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"You said you weren't working full time though you do go into the office every morning? What do you do all day anyway?" Tim asked curiously one day.
To his surprise the younger man blushed slightly and ignored the question.
"Hades," Tim said seriously, "I don't mean to pry and it really is none of my business but can you at least assure me whatever you're up to is legal"
"Yes Mr Federal Agent. I swear I've not broken a single law since I arrived in the country" Hadrian flirted.
Tim smiled "Then I'll let you have your secrets" he said moving behind Hadrian and wrapping his arms around him.
Hadrian sighed "I don't want to keep secrets from you. I'm just a bit embarrassed and I didn't want you to think I'm stupid" he said turning and burying his face into Tim's shoulder.
"Hades I'll never think you're stupid. You have some really great insight into things and a lot of innate intelligence. I know you don't have as much education as I do but intelligence isn't measured by college degrees. If you want one then enrol in college and choose something you're interested in but don't think you need to do it for my sake" Tim said reassuringly.
Hadrian looked at Tim for a moment assessingly. "I enrolled in High School" he said quietly.
Tim almost laughed until he saw how nervous his boyfriend looked and realised he was seriously worried about his reaction.
"I really can't imagine you spending all day with 17 and 18 year olds but if that is what you want to do then I'll support you. You do know they have High School classes for adults at the community college?"
"Yeah I looked into that but they're mostly a night and I wanted something to do during the day so I can be home here with you at night" Hadrian said not correcting Tim's assumption that he was a senior.
"Well if you need help with Math or anything then I'm happy to help you" Tim replied hugging his boyfriend. "I think it's great Hades not many people would have the courage to go back to school."
"It's not math so much as American History I'm struggling with. I just don't have the background knowledge the course takes for granted" Hadrian replied.
"Well I'm happy to help there too if I can. I spent a couple of years attending the American School in Japan where they taught mostly Japanese History so I understand your problem" Tim offered.
"Thanks" Hadrian replied.
"Hades, if you're at school all day how are you paying the rent?" Tim asked. "You know I'd be happy to let you live here for free if it'd make life easier for you."
"I inherited quite a lot of money from my parents which luckily was locked away from my relatives so they couldn't steal it" Hadrian replied.
"It must be quite a bit if you can leave your house empty in London and not worry about expenses here. You're still paying rent on the apartment upstairs as well as for most of our groceries" Tim said.
"That's what happens when your closest family keep dying" Hadrian said dryly. "One hundred years or so ago there were about a dozen Potters and they all made a good living off the Potter trust though most of them had jobs as well, now I'm the only one. I don't plan on living off the trust all my life but I need at least a GED to get another job."
"But you said you were a law enforcement agent?" Tim questioned.
"And I was. I've been called in to consult a couple of times by the FBI, and I've done some grunt work when they need an extra w…weapon but they don't need my services full time. My training's too specialised, they said if I want to actually work for them full time I'd have to go through FLETC basic training again" Hadrian said sighing. "I don't know if that's what I want to do though. It's been kind of nice not dealing with murder and hate crimes and having to watch my back 24/7 since I got here." He wasn't being completely honest, he would need to go through FLETC to become a mundane agent, but they would be keen to employ him as an auror full time when a vacancy came up which even if he wasn't avoiding attention in that world, would be too difficult to keep secret from Tim.
Tim nodded "I can understand that" he agreed. "This is my dream job which is why I put up with the hours, and Gibbs attitude and DiNozzo's harassment, but it's not for everyone. Do you have any idea what you would like to do instead?"
"No. I enjoyed tutoring when I was at school but I'd need a lot more education before I could think about teaching"
"You're a good enough cook that you could probably make a living cooking" Tim commented.
"I'd also make an excellent maid, gardener or housekeeper, thanks to my relatives" Hadrian said. "I'd rather not though."
-o0o-
"Hello" Ziva greeted Hadrian as he arrived for the Choux pastry course.
"Hi. You got the weekend off" Hadrian replied. Of course he already knew that because Tim was home writing but Ziva didn't know he knew Tim.
"Yes surprisingly. I can't remember when we last had three weekends off in a line"
"Do you mean in a row?" Hadrian asked. "Yes a row a line it's the same" Ziva said impatiently.
"I won't correct you again if you don't want me too" Hadrian said placatingly.
"I speak eight languages you know, it's just the little sayings that make no sense" Ziva complained.
"I get stuck with some of the differences between English and American too" Hadrian agreed.
"They're the same language" Ziva replied.
"Almost" Hadrian said, "But they use a lot of different names for things and some of the same names for different objects. It's caught me out a few times." Most of the trouble Hadrian had was with the teenage vernacular used by his classmates but he did understand Ziva's frustrations.
"Where do you work to be rostered so many weekends?"
"NCIS, you wouldn't have heard of it" Ziva replied.
"I have actually. Do you know Tim McGee?" Hadrian asked casually, keeping his occlumency at full force so she wouldn't detect any part truths or attempts to mislead her.
"Yes he works on my team" Ziva replied. "How do you know him?"
"He lives in my building. We started chatting one day when he caught me admiring his car one morning. We leave about the same time. He often gives me a ride to the station" Hadrian said giving her an explanation for why he might be with Tim if she ever got nosy enough to try to check up on him again.
"Where do you work?" Ziva asked.
"Quantico" Hadrian replied vaguely. Ziva assumed it was classified and dropped the subject. She hadn't interacted with Hadrian at all in their joint case and didn't recognise him thankfully.
Hadrian left at the end of the class with a sense of satisfaction. He'd finally mastered Choux pastry and got ot know one of Tim's teammates a little better while providing her with a reason not to question their relationship if she saw the two of them together.
-o0o-
As the months went by Hadrian continued to spend very little time in his own apartment which he insisted on keeping for reasons he refused to explain to Tim. In truth Tim didn't mind. The culture of DADT was so ingrained in the navy yard that he didn't know of any gay staff in spite of the fact that the rule only really applied to enlisted men and women. Hadrian's insistence on keeping his own apartment saved Tim from having to explain that he was perfectly willing for Hadrian to move in with him unofficially but couldn't put his name on the lease.
-o0o-
Hadrian visited the British ministry under glamours on his way to see Teddy one day. He hadn't heard from Hermione in a few weeks and wanted to check on her. He made his way to her department without being stopped, resolving to send a note to Robbards and Kingsley about the lack of security, and stopped outside Hermione's office watching her work for a moment before knocking.
"Hello, can I help you?" Hermione asked not recognising the man who looked a lot like one of her husband's brothers.
"Hey Hermione" Hadrian grinned.
"Who are you?" Hermione asked.
"You don't recognise your best friend? I'm crushed, truly and totally crushed. You better send for the healers" Hadrian teased collapsing back into a chair dramatically.
"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed happily. "How are you? Are you home for good?"
"No I had a meeting in London and decided to call in. You haven't written lately, is everything okay?" Hadrian asked.
"Everything's fine Harry" Hermione said frowning. "I didn't realise I hadn't written I've been busy with my research."
"Hermione have you at least visited your Mum and Dad?" Hadrian asked. "They can't just wander down here when they haven't heard from you for a while and they're too worried about upsetting Ron to harass you at home."
"Of course I've visited Mum and Dad" Hermione exclaimed crossly. "I was there the other…" she trailed off as she tried to remember the last time she'd seen her parents. "Oh! I'll go on my way home tonight."
Hadrian smiled shaking his head ruefully. His friend would never change, when she was focussed on her studies or research the rest of the world ceased to exist for her. "Has Ron at least made sure you're eating and sleeping properly?" he asked.
"Yes of course, he drags me out to lunch every day" Hermione said looking at her watch. "He should be here soon, do you want to have lunch with us?"
"I'm afraid I have a prior engagement" Hadrian replied politely.
"You look happy?" Hermione said.
"I am" Hadrian confirmed. "I've met someone."
"That's great Harry is it a witch? Does she have a brother?"
Hadrian laughed. "No. It's a muggle with a sister" he replied.
"Oh? How are you managing the secrecy?"
Hadrian shrugged. "I live in a muggle flat, in fact, I rarely use magic except at work. My new job requires suits not robes. I haven't had a problem with not using magic or keeping it secret. I barely even think about it when I'm with them" he said smiling at the thought of hanging out with Tim.
"But what about when you're at work? How do you explain not having a work telephone?" Hermione asked.
"I use my cell phone" Hadrian replied. "Besides they do use phones in the office."
"I wish you could tell me where you were working" Hermione huffed.
"What difference would it make? Ron will never leave Britain" Harry asked.
"Is it really that classified?" Hermione asked worried. "Are you doing something dangerous?"
"No my job is much safer than being an Auror here would be even if I wasn't me! You don't need to worry about me Hermione" Hadrian reassured his friend. "How's Ron?"
"He's fine, enjoying work. He's not ordering me to do things I don't want to do if that's what you're asking" Hermione replied. "I honestly think you over reacted about the wedding vows, they're just traditional. Molly made the same vows to Arthur and you can't say she doesn't rule the roost at the Burrow."
"Yeah because Arthur lets her" Hadrian reminded his friend but didn't press further. He was glad that things were going well for his two former best mates, though still concerned what could happen if they had a major difference of opinion. He knew that their views on children and working mothers were very different and he was worried that Hermione was going to end up being a very unhappy housewife and full time mother.
"Did you have something to do with Ginny not getting chosen to play for a Quidditch team?" Hermione asked.
"No" Hadrian replied honestly.
"It's just that several other chasers who graduated last year have been signed to teams and you must admit Ginny was better than them" Hermione said.
"Ginny was a better chaser but I was offered several contracts when I graduated. They all had some pretty stringent moral and behavioural clauses in them. The teams don't want people who are going to be on the front page of the prophet for bad behaviour. It makes the team look bad" Hadrian replied. "Where is she working?"
"She isn't. She applied to every vacancy in Diagon Alley and the ministry and nobody would employ her. Maybe you could put in a good word for her" Hermione suggested.
"I didn't have her arrested and we both know she could have spent ten years in Azkaban for what she did. I don't owe her anything" Hadrian replied frustrated.
"People are starting to blame her for you leaving the country" Hermione said. "So it is your fault she can't get work and you said you weren't doing it deliberately."
"She got two NEWTs. That's not my fault. And 'people' aren't wrong. I wouldn't have accepted an overseas posting if she hadn't turned into such a cold hearted bitch when I was injured. I would still be happily engaged and planning our wedding.
"Are you going to see Teddy while you're here?" Hermione asked.
"I've already been there" Hadrian lied not wanting her to be able to tell anyone where he'd be. "He's grown so much."
"I haven't seen him in ages. Something's come up every time I've tried" Hermione said guiltily.
"I wish I could see him more often too" Hadrian replied. He wasn't lying, now Teddy was old enough to play with he'd fallen in love with the little boy and he'd probably call in most days if he moved back to England or Teddy and Andi moved to America.
-o0o-
"Abby's insisting I come clubbing with her this weekend. I've put her off too many times lately" Tim said tiredly one night as he ate the meal Hadrian had kept hot for him. They'd wrapped up a case that day but Tim still didn't get home until nearly 2200.
"Do you want me to meet you there? Then you'll at least have someone to talk to. We can pretend not to know each other" Hadrian offered.
"I'd love to but Abby's just as likely to declare the place is dead boring and drag me off somewhere else" Tim declined.
"Text me when you move and I'll send my friend Rochelle to rescue you" Hades suggested.
"How will I know her?" Tim asked.
"She'll be the redhead throwing herself at you" Hadrian replied smirking.
"No thanks Hades. Though if you wanted to come and throw yourself at me I might take you up on that" Tim joked.
Hades smirked.
Two nights later after hours following Abby around, Tim was regretting not agreeing to let Hades and his friend rescue him. The club they ended up in was overcrowded and smoky. Normally this would have meant he could slip away and Abby would just think she'd lost him in the crowd but he'd done that once too often so Abby was keeping a tight hold on his elbow. He looked around bored, Abby had introduced him to most of the people she spoke to but most of them took one look at him and ignored him.
He was shocked out of his introspection by arms wrapping around his neck. "Come dance with us" the redhead said.
"Rochelle?" Tim questioned not entirely sure the redhead was even a girl.
"You can call me that" he/she said running her hand up around Tim's ear the way he loved.
Tim leaned in. "Hades? What are you doing?" he asked quietly.
"Rescuing you now come dance with me" Hadrian said winking and taking his hand pulling him away from Abby.
Following behind Tim appraised Hadrian's outfit, other than the feminine hairstyle (which was obviously a wig) the rest of Hadrian's outfit was gender neutral and fit in perfectly with the nightclub, black skinny jeans into black heavyweight boots with a slight heel and sheer black shirt over a black singlet top. It wasn't immediately apparent that he wasn't female, with his lack of height contributing to that impression. He looked good enough for Tim to almost forget his reputation as a federal agent and a gentleman and drag his boyfriend to the nearest dark corner and fuck him up against the wall. They reached centre of the dancefloor and Hades spun around putting both hands around Tim's neck pulling him down to kiss him. Tim wrapped his arms around Hadrian's waist pressing his body against his own before moving his hands down to cup his boyfriend's bum. Hadrian had told Tim he wasn't much of a dancer and that was clearly true the couple of times they'd tried but this wasn't dancing. Tim could feel Hadrian's erection rubbing against his own hardness as Hadrian raised himself on tip toe and back down again in time to the music, grinding their erections together.
"Unless you're planning to get lucky in the nearest bathroom stall or even right here in the dance floor in front of everyone you need to back off a little" Tim warned.
"Sorry" Hadrian all but moaned into his ear. He'd cast a mild notice-me-not charm on the two of them as they started dancing so Abby wouldn't pay enough attention to remember who Tim had been with. He knew it wouldn't be sufficient to stop people from noticing if he had a screaming orgasm in the middle of the crowd but he could always strengthen it if he wanted to. The problem with that was that Tim couldn't know about the charms and would be just as embarrassed as if he'd been heard. He needed to back off or get Tim somewhere private, preferably into a comfortable bed. They were nearly an hour from home but only a couple of doors up from the nearest decent hotel so he pulled Tim towards the door. They hurried along the footpath, Hadrian wishing he could just apparate them both back to Tim's bedroom and into the Hotel where Hadrian flashing his black 'no limits' credit card at the receptionist got them a room with a minimum of fuss.
Tim turned and kissed him passionately up against the wall of the elevator as they rode it up to their room, running his hands up under Hadrian's shirt.
Tim pushed Hadrian back against the hotel room door and kissed him passionately. Hadrian's hands were busy undoing Tim's pants and pushing them down before beginning on his own desperate to feel Tim without the barrier of two layers of denim between them. Tim pulled off both their shirts then helped him peel down the skin tight jeans leaving them around his thighs as he grabbed both their erections and worked them as Hadrian thrust against him. After all the teasing in the dancefloor neither man was going to last long but they were too worked up to stop and prep for penetration.
Tim stopped Hadrian as he was about to collapse onto the bed and quickly ripped of the covers exposing clean sheets. Hadrian finished peeling of Hades' jeans. "How'd you get these on by yourself?" Tim asked.
Hadrian shrugged. He couldn't tell Tim he'd used a temporary enlarging charm then nearly cut himself in half when he reversed it without adjusting himself properly.
"Can you take the wig off, it's a little disturbing" Tim said having tried to push it off earlier.
Hadrian laughed and got up to go to the bathroom. He shut the door, morphed his hair back to normal and then transfigured a handful of toilet paper into a wig and hairpins which he brought back to the bedroom and threw on top of his shirt.
Tim smiled watching him return. "You looked really different. I don't know if I would've realised you weren't a girl if I didn't know you." He said hoping he didn't offend his lover.
Hadrian grinned. "That was the point. There would be no point me looking different if I still looked male. Abby still would've told everybody that you got picked up by a bloke."
"Now she'll tell everyone that I'm seeing a redhead. Gibbs has a real thing for redheaded women. It will make it harder to meet him later" Tim warned.
"I didn't think you ever wanted to introduce me to the team as your significant other?" Hadrian said confused.
Tim sighed. "It's not going to be easy but I want us to last and I don't want to hide from my team forever. Eventually I'm going to be ready to tell them."
"I won't push. You'll tell them when you're ready" Hadrian said calmly. "They need a little more time to forget Lord Evander anyway."
Tim smiled. "I love you."
Hadrian pounced on Tim kissing him passionately. "I love you. Well, now I look like myself again what shall we do with this nice soft hotel bed. There's a rather decadent six jet shower in the bathroom too if we get too dirty.
"Oh I think I can handle the task of dirtying you up" Tim said smugly, grabbing Hadrian and flipping them over so he was on top.
Hadrian grinned and rolled them back over kissing him fiercely. Tim grinned too enjoying submitting to Hades. Hadrian kissed his way down Tim's body sucking on his nipples and leaving love bites in sensitive places he knew they wouldn't be seen even in Tim's workout wear. He bypassed Tim's cock to bite at his hipbones and inner thigh causing Tim to moan aloud and start pleading for Hades to fuck him.
"No" Hadrian replied moving up so Tim could watch him prepare himself.
"You want me to fuck you" Tim asked surprised. He'd thought Hades was in a more dominant mood.
"You're on call. If I fuck you as hard as I want to right now you'll have trouble convincing anyone that you were with a girl tonight" Hadrian growled.
Tim blushed a little and realised he shouldn't have been surprised. Hadrian was always careful to be gentle with him when he knew he had to work the next day. He hadn't really thought much about it though he was grateful not to have to deal with that slight after sex soreness while chasing down suspects or sitting on the hard military flights.
Hadrian lowered himself onto Tim's arousal and after minimal time for adjustment started riding him energetically and all Tim's extraneous thoughts came to a screeching halt as all he could concentrate on was his lover.
-o0o-
"You ditched me last Friday" Abby accused, stomping into the bullpen where Tim was searching for information on their latest victim.
"I left you surrounded by friends" Tim refuted. "Friends I might add who were ignoring me. Someone asked me to dance and I had no reason not to go. That club is more your scene than mine anyway.
"You left with that floozy" Abby said angrily.
"Rochelle's not a floozy" Tim defended angrily. "We went somewhere we could hear ourselves talk" he lied. It wasn't totally untrue they had talked a bit after getting each other off the first time. "Leaving with her had just as much to do with getting away from your so called friends rudeness as anything else."
"You didn't even try to dress to fit in last night" Abby complained.
"Fit in with what, you didn't tell me where we were going or give me any sort of choice" Tim snarked back. "I don't even own clothes that would fit in at a club like that and frankly I wouldn't feel comfortable dressing like that."
"I'm doing it for your own good Timmy. Your social life needs my help. Now you've lost weight you could be kind of hot if you..." Abby began.
"Stop!" Tim said holding up his hand. "I don't want or need a woman who thinks I could be kind of hot if I changed this and that" Tim said firmly. "I want someone who appreciates me as I am."
"Where are you going to find a woman like that?" Tony asked laughing.
"Not at some grunge club, that's for sure" Tim retorted.
"So this Rochelle girl isn't the start of something?" Tony asked.
"She was nice. I'll probably meet her again for coffee. See if we're still compatible in the daytime."
"Without the beer coloured glasses she could be a real dog" Tony laughed.
Gibbs had been standing behind him and now slapped Tony across the back of the head. "Thanks Boss" Tony said facetiously.
"Back to work. What can you tell me about that petty officer?" Gibbs growled.
Tim stepped up to the plasma and pulled up the information he had ready to present.
"I've been taking cooking classes at the local neighbourhood house, maybe you could go along to something like that. There were a lot of nice women there that might appreciate a man like you" Ziva suggested later. "And if not at least you'd learn to cook instead of living on takeout. Taking a class wouldn't be changing who you are."
Tim grinned. Taking a cooking class with Hades sounded like a whole lot of fun if he could guarantee Ziva wouldn't be there but he couldn't see himself taking one on his own and putting up with women flirting with him. He understood why Hades had outed himself within minutes of walking into the class. "I'll think about it" he said noncommittally.
"I've got a class on Saturday if we're not working. I could bring you a schedule" Ziva offered.
"Ziva, just because I like to keep my private life well away from Abby's manipulations and DiNozzy over there, doesn't mean that I don't have one" Tim said quietly
Ziva smiled. "Okay then I'll back off" she said.
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