Two Chapters in one week! No way!
Lol, I couldn't leave you guys hanging that long.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer in Chapter 1. Don't own Disney or Bambi.
Instinctively, Harriet threw her magic down in front of the crowd and deflected the bullet, "Jarvis, hit the fire alarm." She ordered. Next to her Tony was standing up and stepping into the suit. In the row of seats behind the, Bucky was standing up and had his gun aimed toward the stage; Loki was standing and had summoned his full armor, the spear Harriet had gifted him in his hand. The drones opened fire on the shield in front of the stage and people screamed.
The fire alarm rang a second later and the crowd made a mad dash for the exits. Harriet flipped her hood up just as the last bit of the suit snapped into place around Tony, "Hero time." Tony sang.
Harriet turned to the stunned wizards who were watching the firing drones, "I need you guys work on making sure the area is clear. In the states magic in the defense of muggles is fine, just don't get too flashy, we'll try to contain them."
They snapped out of it at the command in her voice and Bill and Charlie nodded, jumping to their feet immediately; Percy looked determined and followed after his older brothers as they ran from the VIP floor. Fred and George stood strong next to Harriet, "We're not going anywhere."
Harri smiled at them from under her hood, "Normally I wouldn't want you too but you haven't had training beyond the rocky Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. I promise we will train together later but right now you guys would be in too much danger here."
Fred and George looked like they wanted to protest again but Sleipnir grabbed their arms and pulled them behind him, "I'll go with them. We'll get the civilians out." He said seriously.
Harri nodded and turned back to the stage where the dragonflies were beginning to look for other ways out other than through her shield. "Bucky." She called, she heard a gun cock in answer, "You're not completely up to par yet. Pepper will stay back at the controls while this is happening. That's a good place to protect Luna and her while we're doing this. Get connected and call out patterns and strays to us."
"Affirmative." Came the clear tone of the Solider.
"Don't fear the thunder." Luna called dreamily as she was carried away by the Soldier.
"You want to give us some direction too?" Tony teased as he flew into the air, "You're so good at it."
Harri laughed, "I'm just the stand in. Now, let's go destroy some drones." Harriet dropped her shield and flamed directly onto the stage, she heard Tony take off after the ones who had been smart enough to shatter the glass ceiling and make it out and felt Loki teleport right behind her. Spells and ice flew around them, destroying the drones that had remained left and right.
"These little buggers are surprisingly good shots." Tony's voice said through Harriet's headset.
"If you can't handle these then you'll have no chance against Doombots Tony." Harri laughed.
"Excuse me I said they were good shots, nothing more." Tony scoffed, Harri heard the whir of a repulsor.
"Queen." Loki called, Harri looked over at him with a grin as she rent the wings from one of the last drones in the convention center, Loki was holding a cowering Hammer, "What should I do with this?"
"Cuff him and leave him with Pepper, she'll have him arrested. He's not a real threat." Harri said, she smirked, "I'll talk with him when he gets out." She said darkly. Hammer squeaked and Loki rolled his eyes before teleporting away with the man.
"Station achieved." Came Bucky's voice through Harri's headset, "All drones in the convention center have been eradicated. All targets now outside." Harri glanced around and counted about twenty of the drones before flaming outside to the top edge of the convention center. Loki was there as well, throwing pure magic at drones that were unfortunate enough to come into range. Tony was trying to herd them closer and away from the running people.
"A drone is targeting some people ahead of you, your Majesty." Came Luna's voice.
Harriet didn't hesitate, knowing Luna would send her where she was needed, she changed to Glacia and shot forward, diving when she saw a drone aiming at a tent. She swept her wings forward, sending blue fire over the drone and freezing it over in seconds. Glacia barrel rolled before landing with her full strength on the drone and shattering it. She changed back to her human form to make sure the people were okay but her eyes widened when she found James, Sirius, and Remus helping a woman and two small children free from the booth so they could run.
"Dad?!" she exclaimed, they all turned and smiled when they saw her, their smiles faded when they saw the shattered drone around her though.
"Moony I thought you were watching out!" James said.
"Somebody called me over to help." Remus huffed.
"Straight up Queenie." Tony called through the headset.
Harri heard Tony fly over and shot a bombarda maxima straight upward, another drone exploded overhead. Harriet shook herself from her shock and put a shield over them to keep the pieces from hitting them just in time, Harri looked over to her fathers, "Get them to safety. We're almost done here." She ordered before running toward the convention center again. Harriet pulled down another two drones as she ran, each exploding on impact and making Harriet grin.
Hooves sounded close by and Harriet used her surroundings to jump on top of the booths; one row over Sleipnir, who had apparently transformed, was galloping toward the convention center with Jörmungandr wrapped around his neck and Fred and George on his back. Harriet huffed and transformed into Glacia so she could keep pace with them, Glacia trilled to catch Sleipnir's attention once she flew next to him. He whinnied in happy greeting as Fred and George whooped. Glacia shot toward a drone ahead of them that was shooting at one of the Expo's generators. Glacia dug her talons into its side and spun it into the ground; Sleipnir leapt and hit it, with his hooves full of magic, the colors glimmering as they pulverized the metal being.
Out of nowhere thunder boomed and lightening fell from the sky, Sleipnir slid to a stop and Glacia hovered in place, both looking up in just enough time to see the lightening take out the remaining drones that were in the air. Glacia let out a worried trill when she saw a familiar figure drop out of the sudden storm to land near Loki on the top of the Convention center. Glacia's eyes sight was good enough to see Tony drop next to Loki, his stance protective. Thor seemed to talk to them for a few seconds and then Loki tensed and Tony fired a repulsor at Thor, sending the unsuspecting God backward.
Glacia began ascending immediately, knowing Thor's next move, having seen it a thousand times. Tony turned away to check on Loki and Thor got up in the same second, anger built on Thor's face as Glacia flew closer and with a roar he threw Mjolnir at Tony. Glacia flew between them with a shriek and transformed back with no time to spare, instantly putting her hand out and pressing against Mjolnir's head. Lightening and blue fire flew as Harriet held strong, only being pushed back an inch; she reached out mentally to Mjolnir, tugged at the old weapon's consciousness gently, and offered up her memories of before. Harriet didn't even flinch as she felt Mjolnir dig through her mind, pulling up memory after memory, judging her intentions, her worthiness. Slowly, Mjolnir began to pull out of Harri's mind and Glacia pushed some information forward for Harriet. Without hesitation Harri offered some of her magic to the hammer, with the new knowledge it would replenish quickly within her but the offered magic would strengthen Mjolnir herself.
Suddenly Mjolnir dropped to Harriet's feet, Harriet lifted an eyebrow at the hammer, "You were never this dramatic before Mjolnir." She said with a sigh, she leaned down and picked the hammer up, hefting the weapon against her shoulder. Loki and Thor gaped at her openly, "Now, can we talk like civilized people or are you going to insist on continuing this fight Thor?"
The God of Thunder's mouth opened and closed like a fish for several seconds before he fell to his knees, his head bowed, Harriet frowned and took a step back, "Lady Phoenix, the Royal Family of Asgard asks for the return of my brother."
Harri's eyebrows shot up before she looked back at Loki, his eyes were beginning to light with understanding, he locked eyes with Harriet, *They think you're a phoenix turned human, not a human turned phoenix.* he said quietly into her mind.
Harriet had to stifle her laughter as she turned to Thor and drew herself up, "My flock mate is safe and happy here. I will not return him until I believe him to be safe there. I have seen the trials your realm has put my flock mate through, how you have kept my flock mate from his precious hatchlings, how you have blamed him for things that he clearly had no hand in, how you have punished him in such barbaric and cruel ways. What makes you think I will ever believe it safe for him there?"
Thor's head shot up, "He is part of your flock?"
Harri raised an eyebrow at her Uncle, "Does that surprise you Thunderer? Have you so little faith in your nest mate?"
Thor shook his head and dropped it back down, "No Lady Phoenix. We were not sure in what capacity you had taken my brother. He more than deserves a place in the flock of a phoenix."
"You speak as if I stole him. It is my right to save my flock mate. Even from himself." Harri said. Loki blushed slightly and looked away, Harri spun Mjolnir in her grip, "I assume your mission here was to retrieve your nest mate?"
Thor nodded, "And to make sure he was well. Mother has been distraught since his…disappearance, has yet to even leave her room since she was told of it."
Harriet narrowed her eyes slightly at Thor, "I see your attempt at manipulation Thunderer. Leave it to your nest mate, you're terrible at it." Thor slumped a little at the reprimand, Harri softened a little, "But I'm am not completely cold. I will give the mighty Mjolnir coordinates; you may bring your mother to see her hatchling in one week's time. I hope you also bring along plans to rectify my mistrust in your people."
"Thank you Lady Pheonix." Thor breathed.
Harriet smiled, "You can call me Harriet." She said as she sent some coordinates to Mjolnir, she gently set the hammer down in front of Thor, "Rise with your weapon Thor, leave us." With that she turned to Glacia and flew over to land on Loki's shoulder primly.
Thor stood with Mjolnir and let out the length of her strap before beginning to spin her, stirring up the storm above them. His wide eyes looked to Glacia before he focused on Loki, "Blood or not, you will always be my brother Loki. I will do what is necessary to make things right brother." With that he raised his arm straight up and Mjolnir jerked him into the heart of the storm. He was taken into the fold of the clouds and as quickly as the storm appeared, it disappeared.
"Well that was certainly…interesting." Tony said, his head looked over to Glacia, "G, is that another of our family?"
Glacia bobbed her head easily, *Yes.*
Tony grinned, "I'll start thinking up nicknames now!" he crowed.
Glacia squeaked in laughter, she took off from Loki's shoulder, *Come on. We need to get to the flock so a quick ward can be set up to keep us from prying ears.* she flew behind Loki who let out a small noise of surprise as she lifted him by the back of his armor like she had when she flew him from the Void. Glacia flew Loki from the roof of the convention center with Tony flying down next to them.
Below the Marauders, the elder Prewetts, Pepper, Luna, and Bucky, who was holding a bound and unconscious Justin Hammer, had joined Sleipnir(who had changed back), Jörmungandr, Fred, and George to wait for those on the roof in an expectant looking half circle. As soon as they landed Glacia perched on Loki's shoulder again and held up a claw when Fred and George looked to her curiously, Glacia looked to Bill, *Privacy ward please.*
Bill nodded and quickly cast a privacy ward around them, once it had settled Glacia flew off Loki's shoulder and changed back. She grinned, "Well, that went well."
"Well!" Fred exclaimed.
"You were awesome!" George said.
Harriet giggled, "Thanks." She tugged her hood back just a little bit before addressing the group, "Alright, we have a lot to go over but right now we have eyes on us. Heimdall with report to Odin anything that we do so we have to be careful. Apparently they think I'm a phoenix who managed to turn human and not the other way around, I'd like to keep it that way, it will give us an edge. So until we can get under our regular wards I must act as Glacia, as a phoenix in a human form." She looked to Tony, "We still on for Malibu?"
Tony brightened, "Yes! We can go and…" he frowned, "What did we do after fighting bad guys before?"
Harri grinned, "Takeout after a fight is tradition."
"Sweet! Chinese? I have a place on speed dial, I can order in a truck load!" Tony said.
Harriet smiled and nodded, "That'll work."
"Any other orders your Majesty?" Bill asked with amusement.
Harriet drew herself up with a mock snooty look, "A few yes." Everyone chuckled, Harri give them a playful smile, "I need to go take care of Vanko before he tries to hurt Tony again." She kept her gaze form the Marauders while she said that, Jarvis was already pulling up coordinates and information about the area up on the hologram screens of her head set. "Pepper, can you get Hammer arrested? He wasn't behind the attack but if he hadn't brought in explosives and ammunition there wouldn't have been as much danger." Pepper nodded and pulled a StarkPad out of her bag to get started. "Daisy should be able to get everyone to the Mansion pretty quickly while I'm out working. Once you get there, Fred, George, you need to call Dianna, she will be the only elf who can bring you one of the Castle's empty ward stones." They nodded and Harri looked to Bill, "If you could put together a standard ward scheme to go over Tony's mansion I would be grateful."
"No problem Boss." Bill joked.
Harri smiled before looking at Percy, "There will more than likely be a representative from the American Ministry of Magic coming to the mansion in the next day or two once they zero in on our signatures. If you could brief Pepper on the beginning of magical politics and the standard laws that they may bring up, that would save us a lot of confusion." Percy glanced over at Pepper curiously but nodded. Harri smiled, "Alright, that's it for right now. I'll see you at the manor." Harriet transformed back to Glacia and, following the coordinates Jarvis had given her, flamed away.
In a mansion in Westchester County, New York, a group of students were watching the news coverage of the Expo Attack with wide eyes. A particular student, a rather new addition, was watching while clutching at the flat metal phoenix that had brought her to this place, this second chance. It was slow going, she hadn't been here long after all, but she was beginning to see things more clearly.
"Wanda?" came the Professors voice, she looked over to him and held up the metal phoenix, it shimmered blue as light hit it.
"Do you believe in coincidences Professor?" Wanda asked softly.
The Professor's thin eyebrows rose as he looked back to the television, "I believe that sometimes we make them seem to be more than they are." He said carefully.
Wanda frowned as she turned the bird around between her hands with her power, "Even the grainy footage they got from far away showed the hooded one making ice from nothing and then they jumped from the roof and turned into a blue bird." She let the metal phoenix catch the light again, once more making it shimmer blue. "How many coincidences can pile up before we must assume it's more?" she let the metal bird drop into her hand, "The power around this when I came felt cold, you said so yourself. And it only shimmers blue, no other color."
Charlies Xavier sighed at his newest student, her arrival was very mysterious and she was correct that the power surrounding the metal phoenix had been cold, unforgivingly cold. Even without his telepathy Charles knew young Wanda was thinking of seeking the person who had sent her here to help her retrieve her brother. She had asked for his help but his team, though powerful, wasn't ready for a full on assault of Hydra, not without Logan, Jean, or Scott.
Charles sighed, "Wanda, I know you wish to find this person out to help find your brother." Her eyes shot him, her eyes narrowing slightly, expecting a denial no doubt. "I won't stop you." He said, clearly surprising the girl, "I only ask that you stay with us a month more. You need some training or you may hinder the search of your brother more than help."
Wanda frowned again, her gaze considering before she sighed and nodded, "I will stay Professor. But only a month. I don't like to think of what my brother could be going through at Hydra."
Charles bowed his head, "I can understand the feeling."
In Asgard, Thor was sweeping through the palace, his mind racing. The phoenix had picked up Mjolnir, his faithful weapon had accepted another to carry her. It was unheard of! And Loki! Loki had been accepted as this phoenixes flock! A flock Loki was happy with! Thor was racking his mind, thinking of ways to get the phoenix to trust them.
Thor swept to a stop at the door to his mother's chambers, knowing his father was within as well. He knocked and heard the call of "Enter." Not a moment later. Thor entered and closed the door behind him carefully before turning to find his parents sitting in armchairs before a fire.
"Thor!" Frigga exclaimed, "You have returned! Have you brought your brother with you?"
"I'm afraid not Mother. The Phoenix was there. She refused to allow him back." Thor said sadly, Frigga made a small sad sound from the back of her throat.
Odin inclined his head, "Did you gather any more information from this trip?"
Thor nodded, "The phoenix is named Harriet. She has claimed Loki as flock." Frigga brightened slightly but Odin's mouth set into a thin line. "She, in her human form, was able to pick up Mjolnir." Now both the King and Queen looked surprised, "She spoke to Mjolnir so she knew that Mjolnir had a consciousness. I believe she may have also given Mjolnir some power. The storm was colder than usual when I departed."
Frigga stood immediately and walked over to Thor, "Let me see." Thor held out Mjolnir so his mother could examine the weapons. She ran a hand along the head gently, small shocks greeted her presence. After a few minutes Frigga nodded and looked to Odin, "The phoenix did freely give power to boost Mjolnir's own."
Odin frowned, "Why would she do that? Have the Norns granted you any insight?"
"No, not for this. However, the futures have changed drastically recently. I am unsure but this phoenix seems to be at the heart." Frigga said.
Odin let out an unintelligible grunt and looked back to Thor, "Did anything else come from your discussion?"
"She said she will not allow Loki to return here until she knows he will be safe." Thor replied, "She spoke of him being blamed for things he didn't do and of his punishments being cruel, she also brought up the taking of his children."
Odin's frown deepened, "So she does hold a grudge for his past slights."
"It would seem so father." Thor replied, he looked to Frigga, "I attempted to get her to let Loki return so you could see him mother but she saw through my attempt." He blushed in slight embarrassment.
Frigga smiled, "Your brother you are not, Thor."
"Aye." Thor said with a huff, "The phoenix said much the same." Frigga placed a hand over her mouth to hide her smile, "But, the phoenix did offer something else." Frigga looked at him expectantly and Odin sat forward, "She gave Mjolnir coordinates and said that you could come see Loki next week." Thor said, his focus on his mother.
Frigga smiled, "Excellent! I shall be going."
"No you won't." Odin interrupted.
Frigga spun and glared at him, "I will be going to see my son Odin Borrson. You will not stop me."
Odin looked like he wanted to argue but knew his wife would get her way on this, he sighed and looked to Thor, "Did she demand we bring anything?"
Thor shook his head, "Not outright father. She did say she hoped I brought plans to regain her trust in us."
Frigga clapped her hands, "Excellent! I know just how to start!"
Bill, Charlie, and Tony sat around a brand new ward stone in the living room of Tony's Malibu mansion, Bill was currently showing Tony the basic ward scheme that the goblins suggested be on all private magical properties while Charlie added in comments about dragon wards. "…and now all we need is to do is drag this ward over top this one here and…done." The new wards flared out over the Malibu mansion.
"Whoah." Tony breathed.
Bill chuckled, "I'm going to assume Harriet will want to tie herself into them to keep an eye on you Tony but if she doesn't it will need magic every so often to keep the wards stable." Tony immediately launched into a full interrogation of the brothers.
Pepper and Percy were over at the bar in the kitchen talking, "So let me get this straight." Pepper was saying, "There is a whole world of magical people hiding within the rest of us, but you guys still use parchment and quills instead of technology? How do you ever get anything done? Ever?"
Percy chuckled, "It's a long process and it doesn't help when the magical government is so corrupt, at least Britain's is. As for the technology, magic can scramble it. In fact, before I went to LeFay Castle I'd never seen a TV. I'm not sure if she is the first to come up with the runes that protect things or if she was just the first in Britain to use them, honestly we are probably the most out of touch magical society in the world. We just barely have contact with the others in Europe."
"Sounds like your Ministry needs an overhaul." Pepper said, rolling her eyes, Percy nodded.
Bucky, Luna, Loki, Sleipnir, and Jörmungandr were all sitting near the TV, Luna was sitting next to Bucky as he discussed the future team with Loki. "Harriet has shown you all of them?"
Loki nodded, "When we spoke after her burning she showed me everyone and gave me their backgrounds." He ran his fingers gently along Jörmungandr's scales where he sat on Loki's lap.
"And you say she said Steve was the leader?" Bucky asked, feeling surprisingly at ease with Loki. "She seems to handle the position well. Steve…well, Steve was never really comfortable with giving orders from what I remember. Maybe he grew to be comfortable with it but he used to second guess himself a lot or rush in without any plan at all. He certainly did when he went into the field the first time."
Loki chuckled, "From what little I've seen Harriet does her fair share of charging in but she seems to make plans so fast it hardly matters." Bucky smiled.
Over by the windows Fred, George, and Lee were meeting the Marauders officially, "We can't believe"
"it's really you!"
"We're your"
"biggest fans!"
"You're such inspirations!" the twins were gushing excitedly.
"I can't believe you faked your deaths." Lee said, "Classic!"
James chuckled and rubbed at the back of his neck, "Actually that was Harriet."
"Yeah, she faked James and Sirius' deaths and then we faked mine." Remus said with a smile.
Sirius grinned mischievously, "Yes, our greatest prank here lately was actually on you guys."
Lee frowned while Fred and George leaned forward, "What was it?" Fred asked excitedly.
"Was it the time all our homework changed into French?" George asked.
"That was me." Lee laughed.
Fred cocked his head, "Was it balancing our trunks up on the Quidditch hoops?"
"That was Harriet." James chuckled.
"Oh!" George exclaimed, "The time all those plants practically stripped us in the greenhouses."
Sirius snorted, "That was actually Professor Sprout. She felt she needed to retaliate after you and Harriet turned the Greenhouses upside down. That was a good one."
Fred and George looked at each other, "Sprout got us?" they said in surprise.
"No way." Lee added in amazement.
"Don't under estimate Badgers boys, they're wily." Remus chuckled.
"So what was it?" Fred asked.
"How did you get us?" George added.
James grinned and Sirius threw out his arms dramatically, "Like this!" in the next second they were in their snake forms, looking up at the gaping twins.
"Holy shit!" Lee exclaimed, "You were Harriet's snakes!"
Remus chuckled, "Yep."
"You were in the school the whole year!" Fred yelped.
"You heard us talking about you?" George asked.
"We called the Marauders Marauder Worthy!" Fred rasped, his eyes wide.
James changed back and nodded, "We never knew we had such a devoted fan base." He teased, fluttering his eyelashes at them.
Sirius changed back, "Yes, our own devoted followers." He grinned.
Remus chuckled, "Harriet told us how you guys reacted to getting the books last time but we didn't believe her. Did you guys even sleep?"
"Not for like a week after." Lee answered for them, only making the twins shrug unrepentantly.
"Sir." Came Jarvis' voice overhead, calling the conversations to a halt.
"Yeah Jarvis." Tony answered.
"The food has arrived." Jarvis said.
"Great!" Tony said, standing up. "ETA on Harri?"
"She's burning any and all information Vanko had on the arc reactor and its intricacies at the moment, she will be here soon." Jarvis answered promptly.
Pepper spoke up, "And Vanko."
"He is no longer a threat to Master Stark." Jarvis said vaguely.
"Good." Pepper said smugly.
"I can actually take care of myself." Tony grumbled.
"I beg to differ." Harriet said, appearing behind him.
Tony jumped about a foot in the air with a yelp, the room descended into lighthearted laughter as he spun to see Harriet standing there grinning at him. Tony mock glared at Harri, "You need a bell!"
Harri pulled her hood back and pouted at Tony, "If you want to give me cat toys that's your prerogative."
Tony grinned, "Jarvis can break out the laser pointer kitty." He teased before edging around her to go get the food. Harriet quickly changed to Godiva and ran to the left of the doorway, she crouched there, her tail twitching until Tony came back with six reusable grocery bags filled with Chinese food "…I guess should have sprung for tuna huh Har..." his words were broken off by another yelp when Harriet let out a yowl behind him. More laughter spread through the room, filling it with happiness. "Harriet!" Tony snapped, "I swear to god!" Godiva tilted her head and gave him a cute mew sound. "Don't play innocent! I may not have known you for seven years but I know your anything but innocent. I will throw you in my pool with no problem!"
Harriet changed back to herself and smirked at her brother, "Actually, ocelots love to swim." She said, taking the bags from Tony easily. He stepped back and threw up his hands with an exasperated sound, Harri giggled, "Alright, everyone to the front room. Food time."
Everyone packed into the living room, making a rough circle with their seats so they could all see each other. Fred and George flanked Harriet immediately of course, not waste a second and not hesitating to jostle for the positions with the Marauders. Harri sat the food in the center and for several minutes it was just everyone jostling to find what they wanted in the Chinese cartons. As everyone settled Lee piped up, "So, Harriet. Shall we play twenty questions?"
Harri rolled her eyes even as everyone perked up, "Interrogating me about the last timeline is not twenty questions Lee." She gave a dramatic sigh, "But I suppose I could answer two questions from everyone." Lee made a subtle fist pump and everyone looked excited, "I reserve the right not to answer a question but other than that go ahead."
"I'm the newest of the group!" Pepper announced, "I think I get to go first!" Harri chuckled and watched as Percy and Tony both tried to combat that claim until Pepper argued them into the ground.
Harri looked at her older sister expectantly, "Well, go ahead."
Pepper nodded seriously, "Next threat to Tony?"
Harri giggled while Tony dropped his head in defeat, "Aldrich Killian, CEO of Advanced Idea Mechanics. Apparently a long time ago he met Tony at a New Year's party and Tony, being Tony, completely blew him off when he scheduled a meeting. He's pretty smart now but was apparently a complete idiot back then because all of that mess started with Tony ignoring a meeting he made while he was drunk." Pepper face palmed, Harriet smiled, "Yeah, but to be fair we faced villains with fewer reasons for trying to do stupid stuff."
"Jarvis." Pepper said expectantly.
"On it Miss Potts."
Pepper nodded, "Alright, how hard would it be to expand SI into the magical world?" Tony groaned.
"Here in America? Not hard, pretty easy if you know how to talk to the Goblins in fact. In Britain, almost impossible. The rest I'm not positive. We never spent much time in any of the other magical nations for me to get a feel for them." Harri answered.
"Alright." Pepper said.
*If we're going by who is newest I guess that makes me next.* Jörmungandr said, happily.
Harri giggled as everyone but Loki and Sleipnir looked confused, "You may want to change for this Jörmungandr. Not everyone here can speak or understand parseltongue."
The serpent changed to his human form with a blush, "Sorry." He looked to Harriet shyly, "You Midgardian's like making toys of things you like…did they ever have any of father?"
"Mother." Sleipnir muttered, Jörmungandr stuck his forked tongue out at his brother.
Harriet laughed, "Oh yes, we all had lots of merchandise, but I think I know what you looking for Jörmungandr." Harri set her food down and focused her magic into her hands, she conjured a replica of the black cat Loki plush that Build-a-Bear had come out with at the height of their popularity, it had a soft version of Loki's armor along with a soft helmet. Harriet added the magic to make it permanent before floating it over to the young boy. Jörmungandr's eyes lit up as he got the plush, he wrapped his arms around it and squeezed, the next second he was in his snake form and curled around the plush cat with a pleased hiss. He got a soft aw from most of the group. "I guess that's it for his questions. Bucky, if we're going backwards that puts you next."
"Do I get four?" he joked.
"If you do that counts as the first." Tony threw out.
Harri rolled her eyes fondly, "I think we should just stick with two for now Bucky."
"Alright." He huffed, he tapped his fork on his carton, "Do I know anyone else on the team besides Steve from before?"
Harriet bit her lip and shot Tony a glance, finally she sighed, "The Black Widow, not a black widow, The Black Widow. Her identity should be part of the information I left alone." Bucky frowned for a second before his eyes widened, Harriet nodded when she saw him make the connection, "Yes, her."
"How do you plan to get Steve next summer?" Bucky asked curiously.
Harri brightened and wiggled her eyebrows, "I plan to kidnap Captain America!"
Bucky's eyes widened, "What…" he started but Harri cut him off.
"Ah, ah, two questions Buck!" Harri said jovially, "Loki's turn!"
Loki blinked as all eyes went to him, "Alright." He looked at Harriet seriously, "Did our…family freak out the first they saw me in my Jotun form?"
"Nope." Harri answered without prompting, "For I, Fred, and George we had read about them during our travels to get to Voldemort's horcruxes and found out that they were the basis for a lot of elemental magic so we were more curious. Everyone else is just regular Midgardian and they had never even heard about Jotun let alone thought of them as monsters. You were still Loki, just blue, so they didn't care."
Loki nodded slowly, "No…no more questions for now."
Harri nodded in acceptance, "Sleipnir?" he waved his hand to let her pass him as he curled closer to his mother. "Percy?"
He blinked, "Um…oh, what happened to me?"
Harri cocked her head, "You got a job at the Ministry right out of school and eventually became the undersecretary to the Ministry and married Penelope Clearwater. You both moved out of country when the third war started and we never heard form you again." Percy looked startled.
"Ah, alright, well, um…did…did you three have any kids?" he asked awkwardly.
All heads swiveled to Harriet who tensed, her chicken turning to ash in her mouth. She swallowed and cleared her throat quickly, "Yes," she said shakily, her eyes going soft, "we had a son, Todd. It means fox." Fred and George shared a quick look before setting down their meals and wrapping Harriet in a tight embrace between them. They were shocked at the news that they had had a son, also curious but wary, Harriet's reaction didn't bode well. They did understand why she hadn't told them immediately without her having to say why though, they had been overwhelmed with just the time travel, throwing in a son would have made things worse.
Percy looked to Bill pleadingly, he hadn't meant to make Harriet sad. Bill searched for something to make the topic at least a bit happier, but if he asked what happened he was sure it would be a minefield. "What was his middle name?" he blurted.
Harri, Fred, and George looked over at him in surprise, Fred and George's expression clearly a 'what the hell' look but it subsided as Harriet let out a startled laugh. "We wanted to stick with at least the middle name tradition but with the magic of the soulmate bonds they were both the father so they decided on a…merger of sorts."
Fred and George exchanged a look and chorused with Harriet, "Forge."
She glanced between them and giggled, "Yes, Todd Forge Prewett." Everyone relaxed slightly at the smile on Harri's face, disaster averted for the moment.
Bill smiled, "I guess that's my first question done." He said, trying to draw them further from the sensitive topic.
"Ask her about who you married." George suggested.
"We apparently had to wait for go hunt for Horcruxes for your wedding." Fred added.
Bill's eyebrows rose, "Who did I marry? In the middle of a war no less."
Harri smiled, "Fleur Delacour, a quarter Veela from France."
"Oo la la." Charlie teased, "A Veela Bill and from France! Fancy." Light laughter followed that and Bill rolled his eyes good naturedly.
"Your turn Charlie." Harri said.
"Let me show you how it's done!" Charlie said, "Now, who did I marry?"
Harri giggled, "No one, you were a crazy old dragon lady."
Bill let out a full bellied laugh as Charlie's mouth dropped open, "What? Really?"
"Yes, you got caught up with the dragons. As far as I know you only had one serious relationship in all of the time I knew you." Harriet said.
Bill patted Charlie on the back, "You need to get out more little brother! Fred and George have more game than you!"
Charlie huffed and crossed his arms over his chest, "Fred and George's Soulmate came to them." He pouted. Harriet huffed even as Fred and George looked smug, each wrapping an arm around her waist.
"My turn!" Lee said happily when things had died down. He looked at Harriet seriously, "I was Godfather right?"
Harri gave him an amused smile, "No Lee, you weren't. Fred and George asked you and you responded with and I quote, 'You two have the God of Mischief and Chaos living one floor below you! If you don't make him Godfather, I will disown you as my best friends!' So Todd's Godfather was Loki." Loki looked surprised at that but Harri smiled at him.
Lee looked to consider that for a second before he deflated, "Yeah, that sounds like me." He smiled, "No more questions, I'll get it out of Fred and George later."
Harriet laughed, knowing he would with little trouble, "Tony, that makes it your turn."
The genius perked up and rubbed his hands together, "Oh, got to make 'em good." He eyed Harriet who stared back at him evenly, "I know you won't tell me too much about the other members of the family." Harri nodded, he bit his lip then grinned, "What was the most embarrassing Captain America moment you've witnessed?"
Harriet's lips twitched up at the edge before she snapped her fingers, Dianna appeared in front of her, "The courtroom pensive please Dianna." The elf bowed and popped away.
Lee sat forward, "This is gonna be good."
Tony frowned, "What is a pensive?"
"It will show us a memory." Bill said, "A courtroom pensive will show the memory on two 'screens' without us having to go in the pensive."
Dianna appeared again with a bowl that she sat in the center of the circle. Harriet pulled her wand and pulled a memory free quickly before tossing it into the pensive, she tapped the base with her wand and a movie like picture appeared on either side of the pensive, revealing older versions of Harriet, Fred, and George.
Harriet and Fred were flying together on a broom in mission clothes, Harriet's like the ones she had now and Fred's were similar to hers but his jacket was dark red with a black lining, his suit was completely black, and her had a utility belt. George was on another broom next to him with the same mission clothes as Fred, "Anyone have eyes on Cap?" George asked.
"I lost him a while back." A feminine voice came from nowhere.
"Last I saw him he was doing his ridiculous gymnastic routine over on Sixth." Tony's voice chipped in.
"En route." Came Bucky's voice. Harriet, Fred, and George flew over the buildings until they heard laughter and zeroed in on it. When they came upon the sight they broke into laughter along with Bucky who was already there and laughing at Steve's misfortune.
There, caught hanging on a fence, was Captain America in an old USO uniform, complete with the hat and heels. His skirt was what had him caught on the top of the fence so he just hung there with his face burning red and his skirt hiked up in the back. His shield was on the ground below him and he kept his eyes glued on it, to embarrassed to do anything else.
"Best and worst time"
"for a prank to kick in!" Fred and George announced through their laughter, high fiving.
Those watching the memory were busting up laughing, even Bucky looked to be having trouble breathing as he saw Steve like that. Harri smiled at all of them, "That was the most embarrassing moment I witnessed. Poor Steve. We were called in right after the prank was set up; it was supposed to go off during his workout, not in the field."
Tony's chuckles slowly died down and he wiped at his eyes, "Oh god that was good!" he took a couple more seconds to compose himself as Harriet retrieved the memory, "Alright, second question." He tapped at his reactor distractedly as he thought, "Oh! Can you tell me what my Science Bro specializes in? I want to read up before I meet him!"
Harriet giggled, "He's a nuclear physicist with focuses on Gamma radiation, but he's a certified genius and picks up new concepts almost as quickly as you do."
Tony's eyes lit up, "Jarvis construct me a reading list!"
"Of course sir."
Harri rolled her eyes and looked between Fred and George, "Technically it would be your questions now."
"We're good, we'll"
"get it all from you"
"later." They said with soft smiles at her.
Harri gave them a short nod before looking to Luna, "Little sister?"
"The Nargles have filled me in." she said dreamily, leaning on Bucky's arm as she finished her pork.
"Dad?" she asked expectantly, looking to James who startled at suddenly having her attention after being basically ignored since the Expo.
James frowned, "Were you three married when you conceived my grandchild?"
Remus choked on his food and laughs went up around the room, Harriet just rolled her eyes, "Yes, that's why his last name was Prewett not Potter."
James relaxed a bit and nodded, "Who gave you your Marauder names?"
"Tony gave me Godiva and Thor gave me Glacia." Harri responded, she looked to her Godfather, "Sirius?"
"I thought you forgot about me." He huffed, "You went out of order."
Harri rolled her eyes, "Questions?"
"Who took out that bitch Bellatrix?" Sirius asked.
"Molly."
All the Prewett's eyes widened, "Mum?" Percy exclaimed.
"Isn't Bellatrix like the Dark Lord's right hand?" Bill said in surprise, "Mum's no expert dueler, how the hell did she take out Bellatrix?!"
Harri smiled, "Bella cast the Cruciatus on Ginny. Molly retaliated to protect her. It's probably the one thing I actually admired your mum for, even with all the betrayal."
"Merlin." The twins breathed.
Harri looked back to Sirius who shook himself from his shock, "No more for now pup."
"Remus?" Harriet asked, he opened his mouth but shut it quickly and shook his head. Harri frowned, her fathers were more subdued, she would have to talk to them about what had happened. She shook herself and smiled brightly at the rest of the gathered family, "Alright, now, movies?"
"Yes!" Tony exclaimed, "We need to get everyone caught up with the good stuff!"
Pepper rolled her eyes, "Just start with Disney and work your way up Tony, no need to go full Star Wars on them yet."
Tony pouted but it didn't last long, "Eh, there are some awesome Disney movies."
"I vote Bambi." Luna called, Harriet shot her sister a glare as the conversation dissolved into which Disney movies were the best and if the Pixar animated ones had to be moved into their own category. All in all, it was a great family night.
See you next time!
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