Thank you to my lovely reviewers: diesedame, cookyc, Utena-Puchiko-nyu, janet1982, Lientjuhh, Rainbow2007, SeaBreeze2Ga, frannienzbabe, fanfic0reader, Thera-Rocklynn, Sliver of Melody, Silvermane1, beauty0102, musme, GeorgieGirl999, Dark Neko 4000, storyprincess92, Shadow Wolf 15846, George2Bob1, -Chitsiez-,
Chapter 11 – An Undesired Drive and a Long wanted Delight
Enjoy!
Harry sighed as he rubbed his stomach, the bulge was getting harder and harder to hide, but that didn't stop him from going to the garage, which for some reason still was the only way to make the baby quiet down.
"Dom? Are you here?" Harry called as he entered the garage, he had called earlier to make sure the man was there and Dom had said that he would be there the whole day. When Harry got to the office he found a note taped to the door.
"Hey love, had to run out for a few minutes but I'll be back before you know it." Harry smiled at the note, he could see that it had been written in a hurry as Dom's handwriting usually wasn't that messy. Back down in the main area Harry found the Peugeot that Dom had complained about the last few weeks, the owner kept coming back saying that something was wrong eventhough the car was fine, and popped the hood.
"Dom, is that you?" Harry called twenty minutes later as he was sure he had heard a car pull up out back. Quickly drying his hands in a rag, Harry had found a loose connection in the gearbox which he easily had fixed, and walked out only to have a gun pointed at his head, there was as least five or so more guys standing around them all with either a knife or a gun.
"What do we have here? Toretto's little girlfriend?" One of the Asian men said and Harry was now more than happy that he had grown his hair a bit longer and that he had a feminine look to his face, as Mia politely had called it.
"And what is it to you?" Harry asked, he really hated it when someone threatened him and his family.
"Well you see Toretto and I go back a long way and I have an old score to settle with him. You wouldn't have to know where Dommy-boy is do you?"
"No idea and I wouldn't tell you if I did." Harry snarled wanting nothing more than to curse him and his little group of merry men into next week, but Poppy had warned him not to use magic at this point in the pregnancy as it could be dangerous for the baby and lethal for him.
"Then we'll just have to take you with us don't we." The still unnamed man said with a smirk and the man holding Harry at gunpoint grabbed him and took him to the car.
/ / Break / /
"Finally back I see." A voice he didn't know said when Dom entered his office making the former convict look up quickly. An Asian looking man in his midtwenties was sitting casually in Dom's chair, his feet resting on the table, the man was dressed in a leather suit and didn't look at all frigthened by Dom's bigger built.
"Who are you? Where is Harry?" Dom growled out as he dumped the parcels he had been carrying before taking the few steps forward to his desk.
"Who I am is not important Toretto and the cutie is okay." Dom could easily hear the 'for now' that was left unsaid.
"Why are you here? I don't think I have done anything that should have pissed you and the rest of the posy off." Dom snarled not liking the smug smile on the stranger's face.
"I'm here to bring you to Nagataka." The Asian, who Dom still didn't know the name of, said as he stood.
/ / Break / /
Kashi, as Dom learned his escort was called when he picked up his phone, took Dom to an industrial area and let him into one of the abandoned looking buildings. Once inside Dom saw at least five cars, three bikes and ten men scatered around the room, but his eyes singled out Harry, who was sitting on the floor with his arms around his stomach; what disturbed Dom the most was the pale and pained look on Harry's face.
'Showtime' Harry mouthed when his eyes locked with Dom's. Dom felt like cursing their bad luck, he had hoped that they could have been home, or atleast at the garage, when the labour started. Harry had told him everything Poppy had told him, which meant that Dom knew how much pain Harry was in as the first couple of hours of the labour was Harry's body adjusting and creating a birthcanal and to make matters worse would the portkey Ginny had given Harry a few months earlier not activate before the canal was fully developed, something about the magic of the portkey could intervien with the forming of the birthcanal.
"Ah Dominic Toretto, how nice of you to drop by." Nagataka said as he stood from his seat and a few of the others laughed, Dom only looked at him, he wasn't going to give the man he hadn't done a thing to an answer.
"I must say I was a little surprised when I heard you were back in town, but then again L.A. is a lovely town." Nagataka said moving closer to Dom, but kept within range of his men and Harry.
"I don't really see why you had to bring me and Harry all the way out here for this little gathering." Dom said keeping one eye on Nagataka and the other on Harry.
"Well it isn't really a social call Toretto. You see, since you've come back to L.A. you and your little shop has become a thorn in my side. How you managed to put gravel in my fine machinery I'll never know but it will stop now." Nagataka said making Dom confused, it was obviouse that the man had it all wrong.
"How is it that my garage have 'put gravel in you machinery'?" Dom asked in a sarcastic tone even though he knew that it wasn't a good idea.
"Since you came back all legal there has been a decrease in underground racing, which means that I'm loosing a lot of money and I don't like it Dom, not one bit." Dom could hear the other men in the room move closer and he also heard a few clicks, which by the look that entered Harry's eyes wasn't a good sign.
"What other people do or don't do can't really be my responsibility." Dom said taking a few steps closer to Harry hoping that he wasn't going to be gun down.
"Dom." Harry whimpered in pain and Dom knew he had to find a way for them to get out of there as he couldn't rely on Harry's magic at that critical moment.
"Yes well someone has to take the blame." Nagataka said turning his back slightly towards Dom. Before anyone really realized what had happened had Dom grabbed Harry and fought their way to one of the cars in the garage, which Harry managed to get started with a small spark of magic that left him out of breath, pale and shaking. Driving with skills he had learned in his youth did Dom get them out of the building and drove as fast as he could towards home, he needed to get Harry home safe and sound before anything else happened. Dom cursed when he saw three other cars in the mirrors gaining on them.
"Not long Dom, the transformation is almost complete." Harry panted his face twisted in pain.
"Then we'll just have to lose those ducklings." Dom mumbled and took a hard right turn. Dom took as many shortcuts he could in the city that had raised him, with every possible escape route running through his head, as he avoided people in their everyday life as they jumped out of the way.
"Any second now." Harry said his eyes closed as he tried to control his breathing. Dom looked in the mirror and saw that he had a good distance to his pursuers and after a quick intake of what part of the city he was in did a smile spread on his face; Dom knew this part of the city well. After two quick turns Dom came to a halt and felt Harry's hand on his arm before a sickening feeling of being pulled away through his navel.
/ / Break / /
Hermione was nervous, an alarm had sounded in the Hospital Wing at Hogwarts and before she knew it had her mentor came running out of her office with a big bag under her arm.
"What's happening Poppy?" Hermione asked placing the last couple of sheets she had been putting on the beds on the bed in front of her.
"Just a little house call my dear. Ready?" The medi-witch said holding her hand out to her apprentice and Hermione instantly remembered that Poppy was on call for a pregnant wizard in the State. The home they arrived in looked homey, it had an airy feeling and you instantly felt safe, a tanned woman came in from, what Hermione could make out to be, the kitchen.
"Poppy? What are you doing here?"
"The alarm sounded Mia, so if you could point me in the right direction of my patient." Poppy said but Hermione didn't like the surprised and slightly worried look in Mia's face.
"He is not here, he went to spend time with Dom at the garage." Mia said indicating for them to sit down.
"Not to worry dear, I'm sure Dom will make sure both of them are back here before the channel is complete.
An hour later
Hermione could tell that both Mia and Poppy was worried as the two woman paced side by side in the living room. Mia's boyfriend Brian had arrived half an hour ago and he kept close to Mia if she needed him. It was about that time that a cry was heard from the first floor and Mia ran out of the room and up the stairs. Hermione didn't mean to but couldn't help but make big eyes when Mia came down again with a blue haired baby boy and a black cat following at her heels.
"Teddy? Sirius?" Hermione asked surprised making the others in the room look at her. Teddy gave the young brunette a toothy smile and reached for her making Hermione stand on shaking legs to take the toddler from Mia.
"Hey little guy, why are you here and where is Harry?" Hermione said softly and put her cheek to the boy's now orange and curly hair.
"You know Harry?" Mia asked sitting down beside Brian on the couch.
"One of the few that know him the best, he has been my best friend since we were eleven." Hermione said hugging Teddy close, she hadn't realized how much she had missed her best friend and the small metamorphmagus.
"But you didn't know that he was pregnant?" Brian asked, the policeman coming to the surface.
"I had no idea, I didn't even know he was gay, but then again if there was something Harry didn't want us to know we wouldn't either." Hermione said still stunned that Harry hadn't told her and Ron the truth. Mia was about to say something but was interrupted by a blue light behind Hermione and before she knew it were Dom and Harry on the floor.
"There you ar... What happened?" Poppy said before going into action seeing what state Harry had arrived in, Hermione gently eased Teddy back into Mia's arms so she could help.
"We had a little run in with a gang of pissed Asians that thought my garage was the main reason for their troubles." Dom said picking Harry up bridal style, both Poppy and Hermione was fussing over the pale and shacking wizard.
/ / Break / /
Brian and Mia watched as Dom passed in front of the door to his and Harry's bedroom, Poppy had refused Dom access saying that since Harry was as powerful as he was his magic might lash out and hurt him as he didn't have any magic of his own to protect him. Dom had already told both of them what had happened and Brian had called his partner at the station to have a team sent to the headquarters of Nagataka's gang as the police had been trying to find where the 'Silver Chimaeras' ravaged. Every few seconds could a shout or a scream be heard from the room making Dom stop his pacing and look like he was ready to break down the door to get to Harry.
"Dom you need to relax, Poppy knows what she is doing." Mia said wrapping her arms around her brother before he wore a hole in the floor.
"I know, it's just he looked so frail and weak." Dom said not taking his eyes of the door. Brian winced when a particular high scream came from the room making all of them jump before the shrill sound of a baby crying reached their ears; Mia noticed that Dom got a sappy grin on his face by the mere sound of his child. Brian stood to join the pair as movement was heard on the other side of the door shortly after before it opened revealing a, more than normal, frizzy haired Hermione with a slight sheen of sweat visible on her face.
"You can come in now." Hermione said in a soft voice moving aside so she wouldn't be trampled down by Dom, who shot past her into the room. The farther into the room Dom got the slower he seemed to be going, but he made it to Harry side and sat down gently on the side of the bed. Harry looked up at him with a tired but happy smile on his lips and in his eyes, he was still pale and sweaty but colour was slowly making its way back into his cheeks.
"Isn't she beautiful?" Harry whispered, his voice slightly raw, and moved his eyes towards the small baby wrapped in a pink blanket and Harry's arms. Dom gently let a finger run down the small cheek and smiled when a pair of still baby-blue, even though you could just make out a few green sparks, eyes opened and looked at him; Dom could tell that she was going to have Harry's emerald green eyes.
"She is so much more than beautiful." Dom said and carefully let his hand rest on the back of his daughter's head, feeling the small tufts of her dark brown hair against his palm. Dom couldn't believe that something so stunning had been created by the trust amongst two strangers, but he didn't really care, she and Harry were his and that was all that mattered.
A.N.
The final update. I'm sorry that it took me so long to update but things have been more than a little crazy around here. My grandfather died a few weeks ago and created a mess with my thoughts and it appear that my muse have been on holiday in the warmth.
I'm so sorry to inform you all that this is the last chapter of Trust Amongst Strangers, but on the contrary is it my delight to tell you that I'm working on a sequel. I don't know when it will be up and running as I want to work on some of my other stories, but I hope that it won't be long.
You my dear readers have been awesome and the main reason for me to write. I thank you for all your reviews, alerts and favourites of my story and I hope that you will follow my other stories in the future as well.
Leave a review and let me know what you think and once again thank you for your support!
Written Saviour
