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Sorry, sorry, I got caught up in the Lilly James story, Harry was just born and I couldn't stop writing it. I got distracted.

Please forgive me! Please!

Chapter 38

Going away

He stood against the wall in the oppulent office, His head hanging and pinching the bridge of his nose between his fingers.

"I know we put this division together because there is still a minor Voldemort faction still at large. I know that they have been growing a little more active recently, but honestly, did the hammer have to fall this quickly?" Harry said in a distressed voice.

He heard Ron throw himself into the chair to his right.

"Look, we have been tracking these followers ever since the final battle. And not come any closer to catching them than right now. What makes you think that we can get them this time?" Ron said looking pointedly at the minister.

"Look boys, well I guess you aren't exactly boys anymore are you. Well, look men, this team especially being led by you two is the strongest defence team I have ever seen. Harry, you can do magic that I have never seen the equal to in this ministry. Ron you are so good at forming tactics and gameplans that they are nearly faultless at this point. The team you have hand picked and assembled is unparralled. We can not let this group get any kind of power. You heard the undercover operative as well as I did. They have found someone new to rally around. They have been alone and without a leader all this time, Now they aren't. You both know how easily they will follow power. We can't let them find it now. We have all worked too hard to fail now." Kingsley said looking at each man in turn.

It was hard to believe these were the same scrawny, reckless teenagers he once knew. Now as they sat before him you could not deny that they had each become good men in their own right. Ron had completed the auror training program faster than 80% of the wizards that had ever tried. Harry well, Harry was Harry. He had been instrumental in several laws and changes in the ministry and the wizarding world since the fall of Voldemort. Both young men had proven themselves beyond a shaddow of a doubt and he personally had the utmost faith in their ability to bring this faction down before it ever took hold.

"Listen I know it is short notice, but we need to leave tomorrow night. We will be gone for a week. I know you both have famillies as do your team so let them know and we will leave out a dusk. You have the rest of the night and tomorrow off." he said finally. His dismissal obvious.

Harry shook his head and turned towards the office door. Pausing only a moment for Ron to catch up.

"Hermione is going to kill me. I just got back a week ago. Merlin this is a nightmare." he said dismally as they walked towards the floo hall.

"Well at least she knows how to handle it. I have to leave Ginny, with a six year old mind you, whom I have never left. I do not think this is going to go over well at all." Harry replied, stepping up to his own fireplace.

"See you tomorrow night?" he said as he watched his best mate push his red hair from his eyes.

"Yeah, if I am still breathing by then." Ron muttered before stepping into the flames.

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He walked into the master bedroom and heard the shower running. Smiling to himself he pulled his tie and robe off and threw them onto the bed. Leaving a trail of clothing behind him he pushed the glass door aside and stepped into the shower, pulling the gorgeous, and for some reason bruised body of his wife into his arms.

"Merlin Harry you scared me half to death. What are you doing home already?" Ginny said as she tilted her head so he had a better reach of her neck where he was attempting to kiss.

"hhmm, well Kingsley sent us home till tomorrow night. Where is the little man of the house?" he answered continuing his kissing of the back of her neck.

"He went home with Oliver's wife and son today. We are going to pick him up tomorrow night. And that tickles." she said squirming against him.

She felt his lips smile against her ear.

"Yes I am aware, I believe I was the one who found that particular ticklish spot to begin with."

Placing his hands on her hips he turned her around to face him.

"I have to leave tomorrow night. We have a lead, and we have to be gone for a week, at least." he said, very straightforward as he leaned his forhead down to hers.

She sighed and let her eyes close.

"Is this dangerous?" she asked in a quiet voice.

"Yes, more than likely it is." he answered honestly.

"And you have to go?" she said resigned.

"Yes love I do."

"But you aren't breaking up with me before hand this time, right?" she replied.

He could tell she was only half joking. It still killed him that after all this time she was still tormented by the fact that he had once left her. He took his reluctand hands from her body and placed them on either side of her face.

"My love. That is ludicris, I fully remember the threat you gave me if I ever did that again. So no silly I am not. But I do think we should pick Teddy up in the morning so we have a chance to talk to him about me leaving."

She allowed herself to lean against his wet chest and layed her head under his chin.

"Yes, I suppose we should. But we should at least take advantage of tonight."

"Hmm, I think you have learned a bit of occlumency." he muttered in a husky voice as she suddenly jumped and wrapped her legs around his waist.

Catching her by the legs he held her slick body against his before turning and pressing her against the wall he had previously been leaning on. He kissed her hard and furiously. They hadn't faced being apart from eacu other in a long time. And their unspokin fear and longing for each other was obvious in the way they held on.

The water was beating down on his back, turning it pink with the heat of it but he continued his search of her mouth, neck and shoulders. They didn't need to say they would miss each other, or that she was afraid he wasn't going to come home, or that he hated leaving her again, they both already knew. Just as they both knew that come even dragon fire, they would be together again, though they both also knew that only a week apart was unlikely at best.

They spent the night in each other's arms, in varying states of passion or illconceled sadness. When the dawn broke, Harry was sitting on the edge of the bed running his fingers through the front of her hair. Their night had been amazing but right now he just wanted to hold her as close as possible, feeling every peice of her.

He laid down and pulled her into his arms. She opened her eyes slowly feeling every length of him against her.

"Goodmorning beautiful." he murmerred, kissing her nose gently.

"Goodmorning yourself." she said sleepily.

After all they had only been alseep for a few hours.

"Make love to me." he said softly.

She smiled in response.

"I thought that is what we spent all yesterday and last night doing?" she answered with a grin.

"Not like this we didn't." He replied.

He rolled her to her over so she was laying on top of him, tangling both of them in the covers. He was holding her around her lower back and under her bum, and had already started kissing her shoulder blades.

She shivered at his kisses and smiled as he moaned when she let her legs fall to either side of his hips. She could feel him beneeth her. It was mildly surprising that he could still be so aroused after all their activity such a short time ago.

"I guess it is a good thing it is morning." she joked as she felt him press against her thigh.

She smiled at his rough chuckle.

"While it helps slightly, I can promise that it has very little to do with it." he said in the same throaty voice.

She was already wet, whether still from before or just ready for him now he didn't know, or care so he pushed himself deep inside of her. He used his grip on her hips to pull her as close to him as he could.

"I love you. So much. You have no idea." he said as he pushed into her again.

She had to remember how to breathe and talk before she could reply.

"I think I do." was all she said before he proceeded to take her on a whirlwind of emotions and snesations.

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Hours later she was laying on his chest, still panting from the last earth shattering climax she had finally come down from. He was playing with a strand of her hair and every few moments kissing the top of her head.

"We need to go get Teddy." she said gently.

Knowing that as much as he dreaded leaving her, leaving Teddy was a whole different sotry. He was barely ever seperated from the little boy, aside from work and school, and Teddy's twice or so a month visits to his grandma's (which were near torture for Harry).

"I know. Do you think he is going to be mad at me?" he said, she could feel the tremor in his voice.

"No, I don't. I think he will be sad, but it is unavoidable. I am going to get in the shower." she said as she sat up.

She laughed at the look on his face, sometimes she could still see the nervous sixteen year old that first kissed her in the middle of Gryfindor common room.

"Can I join you?" he said seductively.

"Hmmm while I can imagine how much better we would both like our showers, I do not think we would make it to pick up Teddy, nor do I think you would make it on time for departure, and I don't think we would enjoy the minister finding out why you were late." she replied as she sauntered from the room and went into the ajoining bath.

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"No! I don't want you to go. You promised you weren't ever going away. You said you would never leave me, that you couldn't do it." the little boy said.

If the situation were not so difficult it would have been comical. The little boy with lime green hair, standing in the middle of the ministry of magic arms folded over his chest and tears streaming down his red (literally, red) face. He still had trouble controlling his transformations when he was upset.

Harry was on bended knee in front of him, a hand on each of his shoulders, staring into his livid purple eyes.

"Teddy, we have gone over this all day. I have to go. You have to stay with mum, she needs you to take care of her this week. It won't be long. I will be fine. Please just give me a hug little man, I have to go." he said softly, knowing that his entire team was standing just feet away watching the little boy melt down.

"I am not giving you a hug. You won't be back! When daddies leave their little boys the don't come back. I don't know any that have." he said stubbornly.

Harry knew where he was getting all this. It was only recently that they had talked to Teddy about Remus and Tonks and how they had left him behind. He vivedly remembered saying that they left to help, they never knew they wouldn't be comming back. Apparently that was what the child chose to take from the converstation.

He looked over at Ron who was standing beside Teddy with his face in his hands, he wasn't the only one who hated seeing the boy this upset. He had tried all day to get him to see sense, but it wasn't working.

"Teddy I do not have a choice. I have to go, and I have to go now. I am sorry, love you bud." he said gently pulling him into a hug whether he wanted one or not.

He stood up and watched Ginny bend and pick up their sobbing son. He leaned in and kissed him on the back of the head before kissing Ginny on the lips. As he turned to walk away he heard Teddy through his tears,

"Mummy, I don't wanna not have a daddy."

Harry turned and just caught Ginny's tear filled eyes before Ron put his hand on his back and pulled him around the corner.