OK, I hope you like this new story of mine! It was slightly inspired by Of Technology and Botany by Rasberry Jo, but you will find many differences, also my writing style is slightly like of The Road but with punctuation, character descriptions (A little bit XD) and distinctions of where people talk and stuff! Also, if it feels rushed, sorry I was writing most of this before school on my iPod and when the bell rang, I had to quickly put it away before teachers saw, and I would soon loose motivation to write until something reminded me of it!

ENJOY, and draw fan art if you want, and send me a PM with a link to it! But write the link like this www (DOT) google (DOT) com, otherwise it won't show up!

Now enjoy! And if characters sound OOC, it's because 1) I can't remember how some characters act sometimes, or 2) It's how they act in my story or 3) I got lazy (Which is rarely)

And most of the names (Both first and last) are from famous characters from TV shows and movies, want to guess?

"Okay, I have a trick for all of you to remember. Let's look at these two equations, two times nine and also nine times nine." He wrote the two equations on the board, the chalk squeaking and clacking as he did so, "Now, they look different, right? Yes, because they are, now, what is two times nine?" Some of the class raised their hands, "Gregory?"

"Eighteen?"

"Yes!" He shouted, but not loud enough to disturb the other classes, "Eighteen, now, what's nine times nine?" A few students raised their hands, "Bella?" He turned back to the board to write.

"Eighty-One!" she said smugly, looking at Gregory with an evil glint in her eyes.

"Correct, but you lose your house points for picking on a fellow student." He smirked when a few kids groaned at this. He used his old House system from Hogwarts to keep third grade students behaving. He walked over to a glass jar and pulled out a few red colored stones from the see through gold jar. He put in a few green stones into the silver jar, "Now, nine times two is eighteen and nine times nine is eighty-one, what do we see from that?" He looked around, "Anyone?" No hands, "Well, look at the answers... What's different?" A lone hand rose, "Yes?"

"They're the same just flipped?" The boy asked.

"What's the same, Mr. DiNozzo?" Harry rose an eyebrow.

"The numbers in the answers?"

"Exactly!" He took a few bronze colored stones from his pocket and tossed them in the blue jar, "They're the same numbers, just flipped. Now, when you're having trouble on these two questions, remember what you learned here, if two times nine is eighteen then... Nine times nine is eighty-one, if you CAN'T remember that, then look here," He pointed to the two in the top equation, "Two times nine. Look here," He slammed his hand on the board under the two, "Two nines! If you have two nines, all you do is...?"

"FLIP EIGHTEEN!"

"Very good, well done, class! That concludes our math session, now onto scien-". A knock came on the door, "Excuse me for one moment, class?" He walked to the back and smiled at his family pictures on his desk, especially one from his last date, and opened the door, "Rhodey? What's going on, what happened?"

"Harry... I'm sorry, but Ton-". He sighed before continuing,"Can we talk about this in the hall?"

"Sure, class, don't do anything stupid while I'm gone, OK?" Harry left with Rhodey outside, as he closed the door, the class ran to the door, "What's wrong, Rhodey?"

"Tony... his humvee was hit by enemy fire, from what we can see, the soldiers were dead."

"And Tony?" He wrung his hands together and felt the ring on his left hand pinching his skin.

"His body wasn't found. He's been put down as M.I.A. until we know for sure when we have more information." Harry blinked away a few tears before just breaking down and clutching Rhodey in a hug. James Rhodes was not only Tony's best friend and best man for the, what was supposed to be, the bonding ceremony, for Harry and the Stark Enterprises CEO.

The tabloids had a hell of a time with that story, the first one was "Stark denied by Black Haired Beauty." which caused Harry to be annoyed until they said, "Tony Stark, Playboy turned Gay?". Harry had burned at least twenty copies of the magazine before he felt better. When Tony publicly humiliated himself trying to ask Harry out on a date, (it was embarrassing for everyone involved (except for Harry, he thought it was hilarious)) that he said yes to a date. A few months later, they were engaged. (AN: Sorry, but it's NOT FAIRY TALES, this happened to my grandparents and they are STILL together, 49 YEARS OF MARRIAGE! True story!). Rhodey brought Harry back to the present, saying they needed to get back to work. Harry nodded and wiped his eyes with a tissue Rhodey gave him before turning back to the class, who hurriedly ran back to their seats. He opened the door and said,

"All right, get to work, grab your goggles and baking soda and head to your volcanoes, NO VINNY, DON'T DRINK THE VINEGAR.". The class, not used to Mr. Potter shouting, turned to look at him, "Keep working class, and get everything set up." Harry turned back to Rhodey and hugged him again, "Thank you."

"No problem, Harry." Rhodey hugged him back and turned around, but before he left, he turned around and said, "Tony has gotten out of thicker scrapes before, this just happens to be the thickest and most dangerous he's ever faced." Harry nodded and closed the door behind Rhodey. When he turned back around, he saw his students looking at him.

"Mr. Potter?" A student, Marty, dared to approach his teacher.

"Yes, Marty?"

"Mr. Stark will be OK, right?" Harry sighed and ruffled the kid's hair.

"I hope so, Marty. I hope so."

Harry drove his Ducati (a gift from Tony) into Tony's garage and heard J.A.R.V.I.S. voice.

"Good afternoon, Harrison, I trust the students behaved?"

"Well, Vinny almost drank the vinegar again."

"Oh you poor thing." Jarvis said sarcastically (or as sarcastic as an AI can get). Harry chuckled before Jarvis asked, "How are you feeling?" Harry looked directly into the camera and said with pain in his voice,

"Terrible, in denial... Jarvis, take your pick." He walked up the stairs to see Pepper watching the news, "Mute.". Pepper turned to see Harry walking over. She made room on the couch while wiping her eyes. He walked over and sat down next to her. Pepper looked over at Harry and asked.

"You didn't cry?"

"I did, and I will again."

"When?"

"Right now..." She rubbed his back as he leaned forward with his face in his hands, sobbing. Pepper leaned over and rubbed his back as he cried. She pulled him over and let him cry on her shoulder, grabbing a few tissues Dummy had brought up for them. He blew his nose and sighed.

"Everyone I get close to dies... My parents, Sirius, Remus, everyone-"

"Harry, you know that's not true! Rhodey and I are still here!" He nodded and smiled a little at Pepper.

"I know, but... still." Pepper kissed Harry's brow. He was like her little brother, she hated seeing him in pain.

"Don't worry Harry, everything will be fine."

OK, so kind of short... OK REALLY Short, like 1,200 words tops, but that's mostly all I can write sometimes. It was originally 5,000 words, but I thought it was moving to fast!

Enjoy!

And in the next chapter, I'll tell you where the student's names came from!

And anybody willing to be my beta for me, please tell me!