CHAPTER 12
Harry and Hermione were back by one o'clock and when they entered the house. Harry made Hermione place her books on the table and then picked her up bridal style and carried her to the bedroom. Hermione was looking into his face and smiling "Why Mr. Potter don't I get any say in this."
Harry smirked but did not look into her eyes "Nope, I am taking my husbandly prerogative and forcing you." Hermione couldn't help but giggle at the manner in which he said it.
"Mr. Potter I will have you know I am not that kind of girl. I am waiting for the right guy to come along and sweep me off my feet."
Harry set her down gentle and leaned in close to her ear "If you failed to notice that is exactly what I did." Harry began to kiss her neck and Hermione's breathing began to quicken.
"Mr. Potter you aren't playing fair. " Hermione said huskily. Harry snapped his fingers and both their clothes disappeared. He gentle pushed Hermione backwards and she fell upon the bed.
"Too late Mrs. Potter and now I shall indulge myself with your beautiful body." Harry said as he crawled to be above her.
Hermione was smiling "Well then hurry because my husband may come home early and we don't want to get caught."
Sam opened the door to the wonderful smells of beef simmering on the stove. "Hello, somebody has broken into my home and is cooking something that smells delicious."
Harry came around the corner "Well then here is to more burglars with good taste and manners breaking in." Harry handed her a glass of wine.
Sam sipped some "Oh wow this is really nice." Sam looked at Harry "I think Hermione is a very lucky girl."
Harry formally bowed "Why thank you madam. She has trained me well."
Hermione came around the corner "Yes, it was a real battle with this one here. It took from the time I was eleven and met him on the train until… well he is still in training on some things."
Harry was smiling "Hey, I learned to put the toilet seat down just last week." Sam laughed.
"How much time before dinner?" she asked him.
Harry answered "It is ready now but I can reduce the heat and let it simmer some more until you are ready."
Sam ran up the stairs "Give me a second because it smells good and I am hungry. Ten minutes?"
Harry smiled "As you wish."
Harry sat some tea down in front of Hermione as she had two books and a note pad out in front of her.
Sam came down and sat at the table where Harry and Hermione were in a quiet conversation. Harry ladled all of them a bowl of the stew and then cut some bread for them. Sam asked "So how did the trip go today?"
Hermione answered "I found some really good books on ancient runes that will help Daniel immensely." Hermione frowned "Then I was reminded as I looked at one that most mundane don't receive a formal training in base seven math."
Sam stopped "Why base seven maths?" she asked.
Hermione stated "Seven is a very powerful magical number. It is the basis for all or most of our spell creation and it works on wards as well. Most spell creators begin a new spell by laying it out mathematically and then create the actual spell from it."
"Anyway," Harry added "If Daniel wants to understand the language that is a part of it." Harry asked "Are we still a go for tonight?"
Sam grinned "I think Jack was a little uptight today at work. We are ready and everything is prepared.
Harry looked at the clock and it stated it was 9:04 PM. They had a few more minutes and then maybe they could get some things done.
Harry and Hermione arrived in the lab to find Daniel and Sam waiting on them. Hermione went with Daniel and Sam took Harry to her part of the lab.
Saturday afternoon Jack and Daniel arrived at Sam's house. Jack had brought some beer and was appalled when Harry took a sip and then spit it out. Harry then went to the kitchen and then brought out an imported beer for him. "I can't believe you tried to feed me that swill. Here have a real beer for once in your life."
Sam started in on briefing everyone "This has been a very productive week. I can measure magic and it is a wave form that nobody on earth has ever seen. It is a wave form that we have run into before on another ancient planet. The spells vary in intensity and frequency. It is very similar to the wave form that the gate puts out."
Jack sat back "The more I hear about this the more I think that Daniel's theory might be right.
Daniel sat up "First I have learned more about the ancient language with Hermione's help than I have for the last year. All earth languages are based on images equaling a word. The ancients used a math based language that included results as well. It literally is a new way of thinking."
Sam added "It is all hinged on base seven math. When I heard that from Hermione I started to apply it to many of the things we encountered and it is starting to make so much more sense. The devices they used to manipulate this wave form it was really alien to us and using our base 10 math structure, skewed what we were doing."
Daniel smiled "Exactly I have felt like all week that I wish we knew this a year ago. I have most of their language understood and their symbols registered in a data base."
Hermione spoke up "The thing to remember with runes or the ancient language is depending on the situation the same rune can reach a different result."
Daniel chuckled "It is very dynamic and that is what makes it so complex. I have no doubt that within a year I will be able to read it like I do English now."
Jack smiled "You learned all of this in a week? I think that is amazing. What about Harry's issue?"
Sam smiled "Remember that device we got from Aphophis, that personal shield?" Jack nodded. I got one delivered up here for testing Wednesday. It was never designed to handle projectile weapons and that is why a slowly moving projectile could go right through. It was actually designed as a dampener for the wave we found."
Sam stood up "It is unique in that the amount of power you force across its field the more output it has. I believe with enough study and time we can make it impervious to staff weapons."
Jack sat up "You are kidding. What about zat guns?"
Sam chuckled "Those too. They are energy weapons and a different kind of wave but the emitters we have are very adaptable based on the runic array that we can now read."
Jack sat looking at the fire "We have to bring General Hammond in on this. It's too big and too valuable for us to keep it to ourselves."
Jack looked at Harry who responded "Does that include exposing us to your government."
Sam sat down "We have accomplished too much without a plausible explanation. We would have to tell them about you."
Jack looked at him "The nice thing is we can bring you in as consultants and get you paid."
Harry sighed "I don't care about the money." Hearing this shocked Jack and Sam. "Money means nothing without family to enjoy it with and to be quite honest I am a billionaire anyway. So I don't need the money."
Jack looked at him "Oh, so you really are going through all this just to give people protection?"
Harry looked at him "Jack I would never lie to you. This week has given me as much towards my goal as it did to yours. I can measure magic and know it is an energy form. It is will only be a matter of time until I can manipulate it and control it…truly control it."
Hermione frowned "We are really not looking for any more exposure and have no need for it." Hermione grabbed his hand and held it.
Jack looked at Daniel "Is there any other way you could explain your rapid progress?"
Daniel looked in thought "If I could use the books without exposing the magical world then yes but without them, there is no way in hell."
Sam looked dejected "I couldn't explain it either without telling about magic."
Just as they were about to begin a discussion again there was a knock on the door. "Jack this is General Hammond let me in."
Jack rolled his eyes "You two go upstairs."
General Hammond spoke up "No need to hide anything or anybody I already know."
Captain Carter went to the door and opened it. "Come on in General." She told him.
General Hammond looked around the room and then noticed the two younger teenagers looking at him with apprehension "You have nothing to fear from me. I am only here to protect the interests of the United States." General Hammond looked at Jack "Just as the Colonel and Captain are. Just so you two know because you already stated you knew you had to bring it to me you are saved from the court martial board."
Sam seemed to gulp while Jack just swigged his beer. "You know Harry this is really good beer."
General Hammond just gave a sharp look at jack "However Colonel I am still weighing in on the use of a firing squad."
Jack smiled "What better way to say I love you than with lead."
General Hammond "Can it Jack! You have broken just about every security protocol the base has."
Harry spoke up "Sir, I know you don't know me but they were just trying to help me with a problem and it is really not their fault. Hermione and I read their minds and they had no defense to it."
General Hammond lowered his tone "May I call you Harry?" Harry nodded his agreement. "You know it is very hard to find out any information on you two after the age of eleven. There are plenty of records until then and you just vanished. I didn't understand that but it keyed something off when I spoke to the president about it."
Harry visible tensed as he heard this. General Hammond saw this "I assure you Harry that we are no threat to you. Frankly when I did get your records and the report from your secret government I was amazed." General Hammond looked tentative "Did you really kill a sixty foot snake when you were twelve and this terrorist Voldemort when you were seventeen?"
Harry looked at him with widened eyes and then sat back "Yes, all of its true but you have to remember I had a lot of help and many people are dead who gave me that help. That is why I am so protective of those around me."
General Hammond whispered "Astounding!"
Jack looked at him "That would explain that look that triggered all my alarms that first night we met. You dealt with death and have given it out and that is where the look comes from."
Harry looked at him "Yes and I still have nightmares about it." Hermione squeezed his hand and rubbed his shoulder.
"Where do we go from here General?" Hermione asked "Are we in trouble and going to be arrested?"
General Hammond "No, not on my watch and the President agrees. We would like you to use our front door from here on out though. The President and I would like to bring you in. You don't know how much you have helped us and if these shields you and Captain Carter are working on really work, then you have saved lives and this nation owes you a debt of gratitude."
General Hammond stood up and sat beside Harry "Son, if you agree to help us I will promise you as many of those shields to protect anybody you want and we have the resources to achieve it."
Harry looked at Hermione "Could we bring her parents over here so they aren't alone in Australia? I have grown very attached to them."
General Hammond smiled "Harry as we speak they are on an American Jet coming here. We assumed that you would want them close and once we explained that we needed you they came very willingly."
Harry looked at him "No holding them over our heads?"
Jack spoke up "Harry we don't ever work like that and I promise you that if anyone tries that I will bust a cap on their ass."
Harry chuckled "Your getting kind of old and I should come with you to make sure you can hit them on the first shot."
Jack grinned "Keep telling yourself that kid. I am still going to kick your ass."
Harry laughed at Jack "Ok, it seems like we have a deal general and I will promise to help in the future."
General Hammond stood up "Fair enough Harry. Captain Carter please bring them with you Monday morning so we can get them signed on to the base. I want you to get those shields done as soon as possible."
General Hammond stood up and smiled. As he got to the door he turned and looked at them "Oh by the way people, on my base don't try to hide things from me as I have proven you are rank amateurs."
Jack looked up "Sir, this is all on me and it was my choice. I wanted to give you deniability until I confirmed some things."
General Hammond smiled "I know that Jack and I would never have let this progress like this unless I had complete faith in you and your team. Nobody is in trouble for this and Jack the President appreciates the wisdom of your actions. Your good people and have a go from me. Good night."
Jack sat back "Oh good the President likes me so I can go over Hammonds head to get a day off."
They all heard from outside Hammonds voice "Don't even think about it Jack!" Hammond then let out a laugh.
