A/N: still not mine. Still want them to be.

Chapter Nine: Lupin

The group turned around to see Roberts and Tony standing in a blind spot of the cameras.

"So how was apparating?" Harry asked.

"Let me put it this way. How is that the most popular form of travel?" Tony said.

"So glad you're not claustrophobic? Though I agree. For me the most pleasurable way to travel is flying on my broom." Harry asked.

"Immensely." Tony replied.

"There are other ways of traveling magically?" Tony asked.

"Yep, besides broom flight, there's the knight bus. Which in my opinion is almost as bad as apparating. I've also seen a flying carriage and a ship that traveled underwater." Harry said.

" Did you get the list?" Justin asked.

"Yep, unfortunately I think having the list is worse then having no suspects." Tony said.

"Why how long is it?" Tim asked.

"Two scrolls." Roberts said. Harry gave a low whistle.

"That is a long list. Have you eliminated those that are in prison?" Harry asked.

"Nope, haven't even got a chance to look at them yet." Tony said.

"Well th…" Harry started as his phone started to ring.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Crap. I'll get it right away. See you by sunset at the latest. Love you Ginny." He replied.

"What did you forget this time?" Ziva asked.

"To pick up ingredients for the Wolfsbane potion." Harry said walking over to Gibbs.

"Boss,two things: one, I need to run an errand and two, I need to be walking through the door of my house by sunset." Harry said. Gibbs looked at Harry before saying."Ok, but hurry back from this errand of yours." Harry smiled and started walking towards the blind spot.

"Thanks, boss." He called before he disapparated. Justin and Roberts each took a scroll and started going through it. They would occasionally call out names to each other, asking if they were in prison. All in all it was pretty quiet. Tim was watching the security tapes from the hospital on the off chance that the murderer came in with their victim or the plant. Tony and Ziva were doing paperwork, so that they wouldn't have to do it later. A few minutes later and the heard a crack that was becoming familiar to them. Looking over they saw Harry there with a brown sack. He took a step forward and turned around.

"Kreacher, apparate in front of me please." They heard the crack again, only this time there was a creature there. He was oddly dressed in what looked to be a pillow case, a pair of socks, and a golden locket around his neck.

"Yes, Master?" The creature said.

"Kreacher, take this sack to Ginny right away." Harry instructed. The creature disappeared but the team's questions didn't.

"Who and what was that?" Tony asked.

"That was Kreacher. He's a free house elf, whose loyalty I've earned." Harry said.

"Which if you know what to look for is obvious. If they wear anything but the pillow case looking thing, they're a free elf. If a free elf does as a wizard asks, that wizard has earned their loyalty." Roberts said. The team worked hard but didn't make any significant progress. Soon it was time for Harry to go home. Gibbs looked at his team and the aurors and said. "Go home." As the group minus Gibbs, stood up Justin leaned over to Ziva.

"What about Gibbs?" He asked.

"Gibbs, I would be surprised if he went home at all tonight. The man is like a… manborg." Ziva said.

"I think that the word you're looking for is cyborg." Justin said.

"Thank you. I don't think that the man sleeps. He just drinks coffee." Ziva said.

"I used to think that it was just for mornings, then I met Gibbs. I think that he is solely keeping the coffee shop of his choice in the black." Ziva finished.

"I think the bossman should join coffee-aholics anonymous." Tony jumped in. They made their way to the elevator and had a pleasant chat about coffee. They signed out and went their separate ways.

The next morning the group walked into the bullpen bright eyed and bushy tailed. With one notable exception: Harry.

"Long night?" Ziva asked.

"Yep." Harry replied with a yawn.

"So something occurred to me last night Probie." Tony said, addressing Harry. Harry gave Tony his best 'You're treading in dangerous and shark infested waters' look.

"And this something was?" Harry said darkly.

"I don't know what Wolfsbane does." Tony said.

"It allows a werewolf to not be a threat to anyone." Harry said.

"You're living with a werewolf?" Tim said.

"Raising a half-werewolf, actually." Harry said.

"Wait, Teddy's part werewolf?" Ziva asked. Harry nodded, stifling a yawn.

"What happened, moon rise too soon?" Tony said, teasing Harry. Harry gave Tony his best death glare.

"Don't mess with me before I get caffeine into my system. I might do something I would regret later." Harry said to Tony.

"Tony, we might be dealing with a creature just as deadly as an uncaffeinated Gibbs." Tim said. At this Tony's eyes went wide.

"Pack your bags. We got a body in Hollywood." Gibbs called. Tony grinned.

"Harry, you should get killer fans more often if they're going…" Tony stopped as he received a Gibbs-slap.

"Thank you boss." Tony said. Harry sighed.

"Great we have to keep this sadistic game from fellow NCIS agents." Harry said.

"Why just NCIS agents?" Roberts asked.

"It's expected for us to do it to other agencies but there's a level of trust when you're working with a fellow agent." Tony said.

"And that level of trust includes giving pertinent information to the team and this sadistic game is pertinent information." Tim said. Roberts nodded. A few hours later and they were flying smoothly towards Hollywood. When they landed they went straight to the HQ of the LA team.

"So what do you know?" Gibbs asked the leader of the whole region.

"Only that when we arrived there was a white owl that handed my team a letter that said to hand the case over to you or there would be more bodies." The woman, Henrietta, said.

"So we'll take the lead. This is Special Agent DiNozzo, Special Agent McGee, Special Agent David, and Special Agent Potter." Gibbs said with a hand gesture.

Roberts stepped up and said. "I'm Special Agent Roberts and Special Agents Finch-Fletchly of MI5." Henrietta nodded.

"These are Special Agents Callen, Hannah, Blye, and L.A. Police Consultant Detective Deeks." She said, introducing the team they would be working with.

"So do you mind if we use our forensic tech and M.E.?" Gibbs asked.

"No not at all. We have to use L.A. Police's." Callen said.

"So what do you know?" Agent Blye asked.

"That there will be more and that the perp is willing to use whatever means necessary to obtain her goal." Harry said.

"And that she fixates on Harry." Tony said.

"Don't remind me." Harry said.

"So did you canvass the scene?" Justin asked.

"We were forbidden from doing anything that you didn't specifically tell us to do and we had to pair off with an NCIS Agent from D.C.." Deeks said.

"First be as helpful and follow your instincts wherever they lead you." Gibbs said.

"Thanks." Callen said.

"What were the pairings, if any? Roberts, Fletchly go through the rest of that list." Gibbs said.

"Callen and Potter, Hannah and McGee, Blye and DiNozzo, and finally, Deeks and Gibbs." Henrietta said. "The letter said that David was to supervise the agents from the other agency." She finished. Gibbs nodded.

"Potter, Callen, Hannah, and McGee, go canvas the scene." Gibbs said. The group handed their stuff to DiNozzo to get to the hotel.

"We should probably take two cars with one pair per car." McGee said. Hannah and Callen nodded. They went out and got into the cars.

As they were driving Callen asked. "Is there anything other then Special Agent Potter that you want me to call you?"

"Yeah, call me Harry and for you?" Harry shot back.

"Just Callen." He replied.

"Alright, just Callen." Harry said.

"Oh, ha ha ha, very funny." Callen said.

"Sorry just slipped out. One thing you should know if we're going to be partners is that the deaths imitate deaths from my past." Harry said.

"That's gotta suck." Callen said.

"Yeah, this one especially. I liked Lupin a lot. He was like a father to me." Harry said.

"Really how?" Callen asked.

"He was a good friend of my fathers." Harry explained. Callen nodded.

"So you knew him how long?" Callen asked.

"Four years." Harry said and at the look Callen gave him went on."My parents died when I was one. My aunt and Uncle didn't want anything to do with my father, so I didn't know him until I was thirteen and he got a job at my school." Harry said. Callen nodded.

"So why Callen?" Harry said.

"Well I only know the first letter of my first name and nothing else but my last name." Callen said.

"Amnesia?" Harry asked.

"No, orphan." Callen said.

"Sorry." Harry said.

"S'ok." Callen said.

They arrived fairly quickly. Harry walked in expecting the worst. The scene before him jerked tears from Harry. The body was dumped in a studio that had a courtyard for the scenery. It was spooky how close it resembled Hogwarts' courtyard.

"You alright?" Callen asked.

"Yeah, just not totally prepared for the scene." Harry said. Callen nodded. He went over to the body and started looking around. McGee and Sam arrived.

"You ok, Harry?" McGee asked.

"Yeah." Harry said, nodding.

"I'm I missing something here?" Sam asked.

"The murderer is killing and making it seem like deaths from Agent Potter's past." Callen said.

"That's rough. How did the original die?" Sam asked McGee.

"A heart attack." Harry said, now dry eyed.

"Agent Hannah, will you question the security guard? McGee, see who had access. Me and Callen will take care of the scene." Harry said. Everyone nodded. Sam and McGee went out the door and Harry and Callen started looking for evidence.

"I miss you Moony." Harry said quietly. It went quickly and before Harry knew it they were zipping the body up to it could be taken and shipped.

"You ok?" Callen asked.

"Yeah, but seeing his likeness brought back a lot of memories." Harry said. Callen nodded. They got into the car and went back to HQ.

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