Hello there our lovely Consulting Wizard Stalkers! Here’s the latest preview for Part 7. Just a little Toby and Draco interaction. Enjoy! - Z.

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          “I do not like it. I do not like it one bit.”
          ”Too bad. It’s the way it has to be,” Toby said, hours after the feast. Hours after Draco had snuck back out of the Slytherin dungeon. “It’s not my call, mate.”
          ”You are supposed to be here to protect me! How can you do that if I’m in the dungeon and you’re on the top floor of the castle?!”
         ”Well,” Toby said, rubbing the back of his neck. “See, that’s not my fault either. One, I’m an apprentice, not a student, so I can’t stay in the dorms. Two, I’m a werewolf with needs. Meaning I have need of a secure place to transform so that no one comes to harm. Third, I have no bloody idea where this room really is. It just sort of pops up. Why, right now we might be in the kitchens. Or Dumbledore’s private bath. Or even on the wall behind your own bed.”
          ”What?”
          He shrugged. “Look kid, I don’t know how or why it works. I just know that it does. So… If you need to, and you can find my room, hide out in here if you like. Just… uh… Don’t tell anyone. The last thing I need is people I don’t know bursting in a bit closer to the full moon, got it?”

         He had known he was there his entire life.
         Watching silently from a distance. Never coming close.
         A dark figure at the edge of his life.
         Always there, but always apart.
         When he had run away, finding shelter in a forest near his godparents’ home, there the man was.

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Title: Blood Loyal
Part: 6/?
Fandoms: Harry Potter/brief bit and references to BBC!Sherlock
Pairings: Pre-slash and slash Drarry, Romione
Author: Z-sama (dA user the-lady-harkness) and Tem
Beta: Phil the Sherlotter
WARNINGS: This story will have but is not limited to… Ginny bashing, lots and lots of slash, violence, swearing, wizards, werewolves, batty divination professors, bigotry and blood status hate. Angst.

MISC: This is 6th year AU, and sets up the background of the Sherlock!Wizardverse. This is also a prequel (of sorts) to our other story John, I’m a Wizard. For more information on the AU that this story takes place in and bonus content, explore this ruddy tumblr will you. Also, the bulk of this fic takes place in our altered timeline, placing years six and seven approximately from Sept 1, 1921 to May 2, 1923.

Tobias and Draco kept to themselves after the room’s elder occupants filed out of the kitchen. Severus Snape made a point of ignoring the apprehensive and questioning stares of the Weasleys as he passed them. Watching the ever sour Snape go, his robes billowing behind him and giving him the bat-like appearance his grandparents had often laughed at with a distant and fond look in their eye, he couldn’t help but think of his father. Couldn’t help but take notice of the similarity in the demeanor. In the seeming chill his presence gave a room, and the slight disdain with which the man looked upon those around him, Toby saw then what would be in two years’ time the shadow that would lend name to a similarly severe child.

“Too bad he didn’t keep the name,” Toby said, not realizing he’d spoken aloud. “Fit the old bloke well, too.”

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Hello again our lovely Consulting Wizard Stalkers! Just Tem here with a preview of the next chapter. We’ve decided that since we’re suffering repeated delays (curse you offline lives!) and schedule problems, we’re going to start posting previews of each chapter on a regular basis. You know, so at least you all have SOMETHING to read here. All previews are presented “raw” which means there will by typos and such because, well, I tend not to use spellcheck until right before the whole thing is posted. Z tends not to let anyone read her bits until the whole chapter is put together. And our beta doesn’t get it until it’s done and time to edit. So, there’s probably typos and errors in this post. And in further previews.

Enjoy! - Tem (the writer with the better internet connection)

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         “Mr. Malfoy… Draco,” Dumbledore said. “Within these walls, and the halls of Hogwarts, you are safe. However, we cannot guarantee your safety outside these places. You have witnessed first hand the power Voldemort,” and at the name of the Dark Lord, Toby noticed, many flinched. Including Draco. “holds over our world. Now that you have fled his grasp, he has used his influence to attack Azkaban and free your father and other loyal followers of his cause.”
         “And my mother?” Draco asked, fighting to keep the emotions from his voice. Fighting to remain strong despite the great loss he felt at having to leave his mother behind in the cruel hands of the Dark Lord. “What have your spies told you of her?” Grey eyes looked around, but would not turn to Toby. The boy noticed a few brief sympathetic looks, but little else was given away. “Is she alive?”
         “She lives,” Snape said calmly. “But daily she is placed under the Cruciatis.”
         Draco’s jaw clenched. His shoulders tensed as he clenched his fists at his sides. He opened his mouth, but Toby spoke out of turn. “Has she broken?”
         “No. Lady Malfoy has weakened, but she remains silent on her affairs. I have done all that I am able under the Dark Lord’s watchful eye to ease her suffering. She will not speak, but I fear that death may help her to keep her silence.”
         Toby placed his hand back on Draco’s shoulder; an attempt to soothe and comfort him. To the others, his face was cold. An unreadable and unbreakable mask of indifference. But Toby knew better. He knew how to decipher the silent language of his family…
         And apparently so, too, did the owner of a set of emerald eyes dimmed only by rounded spectacles.

Title: Blood Loyal
Part: 5/?
Fandoms: Harry Potter/brief bit and references to BBC!Sherlock
Pairings: Pre-slash and slash Drarry, Romione
Author: Z-sama (dA user the-lady-harkness) and Tem
Beta: Phil the Sherlotter
WARNINGS: This story will have but is not limited to… Ginny bashing, lots and lots of slash, violence, swearing, wizards, werewolves, batty divination professors, bigotry and blood status hate. Angst.

MISC: This is 6th year AU, and sets up the background of the Sherlock!Wizardverse. This is also a prequel (of sorts) to our other story John, I’m a Wizard. For more information on the AU that this story takes place in and bonus content, explore this ruddy tumblr will you. Also, the bulk of this fic takes place in our altered timeline, placing years six and seven approximately from Sept 1, 1921 to May 2, 1923.

“Tobias,” Draco drawled, placing the book he had been looking through back in its place upon the shelf. “You have news?”

“Yeah. Have you eaten? Drank?”

“My appetite isn’t quite-“

“Just checking. That’s expected with the potions you’ve been given. But you do need to try and get plenty of water. The more hydrated you are, the better the blood replenisher works. The better that works, the easier it is for your body to handle the Skele-Gro.”

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Hey you lovely Consulting Wizard Stalkers! Just a quick report from Z. Computers are down right now and I’m popping this up via phone. Tem is really picking up the fic writing slack for me right now with chapter 5 of Blood Loyal. Its being done on paper since we can’t get to a proper computer till at least Saturday. I’ve written a small drabble to post as I’m sure we won’t have any real fic ready. As always thanks for hanging with us!
Sincerely, Z.

Hello you lovely lovely Consulting Wizard Stalkers out there!

We haven’t died. We haven’t stopped. We’ve just been busy. One of us is moving. There’s family wide issues going on. And it’s a whole lotta mess that means somewhere the USB drive with the story is shoved in a box in a corner of a new flat. The only real internet access before this updated has been via smartphones and well, you can’t exactly write very well using those.

We’ll keep you updated on the fic as soon as we can! And thanks for sticking with us this long!

                  Sincerely (and very very gratefully your servants)
                        The Writers

Thank you all so much for sticking with us through these delays. We’ve continued working, but it’s hard to get everything sorted and put together with how hectic real life has become. So, here’s a preview of the next chapter.

Enjoy - The Writers.

         “Tobias,” Draco drawled, placing the book he had been looking through back in its place upon the shelf. “You have news?”
         “Yeah. Have you eaten? Drank?”
         “My appetite isn’t quite-“
         “Just checking. That’s expected with the potions you’ve been given. But you do need to try and get plenty of water. The more hydrated you are, the better the blood replenisher works. The better that works, the easier it is for your body to handle the skelle-grow.”
         Harry stepped out of the way as the lanky wolf crossed the room, not giving the teen a second glance after the initial acknowledgement of his presence. Soft words when he neared Draco were spoken, but he could not decipher them without the aid of Fred and George’s extendable ears. It was hard for Harry to see his rival in such a drastically different light. Vulnerable. Quiet. Angry, yes, but unwilling to fight at the very sight of him.
         He was shaken from his thoughts by the voice of Nymphadora Tonks outside the door.
         Toby glanced towards him, one hand resting carefully on Draco’s shoulder as he guided him back to the bed. Presumably to make him lay down and get some more rest. “Cloak yourself, Potter. You might as well stay to hear the fruits of my efforts.”
         Harry didn’t move until the door opened a second time. Quickly he dropped his invisibility cloak back over himself and stepped out of the way just in time to see Tonks in the doorway. She didn’t look pleased, and her normally brightly colored hair was a sombre black. “Albus will see to it you have room and board until you’ve made your decisions. Based on what you decide, because he is still in his minority, Malfoy will either be taken into Auror custody or he will be given sanctuary by the Order.”
         “And what’s the third option?” Toby pressed, defiance clear in his voice. “If we choose to make our own way?”
         “There isn’t one. You either take the oath or you don’t. I don’t have a clue what you told him, but clearly he thinks you are both valuable to the cause to even consider having you join the Order after what you’ve done.”
         “I did what I had to do for my family,” Toby all but barked. “And I offered my services to repair the wards on the building, with the new owner’s help, of course. Black blood is needed to restore the balance of the ancestral magic. And a familial lord is necessary to pass complete ownership to Mr. Potter. Requirements of which both the little lord and I fulfill.”

Hello, our beloved Consulting Wizard Stalkers.

We have Blood Loyal ch5 nearly complete, and had been planning to post it this Thursday. However - our personal crisis has taken a surprising, and mournful turn.

Quite suddenly, the matriarch of our family has passed. Our beloved gran left this mortal coil Monday morning, and is now beyond this veil of tears.

So please do forgive us as we lapse into radio silence for the next week to 2 weeks as we mourn the loss of a fussy, stubborn, wonderful, loving southern lady.

If you would like to leave messages for either writer, you may do so using the following e-mail addresses.

Tem - torchwoodarchive@aol.com
Z - xxjackharknessxx@aol.com

                 With our most deep sincerity
                          The Writers.

Attention Consulting Wizard Stalkers!

Due to the fact that our writing now suffers from delays, we’re introducing a segment called Status Report. It will basically give you an update on where the fic is at between chapter postings. That way you guys know we’ve not given up.

Right now, Blood Loyal is the main fic, so status reports will be about it.

Currently Chapter 5 is in the roughs stage and is 1/3 of the way written. We’ve been really busy this last week with life related things, and haven’t had the time to work on it.  We hope to work on it some this week. There are a few drabbles ready for typing, so expect about 2 or 3 of those before BL chapter 5 is up and ready.

Thanks for sticking with us! And welcome to the newest followers! Sorry you came in at a time of writing issues, and we hope you stay around a while despite them.

                        Sincerely, The Writers
                 (But mostly Tem since he’s the one dealing with the internet stuff lately.)