Chapter 7 Blood in
"So lines is it?" asked Jack as he and Harry walked up a flight of stairs toward Umbridge office. When they entered the office they found two desk waiting for them, on each of the desk where large papers with a quill at the ready. However Jack was looking around the room and it looked like some hold lady had designed it. Bright pink walls covered with different plates all with pictures of cats on them.
"Now Mr. Potter you know the drill." said Umbridge as she guided Harry to his seat. "Mr. O'Neill you shall sit beside him and you will write until I tell you to stop "I will respect authority."
Jack didn't say anything as he sat down beside Harry. Slowly Jack started to write and at first it didn't bug him at all, nothing seemed to be happening Umbridge sat behind her desk drinking her tea with a smug look on her face. However after about a half hour Jack began to feel a pain coming from the top of his hand, at first he chalked it up to writer crap however the red mark on his hand told him otherwise. Within another half hour the red mark had taken on the words I will respect authority.
"What the hell?" thought Jack as he looked down at the paper and saw the black ink had turned bright blood red. "I am writing in my own blood."
"Is something wrong Mr. O'Neill?" asked Umbridge with a sick smile that reminded him so much of Baal's. Jack was about to say something when he noticed Harry shaking his just so lightly.
"No." said Jack as he kept writing however he made sure to take in his environment even more.
"Two large windows facing out toward the grounds." thought Jack as he noticed a large owl sitting on a small gargoyle outside. To his amazement when the owl let out a load cry he heard nothing. "Sound proof….interesting"
"Alright let's take a look." said Umbridge as she took a look at Harry's hand first. "So sad I thought it would be deeper maybe a few more days….now as for you O'Neill."
Jack let Umbridge take his hand as she look at the words on Jack's hand. It looked as if someone had written words in red markers.
"Mr. O'Neill I hope you take this lesson….I think you should get back to your own nation." said Umbridge
"I don't think so Pr. I like it here." said Jack
"Then we will meet again in the future." said Umbridge "Until then you may both go."
Slowly the two boys rushed out of the office.
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Jack as Harry looked at him.
"There was nothing you could do." said Harry "And you better not tell the other teachers there is nothing they can do."
"I wasn't going to." said Jack with a grin as the two of them entered the common room. It was empty apart from Ron and Hermione who were waiting on the two of them.
"Here" said Hermione as she held out two bowels full of some green looking water. "It's a potion that heals cuts."
"Thanks." said Harry as he put his hand into the bowel. Jack however refused to use his bowel.
"Jack why aren't you using it?" asked Hermione
"Harry needs it more than me." answered Jack as he looked at the cut on his hand "I have had worst."
"She is a bitch." said Harry
"Harry you need to inform Dumbledore or at least McGonagall." said Hermione
"All Umbridge will do is message Fudge and both of them will be sacked." said Harry
"Then fight back." said Jack
"How, we can't fight her she has the minster behind her." said Ron
"A defense club." stated Hermione as everyone looked at her "We fight back by doing the one thing she and Fudge fear the most, we learn how to fight."
"How do we suppose we learn?" asked Ron "We don't have a teacher."
"Ya, we do." said Hermione "In fact we have two."
"Who?" asked Harry
"She means the two of us." said Jack as he looked at Hermione "I think that is what you are thinking have Harry and I teach the club."
"Yes." said Hermione as she looked at Harry "You are the best in our class."
"No, you have beaten me on every test." said Harry
"You can't learn how to fight of test." answered Jack "You learn it by actually fighting. Some of the most well trained men have fallen to pieces and crying for their mommy when the shit hit the fan and sometimes a normal person with no training can be the best soldier. From what I heard Harry you are a soldier."
"No…I can't teach." Said harry "I just got out of those situation by pure luck."
"Tell me Harry when you fought Voldemort did you think which spells you know and which one of those would work best?" asked Jack as Harry looked at him.
"Yes." said Harry
"Then teach them how to use different spells and I will teach them combat situations." said Jack
"Are you sure you can handle that?" asked Ron
"I can." said Jack as he remembered training rebel forces in different jungles around the world during the cold war.
"I still haven't agreed to this." said Harry "Besides I am loaded down with homework, Quidditch and dealing with Umbridge."
"This is more important than homework." said Hermione as Ron and Harry looked at her with a stunned look on their faces.
"I thought nothing was more important than homework." Said Ron
"Of course there is and this is one of those." said Hermione "Harry why don't you sleep on it."
"Alright." said Harry as he headed to bed, followed by Jack and Ron leaving Hermione to do some last minute work. However Jack had different things on his mind as he waited for the sound of everyone slight snoring to tell him that they were asleep. Quickly Jack got dressed in his off world gear including his hat and staff blast resistance vest however instead of carrying a huge backpack he carried the one that was given to him by the wizardering government. Once he was ready he grabbed the last part of his plan one of the elder Weasley twines stink bombs that Hermione had taken. She hadn't noticed him grabbing the bomb out of her bag in the common room.
"Time to move." said Jack to himself as he walked down into the darkened common room. The fires had faded into nothing but embers. As Jack walked across the room the sound of breathing filled the air, he looked to his right toward the source of the sound. What he found was Hermione sound asleep in her chair with a large book on her lap and two other books on the ground beside her.
"I need to finish…." said Hermione in her sleep as Jack smiled as he couldn't help but remember.
Flashback
"Carter…the general wants your report form P3X-1367." said Jack as he walked through the door that lead into Carter's lab. However what he found was Carter sound asleep with her face resting on her laptop and five different reports lying on the ground.
"I need to finish." said Sam Carter as she rolled her head on the keyboard.
"I will tell him you need some more time." said Jack as he walked out of the room.
End Flashback
"I need to…." said Hermione again as she shivered a bit in the ever growing colder room. Jack slowly grabbed a nearby blanket and draped it over Hermione who instantly smiled at the new warmth.
"to get some rest." answered Jack as he walked out of the portrait door and entered the darkened castle. The normal torches where almost all out and with the moonless and starless sky outside the entire castle was pitch black. The moment he was in the castle he pulled up a face mask to cover his face and at the same time he strapped on a pair of night vision goggles which turned the night into day. Just in case he ran into someone he pulled out his ZAT gun however no one came into view as he made his way to his target right the room right above Umbridge's office.
"Here goes." said Jack as he tied a long rope up to a stone column in the center of the room. After hooking the rope up to a climbing belt he stepped out over the edge of the castle window into the cold and howling wind. The moment he went over the edge a heavy downpour of snow began. Jack as he walked down the side of the castle until he arrived just above Umbridge's office window. Once he was in position he pulled out an old tool of any swat or Special Forces team, a silenced glass drill. The goal was simple drill a hole and throw in the stick bomb and get back to the common room. Sounded simple however the moment Jack's drill touched the glass a load alarm filled the air as the lights in Umbridge's office came on as a tired looking Umbridge entered her office dressed in a pink fully night dress.
"Crap." thought Jack as he quickly climbed up the rope and entered back into the castle. He could hear movement coming from the other side of the door. However the door opened and no one was there.
"Jack what are you doing?" asked Hermione's voice out of nowhere as suddenly she appeared out of thin air, holding a what looked like a weird fur coat. Before Jack could say anything the sound of footsteps coming from the only staircase outside caused Hermione to jump.
"Jack grab everything and get over here." ordered Hermione as Jack threw his supplies into his bag before rushing to Hermione's side.
"We are trapped." whispered Jack as Hermione pulled him close before throwing the cloak over both of them.
"Be quiet." ordered Hermione as Umbridge entered the room. Slowly she looked around the room as if she couldn't see them.
"Is something wrong Professor Umbridge?" asked a new voice as a man with a long trench coat appeared holding a lamp.
"Yes, Mr. Filch an alarm was set up outside my window." said Umbridge "A student must have tried to break in."
"With all do respect pr, you said outside your window. The only way a student could get up here was if they were on a broom and I just came from the store room." said Finch "It was likely Peeves."
"I am not entirely sure." said Umbridge "They could have done a floating charm out the window."
"Professor Students are lazy they wouldn't go outside in this storm." said Finch
"I suppose." said Umbridge "However I would like you to put an extra lock on this window and every window around my office."
"At once." said Finch as he and Umbridge slowly left the office.
"Ok how did they not see us?" asked Jack
"It is Harry's invisibility cloak." explained Hermione "After you placed the blanket on me I woke up."
"And you saw me leave?" asked Jack
"Ya." said Hermione
"How did you find me?" asked Jack "I could have gone anywhere."
"Using Harry's invisibility cloak and the Marauder's map. It allows us to become invisibility and with the map we can find anyone on castle grounds." explained Hermione as she held out a piece of paper which showed an entire map of Hogwarts with moving dots with people's name on them. "Now let's get back to the common room."
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