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Chapter 13

Allyster

"Unit 3 ready captain."

"Unit 4 in place."

"Unit 2 ready and waiting for further instructions."

I smiled as I received the communications through my earplug. All units ready for action. I took my wand out and ordered unit two into action. They would be the decoy. The silent mansion was highlighted in the clear night, the full moon sending a pure glow on everything. Not the perfect night for an intervention but I had no choice.

I placed a silence ward around us and we all moved to circle the house in silence. They would not see us coming. The elf was ours.

Edward

I smiled against soft black hair as Harry nuzzled into my neck in his sleep. I had a mate again. It was such a wonderful thought. Exhilarating. Lying on my back, his hard chest against my side, our legs entwined, I was at peace. I caressed his back softly, tracing the shape of his scars, then let my hand drift to his hip than back up again. I felt content.

Harry shifted against me and I repositioned us so that he would be more comfortable. He sighed in his sleep and his hand moved softly against my chest. His thoughts were a jumble of incomprehensible words and sentences but I basked in the feeling of blessed satisfaction underneath.

A few minutes later I somehow found myself holding his hair out of his face as he got rid of all the food he had ever eaten down the toilet. He was sweaty, face tight with pain and trying not to gag unnecessarily since he had nothing left in him. Once I was sure he was supporting himself on his own, I got up, wet a small towel and filled a glass with water. I flushed the facility, swiped his face gently and gave him the glass.

He took some water into his mouth, grimacing, and spit it into the toilet. He repeated the process a couple of times as I found a new toothbrush and some toothpaste. I got him to his feet slowly and he took the toothbrush from my hand gratefully and brushed his teeth to get rid of the taste. Affection welled up inside of me inexplicably and I brought him gently against my chest and he relaxed into me, taking support on me as I wound my arms around his middle. Once finished, I helped him back to the bed and called for Carlisle.

My poor mate looked the worse for wear. Perspiration marred his handsome features, a light flushed contrasted deeply with the paleness of his skin and his body was tight with pain. I laid down next to him and took him into my arms, massaging his head lightly. He sighed deeply and he wound his arm around me gripping the shirt I had put on tightly in his fist. The sudden change from perfect health to complete illness baffled me. To my surprise it was not Carlisle but Lemani that came inside. He took one look at Harry and sighed.

"We need to take him outside."

I looked at Harry as he looked the elf with a startled expression on his handsome features. 'Outside? Why outside?' he was thinking.

"You need the Wild, being outside will ground you."

I helped Harry up and kept him steady as we went down the stairs, not letting him protest. He knew what Harry needed right now and I wanted my mate to stop hurting. With or without his consent. He could be so stubborn sometimes. Harry let himself be guided passively, he looked groggy and tired. My poor love.

I was going to open the door when suddenly all my senses went on alert. I could smell blood. Human blood. I stopped Lemani with a hand on his shoulder before he could open the door. He looked at me and I motioned for him to be silent. Harry tensed against me. I let my uneasiness grow and soon Jasper came quickly down the stairs.

'What's the matter?' he thought, and I sniffed quietly. He frowned and did the same. The frown grew deeper. The scent had been light but there was no fooling a vampire. Someone near the house had been injured not too long ago and somehow we could hear nothing even with our powerful hearing. This was not normal.

The blood smelled familiar but I could not quite place it. Jasper went away and came back, Carlisle and the rest of the family following. Lemani was looking at us quizzically but did not question. Rosalie glared at everyone and after a few minutes got a strange look on her face. Grimacing she pointed the door then showed us ten then six manicured fingers. Sixteen humans her motions told us.

How she knew that no one questioned.

Sixteen humans against one half healed elf, a really ill looking one, and seven vampires. I figured it would be relatively easy to get rid of them. Suddenly, Lemani's whole body contracted and I heard a low and threatening growl start from deep down his throat. Like a switch, noise started again and we could hear humans breathing and moving around the house. A desperate yelp was heard and Lemani's growl turned louder.

My mate's body was coiled like a spring and I put a hand on his shoulder, trying to dissipate some of his tension. An agonized cry was suddenly heard and Lemani, roared as his body changed into his elfin form. He bounded gracefully for the door and tore it open. Before he had the time to do anything else, Harry leapt at him and they fell hard on the ground as bullets and coloured lights filled the space they had been but a few seconds ago.

Pain blossomed into my hip and I looked down. I had received a bullet. I looked up to Harry and he was looking at me, a shell-shocked expression on his face. 'Edward! Oh my god he is hurt! They facking hit him! Who the fack opens fire like that! They hurt my mate. No one hurts my mate! I'm gonna kill those sunofabeaches!' I looked outside as a small group made their way to the door, highlighted by the front porch light, and coloured lights raining from sticks they held in their hand as they screamed incomprehensible words.

Quite suddenly, everything stopped. The men and women outside threw their combusting sticks away with cries and dropped to the floor a few seconds later. 'Facking brassholes think they can hurt my mate. Uh! Take that you dumb cucumbers!'

I stared at my Harry as he stood up dusting his sleeves and sneered in the general direction of the fallen warriors. His hair was matted to his skin, his cheeks still red with fever and dark lines under his eyes. Did he really get rid of them that easily? My sick mate..? He came to me, and I took him back into my arms. He sighed into my neck and leaned into me. I stroked his back as he put his hand on my hip and looked down.

"You okay?" he whispered in my neck.

I kissed the top of his head. "Yes love. A bullet cannot really hurt me. But I need to get it out before it gets infected. Silver is not a good thing for me."

He nodded and a loud clang noise was heard. I could no longer feel pain from my wound. I looked down and noticed the bullet at our feet. I still had a lot to learn about my mate. A lot. In the meantime, I hugged him to myself and brought his chin up with two fingers to kiss his delectable lips. He sighed against my lips and then the moment was broken by a loud snicker from my idiot brother.

"Get a room guys!" the big loaf said. I was cursed with a mentally retarded brother. Emmett could mind his own business. He didn't seem rattled by the scene that had just occurred either, he was simply looking at my mate, as if he couldn't fathom him.

Harry broke the kiss.

Harry

I was feeling horrible. My whole body was in pain and those stupid fackingly annoying people had to choose now to attack us. On top of that the habit of not swearing because of my children chose now to come back too! I sure hoped for those stupid people's safety that they had a good reason! I would kill them painfully if they hadn't.

I stopped the wonderful kiss Ed was gifting me with and focused on the situation. It was easier to ignore the pain and fever when I was in my mate's arms. This group couldn't possibly be the only one. If it was, they were very stupid. I wished Sirius and Remus were with me right now; I needed their input and experience on the field with me.

I looked at the vampire family and turned around in the supportive arms surrounding me. Lemani was here too, looking at me with a startled face. Like all the others were. What? I was a powerful and respected wizard even if I didn't look it. It was really annoying when everyone doubted that.

I tried a small locating spell and was blocked by a protecting ward. Interesting. There were more of them. I sent a small message to Siri and five seconds later, I had two battle furious wizards, wand in hand, back to back, apparating just in front of me. They eyed me suspiciously and I stripped them of their socks. They instantly relaxed and Rems coughed lightly in his hand. I smiled faintly as I gave them their socks back.

"One unit incapacitated, three more to go, they have us trapped into the house."

"What type of unit?" Sirius asked me.

"Mostly wizards, one or two humans, maybe other magical creatures. I might have detected a leech."

"Can you stand on your own?" Remus asked me worriedly, his eyes scanning me up and down in parental worry.

"I don't think so." The arms around me tightened a little and I kissed Ed's jaw as I tried to come up with a viable plan. We were outnumbered, but clearly numbers didn't mean a thing, it had been ridiculously easy to get rid of them. It was all the more reason to consider them the bait.

"I want three groups. Ed stays with me and Esme. I want Carlisle, Lemani, Alice, and Jasper to go to the back door with Sirius. Rosalie, Emmet and Remus I want you to keep an eye on the windows, look carefully on the east side of the house, it overlooks the forest so they might come from there. Remus and Sirius will be brief you if you need further information. Go!"

"Harry, maybe you should keep Lemani or Carlisle with you, you don't seem..." I cut him off before he started on a rant.

"I'll be fine, Remus, don't worry, now go."

Once they were gone, I sighed and pushed away from my mate. The pain that had felt numb and unimportant seconds before flared through me and I squashed it down, taking a hold on Esme's arm this time. Okay bad idea, change of plans. Edward tried to get me back into his arms but a sharp warning kept him away long enough for me to tell him to turn around. He did and I half collapsed on his back, reading my mind, quite literally, he took me on his back like I weighed no more than a feather. I closed my eyes and waited a minute for the pain to numb again. I sighed as Edward nuzzled my face and felt the tension in my body fade a little.

"Okay. They won't come back this way, but just in case, I have to seal this door. I'm sorry Esme, I'll repair it afterwards, promise."

"Oh, don't worry about that dear."

I inhaled in a long steadying drag and let my magic flow to the door. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a sealing spell ended up as... well I didn't know what it was but no one would go through that door anytime soon. It was just a little more green than I wanted it. Like completely flowery. And thorny. And planty. My magic was weird lately, maybe something to do with being an elf.

Luckily that spell didn't take a lot of my energy and I was soon directing Ed and Esme to the roof of the house. They would not see us from there. Just in case I made a little detour to the bag Rems packed for me and retrieved my invisibility cloak. I enlarged it and somehow managed to fit us three beneath it. It would not fool any magical creature but it would any human.

The roof was a garden, a very beautiful one at that. I loathed to see it get ruined. The moonlight covered everything giving the garden a sense of eternal beauty. I asked to be let down and as soon as my feet touched the soft layer of dirt and grass, I felt better. I couldn't help it; I let myself fall to a sitting position then lied down. Mmmh green. The smell was wonderful, fruity and specked with that unmistakable grass scent.

I opened my eyes slowly as Ed kissed my lips. He was kneeling at my side and he caressed the side of my face with his right hand, kissing me again softly, with a little bit more of tongue this time. I moaned. This was perfect. He broke the kiss and I tried to get him back to my lips and got pulled to my feet instead. I was shocked and felt a yearning to go back to my safe comfy place, why was he doing this to me? He kissed me and slowly the pull faded.

"We have to get rid of them love, I promise I'll get you deep in the forest as soon as we are done."

I looked at him and felt like a bucket of icy cold water had been dumped on my head as the situation came back to me. What kind of leader forgets that he is in battle? I pushed away the familiar Harry Potter bashing for the moment and went to the edge of the roof to inspect the battlefield. Now was the time for battle.

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