THE MAN WITH THE PLAN

Malfoy Maison

Istanbul, Turkey

August 3rd

2100 A.D.

"Why did Athena want to turn Albus evil?" Anya asked with furrowed eyebrows.

"I don't think she wanted him to be evil. She wanted him to be an Anomaly when he was trying to be a human being. She was in love with him and couldn't stand to see him with anyone else." Scorpius explained.

"Didn't Hugo fall in love with her or something...I think I heard that somewhere..."

Scorpius chuckled. "No, Hugo didn't fall for Athena although there aren't many women he would have said no to. No, Hugo fell in love with -"

He was cut off by a knock at the door. The door was opened slowly and a dashing middle aged man with glass poked his head through.

"Hope I'm not interrupting?"

"Uncle David!" Anya leapt off her chair and ran over to her Uncle as he entered the room.

"Hey kiddo!" he said, returning her hug. Violet's husband was a tall, broad looking man with short dark hair. He bared a slight resemblance to Harry and was even Head of the Auror Department. "You excited to start Hogwarts?"

"Yeah!" Anya nodded happily.

"Listen, I need to have a quick word with your Granddad. You mind rummaging around in the kitchen for some chocolates or something?" David asked with a smile.

"Why would I mind getting chocolate?" Anya grinned and darted out the room.

David closed the door behind him and approached Scorpius. They shook hands, almost as if they were co-workers.

"David, good to see you. I heard you were busy." Scorpius said conversationally.

"I am. Max attacked Heathrow airport this morning." he said gravely.

"I see." Scorpius smiled sorely and returned to his chair. "so this isn't a family visit, it's an interrogation."

"That's not what I'm hear for an you know it." David said harshly.

"Really?" Scorpius asked with raised eyebrows.

"I'm not here to interrogate you, I just wanted to see if you'd heard anything. You still have eyes and ears in a lot of back channels, I thought -"

"Why would I possibly involve myself in Max's affairs?" Scorpius cut across.

"It wouldn't be the first time that you've been involved with a dangerous Anomaly, would it?" David said insultingly.

"Those days are long gone. I haven't spoken to any of the other Marauders in years. I'm retired. I'm exiled from the U.K. Which makes it quite difficult for me to stay in touch with people." Scorpius stated sounding bored.

"Fair enough." David glared. "But I really don't want to find out that you're hiding something from me."

"Me hiding something? You're one to talk. Have you told my daughter what your real job is?"

David was clearly a little taken back but kept his cool.

"How many Anomalies have you made disappear, David?" Scorpius stung.

There was a heavy silence between them for a second before Anya's voice broke the tension.

"Sorry, are you two still chatting?" She asked from outside the door.

"No, we're finished." Scorpius said happily, as if the whole scene hadn't even happened.

Anya walked back inside looking a little disappointed.

"I'll try and stay for dinner but I'm pretty busy at the moment." David had also gone back to acting like everything was perfectly normal. "Say hi to your mum for me okay?" he smiled, giving her another hug.

"Will do." she took a seat in front of Scorpius as David left the room. He didn't say good by to his father-in-law.

"No chocolate?" Scorpius asked.

"No, I think you've run out." she huffed.

That was a lie. He suspected that the Malfoy sneakiness had already rubbed off on her and that she had been listening outside the door the whole time. If she had, she was doing a very good job of hiding her real reaction.

"Never mind...now, where we?"

Hogwarts

Scotland, U.K.

November 14th

2022 A.D.

Rose remained frozen on the spot with a look of complete horror on her face.

"Rose!" Albus called out, walking towards here.

Scorpius immediately jumped in front of here, looking as shocked as she was. "Stay away from her!" he was frightened.

"Rose, wait!" Albus called as she bolted away from the entrance and back into the castle.

Albus gritted his teeth. This wasn't how it was suppose to go. He turned to Athena who also looked very worried at his actions. "This what you wanted?" he scathed.

"Albus...I..." she mumbled but he walked away into the castle.

"Well Athena..." Lincoln said darkly. "you wanted the monster...there he is." he followed Albus back into the castle.

They walked through the damaged corridors in silence and headed up to the Room of Requirement. Most of them were still in shock about what had happened and couldn't even react to it yet. Aurora seemed to purposely be keeping her distance from Albus while Athena followed, lagging behind a bit.

As soon as they pushed open the doors, Albus ducked as a balled up fist that came at him.

"YOU KILLED MY DAD!" Hugo screamed as he continued to try and attack Albus. He was in a complete frenzy with murderous rage in his eyes.

Albus shot his hand our and Hugo flew through the air and was pinned to the wall.

"I did what I had to do! Eventually you might understand that!" Albus growled as everyone backed away from him.

He released Hugo, letting him fall to the ground. He didn't charge at him again, he just stayed there, breathing heavily and looking like an enraged animal.

"Everyone get in the tunnel!" he ordered.

Everyone, Tannis included did so without a word. Scorpius helped shuffle Rose through the portal as she seemed to have turned slightly catatonic. She was crying or looking mad like her brother but just seemed to shiver slightly and look into nothingness.

Shock seemed to have taken over everyone else. They didn't know how to act at that point. They didn't know whether to be happy that Albus stopped a traitor or sad that one of the original heroes of the war was dead. Harry seemed to be the only person that had actually been hit with any kind of emotional response. He had tears in his eyes and looked as if he were some how cold or ill.

They eventually moved down the tunnel. Hugo and taken hold of Rose, while Scorpius had his arm around both of them.

"Don't go through yet. We need to wait until it's clear." Albus said.

Again everyone simply responded with silent obedience. He crouched down against the wall next to the exit. He couldn't stand to look at them like that. For most of them, this was their first encounter with the death a cohort. Some of them had witnessed Albus kill and they had all just fought against the army but none of them had ever witnesses the death of a friend.

They didn't understand things the way that Albus did. They couldn't understand that everything he did was for them. That he had to make the hard choices so that they'd never have to. He was their guardian and at the moment they couldn't even bare to look at him, or he at them.

They waited for a long time. Nobody said a word.

There was a strange clunking noise from the exit hatch and Albus stood up breathing a sigh of relief.

"Bout bloody time!" he grumbled.

If they had looked shocked before then it was nothing compared to how they looked as the hatch was opened from the other side.

"You took your time!" Albus moaned.

"What were you expecting? The bloody village was crawling with them!" Ron huffed back.

Everyone was frozen. Ron Weasley was standing at the exit looking like nothing had even happened. He had dirt on his chest and face from where he'd hit the mud but there was no bullet wound anywhere on his body.

"Dad..." Rose breathed in disbelief. It had to be a dream or a hallucination. She bolted at him, wrapped her arms around him and began to sob into his chest.

For a second he looked slightly confused then realized what had happened. He turned to Albus with a pissed off look on his face. "She wasn't supposed to see that!"

"What?! I told them to wait up here! It's not my fault that your kids have a hearing problem!" Albus moaned back as he climbed through the portal.

"This whole thing was a set up?!" Aurora breathed in complete surprise. "You were never working for the Cleric's! You were working for Albus the whole time!"

"Of course he was. How do you think I knew about Vanguard!" Albus called from behind, still moving about somewhere inside the empty Hogs Head Inn.

Ron quickly turned towards Lily as Hugo walked over and hugged his resurrected father. "Lily, I'm so sorry. We had no idea that he would go for you. I had to give them reliable information or they'd know I was a double agent."

"I'm still trying to wrap my head around what just happened so forget about." Lily said absently.

"I'm sorry you had to see that, Rosey." Ron soothed as he held his children. "Cleric's aren't a country club. You can't just leave them, the only way they let you go is if you die or Al dies."

"I since I wasn't willing to except either of those, we decided to fake his death." Albus added from behind. "Can everyone look shocked at my amazingness later, I'd like to leave now!"

"He's right, we'll explain once we're safe." Ron agreed, helping a still teary eyed Rose through the portal, only this were tears of joy.

She turned to Albus actually looking slightly guilty for her behavior. "Albus -"

"Rose," he cut her off before she could begin. "I'd never do anything to hurt you, you know that." he said pulling her into a hug as Hugo climbed through.

"You're lucky because I was about to really bust you up!" Hugo said none too convincingly.

Albus laughed and pulled him into his hug with Rose as The Bobs climbed through the hole.

"In all fairness, we deserve credit for this." Bob One said.

"Yeah, we came up the faking death thing last year for an insurance scam. You stole our idea!" Bob Two agree.

"People we're faking their deaths long before you two came up with it!" Lynx said as she climb through.

"True, but we were going to pull it off with style!" Bob One retorted.

"Sorry to steal your thunder." Ron smirked.

"Well, I think we've all learned a valuable lesson here; Don't doubt me...ever!" Albus said, checking the Vanishing cabinet that was stood in the corner.

Amelia groaned as she climbed through the portal, her shoulder still seeping blood.

"You all right Amelia?" James asked following behind her.

"Oh, I'm just peachy!" she hissed.

"Don't worry, we'll get you patched up in no time."

Harry was the last to climb through the hole. He stopped next to Ron looking like he'd just had the greatest fright of his life. "I thought..."

"Well, it's not the first time you've been wrong is it?" Ron said simply.

Harry couldn't help himself. He grabbed Ron and pulled him into a bone breaking hug. After a few seconds, Ron actually returned it. "You're not gonna get rid of me that easy..." he smiled slightly.

Nothing like death to bring people together.

"All right, I'm going to head back to the school and begin repairs." Tannis stated. "I'm sure that most of the students won't want to stay after today but I'll do my best to keep them safe."

"Thanks Alex. I'll update you as soon as I can." Albus said shaking his hand.

Tannis turned and headed back down the tunnel as Ron closed the portal.

"All right, this is kinda of a...novel sensation." Lincoln said awkwardly as he prepared the Vanishing Cabinet. "Escape regulations state that this is a none smoking Vanishing cabinet. Please keep your arms and legs inside the magic thing at all times."

"Maybe I should fly you back," Albus said, looking at Aurora. "this might not be good for the baby."

"Albus, we'll be fine." she sighed at the obvious fact that Albus was still being way too overprotective of her.

"Yeah Al, she'll be fine." Athena chimed. She sounded like she was hoping Aurora would be anything but fine and received a glare for her troubles.

"Sorry about back there." Scorpius said quietly to Albus.

"For what? Protecting my cousin from me?" Albus chuckled.

"Well I didn't know about the whole fake killing of her father thing."

"Of course you didn't. It wouldn't be very effective if everyone knew about it, would it?"

"It was quite sneaky. You sure you're not a Slytherin?" Scorpius smiled.

"You sure you're not a Gryffindor?" Albus fired back.

"I do wonder sometimes." he smirked.

Albus looked around as the others seemed to return to normal as well. Ron's death had been shaken off in the same manner as a horrible and vivid nightmare.

Lincoln sighed. "I swore I'd never use one of these things again!" he quickly jumped inside the cabinet a vanished into nothing. One by one they all followed him through. This time Albus was the last to leave.

Aurora's house

Venice, Italy

November 14th

2022 A.D.

After a few seconds of what felt like being inside a giant washing machine he managed to climb through the other side. He flopped out and onto the floor, too disorientated to actually stand.

"I'm gonna stick to flying from now on..." he mumbled.

Around the spinning living room, everyone else looked like they were trying to shake off the dizzy feeling from their heads.

It was still dark outside, Venice being only an hour and a half ahead of Hogwarts. Aurora's house seemed a lot bigger than he remembered but then of course, he hadn't actually been there in a good few months. That and the fact that she had obviously enlarged parts of it.

"I wasn't expecting this many people to come here so I'm going to have to enlarge a few more of the room. The good news is that I own the whole building so there are more rooms downstairs. They just don't have anything in them." Aurora said, leaning against a chair while she waited for the dazed feeling to leave her.

Albus managed to pick himself up but was having a little bit of trouble focusing. "This is Aurora's house and you are guests in it so treat the place with respect." he said, sounding a little confused.

"You get any of the porn channels?" Hugo asked without a care.

"Good question." The Bobs agreed.

"No, Hugo, I do not get any of the porn channels." Aurora sighed. It was going to be a lot of work sharing a house with these lot.

"You got a Playstation or something?" Bob Two asked.

"No...I have books."

Rose seemed quite pleased.

The dizziness had all but faded after a few minutes and Albus walked over to Amelia who had taken a seat at the table.

"All right, Amelia, let's have a look at you." he said motioning to her shoulder.

"It'll be fine, Rose already removed the bullets." she said.

"I like to be thorough. Loose the top." The last part cause Hugo and the Bobs to suddenly perk up.

Amelia pulled out a knife from her ankle holster and sliced through her bloodied top. She didn't seem at all shy about sitting in nothing but a blood stained bra. Her body was just as pale as her face but didn't have a single flaw. (apart from the blood) Since vampires will eventually heal from just about anything, they never scar and their skin never ages. She was toned from her years of running and fighting but still didn't look anywhere near her true strength.

Hugo looked like an excited baby and was probably about to start drooling like one too. Albus took a look at her wounds that were barely bleeding anymore. He made sure that there were no bullet fragments or cloth in the holes before allowing Aurora to conjure up a few bandages.

"You got great boobs, Amelia!" Hugo suddenly blurted.

"Hugo!" Lily and Rose shrieked.

"She's been shot, is covered in blood and all you can say is how great her tits are?!" Ron laughed.

"See, that's why I like you, Hugo. You tell it how it is." Amelia grinned as Albus chuckled.

"Can I touch them?" he didn't seem to know the meaning of the word; subtlety.

"Maybe in a few years." she remarked simply as he continued to stare at her chest.

"I'll get you a new shirt." Aurora said, rolling her eyes at both of them as she left the room.

After the subsequent giggles died down, Harry turned to look at Ron. "So how did..."

"He found me about two days before they did. He told me he thought the Cleric's might try and get to some one close to you lot so I said I'd do a bit of undercover work." Ron explained quickly.

"You volunteered?"

"Yeah, I am an Auror Harry, this is sort of what I do." Ron reminded.

"Right." Harry said, feeling stupid.

"Anyway, once we knew that they were going to send Vanguard after him we decided it was time for me to leave." Ron continued. "we had to make my death public so that the info would eventually get back to them. Although, there aren't many of them for it to get back to. Mathis is still missing."

"Missing? You think he's dead?" Amelia asked.

"Maybe. I don't know." Ron shrugged.

"Tell me how you contact him and I'll track him down." she said darkly.

"There's no need for that." Albus said quickly as Aurora returned with a clean shirt for Amelia.

"He killed my father, of course there is need for it. Unlike yours," she nodded at Hugo. "mine actually stayed dead!"

"If he run into him, we'll deal with him. He's not the threat at the moment." Albus said, sounding like a parent.

"Yeah, about that...what the plan?" Scorpius asked.

"Me and Athena are going to meet with the President. Then we start looking for whoever's been turning gears behind the curtain."

Athena looked smug at the fact they she was again going to be alone with Albus. Aurora didn't look so pleased.

"You lot better send some letters to your parents. Let them know that your safe but don't say where you are. There's a few owls upstairs that you can use...unless you moved them?" he continued.

"Nope."

Amelia slowly and painfully whipped the blood off her body with a towel before pulling the clean shirt on. Although she was no longer topless, Hugo continued to stare at her chest somehow expecting her breasts to magically reappear.

"All right. We shouldn't be too long. I'll let you know what's happening when we get back." Albus stated. He gave Aurora a quick kiss on the lips which made Athena cringe slightly before walking over to the window.

"Try to keep your hands to yourself," Aurora glared at her.

"Oh, look Aurora, you've started to get fat," Athena said with fake sweetness.

"That's what happens when you're pregnant...but you wouldn't know about that would you?" Aurora shot back her own venomous smile.

"Ladies, play nice now," Harry said.

"We'll be back soon," Albus said. He awkwardly put his arms around Athena while Aurora shot daggers at her. Since there was no cloud cover here, there was no chance of her being able to travel on the lightning so he would have to fly her across the Atlantic. Athena made ever effort to make their embrace as hard on Aurora as possible.

Albus gently kicked off from the floor and floated out the window before picking up speed and altitude.

"Can I see your boobs again?" Hugo, who had been taking absolutely no notice of anything Albus, Aurora or Athena had said, asked while still staring at Amelia's chest.

A/N – My original Fiction (Barrier Frank) is now up at