaker."

Lillian sighed and sat on the empty gurney dejectedly. Bones rolled his eyes. "Your people have been displaced and lost their livelihood. They bow to you because they need to feel some semblance of normalcy. And anyway, you can't unlearn what must be years – centuries of habit."

Lillian brightened up considerably and left the Medical bay with a skip on her step.

Bones sat down on his chair and gave a world – weary sigh. Being a divorcee, he generally avoided women that looked like homemakers.

The intercome buzzed. "Dr. McCoy, you there?" came the distinctive accent of Scotty.

"Yeah?" he growled, still recovering from placating an upset female.

"Hermione's headed there. I might have said one word too many, mate. Sorry for the trouble."

An ominous silence filled the med bay, telling of headaches and aspirin pills being downed. And then…

"Dammit, woman. I'm a Doctor, not a psychiatrist."

Well? This is my first crossover for HP and Star Trek. First time I read one, I thought it was rather...far. Then I realized the appeal of it. So of course I made one! I have to keep up with the trending...Lol. Kidding. Actually, I wrote this when I dreamed of Riddle and Lillian having a conversation, Lillian being queen and soooo calm while Riddle is threatening her with either genocide or massive planetary destruction. It was a pretty cool dream.

Guys, I would really appreciate reviews...and maybe favorites.

Yours truly,

Lady Hallen

P.S. Who caught that bit about Riddle? Riddling bastard. It had me giggling when I wrote it.