Chapter four

The next two weeks went pretty much the same. In the morning they would train. The team would train their own techniques and the wizards would do the same. In the afternoon they sometimes held a practice fight or the team was tutored on the wizard world. In the evening a meeting often occurred. Although they learned a lot, they never learned everything about the past of the Golden Foursome, as the others often called them. Nell and Eric got along well with Fred and George. The twins invented some brilliant combinations of technique and magic along with the Wonder twins. Soon Nell and Eric were introduced to their practice fights. There wasn't a clear winner anymore. Sometimes one team won and sometimes the other. They often mixed the teams up.

After a week Harry decided that he would try to learn them Occulumency. It took them longer then it would take wizards. Harry explained to them that wizards automatically knew some of it. Their thoughts didn't fly around like Muggle's. It was explained that that was so that wizards who knew legilimency wouldn't just pick up their thoughts. "You can pick up our thoughts?" Deeks asked horrified after that explanation." Harry just grinned. "Only what you are thinking at the moment. I try not to, but it is difficult since I don't want to just shut of my legilimency. It is my way to see what someone's intentions are." "Is that the reason you didn't interrogate us when we arrived?" Callen asked interested. Harry nodded. The team was now determined more than ever to learn to close their mind. They knew they would never be able to hold of a full force attack, but at least they could make sure their thoughts didn't fly around. Harry had said they could only leave the house if they could do that. So the team tried as hard as they could.

Hetty had left them after a week. She was needed back in America and she couldn't do much here. Granger had stayed, spending a lot of time with his granddaughter and her husband. He approved of Ron. It was clear he wished the best for Hermione and that was all Granger could ask for.

When they were hitting their two week mark of staying in England Harry surprised them with a trip. He explained it was something for the mission of his friends and he. He thought it would be a good trip for them. He appearated them to a small cottage. He asked the team to check the area and stay on guard. Harr, Ron, Hermione and Ginny did something with their wands and walked to the cottage. It took a lot of time and a lot of wand waving before they went inside. After five minutes they came out again. A small ring with them. "Come in." They yelled. And they started running towards the tree where they had appearated. The team started running with them, but before they could reach the tree strange creatures with raged clothes appeared between them and the tree.

Deeks felt cold all around him. He saw his worst memories. When he looked to Callen, Sam and Kensi he saw they went through the same. He almost couldn't concentrate anymore. He was reliving relived his father hitting him. Sidorov with the drill machine. He looked at the wizards. He saw them standing, tears in their eyes. They also seemed to be reliving a lot. Harry looked like he was going to faint. But then he looked Ginny in the eye and together they raised their wants. "Expecto Patronum!" They yelled in the cold air. A stag and a horse appeared out their wands. The stag went towards them, guarding them. The horse began chasing the creatures away. Ron and Hermione seemed to be doing the same thing. A dog and an otter joined them. Deeks couldn't see what kind of dog it was. He felt the memories and the cold leaving them. The creatures left.

"What was that?" Kensi asked. To everyone else it looked like she was okay, but Deeks could see she everything but. He pulled her closer. For once she didn't resist. Together with Sam and Callen they walked towards the wizards. "What was that?" Kensi said, repeating her question. Before they could answer Harry capsulated. "We have to bring him back." Ginny said worried. She took Harry's hand and Callen's and she disappeared with a plop. Hermione gave her hand to Kensi and Deeks and Ron took Sam with him.

Not much later they sat in the kitchen of the headquarters. Tonks and Remus rushed in. They started giving them all chocolate. "Eat it, it helps." Remus said. At that moment Harry woke up. "He knows." He said with a sad look. "He knows and he is furious." Ginny wrapped her arms around him. "It's going to be okay." She said. "I saw everything again, Gin. How can we stop them?" The team looked at them. Painfully aware that this was a private moment. "We can Harry, because we have to." Ginny said, although she had tears in her eyes to. Harry and Ginny sat there for a moment, seeking comfort in the other.

"What were that?" Sam asked after a while. "Dementors." Remus said dark. "They take away all happiness and make you relive your worst memories." "Why didn't you chase them away earlier?" Sam asked angry. He knew he was irrational but he was upset and it had been a very dark experience. After this question Harry seemed to lose control. "You try to focus on happy thoughts when you see your mother begging for your live and then get killed. You try being happy when you see your godfather getting killed in front of you. You try happiness when the man you saw as a grandfather gets killed in front of your eyes while you can't move." Harry broke down in sobs. "Maybe you didn't know happiness as needed for that spell, but at least you should know they affected us too. We have told you many times we have been through a lot, but still you seemed to think we could have been faster." Ginny took over from Harry, clearly angry. "Maybe you didn't know it was a difficult spell, but that isn't a reason to do that. You have no idea what you just did. You could have make us lose all trust in you. You know yourself how they affect people. You saw us standing there. You don't know a lot of us, just like we don't know a lot about you. We don't know each other's dark experiences, yet you judge us." Remus and Tonks had left the room. "Well, you keep saying you have been through a lot, but you never tell us." Sam went further. "So you told us all your dark experiences?" Ron shot back. Sam shook his head defeated.

"Maybe we can tell each other about it?" Callen suggested. He didn't like talking about his past, but he knew they had to win the trust of the people in front of him back. Before anyone could say anything he went further: "We have to trust each other." To his team he said: "We can't expect them to tell us something when we don't do the same thing." To Sam he added: "I know you're upset, but don't take it out on them. I'm upset to, but it isn't their fault. They were right when they said we could have lost their trust. We already lost a big part of it." Sam nodded.

"The most of our adventures from Hogwarts are the same, so I'll start with before Hogwarts." Hermione started. She told them about her being bullied because she was different, About how happy she had been with the Hogwarts letter and how she had hoped it would change everything. Ron followed with his live as the youngest boy. Ginny as the youngest girl and how she had to prove every time she wasn't a weak girl that needed to be protected. Deeks went next, he told them about his father. Kensi did the same, she told them too about her time on the streets. Callen told about all his foster homes. Sam didn't have a lot to tell about his tell about his childhood, but he told about being a Navy Seal. Together the team launched into an explanation about their time with NCIS. They told about Sidorov, about being closed up in an undersea bomb. They had expected the kids, as they still saw them as kids sometimes, to be horrified, but they weren't. They looked impressed, but not hirrified 'strange' Callen thought 'wonder what happened to them at Hogwarts that they look like they have had worse. Of course they are at war, but it can't be that bad right?'

Everyone looked at Harry. He sighed and kept Ginny close. He started his story. Deeks and Callen felt for him. They knew what it was to be abused or neglected. They now understood Harry's comment about his mother dying. But then the four launched in an explanation of their years at Hogwarts. Deeks shook his head. At eleven he had to shoot his own father. At eleven these kids had had to save their world from Voldemort. Then they went to their second year. This time Harry had to calm Ginny. When they came to the fight with the Basilisk Sam's eyes went big. Then their third year. They heard how Harry had fight of hundreds of those dementors, when he was thirteen. They only had to face ten and it had been bad. They couldn't imagine how that had been. They went to the night in the Shrieking Shack. Callen was shocked as he learned that Remus was a werewolf. Harry's fourth year had even been worse. He had been fourteen at the time. They listened as Harry told how he had to defeat dragons and other creatures. At the end he had to fight Voldemort himself, again. Then their fifth year. It was Kensi's turn to compare it to her own life. At fifteen her father had died, she had live on the streets. At fifteen Harry was called a liar by almost everyone and on top of it he had to cope with the traumatic nightmares. On top of that he had to deal with Umbridge. At fifteen she had lost her father. At fifteen Harry had lost his godfather, the only person he had as a father figure after his father had died when he was one. Then Harry told them the prophecy. They now understood why Harry was leading the war. Then Harry's sixth year, where Dumbledore had died. And that was where it left them now. "Do you know enough now?" Ginny asked Sam, still upset with him. "I'm sorry." Sam said. He didn't know what he had been expecting, but clearly not this. It was true, he had seen a lot, but he had been an adult then. They had been kids. He couldn't call them kids anymore. They were grown up. He hated to admit it, but he didn't think he could take it as well as Harry was doing.

A/N: I have a bit a struggle with this story. It is quite difficult to write all characters in character. This story will most likely have between the ten and fifteen chapters. If someone has an idea about what they would like to see in the next chapter. I would love to hear it!