Notes:

I promised and I deliver, my updating spree has started.

For now please enjoy two back to back chapters. And more will come soon, just not today. It took me 3 hours to write these two so I'm gonna go take a break and relax and update another story in the meantime.

I was only gonna post one chapter but I wrote the second one right after so I thought I might as well as an early Christmas gift.

Please enjoy.

**Also FYI my story does not follow canon from where this story starts, I will write a timeline later and post it at the beginning so that I can clear some stuff up but, let me develop the world a bit more.**

**Uh next day edit, I fixed some things I messed up. Also if you see throughout this writing any word that starts with an M and is supposed to be a name in the context of the sentence but it's not a name you've ever heard of before; it's supposed to be Merlin. It's just my auto-correct for some reason doesn't like the word Merlin and changes it to anything else with an M. It's annoying as hell but it happens****

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Once Remus arrived at Grimmauld place, it was hectic from there on out. Apparently, the whole order minus a few people were invited over, including Harry, the Weasley children, and miss. Granger. Of course, Sirius was there. Unfortunately, it's not like he could go anywhere else. It has been a while since Remus had seen his friends. Of course, Myridian was his friend, but Sirius was his old friend, and he truly missed him. Especially from all the time lost since he's in prison. He did escape last year, but it's been a while.

Even though the house was so hectic and full of people and the occasional screaming painting when they went down the wrong hallway, it was nice and comforting. Though Remus couldn't help but think about Myridian all alone, and it led him to this idea. For a while now, in Remus' head, he thought Myridian was a fine young man, though he was mature for his age. He was brilliant and had a good sense of justice. Remus wanted to propose Merlin as a new member in the order of the Phoenix. The only thing stopping him from doing that was his age.

Now technically, Myridian was an adult, but he was young, and Remus didn't really know much of his past, and it seemed like Myridian had lost a lot of people already, and he didn't want to burden Myridian like that. But he also wanted to include Myridian in the fight because Remus trusted him quite a bit already.

It's sort of surprised Remus how quickly Myridian became someone he trusted so much. He trusted Myridian as much as he trusted Sirius. And Remus thought about that a lot because he's only known Myridian for a few months, maybe half a year so far. He didn't know what it was about Myridian that made him seem so trusting and seem like such a good person, but it was a charm that he could not fight against, not that he really wanted to.

Remus had come with gifts from himself and Merlin. Merlin offered the night before he left to take the new computers as gifts to the children and whoever else wanted them. Apparently, Merlin had been planning this all along; before Remus left, Merlin handed Remus a computer bag, expanded on the inside with multiple laptops inside. To bring along with him when he was going to hang out with everyone. So it was Christmas day, and all the children were waiting for the gifts to be handed out. Remus was waiting for the exact moment to say he had something to give, but he was a tad shy.

It took a while, but once all the gifts were given, Remus cleared his throat before the children ran off to play.

"I have a present to give, as well." He announced as he pulled the computer bag onto his lap.

Hermione knew what the bag was but didn't connect the dots just yet; her mind was still in the view that wizards and witches can't use technology, so the connection didn't cross her mind yet. However, she got it the moment he took the laptop out of the bag if her loud gasp was anything to go by. Everyone else didn't know what a laptop was, but they seemed excited by Hermione's excitement.

Harry wasn't too familiar with technology, but he lived in the muggle world for a long time; he's seen newspapers and magazines, so he knew what it was as well. Harry was also shocked, he remembered that Mr. Emrys had told him about creating them, but he didn't think he would see it just yet. It took a moment for Harry and Hermione to tell everyone what they were looking at, but once everyone understood what they were looking at, it was a really cool thing they all wanted to see it. And Remus was a gift that kept giving because he pulled out like 20 laptops out of that small bag. And everyone didn't expect to own a computer themselves. Even Remus didn't think Myridian had given him this much, but apparently, he made sure to provide enough that Remus could give out to everyone there, and since Merlin didn't know how many people were going to be there, he just assumed and put like 30 laptops in the bag. And if Remus had too many, he could just bring them back.

Of course, they were all wizards, and none of them knew what to do with a laptop, but they were marveling at it either way. Molly took the laptop she was given and put it in the center of the table. She thought it looked very pretty and she could put food on top of it, like a center plate. It took a while for Hermione to gently tell her that is not what she could do with it, and that would probably break it. However, Remus was one to counteract that statement saying basically nothing could break that laptop, but it also wasn't used for that. Surprisingly the only person who did know how to use it was Arthur Weasley.

The only reason he knew how to use it was because he worked with Merlin on some of the projects that he created. Since he was the only one to know how to use it, he quickly got it to work. Everyone was surprised and was leaning over his shoulder, trying to see what he was actually doing with it. Mr. Weasly would be making little sounds of 'ahh' and 'mmm' and even the occasional 'oooo.' Mr. Weasly had only seen the prototype laptop. But Merlin had given him a thick handbook on how to use it, and that is what he's been reading for a while now. It took a while for everyone else to understand how to open the laptop and how to log on and personalize it. Still, for the rest of the evening of Christmas day, the Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, and everyone else was staring at their laptop, fixing it and personalize it with the help of Remus and Mr. Weasley.

Mr. Weasley liked his laptop so much that he fell asleep with it on the couch. Everyone else put their laptop in a special place and then went to bed that night. Once all the children had fallen asleep, some more people showed up to the house that night, and soon the Order of the Phoenix was in session. The moment everyone arrived, Mr. Weasley was soon woken up, and then the meeting began.

The meeting was planned to discuss again the mass breakout from Azkaban this year. Everyone was arguing about who escaped, and why did it have to be those that did? The topic that also came up from those in the ministry was about the mystery prisoner who escaped. Apparently, the minister did not know who belongs in that cell and nor did any of the people who were supposed to be overseeing Azkaban. They were all terribly worried because they don't know who exactly disappeared from their cell. Of course, this information is not privy to the public because that would cause even more mass panic. So at the moment, it's just another Death Eater has escaped. But they're not sure if he is a Death Eater or he is someone worse. Even after all this time, it was only speculation. At the moment, they were currently discussing that somehow information was being leaked or rather, the information was not as easily hidden through letters and such. But they had no alternative forms of communication rather than maybe the occasional Patronus, but it wasn't meant for long letters.

They were discussing for a while when Remus had an idea. Cell phones. They solved the problem, and it was such muggle tech that death eaters wouldn't use it for a while.

"I may have a solution. As some people know, I don't work in that storage unit store anymore. I recently started working for Myridain Emrys. And he's currently working on integrating muggle technology into the Wizarding World. And we have a creation that is recently being released. It's called a cell phone. It's a way to send messages instantaneously, and it could also be used in real-time. I have one currently on me. It's the newest version, so it's going to be a little bit hard to get used to using it, but it solves almost all the problems we're having with the information leaks. However, they are happening. this also gives us an advantage over the Death Eaters and the purebloods because they won't go anywhere near Muggle technology for a while until they realize the use of it at least." Remus said while taking out his cell phone and showing it around.

Nobody grabbed it out of his hand. They all knew that magic and muggle technology did not work, and they didn't want to break it. Seeing as nobody believed his words too much, he put the phone on the table and cast a spell on it. Nothing too crazy, just the stunning spell would do for now, hell any magic would do.

The moment the spell hit the phone, nothing happened, the phone just moved a little bit, and it was just perfectly fine as before no smoke, no flashing screens, just a phone, an impenetrable phone. People were impressed after seeing it; they still didn't understand the concept of it, however. So Remus offered to show them.

Remus was a bit excited about showing them the new technology, so he forgot the time and dialed Merlin, the only other person he knows, and has a cell phone with him. It rang for a while, seeing as Merlin was probably asleep. He didn't pick up the phone. And it shocked everyone in the room.

As a grumbly just woken up from sleep Merlin confusingly asked, "Remus? Why are you calling me so early in the morning?"

The moment Merlin spoke through the phone, there were a lot of hushed whispers and exclamations of excitement at seeing that the product actually did what Remus said it did.

However, it just made Merlin even more confused because all he could hear was on the other side of the phone that was supposed to be Remus calling him, but instead was hushed whispering, and people squealing in excitement.

Merlin checks his phone to make sure it was Remus, actually the one who was calling him, but when he checked and saw that it was, he was a little worried as to why there were so many people on the other end of the phone. His brain was also a little bit sleep-deprived and couldn't think right.

"Remus, are you okay?" Merlin asked again, sounding more awake.

"Oh, yes, I'm fine. I was showing off the cell phone, sorry." Remus said into the phone.

Then Merlin remembered that Remus was hanging out with friends, and he probably didn't realize the time. Which was fine with Merlin; at least she's promoting the product.

So he asks, "Are there any questions you had?"

At this point, Merlin was awake and was ready to answer any questions. Not that he knew who was on the other end of the phone. But did he really have to know them to answer questions?

Remus turned to everyone else and asked,

"Does anyone want to ask anything?"

A few people around the room started to think about questions they had because if this was going to be their alternative to sending letters that could be intercepted or Patronus' that could be overheard, they had to know some specifics.

Dumbledore, who was currently in the meeting, didn't mind his voice being heard and asked the phone directly,

"Mr. Emrys, good evening, is this something that is completely private. Because to my knowledge you are going to be selling them everywhere. Could someone not intercept our phone calls if we don't want them to be intercepted?"

Dumbledore had a good question. But the answer and solution were very easy. If this was a cell phone in the Muggle world, this issue might actually be something you have to worry about. Since technology is moving faster and faster and new inventions are created every day. However, this is not the muggle world.

There is no wizard or witch out there that knows how to hack into a device just yet. And there probably won't be one for a very long time. Except for the few geniuses here and there, it's going to take at least five-plus years before they advance enough and computers are widely used enough that hacking will become a thing that is plausible.

So Merlin says just that,

"Hello, Dumbledore, nice to see you again, though I can't really see you... ahhh nevermind. Since my devices are currently new and nobody has access to them nor knows how to work them except myself and my team, there is no possible way it could be intercepted. And no magic could cause them to default in any way. I've tested it. Remus has tested it, and it is practically indestructible."

Merlin says practically indestructible because he's almost positive he could break it if he tried hard enough. So it was practically indestructible from Merlin's point of view. That made quite a few witches and wizards in the room excited. Even some of the few purebloods we're curious about how advanced muggle technology was.

Sirius was the second to ask a question,

"What if some Death Eaters... uhhh I mean, other people have cell phones? How do we know that they're not hearing our calls?" Sirius said, stumbling through his mess up.

That earned him a few hard glares from everyone around him for saying Death Eater so easily.

Merlin had a feeling when Remus called him that he wasn't with friends and family at the moment. Especially when Dumbledore asked a question. But the whole Death Eater comment really made Merlin realize what this meeting was. Of course, he wasn't supposed to know it was a meeting and such, but he could only come to that one conclusion. He knew that there was a gathering of witches and wizards who were on the side of the light.

Or so people called it that. And he knew Dumbledore was involved; he just didn't connect the dots that Remus was also involved. And he also didn't realize until this moment that this is what they needed the cell phones for. Obviously, if you don't want your letters and communications interrupted by spies and whatnot, the cell phone would be revolutionary. And Merlin had a very good answer to whoever it was that asked that question since it was a voice he didn't know.

"You don't have to worry about that. Every cell phone has its own specific phone number. And no matter who has your phone number, they couldn't listen to the phone call you currently had even if they had access to your cell phone number. Every single phone call is completely secure. At least for the first five or six years, the phone will be available. I can't say it will be secure forever because I'm sure there will be smart people out there in the future. But at the moment, there is nobody who could listen in on your phone calls. It is completely secure." Merlin assured.

He was quite confident in selling his product. Of course, he could also add features to the phone to make it even more secure. But at the moment it wasn't necessary. That could be something he does down the line in the future.

After some more deliberation and a few more questions, Remus hung up the phone. It seemed that the order of the Phoenix was about to be buying some new cell phones, and a few cell phone guides. But it appeared muggle technology was more helpful than they thought. And that concluded that meeting. They were going to reconvene another day, but it was late, and the kids will start waking up soon. So they all bid each other adieu and went on their separate ways for the night, well more like early morning now. It was a pretty successful product showing for Merlin and Remus. And so that closed off Christmas night.

Merlin's version of Christmas day was different from Remus'. Unable to break the habit of 1000 plus years of life, Merlin still did not call Christmas, Christmas he still called it Yuletide or Yule. Either way, this year, he had no plans.

He woke up Christmas morning and had a lovely breakfast. Tinkered a little bit more on his projects. Then as the day grew dimmer, he grabbed a bottle of fire whiskey and apparated out of his house. It had been 500 years since he stepped foot on these shores.

The lake was far smaller than the last time he would have been here. And that road that was barely there last time was much closer and busier than the last time. There was now a bench that was built so that you could sit on and look off into the distance of the lake.

The island that was in the middle of the lake was still there. But Merlin had long since hidden it from the view of everyday people. He didn't want it to be destroyed or built upon. As this was a place where his friends were laid to rest, and he didn't want it to be disturbed. Merlin sat on the newly-made bench, or rather new to him, as the bench creaked when he sat on it. Merlin opened the whiskey bottle and held it up to the sky with his eyes closed, he didn't say anything, but he was toasting off to another year. Another year waiting for his friends to come back. He never lost hope that they would come back. He couldn't lose hope because if he did, he wouldn't be sitting there anymore. But Merlin was optimistic. It has been 500 years since he took his little nap, which is what he now dubs as his prison stay; so much has changed in that time that it must be soon.

Soon Arthur and everyone will come back. It had to be soon, he hoped it would be soon, he wished for it. But that was what Merlin thought as he relaxed onto the bench and drank the whole bottle of fire whiskey. Merlin decided to stay there all night and even eventually fell asleep on the bench. The only thing waking him was a phone call in the middle of the night.

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Notes:

Also, great news, my little niece was born on December 10th; she's just so freaking adorable. I love her name; it's Layla Rey. Isn't that just adorable? uwu Lol. I can't wait to meet her.

It also snowed so much yesterday that I'm snowed in a bit. This sucks because I start my new job tomorrow, and I don't want to shovel it all and trudge through the snow to go to work, but money is money, and I got Christmas gifts to buy.

Though I normally go all out on cards cause I got those wax seals and stuff, and I am mainly going to shove polaroid pics of my niece when I see her in the cards and then send them off to everyone. That was the idea. But I still need to buy my brother and his wife a gift. So work, I must.

Anyway, head on over to the next chapter now :)