Enter Viola or is it Harry?
(Mystique POV)
I sighed as I laid down in my bed, lately I’ve been sharing with Hank but after today I just needed some space. Charles and Eric where fighting again and I just wasn’t sure whose side to take, I wanted to believe in Charles’ dream that we could someday exist side by side with normal humans in peace but at the same time I was tired of hiding and Eric wasn’t wrong humans feared what was different and they destroyed what they feared. “Agh!” I roared in frustration as I threw my trunk across my room not noticing my wand until it rolled into my foot. I picked it up and in that moment I knew my choice, magicals had already tried to live side by side with humans and that ended with witch trials and hidden societies. History would no doubt repeat itself, but this time we wouldn’t be able to go into hiding. We would have to fight just to exist, I would join Eric’s crusade until the day came that Charles somehow proved his dream a true possibility. With that decision made I wrote Hank a short note apologizing for leaving and explaining my reasons for going with Eric, leaving out magic of course, before packing my things. I snuck my way into Hank’s room and kissed his forehead before leaving the note and leaving the mansion. I would miss Hank. He was a good man, the first I could truly see a future with.
-A Month Later-
I sat in the bathroom nervously awaiting the results of the pregnancy test praying to whatever god that would listen that it would come back negative. I wanted a family, but I couldn’t bring myself to bring a child into this world not with the growing tensions between the x-men, the brotherhood, and the normal humans that knew of our existence. It was like a cold war and I wouldn’t want my baby to be caught up in a war.
Ring Ring Ring Ri- I turned off the alarm and with shaking hands I reached out to grab the test before looking at it…
Positive, it was positive!!! “No no no no no no,” I started to spiral digging my hands into my hair not wanting to believe that this was happening before eventually calming down and wrapping my arms around my midsection, “Oh my baby, I am so so so sorry, mommy will find a way to protect you I promise. I will keep you safe little one.”
-8 months later-
I had been using my abilities to keep the fact that I was pregnant a secret but I was running out of time, my little Viola is due any day now and if I wanted to keep her safe then no one can know unless they had my absolute trust. Was there anyone like that left? Then it hit me, Irene Adler, the only person other than Hank to ever truly steal my heart. She’s never steered me wrong in the past, maybe she would have an idea of how to keep Viola safe. I rushed off to Irene’s house hoping she would be able to help me.
I pulled up to Irene’s house and was just about to knock on the door when it suddenly opened.
“Hello Raven,” Irene said with a small smile on her face, “I take it this isn’t a social call?”
“No, it’s not. I’m sorry Irene, but I need your help. I need to know,” I began but was quickly cut off.
“You need to know how to keep your daughter safe from the war you fear is coming for mutant kind,” Irene answered.
“Yes, how did you know?” I asked curiously I could’ve sworn no one but the random doctors I went to disguised as ‘Rowena White’ knew I was pregnant.
“You forget Raven, I might be blind but I see far more than most,” Irene frowns, “even things I wish I didn’t.”
“So you know of a way to keep her safe,” I frantically asked, “something I can do to keep her from all of this, I know she’s a mutant and trouble will find her but…”
“Ah but she’s not just a mutant is she?” Irene cut me off again.
“You’re saying,” I couldn’t believe I hadn’t thought of it before I mean sure I hadn’t been part of that world since I left hogwarts but still, “you’re saying I should leave her in the wizarding world?”
“Specifically wizarding britain yes,” Irene responded.
I sighed, yes that should work she’d be an ocean away from the problems here and as long as she doesn’t develop my blue skin she could pass as a metamorphmagus, “thank you for your advice Irene, if there's anything I can due to repay your kindness let me know.” I gave Irene a hug before leaving, planning out my journey to my home nation. You see what most people don’t know is that I’m a pureblooded witch the heiress of the ancient and noble house of Darkholme or at least I was, during my seventh year at hogwarts my mutant ability developed the staff and my parents took one look at my blue skin and suddenly I was labeled a dark creature I was allowed to graduate but after that I found myself disowned and it nearly impossible to find a career in the wizarding world. So, I left and I went into the muggle world using my abilities to pass as a normal muggle. I was alone until Charles found me digging in his parents refrigerator and I quickly made myself look like I was his age, from there I lived a whole new life and grew up all over again with Charles by my side. Now I was venturing back into the wizarding world to leave my daughter there. I could only hope that her experience is better than mine.
-Two Months Later-
I looked down at my little Viola, with her soft wavy chocolate brown locks and brilliant green eyes, one last time. She was the perfect combination of what me and Hank looked like before our mutations changed our appearances and I just loved her giggle and cute little dimples. I wanted nothing more than to keep her with me, but no, I had to go back to Eric and she would be safer here.
I gently kissed Viola on the head, “I’m sorry momma has to leave you here Viola just know that I love you more than life itself and if there was any other option I’d keep you with me,” I wiped my tears away and handed Viola over to the kind woman in charge of the magical orphanage before giving her my only request, “just please make sure she grows up happy and if you could make sure she keeps her name I want her to have something of me so she knows her momma loves her.” With that I rushed out of the orphanage hearing the cries of Viola as she realized I was leaving her behind, breaking my heart.
(James POV)
“Come on Siri the plan is perfect,” I smirked, “all we have to do is find the right baby and then I use the ritual to make it look like Harry and Lily will think it’s destiny. I’ll get my heir and she’ll stop crying over losing her baby.”
“I don’t know James, I’m all for you adopting a kid, but shouldn’t you have a good reason for doing it?” Sirius asked, questioning if his friend had lost all sense of morality during the war.
“Oh come on Sirius,” I responded, “what better reason could I have then to have an heir and make my beautiful wife happy? If it’ll make you feel better I’ll make you the godfather. You can make sure the kid has a good life and smack me upside the head if you think I’m messing up.”
“I…” Sirius stood there for a moment questioning what he should do, “okay James I’ll be the godfather. I just hope for the kids sake you know what you’re doing, I mean you’re talking about turning them into a whole new person.”
“Oh please, it’s a baby. I doubt they’d have any kind of attachment to their identity, besides what identity could be better than being the potter heir,” I responded, my lips curling into a smirk.
After entering the orphanage it took me awhile but eventually I found the perfect child, little Viola had the right joyful personality and even more important she was a powerful halfblood just like my heir is supposed to be. After assuring the keeper of the orphanage that I would let Viola keep her name like the mother wanted I left and went to Gringotts and had the ritual done. I went in with a little girl named Viola Irene Darkholme and left with my son and heir Harry James Potter, who cared if some random woman’s wish wasn’t followed she gave up her daughter and now I had my son.
-Third Person POV-
Time passed and the three Potters grew close and into a loving family, Lily loved Harry like she was his quickly filling the hole left behind by her son. Unfortunately this couldn’t last as due to James choosing to keep the fact that Harry wasn’t their biological child a secret both an evil dark lord and a manipulative old goat believed Harry to be the child of a certain prophecy, destined to destroy the dark lord.
It was on Halloween when Voldemort arrived, their location given to him by the friend they trusted to keep their secret. James died struck down by the monster who entered their home too caught off guard by the betrayal to remember to grab his wand. Lily lasted longer, but in the end died sacrificing her life to protect the child she loved. Voldemort moved onto the last Potter, the one he knew he needed to kill only to be caught off guard when his spell was deflected right back at him. Leaving the only living being in the house, little Viola Darkholme or as she would be known to the wizarding world Harry James Potter the boy-who-lived.
-November first-
As the wizarding world was celebrating the end of the war, little Harry was left on a cold doorstep in a little basket with nothing but a thin baby blanket protecting him from the elements.
Raven has succeeded in protecting her daughter from the rising tensions between mutants and humans but now little Viola was stuck with a destiny that didn’t belong to her. Now nothing more than a chess piece for “the greater good” Viola wasn’t ready for the first move she would go through, being left with her relatives.