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Sirius Intervention
Jan, 1989, London
The next day they went to London, shopping for clothes and essentials for Nick. Anna bought him a Walkman as well.
"Music is important. You always need to keep that with you." She had instructed him. And had also bought him some music according to his preferences.
After shopping Anna had stepped them to back to the manor and they had spent the day peacefully. The holidays would end in a few days. They needed to get Nick sorted out before that.
Anna was scouring the library for information about magical or mystical places around the world. Now that Tom was brought back they needed to concentrate on finding the safe place.
Grindelwald, they decided to think back about him in the summer as they didn't have much of the holidays left now.
-x-
School Days, 1989, Surrey
The holidays did end and they were able to arrange everything for Nick. Nobody would be able to detect the story was false.
He remained with Anna most of the time in the school as Harry still had his friends in the football team. Though he had conversed more with Harry in the last days of the holiday.
Probably talking about the experience of getting their memories back, Anna thought.
They still all spend the time before and after school together.
Anna had donated more money to the orphanage to keep them living comfortably there. And would probably keep doing it after she left it as the children, orphans there and the matron had been one of the best ones she had ever met.
They lived so well together and even included her in their games whenever she was around, even if she doesn't interact much with them. Dudley hadn't been able to bully these kids because of the matron. She had tried to prevent Harry's bullying in the past as well Anna had realized, but nobody had listened to her and she hadn't been able to do more. She thinks that the matron was so lax with her always spending time with Harry, probably because of that.
And now the kids had welcomed Nick happily as well. She hoped they didn't have to come across the ugly side of the human nature any day soon. Even if it may help them later in life, they still had time to learn about it. Well uglier side, Anna thought as they were already orphans.
The days passed without any adventures this time. And they settled in a routine. They would go to the manor on the weekends and also ventured in the Diagon Alley sometimes.
Nick had also joined the dojo with them and would soon reach their level with his experience.
The goblins had finally started taking some steps towards Anna's goals. They had started spreading the word with the squibs and muggle-borns working with them that they are offering jobs to others. Soon hopefully they will start getting some response back.
For them to work the fields they need the places and investment. So they had left the job with the goblins to find the fields and they would provide the money.
Harry was working on a broom he had invented in his lifetime before that was faster than firebolt and had more features and was soon going to start marketing it, after getting it patented.
"We need more sources of income, other than just our investments. You too should patent your mirrors and books and start selling them for profit." He had said to her.
"Maybe after we get some muggle-borns employed, I could ask them to do the spells. Like you could do. You can't spell all those brooms by yourself." Anna had replied.
"Of course not. I was going to do just that. And what about you Nick, have any inventions up your sleeve?" Harry asked.
"I got a few. We will see how yours get a response, then I'll start with mine. Let's not flood the market together." Nick drawled.
So they were going to patent the inventions then market it with partnership to the broom company and with the help of muggle-borns.
-x-
Summer Holidays, 1989, Surrey – St Mungo's – Potter Manor
The summer holidays started and finally Harry was going to be able to meet Sirius. They had decided that he won't act surprised when they do come for him.
They had learned from Cato that Bumblebee was going to come and get him to take him to meet Sirius, probably to win points with Harry and also so that others wouldn't realize his living conditions.
He would act like he knew he was magical, and that there were others like him. Since he knew Nick and Anna. And had learned about the magical world from them. Though of course they wouldn't disclose that he knew about Sirius as well.
He would imply that he had thought that he had no family left in the magical world and therefore left with the Dursleys. That would be in front of Sirius so he would take him in.
Anna and Nick hadn't gone with him, so they waited for him to return.
They had been in the orphanage when Bumblebee had came for him. He had of course gone to the Dursley house first and Petunia had told him he would be with his friends wandering around the neighborhood. He had then probably followed Harry's magical signature to the orphanage. Harry had covered almost all of his magic so as not to alert Bumblebee that he had unbound it. And Nick and Anna had also kept theirs covered. They had all decided to always keep it covered so nobody would learn about their actual power.
Nick wasn't there with them but inside as they didn't want to alert Bumblebee about him so early.
Bumblebee introduced himself to them and told Harry about the magical world and his godfather. Harry acted excited and happy to learn that he had a godfather. But then he asked why hadn't he been taken in by his godfather and where he was until then. Bumblebee told him about the injustice done on his godfather and then asked him if he would like to meet him.
Harry looked at Anna uncertainly and at her encouraging nod he turned to him and accepted the offer.
"We weren't introduced properly Miss?" Bumblebee had then turned towards her.
She had been silent as they both had talked, smiling at Harry when he had looked at her excitedly when he learned about his godfather.
"Summers. Anna Summers. Its nice to meet you, Professor Dumbledore. We had heard so much about you. And its so great that you came to take Harry to meet his godfather." She said excitedly.
"Its nice to meet you as well my dear girl. I take it you were the one who told him about the magical world?" He asked inquisitive.
"Yes. I had been left a diary from my mother. She wrote about it all in it for me. I was able to read it when... It just was so exciting to find out about magic. And then I had met Harry. I was thrilled to meet someone else like me this early." She replied.
"Well its great that you met each other then." He said with smile.
"Though we should probably go now. Come on, Harry. Your godfather is waiting for you." He added.
Harry nodded back then waved at Anna as Bumblebee led him out of the orphanage and out of sight to apparate him away.
"Was there another one like you and Anna in the orphanage, Harry?" Bumblebee asked as they entered St Mungo's.
"Yes, Sir. Nick came to the orphanage in the winter holidays for some shelter and then he met us and so decided to stay there." He replied with a smile.
Dumbledore smiled back at him.
They reached the room Sirius was in and he led Harry inside.
Sirius was sitting on the bed and was conversing with another person inside sitting on a chair near the bed, who Harry realized was Remus Lupin.
Harry smiled at his godfather tentatively when he saw him.
Sirius got up form the bed and came to him to hug him.
"You have grown up so much from the last time I saw you. You were so little then. You look...you almost look like a Black, though you have Lily's eyes and James messy hair." Sirius said as he pulled back and looked him over.
"Hello, Mr. Black. I was so happy and excited when Professor Dumbledore told me I had a godfather. Are you really my godfather?" Harry asked excited.
"Yes. I'm your godfather. Come on. Please, sit. And please call me Sirius or Padfoot, if you want. No need to be so formal, Prongslet." He said leading Harry towards the bed.
"This is Remus Lupin, one of the best friends of your dad." He said indicating towards Lupin who had stood up when Harry entered.
"Its nice to meet you, Sir." Harry greeted him politely.
"Its nice to meet you too, Harry. And call me Remus or Moony." He said with a smile.
"Maybe we should leave you both to talk alone." Bumblebee said.
"I'll see you around Sirius. Harry." Lupin said agreeing with Bumblebee and nodding at them.
They left then and Harry asked Sirius if he really was in the prison all this time. Sirius nodded and told him all that had happened till then. Then asked Harry about himself.
Harry told him about the Dursleys, just telling Sirius that he lived with them, not telling him about the neglect, and then talked about his friends. The football team in school and Anna and Nick from the orphanage. Them being magical like him.
Then he finally asked, "Will you take me in now that you are out of the prison? I mean would I be living with you?"
"If you want to Harry. I mean I understand if you want to live with your family-" Sirius said.
"No." Harry cut him off. "I mean I would love to live with you. Can you really take me in? I had thought I didn't have anyone in the wizarding world. But now… I mean do you want to take me in?" Harry asked acting excited then reserved then uncertain.
"Yes. I would love to have you living with me Harry. I guess, I didn't told you. But I had blood adopted you when you were a child. So I'm your godfather but I'm your second father as well. I could never take the place of James in your life but know that I love you like my son. And would really like it if you would consider living with me." Sirius said with a smile.
"Or at least spending some time with me. Don't you want to live with your family?" He added frowning.
"The Dursleys, they don't really care about me much. The only people I would miss in Little Whinging are my friends. But you would allow them to come meet me, won't you?" Harry asked hesitating.
"Yes. But what...? Harry, tell me how the Dursleys really treat you." Sirius said confused and frowning.
"As I said they don't care about me much. I spend most of my time with Anna and Nick so I don't really interact with them much either." Harry said avoiding to talk about it.
Nobody, and especially children doesn't really tell about it to anybody so Harry had to act like that to convince him, even though he didn't like lying to Sirius. Though he was telling the truth, he didn't want to act in front of his godfather. But it was necessary to convince him to take him in. They could tell him the truth if he proves trustworthy, i.e. not telling Bumblebee about them, as that would ruin there plans.
"So you would really take me in?" Harry asked excited.
"Yes. I'm going to be released soon from here. And I would come for you as soon as I have a place to stay. I had an apartment before...but it probably wouldn't be in a good condition and I should search for a nice home for us to live in." He said with smile, leaving the topic of Dursleys for now.
Sirius asked him then where he would like to live, what type of home he would like and said that they should search for a home together.
They spend the time talking, Sirius telling him some of the stories of Hogwarts.
Bumblebee came in sometime later, smiling gently saying it was time for Harry to leave.
"Don't worry, Harry. I would come to meet you soon. And we would search for a home together then. Take care of yourself." Sirius said as they parted.
Harry nodded and smiled back, gave him a hug and left with Dumbledore.
At the orphanage both Anna and Nick finally saw Harry coming towards them along with Bumblebee.
They asked him how it went, acting excited for him. Nick was then introduced to Dumbledore as well.
He didn't showed that he recognized Nick, which maybe a good or bad sign. They didn't understood if he was acting or honestly didn't see the resemblance.
Though maybe he really didn't, as Nick differed from Tom in that he had grown his hair like Harry and left them a little messy. His demeanor too varied greatly from Tom, who was lonely and quite a lot emotionally stunted, and later charming and with a winning personality. While Nick was easy going and looked mischievous, though little reserved and quiet.
He had told them that was his personality in some of his lives and people had loved it so he was going with it.
"Its better to be a little imperfect, rather than perfectly charming." He had said.
Nick also was healthier than Tom was, with fuller cheeks rather than hollow cheeks and fit body rather than lean and emaciated one.
The resemblance would probably be obvious when he grows older and they have the story ready for then along with proofs.
Bumblebee left them after the introduction, telling them to take care.
They left for the clearing after making sure he was gone. Then to the Potter manor. There Harry told them all that happened, then they discussed how to proceed. What to do about Lupin, if they could trust him like Sirius. Cause Harry trusted Sirius and was sure he would listen to them about Bumblebee and believe them.
They also discussed how to proceed with Grindelwald. They were going to summon Death again in that week and if he confirms Anna's suspicion, then should they include him in their plans now or leave him be?
Bumblebee would surely get suspicious of both Nick and him if they both came to Hogwarts with Harry.
"Do we really care about what Bumblebee thinks though? I mean as long as he doesn't interfere with our plans then who cares if he suspects you both. Suspecting children is his modus operandi anyway." Anna ended sarcastically.
"But he would interfere if he thinks we are going on the dark path. You all leading me towards darkness." Harry drawled back.
"It would have been great if we had his support actually. But I know that's not going to happen. He won't ever believe us. After all, he knows best." Nick added.
They sat silent after that, but finally Anna said, "I say we do it. If he's a master get him his memories back and then have him pop up as Nick's half brother. Step brother. We need all the help we could get. Bumblebee can only suspect you, but can't do anything against you. If we have your records proper the ministry won't do anything to you and they definitely won't listen to Bumblebee accusing children of anything. And we will take care to clear our tracks of everything, the records, us teaching others, and all. And our planning. I mean he hasn't realized yet that we helped get Sirius out, has he?" Anna said with raised brows.
"It all depends on him being a master too. Though how are we going to get him out of there? They would realize his gone. Unlike Tom they don't believe he's dead." Harry said.
"Fake his death?" Anna suggested.
"Bumblebee won't believe it. And would get doubly suspicious of his new form." Nick said.
"Then maybe we could have two of you both running around." Anna said with a smirk.
"What do you mean? Pretend the original people are still alive and we just had a face like them or something? Are their descendants?" Nick asked.
"That could work. If we could pull it off. And it would be great to. People need a reason for rallying together. We could rally them together behind us against the threat of Voldemort and then save them from him. Then we convince them of the danger from the muggles and they would listen cause we had saved them once. Just like Dumbledore saved them from Grindelwald and now they listen to him." Harry said.
"Most of the time. Though the time with Fudge was a fluke and people listened to him after that fiasco was over." Anna said.
"You mean after Sirius died and all? That fiasco?" Harry asked in contempt.
Anna just a raised a brow back at his tone.
Harry heaved a sigh and said, "Sorry. I just met him again so it all came back. I know you don't mean it like that."
"No. I didn't mean it like that. Don't say sorry." She said.
"It happens." She added in a deep tone.
Harry just shook his head. While Nick said exasperated, "You are in a body of a child Anna."
"Oops." She said with a innocent smile.
"Feels weird, eh? Wait till you get hormones. You would be full of innuendos the others don't understand and laughing at them for it." She added laughing.
"Can we come back to the topic now?" Harry asked with a raised brow.
"Alright. And I'm sorry Harry-kun. I'm just used to thinking about my old lives objectively. So I just said it. Though even then sometimes, I too am affected by somethings. So, Hakuna Matata." Anna said smiling apologetic at him.
"Like Ottery St Catchpole?" Harry asked her curiously, and watched her smile turn to a grimace.
"What about it?" Nick asked, also seeing her reaction.
"Ask her. I just know that she didn't like the place or something I think." Harry said.
"Well you aren't going to be told. So shush." Anna said to Nick who had opened his mouth to ask.
He pouted and she laughed back.
"So Grindelwald. We were talking about there being two of you and him. That could work. Just show some movement of yours in Albania for now so that he thinks you are not Tom. Then for Grindelwald, maybe leave a golem behind. Though Bumblebee may realize its a golem. So may be a clone." Anna said.
"He would die by himself in few years anyway. If you hadn't killed him he would have died of old age so we could just speed up the process and let him die few years early, so that we don't have to keep the clone living for long and risk it being detected as a counterfeit." Harry added.
"But Voldemort. How are we going to show him terrorizing the wizarding world? I'm already on shaky ground with Death, I don't want to add to it by mindless killings." Nick said folding his hands and frowning.
"We won't kill anyone of course. But then it won't add authenticity to the act. And I wouldn't mind killing Umbitch, though people would probably give you a reward for it. Rather than getting terrified." Anna said with a smirk.
Then seeing their faces added, "We are going to have to kill some, while we do our work you know."
"Yes. But not mindless killing. And though I would like to have the first dibs on Umbitch, if we are killing her, we can't kill her for being horrible or doing all the things she did in last life." Harry said.
"We would probably find some reason now too." Anna muttered.
"Anna!" Harry exclaimed exasperated.
"Harry-Chan!" She replied back.
He just raised his brows back.
"You people can't take jokes." She said throwing her hands up.
"So no mindless killing. And we need to think how we will convince people he's, I'm back without it being obvious. We are definitely not terrorizing no-majs, as it would be counterproductive to what we are trying to do. Get away from them. We would just get their attention early if we did that." Nick said getting them back on topic.
"We will think about it more later. We don't need to think about it for now. Your reign of terror started in Harry's fourth, fifth year. No it was sixth year right that you were actually out in the open?" Anna asked.
"Yes. Sixth. We could start like last time. Ordering Quirrell to steal the philosopher's stone. Of course he won't be able to, but we could steal it while its there." Nick said with a smirk.
"The Flamels won't even care. They have made another one for themselves and had given Bumblebee there previous one. So we could keep it for ourselves." Harry added.
"And you know this how...?" Anna asked.
"I had met them after the war in that life and even in other lives. But in that life I had apologized to them for it getting destroyed. They had said they had done it as a show for Bumblebee, and that they had another one as a backup. That they weren't going to part with such a priceless artifact just for Bumblebee's games." Harry replied.
"Haven't you ever met them in any of your lives? I mean even I knew about that, learned about it from them even." Nick asked.
"I knew about it. Just asking how he knew it." Anna shrugged.
"So we do the usual threats?" Harry asked.
"Yep. Keep Bumblebee busy thinking his after the real one. While we carry out our plans." Anna said.
"So Grindelwald. If we found out he's the real deal then..." Harry trailed off looking at them expectedly.
"You won't be able to get away form under Bumblebee's watch. But we could. Sirius would probably come to take you in this week sometime. He has been cleared totally, right?" Anna asked.
"Yes. He could adopt me without trouble. Though Bumblebee may raise some stink, it won't be effective. He would probably come for me in this week." Harry said.
"So while you settle with him, we will go and find out Grindelwald's security and a way to get in and out undetected." Anna said.
"We need to get preparations done before we get him out. Make a deal with the goblins for the body, new identity, the whole shebang." She added with a sigh rubbing her face, tired, then stretching herself.
"So that's it for now?" Nick asked.
Harry nodded and relaxed back in his seat. But then sat straight again.
"We never told Kreacher about the horcrux Anna." He said remembering the fact just then.
"I did. Don't worry. He was thrilled. The house looks clean. You could ask Sirius about living there, but of course you wouldn't be able to as you can't know about it." Anna said lounging back on her seat.
"And he probably wouldn't like to live in it. Maybe we could refurbish it and then use it for gatherings and meetings with the Lords and others. So that we don't have to invite them to our homes." Harry thought out loud.
"You are talking about...?" Nick asked confused.
"Grimmauld Place. The Black Family home in London. The house-elf there had your locket. He stole it from the lake to destroy it on Regulus's orders. While Regulus died in the cave." Harry said.
"Wait, wait, wait. Tell me the whole thing." Nick said frowning.
Harry told him how they found the locket in both lives.
"Regulus was dragged in the lake by the inferi, right?" Nick asked raising a brow.
"Yes." Harry drawled. Looking confused.
"According to Kreacher." He added shrugging.
Anna was looking at them curiously.
Nick smirked.
"Maybe we need to check out the place then. This is brilliant. You were worried about Sirius getting in politics, right? We can have a back up if he doesn't want to do it." He said excited.
"What are we both missing?" Harry asked.
"Well. I didn't keep the inferi in the cave to kill anyone who was successful to get the locket but to drag them inside and preserve them in a magical sphere in the lake. He would remain as he was petrified inside it. Timeless until I check again. Its what the goblins do to their prisoners. They won't just starve them inside a vault, they preserve them, then punish them, for breaking in." Nick answered smirking.
"So Regulus could still be alive inside there?" Harry asked astonished.
"If it worked as it was supposed to." Nick said shrugging.
"But why would he help us politically?" Anna asked.
"Well, he had loved it before. Debating about various topics. Hoping to do something when he gets his seats. Sirius wasn't interested in that even then so he was sure he would get the seats." Nick said.
"But what happened to him in the last life? Probably the magic keeping him alive would have gone along with you." Harry muttered.
"Probably. So we need to go there sometime soon. And I also checked on Luna, her mother is alright for now. And the wards didn't detect any misfired spells. So its yet to happen. Maybe that event didn't change and she will have the incident when she's nine next year." Anna said.
"The wards will save her from misfired spells. But I can't say anything about other things. We can't save many people individually, Death's workers may get angry with us." She said thoughtfully.
"First who's Luna. And next why would Death's worker be angry at you. You are doing his task." Nick said.
Harry told him about Luna, then looked expectedly at Anna as well.
"Well. I'm doing Death's task. But he also needs the people to die when their time comes. We can't interfere with it much. Or at least give him someone else in exchange." Anna was explaining.
"But we can't decide who lives or dies." Harry exclaimed.
"Well. We saved him from his death in a few years." She said indicating to Nick.
"And are going to try it again with Grindelwald. The others which died last time won't die this time. So we are deciding who lives and dies." She added, raising her brows.
"But we had Death's permission for him. And we would ask it for Grindelwald. And the others well Death wants us to save the majs, don't he?" Harry said.
"Death wants that. And he's workers too, I guess. But they have the job of keeping track of the souls and they need to keep it balanced. Can't save everyone remember. That's also one of the reasons. Can't overflow the earth with souls." Anna said.
"You mean, we need to kill someone for every person we save?" Harry asked.
"Technically. Or you don't interfere in the death. That's why I was suggesting we could kill Umbitch." She said.
"But isn't that wrong? Killing someone cause we want to keep other safe." Harry asked.
"We aren't superheroes Harry-chan. I had told you. Dumbledore sacrifices people, that he thinks need to go, for the greater good. Good, honest people." Anna said with angry and sad unshed tears in her eyes, grimacing at them.
"I'm not telling you to kill anyone innocent. Just the ones we think who deserve it. And we are Death's master, we could choose if we want. There aren't the morals of how could we decide if someone lives or dies, for us. His workers would get their souls. And we save who we want. Of course it won't work in a mass. Like kill all the rapists and murderers out there and save the good people. There needs to be balance. We save who we want, kill who we think deserve it. Don't interfere with else. Not superheroes." She finished.
"But how could Death allow that? Giving us this right to decide for others." He exclaimed.
"They would just get recycled back Harry. Or go in the limbo or something. It isn't ever game over. So what is there to decide?!" She asked exasperated.
"Recycled?" Nick asked confused, while Harry had a look of realization on his face.
Anna told him about the souls, then asked, "Didn't Death tell you all this? How you have so many lives?"
"No. I don't remember anything like that." Nick said.
"Me neither. Though I of course forgot that you had told me about it." Harry said sheepishly.
"So we could decide it to some extent?" Nick asked.
"Some. Not superhero though. Going around saving anyone we find. First it won't be possible, we just can't save everyone and it would disrupt the balance if we did. So I agreed with Luna's mom but she's only one. We can't go around saving individuals. Already we had saved many deaths by altering the future of this timeline. But those deaths will occur elsewhere. As the workers know our need to save the majs." She said closing her eyes.
"So alright. Not saving many individuals. Got it. So we were talking about Regulus. We would go to the place sometime soon. Then Grindelwald's topic is also discussed, so that is also done. Anything else next?" Nick asked.
"Yes. I was thinking of getting more people to help us." Anna said.
"Okay. Like who? We have already got the goblins looking into the squibs and muggle-borns. Who else? Like other majs? Centaurs or someone else?" Nick asked. He knew all about the squibs and squib ancestors of muggle-borns. Inbreeding in pure-bloods. He had learned it in his other lives and he wasn't biased in this lifetime as well. He had rallied the pure-bloods because they had the majority votes in the Wizengamot.
"Pure-bloods. Start with the neutrals, maybe the ones who don't follow Bumblebee. Light ones who don't follow him. We have already got Cato on our side and Bones along with him. Well almost. She also doesn't know about our involvement with Sirius. Though Cato had hinted to her he was working for someone. So she has some idea that there is someone working behind the scenes." She replied.
"Also I was thinking of including your political followers in our group. They have the most seats for now in the house of lords. They could start introducing innocent proposals in the Wizengamot." She added.
"You want me to order them to do that? Like Voldemort to order them?" Nick asked.
"Well. Some of your followers probably knew about your original goals from their fathers right? Your schoolmates. Those that really wanted to help. Malfoy, Nott, Rosier, Rookwood, and some others. They had formed the political group right?" Anna asked.
"Yes. The Knights of Walpurgis. You want me to reveal this form to them?" Nick asked incredulous.
"Of course not. I just want you to anonymously order them to do it. Give them proof about the orders being given by you. Maybe tell Malfoy you knew about the 'diary' getting stolen from him." She suggested.
"But any thing introduced by them would come under the scrutiny of Bumblebee." Harry said.
"Well he won't be able to find anything wrong with the proposals though. They would be innocent. Like maybe keeping an eye on the orphaned magical children in the muggle world. Though we need to get adopted before they do that. Or we both would come under the scrutiny. Or starting a free primary school like structure so that the families could send the children there before Hogwarts. You know start some changes. So that later they don't get bombarded by it. Small changes only. And in stages. We could start with the primary schools for now. Then after we get adopted or get guardians other than Bumblebee, introduce the topic of magical orphanages." She said.
"The people would come to trust them because of those proposals. That's one of the advantages." Harry added nodding.
"We will have to think more on it." Nick said.
"And we need to have some man power. Other than the employees we would have working for us." She said.
"To do the dirty work. Espionage, assassinations. Blackmail. I had heard that one of the Black daughters had a book in which she had the dung - dirt on most people." She added.
"And who do you think we get for that?" Harry asked face blank.
"The ghosts or phantoms. We could use people thought to be dead. Or in prison." She added cautious.
"We could actually. But we would need to get them healthy first. Mentally and physically. Sound body and mind." Harry said.
"You don't mind." Anna said to Harry curiously.
"I'm no saint. I had only argued with you about the 'death business' cause well I had really forgotten you telling me about the rebirth of souls and all. And I didn't think that since we remembered our earlier lives so of course the other people also had various lives before and would have it after this life and it doesn't much matter that we cut this life of theirs short." Harry said with a smile.
"And it is obvious. Isn't it though? Now, that the souls doesn't stay any place. It is a continuous cycle." Nick said.
"Well still he should have told you about it. I had learned it from the workers. I thought he would have at least told the ones after me. I guess not. He probably thought it was obvious. But maybe too obvious for us." Anna said with a smirk back.
"So which ones? Should we get out?" Harry asked.
"We should research them then decide." Anna said.
"Now is there anything else?" Nick asked again.
"You are asking that for a while. Do you want to say something or what?" Anna asked exasperated.
"Well I do want to say something. Actually give you both something. I didn't just find the founders artifacts in my life. There were others as well so..." Nick said.
He had given them both simple chain bracelets with single charms.
"I actually made them from all the things I had learned. I got the idea from a little tribe I found in my travels. They had charmed the charms. But I inscribed runes on them, infusing them with a little magic. I have only included one charm for now. But we could add as we go." He added nervously.
"Its to show my appreciation to you both for what you did for me." He said with a serious face but a small smile.
"So how do you like it? The charms are just for protection for now. Physical protection from spells and the like. But like I said we could add. And it isn't something to keep tabs on you or something. I too have one. But they aren't connected. I thought I would show it to you both first see if you like them and are okay with the idea to connect them." He rambled.
They all had the same charm on the bracelet, a mini dagger with the rune inscribed on the blade.
"This is great Nick. Its absolutely brilliant. I love it. Thanks for the gift. You didn't had to give us anything but thanks. And no need to be so nervous. They are brilliant." Anna said beaming at him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Well I'm not going to give you the kiss on the cheek. But my sentiments match. These are great. And I don't mind if we connect them. You selected the dagger cause it symbolizes Death, right?" Harry asked.
"Yes. It is what brought us together. I mean the task of Death. He brought us together. So a little appreciation for him as well." Nick said with a smile.
"Well you are going to have to create one for the 4th master as well. So we could all have one." Anna said
"And the 5th master, whenever we find him." Harry added.
"Did you really made the bracelets? I mean actually created them?" Anna asked as she observed hers.
"Yes. I made them myself. From scratch. I had learned to do it. So thought I would put it to some good use." Nick shrugged.
"Absolutely brilliant. Wonderful, I tell you." She said putting it on her wrist.
"I would keep it safe always. Now I'm feeling bad we interrupted you all this time and you were trying to give us this." Anna said with a pout.
Nick just chuckled at her.
"I don't mind. We got many things discussed. New topics too." He shrugged.
"Well. Come on we need to treat you for the gifts with ice cream." Harry said smiling mischievously with Anna.
"Of course we do. Come on. Come on." Anna exclaimed.
They both carried him on their shoulders towards the kitchen and had their treat.
They spent the rest of the day in the manor and then went back to the orphanage, after escorting Harry to his room in the evening.
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