edit, 19-2-2018, fixed some mistakes I noticed last weekend whilst reading over the entirety of the story once more. there also were enough spelling errors that I did not filter out before now for me to think that this chapter was never checked a second time... also improved the continuity of the story a slight bit by changing punctuation, or adding a few words or changing the wording of certain sentences.

First and foremost, Thank you for the reviews, favs and follows, it really was, and still is shocking how many of you found the previous chapter(which was far better then this one...) good enough to follow the development of this story, thank you so so much!

second... So, this took far longer than I ever wanted or expected, and is just a bit shorter than I wanted, and not close to the quality I want it to be, but, hey, third rewrite is the charm right? So, why did it take so long? ehm... I've been very busy lately, I literally started with quite a bit of backlog this school year, and I've finally gotten to the point where I've worked my way on schedule, and now I'm doing a friends job once a week for him as he fell of a ladder and broke his leg, this makes it so that I have very little free time left beside, psychologists and school, so that's one reason, the next one, well... as I said, this is literally the third rewrite of this chapter, and I am still not happy with it, this is a problem I have with every idea I decide to write out, I write it, and it never gets anywhere good enough for me to find it worthy of this site. so that's why there haven't been very many updates lately(none...). I've been writing, mostly in my English lessons, but I'm not close enough to posting anything else I write.

As you may see, I wasn't very sure where I wanted to go with this chapter, and it bled through into the chapter itself, it looks very rushed to me, but I owe all of you an update, so I do hope you like it.

now then, to the core: I do not own any of the characters used in this story, I don't even own the plot, only the words used to write this story out are actually mine.

I do hope you enjoy, and as always, for questions, reactions, suggestions, or anything else, you can always say it, I don't mind reviews, I don't mind Pm's.

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So many questions, so few answers

It was about a quarter of an hour later That Harry caught up to the girls, they walked on the grounds of a school. They were going towards the dormitories to the right of the main building it seemed.

A few minutes later, Harry walked into the boy's dorm of the local high school to find the girls he had been following standing with a boy seemingly of their age. Their conversation was heated, and it seemed like the two might have needed a bit of help, or at least, until another boy ran from behind the girls throwing the other boy to the ground, and started punching.

"My turn I guess." Harry muttered before speaking up.

"Cut it off you two, that's enough." He immediately got the attention of all four teenagers in the hallway, Stopping one of the boy's mid punch.

"Wait, you? Have you been following us?" Chloe sounded quite suspicious, which to be fair, is acceptable, he did actually follow them after all.

"Not now Chloe. I do believe these are the boy's dorms?" Harry said with a raised eyebrow to the girls.

"How dare you, do you even know who I am? If my father hears about this, he'll have your head!"

"No, I do not know who you are, and I don't think your daddy would be willing to interfere in this matter." Harry said to the boy who for his part, really did far to good of a Malfoy impression for Harry's liking.

"Who are you anyway?" The teen continued, whilst the girls walked around him to Harry, the other teenager staying in between the malfoy like boy and the girls, not saying anything, Harry actually could respect this from the boy.

"Harry James Potter/Black, I think that should be enough information for you to find out the rest yourself. You two, do you have a place we can talk, I've got a few more questions for you?" Harry said with a wink to chloe, who for her part, reacted exactly as he had hoped, all were by now completely ignoring the other boy's protests, how it was his business, and how his father would be hearing about this, and all that old drivel Harry was used to hearing in his school days.

"Ehm, we could go to mine?" Chloe said, ignoring Max's questioning eyebrow. "If you could follow me."

And so it was the 2 cars parked half an hour later in the driveway of a building which had seen better days.

When Harry stepped out of the car he walked to the back of the jeep where he picked out a different bag then he had been using before, this one containing a few important supplies including his laptop.

He followed the two girls to the front door where Chloe opened the door and led them to the kitchen.

"So, explain why you followed us." She began, far colder than she sounded before.

"Well, the way you drove off, told me something. You found something, and if your interest in this Rachel Amber is anything to go by, I got the feeling that you found a clue to finding her in that RV on the parking space, I followed you to the dorms, but was sidestepped by a few questions of one of your teachers, otherwise I would have already gotten to you before that guy even got to you."

"To cut it short, if you found a clue to finding her, then I would like to offer my help, I do have a few tricks up my sleeve for when it's needed."

"Well, we believe Rachel Amber going missing and the rape of Kate March are somehow connected, that's why we went to the boy's dorms, in the RV we found some information that pointed to Nathan Prescott -That's the guy who threatened us by the way- somehow being involved, and we wanted to search his room, we found some good information, we still have to order it though." Max said, after wordlessly receiving permission from her friend.

"That's all we know at the moment to be honest, but I thought you were here to investigate the weather patterns?" Chloe said.

"You're correct, But I can never help it, I just stumble into certain things, I actually had a quiet few weeks before the news of the last few days, a friend of mine calls it 'my saving people thing'." Here he let out chuckle.

"What did you mean with what you said to Prescott anyway, that that was all he needed to find out who you were?"

"Well, I've got some prestigious titles in multiple countries in Europe for starters, apparently fighting off a civil war that has completely been blanketed by the British government, earns you a few titles and medals, so have I earned the Victorian cross in a secret battle within our own government against terrorists in my fifteenth year, apparently being outnumbered four to one with only schoolchildren counts as courageous, the george cross for defeating the leader of said terrorist organisation on my 18th year, Furthermore have I received the order of orange Nassau in the Netherlands, for saving a child who had fallen into the lions pit in a zoo… If I should go on though, I would be busy for the upcoming hour." Harry said trailing off somewhat, his face like stone.

"You don't enjoy these titles do you?" Chloe said observing Harry.

"No, I don't believe I have earned them, however many people say otherwise, I really don't, being personally targeted by a terrorist group does in my mind not count as bravery or heroism, my friends earned those medals more than I did, they stood with me until the end."

"But that was not the point…" Harry said, trailing off again.

The small group stayed silent whilst Harry was booting up his laptop at the dining table, not looking at the two girls, who were sharing shocked looks behind his back.

When his laptop was almost booted up, Harry was shocked out of his concentration by a gruff voice behind him.

"Who have you brought into this home now!"

Harry looked up at the man standing in the doorway eyeing him with minor interest.

Harry looked back for a second to the girls, Chloe clearly had contempt written all over her face looking at the man.

Chloe did not answer the man however, so Harry decided he should do the introductions.

"Good afternoon sir, I'm Harry James Potter/Black, these ladies here are helping me with a bit of research into the current happenings in this town."

"And why, have they send a Brit for this, research?" He said sounding very skeptical.

"Because I actually have the skills and titles to make sure the Americans don't interfere in my research." Harry answered looking the man right in the eye. Not mentioning no one had send him at all, he so hated to use his actual titles, but he knew this guy would not back down easily, he had the same air around him as a lot of Harry's own friends have, this man had seen combat.

"Skills and titles? Explain, what organisation?" 'Oh, bugger, this is one of those…'

'Should I use Hermione's trick badge…?'

"Show me identification."

'That's a yes…' Harry pulled out the trick badge from his pocket and showed it to the man.

"Lord Harry James Potter/Black, British military research and abnormality core." Harry said, trying to hide his smirk. 'I hope I won't get into trouble with the American ministry for this' Harry worried for a few seconds before shaking those worries off.

"We got information of abnormal weather patterns, a solar eclipse only visible from here, and the stranding of dozens of whales. There also seems to be a weird energy in the air in and around the town." Harry said.

"Lord? You want to tell me someone as young as you, is a lord?" The man said with a raised eyebrow, although, Harry could see something else in the man's eyes.

"Yes, lord, I got that title on my 18th birthday for something I had done when I was 15, terrorists had infiltrated our ministry, and me and a few friends were able to fend them off for long enough for help to arrive, and without any deaths I should add, which to be honest, really was a miracle, we were outnumbered four to one. Got a good few medals for that…"

"I do believe we would have known about an infiltration in your government." The man said, he still seemed skeptical, quite understandable to be honest.

"Yeah, this is literally the first time ever our government was able to keep something completely under wraps, I'm not sure how, it was not like no innocents were killed in the 3 years of civil war."

The girls were just watching this interaction with quite a bit of interest.

"Any further questions, or can we continue?" Harry finally decided they had been at this for long enough.

"I've got en-"

"Great, now, could you leave the room please, you are interfering in a military investigation." Harry interrupted the man in his most commanding voice, one that he had only used once before, that night at the ministry.

"You said something about having found information about Rachel Amber and Kate Marsh? Do you think it could have anything to do with the current goings on around town?" And so it was that the three had a good 3 hours of conversation before they were interrupted once again, but this time by a very familiar woman entering the room. In said conversation Harry could tell the two were keeping something from him, and not because they made slip ups, because they didn't, but because of the looks the two gave each other once in awhile.

"Ah, joyce, it's good to see you again, how was your workday." Harry asked after the girls greeted her and had explained why Harry was in the house.

"Good, thank you, and I presume you are going to eat with us?" She asked sounding as friendly as she did when Harry arrived in the diner earlier that day.

"If it wouldn't be a bother." Harry actually sounded unsure.

"Of course it wouldn't, we would love to have you, I presume you are going to stay as well Max?" she asked Max.

"I wouldn't miss it Joyce." Max sounded very eager, and the reason quickly became apparent, "Your food is the best." This was answered by a snicker from Chloe, and a very big smile from Joyce.

"Then I would love to madam." Harry said, an uncertain smile on his face, it had been so long since he was invited to eat with someone, and this family whom he didn't even know that well, just invited him over.

Another half an hour of talking with Joyce, whilst the girls went upstairs, to sort out the information they had found, had the man from before, who as Harry had found out was named David, entering the kitchen once more.

"I see you are still here?" He asked Harry, a bit more respectfully then he talked to Harry before.

"Yes, Joyce here has invited me to dine with all of you." Harry answered.

Not 5 minutes later the small group sat at the table, enjoying the amazing food, in a not to comfortable silence.

"I will be going to the motel," Harry said after helping Joyce cleaning up, "my godson will be expecting a call." What he did not tell was that he had a few more calls to make, he had a feeling he would be needing the old gang back together for this, even if it was only for the extra brainpower.

Another half an hour later Harry was set up in a comfortable room in the small motel, laptop open, and connected to the internet.

"Well, here goes nothing." Harry skype called the first person that came to mind. After a few seconds of waiting, he was met by a voice he hadn't heard in ages.

"Harry! It's so good to hear from you! How are you? Where are you? What have you got yourself into now?" Ah… Hermione, always knowing him far to well… and always asking the right questions.

So... What do you guys think? still no real discoveries, but are you really expecting them this early on?