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No-one asked how Harry got to the recognised safe-zone. No-one even bothered to ask as Harry had quickly become known as 'tight-lipped', 'flippant' and even 'mocking' of everyone who wanted to ask. Anyway Rogue, Dean, Seamus, Neville and Harry were safely locked up.
"Harry, we've all gone full you." Neville said the moment they were alone. They knew the cameras were going to be following them and potentially listening in to them. So they'd slipped into a code based on Harry's actions and retorts.
As the teens filled Harry in, they saw his face not even change "No crack about blowing their brains out or something about biblical ripping of people to pieces?"
Harry grinned at them "No…well…not here, at least. However, in the Courtroom, I hope our army of representatives will let us watch as they let those we've been targeted by have it."
"You mean you're willing to let justice overrule vengeance?" Rogue chimed in, reaching through the cell to grab her boyfriend's hand.
"Never, hon…Just this one is going to be so…epic, no point in mixing it anymore than I have to." Harry retorted finally relaxing. Eventually there joking and discussions turned towards the pessimistic; like the thoughts and the fears of the trial being rigged.
"Harry, listen…we're going to get out of this. You and Rogue ARE going to go on Holiday. Everything for once is not in your hands but people who know what they're doing and are paid to do so." Neville growled grabbing Harry in a hug.
"Sorry for this, but Harry…this isn't a Boy-Who-Lived vs Everyone crusade. They threatened us, we defended ourselves and someone else began stirring the pot…Now calm the fuck down, relax that clenched ass and watch as Kelly gets slaughtered."
(Lawyers, X-Mansion)
"I've received a tip-off from a concerned advisor of mine. He and I have worked together on a case defending one Robert Kelly. This tip-off is in the case of the Judge presiding over the case…The anonymous person, recorded it on his mobile, I have cleared it up the best I can."
With that he played the tape, it wasn't much but it was definitely revealing that O'Reilly knew Kelly.
"O'Reilly runs the courts here…" Charles Xavier said with a very dangerous grin on his face.
The Lawyers smirked "Mr. Xavier, your family has kept my company on retainer and specifically my family and I. Even if you were not going to tread down this route; I would heavily suggest to the point of us telling you, this Robert Kelly deserves more than what we are planning to serve him. The question, Mr. Xavier is how far do you want to bury him in lawsuits, libel, slander, perjury…"
Xavier looked up at the mirror above the fireplace and found himself looking at himself and Harry. "Everything…as my student Hadrian Potter said to me 'What I do is not defiance, this is me making my stand on my position. You may not like my position and my stance, you might not even like what I'm saying in defence of it. I respect that. All I ask is you 'help me to defend myself and my right to make my position and stance clear'. I cannot in good conscious let these…projects, especially Baskerville be started albeit in public or private. Humans may hate and fear mutants, that is fine but as long as I can tell people that we're the same just with a unique gift…"
The Lawyers nodded "We've got some of the strongest defence…" Just then their was a knocking on the door.
"Enter."
Two people entered both of them looking like they've just come out of surgery "Doctors are you okay?"
"We're morticians…we came to speak to a representative of Tyler and Brown ltd…specialists in defending coppers?"
"What is it."
"I'm Raleigh Zenda and this is Butters…" With that he dropped two files on the table.
"These came from the three 'corpses' that turned up in the morgue. Along with the combined price of two hundred thousand…That is the only copy that we know of aside from a copy on a pen-drive, put in a safe-deposit box with the keys scattered throughout the state."
With that Raleigh and Butters left.
(The next day)
All five teens lined up and presented themselves at court. The tension could be cut with a meat cleaver. "Did you manage to get a barrister sorted out? Probably not as no-one…" Just then the doors opened and Xavier and a team of five lawyers turned up.
"Misters Potter, Longbottom, Finnegan and Thomas and Miss Marie's legal advisors and myself will handle their defence. Andrew O'Reilly."
The judge paled. He slammed his gavel down and the courtroom began. As Harry watched and waited, as good as the prosecution was the defence team was even better. This was only the beginning, after the arguments were presented then came the evidence when things came undone. The evidence in question was CCTV footage containing people with the exact same likeness to those in the morgue and at the same time those people were at a school. Unfortunately, the evidence hadn't been registered along with a lot of what appeared to be in the Defence profile.
"Harry, calm down…it appears our good Judge Mr. O'Reilly has already rigged this. I know you're willing to have his guts for garters as Pirates used to say…Please, trust me…I know what I'm doing."
Harry took a deep breath "Professor Xavier, I trust you. You have my word that I'm not going to do anything reckless…yet."
He got a mental chuckle in response "I would like to motion that this trial is not, in fact a fair trial at all but rather a sham of a trial…I say this to the jury, all of you are in fact about to cause perjury and obstruct the cause of justice. Mr O'Reilly has had you all sit in isolated booths as to reduce potential perjury and confiding in one another but he has in fact failed to hide the fact that one of you, is in fact placed there by his own request. That man is Representative Robert Kelly."
Kelly dumbstruck stood up, Xavier grinned as O'Reilly paled "You…you…"
"Mr. O'Reilly, tread carefully…If God's not listening, he will be now." One of the Lawyers stated.
O'Reilly was many things but most importantly he was just a touch on the religious side, borderline almost zealous and fanatical. O'Reilly knew he was in trouble "I admit it. Case close, Misters Potter, Thomas, Finnegan and Longbottom along with Miss Marie are innocent…" Then blurted out some other laws.
"Come along you five, we have no other business here." Xavier said, however as they left, five men were outside.
One was Kelly and the four were striking. One was a tall and well built man with close cropped hair, and a slightly worn blazer and pants underneath a fading white lab-coat.
The other was a dwarf, Harry's eyes widened. He was fucking double for Peter Dinklage if he ever saw one.
The final man just looked sinister. Harry felt himself almost looking at a more sociopathic version of himself, something about him felt like oil or some deep dwelling aquatic animal something like the Kraken named Nessie who inhabited Loch Ness, an old magical aquarium that hadn't properly been emptied.
"You think you're clever boy? You think you've beaten me?" Sneered Kelly as he blocked the way.
"Professor, please excuse me."
"Kelly, please can you move. I mean, sure the disabled should be able to pass around us? As for clever, I'm still in school and have been told I'm reasonably intelligent. Beaten you? I've never laid a finger on you or given any reason to attack you. Yes, I've exchanged words with you that could be said to be verbal abuse but think about the exchange and our age range. My responses would come across as harmless and well within an adequate teenager's language coupled with slightly naïve responses." Harry replied, well no-one could say that he'd tried being civil.
"Fucking freak. Fucking petulant, petty and stupid freak…Perfect frame-up and use of technology and the freak still gets afuckingway with it. Little mutant lover."
Unfortunately, that was said a bit too loud. The sound carried and the newspaper reporters trained their cameras on the two "Professor, forgive me for what I'm about to do. For it is better to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission."
Xavier nodded "Be restraint and in moderation."
Harry smirked "This will be…If it goes sideways, he'll have thrown the first punch."
"Would you care to say that again, Mr. Kelly?"
"What would that be boy?"
Harry smiled "To be known by the end of today what you really are. An Anti-Patriotic, Anti-American, Self-serving and inhuman communist. Furthermore, a little songbird told me that you've been using funds from dubious and questionable…"
His words were cut off as Kelly grabbed him "You little mutant freak." Harry's mind went blank, his hand-to-hand lessons kicked in. Step 1) Break his grip: Harry's arms shot up inside Kelly's grip and throwing their arms together, the Congressman's grip was broken. Step 2) Reverse the hold: Quick as a whip, Harry had the man in arm bar so quickly, fluidly and suddenly it sounded like the man's arm had been broken and or dislocated. Fortunately for Harry it was neither. Step 3) Re-assert Status Quo: Harry finished by dragging the older man in front of the cameras.
"You got that right? The entire thing?"
"Yeah…You mean the Freak comment?"
"That's what I was referring to."
"Yes we did." Harry popped his neck, grabbed Kelly's trousers and effortlessly flipped him over with a distinctive crack, signifying the arm had broken.
"Robert Kelly is a disgrace to the people of America, those he cannot buy or threaten he demeans them by calling them 'freaks' and 'mutants'. Am I a freak? Don't think so, I suppose that's subjective. Am I a mutant? Yup as are each and everyone of you; your natural hair colour all of those are mutations. So Robert Kelly, the next time you target me and mine especially those who reside at the Xavier Residence…I will do this again. Only next time it won't be a few hour wait at Accidents and Emergency." Harry growled before letting the man go.
"Mr. Potter, a word…How does it feel to be free of the manslaughter charge?"
"Miss?"
"Juliette Andrews, Bayville Local News."
"Miss. Andrews, I don't want to talk about it at this point. Contact my guardian and my lawyer; arrange a meeting and we'll talk. I'd rather talk when emotions are cooled, I'd rather not upset the applecart again."
Andrews nodded, Harry managed to deflect any questions about what happened in the courtroom and apologised for his actions against Kelly. Just as his good will was fading Professor Xavier wheeled in. "Good afternoon everyone, my name is Charles Xavier; please forward any questions, queries and phone-calls to the Xavier Institute for the Gifted and I and along with the extensive legal team will get back to you to arrange a…thorough interview."