A/N: thanks to everyone who has reviewed and such, and to those who have placed this tory in 6 C2s, for only 6,000 words that isn't bad at all. Anyway, please review with any thoughts you may have.
The morning after his meeting with the families he controlled Harry awoke to the sight of Tonks being hauled away from his room by two large guards wearing identical silver gray robes. "What seems to be the problem gentlemen?" he asked loudly.
"Miss Tonks was apprehended trying to sneak into your chambers my lord." the guard answered.
"Well Tonks, if you wanted into my chambers you needed only to ask." Harry said, earning a deep blush from the auror. "You may release her guards, we will be eating together this morning.". The pair dropped Tonks' arms and moved away, presumably resuming their patrol.
"Thanks for that Harry." Tonks said.
"You like me don't you Tonks?" Harry asked bluntly causing the auror to drop her glass of water.
"What do you mean?" she replied, stumbling over her words a bit.
"Well, you tease me more than everyone else combined, you are exceptionally clumsy around me and you…" Harry said, counting on his fingers before he was cut off.
"Fine! You caught me, I have had a crush on you since we met." she shrieked.
"That explains a lot thank you." Harry replied and he sipped on his own water.
"Wait, that's it? You don't have anything else to say." Tonks said angrily.
"That's not it at all," Harry said tiredly, "I have held the same feelings for you, but you can do better than an escaped convict.".
"But how could I do better than the future king of Atlantis?" Tonks asked rhetorically, while pulling Harry into his first kiss.
"Wow. Does this mean that we are dating?" he asked.
"I believe it does my lord." Tonks answered.
"When I am king you know that you will be called my lady right?" he asked.
"I will not! I will simply tell everyone that I hate that title." she declared.
"And why would you have more success then I did my lady?". That seemed to have stumped her, so the subject was dropped and the two enjoyed the rest of their meal in the Atlantis sun.
Sirius Black was pacing in his study, a habit that he had slipped into after his godson had been thrown into prison. Lord Morvyn said he was innocent, and that they had met. That had to mean that Harry was staying on Atlantis, Sirius knew that his godson did not have anywhere to stay in England, he was far to recognizable. Next time he was called to a meeting he would ask, it wouldn't do to demand anything from such a powerful man.
Hermoine Granger was sitting in the office of Albus Dumbledore discussing her findings after going over Arthur's memory of the meeting. It seemed that Sirius had left certain details out of his explanation. Hermoine had done the same after it became apparent that Dumbledore would not yet believe that Harry was innocent, the man was simply too afraid of unleashing another Tom Riddle on the world. She had to admit that she found this Lord Morvyn to be intriguing, even if he seemed eerily familiar. Perhaps he could help her prove that Harry was not going dark, as Dumbledore already knew that he didn't kill Cedric. After being dismissed by the old man, she ran to the apparation point, she had to speak with Sirius.
Weeks had passed in Atlantis, with Harry and Tonks growing much closer, unfortunately for the couple, Harry had been forced to call another meeting of the families when Draco had sent him some 'informative' information. He waited for the doors to open, Tonks in the seat next to him, both still had to wear hoods during these meetings. As the group filed in, Harry counted one extra person. Making a sign with his hand to one of the guards, the person was pulled out of line and thrown on their knees in front of him.
"Who are you?" he asked to the hooded figure. The person lowered their hood, and the face of Hermoine Granger emerged, shocking Harry so much he nearly lost his emotional mask.
"Why are you here?" he asked again, cutting off all response the girl may have had to his first question.
"I needed to talk to you." she answered. Harry was about to respond but was cut off by a guard.
"You will address Lord Morvyn with his proper titles girl!" the man said harshly. For a moment, Hermoine's eyes grew hard with defiance, but then, she bowed her head and said,
"I'm sorry if I offended you my lord.".
"Take her to the antechamber." Harry said to the guard, who bowed slightly and then proceeded to drag the girl into the adjoining room. "Now, who brought her here without my permission." Harry bellowed to the assembled families. Sirius cautiously raised his hand from the back.
"I did my lord." he answered.
"Get up here Sirius, stop being a bloody coward and hiding in the back. I thought Gryffindors were supposed to be loyal and brave after all, traits you appear to lack..". Across the room, Draco couldn't help but admire Potter's dressing down of his own godfather, and he kept his tone level the whole time! That boy should have been in Slytherin.
"I'm sorry my lord, it won't happen again." Sirius answered, ashamed of himself.
"Be sure that it doesn't.".
"My lord, if I may ask a question." Neville asked.
"You may." Harry answered the round faced boy.
"I believe we are all wondering, who is sitting in the queen's chair." Neville continued.
"Very observant of you Neville, that is my future wife, and is partly responsible for this meeting. You are all invited, with guests of course, to the wedding ceremony, we will be having another meeting afterwards." Harry said. The crowd in front of him all accepted of course, and pledged to be back in two days time.
As the group left, Harry ordered Sirius to accompany him to talk with one of his former best friends. "What is you purpose here?" he asked the girl coldly.
"Harry Potter" she croaked out. Harry's head was spinning, had she figured him out already, he knew from his order source that she was in charge of Atlantis research, and she was the cleverest witch of her age.
"What about him." Harry answered neutrally.
"You are keeping him here." she said in an accusing tone.
"I assure you that Mr. Potter is being kept no where against his will." Harry answered, trying to placate the girl. Honestly he had expected her to demand that he turn himself over to the ministry or the headmaster, but instead she said,
"I need to talk to him, we both do." she answered, gesturing at Sirius.
"What could possibly be so important?" Harry asked.
"We, and select others believe Harry to be innocent." Hermoine said.
"Very well, you may speak with him after the wedding. Until then, good day." Harry said, before striding from the room.
Just as Hermoine and Sirius were no doubt discussing what they had learned, and as Arthur was no doubt spilling his guts to Dumbledore, Harry returned to the rooms he now shared with Tonks. "Do you think this whole marriage thing his coming too fast for us?" he asked the woman who was currently trying on wedding dresses.
"No Harry I don't, these last few weeks have been wonderful. I don't want that to end." Tonks answered. Leaving out one of the main reasons, you see, after they had first made love to each other, both remembered that the had forgotten the contraception charms. As a result, Tonks may be pregnant with the future king of Atlantis, the potion that would determine that had yet to be completed. Either way, the two wanted to be able to chalk that up to the night of passion that followed most marriages, not a mistake made a week before.
"Okay, if that's what you want Tonks, then we'll go through with it." Harry answered tiredly, before tumbling into the bed he and Tonks shared. Bidding her goodnight, he fell into an uneasy sleep.
Albus Dumbledore sat pondering the information that Arthur had given him, Ms. Granger made a strange decision sneaking into a council meeting at Atlantis. He knew that it was well within the new lord's rights to have her executed, but according to his sources, she was in her dorm rather than dead. Perhaps the newest king of Atlantis could be persuaded to help the order after all. One thing was sure, Albus Dumbledore would be at that wedding.
A/N: In the next chapter, we see the wedding, and a bit of what Harry has learned from his tutors.