Chapter 6: True Warrior Values

They were on air force one coming back from Paris Harry was sitting with a large bottle Jack Daniels between him and Toby, "Got to hand it to the French." Toby said to him.

"Yeah they sure know how to screw us, I'm all for us lining them up as a government and shooting them on the front lawn of the white house the next time they decide to pull a stunt like that." Harry said to him CJ stared at the two of them. "Can we interest you in a drink?" Harry asked her she shook her head.

"The press would love a moment with you if you have it." CJ said to him.

"Sure thing." Harry said to him lifting the arm of his seat up and standing taking another sip of the drink he left in on the tray. "Lets go give them what they want." Troy said to CJ who nodded her head as they walked through the plane.

"What do they want from me anyway?" Harry asked.

"The equal rights bill probably." CJ said to him Harry nodded his head as they entered the cabin.

"I heard someone wants to ask some questions about something." Harry asked them.

"Harry I have a source that says she was your lover back at school and that she had your love child." Mark Winters said to him Harry laughed.

"Mark tell me do you know the definition of gay." Harry asked hostilely.

"So you have never had a sexual relationship with a woman?" Mark asked.

"No Mark I've had a relationship with a woman I just haven't had sex with one." Harry said to him.

"Then you'd consent to DNA testing." Mark asked Harry stared at him.

"Your finished Mark, when he gets of the plane revoke his press credentials, you can question my sexuality all you like, you ever question my children's parent hood I'll throw you out the nearest exit." Harry snarled looking at them before walking back out of the room leaving a typing bunch of press and a chasing CJ in his wake.

"What the hell was that?" CJ asked.

"You want to watch your tone Ms. Creeg." Harry snapped at her. "I just got stonewalled in there by your press, with no preparation for what they were going to ask you want to know whether I am spitting feathers." Harry snarled in front of the presidents office. "Get him of the plane and revoke his credentials at the next stop." Harry shot at the woman. "And find out who his source is." Harry snapped.

"Your about to be on the front pages if you had kept your cool it wouldn't be an issue." CJ snapped back at him.

"You wanted for me to keep my cool in there, he just questioned a gay man and this white house chief of staffs paternity of his children." Harry said to her. "I got blindsided in there, its your job to bloody well brief me and the president." Harry said to her she stood stunned. "Go away and sort him out." Harry snarled at the woman.

"Wow I don't think I've heard you that angry in a while." the president said from the door way as CJ stormed down the plane back the way they had come moments before.

"Mr. President we have a problem." Harry said to him.

"I heard." Jed said to him.

"They got a woman claiming that I shagged her back in school." Harry said the man oh'd. "I was just asked whether I would… whether I would allow a DNA test on the twins." Harry said seething the president stared. "I just got blind sided by this and the press is going to bat on it, I am pissed at this story and when I find out who it is they better be in another country." Harry snarled.

"You know that Draco is the father." Jed said.

"And she knows I can't come out and say that." Harry said to him.

"You need a drink?" Jed asked him.

"No I have a bottle of JD back with Toby." Harry said to him.

"We knew something like this would happen." Jed said.

"If someone attacked your children sir what would you do?" Harry asked Jed nodded.

"Good point, you revoked his credentials?" Jed asked.

"Your damn right I did." Harry said to him. "I'm sorry this is going to look bad for us." Harry said to him.

"Go have your drink phone Draco and let him know what to expect we will be in the air when the press release this." Jed said to him Harry dragged out his friend.

"Thank you sir." Harry said walking down the hall stopping at CJ. "CJ I'm sorry I blew at you." Harry said to her. "When you have children you want to do everything you can to protect them, what he said in there hurt a lot." Harry said to her she nodded. "How often do you see me get that angry, I was out of line with you and unbelievably angry." Harry said.

"I know, do you want my resignation?" she asked Harry took her hand.

"No Claudia I don't you had no idea what he was going to say to me or ask, we all make mistakes." Harry said she nodded. "We good because I need to call Draco and let him know what just happened." Harry said to her she nodded. "I'm sorry you saw that side of me, but I would kill to protect my boys and any one stands and says that to me had better be prepared to have me in there face." Harry said walking down the hall taking the phone of the wall he spent the next half hour talking to Draco.

'Who is it do you know?" Draco asked.

'Legitimately it would only be Cho Chang, illegitimately it could be anyone.' Harry said to him.

'Bad press got to hate it.' Draco said Harry laughed as he saw the security chief come his way.

"Sir we have a situation." the man said.

"Draco something's come up I have to go kiss the boys and give my love to mum and dad." Harry said ending the call. "What is going on colonel." Harry asked the man.

"One of our search and rescue boats entered the waters of Iran." the colonel said to him. "Have we got contact?" Harry asked.

"Five of the twelve were beheaded on national television. The other seven are being held hostage as spies we can expect them to kill them if we let them." the colonel said to him.

"What were they doing in Iran waters?" Harry asked.

"Sir?" he asked.

"What were they doing in Iran waters colonel? I am about to explain this to the president so what were they doing in Iran waters?" Harry asked more annoyed now.

"They were rescuing fisherman who were taking on water." the man said.

"Were they armed?" Harry asked.

"Yes sir." the man replied.

"God damn it, I guess we have a new news story." Harry said to him before walking back to the presidents office and knocked. 'Come in.'

"Harry I thought you'd… what's happened?" the president asked.

"A SAR vessel carrying our flag was captured this morning in Iran waters." Harry said to him Abby winced. "They just executed five of the twelve crew and have charged the others with spying, we can expect them to execute the rest with in a week." Harry said to him.

"What were they doing?" Jed asked him.

"Rescuing fisherman from a sinking boat apparently, they were armed sir I'm not sure I buy the rescue job and I'm pretty sure that's what the Iranian's are thinking to." Harry said to him Jed nodded.

"Get me the secretary of defence on the phone get the joint chiefs on the phone and brief the rest of the staff." Jed said to him. "Your back in the game already?" he asked.

"We have a major crisis, if they kill our people all of them we are going to have to respond." Harry said to him. "I would rather that we don't have to do this, I'll get Leo in here he knows more about international diplomacy than I do and I could use his consort sir is that okay with you?" Harry asked.

"Of course." Jed said.

"Thank you sir, oh Josh Lyman was hired by Santos." Harry said to him. "Thought you'd like to know about that." Harry said before closing the door.

"CJ get the staff together now, let them know quietly we have a problem." Harry said to the woman his eyes creased with worry.

"You want Leo in on this?" CJ asked.

"Yes." Harry said turning to the staff office next to the presidents.

He sat waiting for the group to arrive drinking coffee.

"We are in for a long flight people, Iran arrested a SAR boat." Harry said to them as the door closed behind the last person. "We have confirmed five dead they were beheaded on the internet and the Iranian TV." Harry said to them the people stared in shock.

"Do we have details?" Sam asked.

"No, as yet we have no information beyond that which we can disclose to the public, they were armed yes we have the names of the people taken but we don't give out names until we've had the chance to contact the family." Harry said to them. "Leo I could really use you sitting in on the meetings along with Sam we are going to have to make some very difficult decisions in the hours to come." Harry said to him with a smile. "Lets wake some people up get them to the office so we have people working on this from the ground passing us information." Harry said as Charlie walked in. "Yes Charlie." Harry said to the boy.

"Your needed sir the Iranian's are on the phone." Charlie said to him.

"Thank you Charlie, Sam your closet slap him round the back of the head for me." Harry said as he rose from his chair. "Lets get to work, don't tell the press anything more than you have to CJ, let them stew on it for a while." Harry said as the three high ranking staffers made their way to the presidents office. "I need you all on top form tonight guys and I am sorry this gets dropped on you like it has been but that is life." Harry said as the people went to work.

"Ah the three musketeers." Jed said as they walked into the room Nancy was on the screen.

"Morning Nancy you look like we woke you up." Harry said to her she smiled.

"You did Harry." Nancy said.

"How long?" he asked.

"An hour one lousy hour." Nancy said to him.

"What is your take on this Nancy what kind of response do we make to this?" Harry asked.

"It has to be immediate if they won't give us back the men or if as we suspect their already dead." Nancy said.

"Until that is a definite I don't want to hear that kind of opinion lets for the time being assume that they are alive and well and hid somewhere do we know where?" Harry asked.

"No." Fitz said coming into the view.

"You look like hell admiral they invented pro plus for a day like today." Harry said to him the man laughed.

"You're a real comedian." Fitz said.

"I have two twins who keep me up most of the night Fitz how do you think I survive." Harry said to him the man laughed. "We have the Iranian's on the phone do you have a translator there?" Harry asked him. "My Arabic modern anyway is a little rusty." Harry said to the man who stared at him.

"Yes we do." Nancy said. "I'm asking you about that later." she added.

"Sure thing, I'll even explain the reason why I know the language so can we get down to business I am sure the president is getting tired of the banter with everything else going on." Harry said the president snorted with amusement as the three men sat in seats nearby.

"Put them on." Jed said to Harry who pressed a button.

'President Irane your on the line with president Bartlett his chief of staff and national security adviser." Harry said to the phone.

"He says that he wishes it was under better circumstances." the translator told them.

'Imran your holding seven of our men hostage for trying to save fisherman's lives you can't do that and expect us to take it lying down.' Bartlett said to the phone.

"They were spying on we responded to the threat they will be sentenced to death for their crimes." the translator said Harry rubbed his eyes.

"Imran if you do that we will have to respond in kind, think about it." Harry said to him. "You and I both know that they were on a rescue mission that strayed into your borders you illegally bordered a distressed vessel." Harry said to the phone. "Tell me Imran did you rescue the fisherman?" he asked. "The reason that our staff were out their in the first place." Harry asked the man.

"We do not rescue spies or traitors." the translator said Harry looked like he wanted to punch something.

"Sir you can not execute these people, you and I both know they are innocent so what is it you want?" Harry asked the man.

"A seat at the nuclear trade discussions." the translator said to him Harry looked at the president.

"Sir I am going to put you on hold while we discuss this." Harry said waiting for the translator to finish before pressing the hold button. "Anyone have ideas?" Harry asked.

"We can't give them what they want." Toby said to the president.

"That we can agree on what do we do?" the president said.

"How long would it take to come up with punitive targets to cover for a rescue mission." Harry asked Fitz.

"An hour." Fitz said.

"I need to make a call, I have a way to keep us out of this and get our people back without loss of life." Harry said to the president.

"What do you have in mind?" Jed asked.

"I used to work for something called the order of the phoenix their a rogue group of the British government." Harry said to him. "They can get in there and out without death or murder." Harry said to them. "They only stun unless there enemies." Harry said.

"Your sure that they can do this?" Jed asked.

"We can even make it look convincing." Harry said to him.

Harry walked into the private room of the main office, standing in view of everyone in the room he was shouting and gesticulating for what seemed like hours. If the president had to guess he wasn't have a great conversation, they could hear the shouting man through the door but none of them were sure what the hell he was talking about. When Harry came out he looked at the people in the room before smiling at them.

"We have a rescue team, Fitz I need everything you have on where they are being held and I need numbers just in case it goes tits up." Harry said to the admiral who seemed worried. "They can do the job but I want them prepared just in case someone rumbles it." Harry added the man nodded. "They'll be wearing some funny clothing so if it does go bad their probably accuse someone else, these guys dress worse than American's." Harry said to him the president tried to chuckle. "Tell him we need more time and that we need him to give us that time while we speak to our allies, I need five hours to get this in motion." Harry said to the translator the president nodded. "If you gentleman will excuse me I have a very important rescue mission to pull of." Harry said then to everyone's astonishment he turned into a China man in front of their eyes. "God I love magic." Harry said before their was a loud pop and the man was gone.

"Someone want to explain to me how he did that?" Sam asked. "I know of metamorphmagi's but that is nothing compared to apparating in a moving object, that was just plain impressive and showing off." Sam muttered to himself.

"His leading this thing." CJ shook her head while the others stood in the room. "God help the sorry's son's bitches when his through with them." CJ muttered.

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Harry stood in Grimmauld place, "So here's the plane we have seven targets for rescue they are muggles and the muggles cannot get to them in time, we are going in quickly and quietly I have their location on my laptop." Harry had picked it up before leaving for England from the house the admiral had emailed him it.

"Why are we rescuing muggles." Moody asked.

"Their going to be executed for rescuing or trying to rescue some fisherman that's why, I promised the president we'd get them back without attracting attention so we cannot be detected and if we do no one can survive if they know or think that the American's were there they will react violently." Harry said to them. "So if you don't want to kill we have to do this quietly. Moody for so many reasons your not coming." Harry said to the man.

"I need a team of six excluding myself." Harry said. "Seven including myself so six volunteers." he said to them he got six. "If they see you its game over and we have a fight on our hands so shoot stunners first ask questions later." Harry said to the group.

"Okay the rest of you out, its best you don't know the rest if your not on the team." Harry said to them the men nodded leaving the house. "Okay we'll portkey in just inside the compound here, we have reliable Intel it's the rubbish tip so it should be quiet." Harry said. "The people we are looking for are here." Harry pointed on the map. "Once we get them out we can apparate out, when we do we are taking them to Andrews air force base." Harry said to them.

"Good lets do this." Harry said to them.

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Harry stood on the rubbish pile dressed in black fatigues looking at the others he scanned the area before shifting to his phoenix form, 'This should do the trick I'll be your watch tower.' Harry sent to their minds.

"You heard the man." Remus said to them as they went their own ways.

Harry soared into the air using his far superior eyes to search the area, 'Moody watch your four you have a guard ten feet and closing.' Harry said to his friend.

"Why are we doing this again." Remus muttered.

'You don't think it would be strange if they said they were rescued by an Ice phoenix.' Harry asked he chuckled. 'You have an entrance coming up Remus, on your left it should be twenty metres from where they are being held everyone fall back to the apparition point we have the targets in reach.' Harry added.

"Roger." came back the replied low through his mind.

Harry flashed silently beyond the door taking his mouse form he made his way down the corridor, 'The way is clear I have them in site.' Harry turned back into his human form.

"This is the rescue party boys." Harry said to them.

"This is just one weird day." one of them said as Harry used magic to open the door. "We have to get clear of the building." Harry said to them turning into his Jaguar form. 'Follow me quietly.' Harry sent to them.

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Harry appeared back in the president's office five hours later in one of his phoenix forms singing a note to the first lady as he turned back into a human, "Morning sir." Harry said to him with a smile.

"What type of bird was that?" Jed asked.

"Alaskan Ice Phoenix one of my favourite forms." Harry said to him.

"Phoenix's exist?" Abby asked.

"You have the common fire phoenix which really isn't all that common but its pretty damn cute, then you have seventeen other species, you could have two fire phoenix's and they'd produce a shadow phoenix which is one of my favourite forms." Harry said changing form Abby gasped as Harry landed on her shoulder rubbing his cheek on her cheek before jumping back to his normal form on the floor. "A little harder to handle but beautiful." Harry said to her she nodded touching her face.

"You mind not doing that." Jed said to him Harry laughed.

"Sorry sir, the taken crew are safely back on a ship memories wiped of the events involving there rescue, I don't much fancy explaining the phoenix or the rat/human." Harry said the man stared. "We only needed me but it helped that we had those people there if something went drastically wrong." Harry said to him.

"I led the order to Andrews let them go away wiped the minds of the sailors before taking them to a ship in the gulf they won't have a clue how they got there but their alive and well." Harry said to him Jed laughed.

"Any killed?" Jed asked.

"One will have a very nasty headache when they wake up." Harry said to him. "One got a little close to our wand happy ex auror." Harry said laughing. "With your permission sir I'd like to take my seat before we land." Harry said to him.

"Of course Harry." Jed said.

"Is that all you can do?" Abby asked.

"Sorry ma'am what do you mean?" Harry asked.

"Your forms?" she asked.

"Oh no, I can take pretty much any form I have seen." Harry said to her changing into his jaguar form Harry tilted his head to one side before turning into a dream wolf and back to human.

"What was that last one?" Jed asked.

"A dream wolf sir." Harry said to him before opening the door. "That was the first one I learned." Harry said the man laughed. "My godfather brought me one for my birthday when I was thirteen." Harry said as a parting comment closing the door to the room and walking down the corridor to where the staff sat.

"Your back." Toby said.

"And the best bit is they wont have a clue about how we did it." Harry said to him Toby laughed. "They'll know it was us of course, but since we didn't kill any one destroy any walls or anything like that they won't be able to do a damn thing about it." he added as the pilot announced they would be landing shortly.

"Oh thank god I need some sleep." Harry said to CJ who giggled.

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Harry walked back into the house just before sunrise having been kept in the office for most of the night that was left, Sam had said that he would take care of the day so Harry could catch up on some of his sleep. Harry however had that driven from his mind when he heard the screaming of the twins coming from the kitchen as he walked into the room, "Morning people." Harry said tiredly as he walked over to the twins.

"You two have been giving your daddy trouble haven't you." Harry said poking them lightly in the chest they fell quiet. "Now you two and I are going to have a conversation when I wake up from my nap about tiring your daddy when I am not here misters." Harry said Draco laughed as he wrapped his arms around his mates waist.

"Mum and I have been trying everything since your visit to quiet them." Draco said as Harry turned around to face him.

"They sleeping?" Harry asked as James walked into the room. "Hey your mum sent me down to take care of the twins so the two of you could get some sleep." James said to him. "Everyone is dead on their feet except me and your godparents." James said Harry nodded barely registering anyone else at that time he was so damned tired Harry slipped from his mates arms dragging himself up the stairs to their rooms.

"Remus got to sleep while he had to sit out the rest of the flight after they left." James said to Draco.

"You better believe he isn't tired enough to neglect his family." Draco said to him. "But he needs to sleep you sure you got this?" Draco asked the man nodded and he to followed Harry up the stairs and out of sight as the other two men in the house came down the stairs.

"Harry finally get home?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah he sure did." James said to him. "About ten minutes ago and his dead tired." James added.

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Harry walked into the kitchen some eight hours later looking slightly less tired than before, "Coffee?" James asked him Harry shook his head.

"Thanks dad but no thanks the last thing I want right now is coffee what I really need is food." Harry said to him James laughed and pointed at the oven and the smells. "Thank god for parents with a good sense of timing it saves me going down to the café a few blocks from here to get some food." Harry said to his father who laughed as his mother came in.

"Draco still asleep?" Lily asked.

"Yeah I can't sleep more than eight hours at a time." Harry said to her she nodded. "Where are the twins?" Harry asked.

"In their nursery." James said pointing at the monitor on the table Harry smiled.

"They took their feed a couple of hours ago." Lily said.

"No fussing?" Harry asked.

"Michael didn't go down easily." James said to him Harry nodded as Draco came into the room his blond hair sticking out at right angles.

"That's cute." Harry said ruffling his mates hair.

"You want to die?" Draco asked as Lily handed him a tea cup full of his favourite herbal tea.

"I've seen Donna drink hideous things before but that is borderline dark arts Draco, how do stomach that stuff." Harry said to him James laughed as Draco growled Harry's phone rang. "Excuse me." Harry said stepping into the garden and opening the call.

"By the time they he comes in here his going to be spitting fur balls." James said placing that days paper in front of Draco.

Everyone in the room could hear the shouting from Harry through the doors as he let rip, everyone winced when the twins started screaming at the top of their tiny little lungs. Harry however was to busy shouting down the phone to take note of the twins screaming state of mind. Harry ten minutes later walked back into the room glaring at the paper as he threw the thing across the room.

"Harry." Lily tried to placate him.

"That stupid sanctimonious little bitch." Harry snarled his father was impressed. "Ginny Weasley released this out jealousy." Harry snarled before apparating from the room.

"Oh boy someone is about to get what for." James said to his son in law.

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Harry's sudden appearance in the middle of the burrow living room was nothing compared to the shock of him slamming Ginny against the wall with his magic, his hand wrapped around her throat the woman screeching at him.

"You tramp, how dare you." Harry snarled at her.

"Harry you should calm down." Molly said trying to pry his hand from her daughters neck.

"I stomached your jealously for Draco being my mate and not you, I stomached the malicious rumours at Hogwarts. I draw the line at having my name dragged through the mud and my children's paternity questioned by you in the international muggle press to make you feel better." Harry screamed at her Molly stared. "You smeared my name in the press knowing full well I could do nothing to respond to it, you did it as a cheap shout you fucking idiot. When you smear my name it looks on me it looks bad on the president…" Harry said holding his hand up. "And it stutters my work for a better world for our people, you set me back six months with that release." Harry snapped punching the wall next to her head.

"Is this true." Arthur snarled at his daughter Harry let go of her neck.

"Yes." Ginny snapped. "I wanted him to leave that bastard." Ginny screamed.

"You are unbelievable… I want nothing to do with you Ginny I didn't then and I don't now." Harry snarled at her she slapped his face for the effort. "Arthur I cannot be seen with your family at all until this quietens down." Harry said. "You come near my children or my mate they won't find enough of you to bury are we clear." Harry asked the woman his eyes as cold as ice.

"Harry I love you." Ginny whined.

"And I have never loved you, I told you the day you ask me out the first time I was gay. What you did hurt me Ginny you hurt my children who would that this morning, stay away from my life all of you stay the hell out of my life." Harry snarled at them before apparating out leaving an entire family staring in shock at their daughter and sister Ginny stomped her foot in irritation and petty anger.

"Pack and get out." Arthur turned on his daughter. "Harry is finally breaching the gaps between us and their world, his finally doing good working and moving wizards world forward, you didn't just hurt him you hurt all of us tonight and I don't want you in this house a minute longer so get out." Arthur said to her she started to cry. "I disown you Ginny, you may no longer call us family or use the Weasley name." Arthur said to her the magic in the room rippled as Ginny's name was torn from her magical presence she felt an emptiness as the magic left her leaving just what she had without the Weasley bonuses.

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Harry walked back into the house with an armful of comfort food, Draco walked into the hall way to see him carrying bundles of food. "The Weasley's called." Draco said Harry glared at him. "Wow there poppa bear, they just said that you left angry beyond believe and told them to keep away from us." Draco said. "You want to explain that one?" he asked.

"No not really." Harry said as he walked into the kitchen past his mate.

"Harry your going to talk about this." Draco said.

"Draco I do not care to talk about it, I just blew a casket at them and they just threw us in the press so your damn right I told them to stay away." Harry snapped Draco stared at him. "Please can we just eat in peace and not argue about this." Harry said as the rest of the house came into the room. "I brought KFC on mass." Harry said to them James smiled as he helped unpack the food.

"Harry why?" Draco asked.

"Because I can't be seen with them right now, their family just embarrassed me my family and the president." Harry raged at the blond. "I can't touch them with a ten foot barge poll right now without making me look I have something to hide, I can't respond to her accusations because you're the twins father." Harry slammed his fist on the table. "We are wizards would you like me to make the announcement to the muggles that we exist and that humans aren't the only intelligent species on the planet." Harry said to him. "Because if so I am sure they have a nice padded side for me on stand by." Harry snapped.

"This really as got to you." Draco said his mates agitation clear for them all to see.

"Of course it did I just got an equal rights act through congress and she just ousted me as a bloody closet straight man hiding the fact that he likes women." Harry snarled at him. "She just set our agenda back with that move." Harry said to him frustrated as hell. "I am so past angry at her that I wanted to kill her this morning for what she did." Harry said to him.

Harry grabbed a leg of chicken biting into it with gusto.

"Is their anything we can do?" Draco asked Harry shook his head now Draco was angry. "Why?" he demanded.

"Because I chose to help a muggle president that's why, she knew what she was doing when she did it. What I want to know is who helped her do it, who worked out how to hurt us most on muggle rights. And when do I find out who helped her to discredit me you better make sure their ten thousand miles away from me." Harry said to him.