AN: And I am once again amazed at the responses this has gotten! I really hope you like this next chapter, and please R&R

Warning: slightly disgusting image, but it's not too graphic, if you've got a really good imagination, you might cringe a little, otherwise, you'll be fine.

Chapter 3

"Well, I guess we should introduce you to the Squints." Booth said, leading the way into the lab.

"Squints?" Harry and Teddy asked.

"Bones!" Booth hollered, walking up the stairs to the main observation area.

"I told you we're still gaining evidence at this point, we'll tell you who she is as soon as we know." a tall brunette woman, whom Harry recognized from the back cover of one of his books, answered, without looking up from the table, on which a set of decomposing remains laid. Booth grimaced and raised a hand to stop Harry.

"You may not want to bring Teddy any closer." He said, gesturing to the foul smelling half decomposed corpse that Harry could just make out from the bottom step. Harry nodded, and Booth turned back to Dr. Brennan.

"Actually, Bones, I wanted you to meet our new liaison officer." Dr. Brennan, or "Bones" as Agent Booth had apparently taken to calling her, looked up at this, her eyes obviously assessing Harry. "The rest of the gang should come out from behind their microscopes too."

"Yes, of course, if you'll just follow me, Zach and Hodgins are in the process of gaining more evidence." Brennan said, turning and walking off the platform, Booth, Harry, and Teddy following.

The sight that met them had Harry on edge. Two people, a somewhat gangly boy with shaggy brown hair and a man about Harry's height with very curly hair were leaning over a large black snake in a glass cage. Harry had a sense of déjà vu at the sight of the younger man tapping the glass with his knuckles. The cage was connected to several containers, which Harry didn't recognize. He had a sense of foreboding for the snake.

"Where are Angela and Cam?" Booth asked.

"Right here, I heard you hollering from my office, Booth." A darker skinned woman with her hair in a tight bun that was oddly reminiscent of Professor McGonagall's, answered from the doorway they had just entered through, standing with a woman who looked to be part Asian, with a sketchpad in her arms.

"Alright, well now that everyone is here, I suppose I'll make the introductions." Booth said, rubbing his hands together. "Black, this is Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist and her assistant Zach Addey," Booth pointed to the shaggy haired man who waved, "Dr. Jack Hodgins, bug and slime guy," curly nodded curtly, "and this is Dr. Camille Saroyan, the head of the Forensics department here at the Jeffersonian," the dark skinned woman smiled and waved a bit, "and the beautiful Miss Angela Montenegro, in charge of facial reconstruction." The dark haired woman smiled and said 'hello.' Harry nodded kindly to them all in turn. Booth continued.

"Squints, this is Officer Harrison James Potter-Black, the new liaison officer whose been assigned to work with us for the foreseeable future, and his son," here he paused and looked at the five-year old, "Teddy, would you like to introduce yourself?" Booth asked with a smile.

"Yes, thank you. I'm Teddy Lupin Potter-Black, it's very nice to make your acquaintance." Teddy stated, once again puffing out his chest, causing the team to all force back laughter, as Harry smiled proudly down at his son. "What are you doing to the snake?" Teddy asked, unknowingly echoing Harry's earlier thoughts. The team turned their attention back to the snake, Dr. Saroyan asking the same question. "What kind of snake is that, Daddy?" Teddy asked, looking up to his father for an answer.
Harry peered closely at the snake, noting its markings and size.

"I believe it's a Black Rat snake, cub." Harry answered, "And I'd like to know what's happening to it as well." Hodgins looked a bit surprised that Harry knew what breed it was and answered quickly.

"You're right, it's a Black Rat snake, it was found wrapped around the body," the man began to warm up to the story, demonstrating by wrapping an arm around Zach's neck.

"Why am I always the victim?" Zach asked with a slight whine.

"And had started to consume it." Hodgins ignored the boy. "There may be evidence in its intestinal tract, so we've hooked up the containers holding two ounces of vaporized calcium cyanide to the cage. We'll release the gas-" Booth snorted, causing Harry to smirk, and Hodgins to glare. "and in a few minutes the rat snake will..." he looked briefly at Teddy's enraptured face and stuttered over his words. "will, not put up anymore fight, and we'll be able to get the particles out of his stomach." Teddy scrunched up his face in concentration for a moment.

"You're gonna KILL it?" he asked in horror. He knew of his father's feelings towards the reptiles, and looked about ready to scream. The look on Harry's face was remarkably similar, though he remained calmer than his son.

"I might have another solution, one that does not involve killing the snake." He stated, he motioned towards the case. "May I?" he asked to the room in general, the two men looked to Dr. Brennan, who looked suspiciously at Harry, and then to Dr. Saroyan, who in turn looked to Booth, who simply shrugged and held his hands up in a gesture that clearly said, 'I've got no problem with it, but I'm not taking credit if the damn snake gets loose.' Saroyan nodded to Harry, who shrugged out of his suit jacket, handed it to Teddy and rolled up his sleeves.

Walking over to the cage, Harry very slowly removed the lid, and grabbed the snake around the neck with the snake hook sitting on the table. Harry couldn't help but hear its words as it hissed in panic

Ssstupid humanss, locking me in thisss abominable contrapssion. Come clossser human and let me bite you.

I mean no harm, master snake. Harry very quietly hissed in Parseltongue to the large creature.

A Ssspeaker! the snake exclaimed happily Ssstassio hass only heard taless of Ssspeakers! An exsseedingly great honor Sspeaker, that you would deem to Ssspeak to me. Harry chuckled a bit.

You flatter me Stasio, would you be so kind as to allow me to remove you from this cage? It immediately relaxed and allowed itself to be pulled from the cage. Harry explaining that he needed the creature to regurgitate the contents of his stomach for the other stupid humans in the room so that they would not kill it. He also promised him a very large meal as soon as he was done.

While Harry was having the nearly silent conversation with Stasio, the rest of the team looked on in wonder as Harry laid the great snake on the next table over and began to massage it around the middle. Looking up Harry asked if they could get a bucket of some sort to be placed near the end of the table. It was quickly put in place, all the while Harry rubbed random circles on the creature's body. A few moments later the snake opened its jaws and vomited into the bucket, the entirety of its stomach. Minutes later and the bucket was full.

"The stomach and intestinal tract are empty." Harry stated, allowing Stasio to wrap its 4' body around his shoulders, ignoring the shocked gasps of the team.

"Isn ma daddy awesome?" Teddy exclaimed to the gaping team of squints.

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