On the outside, everyone was confused, Janet had just declared her turn, but nothing magical had happened, instead the Director had taken to mumbling and occasionally crying out, meanwhile Janet stood perfectly still.

"What's going on?" Sam asked Danny.

"A battle of minds," said Vlad, Sam instantly levelled her ecto-gun at him, he raised his hands, "please, I have no intention of fighting now, or for a very long time, in case you haven't noticed I'm wearing one of the suppressors as well, I'm quite harmless."

Sam raised an eyebrow, "can we trust him?"

"Me and Vlad called a temporary truce until we got out of here."

"So, what do you mean by a battle of minds?" Sam asked, lowering the gun.

"Janet is a rare kind of wizard who can perform legilimency, magic that is not unsimilar to telepathy in comics and on tv, she would also appear to be very good at it."

"Why's that?"

"There are five levels of legilimency, each rarer than the last, the first is the ability to read surface thoughts and to communicate mentally, the second is to truly read the mind, third is the ability to shut down a mind, knocking them unconscious. Fourth is the ability to control or influence a target's actions and to plant false thoughts and memories, finally is something I always thought was just a myth, the ability to draw someone into your mind."

"Is that what Janet's doing?"

"Yes, and it terrifies me."

"Why?"

"Think about, it being drawn onto a battlefield against an opponent who you have no hope of beating, who knows your every move before you do, who can probably wipe your mind just by thinking you away," Sam paled and Danny gulped.

"Would there be no way of beating her?"

"Only a couple, if you were very wilful you may be able to control your environment whilst in her head, as long as she isn't too much more powerful than you, if you practised occlumency, the art of creating mental defences then you would be able to keep her out your head, but only if you were skilled enough. Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and magical beings would probably be able to stay out, their minds are different to humans, legilimency is designed for humans, and half humans, so it is unlikely affect them. The soulless would be okay, because the magical mind is tied to the soul, so no soul means they have a different mind, which is unaffected by legilimency."

"What about us?"

"You'd be fine," Thom said as he walked over, "your ghost half would probably protect you in your human form upwards from level two, when you are in your ghost form you are almost fully protected. How long has this been going on?"

"About five or ten minutes," Vlad said.

"I feel sorry for that man."

"He knocked you out!" Danny exclaimed.

"As part of our duel, how deep did he dig his grave before they started fighting?" At everyone's blank looks he sighed, "how much did he annoy Janet?"

"He had you bound in rope, kept telling her to surrender, called her weak and barely trained, and then said she wasn't worth his time," Danny reported.

Thom sighed, "I hope there's enough left of his mind to arrest."

"Is she really able to do that much damage?" Vlad asked.

"Yes," Thom said, "when you look at her you see a powerful young witch, correct?" Vlad frowned and nodded, "I see my beloved daughter, who will one day be the second most powerful witch I ever met, the most powerful being her mother, she is not at her full potential yet, that will come with time, then she will probably be high amongst the most powerful magicians in the world."

"So, not a good idea to make her angry then."

"Yeah, I should probably stop her, he's still got to be fit to stand trial, or this defeats the purpose of arresting him," Thom stepped forward, "Janet, stop!" He called, instantly as though he had been broken from a trance (which he had) the Director started moving again, he collapsed to the floor screaming and scrambled away, until he hit a wall and collapsed.

"Looks like it is too late," Vlad observed.

"No, that's just the shock," he started to walk over to Janet, "I've told you, don't let your anger control, with great magic comes great need for restraint, he maybe scarred for life, or unable to stand trial."

"That wasn't my intent," Janet started before collapsing, Thom ran over and caught her before she hit the ground.

"What happened?" Danny asked rushing over followed by the others.

"Magic exhaustion, she used a huge amount of magic on shield charms and legilimency after being totally drained of magic, the strain was too much."

"So what do we do?"

"Nothing, it is like physical fatigue, she needs to rest," he removed his coat and folded it under her head as he lay her back down, he looked up at Vlad and Danny, "alohomora," he cast, the collars around their necks sprung open, Vlad rubbed his neck where the metal had rubbed it raw.

"I've had that itch for weeks."

"Round up the agents, lock them in a room, I'll look for a phone and arrange transport, my boss is going to love this," he turned and walked down the corridor.

Forty minutes later a dozen Aurors and deputies were clearing out the base, taking all the evidence and agents to the Auror headquarters. The Director had woken up and had recovered from his ordeal, but was definitely not the same. He was more softly spoken, he was jumpy and almost fainted when he saw Janet walking around talking to the Aurors, the young witch had woken up only a minute or two before after being given a potion to recover her strength. When she saw the Director staring at her she walked over, "be a good wizard for the Aurors or you and I are going to have another talk," the Director did then faint, she smiled as she spun on her heel and walked off, leaving two bemused Aurors guarding the unconscious wizard.

"What did she do to him?" One asked.

"You don't want to know," Thom said as he walked past with a clipboard.

Danny, Dani, Vlad, Sam, Tucker, Curtis and Bob were sitting around in armchairs, inside a tent, drinking cocoa that one of the deputies gave them, "so, Vlad, does this mean business as usual tomorrow?" Danny asked cheerfully.

The older halfa shook his head, "no, I'm ready to turn over a new leaf, I think maybe I'll become a hero, after this," he gestured at the small petrol station that was the only part of the Guys in White base above ground. "I don't think I could take returning to being the villain, what is called for is a nice long holiday, I think Tahiti would be nice. Then I'm going to correct my mistakes, repent and all that, hopefully it's not too late for me, maybe the Aurors would let me join, I'm not a wizard, but maybe..." he trailed off as he stared at the sunset. "I hope I'm not ghost enough to be stuck in my ways, not forever to chase Maddie, I want to move on, find someone else maybe."

At this point Janet walked in, "I just had a talk with the Director."

"How did that go?" Bob asked from the corner.

"He fainted almost as soon as I started talking," she said, flopping down across an armchair.

"Well, guess it's back to the farm for me," Bob said to himself.

"Not necessarily," Vlad said, Bob started, "I would like to give you and Curtis jobs, to say thank you for helping us, how does heads of security sound?"

"Thank you so much Mr Masters," Bob said jumping up and rushing over to shake his hand, he was soon joined by Curtis.

"What are you going to do Dani?"

"Continue travelling I guess, I've got no better ideas, Danny's parents would shoot me on sight."

"I know we've had our differences Dani," Vlad said, "but how about you come stay with me? I promise not harm you."

Dani narrowed her eyes, "sorry Vlad, but I trusted you once, and fool me once," she left the rest of adage unspoken.

"There's a way to make sure he won't break his word," Janet said, drawing everyone's attention. "The unbreakable vow, this is spell in which one person makes a promise, if it is broken by the promiser and they haven't been released then they will probably die, don't think you'll be protected by your ghost half, I've heard of it ending spectres before, so it will affect you Vlad."

"I will swear it."

"Very well, hold each other's right wrist with your right hand, yes like that," Janet started the spell with its intricate weave of light, "repeat after me,

I, Vladimir Charles Masters,

Of my own free will and under no duress,

Do swear to raise Danielle Fenton née Masters as my own daughter,

To not harm her and to prevent harm befalling her,

To protect her and care for her,

I swear this upon my honour and my life."

The spell flashed and the two lowered their arms, "how did you know my middle name?"

"I read your mind back on the stairs."

"I should have known you wouldn't stop trying, anyway, how long until we can leave? Dani and I have a bedroom to design."

"We have to wait for you to give a statement and contact info, then I think the commissioner wants to talk to us."

"Indeed I do," a tall, muscular African American women said as she entered the tent, she was very tall, tall even than Bob and Vlad, she wore a black shirt, black trousers, big black boots and a black cloak, she had dark brown hair and blue eyes which gave a piercing glare everyone shied back from, even Janet and Vlad.

"I would like to thank all of you, I understand that Auror Harker would have been unable to finish his job without your help, in finally helping us destroy this threat we have decided to allow you all to keep your memories of the magical world. Mr Masters, we have also issued you with a full pardon, Mr Kippins and Mr Johns we have also pardoned you two, Mr Fenton we would like to present you with an offer to become a non-wizard Auror, when you turn eighteen of course, don't answer now. You have a few years, an invitation will arrive, the same goes for Miss Fenton, or should I call you Miss Masters now. Finally Miss Harker, good job, I don't expect less from one of Chiron's students, please never turn the criminal into a figurative, or literal bowl of jelly again, he wet himself when you talked to him earlier," she turned and walked off.

"Wait, your reward was her saying good job?" Sam exclaimed, when she was out of hearing range.

"Yeah, that's high praise coming from her."

"Janet," Thom said sticking his head through the tent flap, "we're going to go soon, say your goodbyes," he then withdrew and left.

For the next twenty minutes Janet said her goodbyes, when she left Danny turned to Sam, "do you feel like we've forgotten something?" Sam only shrugged in reply.

Somewhere in a forgotten corner of the Guys in White base was a thermos, from in that thermos came a small voice, "hello? Anyone there? I am the Box Ghost?"

En Fin