Chapter 60

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"I'm really looking forward to spending some free time at home," Tim said.

"Time to write?" Hadrian asked feeling slightly guilty that issues with his friends had kept them so busy lately.

"Yeah but also time to potter around the house, and walk around our neighbourhood, be part of our community, I've missed it," Tim replied.

"Yeah this is a lovely place to get away but it still isn't home, we haven't even met the neighbours much less tried to get involved and I really don't feel like London is home at all anymore. I couldn't wait to get away from Diagon Alley, the feel of everyone looking at me and how they'd stare and gawk if they knew who I was. I want to spend some time in the kitchen cooking, and time just playing with the children and planning the improvements we want to make in the garden. I feel like I just want some mundane days at home with work and family," Hadrian agreed.

"We will have that for the next couple of weeks, we haven't got anything planned," Tim reassured him. "Teddy's got a parents' night at preschool next week and Rosie has another immunization due."

Hadrian groaned. "I know they're important but I hate hurting her like that. Thank Merlin the magical immunisations are potions the healer can spell directly into her stomach."

"I hate it too but we'd never forgive ourselves if she caught one of these diseases," Tim said hugging Hadrian. "I can take her if you like?"

"I'd like you to come with me if you don't have a case," Hadrian said smiling gratefully.

"Sure," Tim said running his hand across Hadrian's shoulders and chest. "Of course, one advantage of being here is that we can do this anywhere we want." He leaned in and kissed Hadrian passionately again.

Hadrian kissed back equally enthusiastically and the two rolled over and over playfully fighting for dominance until they reached the water's edge.

"Is the lube waterproof?" Tim asked.

"If I think of it being waterproof it can be, but we'd drown if we tried to have sex lying in the surf, the tide's coming in."

Trust me" Tim said. "Do you want to be prepped again?"

"No I think I'm fine, so long as my ass doesn't get wet," Hadrian said.

"Waterproof lube please," Tim requested sticking out his hand.

Hadrian filled it and Tim quickly slicked his cock and added the extra to around Tim's entrance before picking him up and carrying him out beyond the breakers. Once in calmer water he carefully lined himself up and slid home. The buoyancy of the water allowed Hadrian to use his thighs wrapped around Tim's waist and hands clinging to Tim's shoulders to move himself easily up and down on Tim's cock taking control of their lovemaking, though the one downside was that there was no way for either of them to slide a hand in between their bodies to reach Hadrian's erection. Still it wasn't long before Hadrian was shouting his release over the sound of the waves.

Hadrian and Tim held onto each other as they regained their breath and stumbled out of the ocean.

"We're outside the wards," Hadrian said suddenly covering himself with his hands.

Tim just laughed and wrapped his arm around Hadrian's shoulder. "If anyone's around, we've already given them a show, let's go home."

They walked back to the blanket and towels and dried off slipping on their shorts. Hadrian banished the towels and blanket and shrunk the picnic basket, before flying back to the house.

Showering was mostly psychological, the sand repelling charm had kept them clean but they enjoyed it before portkeying back home and using the time turner to turn back to the evening before Teddy, Rosie and Tollie arrived home and fell into bed to sleep.

-o0o-

They woke in time to dress before Tollie and the children returned home.

"Thanks Tollie, we'll look after them for the evening, you go and rest," Hadrian said.

"Thank you master Hadrians, I'll not be able to be popping thems both such a long way soon. Theys magics be growings."

"Then we will take a second elf with us next time so you can have a bit of a holiday while we're there too," Hadrian replied. "Have some dinner and then sleep until you are no longer tired. Tim and I will manage tonight and Barbara will be back in the morning."

"Yes Master Hadrians," Tollie said. She had learnt that there was no point arguing when the masters thought she needed a rest and today she really did need it.

Hadrian and Tim took the children into the playroom until dinner then helped with the baths and getting the children ready for bed before all curling up together in Teddy's room for bedtime stories. Once the children were both asleep they called for one of the other house eves to keep an ear out for them and to come and wake them if the children needed them before retiring to their rooms.

Tim needed to catch up on what had been happening in the muggle world before he returned to work so they watched a reputable news channel until it started to repeat itself then went to bed.

-o0o-

Ron and Hermione sat at their kitchen table discussing what to tell Ron's family.

"George knows we were going to see Harry. It's the only reason he gave us both the weekend off," Ron said. "If he's told Mum she's going to want to know everything about it."

"If George told Molly we were going to see Harry for the weekend, then she and Ginny would be sitting here waiting for us to arrive home," Hermione retorted.

"Yeah maybe, but even if he hasn't told her yet doesn't mean he won't. It's Sunday night, we're expected for family dinner and he'll be there," Ron said.

"Harry didn't ask us not to tell them we've seen him, just not to allow them to accompany us or tell them anything that would help them find him," Hermione said slowly.

"You think he wants us to tell them we've seen them, to rub Mum's nose in it?" Ron asked beginning to get angry.

"No, Harry isn't that petty. But I think it might be good for Ginny and for your mother to know that Harry's happily married and has a child. That way Ginny can give up her silly daydreams of Harry coming back and declaring eternal love to her and move on with her life," Hermione said. Privately she thought Molly and Arthur also needed to know that Ginny had not only potioned Harry into loving her she had fed him a near lethal dose of Amortentia and that if it hadn't been discovered he would've been lucky to live long enough for the wedding.

Uncharacteristically, Ron thought about this before replying. "You're right," he agreed. "We need to tell Ginny that Harry won't be coming back to her."

"I only hope that this is enough to make her this time," Hermione replied.

-o0o-

It was just as well they hadn't planned to keep their visit to Harry a secret because everyone noticed Hermione's suntan and demanded an explanation as soon as she walked in.

"Where have you been, you didn't get a tan like that in England at this time of year?" Percy's wife Audrey asked jealously.

"We went to visit Harry for the weekend, well meet Harry would be more accurate since we still don't know where he actually lives," Hermione replied. "He rented a house on a tropical island for us."

The room fell silent for a full minute before Ginny began to screech. "Why didn't you take me with you? I have just as much right to see Harry as you do!"

"You weren't invited," Ron said bluntly. "Harry sent a portkey that would only work for the three of us."

"He didn't register an international portkey," Percy said frowning.

"I'm sure he registered it in the country he made it in," Hermione replied. "Besides he's on special assignment for Kingsley, he has a licence to make international portkeys."

"He sent it by post, it should have come to the ministry," Percy protested.

"He sent it via Kingsley directly," Hermione replied.

"He should have followed proper procedure. Minister Shacklebolt is far too busy to be bothered by such things," Percy said pompously.

"Harry and Kingsley are friends, and Kingsley is Teddy Lupin's new godfather, he may have just given it to him last time he saw him," Hermione replied.

"Why isn't Harry still Teddy's godfather?" George asked.

"Harry blood adopted Teddy so he could become the heir for house Black, so he's Teddy's father not his godfather," Hermione explained.

"Why didn't you tell us before you went so we could send something to the poor boy. How is he is he healthy, is someone looking after him. Are you sure he is eating properly?" Molly demanded.

"He's fit and well and eating properly and he is married, his husband looks after him and the children very well. As for you sending him something after what happened before he left, he wouldn't have accepted it from you. We had to swear a vow not to harm him or his family before he would agree to meet us," Hermione stated. "After all Ginny did try to kill him."

There was an explosion of noise as everyone protested something.

Ginny was screaming about Harry belonging to her, Molly was yelling about her 'adopted son' not inviting her to the wedding, Percy, Audrey, and Bill were objecting to the allegation that Ginny would have harmed Harry and Arthur was trying to find out why Hermione thought Ginny could have harmed Harry.

Ron let out an ear-piercing whistle. "One at a time?" he yelled.

"What do you mean, Ginny tried to kill Harry, she loves him?" Arthur asked.

"Remember just before Harry broke off their engagement, he was attacked and injured?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, but Ginny had nothing to do with the attack, Kingsley investigated that and proved it," Arthur reminded them.

"You're right, Ginny didn't pay to have Harry attacked, in fact the attack ruined her plans for him. Harry was injured and taken to St Mungo's and because he saw a new healer, they did a complete scan to determine what potions would be safe to use to heal him. She discovered that Harry had been dosed with Amortentia so the Aurors ordered further testing. They found that Harry had been potioned over a long period, more than a year. As you know Harry was able to resist the Imperius curse even as a teenager, and that mental resistance also carries over to all mind altering and controlling spells and potions, and he didn't react as well as the person wanted him to so she continually increased the amount she was giving him to a nearly lethal level. Harry's magic was already showing the effects which may have contributed to his injuries and his inability to subdue the assailant the night of the attack. If she had continued to increase the dose he would have died within months, possibly even before the wedding Ginny wanted so much she was prepared to poison him into," Hermione finished scathingly.

Arthur paled. He remembered that Kingsley was aware Harry had proof of this stored in a way that it would be sent to the authorities if something happened to him. He wondered if Kingsley knew he'd been overdosed that badly that his life had been in danger. Arthur regretted not having put Harry's name onto the Weasley clock, which might have warned them all something was wrong. He had wanted to wait until their wedding day to make it special.

"That's why he broke off his engagement?" Bill said horrified, "And we all attacked him for it and drove him away. No wonder he didn't trust us enough to invite us to his wedding. And why he wouldn't accept food from any of us. But it doesn't explain how we've never heard that he was married? It should have been front page news."

"It was a fairly small wedding from all accounts, though Kingsley, Robbards and Neville Longbottom were there." Hermione replied.

"Impossible!" Katie Bell, George's fiancé, replied. "If Hannah Longbottom had been there I would have heard about it. I think half the people in Diagon Alley have heard about them visiting Harry over the summer."

"Yeah, Tim said that he'd met Hannah over the summer," Ron said.

"I don't think Neville told her about going to the wedding at the time, remember when he had that assignment away with Robbards, supposedly learning to live in the muggle world without standing out and Hannah was angry that he wasn't home to take her to Ernie's party and the New Year's Eve ball?" Hermione said. Hadrian said their wedding was the week between Christmas and New Year's."

"Yeah! But Hannah told us all about the week she spent with Harry over the summer, and how he's sending Teddy to a muggle preschool and about how purebloods are breeding themselves into extinction and muggleborns are magically stronger than a lot of purebloods these days. She talked about it for weeks. But she never mentioned that Harry was married or had a pregnant wife or a child."

"Hadrian might have spelled her to secrecy about Tim," Ron said.

"If he'd done that to Neville and Hannah he would have done it to us as well," Hermione argued.

"Neville wouldn't gossip and he hates the way Hannah can't keep a secret, he might have agreed that Harry should spell his wife not to tell," Katie said. "But she talked about Tim, she said he was Harry's Auror partner even though he was a muggle."

"He is a muggle Auror," Ron agreed.

Hermione laughed, "I wish I'd known that spell at Hogwarts I could have spelled Lavender and Parvati not to be able to gossip."

"They would have murdered you in your sleep," Katie said,

"And you couldn't know the spell Harry hadn't invented it yet," Ron said, missing the point. "Besides it only hides one secret. You would've had to cast it a million times."

"To get a break from their constant talk about every boy in the school it would almost have been worth it," Hermione retorted.

"Never mind that, you said Harry married a man?" Molly screeched.

"Yeah," Ron said perking up now that he had someone else who thought it was abnormal too.

"Yes, he did. Harry is homosexual and there is a spell available in America that allows two men to have a baby together so there was no reason for him not to marry the man he loves," Hermione said firmly.

"But it can't be legal" Ginny said eagerly.

"It is perfectly legal in most of the world it's just Britain that wants to remain in the dark ages," Hermione huffed. "And it's legal according to the Goblins, their daughter is recognised as the Potter heir."

"There is no actual law against it but it just isn't done," Percy stated. "If the goblins have recognised the child then she is the heir, at least until Harry has a son."

"It is done almost everywhere other than the backwater that is the British Wizarding World," Hermione said growling. "Harry is my best friend and I am going to support him in his choices. And I must admit that Harry and Tim seem happier than any of your marriages. Heaven knows I only wish my marriage could be half as successful as his. And Tim is everything you could want for a husband for one of your children."

"Except for the magic," Ron put in.

"He's a muggle?" Molly said frowning.

"No, he's a wizard, probably muggleborn though it's possible he isn't. In his country, they start magical school at eight and if parents don't agree to send their children to learn magic the child's magic is bound and they're obliviated of all memory of the wizarding world. Tim has enough magic for potions to work and stuff but he can't use a wand," Hermione explained.

"He's a squib," Percy declared, "He doesn't have the rights of a wizard."

"Well that's debatable because he wasn't born a squib and their daughter is definitely a strong witch. He has magic, they just haven't worked out a way to release the bindings without risking his life," Hermione argued.

"He's not a witch or wizard, his children can't inherit all of Harry's titles, he's going to have to divorce him and marry a proper witch," Ginny declared, her eyes gleaming.

"They were married by ritual, they can't divorce," Ron argued.

"They couldn't be, if Harry didn't marry a witch," Molly said with certainty.

"Tim is a wizard, he has plenty of magic to complete a marriage ritual. Harry showed me their vows, they were really beautiful," Hermione said. "He didn't ask Tim to vow to honour and obey, he gave him vows that would help their marriage not make him unhappy."

"When's he coming home?" Molly asked, keen to see this man for herself and judge whether he was good enough for Harry, even though she just knew he would have been better off with her daughter. It was a pity Ginny hadn't put the time and effort into making Harry fall in love with her without potions.

"He isn't not coming back until Teddy graduates from school if then, he says Teddy is better off in America where he doesn't have to face the prejudice of being the son of a werewolf, did you know there are stores in Diagon Alley who wouldn't let him in?" Hermione said.

Molly, Ginny, and Bill looked surprised but Arthur and the twins nodded sadly and Percy also agrees that he knew. "It's frowned upon by the current administration but it's difficult to change the habits of a lifetime."

"He has to come home," Ginny protested.

"Even if he did come back to England you wouldn't be allowed within a mile of him," Hermione hissed fiercely. "If Harry wasn't so forgiving you'd be spending twenty-five years in Azkaban and your whole family would be social pariahs. Arthur, Bill and Percy would have lost their jobs and the twins lost their business and we'd all be going hungry instead of sitting down to this lovely dinner, so I'd suggest that you shut up and let us enjoy it."

Ginny looked taken aback and looked to her family for support. She didn't get any, most of the others were nodding at Hermione or glaring at her.

-o0o-

"Where were you this weekend I rang you. Did you forget Rule 3?" Tony asked as Tim arrived in the bullpen.

"I was away visiting friends of Hades. And you know very well that rule doesn't include while you are away on annual leave," Tim replied.

"Why on earth would you waste leave days on a weekend we weren't even on call?" Tony asked.

"Because I knew I would be unreachable if something happened and we were called in. Since you weren't the leave days will be returned to me," Tim explained.

"What are his friends like?" Tony asked nosily.

"British, they're a couple Hades went to school with. He works in his brother's shop and she's a chemist they have a baby about three or four months older than Rosie," Tim replied giving them the bare minimum information.

"Was it Neville and his wife?" Jimmy asked.

"No, we spent a week with them at the beach house in the summer, Ron and Hermione couldn't come to the wedding because Hermione wasn't allowed to travel that close to her due date. Hadrian hasn't seen much of them since he was posted over here and he was happy to catch up though they don't have a lot in common other than the girls these days," Tim replied. "But I can ask Hades to say hello to Neville for you if you like, they talk most weeks about work and things."

"I wouldn't have thought they'd run too many joint operations from opposite sides of the pond?" Tony said curiously.

"They're different parts of the task force looking into the same terrorist organisation. It's mostly European based but Hades and his team here are tasked with making sure it stays that way," Tim explained.

"Gear up, we've got a case, missing petty officer based at the pentagon, Tony, you and Tim take his house and wife, Ziva and I will go to his office and talk to his co-workers," Gibbs barked ending the conversation.

"I got the impression you didn't like Hadrian's friends. Did it cause a problem?" Tony commented as they drove to the address provided.

"You're correct I didn't like Ron, but I get the impression they've changed a lot since leaving school and Hades didn't much like the changes either. It's unlikely they'll visit again," Tim said. "What do we know about this petty officer's wife?"

"Well for starters his spouse is male which explains why Gibbs sent you," Tony said. "He's twenty-one and a full-time student at GWU. They've been together three months, or maybe they mean they've been living together three months."

"Twenty-one! How old is the Petty Officer?" Tim asked.

"Thirty-eight. Not that you can talk, you've got your own toy boy," Tony teased.

Tim flushed. That was closer to the truth than he liked to admit. "There's not that much of a gap, Petty Officer Foster's old enough to be the kid's father. No wonder they live off base."

"Or his Sugar Daddy!" Tony suggested.

"It's possible, GWU isn't cheap," Tim said. "There were students at Johns Hopkins that used the Sugar system to subsidise their living expenses so they could complete grad school without too much extra debt."

"You mean little gold diggers?" Tony said derisively.

"No, it's more like a job, long term prostitution maybe a better description is the old-fashioned rich men used to keep mistresses. It's not just sexual. The sugar daddy exchanges money and gifts for companionship affection and often exclusive access as well. But most sugars are well aware that their toy boy or girl is there for the financial gain as well as the companionship."

"Most but not all?" Tony said.

"It's possible that someone's naive enough to think that a student half their age is in love with them and the fact that they're showering them with gifts has nothing to do with their affection but you'd have to be stupid not to at least suspect it," Tim replied. "But I don't think that's what happened here, if Foster had only just found out he was being used it would be Brent that went missing."

"Unless he attacked the kid and the kid killed him in self-defence, or the kid had convinced Foster to change his will," Tony put in.

Tim hummed in noncommittal agreement.

"Did you think that? I mean did you think Hades was using you like that?"

"Yeah I did at first. I knew he had money of his own, and I wasn't buying him gifts but at first I thought he was using me for a place to stay. But he rented his own apartment after a couple of weeks and kind of moved into it, he just never totally moved out of my place. I thought then he was just lonely like me but then we fell in love, but he'd moved out and was totally supporting himself before our relationship became more than friendship," Tim admitted. "Let's meet the man before we judge too much, maybe they were genuinely in love."

"Or the kid could be a honey trap," Tony suggested.

Tim nodded.

The young boyfriend was doing a good impression of a worried and grief-stricken spouse but when Tim and Tony checked out the house they noticed that someone had already started to pack up the larger size clothing they assumed belonged to the missing man.

"Was Petty Officer Foster going somewhere?" Tim asked.

"No why?" Brent asked. "Oh that, he'd lost some weight and was clearing out the clothes that no longer fit."

Tony nodded and took over the conversation, "Was the weight loss your doing or for your benefit?"

"He was eating less takeaways because I was here to come home to. And instead of sitting on the couch watching sports we were out enjoying life," Brent said happily, while Tim quietly text Ziva to ask his colleagues if the missing man had recently lost enough weight to need to revamp his wardrobe, or if he'd talked of either going on a trip or leaving his boyfriend.

The answer came back negative, the Petty Officer had recently lost a little weight but not enough to need to rep[lace his wardrobe, and Tim signalled as much to Tony, before calling for backup to watch the young man while they conducted a more thorough search of the property.

"You can't do that, you need a warrant!" Brent protested.

"You're not under arrest yet but I will read you your Miranda warning now to save time later," Tim replied, reciting the rights. And we don't need a warrant, Petty Officer Foster has been officially declared missing, and presumed to be in possession of national secrets. This is his house and therefore a potential crime scene."

"You don't seriously think Dennis is small enough to fit in his desk drawers, do you?" Brent asked sarcastically when Tony began to riffle through them.

"No but travel plans and receipts are and we still haven't determined whether Petty Officer Foster left of his own accord. We have to look at everything because the smallest scrap of paper might give us an answer," Tony explained grinning.'

"Though of course we are also looking for his body, the cadaver dogs will be here soon," Tim added, watching carefully for a reaction.

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