HP New Marauders

Chapter 22

Armistice

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"We're gonna need another room just for all of your get better gifts." Ally snuck into their room with a slice of Dani's favorite treat double fudge brownie cheesecake and some lemon lime soda in case her tummy was still icky.

"There are flowers, balloons, dolls, plushies, and stuff. It's really very impressive." Mia was cuddling a cuddly stuffed bear in her arms.

"You're getting cards, there are loads of emails so much so it's crashing Clarence House's servers, and you've got the world wishing you to get better soon." Daphne sat down on Mia's bed.

"So do they still think that I'm dying or is that all fixed now?" Dani felt terrible and the sight of the treat that Ally had set on her nightstand had her stomach doing flips, so she closed her eyes willing it to calm down.

"Dani do you need Mummy and Daddy?" Ally asked concerned for her sister, who looked like she was gonna be sick any second now.

"No offense or anything, Ally, but food isn't possible right now…" Dani crawled out of bed and stumbled towards their bathroom.

"Sorry…" Ally helped her to the bathroom. "Mia go get Mummy and Daddy. Daph, would you please take the cake out of here and maybe go get her some crackers instead."

"Sure be right back," The girls scrambled out the door.

"I feel terrible…" Dani moaned, as she got sick again.

"Next time don't be all brave and confide in Mummy and Daddy." Ally got her a glass of water, but not even that was staying down.

"Ally, I was fine until we were on our way to the Abbey." Dani croaked out in a drained voice.

"You forget that I share in your misery, so I know when your head started to pound." Ally bathed her sister's face with a cool cloth, just like she'd seen her parent's do when any of them were sick. "It wasn't being nice to you yesterday either."

"The occasional twinge I can handle…" Dani tried drinking water again, but it wasn't to be.

"Well, it looks like our Ally wants to be a Healer like her Mum." Harry stood beside Hermione in the doorway.

"Daddy, I'm barely five. I'll decide that when I'm older." Ally rolled her eyes at her father. "Besides, someone has to keep baby sis in one-piece and since I share in her misery at times am just the one to do it."

"Hey...I'm ten minutes older than you and fifteen minutes older than Mia." Dani grumbled.

"Yes well, no one is putting any pressure on you to decide and it's nice to know that you worry about your sister." Harry walked into the bathroom and scooped Ally up into his arms for a cuddle.

"Does anything else hurt baby?" Hermione sat down on the cool mosaic tile floor beside her beyond miserable daughter.

"I feel yucky and all weak again." Dani laid her head on her mothers lap. "But Ally helped me get to the loo before I got sick and then took charge of everything."

"Yes, I see that and I'm very proud of her for taking care of you." Hermione gently smoothed Dani's hair with her hand and smiled up at Ally. "Now let's see if we can get some medicine in you to soothe your tummy and make you feel a little better."

"What's the use it won't stay down…" Dani sniffled miserably.

Harry set Ally down, so he could gather Dani's medicine. "We're you thinking this was gonna happen?" He sat down beside Hermione.

"I was hoping that it wouldn't, but prepared for it just in case it did." Hermione fed Dani the first dose of potion. This particular one was to soothe her baby girl's tummy.

"I'm broken now aren't I?" Dani pouted, as she took her second medicine that also was staying down.

"I'll go see about those crackers…" Ally left the three of them alone.

"No you're barely five and have years to go before you can easily recover from a backlash without relapsing." Harry fed her a dose of the third potion.

"You need to tell us at the first sign of you feeling miserable again okay." Hermione brushed away a tear that had fallen down Dani's cheek.

"This weekend was so uber important…"

"Nothing and no one is more important than our kids." Harry sent the medicine back to the taller out of reach of little hands shelf. "You come first always." He kissed the top of her head.

"You are our priority above everything else. You and your siblings mean more to us than anything in the universe." Hermione cuddled her close.

"I'm sorry if I caused them all to worry…" Dani was near tears again.

"You did nothing wrong, now let's get you tucked back under the covers." Hermione crooned softly against her hair, as she carried Dani back to bed.

"If anything this gave us the excuse we needed to nix the Coronation Ball. None of us are really up for all of that again and our guest's are all taking their leave, so only family will be left here in the Palace." Wills was cuddling Rory on Ally's bed. The two of them were out of their royal regalia and wearing comfortable clothes.

"Everyone understands that we're forgoing the family balcony photo op and will just have to make-do with our official coronation snaps." Rory was in desperate need of a nap.

"Dromi had a little bit of a fainting spell after you left, but no one but Mum really saw it." Henry was holding Dromi on Mia's bed. They were also wearing comfy clothes.

"We're pregnant and this was a fairly stressful weekend. My little fainting spell signaled the end of a long tedious photo/press session and allowed us to finally come back here to the palace." Dromi winked at Rory.

"I'm content to nap in here with Dani until dinner." Rory yawned sleepily.

"I'm with you sis." Dromi smiled sleepily.

"Uncle Franc must be livid with me, because he worked so hard on this weekend." Dani couldn't believe that none of them were just the tiniest bit grouchy; about all the chaos she'd caused, by not giving into her body's warning, and staying back at the palace. She burst into tears and buried her face in her pillows.

"Sweetie, Franc was already canceling this evening's events even before Harry and Hermione whisked you from the Abbey." Wills crooned seeing Dani so miserable was just tearing his heart out.

"His focus is on the family and the hell with everyone else." Rory smiled.

"He put the media and gossipmongers in their places. It was quite a sight to see." Henry smirked.

"I think we got to see a side of Franc that he rarely let's anyone see." Dromi nodded.

"That's because Uncle Franc is just as fierce a protector as the rest of you…" Dani hiccupped miserably. "He and Uncle Beau both are."

"Yes sweetie, of course they are…" Hermione crooned.

"You'll see. Just don't hurt them, because they really had a good reason…" Dani drifted off to sleep.

"Why in magic's name would we wanna hurt Beau or Franc?" Hermione arched a brow at Harry.

"She's got my curiosity peaked." Wills needed to focus on anything but the crown and this was as good a distraction as any.

"I've just never pictured either of them as fierce protectors more like peacemakers." Henry was intrigued as well.

"Oh, he's got a temper all right, but he rarely let's anyone see it and is beyond protective of those he calls family." Harry frowned.

"We'll watch over Dani, so the four of you are free to go corner Franc." Dromi smiled serenely.

"I'm just happy that he and Frankie have finally called a truce." Rory yawned.

"Um, Mummy…Daddy I've brought her some crackers." Ally stood in the doorway.

"Thank you, angel, just set them on the nightstand for now." Harry smiled at her.

Ally quietly walked over and placed the plate on the nightstand. "Um…Franc and Beau have something big that they wanna say to everyone, but Dani comes first so they said it can wait until we get back home."

"Oh that tears it. Nap well my darling. I'm gonna go see what's going on." Wills got Rory settled on Ally's bed.

"I'm with you big brother." Henry had already gotten Dromi tucked into Mia's bed. "Rest well my enchantress."

"Franc and Beau are family, so no hurting either of them." Rory growled.

"Yes, I'm sure that whatever it is they did was for good reason." Dromi fixed Henry with a look.

"So it wasn't just stress and something was up." Harry frowned.

"That would explain why they're getting looks from various members of the family, none of which are very nice." Hermione nodded.

"Um, Matt thinks that it has something to do with what his mummy can do. Ry and Ty said that their Daddy was grumbling about it to their mum. Same goes for DJ and Daria and their Dad's.  Well, I'm gonna go join the other kids in the playroom." Ally vanished.

"Franc's a Metamorphmagus…if that's true then there's another ancient theory shot to hell. It proves that it has nothing to do with being magical at all…" Hermione was fascinated at this turn of events.

"Two completely separate lives and we never even once caught on…" Harry didn't really know how he felt about all of this.

"There's only one-way to get to the bottom of it and that's leaving us to nap and see to Dani if she needs us, while you hear the two of them out." Rory and Dromi growled in unison.

"You do it all the time to avoid the press. They just perfected a way to separate their work from their own time, so be nice." Dani grumbled in her sleep.

"I think we just got our answer, but it doesn't hurt to hear it from the two of them."

The four of them left them to their rest.

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Elsewhere in the Palace

"So head of Clearance House is it?" Miles leaned against the doorjamb of Nanda's new office finding that she was hard at work talking on the phone. "Tell ya the truth that one took me by surprise. Did they just ask you or has this been a part of the many changes in the monarchy?"

Nanda glanced up at him, holding up a finger to signal that she would be with him in just a second or two. "Yes Anderson. I will let you known their answer, but even you will most likely have to do with getting your information through my office. Yes well…I love it here across the pond and was more than ready for a change of direction. You'll have the official Coronation photos and the official press release as soon as Cassie Flamel releases them to me." Nanda smiled, as if amused by something her caller had said. "No comment…bye Anderson."

She took her earpiece off her ear and glided over to smile up at Miles. "I wasn't officially boss of Clarence House until tomorrow, but I had to rein in the media storm before it got any more chaotic than it already was. My predecessor has to retire and wasn't about to do anything to ease the situation."

"The old staff was a bunch of tight arse spin doctors, so I can imagine what changing the guard did to their overblown egos." Miles cradled her face between his hands and kissed her. "It will be a pleasure working with you Ms. Lewis and might I say fantastic handling of your first shall we say royal snafu." He growled between kisses.

"Well, I love a good challenge and you Captain handled your… let's see… its third royal incident… now isn't it, brilliantly." Nanda wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back.

Nanda's and Miles mobiles started to ring.

"Ignore it…"

"That's both our phones maybe it's an update on Dani." Nanda reluctantly ended their kiss.

"I know what's up with the munchkin. She's sleeping in bed in her room and Rory and Dromi are catching a nap with her. She's miserable as all get out, but on the mend." Miles glanced down at the text message on his cell. "It's from Franc and he says to bring the confession our lives depend…then he stopped his message."

Nanda was looking at her own text message. "I've got the same message from Beau…Something tells me that their secret has been blown sky-high and the family meeting is today not tomorrow. Since Dani is under the weather they don't have anyone, but Frankie, Desi, and the two of us in their corner." She found the DVD in question with their confession from last night on it easily; she'd labeled it Gideon and Abel.

"Harry's already in a temper. Those two don't stand a chance." Miles sighed in defeat. "And here I was gonna take you out for some you and me get to know each other time."

"I know and we will I promise, but with all that's happened this afternoon let's just stay here and have dinner with everyone. We wouldn't have a moment's peace and I'd rather go out after the coronation chaos has died down a bit. We can always stay in this week at my apartments in Clarance House this week or perhaps your loft above the pub. We're gonna be busier than ever this week with both our new jobs and…" He cut her off with a long kiss.

"We'll set aside lunch and dinner as us time and go from there…" Their mobiles rang again and he fought the urge to smash his against the wall. "But for now we have another family situation to set right."

"They really aren't just saying it…" Nanda stared up at him in wonder.

"You've lost me love saying what?" Miles trailed kissing along her jaw line.

"That you've got the patience of a saint or Job." Nanda sighed laying her forehead against his own.

"Oh that, well, in my line of work not keeping a clear head will get you or the ones under your protection killed. Not to mention that trying to keep Wills and Harry out of danger was enough to try even the most patient Buddhist monk. It's kinda why I got the codename Ice Man, because I've never once cracked under pressure. Although, today when no one was listening to me nearly shot that all to hell..." Miles was about to kiss her again, but this time that was cut short by his mobile's ring tone of God Save the King. "Times up that one is from Wills and it's not like I can just tell the King…best mate or not to go to hell."

"Brilliant thinking choosing that particular ringtone just for his majesty the impatient…" Nanda sighed in defeat. 

 Miles flipped open his mobile and answered the call. "You rang your majesty the destroyer of quality time moments? No. I value my quality time with Nanda. I don't wish to baby-sit the family on their trip to Orlando all week. Yes we have the item in question and will join you at once in the Music room. If you must know, wise arse I was snogging with my own other half. Just a sec…As in hold your arse for a minute. No Wills, you'll just have to wait for a while longer." He focused on Nanda. She'd gone stiff as a board and was trembling in his arms. "Now don't go getting all skittish on me. I meant what I just said, but we have all the time in the world and are gonna take it one step at a time."

"Look this is all new to me. I rarely end up with a Knight in shining armor and never really thought that finding a soul mate and happily ever after was in the cards for me. So I settled, and ended up getting hurt more times than not. Now that it is I'm scared half to death of these feelings." Nanda had a wary look in her eyes. "I'd decided that dating or relationships and me were a not gonna happen. Half the time I'm practically married to my career and I've worked my whole life clawing my way to where I am now. I'd gotten snowed in last December at my parent's place, so I missed meeting you then. I felt a pull or something that startled me when I looked at the wedding photos and the DVD. When I asked about you Wills and Henry were only too eager to tell me all about their best mate from since they were boys and your adventures then and now. I've dated an X-game athlete before that had ended badly and used that as an excuse to avoid you like the plague. I mean if we didn't meet then I wouldn't have to face why just looking at your picture made my heart skip a beat and seeing you in those video emails with Wills and Henry sent it racing. I knew that seeing how you were best mates that odds were that you'd be at Wills Birthday/Freedom from the military bash…"

"I'd just gotten home and my Mum and Dad gave me not so good news about the pub, so all thoughts of partying with my mates or meeting you vanished from my mind. I'd seen you loads of times on the Telly doing those special's on the Royal families, rubbing elbows with the Celeb's. Your team up with Cooper to make sure that people were helped on the West Coast after the big one struck made me jealous as hell and I'd yet to meet you. I had this dartboard in my flat wherever we were, and on it were the gits that you were favoring at the time. Wills and Harry tried to get us together dozens of times, but the fates kept the two of us apart. I wanted to meet you on even terms. I on purposely decide to forgo this weekends celebrations by claiming that I needed more time off to deal with my family crisis." Miles phone hit the plush carpet so he could cuddle her closer to him, and her ear was listening to his own heart. "Hear that Nanda you're not the only one with these unfathomably strong feelings."

"You mean that you were the secret friend that sent and corresponded with me for these last five years." Nanda had never been able to trace the one person in her life that would send her little gifts from all over the world. Flowers and plush animals with silly sayings that made her feel not so blue. The kick boxing dummy and gloves that she had received to take out her fury and hurt over yet another failed relationship. Never once did she ever feel threatened or stalked. She felt cherished and loved knowing that he would never betray her like that.

"Yeah, it was me. Wills and Harry thought that although what I was doing was gallant that you might not think so and that eventually you'd find a way or call in a favor to finally get a trace on me. I told them that was moronic. Not once had I ever done or sent anything to spook you like that. Even you need a shoulder or a confidant to lean on that wasn't gonna do anything, but listen and cheer you up when things got dicey. Hell I guess I was kind of stalking you." Miles waited for her to slap him or something, but she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him.

"It's been tearing at me all weekend that I couldn't be love at first sight at you when I had my secret protector that I'd grown to love. I compared you to any guy I was with and all this time it was you. I lost all train of thought when you stood there in your boxers and Army t-shirt glaring murderously at AC and then I nearly fainted when you turned your full attention on me. I had to really put up an act in front of AC and act as if I didn't know you other than what your call sign was and the bio on you said. I'd finally gotten to meet you and then when I got up the courage to go and talk you were kissing my friend. Nothing in my life compares to the betrayal that I felt at that moment. Then when I overreacted to the whole situation I thought that I'd ruined everything before it had even begun. Then you and I touched and the only thought that I could think of was to flee to the Palace and regroup. You've been courting me from a far for five years running. So, I'd say that's enough of a getting to know you period. I know you from the inside out and you know me. Marry me Miles and finally be my own happily ever after. My forever love. My one and only valentine." She found herself kissed senseless.

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"So that's gonna mean that the, uh, two of them may, uh, just be a while." Wills cleared his throat ending the call on his mobile.

All of them had been gathered around him eavesdropping on the call including Franc and Beau.

"The ice man and the ice princess of media secretly had an online friendship…courtship for five years and she didn't have a clue." Ron shook his head in disbelief.

"I knew of her admirer, but never once guessed that it was Miles. The only times that I saw Miles he was all business a nice guy, great with the kids, but Mr. Romance not even close he was married to his career." Hermione was just as floored by all of this.

"Well, actually the two of them were both married to their choice of careers, so it was almost impossible for them to meet until now." Ginny was munching on her snack of fresh fruit slices.

"Fate works in the most mysterious of ways." Luna smiled dreamily.

"Miles laid the groundwork, first forming a friendship nurturing that into something that would last forever, and then proceeded with taking the steps to meet Nanda." Harry was beyond impressed.

"It must have been frustrating as hell having the fates throwing obstacles in his path." James knew exactly how that felt.

"Yeah, you would think that wouldn't you, but Miles really does have the patience of a saint." Henry smirked.

"It takes a lot to crack Miles composure. But, it sure as hell was starting to crack when he walked into the Common Room last Christmas and heard Nanda tell Hermione that she wouldn't be able to make it to our weddings. Because she was snowed in at the airport. He spent a few hours pounding on the heavy bag down in the gym swearing at the powers that be to give him a break in about ten different languages." Wills grinned.

"Then he focused all of that frustrated energy in charming the little ones." Lily smiled.

"Yeah, it's fantastic that the two of them finally found each other, but I'm still waiting for those two to fess up to whatever it is they've been hiding from all of us." Draco was happy for his friends, but most of all he wanted the truth.

"Draco it's not threatening if that's what you're trying to imply." Frankie stood protectively in front of Franc narrowing her eyes at him.

"It's really very brilliant and the fact that they've managed to achieve their success in their careers and still manage to keep something of themselves out of the public eye should be applauded." Desi was being just as protective of Beau.

"It's quite understandable that they're upset with Beau and I for keeping a large part of our lives private to even the family. I know how trust is big with most of them and even though our secret isn't threatening to the family in any way, hard feelings are bound to arise." Franc wasn't giving away anything and was his calm, cool, normal self.

"We've had to keep both worlds separate, long before all of us met at the store. We developed what at the time and even today were necessary steps to keep both lives apart from the other." Beau wasn't his usually laid-back smiling self, instead he was serious, and stoic towards all of them.

"I think we arrived just in time. Don't you babe." Miles and Nanda arrived with the previous night's conversation in hand.

"Looks like you were wrong about them eavesdropping on us after you dropped the phone on the carpet." Nanda could cut the tension in the room with a knife.

"No they were. It's just that the mystery of Franc and Beau is a hell of a lot more interesting than my courting you and winning your favor over the last five years without the two of us meeting until yesterday." Miles got the two of them settled on one of the love seats. "Before you hand that over to Franc, give them a hint by telling them all what you titled this particular DVD."

"But then that spoils the whole surprise if they know that I labeled it Gideon and Abel." Nanda pouted up at him trying not to break character.

Certain male family members were muttering choice words under their breaths or saying no way in hell could they be the same guys.

"Harry goes by his middle name in the muggle world. Just as Beau and I go by ours in the Wizarding world. Last time I checked that wasn't breaking any cardinal rule." Franc fingered the DVD case in his hands, deciding that he wasn't in the mood to sit there, and wait for everyone to react to their confession that Nanda had captured last night about their after-hours normal lives. Instead he decided that a game of cards was in order and challenged Frankie, Desi, Beau, Miles, and Nanda to join him for a game of poker in the Billiard Room.

"Brilliant thinking mate that's just what we need after this weekend." Beau grinned.

"I think that it's a smashing idea and the loser has to be the others slave for shall we say a week." Frankie was a seasoned poker and blackjack player and wasn't afraid of the game of chance.

"I'm well aware of your card-shark reputation, but Beau and I are also well schooled in the game." Franc was more than ready to meet her challenge and win.

"We always enjoy a challenge." Desi winked at Beau.

"Now doll, Abel and I have been known to clean out the wallets of our fellow mates at the Magus Bikers Club, as well as our staff at the store. So hell yeah I'm all in." Beau had a wicked gleam in his eyes.

"I'm already Ace's slave, but what the hell I'm game too." Miles grinned.

"Game hell you've cleaned me out of pocket change since we met at Eton." Wills muttered under his breath.

"I've won my share of celebrity poker tournaments and it's something my crew and I play during assignments. I'm in the mood for a game if you are." Nanda also had a wicked gleam in her eyes and grin on her face.

"Yeah, well, now that the six of us are all aces at the game let's leave them to watch the DVD…" Miles grin widened even more and he fixed Franc and Beau with a mischievous look. "Although just to be fair, it would be nice to know just who you just challenged to your little wager. Was it Franc and Beau or Able and Gideon?"

"The two of them are Able and Gideon, so that's not really a factor on the bet…" Frankie eyed Franc thoughtfully. "The two of them are overdue to take long holidays, so from this moment their work selves are no longer necessary. Desi and I are challenging their tougher marauder bad boy personae."

"Oh I agree. They've more than earned the freedom to be their other selves." Desi winked at Beau.

"Bloody hell, woman! It's not like either of us suffer from a bloomin split personality! There's nothing wrong with needing to have some sort of escape from the all seeing public eye!" Gone was Franc's classy accent and high-class refined look. It was replaced by a thick Welsh brogue and class transformed to casual weekend wear of well-worn jeans, a Puddlemere United team jersey, and designer trainers.  His long main of platinum blonde hair flowed freely down his back, and stormy pewter blue-grey eyes narrowed down at Frankie. It was evident by his well-toned physique that he was very athletic in nature. He had an aura around him that radiated power, even more so now that he had his magic bestowed on him, and one wouldn't want to challenge him let alone get in his way.

"This…" He pointed to his hair. "Is why Dora prefers vibrant hair colors and always has. You see her ability to change into whatever appearance she wishes has nothing to do with magic and everything to do with the powers of the mind, well, that and you need a certain genetic marker otherwise that's it. I may not have been born with magic, but I made up for that by being gifted in the powers of the mind. It's another reason why my not being magical didn't really matter to me all that much. My parents never really treated me any differently and for the longest time they thought my mental abilities were flickers of magic trying to come to the surface. It wasn't until I turned eleven and didn't get a letter that they came to the conclusion that I was a squib, but not that it mattered I was brilliant and took to anything muggle like water. I saw it as a challenge and I knew that I would see my friends on holidays and during the summer." He stood there and waited for them to react to what he had just confided to them.

The girls were staring dreamy eyed at him and the guys were taking all of what he had just said in.

"Guess it's my turn, well, here goes." Beau ended his glamour spell and was now standing there in front of everyone very much the marauder and nothing like his brother's pretty boy golden boy looks. Beau's raven black mane was tied at the nape of his neck with a leather thong, sky blue eyes sparkling with mischief, and his killer grin were the same. He was dressed in casual clothes of jeans, black t-shirt, biker boots and his favorite leather jacket. "I'd love to say that I can do what Abel or Dora can, but sorry I've gotta use the glamour spell to keep up my golden boy looks. The clients prefer this over the pirate look, so that's why I fashioned my look this way."

"They're both so dreamy," Ginny and Luna sighed.

"Dreamy yes, but still big brothers to us nothing has changed. Apart from the two of them finally letting down their guards around all of us, and sharing with us their lives so all of us can really spend time with them." Hermione was all smiles not the least bit upset with either of them.

"I can understand why you thought that even after the war was over that you needed to preserve your private lives. I more than get that, but that's over and the two of you will join in with the rest of the family. In our world no more hiding out from everyone." Harry finally spoke his mind about the issue.

"I can't believe that I didn't figure it out in July when Franc more than hinted that all wasn't as it seems between the two of them." Draco shook his head in disbelief.

"You!! I've worked endless hours with both of them for two years running and can't believe that all of that time not once did I ever suspect any of this." Ron growled. "I'm all for what Harry's saying from now on no more charades.

"Boy's! Franc and Beau grew up during a time of intense turmoil and paranoia. You see all of you only got a taste of it towards the end of the war against the dark ones. Franc has been taught to lay low all of his life as a matter of survival. Beau's reasons, well, who could blame him because Gilderoy was his big brother. I wouldn't want to admit that he was my brother either, since he was nothing, but a coward and a fraud." Lily could easily see both sides of the issue.

"Lil's is brilliant as usual, now add Franc being a Black as well as a squib, and it equals being a target at birth." James nodded.

"Those two chose badly when it came to first girlfriends and were damn lucky that Remus and I were able to get them out of there in one-piece." Sirius had been quietly listening from the doorway and finally made his presence known. "It's no wonder why I never really put all the pieces together before now, but then again deep down I guess I saw whatever you two were up to as your business."

Abel arched a brow at his cousin and Beau rolled his eyes.

"All right, fine. I was a little gun-shy about maybe the two of you being life partners and left well enough alone." Sirius raked his fingers through his hair in frustration. "Then again after what the two of you went through as teens…I mean who could really blame you for wanting to play it safe and avoid women altogether as anything, but casual friends."

"That and we learned never to let Regulus set us up on blind dates again." Abel muttered under his breath.

"Look. I know that what Reg did was a cruel sick joke, but he never intended for his little jest to…"

"Jest my arse! He set Gideon and me up with two girls knowing full well that they were Deatheater wannabe's and we were their entry into the Dark Lord's fold!! We were kept in that basement for a week Sirius!!" Abel's temper snapped, as old wounds long closed opened again.

"I know that Abel and he got word to me as soon as he realized that his attempt to pay the two of you back for beating the tar out of them that following week had gone dicey! You knew what kind of a sore loser he was and that he always paid someone back if they humiliated him. Yet you and Beau lost your tempers with him and Bill, because they were ribbing the two of you about your passion for all things muggle, and called you a pansy for liking to design clothes and stuff! None of us even realized just how much you'd focused on being able to not only stick up for yourself. But that you'd even gone as far as to take and master muggle marital arts classes during your time away in the muggle world at school." Sirius snarled back. "He risked blowing his cover to arrange your rescues and because of that paved the way to his exile."

"OH CRY ME A BLOOMIN RIVER, SIRIUS! CRUCIO AND IMPERIO ARE NOT AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE! BEING A BLOODY VOODOO DOLL BITES WHEN YOU'RE NEARLY SEVENTEEN AND HELPLESS TO DO ANYTHING BECAUSE YOU'RE A SQUIB!! IT SCARED ME FOR LIFE!! GOD'S AFTER THAT I COULDN'T WAIT TO GO BACK AND FINISH OFF MY FINAL YEAR AT SCHOOL!" Abel roared that back at him.

"Frickin hell, it's no wonder that Uncle Albus and Dad were so furious with him after you and Reg went rounds with each other. Gods you were beyond cheesed off at him so much so you damn near landed his arse in St. Mungo's. Then he went and snarled at you that yeah his payback had gone dicey, but the two pansy's were eventually gonna be fine after a few days in hospital so back the hell up off his arse. It was beyond ill timed, because Remus wasn't about to let the two of you kill each other, and had returned with dad and Uncle Albus. The two of them set Severus on his arse and the two of you never mended fences until nearly five years ago." James couldn't believe his ears, yeah he'd known that Reg had played a prank on two teens that had gone beyond bad, but never in a million years did he think it was Franc and Beau. Then again it explained why Sirius held such a grudge against his little brother and after that incident had never really trusted him again.

"The way I see it is that he more than paid for his blunder by being exiled, while we got to live successful and happy lives. He more than paid for any misdeeds." Gideon wasn't as bitter as his best mate about the past and holding grudges got one nowhere. He on the other hand understood why it was so hard for Abel to let go of that part of the past. He'd undergone more torture both physically and mentally than he had and at times it still haunted his dreams to this day.

"Yeah, well, you're far more forgiving than I am. You spent a day at hospital! I was there for nearly three weeks!" Abel sneered darkly and stalked passed him out of the room.

"Franc wait!" Frankie chased after him.

:I'll be right back: Harry thought that two family members needed closure, so he was gonna go bring his Uncle back to the palace.

:Lion, I don't think that's a good idea.: Hermione bit down on her lip, but Harry was already gone.

"Tell me that he didn't go get Uncle Reg." Draco hissed at Hermione.

"He would. It's his calling to play family peacemaker and he hasn't had the chance to do that in years not counting keeping Dani and Ally in line." Ron groaned.

"This is just opening wounds that he thought were long ago healed. He got a taste of what Alice and Frank went through, only he's a mental powerhouse, and could shield his mind from any permanent damage. He frustrated the hell out of them by not giving them the satisfaction of seeing him break down. He didn't do that until we were safe in our hospital ward and during his talks with Dumbledore." Gideon sighed in frustration. "He still has nightmares that haunt his dreams even now, but then he did go through hell and back." He and Desi went after Franc.

"Haven't I seen enough of this place for one weekend?" Regulus growled down at his nephew, as they appeared in the room.

"That's not why I dragged you out of your poker game with my big brothers. This has more to do with clearing the air between someone that you caused to suffer physical and mental trauma during your less than noble days." Harry glared directly into his eyes. "You not wanting to go anywhere near Carstairs Department store isn't because you're gun-shy about shopping in general, but because you don't wanna face Franc again let alone Beau and it's gonna stop now."

"He's just afraid that Gideon and Abel are gonna beat the tar out of him again and now that Abel has his magic could seriously put him in traction at hospital." Sirius fixed him with a glare.

"Look. I'm not proud of what I did back then all right. I was forbidden to go anywhere near either of him by Uncle Albus and Uncle Stephen after it happened and was forced to see everything that had happened to him by pensive. It was because of that incident that I focused on reigning in my temper and darker side during my exile." Reg muttered darkly then swore under his breath. "No way! You mean to tell me that made the two of them swear off women for life!? I'm to blame for them turning into what I relentlessly teased them about when they were kids?!"

"Yeah Uncle Regulus, you scared the two of them for life." Ginny narrowed her eyes at him.

"They feared females so badly that they only felt at ease with ones that were already paired off." Luna growled at him.

"This has to stop. It's just not healthy for either of you to carry so much guilt in your case and anger in Franc's towards each other. Especially, now that Franc is shedding all of his barriers and fears enough to finally take a leap of faith with Frankie and the same goes for Beau and Desi. The first tentative steps were taken last night at the reception when they confided a major secret to them. Nanda was there to record it for the rest of us." Hermione closed her eyes and focused on the DVD that Abel was still carrying with him and it appeared in her hands. "Let's watch this first and then afterwards we'll see about clearing the air between the two of you." She loaded up the DVD player and all of them finally got to see what had gone down last night for themselves.

"Now getting decked by someone that seemed very familiar at the pub this winter makes perfect sense. It was Abel venting his pent up fury and frustrations on me. Bill thought that it was because I insulted his favorite football team that they had playing on the telly and then some sloshed git was trying to hit on the barmaid…. Two minutes later him and his bike-mates taught the git and his mates a lesson they'd never forget. It made me thankful that all he did was deck me instead of toss me out a window or down the bar." Regulus could see how much that one incident had changed his cousin for life and it made him feel lower than scum.

"All right what's going on now?" Stephen and Albus appeared in the room.

"I thought as much, so Abel and Gideon finally let down their guard and it's opened old wounds." Albus arched a brow at all of them.

"What's going on now? Why is everyone so loud!? I told you to be nice to Uncle Franc and Beau!" Dani used the last of her nearly tapped out advanced magic to appear in the room in her fathers arms. "This was dumb I feel worse now…" She whimpered.

"Sweetie, we were nice to your Uncle's, it was the past that has him so upset." Hermione conjured a cool cloth for her forehead and something to stem the nosebleed that was triggered by Dani ignoring her body's warnings to stay in bed. "All this did was make you relapse even more."

"Your Great-Uncle Regulus and Uncle Franc have unfinished business do to something that happened to Franc when he was a teenager. This something scared him for life and Uncle Regulus never apologized to Franc, so it's all muddled up between the two of them." Harry sat down on the sofa, so he could stretch out with her in his arms, and hopefully get her to go back to sleep.

"Regulus go make nice with Franc before I seriously hurt you." James was seeing red now that Dani had been woken up and had relapsed even more.

"Stand in line Prongs, he's my kin I get first go at him." Sirius narrowed his eyes at his brother.

"You do and I geld both of you." Lily knew that more turmoil was the last thing Dani needed. "Violence is not the solution nor is threatening Regulus."

"Stop it! My head is gonna come off!" Dani whimpered miserably. "Try to act like grown-ups and not like hotshot schoolboys spoiling for a row. Uncle Franc gave up two years of his time for Uncle Wills, Uncle Henry, Aunt Rory, and Aunt Dromi. He deserves our respect and our compassion. If Uncle Reg mucked something up ages ago then he needs to fix it. End of discussion." She fixed them all with a regal glare then closed her eyes again.

"I would have ages ago, but I'm banned from speaking to him." Regulus grumbled in his defense.

"Oh grow up Uncle Reg. I mean unless you were banned for life that's the coward's way out." Dani opened her eyes to glare over at him. "Grow some and fix it before First-Grams catches wind that I'm worse than I was and has First-Gramps banish you to limbo for a few days."

Regulus stared at her for a few moments before shaking his head in amusement. "I'm sorry princess you're absolutely right I have been acting like a git about this…" He turned around to look over at the open doorway when his cousin's snarl filtered into the room.

"Damn it Francesca! I wish to be left alone! It's bad enough that you followed me outside and then grabbed me by the ear to get me to go back inside!"

"No way Francis Abel no more hiding from the family!" Frankie grabbed hold of a fistful of his long mane and used that as leverage to drag him back into the Music Room.

"Oi! Son of a biscuit, Georgette Francesca, let go of me hair!" He yelped in pain.

"You and Regulus call a truce or I'll do worse than just pull your hair!" Frankie snarled at him.

"Make peace with each other or I have Daddy page First-Grams and Gramps." Dani managed a weak growl.

"Yes, you woke her up. She got upset making her feel even worse, so fix whatever is between you or else." Harry narrowed his eyes at them.

"Enough with the power plays! Let them finally mend what needs healing, so calm will once again come over the palace and my baby girl can get the sleep she needs to heal!" Hermione had finally stemmed her nosebleed and was moments away from jinxing the lot of them.

That was all the signal that certain family members needed to make a hasty retreat.

"We'll go check on the kids and our girls need a nap." Draco, Ginny, Luna, and Ron all vanished.

"Ace and I will go get the game set up." Miles took out his wand pulled Nanda close to him and Apparated with Nanda in his arms.

Henry and Wills had left by a secret passage to go check on their wives.

"It's naptime for you my love." James and Lily vanished.

"Uh, Jenn's waitin for her snack." Sirius also beat a hasty retreat.

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"Easy Hermione, no need to jinx the tar out of us we'll fix it." Regulus eyed his niece warily.

"I've never been a target of her lethal temper and don't intend to start now." Abel held his hands up in surrender.

"I'd start talking if I were you." Stephen growled.

"Go on Regulus, we lift your restriction in regards to Abel and Beau, so you can clear the air with your cousin and heal the wounds from what happened all those years ago." Albus was as calm and cool as ever.

"They put you under a restriction?" Abel frowned.

"Yeah, I was ordered never to bother either of you again, so I couldn't have apologized if I tried. The Order lost all faith in me…" Regulus raked his fingers through his hair. "Hell I signed my own exile papers, because it wasn't long after that Severus was ordered to execute my arse by Voldemort. Ya have to believe me when I tell ya that I never meant for any of that tripe to go down like that…"

"Go on…" Abel frowned at him.

"God's I had such a chip on my shoulder and an ego to match back then. I set the two of you up with the girls that you both fancied. Only they were both way out of your leagues experience wise. Anyway, what happened was that Voldemort had eyes everywhere and had other ideas, plus he wanted to test my loyalty. I knew something was off when the two girls sent me a howler the next morning that they were furious about their dates not showing up. They'd waited for hours in the rain and I owed them big-time. I checked in with family members and friends, but neither of you had returned home. It took me three days of extensive investigation just to find out where you were being held."

"Three days…" Frankie bit down on her lip at the thought of what Franc had been put through.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Abel gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.

"I used Veritaserum after attending a meeting on Malfoy when he was snickering to Macnair that young Tonks was holding out remarkably well because he was a nothing squib. It was fascinating how he was able to withstand Crucio and Imperio and still not break, whereas young Lockhart had broken on the second day, but it was obvious the coward knew nothing about The Order. It made me see red not to mention I felt guilty as hell. After getting the information that I needed, I jinxed the tar out of Malfoy, and then left to go tell my brother. Sirius was livid and threatened to end my arse if the boys were beyond repair. James was left out of it, because he had Lily and a baby boy on the way. Remus was nearing the full moon, so he was in the mood to tear people in half, and added that threat to the mix. I masked myself to conceal my identity and we got the two of you out of there the following evening. Bella and her bitchy sisters-in-laws got a taste of what Crucio felt like not that it mattered any. Bella the psycho witch was loony and got a rise off any pain, whether it be hers, or anyone else's. He and Remus got the two of you to St. Mungo's leaving me at one of The Order's undisclosed locations where James was to watch me until he got back. He returned an hour or so later and proceeded to beat the life out of me. Remus not wanting to be a part of murder ran to get someone to break us up, because James wasn't about to it seemed to him that I'd earned it. I being the smart arse git that I was back then ran my mouth off at him right when Uncle Albus and Uncle Stephen came to break the two of us up. I caught hell for my foolish actions, lost their respect, Severus was gonna shadow my arse, and I was never to bother either of you again."

"Never to pull another asinine get even scheme again, not never talk to them again." Stephen muttered under his breath.

"I was exiled after that, so I had countless years to master reigning in my darker qualities. Look. I'm sorry that I nearly got the two of you killed. Scared your psyche's for life at least when it came to the dating the ladies, and caused you both to think that you had to keep your distance all these years." Regulus offered his hand in truce.

"Well now that I know the truth and everything that you risked to fix it…Apology accepted." He shook his hand then gray eyes instantly changed to blue-green and Abel morphed back into Franc right before his eyes. "Now for the love of Mab let Beau do something with that hair of yours and me at that sorry excuse for wardrobe!"

"Gods you're so good at this dual identity thing that it's mind-bending." Regulus took a few steps back eyeing him in disbelief.

"He's lethal as Franc. We're all wary of him. Abel's his gentler side." Harry shrugged. "We've all been targets Uncle Reg. It's only fair that get your turn too."

"There's nothing wrong with my wardrobe or me hair." Regulus took another step back.

"It's a shaggy dog's mane in desperate need of taming." Gideon growled from the doorway.

"Now Gideon it's bad, but there's no need to insult an innocent dog." Desi chided.

"Hey, that's low so what if I don't feel like being a muggle fashion plate!" Reg grumbled.

"You look like a scruffy pirate and only dress formally if Dahlia threatens your sorry hide." Franc rolled his eyes at him in disgust.

"Fine, but keep my marauder image or no deal." Reg was cornered and knew when to admit defeat.

"Oh don't worry you big baby, you'll still be able to show your face at the pubs. The two of us our on holiday until Frankie and Desi say otherwise and with that so are our fashion icon identities." He was back to being Abel again. "Sirius, James, Remus, and I can go on the list is long, all survived intact and actually liked the final result."

"Yeah, we plan on crashing at our farm. I say we talk to Dahlia and see what she thinks needs finishing and then form a plan of attack that's not gonna send Reg into hiding. The two of us usually range our looks from casual to marauder, it just depends on our moods." Gideon growled softly because Dani was once again sleeping peacefully in her father's arms.

"I'll see you when you get home." Stephen whispered softly to Harry and Hermione setting a conjured plush dragon in Dani's arms.

"As will I and Regulus refining your look might make your students adapt to you easier when you Co-teach DADA with Bill this year." Albus suggested, as he set the plush unicorn that he had conjured for her to cuddle.

"Oh that settles it, he'll be professor ready by beginning of term we promise." Abel smirked.

"I'm going back to my poker game with Bill, Charlie, Fred, and George." Regulus vanished.

"Speaking of poker games we've got one of our own." Abel, Frankie, Gideon, and Desi all left the room.

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"Brilliant thinking Uncle Albus, the two of them should easily be able to reign in the teens during their final year." Hermione smiled.

"Yeah, the two of them are gonna make excellent DADA professors. This way Fleur's content unlike last time when Bill was on a treasure hunt and barely made it back for Daria's birth." Harry was all for their teaching appointment.

"Remus wishes to focus on Gene and take time off teaching and suggested the two of them needed a break from treasure hunting for a while." Albus winked at them. "He feels that being one of Dani's teachers will be even more of a challenge than teaching DADA to his former students and is looking forward to the challenge."

"So far we've had plenty of applicants, but I think we've got enough members in this family that can more than help in excelling this ones education." Harry kissed the top of her head.

"Our new school curriculum is a breath of fresh air for everyone at Hogwarts. The students are more at ease and eager to learn and our professors are challenged with having students with an already acquired basic knowledge of magic. This year more than ever will show just how much of an improvement having the Nursery/ Primary Schools are for our newest crop of first years." Albus smiled warmly.

"You should have Bree, Donavan, Bastion, Moria, Alan, Ami, Sean, and Binky lend a hand as needed that should keep them all occupied and less focused on marauder or other tendencies." Hermione suggested.

"Severus is already one step ahead of you. Bastion and Moria will take turns shadowing Charlie. Alan and Ami will be aiding Severus. Sean and Binky excel in transfiguration, so they will share assisting my beloved. Binky will also continue her apprenticeship with the paper. Donavan and Bree will be continuing there apprenticeship with Marcus and Addison three times a week in the family wing and Donavan will aid Regulus and Bill if needed. Bree will continue to study Occlumency, as well as Legilimency with me." Albus explained.

Harry whistled low under his breath. "My gods and I thought that you put barriers up when we were seventh years. I mean you did make them all Prefects their fifth year and that seems to have helped matters when it comes to their antics."

"Well they are marauders and this way they all stay focused on the career paths that they've chosen to follow." Hermione was all for this strategy.

"Bree and Donavan are Head Boy and Head Girl this year and as for the other six this year they'll be assigned to mentor and watch over the younger ones." Stephen smirked.

"Look this is only gonna make them wanna rebel. I mean you have to at least give them all some down time or it's gonna go dicey on all of you." Harry scowled.

"They have Friday's and the weekends to themselves. Plus as added incentive they will be allowed Hogsmeade visits on Fridays and the weekends."

"In case either of you need reminding the boys are all Animagi as is Bree as of my birthday." Harry saw gaping holes in their strategy and thought that they needed pointing out before the teen's final year of school began. "Wolves loathe being caged and all of you are conjuring one hell of a cage. Sorry, but this plan is trouble waiting to happen."

"The boys we're aware of Sabrina however isn't on our undisclosed list of Animagus." Stephen narrowed his eyes down at his grandson.

"Sabrina is not a threat Gramps, besides that same day she was sentenced to magic probation for jinxing the tar out of Donavan and Bastion. Days before that she'd discovered firsthand the boy's animal nature and her temper snapped." Harry wasn't the least bit affected by his penance stare.

"Fascinating that explains why Severus has been grumbling about wolves mating for life and drew up this new plan of strategy. Sabrina's Animagi is a wolf." Albus was smiling unlike Stephen who was grumbling under his breath.

"All of them are mature responsible young adults of seventeen. You will have to trust them or what happens on your heads be it." Dani growled in her sleep.

"Listen to this little wonder not even five and so like her mum." Albus conjured some earmuffs and set them on Dani's head. "There now little one our conversation won't bother you anymore."

"Instead of challenging them with walls you need to set boundaries for them to abide by...Um, excuse me I forgot that I still had my mobile." Hermione was interrupted by the soft ring-tone of her mobile.

She took it out of her pocket to see who was calling and answered it when she saw that it was her mum. "Mum hello. Did you daddy and the teens make it home okay? Yes, yes, I know Bastion is over the moon for Moria, so she would be his first priority as soon as he got back. Yes Mum I trust Donavan completely with Bree, so the two of them going over to check on the Coopers building site is nothing for you or Daddy to fret about. No we're going to come home tomorrow as scheduled. Mum she's fine. Harry's holding her. She wants us instead of her bed tonight. She's highly sensitive to the emotions and thoughts around her and that's what brought on her relapse at the abbey today. No mum she's just not fully recovered from her backlash this July, this is nothing like Bree. We've been teaching her how to embrace and control her gifts since she was a baby…Yes mum we know that she's not going to be up to going to school with the others. She's going to be home schooled until she's old enough to be a first year at Hogwarts. She's outgrown primary school. Yes mum, that means you and Daddy's retirement is perfect timing. Lazy Meadows has a terminal case of termites. Mum of course you can stay with us as long as you need to; we've got plenty of room. They're talking a major remodel, well; Marcus and Addison are the best. We'll see you sometime in the morning…Love to Daddy bye."

"Looks like you're going to be able to spend more time at the ministry as well as at headquarters." Stephen's mood had lightened immensely.

"Look Gramps don't press your luck. You and Dad are gonna just have to live with me checking in twice a week. I've more than played my part this weekend and am going home tomorrow to focus on Hermione, the girls, and our boys. Dani's recovery is priority, as is devising a lesson plan that will keep her challenged during her first year of being schooled at home." Harry wasn't about to go back to work full-time until the boys were much older. He had done that for nearly four years, so he was ready to focus on just his family again.

"He's mine until I say otherwise and there will be no negotiating allowed." Hermione ended Stephens plotting of getting Harry away from them anytime soon. "He did his tour with the Aurors and helped bring the ministry into the new millennium. He can more than keep pace of what's going on from home and during his biweekly visits."

"Daddy is ours, fend for yourselves for a change, and leave him be." Dani grumbled.

"Well Stephen that settles that the little one has prior claim and is very much in need of her father's guidance as well as of her mothers. It is evident with her insistence of wanting to excel faster than her sisters and peers that she needs to be challenged." Albus was interrupted by someone entering the room.

"Who better to challenge the little lass than someone that has been around longer than all of you combined? I am more than up to the task and look forward to the challenge. All of you can lend a hand of course the more the merrier, but you can trust in me to make sure that she's well educated in all fields of knowledge as well as magic of course. Although, when ya think about it science is magic." Doctor waltzed into the room and he was carrying what appeared to be a silver brief case in his hand. "First things first though, let's see just what's going on in that little head of hers, and what better time than now when she's in a deep REM sleep." He set the case down on the coffee table and flipped open the latches.

"You're gonna use what's in that case to do what exactly." Harry and Hermione eyed the contents of the case skeptically.  

"Back home the younger set that are just learning to control their mental talents are given a type of learning tool that monitors how they use their abilities and prevents them from doing their fragile minds any undo harm. It's a little gadget that is quite useful in cases such as our little princess here." He took out a little silver disk the size of a Knut and placed it right above her left ear and it seamlessly melded to her skin until it seemed to vanish.

"Look Doc this had better not be dangerous or Rose is breaking in a new husband." Harry wasn't so sure he wanted some foreign alien object near, let alone in his child's head.

"Relax it's just camouflaging itself to blend into her skin. There is nothing crawling around in her brain. I deal with real science not science fiction nonsense." Doctor rolled his eyes at Harry. "Think of it as a means of preventing her from hurting herself or any of those around her. It's a tool that can help rein in powerful minds that are still in the stages of developing control over their gifts. I wear one all the time, because it keeps me grounded, and that part of whom I am in check. It's crucial that we do this or she can damage herself more than she already has." He took out the slim little palm size med-scanner and held it over Dani's head. The small device lit up and immediately started to scan her little form by shinning this beam over her body. "This is what's called a medical scanner and with it I can easily diagnose anything that's wrong with our little princess here."

"That's fascinating Doctor, so is our little princess doing better?" Albus was standing beside him looking utterly fascinated by the gadget in his hand.

"Our crystals might not be electronic wonders, but they do basically the same thing that your little gadget is doing. There is nothing wrong with my daughter other than her overexerting herself and that is what caused her to relapse." Hermione bristled at the very idea that he was questioning her treatment of her own child.

"Hermione, this is not meant to step on your toes, and yes your crystals and magic do basically the same thing. However, this way I can see exactly what kind of mind that I'm dealing with and whether it's off the charts or not. Now if the readings that I'm getting are accurate and I know that they are the answer to that is exactly what I thought. This little bundle of energy is most definitely in the off the charts category of minds and that is the reason for that brilliant little gadget. It will allow for her to heal as well as keep her grounded and in check. Magic is one thing and you have more than come up with a way of keeping it in line, but this is mental energy and that has nothing to do with magic at all. It's fascinating you see. Because the two of you are her parents and you're who you are she's going to be one special young lady. I get to be one of the ones that's privileged to be a part of what's going to shape her into who she's eventually gonna be. Now to ease all of your minds she hasn't done any damage. And that little gadget of mine will also be able to help her build walls up in her mind, so this doesn't happen again. She's gonna think that it's her conscience talking to her. And that's not very far from the truth. What she doesn't know won't hurt her now will it." He closed and locked the case, but put the little scanner in his pocket.

"No and to be honest we need all the help we can get." Harry was willing to give anything a try once, even if it meant alien nano technology.

"Anything that will help this little one get better has my approval." Stephen was also intrigued by the Doctors gadget.

"I agree with Stephen." Albus nodded.

"I just want her to be her self-again and for her to be able to excel at a safe pace." Hermione fixed him with a look. "Although, you're going to have to show me how that scanner of yours works, because I want to know everything about any device tool, or otherwise that's being used on my baby."

"I'll school you on it, as soon as all of us get back to Sanctuary I promise, but for now just rest easy knowing that she's gonna be fine." He smiled warmly at her. "She's perfectly healthy and although the thoughts and prayers of the people all around the world and those queued up outside are touching the candlelight vigil is really not necessary."

Dani instantly blinked open her eyes and scowled. "Home now and who cares about what everyone will think. I wanna to go where everyone is sane. This place is just one big headache…" She focused on Doctor and the silver case on the coffee table. "I'm fine. No nano doodads needed on or anywhere near my person, but thanks for thinking of me."

"I'll be the one to decide that little miss. Let's just say that any nano doodads are for your own good and will be used if I deem that they are needed. Do we have an understanding little one? Because, no offense to your mother, aunts, or Grams, I know more about how to treat you and outrank them in any field. You are just going on five not fifty and like it or not are a little kid. Where as I am well over a thousand years old and more than know what you need and how to treat you so you can never do any damage to your mind again. Now go back to sleep and I don't wanna here another word about it." He knelt down to her level, so they were eye to eye.

"Um, l I'm gonna go back to sleep now." Dani did the intelligent thing and decided to not challenge the God of time by going back to sleep.

"Now that we have that settled I'm gonna go check on my Rose. Oh and as for her statement she's right." Whistling a happy tune he picked up the case and strolled back out of the room.

"We'll see the two of you when you get back home." Stephen and Albus vanished from the room.

"I'm with our daughter we're going home where everyone is sane." Harry was more than ready to pack it up and go home.

"I'll go round up the girls. You go back to our apartments and get the twins ready to go, and then home it is." Hermione was all for the idea of home and the peace and quiet that it gave them.

"You might wanna tell the others our plans. Although, I'm fairly certain, since you were well on the verge of losing your temper, that Draco, Ron, Gin, and Luna have already rounded up their own kids and headed back home. I'd wager the same goes for Uncle Sirius, Uncle Remus, Aunt Jenn, Aunt Gene, Dad and Mum too." Harry grinned at Hermione.

Hermione grinned back at him. "Well enough was enough and all of you were upsetting Dani, besides my solution worked like a charm." She blew him a kiss then vanished.

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Well this is the last chapter of this arch it's on to the next installment

New Marauders Hogwarts

Year 1

Chapter one

The Letter

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