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The Brownstone, N. Y.
The Next Day
"I have been meaning to thank you Harry." Sherlock said, "Restricting my access to such a short period of time on the Dark Web has forced me to choose my search terms more carefully and polling the best results to glean the most information I can in this limited time frame."
Harry smiled, "I did it because I feared for my nuts at the look my sister cut me after showing you how to get onto it, but sure...if you're happy... I'm happy mate!"
Sherlock chuckled, "Well good news for your nuts, I think I have become so efficient two hours is all the time I would ever require anyway. And I've begun tying this data into my other pools of information and media, cross referencing and I think I have a nice case we can all work on."
"Sounding good so far" Frost said, "What you got for us S?"
"Sadly, not another Murder House, I found that quite stimulating, but instead a mansion in up-state New York is positively beset by all manner of spooky goings on. And now supernatural enthusiasts who want to prove the existence of...more"
"Probably an elaborate hoax to that very end." Joan noted.
"I thought the same, then I found this on the dark web" he said shifting the slide, it displayed a face in a window, it was a rather pale, indistinct face. But all the features and the obviously screaming cadence were obvious. As was the singular lack of anything holding the head up."
"Could still be a fake." Joan noted.
"No...it's not a fake, that's a Peruvian Giest" Harry said all traces of levity gone. "That means bad shit happened there and recently. What word on the family that lived there? This was likely a large scale death, no obvious source of trauma, but all blood was gone."
"Word for word." Sherlock said simply.
"Well shit!" Harry said heavily, "You got a good general report of the supernatural goings on I can see?"
"Of course"
"Throw it up for me please mate." Harry asked, seriously.
"You look quite seriously... serious" Joan said with a small smile.
"This is potentially an ascended lower level demon, or potentially if we're in the shit a fifth circle apparition." Harry said, "I'm talking Demon with a capital D. This close to a city...nightmare, it's likely feeding on the souls of the family, gaining in strength right now but that's not enough. Those lookie loo's, they're going to start to die gruesome deaths...potentially now."
"Here you are Harry" Sherlock said putting up the newspaper report on the OHP.
Harry's eyes flicked over it super fast. "Oh wow, that's a lot of ghostly shenanigans." he said with a small smirk, "Most of that is bollocks, but a few entries stand out. Other Full geist appearances, potential poltergeist, though that's probably mistaken, the moving object thing is generally another sort of ghost that has tangible contact with this realm, trickster spirits really, harmless to anything less breakable than pottery." Harry said focused. "But all signs that the dimensional walls are weakened."
"This is what you picked us for Harry...so tell us what to do and it'll happen" Thea said, her tone a lot less light than it usually was.
"Silver bladed katana for you. Some Rock salt shotguns for you... Sherlock and Joan."
"Me, I'm not staying at home like some kept woman."Jaime said.
"In reality your highness you're potentially too valuable to risk now" Harry said with a nasty smile.
"As are you...brother dear" Jamie shot back her eyes locked on to his.
"Fact is sis, you would be more valuable to me, here running back end. That sucks, but I need magically enhanced comms in operation during this case."
"Okay" Jamie said, a lot easier than he figured she would say it.
"Okay...good" he said shooting her a surprised look. He shook it off, "Ali, this is not an ideal environment for direct bow action, but utility arrows are going to be vital. In essence you won't be directly firing at the intangibles until the demon battle, then you'll be unloading like a money shot in cheap porn."
"Eww Harry" Joan complained
Ash snorted her amusement "And me?"
"You want in on this, actually going to do direction action?" He asked surprised.
"Seems time again" Ash responded.
"Well I've seen you in action, so...please, you're more than welcome" he said with a smile, "Up front with me, we'll be taking the fight to the no weapon forged by man can kill me demon, so...that'll be fun."
"Me?" Frost asked.
"Oh my blue eyed beauty you are potentially my key guy"
Frost hefted herself, "Guy?"
"It's just an expression, you are the only other fighter we've got directly able to effect non corporeal entities, freeze them, then one of us takes them out with the shotguns, and in the big fight turn its battle ground into an advantage for us. Ice, formations, sharp as you can, just litter the floor in crap and you'll impede it and give us more potential weapons to be used against it."
"Cool...Key Guy okay!"
Harry smiled at her.
Elena softly cleared her throat.
Harry looked at her, "Forgive me, its' been a while but I'm usually pretty on point gorgeous, but you're here to be trained as a wolf."
"And that makes me an asset" she said firmly.
"From what I'm told it took Thea thirty seconds to take you out."
"A rather humbling experience," Elena nodded.
"No...no on the contrary, that was seriously impressive for an untrained fighter" Harry corrected her.
"I was trained, pretty hard too." Elena objected.
"No...not like she was, not like her brother was taught, not like I learned. But I'm trying to pay you a compliment here Elena, you did really well."
"Oh...right, okay, so...I can help."
"Can you handle a gun? Your hand to hand gymnastic ability will be useful, tooth and clew not so much, if you can handle a shotgun...yes you can come. But only if you really can, or you'll be a liability."
"I can for sure handle a shotgun" she smirked.
"Good"
"Now, we can't just port in too much media attention. We'll need to take the RV" Harry said, "It's fitted with an invisibility field that handles motion well and I have to say a T.A.R.D.I.S. can't half shift."
"We're not porting in, so we take a real live space ship instead, sure...that makes so much sense" Jamie rolled her eyes.
"A space ship that is an unbeatable fallback position, and is totally invisible, AND has a sort of SEP field and cloaking technology and hey can look like anything we want. I got all the optional extras" Harry informed her. "As well as a few I fitted myself, just watching those smug bastards go all fish mouthed was lovely when I worked their super complicated engineering like I was born to it. I swear the amount of times I was called a barbaric primate..."
"There there dear, you're a man that's basically a good representation" Ash said patting his shoulder.
"I like this one." Jamie laughed, "Right so...in reality I am coming too but staying in the T.A.R.D.I.S."
"RV" Harry corrected.
"I'm not calling it that." Jamie assured him.
"Either way...okay as long as you actually do that. The computer system there is pretty good at interfacing with magic I've found."
"I had the impression you got the... RV and came home." Allison said, slightly annoyed.
"No, I had to fix her up, add a few things and thanks to some smug wankers idea of a joke learn this beautiful machines curves without the help of the operating manual. Took me a while to figure out the cryptographic alphabet on the displays, but after I did that I learned the language in about ten minutes, their navigation system is based off centre of the universe, so that's pretty annoying, but that was half an hour and I was flying this beauty in about an hour in total."
"More looks you enjoyed I'm sure darling, because you are not at all smug yourself now are you" Ash remarked.
"I might like to make so called superior intelligences freeze their facial expressions." Harry said, "That's a very gratifying look, one moment mocking laughter, the next the FIXED smile."
"Such a child" Ash remarked fondly.
"Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not very mature, but that would be no fun Ash"
"So come on, decamp we need to be there quick as. And we're going to be walking past the media but I WANT them to see us walk into that place tooled up and ready, so get your work clothes on ladies, and do your make up or whatever since you'll be on camera"
"Pig" They chorused.
"Oink!" he shot back smiling.
Ten Minutes Later
"Right...I knew I would end up paying for that remark" Harry said as they lined up, they had adopted Allison wear, namely pants that stretched, dark upper coverings, and tooled up couture.
Also none of them were wearing a single bit of so much as eyeliner between them.
"Was kind of hoping my generally beautiful and sexy team would make a splash." Harry said rolling his eyes
"We don't need make up to be beautiful" Thea remarked.
"No...clearly not, you're all amazing natural beauties one and all, congratulations on winning the gene lottery." Harry said dryly. "Fine, fine, I suppose one doesn't wear lippy to a fight. Though I do believe you put it on before you get out of bed normally Thea"
"And my heels" she said with a sexy smile, "But I brushed my hair, see!" she said fluffing her short hair.
Harry smiled, "I am suitably put in my place." he remarked, "Come on," he said, walking to the control panel and flipping the lever, "I've programmed in the co-ordinates to just to the side out of sight of the cameras. The field is pretty strong for covering people coming out of think air locally but I'd rather a camera didn't see us doing that." He flipped the lever down. "And here we are."
"I barely felt us move." Frost remarked.
"I should hope not, we'd all be paste on the wall" Harry said, "You do NOT want to know how fast we actually move while traversing the vortex. Needless to say...fast!"
"Okay, shoulder your guns, let's at least show some movie cliché class" Harry said hefting his shotgun, "Sherlock, you and Joan should stick close until we get IN the house, then I'd like you to pick off anything we miss."
"Rear action" Joan asked.
"No...we trust you to cover our backs" Harry corrected her, making her smile widely.
They single filed out of the RV and then Harry found himself between Ash and Allison.
"Love the ball Cap." Allison remarked with a smirk. "I love the way you look right now, it's...hilarious, you look kind of cute actually"
Ash glared at her, "No...that's part of what I love. You're a walking definition of the word IRONY. You look seriously close to being jail-bait and you are older than, well some fossils and the ball Cap. the cute pony out the hole in back, makes you look cute, little and harmless and you could probably kick the crap out of any of us. I'm sorry but I am deeply enjoying how you look."
Harry laughed, "She's got you there Ash, I don't think I ever did describe you as Ironic looking mind you."
"No...but I like her brand of charm" Ash remarked her eyes sparkling as she maintained her focused expression, making her look all the more cute.
"Give them a wave" Harry said as they walked passed a cavalcade of TV vans, and media outlet cameras, the crowd hushing as they bold as brass just walked up the stairs to the door. Harry kicked it in, and then they stopped hamming it up and made entrance professionally into the entry way.
"Call it" he ordered softly, letting comms carry his voice.
"Clear" was the clear consensus.
"So...demons like the dark, we want to head down." "He's the main target, the reason we're here, we'll clean house once he's dusted." Harry said, "Now, literally this place is littered with psychic energy, so I'm shielding you all, got a little better at groups but you will now feel me there, freaked out a few teams I worked with when they didn't know I was doing it."
"I trust you" Allison said, "It's not like I wouldn't tell you any dirty thought I'm having anyway."
Ash snorted.
"This is another potentially embarrassing moment for me" Joan remarked, "But so sue me, my male friends are both hot."
Sherlock actually choked back a laugh.
"Okay, fine, you're keeping up the witty reposte from the murder house, you know what...good SP to have, we'll stick together for this, I know this seems backwards taking the boss first but the longer he's around the stronger he gets,"
"You're the boss, boss" Thea said seriously.
"Comm check, one two, come in RV" Harry spoke softly to the comms.
"I am not calling this beautiful machine the RV" was the witty rejoinder.
"It's my boat, I can call it what I want." Harry complained.
"Clearly the comms work and also clearly nothing has changed in thousands of years of being apart" Sherlock said dryly.
They heard Jamie's laughter clearly over comms, "The energy levels are seriously high in the basement areas, head to the west side for the highest concentration of demonic energies. At some point bro, you need to share with me how you taught technology to scan magical wavelengths."
"Gladly, perhaps not this minutes though sis."
"Yes, yes, fine" she snapped, "Killjoy"
Harry grinned, he looked either side, "How did I end up with the hot jail-bait looking chicks as my partners?"
"Just lucky I guess" Allison shot back. "Hey Ash, can they even fit your age on your drivers licence"
Ash laughed, "If they could it would currently only read a shade over a thousand years. From my DOB of course"
"That's a face I'd like to see to the traffic cop that pulled you over for speeding and saw THAT DOB" Elena remarked.
"You know I've never ever gotten a speeding ticket" Ash ruminated. "I'm always speeding, yet no tickets."
"Flash your tits" Frost asked.
"Not my area of natural gift Frost, so no, I smile a certain way, giggle, bat my eye-lashes and say I'm so sorry officer I didn't even notice, Hic!"
"I am now very upset, you just don't even CARE about women's lib, that voice even..."Allison said though she was also laughing.
"And how do you get out of speeding tickets" Thea asked her.
"Drive the speed limit, if you actually plan ahead you don't have to rush." Allison remarked.
"That is So boring!" Jamie remarked from the RV.
"It stops me getting tickets or marks on my license and I don't have to pull the bimbo act to get out of tickets."
"I love pretending to be a Bimbo, every so often though you have to drop in something surprisingly intelligent, like quantum physics and try not to laugh as the faces drop" Ash remarked as they made their way steadily downwards and a slow calm walking pace.
"You know quantum Physics?" Frost asked, a little surprised.
"I was born in the Viking era but I didn't stay in it" Ash remarked dryly, "Besides you read a lot, especially in the early days so you get in the habit of feeding your mind new data, and thanks to Harry I remember it all. I pretty much know all the sciences major and minor through the entirety of my home universes history"
"You could make so much money" Thea said.
"You two should go into business together, you were looking for a startup Thea." Harry commented, "Ash can provide something tangible and break through and yet useable by current technology that isn't just a bigger stick, you can market and sell it, and Ash likes money, a lot"
"Oh, a woman after my own heart." Thea enthused.
"Ask her they" Harry said amused.
"You have to keep score somehow" Ash offered.
"Wait...what, keep score...what? Money is to buy pretty things and hot cars, and spend on stupid expensive drinks in clubs no one else can get into." Thea complained.
"Oh yeah...that too, I like the exclusive lifestyle money can get you, but I also like to save a lot, then every so often I'll look up my balance and think...yeah those trillion dollars, I remember those"
"I think I just had a dry orgasm, did you say... trillion" Thea asked gulping.
"Oh! I cried when the last bank closed its doors, but my bank balance looked like a maths equation. A really hard one."
"Is it wrong I'm flowing right now" Thea asked.
"I think perhaps what's wrong is that you shared it over comms Thea" Frost said amused.
"Oh Harry's in my head anyway." Thea said,"I don't mind if you all are."
Harry smiled a huge smile, just loving his team.
Ash smiled, "You and me Thea...what say we start keeping score? Seems like he already has ways to keep you girls alive, I am far too old to die now, and Harry is...well, whatever a word is for pretty much not able to ever lose is"
"I know that word" Allison said, "Harry is the word you're looking for."
"Of course, you're so correct."
"My head will swell" Harry said with a grin.
"Here's hoping" Elena said, "Did I say that out loud again."
They all laughed. They also entered the basement, "Two hundred meters" Jamie filled in tracking their comms.
"We didn't think to bring torches...seriously." Elena asked of the gloom.
"Tap your comms, you'll gain night sight, I thought of that" Harry told them all.
There were joint oohs and ahh's.
"I can see clearly now!" Allison sung a moment. Causing more laughter.
"Perhaps we should be stealthy" Elena asked, not overly caring, just asking.
"Nah, no point it knows we're here, it's been tracking us since we set foot in the building, they aren't ever so intelligent, but their instincts are pretty on point" Harry told her.
"Big, stupid, but sensitive, I might have dated this thing in High School" Elena noted to more laughter. "Big guy, lots of muscle...cried when I fucked him silly"
A lot of female laughter followed.
"You're a bad girl!" Harry noted, "And I didn't mean to sound QUITE that turned on" he remarked to more hilarity now focused on him.
"Oh yeah, like you don't have a type" Ash remarked, with a lot of gentle humour in it, "And bad and dangerous to know is a HUGE part of that, sociopathic kind of on your dating profile requirements"
"I am not a sociopath thank you" Allison said primly, "I'm a high functioning psychopath, actually!"
"I stand corrected." Ash laughed.
"You sure from this angle you could be sat down," Harry noted.
"Oh the short jokes, I love those" Ash remarked, "I'd like to remind you of how close my teeth are to your nuts"
"I know that's an empty threat! The last time I invited you to go ahead..."
"Yes, I got a little...distracted" Ash said her tone honeyed.
Allison snorted,"That didn't happen...that was the demon that made that noise!"
"Still think its cute" Ash responded.
"Is it me or do those two flirt with each other as much as they do Harry" Thea noted.
"Comms Thea doll" Frost reminded her again.
"I know, I just don't care" Thea shrugged.
"I like that girl" Ash laughed.
"Okay...there it is, isn't that a handsome fella" Harry said, sending a large ball of light up to the rafters of the high roofed basement.
The demon leaned down, drool dripping from large fangs, it was rather humanoid, but hugely muscled and as it stood tall it brushed the rafters some eight feet above it, and it was almost as wide as it was tall.
"Bonus! It's not hard to hit that target" Allison said notching her bow."
"No weapon forged can hurt me," it intoned in a deep rib shaking tone.
"I didn't forge this!" Allison said, "I make all my own arrows, this is composite graphite, I formed it" she said letting it fly.
Right into the eye socket, the demon screamed, mostly in total shock it was feeling any pain, at all!
"Okay, now I want her too" Thea remarked.
"Slow on the up take there Thea" Ash remarked.
"Okay Ali, you can hurt that fucker, so hurt it" Harry urged her.
Harry then said, "Frost do your thing daring." Then cooked up a large fireball. "Ash...don't die I would hate to have to miss you after all this time."
She popped up and kissed his cheek, drew a long sword and dived into close quarters combat with a thing that towered over her.
"Okay...that's...sexy" Frost said.
"That's my Ash" Harry said, then fired off the fireball only he didn't pitch the ball of flame, it was propelled right out of his hand at close to the speed of sound and hit the demon right in the face, causing it to scream, and reel back.
"They are gonna hear this outside" Elena noted.
"Part of the point!" Harry noted back.
Frost turned the nearby area under the demons feet, into a positive skate rink, and then started to form up large icicles in areas that the demon was thrashing its steps on.
The thing was getting seriously pummelled as Team Harry hit it like a boxer going for a payday.
It went down, to its knee at first, then not too much later to all fours. Harry walked up, literally rammed his hand into the things mouth, over cooked a fireball and propelled it right into the demons centre mass.
The fireball didn't just congratulate the insides, it exploded in there. Essence-Du-demon was spread all over the nearby area, and them. It dropped, a final death rattle going through it, then Ash decided to make sure, and sent her long sword into the things skull, tensed and forced the blade all the way out the other side of the fifth level demons head.
"That was good! Well done ladies, you just kicked that things ARSE!" Harry said with a big grin.
Joan Watson turned to Sherlock, "Did I just see that?"
"If you did not, then I share the hallucination Watson. But in point of fact I believe we just watched them take out a full blood demon of the fifth level of hell in five minutes or less. Ancient texts I read say this took legions of warriors days of battle to match." he said with bright eyes.
"Okay, now the boring bit." Harry's said smiling with accomplishment for his team. "Then we'll go home wash demon guts off and order pizza or something."
"Each" Thea corrected with a grin.
"You're so damned skinny where the hell do you put all that food, girl?" Frost demanded to know.
"My sex appeal baby" Thea shot back.
"Then you eat a lot" Sherlock said then went wide eyed, "Shit!"
"I'm sorry darling, what did you just say?" Came over ALL their comms.
"Correction, we go home, we try to stop my sister killing Sherlock THEN we get pizza" Harry said.
"Jamie...darling it...just slipped out?" he said looking desperate.
"You're on your own pal" Joan told him shouldering her shotgun.
For about half an hour after the hellish screaming stopped the news crews and supernatural bods alike watched the top floor light up with flashes of light, the occasional waft of frozen air appeared, and then down to the next floor. Suddenly what looked like a well crafted ice sculpture was sent flying out a window to explode as it hit the floor, right in front of them.
Then the ground level was treated to the same light show. A pause and finally the same anonymous crew all walked out of the house looking fresh as daisy's other than the fact that they were all coated head to toe in a...suspiciously blood like substance, even if it wasn't red.
They waved again, and everyone was so shocked no one attempted to stop them to get a quote, something their editors would chew cigars over later. Then they walked back the way they came, then as the media frenzy went BACK into action they were followed only no sign was left they had ever actually been there.
Some brave souls went into the house. Weird marks, and ice sculptures and the basement...it was a charnael house, a huge seriously beaten...thing was laying there, news crews were called, editors were apprised and then things got crazy.
The Brownstone, N. Y.
Later that Night
Harry slipped into the recently emptied chair next to his sister, "You need to stop" He said seriously.
Jamie lifted a perfect brow, "Excuse me!"
"It was just a joke, and frankly any man would see that she Is that sexy, no matter how involved and indeed very much head over heels in love with you he is."
Jamie smiled slightly, she liked the sound of that.
"It's likely with Sherlocks fascination in this field we'll be working together a lot for a while until the next fascinating nugget comes along, all my team are each in their own way pinnacles of womanhood. He's ALLOWED to notice, and even pay what he views as friends the occasional compliment without you getting all hyper jealous. I know, I know this is the first time you've had these feelings, and frankly probably the last, you have a unique relationship and it's not replaceable. So don't get all pissy if he pays a female friend a compliment, or you're going to make him feel CAGED."
Jamie glared, "I would quite like to stab you right now."
"Go right ahead, I'll likely heal around the blade these days"
"That's a new wrinkle" she remarked, amused.
"I got older, I got better at healing myself." He shrugged, "But don't deflect, go...kiss him like I know you're screaming inside to do, and forget it. Thea is feeling pretty crappy right now that she is the one that caused this, so a friendly smile in her direction would go a long way to making a girl you've always liked feel a bit better about being attractive to men."
"Well shit," Jamie said after a long moment, "I'm now the little sister aren't I!"
Harry smiled, "By over twenty thousand years Sal"
"That's a long time to be a smug wanker"
"Yeah, yeah...go do that."
"This sounds like married man advice." she said shifting forwards like she was about to get up, but paused to ask.
"By the book of law I am now married twice over."
"That's the oldest law in the book, translated into emergent Muggle cultures." Jamie said, "And written by a little prick who can time travel."
Harry grinned at her, "Hey now, that's hearsay!"
"No...I know you, you might be a lot older but you haven't really changed, do they know?" Jamie said with a sparkle in her eyes.
"No, but I have often lived with Ash as man and wife, cohabitation was rather frowned on in the olden days."
"Allison will be super beautiful happy about that."
"I hope so, but I have to admit I don't know how to actually say it"
"Luckily for you, I'm still a lot smarter than you are Harry, no matter how much older you are."
He lifted a brow.
She tapped her ear, "We're all still on comms you smug wanker" she said slipping out of her chair and striding off leggily to make up with her boyfriend, but not before giving Thea a wink and a smile. Mind you most attention was moving to Harry with a lot of amusement, and to Ash and Allison. They both wore very day break smiles.
Harry got up, managing to insert himself back between them. "So, my sister is a total bitch" he remarked, "And yes I know I'm still on comms" Harry said, "I just don't care. I was always going to tell you both, But I just didn't know how." he admitted.
"Well I think Jamie solved that conundrum" Allison said, "I don't think I'm going to be seeking divorce proceedings, like...ever"
"Meh, like you said we were so often, just always felt we were." Ash said, "I didn't need a ring on my finger, I knew your heart."
"That I'm a little jealous of." Allison said, "I spent a fair while having no idea where his heart lay."
"You think I didn't in the early days, I was already too old to doubt myself, but...did anyway" Ash laughed.
"Clara, get up here" Harry said, "I fitted you with comms myself, you're off sulking in the RV some place because I wouldn't let you on the mission, but you need to be here"
"Yes Harry" Clara said her voice low.
"That was overbearing" Ash remarked.
"I am aware" Harry said, Clara appeared moments later.
"Come here, please" he said and she walked over, and as she got close enough he pulled her down into his lap and laid one on her.
They all grinned, especially those that had been there for her minor melt down the night she arrived.
He pulled back holding her chin and looking into her eyes, "I am now talking to all of you, and I know comms is not so romantic. When I left I was...immature, hadn't ever had a serious relationship and you were all suffering for it. I don't know how this will go down... but not long after that I met Ash for the first time. WAY back near the times of the Vikings, turns out nor had she...in fact no man had really ever interested her before me. We learned together, but even then I had to leave and go on my search, then rinse and repeat over a few billion years, which she did the scenic route, I am now capable and name I'd say perhaps even somewhat experienced at giving an adult relationship. So I'm telling you all this, because I would like the have that with all the women I am talking to."
"Does that include me too" Joan put in from the kitchen. "Sorry but your friend and sister are making me want to vomit"
"Come on in Joan, but we have a very different relationship and you all know who you are, and yes Clara dear tiny insane Clara...I for sure mean you too, but...wasn't sure that's what you wanted.
"I Do!" she jumped in with.
"Well okay then, now this is unconventional and perhaps unique to us, but...lets muddle on though and I understand communication is important. So I perhaps should keep wearing comms" he chuckled.
"Congratulations you downed all their panties at the same time" Jamie's voice came through, "You are all cordially invited to bugger off, I need to say sorry to my boyfriend and that's going to be quite noisy"
Joan looked at Harry.
He laughed, "There's a spare room made up"
"THANK YOU!"