FIREGATE

Aurora's house

Venice, Italy

November 20th

2022 A.D.

Albus, Lincoln, Amelia, Athena and Sophia were sitting around the table in the living room trying to come up with a safe location for the world leaders to meet. At the same time Lincoln was trying to work out the kinks in a pistol that kept jamming. Everyone else was trying to find some sort of enjoyment or pass time. Although they were all friends or family, being stuck inside the same house for days on end was getting very old very fast.

Rose and Scorpius were sitting next to each other on the sofa occasionally making dreamy eyes at one another and kissing. They would often retreat into there own little world or at least they were trying to before Ron came and unceremoniously sat himself down right between then with an absent look on his face as if he didn't know there was anything wrong with it.

"Dad!" Rose hissed.

"What sweetie?" Ron said, still feigning ignorance.

"Go away!"

"What? I want to watch TV." he said clicking the television on.

Scorpius looked like he wanted to say something but hadn't mustered the courage yet.

"That's it! You are going to get used to the fact that I am with Scorpius because we are not breaking up!"

Ron turned and faked surprise at seeing Scorpius. "Oh, hello Scorpius."

"Mr. Weasley." Scorpius nodded.

Ron went back to flicking through channels.

Rose huffed loudly. "Your only acting this way because he's Draco's son!"

"Now sweetie, that's where your wrong. I'd be acting this way no matter who you're going out with." Ron smiled.

Rose huffed again and jumped off the sofa. She grabbed Scorpius by the hand, seemingly lifting him straight up and dragged him away to somewhere more secluded. Unfortunately, the moment they were alone in one of the back rooms, Draco barged in and pretended to look something that he'd never find. It was bad enough that they wouldn't allow them to share a room but every second they were together, one of their peers would be lurking nearby.

Despite the seriousness of the current situation, it would probably take a lot more than an impeding apocalypse to get Draco and Ron to agree to Rose and Scorpius's relationship. Ginny and Harry were trying to be civil to each other, mainly because they didn't want their kids to see them fighting but they certainly weren't back to normal which was a shame because everyone could tell that they still loved each other. Ron and Hermione were in a similar place except that Hermione would often try to initiate some kind of conversation or give a friendly gesture here and there while Ron remained extremely distant and indifferent to everything except his children.

Lynx and Violet on the other hand seemed to have toned down their relationship quite a bit since they now found it very difficult to be alone. Everyone knew that there was a lot of passion in their relationship but when they were around others they acted little more than friends. Of course, they, like Scorpius and Rose would often get caught gazing endlessly at each other and then try to pretend that it never happened. Violet had developed a strange little knack of biting her lip and blinking rapidly whenever some kind of erotic thought entered her mind.

Hugo was his same perverted self although he seemed to be solely interested in Amelia and Athena now. Probably because he didn't get to see Lynx and Violet reaffirm the fact that they were gay very often. The Bobs, despite still trying to plan elaborate schemes here and there were actually behaving themselves quite well and even helped out from time to time.

Lily seemed quite unhappy to be away from Hogwarts. Even though most of her first attempts at spells usually ended in something needing to be repaired or replaced, she nevertheless missed the life, the people and the over all magic of the school.

Albus and Aurora seemed to be the only happy couple in the entire house. They would be affectionate to each other whenever possible and didn't care who saw them. The baby name decision had returned a few times and admittedly they were both now wondering about what they should call it. They had also gotten into a lengthy debate about where or not they wanted to know the gender of the baby since it would now be quite easy to find out. They were still thinking about it.

Aurora had, very uncharacteristically, become emotional and unhappy at the fact that she was starting to get a larger waist. She had always managed to look amazing without really trying about now that she was having trouble fitting into her cloths, she had suddenly become very self conscious. Albus had simply put this down to hormones.

The person that was acting the strangest after this transition was Athena. She had started acting uninterested in just about everything except the impending war. She was showing absolutely no interest in Albus and was being sometimes overly nice to everyone, including Aurora. She wasn't falling for it though. Aurora knew that Athena believed devoutly that she and Albus were destined to be together and would never simply give up that idea. She was playing some kind new angle now and it was only a matter of time before she discovered it.

"Hogwarts is the best bet, especially now that it has the military guarding it." Amelia suggest again.

"They've infiltrated Hogwarts, the White House and God knows where else, we can't risk having this meeting in the open." Sophia retorted calmly.

"She's right. We don't even know who these people are much less where they are. It has to be somewhere they wouldn't expect." Albus agreed.

"Well, that rules out Geneva and the world court." Lincoln sighed.

"Maybe it doesn't..." Athena said looking quite inspired. "we just need to keep the location secure, so who says that we have to actually tell them the location?"

Albus seemed to know where her reasoning was going. "Change the location?"

She smiled and nodded. "At the last second. We tell them where the meeting will happen and then a few minutes before we take them to the real location. Even if they have people in other governments they'd never have time to set up an attack against it!"

"You're forgetting one thing Athena," Sophia offered. "if they do indeed have people inside other high level entities, then they'll know whatever we are planning."

"They'll find that out no matter what happens. They're first goal was to try and get us to fight each other now it's to simply invade and attack. Even if they know what we are going to do we still need some kind of plan to combat this. We can filter through security later. We just need a way to stave off destruction for the moment." Albus stated.

"So we're agreed? We change the location at the last second?" Amelia reiterated.

They all nodded in agreement.

"All right, so all we have to worry about now is security." Albus said just as Lincoln finished working on the pistol and handed it to his sister. "lets get everyone in here."

A few minutes later, much like the Dumbledore's army training sessions in the Room of Requirement, they had all assembled in the living room. Only this time it was Albus standing in front and not Aurora.

"All right, this meeting will take place as soon as we send out a location to meet at. Now we are going to be changing that location at the last minute to try and ensure that it can't be attacked but we're still going to need some kind of security at this place and since we can't be sure of who to trust, that falls to us." he stated. "I'm going to pair you up and each pair will be in charge of guarding and patrolling a certain area. Sophia is gonna go find the Cajun and Me, Harry and Hermione are actual representatives so you'll have to count us out. Bob One, you'll be with Lynx..."

"Nah, me and me cousin stick together." Bob One objected.

"I'm pairing a younger person with a more experienced one so you'll go with Lynx." Albus wasn't open to negotiation.

"Well in that case," Hugo pipped up with a smile on his face. "I'll go with the one that has the most experience in sucking." he winked at Amelia.

"Hugo!" Hermione shrieked in disbelief.

"What? You've taken my ability to swear, you're not going to take my right to perv as well!"

Ron held his face in his palm looking embarrassed while Hermione continued to look outraged. She turned to Amelia trying to look professional.

"I apologize for my son's behavior."

"Don't. He's right, I'm very good at sucking." Amelia said with a wicked grin on her face. Hermione flushed bright red went wide eyed.

"I know what I want for Christmas." Hugo smiled.

"Hugo! Enough!" his mother seemed to be getting extremely embarrassed.

"All right!" Albus tried to get back to work. "Bob One with Lynx, Bob Two with Violet," Bob Two gave her a wink which caused Violet to roll her eyes. "Mal, you'll go with your dad, Rose, you do the same. Mum, you take Lily, Athena you'll be with James, Lincoln you'll take Aurora. Hugo, guess what?"

Hugo grinned wildly and walked over to Amelia. "Oh come on love, give us a smile. You know it's the second best thing you can do with your mouth."

"Be careful what you wish for, Hugo. She gets rough went she's excited." Lincoln laughed.

"No I don't!"

"That last poor bastard practically ran screaming from your room!"

"That's because he was a pussy!" Amelia brushed off.

"Wonderful. My son's going to be shagged to death by a horny Vampire!" Ron grimaced.

"Ronald!" Hermione hissed.

"Isn't that illegal? I mean since you're sort of...dead." Harry asked awkwardly.

Amelia glared at him for a second then walked towards him. She grabbed his hand and slapped it against her chest. He could feel the low rhythmic beat under her ribs. It was slower than a normal persons but was defiantly there.

"Oh...still ticking?" Harry was turning bright red. He wished he hadn't said anything. Amelia flung his hand away.

"Vampires aren't dead, Harry. They have an Illness. They drink blood because their bodies can't sustain their own hemoglobin. Hence the paleness of the skin." Hermione said reaching back to her days in Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. "It's more of a...affliction, than anything else. The Ministry simply grouped them into the Magical Creatures section like werewolves which I think is outrageous and make no sense since..." her whimsy about the rights of Magical Creatures was cut off by Amelia.

"I don't give a shit what section of the Ministry they place me in. I don't plan on ever registering with them and if they try to make me, I'll make them regret it." she turned back to Harry. "The point is, If my heart stopped beating then my circulation would stop and I'd decompose. And besides, I make this illness look good." she grinned.

"Right, if we're all done talking about Amelia's physiology and rampart sex life can we try and save the world now please?" Albus look bored.

"Oh, that was just getting interesting." Athena moaned.

"Signal the world leaders." Albus ordered.

"Albus, you haven't told us the real location yet?" Ginny reminded.

"The Ministry of Magic."

Ministry of Magic

London, England

November 21th

2022 A.D.

"What the hell is going on?!" the President demanded as he climbed out of the Ministry fireplace.

"Sorry for the misdirection Mr. President, we couldn't take any chances." Hermione said holding out her hand for him to shake. "don't worry, the other representatives have been brought here by other means and we have trusted security guarding the meeting." she nodded to the paired up group standing by the Fountain of Magical Brethren.

"Those are children." the President looked like he was expecting her to burst into laughter at any moment and then show him the real security forces. Unfortunately she didn't and still looked quite displeased at the thought of her own kids protecting them.

"Apparently not." she mumbled. "the meetings taking place in the Wizengamot Court Chamber."

Hermione and the President walked over towards the lifts while the others spread out to begin patrolling the Ministry.

Inside the court chamber dozens of representatives were already seated and speaking with each other. The room was packed with leaders of foreign governments, both Muggle and magical. The British Prime Minister was there along with Mrs. Winters from the American Corum of Magic and French Minister. Most of the leaders of the European Wizarding communities had arrived but some countries wouldn't be attending the meeting. They either no interest in the Wizarding world or were strongly against it.

Harry walked over to Hermione and took a seat next to her while remarking how much he hated this room.

"Short notice Harry and besides, no where else is big enough."

Albus was actually sitting in the same chair that Harry had to sit in during his trail for using underage magic. It's also the chair that the poor terrified victim of Dolores Jane Umbridge before Harry and Hermione rescued her.

He stood up as the few remaining representatives took their seats.

"First of all, I like to apologies for the deception involved in bringing you here. As you may know, security has become a issue lately. The reason for this meeting is to try and plan and prepare to combat a possible invasion. Not too long ago an unnamed faction because leaking false information and initiating attacks with the goal of starting a conflict between the Magical and non-magical worlds. Information gather from members of this faction has confirmed that they will proceed with planned invasion of Britain sometime after the new year." Albus spoke loud and professionally. "we have to stop this."

"That's not a lot of information to build a battle plan on." The French Minister remarked.

"We are of course trying to gather as much intelligence as possible but there is a chance that we won't know exactly what is going to happen until it does. We can however prepare for a possible attack. The more prepared we are, the less the damage will be."

"Why Britain? No army has invaded the British Isles in over two hundred years. It's a fortress." The Prime Minister asked.

"Britain is the center of the Magical world, if it were to fall it would effect every Witch and Wizard on the planet." Hermione spoke up.

"It would also be an ideal place to launch an attack against Europe." The Irish Minister added.

"Your saying they want to take Britain then the rest of the world?" Winters asked.

"It's just a theory but it would make sense especially if their army is mainly magical in nature."

"I suggest a level of discretion about this. We don't want to start a panic." The Prime Minister suggested.

"He's right. We can't go around announcing that we might be about to enter World War III with an enemy we know nothing about." The American President agreed.

"Well, we can raised the alert level under the guise of something else but if it does come to an invasion, what do we do about the civilians?" The French Minister asked.

"We evacuate them." Albus said simply.

"You want to evacuate sixty five million people? That's impossible." Winters quipped.

"Going to the moon was impossible. The Earth being round was impossible. A man being able to manipulate Gravity with his mind was impossible and yet here I am. Don't tell me what's impossible just tell me how much time we'll need." Albus shot back in a stern voice. "There's got to be a way."

"Firegate." The Prime Minister spoke up.

"What's that?"

"Operation Firegate. It was design back in 2012 when the Night Virus hit eastern Europe. It's was to be activated should a similar epidemic ever start in British Isles. It's a four step systematic containment of the Island. Step one; Preparation for evacuation. We set up refugee camps in part of France, Spain, Germany and open all routes of transportation on and off the island. Step two: A military assisted evacuation of all uninfected civilians. Step three: Quarantine. A naval blockage of the island, nothing gets on or off. Step four: ...cleansing. Initiated by massive airborne firebombing. Complete destruction of the virus. I think we may be able to make this work for this situation."

Everyone stayed silent for a moment, thinking about the idea of the biggest evacuation in history.

"It's one of our Doomsday scenarios."

"How soon could you make this work?" Albus asked.

"Well, it was designed to be initiated with a two week deadline. That was based on the speed that most viruses spread. Of course, certain parts will have to be altered to accommodate various situation but I'd say we could be ready by Christmas." the Prime Minister explained.

"Then I think that's our best bet."

"Hold on, I'm not even going to try and think about the financial ramification of this but the activity alone will be noticed and then it'll only be a matter of time before the press gets wind. How exactly to we explain this kind of preparation?" Winters asked.

"Guarding against possible terrorist attacks. That usually works." the Prime Minister remarked.

"Maybe double up on it to be safe. Call it a possible biological terrorist attack." the President agreed.

Normally Harry and Hermione would be outraged at a government cover up and deliberately hiding the truth but under the circumstances they really didn't have a choice. The truth would do far more damage than a lie.

The doors to the court chamber opened and Athena stepped through. She walked over to Albus and whispered into his ear. Even though it was a lot less potent, she still smelt incredible. Everyone watched the two whisper to each other before Albus finally stood up.

"I'm sorry, something important has come up. I have go. I'll leave you guys to finish the planning." he said walking towards the door.

"More important than this?" the President asked with raised eyebrows.

"A couple of my kind are misbehaving. I have to go deal with them." he said simply before leaving the room.

A/N – Sorry for the delay in updating. I've been a lot busier than I thought I'd be.

P.S. I hope my Vampire biology was okay. I'm still paranoid about falling into the Twilight realm.