Chapter 8
The boys were very happy to see John the next morning, and excited to hear that they would be staying with Harry and his uncles while John hunted. They headed back to Bobby's with the portkeys, and took their things inside. John spent the week watching his boys play with Harry, and spent as much time with them as he could. When he was preparing to leave, Dean came into the room he was staying in.
"You're gonna come back, right?" he asked.
John stopped packing and turned to his oldest son, "I will be gone for two weeks, and then back here for a week. Then I head off to hunt like I used to do, finding things that are killing people and getting rid of them. I will call you and your brother, every couple of days, just like when I left you here before. Yes Dean, I will do my very best to always come back to you."
Dean ran forward and hugged his father. "I'll take care of Sammy."
John gave Dean one more hug, "You let Bobby and Remus take care of both of you. Here you are safe, you do what they tell you and you'll be fine."
Dean picked up the last pile of things on his dad's bed and placed it in the bag laying on the bed. "We'll miss you."
John got down to Dean's level, crouching on the floor. "I'm going to miss you boys too."
December, 1988
John had to admit, Bobby, Remus and Sirius were doing a great job training the boys. All three were able to shoot, and their hand to hand combat skills were on par with young men years older. He watched the three wrestling and fighting in the center of a ring of cars, none of them had any unfair advantage over the others, even with the age differences. Sammy was just as brutal as the two older boys, dodging punches and kicks better than some older men he had seen. He grabbed a beer out of the fridge and stepped back to the window. Sam had Harry on the ground, his attention completely on the black haired boy, when Dean tackled him from the side. Remus came over and separated the boys and spoke to them. He then pulled off his jacket and went on the attack.
John had never seen anything quite like it. The three boys worked together like a well oiled machine, Remus cast spells and fought hard, but the trio had him pinned down in less than five minutes. Harry and Sam held their teacher down as Dean quickly drew symbols in the dirt in a circle around the man. Harry and Sam jumped past the symbols just as Dean was finishing the last one, and the wizard was surrounded by a column of clear blue light. John could see the man banging on whatever was holding him as the boys cheered, Harry and Sam jumped on Dean, patting his back.
After they had calmed down, Dean swiped his hand through one of the symbols and the blue light vanished. Remus pulled all three of them in for a giant hug then they headed for the house. John stepped back from the window and dropped into a chair at the table as the three came charging into the house, Remus following silently behind them with a grin on his face.
"Dad, did you see?" Sam asked.
John smiled at the boys, "You boys looked good, even managed to trap your teacher."
Remus laughed, "I assure you John, that was completely unexpected. Those runes were Dean's own creation. During their free time, there are lots of books on runes and arithmancy that they can read. Dean found one on runes and he's been working with them a lot.
Dean smiled at his dad, "I merged two different runes and we wanted to see if they would work, so Bobby got an old junker and brought it closer to the house. I created runes that would self repair problems on the car, and keep the gas tank full. They both worked, now Uncle Siri has his own car that fixes itself and never needs gas." the boy told him.
John looked gobsmacked, he glanced up at Remus and the man smiled at him and nodded his head. "Think I could get you to put some of them on the impala?" he asked Dean.
Dean grinned at his dad, "Yep, I'll do it before you leave."
Two days before Christmas, the boys were outside practicing and the four men were sitting in Bobby's library when the adults heard a loud chime. Remus and Bobby jumped up from their seats and turned to the other men in the room. "That's the alarm from the wards, head out and find the boys, send them to the fort."
Sirius jumped up and started toward the back door. John just looked at them.
"What is the alarm for?" he asked.
Remus turned around and waved Sirius out the door. "Someone magical that has bad intentions just came onto the property. Grab some weapons and help find the boys and get them to the fort."
John grabbed a shotgun and headed out the back door, searching for the three boys. Remus and Bobby found places around the driveway to hide and waited for whoever to come up the road.
When Remus caught sight of who was coming, he bit out a curse. Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, damn, he had thought that Albus had given up on finding Harry. He turned his back to the road and send a patronus to Travis telling him that Dumbledore was there and that they needed help.
John and Sirius were still searching for the boys, not hearing any sounds from them. They had circled around and were weaving through the cars that were piled near the driveway when Sirius caught sight of Dumbledore, he ran over to John and quickly told him what was going on. As the two wizards passed by where John and Sirius were hiding, they caught sight of the three boys. The men watched as they let Remus and Bobby see them and made some hand signals toward the two men. Both men dropped to a knee and started drawing in the dirt quickly. They moved and drew a couple of more symbols and then stood up facing the wizards walking toward them.
Silently the three boys came out of hiding behind the men as they stepped toward Bobby and Remus, stopping a few steps from the symbols, with them forming a half moon arch around the two wizards. Harry, Sam and Dean shifted apart from each other and quickly drew a few more symbols on the ground behind the men, and the bright blue light surrounded the wizards. As the three boys walked past them, the younger wizard lunged toward Harry. He charged into the blue light and was thrown back, unconscious.
Dean, Sam and Harry walked toward Remus and stood next to him. "How long will that hold, pups?" Remus asked.
Dean smirked, "As long as you need it to, Uncle Remus. I've tweaked it quite a bit since the first time I've used it."
Remus laughed as John and Sirius came out of the cars and stood with them. "Good, as soon as Travis and his men get here, they can take care of them."
