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It was the first of the month and the magical reminder to take his birth control potion rang. Hadrian got up and collected it from the bathroom then stopped and looked at it in horror as a thought occurred to him.
"What's wrong?" Tim asked slipping his arms around his husband from behind and resting his chin on Hadrian's shoulder.
"How many days have we turned back this month?" Hadrian asked.
Tim thought back and calculated. "Quite a lot more than normal. Ten or eleven whole days, plus a couple of times we've turned back an hour or three, why?"
Hadrian frowned. "Then this was due ten or eleven days ago," he said, showing Tim the potion.
"Your birth control potion?" Tim asked.
"Yeah!" Hadrian confirmed.
"It might not be too late, it took nearly a year of unprotected sex to fall pregnant last time," Tim tried to reassure him. "Will the potion harm you or the baby if you take it and you're already pregnant?"
"I don't know. I'll schedule an appointment with Healer Roberts as soon as possible," Hadrian said.
"Let me know when it is and I'll try to come with you," Tim said, leaning down to kiss Hadrian's neck.
Hadrian lilted his head to give Tim better access, moaning as he hit that special spot that seemed to be directly connected to his groin. He could feel Tim's arousal through their loose sleep pants pressing into his bum.
"Tim, we can't take the risk!" Hadrian moaned.
"I can't take you but you can take me," Tim said thrusting against him.
Hadrian spun around and kissed Tim passionately, he ran his hands down Tim's back and into his sleep pants squeezing the globes of his bum.
Tim moved his hands between them untying both their pants moving back a little without breaking the kiss, to let them fall to their feet.
Hadrian pulled him back in running a finger along Tim's crack, casting a lubricating spell before working one finger inside. He used the other hand to lift Tim's leg and wrap it around his waist. Tim wrapped his arms around Hadrian's shoulders. "Cast a feather weight charm on me," he murmured.
Hadrian cast the charm and Tim lifted his other leg as well letting Hadrian take his diminished weight as Hadrian took a couple of steps so he could brace Tim against the wall.
Two fingers quickly became three then Hadrian removed them and carefully lined himself up before lowering Tim onto his erection. He began rocking his hips, easily lifting and lowering Tim's lightened body as Tim arched his back so Hadrian was stimulating his prostate with every thrust.
"Oh God, so good!" Tim moaned.
"Merlin, you're so tight, so hot!" Hadrian grunted.
Tim came with a loud cry, dragging Hadrian over the edge with him. After resting against Tim as he caught his breath for a moment he kicked his sleep pants off his ankles and used wandless magic to start the shower, carrying Tim into shower stall before lowering him carefully to his feet and holding him until he got his balance.
Tim gave him a dopey grin as Hadrian started washing his hair. "I love you," he said.
Hadrian smiled widely "I love you."
Before they could get lost in another round of passionate lovemaking they were interrupted by Teddy banging on the door wanting his parents' attention.
Tim and Hadrian laughed ruefully and Hadrian quickly spelled himself dry and pulled on some pants before leaving the bathroom and scooping up Teddy.
-o0o-
Healer Roberts managed to fit Hadrian in that afternoon and Tim hadn't caught a case and was able to accompany him.
Hadrian explained the situation and the healer was easily able to confirm that Hadrian was not pregnant.
"I am concerned with how often you are using your time turner," Healer Roberts said.
"It was extenuating circumstances. I had business in London three weekends in a row and cases here in DC and LA. The problem in London is sorted and it's rare for me to have back to back cases like that. It won't be this bad again for a while,"
"That's the problem, it won't be this bad again for a while!" Healer Roberts ranted. "Please tell me that at least you're not letting Teddy and Rosie use the time turner?"
"No of course not. You told me it wasn't safe for them," Hadrian replied. "We mostly use it so we can spend time with them when we get busy with cases.
Healer Roberts' frown softened, he had no doubts the two men in front of him were very good and conscientious parents in spite of their important jobs keeping the country safe. He couldn't fault them for their motives.
"No more than one day a week, and you stop entirely when you start trying to fall pregnant again!" Healer Roberts demanded.
"I used the time turner at least once a week for the first couple of months I was pregnant with Rosie," Hadrian replied anxiously. Tim also looked panicked.
"And you got lucky that she has no side effects from it," Healer Roberts reassured them. "That doesn't mean you should knowingly take the risk again with your next child."
"I won't!" Hadrian promised earnestly.
-o0o-That night Tim walked into the bedroom to find Hadrian sitting on the window seat looking out while fiddling with a potions vial in his hands.
"What are you thinking about so hard?" Tim asked wrapping his arms around his husband and stooping to kiss his temple.
Hadrian blushed and dipped his head.
"What is it Hades, you can tell me," Tim encouraged gently moving to sit beside Hadrian on the window seat and taking both his hands in his. It was then that he realised the vial Hadrian had been fidgeting with was his birth control potion.
"Were you disappointed when Healer Roberts told you that you weren't pregnant?" Tim asked softly.
Hadrian looked up at Tim's face searchingly. "Were you?" he asked hopefully.
"Surprisingly, yes. I know we talked about waiting and that it's the sensible thing to do. And if you want to wait I'm fine with it, but in that moment part of me was disappointed there wasn't a new baby growing, I knew it was unlikely and I didn't realise until we found out you weren't that I'd been hoping you were," Tim struggled to explain himself without feeling that he was putting pressure on his husband one way or the other. Tim was extremely glad that bearing their children did not fall on him, and he was prepared to let Hadrian make the decision when and if he was ready to fall pregnant again.
"Me too," Hadrian said sadly.
"Do you want to try for a baby now?" Tim asked.
"Yes," Hadrian replied honestly. "But Healer Roberts wants me to wait another six months or more."
Tim looked alarmed and Hadrian hastened to reassure him. "There's nothing wrong, Healer Roberts says I've recovered fully from Rosie's pregnancy and birth, he just says it will put less strain on my body and my magic if I wait at least twelve months between pregnancies."
"Then I have to be glad you're not pregnant," Tim said. "We are both really emotional about this at the moment feeling like we've lost something precious, but we haven't. We will have another baby when we are ready. Let's shelve the discussion for another six months and talk about it then, I know we planned to wait at least two years but we don't have to if we still feel this way after Rosie's birthday." He wrapped his arms around his husband holding him securely to his chest.
Hadrian nodded, "When I bathed Rosie and put her to bed tonight I thought to myself that I really am not ready for her not to be our baby yet, she's so little still, but I feel so empty. I thought I was pregnant and I didn't think I was happy about it until I found out I wasn't pregnant after all and felt… the loss of a dream, I guess."
"I don't want you to risk your health Hades, I need you to be here with me living your life to the full for a very long time yet. Take the potion sweetheart, please. I promise that dream will come true for you, for us, when it's not going to put you at risk," Tim begged.
Hadrian grinned sadly and saluted Tim with the potion as if making a toast before slugging it back with a grimace. "I'm going to be here loving you forever, even when I have to carry you up the stairs to bed because you can't climb them anymore," he said teasingly.
Tim laughed. "If I can't climb the stairs we'll remodel the house to move our bedroom to the ground floor. I'm not having you put your back out trying to carry me upstairs."
"I can certainly think of better ways for you to put my back out," Hadrian said, leering in an overexaggerated way that made Tim giggle.
"Let's go to bed, I want to hold you," Tim said.
"Sounds good," Hadrian agreed slipping on his pyjamas. They cuddled up in the centre of the bed taking comfort from each other for hours until they finally fell asleep.
The alarm went off before either of them were ready for it next morning.
"This is the first day in months we've been woken by the alarm. Do you think the kids are okay?" Tim asked anxiously as he leapt from the bed.
"Yeah I think Tollie knew we needed the extra sleep this morning," Hadrian said joining him. They checked the children's bedrooms, finding them both empty before hurrying downstairs and following the sound of voices into the dining room. The children both looked up and smiled at their parents and two adult breakfasts popped into existence in their usual spots on the table.
"Thank you," Hadrian and Tim called out to the invisible elves that had made and delivered their meals.
"Do you want me to take a personal day? To be with you today?" Tim offered.
Hadrian smiled. "Thanks for the offer but I think I want to go in to work myself today and get my mind off it."
Tim smiled and took his hand. "I understand. Call me if you need me and I'll come. Even if I have to use the time turner to be there for you."
"I will," Hadrian replied gratefully.
-o0o-
Hadrian was glad to get to work and he begged Clancy for something to do. A local case to help out with or anything. Clancy sent him over to Auror Fox's team who were investigating a series of burglaries on non-magical homes that looked like they may have a magical involvement.
"Well it's not your usual thing," Auror Fox said.
"You're in charge, tell me what I can do to help," Hadrian replied.
"This is the case that made the police think magic might have been used. There was no sign of a break in, they had a top of the line alarm which should have alerted security and it was set but the alarm sensors malfunctioned and the neighbours' security cameras which should have caught them coming or going shows nothing. They could have apparated into the building bypassing the camera's locks and door and window sensors and then disabled the motion sensors but to do that they would've had to know they were there," Fox said.
"So, we are looking for a witch or wizard that's been into the house before," Hadrian said. "Is there a way to tell which of their friends or acquaintances is magical?"
"No easy way, we've set alert ward up in case they return to the scene of the crime and we're comparing employees and work colleagues with wizarding school records but so far we've come up empty."
"Have you screened the children's friends and their parents and the neighbours?" Hadrian asked, thinking of the people who visited his own home.
"Can you recognise a witch or wizard's aura?" Fox asked.
"I can cast a mage sight charm on my glasses which will do that," Hadrian replied.
"I hadn't thought of that. I'll send you out with Trainee Auror Caddie here to canvass the neighbourhood. You won't meet all the adults at this time of day but accept any invitations you get to come in and tell them about the crime, maybe you'll notice a charmed or enchanted object."
"Or wards on the house itself," Hadrian agreed.
"If we're lucky, not all wizards ward their homes if they live in a non-magical neighbourhood, particularly a nice secure neighbourhood like this," Caddie replied.
"Thieves would ward their houses," Hadrian said.
"Unless they're afraid of drawing attention to themselves," Caddie argued.
"Then they'll have low key wards on the inside of the house but a thief knows how easy it is to break into a house. They'd secure their own as well as they could whether they're storing the stolen goods on their property or not."
Hadrian and Caddie walked around the area knocking on doors.
"Why don't we cast a magic detection charm?" Caddie asked.
"And announce what we're looking for? We may have to but it's better to try this way first. There're wards on the next house, quite a lot of them too," Hadrian said.
"What wards?" Caddie asked.
"From what I can see it's warded against portkey and apparition, fire, pest control, and intent wards and a werewolf ward. Not quite a full war ward package but more than a normal wizarding house in peacetime. The back shed has even more wards," Hadrian said.
"One of the family could be a werewolf who spends the full moon in the back shed?" Caddie said uninterestedly.
"No the house isn't just warded against a transformed werewolf but Lycanthropy in total. Those wards are illegal on a business premises but I'm not sure about the legality on a private home."
"They're frowned upon but not illegal," Caddie replied. "Were these the type of wards you were looking for?"
"Well they would make burgling that house very difficult, it's worth a second look," Hadrian said stepping closer.
"Wouldn't any wizard put up wards like that in this area after all the burglaries recently?" Caddie asked.
"Yes, that's the problem with investigating like this, but these wards aren't new. The werewolf ward is the most recent. It is professional level work, but the anti-apparition ward shows signs of wear, it will need to be replaced in the next year or so. I wonder why they didn't redo it when they added the new wards."
"You know a lot about wards," Caddie said.
"I had to learn, I could cast most of these but my expertise is finding the weak spot so I can bring them down quickly, I could have that anti apparition ward down within five minutes, less if I wasn't trying not to let the occupants know," Hadrian said. "Let's call in a result and keep moving, I don't think this is exactly what we're looking for."
"Why not, you said we're looking for wards that aren't a reaction to the recent robberies, and you said these aren't?" Caddie asked belligerently.
"Because we are looking for someone with strong anti-theft wards. These aren't," Hadrian said. "I'm not totally discounting them, Clancy and the team will look into the background of the owners because they're magical but we need to keep looking."
Two blocks later he found another house of interest and stopped again. "There aren't wards on this house," Caddie said.
"There are, anti-apparition and portkey out around all three of these houses which is illegal unless whoever set them owns all three houses and there's a secondary layer inside that room upstairs on the left. There is something illegal happening in that room," Hadrian replied pulling out his phone and calling it in.
He cast his most powerful homenum revelio, discovered that nobody was home and set up surveillance charms, before disillusioning himself and finding a secluded spot to keep watch.
"Why stay and watch if we have the charms in place?" Caddie asked.
"The charms only alert us to magical people," Hadrian said sighing. He cursed Auror Fox sending him out with the trainee Auror.
Eventually people returned home and Hadrian informed his superiors, Auror Fox arrived and relieved Auror Caddie who he ordered back to the office to write up her report on the day's investigation. She left with a pout.
"She has a lot to learn," Hadrian said, as they waited for backup. "I'm afraid I was a little short with her. A personal issue affected my patience today more than it should."
"I'm sure you weren't any worse than any of my other Aurors would've been. She has a lot more to learn than she realises and her attitude is grating on all of us," Fox replied, "I'd apologise for sticking you with her all day but quite frankly my team needed the break. She takes most of their correction as being hazing and her refusal to learn is frustrating them no end."
"Is she fully qualified or is this a work placement?" Hadrian asked.
"Work placement, only for another four weeks thank heavens and the way she's going she isn't going to pass it," Fox replied. "Can I ask you what she should have learnt from you today?"
"The spell to cast a mage sight mimic on a pair of glasses, to look at the age, strength and condition of wards when considering their purpose, to examine the entire neighbourhood instead of taking the first possible result and the fact that surveillance charms need to be backed up with human surveillance, and to stand still and silent when on watch, I had to cast silencing charms on her feet her clothing and I'm afraid I eventually silenced her voice and cast an impedimentia to keep her still." Hadrian listed.
"Fox grinned, "At least you didn't stun her, she had some hope of learning something if she remained conscious."
The magical swat team arrived and surrounded the property. Hadrian cast his own anti apparition and portkey wards to prevent the occupants from escaping and they stormed the house. The magical occupants put up only a minor resistance but the muggle shot at and injured one of the SWAT members before being taken down. Some of the objects from the most recent robbery were found but the majority of the stolen property was not recovered."
"Thanks for your help today Black," Auror Fox said formally as Hadrian handed in his report.
"You're welcome, glad I could be of some use, it's good to spend some time in the field maintaining my skills, and I really needed something to get myself out of my head for a while," Hadrian said.
"Glad to help anytime," Fox said cheerfully.
Auror Fox read Hadrian's report, comparing it to Trainee Auror Caddie's, and listened to a couple of sections of the audio recording from their time in the field, before sighing and calling the young trainee into her office.
"What did you learn today?" Auror Fox asked.
"Not a lot, honestly, I would have learned a lot more if I'd stayed to help with the raid, why'd you send me out with him. He doesn't even have his own permanent job, something must be wrong with his work to still be a TAD at his age…"
"So, you decided at the start of the day that Senior Auror Black had nothing to teach you?" Auror Fox asked severely. "Based solely on the fact that he was free to help out today?"
Caddie didn't recognise the danger in her supervisor's voice and expression. "Senior Auror," she scoffed, "he's not old enough to be a senior Auror."
"You are aware that the more magical power someone has the slower they age?" Auror Fox asked.
"Senior Auror Black has more power than any Auror I've ever seen though he isn't arrogant or flashy about it and he's also the most decorated Auror in this office for his work in his home country, he is also hopefully one of the few Aurors you'll ever have the opportunity to work with, that has worked extensively in a war zone, he had a lot to teach you, in fact every other person who worked with him today learnt something and was grateful for the opportunity, myself included. So, I ask you again, what did you learn today?"
Caddie wracked her brain for an answer, "Seriously Fox, he used a charm on his glasses but he didn't stop to teach it to me or cast it on mine, and we walked around the neighbourhood. He rejected the first magical house we found because he said the wards were wrong and too old but without the charm I couldn't see them to tell what he was talking about. Then we found the right house and he could feel wards I couldn't feel, and we set up surveillance. I did learn that non-magical people don't set off the normal surveillance wards so if you're looking for someone without magic you have to watch the premises though he could have set up movement detection wards instead."
Fox sighed, "You were standing next to him when he explained the charm he cast on his glasses, if I called Davis and Becker in now they would tell you that they both learned the charm from his explanations this morning. If you asked, I'm sure he would have shown it to you again, he probably didn't realise you weren't capable of learning a new spell that easily. And you also should have learned that surveillance requires more than a basic disillusionment spell, if you truly wish to remain undetected you need to be silent and still, a fact Senior Auror Black reminded you of several times before casting the spells to keep you from giving the two of you away to anyone watching."
He had no right to attack me like that!" Caddie declared.
"He was the senior Auror on scene and he had every right if he found it necessary to achieve the mission. According to Senior Auror Black you neglected to cast silencing charms on your feet and clothing which should be standard practice every time you cast the disillusionment charm, and were then physically incapable of remaining still and keeping your voice down. You're lucky that he didn't send you back to the office with an official reprimand. As for wanting to stay to observe the raid you have yet to demonstrate the knowledge of procedure and the ability to follow commands that would make you anything other than a liability in a situation like that, to me or to Senior Auror Black. We simply didn't have the extra manpower required to hold your hand and keep you safe during the raid," Auror Fox lectured. "If today had been your end of placement assessment you would have failed miserably. You need to think through what you should have learned today and apply it from now on or you will be going back to the academy to repeat the year."
Caddie flushed in anger but managed to bite her tongue.
-o0o-
Hadrian rang Tim as he left the Auror office, much more cheerful than he had been that morning. "I'm in the mood for pizza," he said as soon as Tim answered.
Tim laughed, "Sounds good, do you want me to pick it up on my way home, I should be leaving soon." He looked at Gibbs who nodded and made a shooing motion at all of them.
"Get out of here," he barked.
"Thanks Boss," Tony said hustling out of the bullpen. "Hey we should go out tonight, who's in?"
"I can't tonight Tony," Tim replied. "I need to get home to Hades."
"Come on! You go home every night. Ask him to join us if you have to," Tony cajoled.
"No Tony not tonight." Tim replied tensely.
"Something wrong at home? You and Hades have a fight? 'Cause he didn't sound like he's still riled up at you," Tony said.
"No we didn't fight, Tony," Tim said irritated.
"Then what is wrong in paradise? You can tell uncle Tony," Tony said wrapping an arm around Tim almost condescendingly.
"Yeah, because you have so much experience with a successful marriage," Tim said sarcastically.
Gibbs walked up and slapped both of them on the back of their heads. "Get out of here before I find you both some work to do," he ordered.
Tim hurried to his car and took off before Tony could corner him again.
"Did Tim confide in you? Is he having problems at home?" Tony asked.
"He didn't say anything, but he hasn't been himself today," Ziva said. "He will tell us when he is ready to talk."
An hour later Tim arrived home with the pizza, Hadrian already had both children fed and bathed ready for last cuddles and bedtime kisses. He was sitting in Teddy's room reading to them.
Tollie told Tim where they were and he abandoned the pizza on the hall table and ran upstairs to join in.
"They had a busy day and were starting to get tired and cranky," Hadrian said apologetically.
"That's okay," Tim said sliding onto the bed beside Teddy and hugging him as Hadrian continued to read. Teddy was soon asleep and Tim slid out of the bed and tucked the little boy in, kissing his forehead.
Hadrian handed Rosie to Tim to take and put to bed. Tim cuddled his daughter and tucked her into her cot, before joining Hadrian who was watching in the doorway. He wrapped his arms around his husband, resting his head on top of Hadrian's.
"I love you," Tim said softly.
"I love you," Hadrian replied. His stomach chose that moment to rumble, making them both laugh.
"I left the pizza downstairs, go get into bed and I'll bring it up," Tim suggested.
Hadrian stripped off, pulling on his pyjamas and laying out Tim's, he cast the one way silencing charms on the room and pulled the quilt back and sat against the headboard crossing his legs.
Tim laid the pizza on the bed and Hadrian absent-mindedly cast warming charms on it while he enjoyed watching his husband strip.
"You keep looking at me like that and you're not going to get to eat," Tim warned playfully.
Hadrian laughed. "Did you eat lunch?" he asked.
"I had a nutter butter, we were busy chasing down a lead on a cold case," Tim replied.
"In that case pizza before sex," Hadrian said trying to sound severe. "I need you to keep your energy up," he added smirking.
Ignoring the pizza box Tim leaned across and started tickling the smaller man.
"No no no," Hadrian yelped.
"I think it's you that's going to need your energy," Tim said finally taking pity on him and sitting back watching as Hadrian tried to catch his breath. He handed him a slice of pizza before helping himself.
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