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"We should get Hermione to think of an extra vow and get him to vow never to order her to tell a lie," Tim said.
"I thought of that, but it would be more to protect us than Hermione," Hadrian replied. "I'll send her an owl and suggest it though. I don't know if she's okay having to lie for him. She used to hate telling lies even though she was pretty good at lying to people to keep Ron and I out of trouble."
"You didn't offer Hermione many suggestions for her vows except the ones to look after their baby better and consider her welfare," Tim offered wondering if Hadrian wanted to talk about it.
"When they start arguing it's as if the rest of the world doesn't exist," Hadrian said. "I wanted a way to ensure their children wouldn't be harmed by it."
"So, you think she will have another child then?" Tim asked surprised. "Ron doesn't have multiple family names to inherit like you and Neville does he?"
Hadrian laughed. "Ron's a sixth son of the third son of the current head of the Weasley family, most of his cousins have bred like rabbits. He doesn't need to provide an heir for his own name and the only thing they have worth inheriting at the moment is the flat. He believes in big families though and Hermione was pretty lonely as a kid. I wouldn't have thought she'd want to have an only child."
"She doesn't seem to enjoy being a mother though. I know we have it a lot easier with Barbara and the elves but every time I see her with the baby it seems like looking after Rose is work for her not a pleasure. I'm glad she's not Teddy's godmother anymore."
"Me too" Hadrian said softly. "At the time, I honestly thought she'd be great at it and I was glad that Remus and Tonks chose her instead of Ginny. I'm still glad they didn't choose Ginny but I wish they hadn't chosen Hermione. I feel guilty ignoring their wishes and cutting her out of the position."
"They would've wanted you to what's best for Teddy," Tim reassured his husband. "They wouldn't have been happy with the way she ignored him either even if they didn't have the opportunity to assign new godparents, they would be glad you did."
"I hope they can see what a wonderful happy little boy he is" Hadrian said.
-o0o-
They'd planned to arrive home late Sunday night, then use the time turner as soon as they arrived home which would give them time to recover from the international portkey and time differences, catch up on some much needed sleep after a stressful weekend with Ron and Hermione's issues and spend some time with Teddy and Rosie before returning to work on the Monday. Instead as soon as they arrived home Barbara greeted them with the news that Auror Clancy had called the night before wanting to see Hadrian in his office as soon as possible.
Turning back time took them to within half an hour of the Auror's call and Hadrian hurried to apparate to work knowing that nothing good could have the boss in the office on a Saturday night.
"The BAU a team is on a case that flagged some of the search parameters you set," Clancy told him handing him a file as soon as he walked into the office. "We didn't get assigned it initially because there's no proof of magic being used but the pattern of torture is a bit too close to a couple of incidents that occurred in Britain just before and during the war.
"Please tell me I don't have to go to Britain to get the original case files, I was there today," Hadrian groaned.
"No Kingsley's having them sent over to me. They should be here any minute," Clancy replied. The computer dinged and Clancy pressed a couple of buttons setting the printer beside him going. "That's them."
"He's finally worked out how to use a computer?" Hadrian asked grinning.
"No, they're still claiming that the amount of magic in the ministry would make any electronics inoperable, he planned to have them couriered over to Sir Geoffrey's office and one of his staff was going to scan them in to send," Clancy replied chuckling.
"My phone works fine there, as does his. But perhaps he's right, the Wizengamot would have him declared insane if he started bringing in electronics. His phone is mostly hidden from those who don't know he has one," Hadrian replied.
Comparing the three files, Hadrian had to admit they were eerily similar in spite of the fact that the torture in the first two cases was obviously magically inflicted and there was no evidence of magic used on the most recent case.
"It would be hard to copy this level of torture so exactly without using magic," he commented.
"It would and they're too similar for it to be a co-incidence so it's almost definitely one of yours. I've booked you on the next flight to LAX. If you're working with the BAU there needs to be a paper trail proving you were sent from here."
Hadrian groaned internally but didn't disagree.
"Can you get me the schematics for the police office they're using and whether it's already been warded against magical escape?" Hadrian asked.
Clancy frowned, "It hasn't to my knowledge. I'll also try to get you the schematics of the prison they're likely to send the perp to before the trial. You'll need to install your own wards. Do you need a warder sent with you?"
"No thanks, I'll call if I need one but I should be able to do it myself. Does anyone on the BAU team know about magic?" Hadrian asked next.
"I couldn't say for sure, they're too observant to guarantee what they have or haven't noticed, but none of them officially know and I'd like you to try to keep it that way," Clancy replied.
"Will do if I can Boss," Hadrian agreed.
-o0o-
Hadrian arrived off the plane and was collected by one of the local FBI who issued him a car for his use while in California. "How come you didn't arrive with the rest of the team?" he asked.
"I'm not part of the BAU. Something they discovered crossed over into an investigation of mine and we're hopefully going to be able to join forces," Hadrian explained.
"Good luck with that," the officer said having had more than enough experience in joint operations to know it rarely went well.
Two hours later Hadrian arrived at the local police station the BAU were currently working out of and went in to introduce himself to the chief of police and whichever BAU members that were present.
"Hello I'm SSA Hadrian Black seconded from Britain, I was sent here to provide an alternate point of view and help out," he introduced.
"Why were you sent to us?" Morgan asked suspiciously.
"This case had similarities with a case my department in London worked several years ago," Hadrian said calmly. "The details of the torture look to similar for it to be a coincidence."
"You weren't old enough to be investigating cases several years ago," Morgan accused.
"No but I do know quite a lot about the unsubs involved and I believe that the cases are related, which means that at least one of your unsubs was in Britain during our case," Hadrian replied calmly.
"Did they come up with the details on what implements could have been used to cause this level of damage to the bodies?" Reid asked, he'd been liaising with the medical examiner who hadn't been able to give them a clear picture of the weapon or weapons used.
"Yes, it's nothing you're likely to have seen before," Hadrian replied. "I'll need to see the body to confirm of course."
"Reid take him to see the latest victim."
"This way?" Spencer said stiffly.
The sight of the body confirmed that the torture was the same and Hadrian managed to distract Reid and the M.E. long enough to scan for residual magic. The victims were muggles but some of the wounds on the most recent body did still have traces of residual magic though unfortunately it was too degraded to get a signature. He returned to the office to see if he could make some discrete suggestions to add to the profile the team was working up.
"How come you got called in, the BAU are the best of the best aren't they?" the local sheriff asked, he'd worked with the BAU in the past before he'd moved out from the LAPD.
"Yes they are," Hadrian agreed not wanting the locals to lose confidence in the team. "But I specialise in the unexplainable, and some of these wounds meet that criteria. It also has links to a case in England several years ago, so having a British liaison might help things along on that end."
Sooo, you're like the real-life Fox Mulder?" the local sheriff asked disbelievingly.
"Who?" Hadrian asked confused.
"Fox Mulder was a fictional agent on a television show called the X-files," JJ replied. Seeing Hadrian still looked blank and being used to their own Dr Reid missing most popular culture references she explained further. "The X-files agents investigated fictional cases that seemed to involve the impossible paranormal and/or extra-terrestrial."
"Did you grow up under a rock?" the local asked.
"No, just without a television or nearby movie theatre," Hadrian explained having got used to having to explain his lack of knowledge of popular television.
-o0o-
As soon as the team retired for the night Hadrian donned his invisibility cloak and snuck back across the road to the police station and started laying anti-apparition, anti-portkey and anti-offensive magic wards around the entire building. It took him several hours to etch the runes into the foundations for permanent wards but if they were to arrest a wizard it would be time well spent. He then went to the local prisons that were likely to take custody of a prisoner from this station and was relieved to find they'd already been warded. Quickly strengthening the wards back up to functionality only took him a couple of minutes each and he apparated back to his hotel room and fell into an exhausted sleep.
-o0o-
He arrived next morning to find that the rest of the team had been called out to a new body several hours earlier and had managed to identify and arrest the person who dumped the body. He backed out quietly and visited the morgue where he was able to identify and record the weak residual magical signature on the new body.
"We have a suspect in custody but we suspect she was the nondominant partner. She won't even give us her own name let alone any information on who her partner is or where to find him or the missing potential victims," Emily informed him.
"Pansy Parkinson," Hadrian said surprised, recognising their suspect.
"What?" Morgan barked.
"Her name is Pansy Parkinson. We attended school together. She was a first-class bitch but I'm surprised she'd be involved in something like this. For one thing, she can't stand getting her hands dirty, literally" Hadrian explained.
"She looks ten years older than you. Did you graduate early like Reid?"
"No. She's twenty-eight. I'm twenty-seven," Hadrian replied.
She looks closer to thirty-eight, are you sure it's her?" Morgan asked.
"One way to find out, Hotch isn't going to get anything out of her if it is," Hadrian said preparing to enter the interrogation room.
"Wait, let me warn Hotch first and get his permission," Morgan quickly dialled Hotch.
Hadrian sat back down.
"Hotchner," Hotch said answering the phone.
"Black knows the woman. He wants in on the interrogation," Morgan said quietly. "you think he could be in on it?"
"Get Garcia to run his background," Hotch said decisively.
"On it. He's on his way in," Morgan replied.
"Stall him." Hotch ordered.
"Office of the all-knowing, what information can I provide you with this morning my chocolate thunder," Garcia answered cheerfully.
"I need all the information you can get on SSA Hadrian Black of the FBI. Including an ID photo that you can guarantee hasn't been switched in the last six months," Morgan said seriously.
"You're not flirting. You always flirt back," Garcia said uncertainly.
"We have an agent I'm not sure we can trust inserting himself into our investigation," Derek said quietly. "I need to know if he is who he says he is as soon as possible."
"On it like sexy on my chocolate god," Garcia flirted. "Sending it to your phones now."
"And the photo?" Morgan said.
"His ID photo is three years old," Garcia replied.
"Or so it says" Morgan said bringing it up on his screen. "He hasn't changed at all, it could have been taken yesterday."
"What about his FBI class photo?" Emily asked.
"He didn't go through the academy. He was seconded from Britain but I can't pin down what exactly he did there or where he trained."
"Who's his section chief Garcia?" Hotch asked joining the conversation.
"He reports to Deputy Director Edmond Clancy here at the FBI and Sir Geoffrey Hobbs in Britain."
"Hotch groaned. "I don't think you're going to find anything else Garcia." Clancy ran the most secretive group in the Bureau, even Black ops were less enigmatic.
"Even Garcia only managed to get a redacted file" Morgan said in disgust.
Reid read through it quicker than most and was on the phone asking Garcia to search for Hadrian Black in Britain before the date he started working for the FBI.
"Okay my Buttercream" Garcia said. "Hit you back when I've got something."
Hadrian had used their distraction to subtly cast muggle notice me not charms on the observation window so they'd be able to see and hear the two of them but would not notice any mention of magic. He was aware that Parkinson's wand wasn't found when she was searched so she was probably still armed.
"Have you all decided if I'm a real agent or Pansy's partner yet?" Hadrian asked. "Because Emily is getting nowhere and I'd really like to wrap this up and get home to my family."
Hotch sighed. "Give it a go."
"We'll be watching" Morgan said.
"Has she been Mirandized?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes" Hotch confirmed.
-o0o-
"Parkinson" Hadrian walked in sneering. "How very unpleasant to see you again."
"Potter! What are you doing here scarhead."
"Lord Gryffindor" Hadrian replied.
"What?"
"You may call me Lord Gryffindor. Considering that last time I saw you, you were trying to convince our classmates to hand me over to a terrorist as a sacrificial victim to save your ass. I have not given you the right to call me anything else" Hadrian explained.
"You can't be," Pansy scoffed.
"You could also call me Lord Slytherin, the goblins recognised me as the magical head of the house of Slytherin after defeating the Dark Wanker the last time," Hadrian offered, deliberately trying to enrage his target. Pansy was normally quite a Slytherin, sly and cunning. He needed her to either get angry enough to let something slip or to attack him so he could charge her with something and therefore question her with Veritaserum. Hopefully since they were in a non-magical police station facing charges in the non-magical world this wouldn't occur to her.
"Now I know you're not smart enough to do this on your own, so tell me who your partner is," Hadrian said sneering.
"You're working for muggles?" Pansy asked incredulously.
"I'm hunting escaped Death Eaters by the most efficient manner possible. Non-magical law enforcement is considerably more effective than your experience of the British Auror Corps," Hadrian replied.
Let's see, who could be helping you?" Hadrian pretended to be talking to himself. "Millicent is still working in Knockturn Alley, Daphne's too clever to get involved in something like this, Tracy Davis is still in the long-term ward at St Mungo's, Crabbe killed himself, Goyle's not any smarter than you are so that counts him out. Blaise and Knott are still in prison. And of course, Draco's busy with that pretty little wife of his playing happy families and pretending he's as light as he can be."
This got the reaction Hadrian had been looking for. "He married that vapid little doll face?" She screeched.
"She's done quite a lot to rehabilitate his family name and as a member of my house I can tell you for certain that he's behaving himself and seems very happy in his marriage," Hadrian poked the bear a little further. "So we've ruled out what few friends you had it must be someone older. You had an older brother, didn't you?"
"Surely you know it wasn't just the Slytherins in our year that willingly joined the Dark Lord?" Pansy
said scathingly.
"Of course, but I was talking about the students that might be able to tolerate you enough to work with you now the Snaky Bastard is dead," Hadrian reported.
Pansy looked furious but didn't say anything.
"Your brother wasn't at the final battle was he Parkinson. Did he run away? He's lucky that I killed his master if that's the case. He didn't deal well with cowards" Hadrian speculated, he knew the magical signature on the body wasn't Pansy's but it did have some marked similarities.
"He didn't run away. He was injured by one of those wretched creatures in the swamps," Pansy felt driven to defend her brother.
"You mean Fred and George's alligators," Hadrian chuckled. "They were brilliant. Still, your brother is lucky Voldiefart didn't survive. He didn't like failures either. And to be incapacitated by a prank is pretty lame." He continued to laugh.
Pansy leapt up and pulled her wand trying to cast a dark cutting curse.
Nothing happened.
"You didn't think I'd be stupid enough to come in here and bait you without backup if the room wasn't warded against that Parkinson," Hadrian sneered reaching across to pull the wand out of her hand. "But thank you. You attempted to assault a federal agent. You're now under arrest. Once your wand has been tested more charges may be laid."
"You bastard!" Pansy exclaimed, trying to snatch her wand back.
Hadrian stored it away safely then used a muggle asthma puffer to deliver the Veritaserum dose.
"What's your full name?" He asked the preliminary question to test her reaction.
"Pansy Patrice Parkinson," she answered in the monotone indicative of Veritaserum. All the other indications proved she was genuinely potioned.
"Did you participate in the kidnap of Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"No"
"Did you participate in the torture of Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes"
"Did you participate in the murder of Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"No"
"Did you participate in the disposal of Bret Symonds body?" Hadrian asked.
"No"
"Who kidnapped Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"Parnell Parkinson"
"Your brother?" Hadrian asked.
"No my cousin"
"Who murdered Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"Parnell Parkinson"
"Who participated in the torture of Bret Symonds?" Hadrian asked.
"Parnell Parkinson. Patrick Parkinson and myself"
"Is Patrick Parkinson your brother?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes"
"Are you a death eater?" Hadrian asked.
"No"
"Is Patrick Parkinson a death eater?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes"
"Is Parnell Parkinson a death eater?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes"
"Where is Patrick Parkinson now?" Hadrian asked.
"I don't know."
"Where do you think Patrick Parkinson is now?" Hadrian asked.
"At the farmhouse."
"What's the address of the farmhouse Patrick Parkinson is at?" Hadrian asked.
"255 West Sloan Road"
"Where do you think Parnell Parkinson is now?" Hadrian asked.
"At the farmhouse."
"Who else is likely to be at the farmhouse at 255 West Sloan Road?"
"Nobody."
"Name all the other people that you know that you, Patrick Parkinson and Parnell Parkinson have murdered since arriving in America" Hadrian ordered.
Pansy dutifully recited the names of the four other known victims and six other people.
"Where are their bodies?" Hadrian asked.
"I don't know."
"Were all these people killed at the farmhouse at 255 West Sloan Road?" Hadrian asked.
"Yes."
-o0o-
The others were suspicious that he was planning to lead them into an ambush and he knew that the two Parkinsons wouldn't hesitate to use magic so he dragged the BAU into their temporary office and quickly briefed them on the magical world. Quickly turning a desk into a duck, turning Hotch's hair Tonks' favourite shade of pink before making the troll statue on the windowsill tap-dance.
"What I've shown you are just party tricks but magic can be used to kill, or to control someone else to kill for you. Most spells have a flash of light and believe me you do not want to be hit by any spell the Parkinsons throw at you. If they point a wand at you then you need to react as if they're holding a gun and if they fire a spell, shoot to kill, they will be" he warned once the disbelieving shock had started to wear off.
"We still don't have proof you're not one of them" Morgan said suspiciously.
"Clancy will vouch for me" Hadrian replied calmly. "He'll be pissed I had to tell you about magic but he should be able to allay your suspicions. I'd offer to stay behind but given that I'm the one who knows how they fight it would be better if I took point."
"You talk like this is going to be a battle" Emily said.
"It will. I could bring a team of wizards in to help but if I do that then the top brass will know I told you about magic and they will either take those memories from you or bind you with some very restrictive spells so you can't talk about it. It's your call Hotch, it would be safer but there should only be two people at that farmhouse," Hadrian said.
"How do you know she was telling the truth?" Morgan asked.
"Veritaserum," Hadrian replied. "Truth potion, it makes it literally impossible to lie."
"You're sure they're going to take the suicide by cop? It doesn't fit the profile," Spencer asked.
"They won't see it as possible suicide but they're not going to surrender particularly to non-magical law enforcement. They have a massive superiority complex. These two are both veterans of the last wizarding war in Britain and they will try to kill as many of you as possible. They have no reason not to, they're wanted for charges of treason and genocide in Britain and will be extradited for trial and probable execution," Hadrian said bluntly.
"The woman as well?" Spencer asked. He hadn't been able to get through to her any more than the others but she seemed more lost and weak than evil. She'd been sitting crying since Agent Black had finished his interrogation.
"She'll be tried but she wasn't a marked member of the death eaters so she'll probably just be imprisoned," Hadrian reassured the genius. "She's no innocent though. She participated in the torture of your victims but not in their deaths, though she did know they were going to be killed not released and never tried to help them escape,"
"Then she will still be charged with murder but a really good defence attorney might manage to make the jury think she was also a victim of her brother's and cousin's madness," Hotch replied.
"Not in the wizarding world. We have ways to make people tell the absolute truth," Hadrian reminded him smirking.
-o0o-
The raid went off without a hitch, even magic not being a match for the formidable strategic planning of the BAU. The two wizards were taken into custody. Parnell Parkinson with a bullet wound to the hand where Hotch had shot the wand out of it.
One advantage of working with the BAU was that they had the habit of allowing the local law enforcement to take the credit for the arrests and once they had the unsub in custody with a confession and the evidence for a prosecution, they didn't get involved again unless they were called to testify at the trial. That meant that the only people pissed off at Hadrian taking the three Parkinsons back to Britain to face court martial were the locals who grudgingly admitted that the case he had against them did trump theirs and that the county bean-counters would be grateful not to have the expense of incarcerating and trying the perpetrators so long as Hadrian was prepared to guarantee that they would be returned to them for trial if they weren't convicted in Britain.
-o0o-
The BAU team invited him to dinner while they waited for the jet that night, to apologise for their earlier suspicions. Hadrian gladly accepted, he would be staying an extra day to arrange the transfer of the prisoners to the British Ministry of Magic but the others were all eager to get home.
"You seem to recognise us but I'm sure we never worked with you before, have we?" Emily said suspiciously. "Or have our memories of you been altered?"
"No you haven't met me before, but you gave a friend of mine a lift home in your jet a few months ago. He told me enough about each of you for me to know who you all were, he spoke especially of his gratefulness for your kindness JJ."
"Who? Emily asked.
"Special Agent Tim McGee, NCIS," Hadrian replied.
"The Agent with the toddler and the new baby," JJ realised smiling. "How are they?"
"Doing very well. Tim's busy with work but things are fine. Teddy's settled well into kindergarten and Rosie is starting to babble. She's a little chatterbox, it won't be long before she starts using real words," Hadrian said dotingly.
"And his wife?" JJ asked.
"He told you he had a wife?" Hadrian asked shocked.
"Well no he never mentioned her but how else would he have a new baby at home?" JJ replied.
"Hadrian, does Tim call you Hades?" Spencer asked.
"Yeah he does," Hadrian said relaxing and smiling.
"He mentioned you to me when we were on the train home," Spencer said. "He told me who you are."
Hadrian smiled and nodded. "It's no real secret, NCIS is a civilian annex of the Navy and things really haven't changed much since the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' so we've kept it quiet at work, not from his team or mine but from the directors."
"I feel guilty now, not waiting so you can come back with us," Spencer said.
"Don't be, you all have homes to get back to and no doubt a new case waiting soon enough. It might take more than another day for the paper work to go through the channels to approve the extradition and then I'll probably be heading home via London," Hadrian said.
"Do you have friends and family there?" JJ asked.
"Friends" Hadrian confirmed smiling. "It will be good to catch up with them, we've both been busy lately."
"And where's your family from?" Emily asked curiously.
"My parents were killed by a terrorist when I was one and my only living relatives weren't pleased that they were the only family available to take me in. I grew up in Surrey and went to school in Scotland but my family now is in DC," Hadrian replied, making it clear that the subject was not for further discussion.
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