The Cheshire

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Recap

Harry tilted his head his smirk still in place as he spoke "I trust that is all you wanted to speak to me about Headmaster?" the 'leader of the light' nodded stiffly and as he made to gesture to the exit of his office Harry vanished just as he appeared.

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Harry's wide smile was apparent to all in the main room and he was ever so excited if his twitching ears and tail meant anything as he strolled across the room to Hermione who was sitting down in one of the many couches in the main room with a thick book in hand.

As he did so Harry laughed internally as he moved to the couch ignoring the curious and piercing stares stares he was getting from his new housemates.

Hermione looked up as Harry sat bouncing slightly on the soft sofa cushions "Hello Hermione Granger how are you?"

The girl lowered the book and her eyes widened as she saw who interrupted her reading time "Hello Harry…how do you know my name, you weren't here when they announced my name."

Harry's wide smile gained a playful air to it as he replied "Well I am a Cheshire I know many things also please call me Cheshire."

Hermione raised an eyebrow at the boy's request and claim "As in Alice in wonderland Cheshire?" earning a nodded from Harry.

"Of course who do you think inspired the character?" asked Harry with a straight face as Hermione instantly began to question the self-proclaimed Cheshire boy's mental state despite his odd feats at the housing ceremony.

Harry smiled and leaned into Hermione's personal space and gently pressed a finger to her forehead and within a second Hermione knew everything he had said was true.

He was the Cheshire and he had picked her to be his entertainment, his drag along friend for his ventures while he was here.

Hermione was stuck between horror and fascination of the thing she could learn with Harry's help and from the look in his eyes he knew exactly what was going through her head and more.

Harry's wide smile took on a rather disturbing edge as he backed away slightly and offered a hand "Do you want to?"

Hermione blinked at the question as confusion flashed across her features and she spoke "Do I want to what?"

Harry's smile didn't waver and his tail almost seemed to curl in pleasure as he replied "Do you want to learn?"

Hermione's eyes widened, this soon but what about classes tomorrow what would he teach her or show her would he take them out of the castle?

But then her mind snapped back to what Harry had shown her she knew he could do anything walk on the tight rope of time forwards, backwards.

He could even hop from one tight rope to the next even sever one a one second and create a new one with other threads.

Harry was the single greatest source of power and information in this section of reality but with that power and knowledge came madness and despair…the need for a distraction.

Hermione was Harry's distraction for the time being however Hermione's mind snapped back to Harry's offer and she so seeing Harry still there offering his hand she pushed aside her fear and grabbed his hand making his wide smile grow in a disturbing way and then they both disappeared melted into smoke.

Harry couldn't help himself as he pulled Hermione into his in-between, his space between time and space the empty cracks in the spectrum of reality.

Harry promptly created two chairs, a tea set with tea already made, and a plate of biscuits.

Harry promptly sat down and gestured for Hermione to do the same as the tea set began moving by itself.

The tea kettle began pouring the tea into the tea cup before adding sugar and milk before stirring itself before moving into Harry's awaiting hand.

"C-cheshire where are we are right now." asked Hermione to an expectant looking Cheshire who was staring at her over his tea cup as he drank.

Hermione excepted him to lower the cup and speak but she jumped when a set of teeth appeared in the air in front of her and spoke "We are in between space and time at the moment."

Hermione stared at the mouth before looking around looking at the empty white void around them.

Her brain seemed to freeze at the sudden and shocking answer that she didn't notice her tea had been hovering just short of her hand.

When she finally noticed she took the cup with an oddly steady hand and took a sip or she tried at least because her hand became more and more unsteady.

But a set of hands appeared and grasped her's gently and steadied the shaking appendages before guiding the drink to Hermione's mouth.

After she managed to drink some of it the hands let go and she lowered the cup as they disappeared before she spoke "How are we here?"

Cheshire smiled at her from behind his cup and lowered it showing that his cup was still full which didn't make sense since she saw him drink but she couldn't bring herself to question it as Cheshire replied.

"I brought us here a little place of empty to hop from your little home to the many versions of it that exist." as he finished talking Cheshire's tail flicked.

Hermione eyes suddenly zoomed in on the swaying limb Hermione was shocked from her staring when Cheshire spoke "You can touch it if you like…my ears as well they are both incredibly soft."

Hermione stared Cheshire as he stood up and approached her before stopping just in front of her and turning so that his tail was in grasping distance.

Hermione took him up on his offer and began stroking the tail freezing the second her hand sank into the incredibly soft and warm fur before she began stroking anew.

"Why are we here?" asked Hermione suddenly causing Cheshire to look over his shoulder at her.

"This is a hoping space I need to bring my guests here before I can take them to the other worlds… a bit of a drag to be sure but if I didn't then they would surely die due to the differences between the worlds but by bringing them through here the raw nothingness coats your being allowing whatever world or dimension to accept you as a natural part of that landscape." replied Cheshire.

"So sort of like decompression?" asked Hermione to which Cheshire smiled at her over his shoulder and turned back to face her drawing his tail from her grasp.

"Yes 'sort of' except instead of decompression sickness you are ripped into nonexistence because the rules of that world don't know what to do with you." replied Harry as his ears twitched to the right hearing something that Hermione could perceive.

"Now that we have been here for a bit and your little traveler's shock has smoothed over with the assistance of my tail…Pick a number between one and one hundred." said Cheshire while his smile took on a mischievous air.

Hermione cautiously called out a number "11." and instantly regretted it as Cheshire's smile grew impossibly wide and he again offered her a hand.

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