Harry Barton

AN: First off, wow, I really didn't expect so many people to read my story and extra thanks to everyone who reviewed. First off to people who have mentioned the grammar and structure I will be going back over the chapters and making them easier to read as soon as I get the chance, hopefully that will be within the next week. A special thanks to mugglemomto1 who pointed out the correct syntax for dialogue.

The pairings/relationships I have decided on so far are:

Tony/Pepper

Clint/Natasha

Thor/Jane

If anyone wish to suggest others you are more than welcome, not all of those people start in the relationships but they will grow as the story progresses. Also there have been almost exactly the same number of people asking for this to be a Harry/Hermione pairing as for me not to have it as one. So far the people I have considered pairing Harry with are: Hermione for obvious reasons, Kitty Pride/ ShadowCat, she's 15 in the story and one of the students at Xavier's school and Darcy Lewis, 18, intern for Jane . I haven't read as many X-men stories as Avengers so if anyone can point out any other characters that would make a good pairing for harry I would be extremely grateful.

I should also mention in this story Coulson didn't die in the Avengers he's still alive and still has his team from Agents of Shield, worth the watch if your willing to put up with a few bad episodes here and there. It's worth the watch even if just for Elizabeth Henstridge and Chloe Bennet.

I have changed the format slightly, if its easier to read please tell me and i'll use this format for the rest of the story, including the chapters already written

Chapter 3: Fallout, Avengers and X-men?

Dumbledore was furious first Harry Potter had disappeared, he wished he hadn't let Mundungus be on Harry's protection but there hadn't been enough guards if he hadn't. If that wasn't bad enough the minister was now trying to expel Harry from Hogwarts for a simple case of underage magic. As of this moment he was striding down the corridors of the ministry his robe floating behind him, his anger for the first time in decades showing on his face, he barely noticed as ministry workers jumped out his way.

Dumbledore threw open the doors to the ministers office shrugging off Percy Weasley as if he was annoying fly. The minister looked up as his door was thrown and groaned as he saw Albus Dumbledore come striding into his office, his assistant trailing doggedly at his heels. "Whetherby" The minister snapped and the redhead glowered "Leave us" the young man nodded and bowing slightly turned and left shutting the door behind him.

"Please have a seat" Fudge gestured to the seat opposite, trying to keep calm but inwardly terrified of what Dumbledore could do.
"You know why I'm here Cornelius" it wasn't a question but rather a statement that came for Dumbledore
"Yes, well terrible business the use of underage magic and breaking that statute of secrecy, I'm afraid there's nothing that I can do. Harry Potter must be expelled" Dumbledore could sense the glee in the ministers voice even as he tried to hide his happiness.

Dumbledore's gaze became icy cold, and his voice was hard "Really, your the minister, there's always something you can do, anyway that statute wasn't broken the only people who knew about the use of magic were his relatives and they know all about us" his anger was almost visible. "And remember no matter what the papers have been saying Harry Potter is still seen as the peoples saviour"

The minister shrank back in his seat wishing that the blasted boy had died along with his parents, really he was the minister for magic no-one should have more power than he did, but for some reason the public seemed to love him. As these thoughts crossed the ministers mind he realised expelling Potter would mean the end of his career. He groaned and buried his head in his hands.

Dumbledore smirked really playing on the ministers lust of power was becoming easier and easier. "Ok fine" the minister looked furious "I'll drop the charges" Dumbledore's look pleasure faded at the ministers next words "If and only if I get a private meeting with Mr Potter, is that clear"

Dumbledore froze slightly but knew if he wanted to have Harry somewhere where he was able to watch him he would have to consent to this meeting. Dumbledore nodded slowly "You may speak to Mr Potter" the minister opened his mouth but Dumbledore stopped him with a raised hand "However he seems to have gone on holiday with an old family friend and we can't locate him presently" he wasn't going to tell the minister he had had guards on Potter's family but they had no idea what had happened "As soon as we find him I shall tell you and you may have your meeting"

Fudge grimaced but nodded "That is acceptable Dumbledore, now if you don't mind I have paperwork to fill out."Dumbledore nodded and rose leaving the office without a backwards glance heading for the lift. He would have to call an emergency meeting for this, Harry must be found, the sooner the better, for both his safety and the future of the wizarding world.

At the same time as Dumbledore was meeting with the minister inside number 12 Grimmauld Place another meeting was taking place. Sirius Black Harry's Godfather was sat at the basement table slowly sipping at a cup of tea while around him the rest of the occupants, Harry's friends and members of Dumbledore's Order where gathered around his kitchen table arguing about where Harry could have gone and why he would have just vanished without so much as a note. The only other person other than Sirius not participating in the argument was his best friend and Harry's honorary Uncle, Remus Lupin who was sitting quietly in the corner watching everyone argue with and almost amused look. Finally Sirius had had enough, really they had been arguing for over half an hour and all they were doing now was repeating the points they made before. Jumping up he slammed his fist onto the table yelling at everyone to be quiet. He ran his gaze around the room angry

"What is the point in arguing?" he asked barely refraining from shouting "Harry's gone and there's nothing we can do about that now, what we need to do is to work out where he has gone and how to get him back, with his consent" his eyes fell on Molly Weasley as he said this she had been going on about how they should force him back as he was still under age, really the nerve of that woman she wasn't even related to him and here she ways trying to control his life.

"What I can't understand is why he left" the sad voice of Hermione Granger spoke, she had defiantly been crying and if Sirius had to guess she cared a lot more about Harry then she let on, he know that Harry fancied her, or used to anyway, and it seemed like she fancied him too.

Sirius was about to speak but Remus beat him to it his voice shaking with anger
"Really Hermione, they call you the brightest witch of your age and you can't work out why he would want to leave?"
Hermione blushed and then glared angrily at Remus when she realised he wasn't complimenting her.
"Well no" she snapped back "how would I when he didn't even leave a note for us?"

The Weasley twins Fred and George groan simultaneously.
"Really Hermione we"
"would have assumed"
"that you of all people"
"would know that Harry"
"doesn't like being left"
"in the dark I mean remember"
"how angry he got over the"
"firebolt incident"

"Stop it the pair of you!" Hermione's anger finally got the best of her and she snapped "explain what you mean plainly and one at a time" she added as she saw them both begin to speak.

"Hermione" one of the twins spoke, this time in his non annoying non twin speak voice "Harry likes to know what's going on, especially when it concerns things that could affect him, and I'm guessing that you've followed the headmasters stupid instructions not to write."

"Of course I did, he's the headmaster, and what did you mean how angry he got over the firebolt I was only trying to look out for him" she now sounding indigent and angry and stood hands on hips staring at the twins.

"Yes and Harry knows that" Sirius jumped in trying to defuse the tension in the room "He was just angry that you went behind his back instead of talking to him first" Hermione looked at the floor. She hadn't even thought of Harry's reaction before she went to a teacher "You should also know that Harry's forgiven you seeing that you only had his best intentions in mind." Hermione perked up at this, looking slightly better.

"I still don't see why he left, I mean he had no reason too, were his family Mums even called him as good as a son, he's just looking for more attention" Ron's grumpy voice spoke for the first time, he sat next to his mother arms crossed a scowl sketched across his face. The twins, Hermione, Sirius and Remus turned to him with looks of fury on there faces.

"Really Ronald" Hermione Hissed at him "you know Harry hates his fame"
Ron snorted "Really, so why do these stories of him doing all these fantastic things come from then?"
"He's got a point you know, if he didn't want the fame he would just tell everyone the stories aren't true" Ginny spoke up in defence of her brother, hoping if he stuck up for him that she could finally get what she desired.

The twins looked at each other "so your saying that Harry doesn't know your the one you made up most of those stories to make yourself look better Ronnikins?"
Everyone turned and stared in anger in Ron, and he shrunk back under the gaze of everyone bar Ginny and his Mother. SMACK. The sound reverberated around the room, Hermione stood in front of Ron tears of anger falling down her cheeks
"I wish I had never met you, you vile disgusting..." with a shout of frustration she turned and ran out of the room.

Molly was fuming she stood up ready to go yell at that girl for hitting her son, but Arthur placed his hand on her arm and gave her a look, she sat down almost meekly but fuming none the less. The twins shared a look between themselves and glanced a Sirius and motioned there heads upwards. A single nod for Sirius was all it took for them to dissapparate out of the room. The room fell silent, no-one really sure what to say of these new developments.

"Well" Molly announced suddenly standing up, and trying to look as if nothing had happened "I shall go and get dinner started" with that she left the room.

Remus moved over to Sirius and whispered to him "I don't like this, something feels off"
"I know what you mean Moony, we need to find Harry before anyone else does, and maybe join him where ever he's gone"
"I agree Padfoot, I'll try to get ahold of some of my contacts in the muggle world and see if they know anything, but for now just stay calm and sit tight" with those parting words Remus to stood up and left.

Meanwhile 4000 miles away in New York Harry and Clint where disembarking the Quinjet. As they stepped out Harry look around in awe the tower was huge he realised, much bigger than he had thought while he was on the jet. It was also much higher than he expected, he smiled to himself, wizards often forgot what amazing things muggles could do without magic, and it seemed this Stark person was one of the best, Although why he had an A hanging off the side of his building he wasn't sure.

He followed Clint as he lead him off the landing area and into the building, harry was startled the doors swished opened by themselves, why people like Malfoy insisted that muggles were useless he wasn't sure, it was just stupid if they could design and build things like this.

"Good Evening Clint" the voice made Harry jump and he looked around for the person
"Harry" Clint's voice got his attention "That's JARVIS, Tony's AI"
"Indeed I am" this time Harry noticed the slight mechanical tinny to the voice "A pleasure to meet you Harry"
"umm" Harry wasn't really sure about this, but it seemed normal enough "Nice to meet you too Mr JARVIS"
"Finally" the voice said "Someone who speaks to me with respect" it sounded almost happy, well as much as a disembodied voice could anyway.

The door the other side of the room opened with a hiss and a young woman walked through walking almost by instinct as her entire focus was on the table of information in front of her, muttering to her self about annoying bosses who didn't do what they were supposed to.
"Hello Pepper" Clint called out an amused smile on his face. Pepper looked up briefly "Hi Clint" was her only response before she froze and slowly raised her head and stared Harry and Clint, her confusion and shock was shown on her face, but all Clint did was smirk slightly, obviously amused by her reaction.

"Does someone want to tell me what's going on here?" her voice left no room for argument, obviously used to dealing with the unexpected.
Clint's smirk just grew "Harry, this is Pepper Potts Tony Stark's assistant" turning to Pepper he continued "Pepper this is my son Harry"
At that Pepper seemed shocking into silence, she opened her mouth several times, before Harry decided to take the initiative. He stepped forwards and held out his hand.
"Hello Miss Potts, its nice to meet you" That seemed to break her out of her shock. She smiled sweetly and took Harry's hand "Nice to meet you too Harry, but just call me Pepper everyone else does" Harry nodded

She then turned to look at Clint with a look that clearly told him to explain everything. Clint took half a step backwards "I'll explain everything once everyone's here has been introduced, I don't have to go through it more than I need to." She gave him a look that told Clint that she wasn't overly happy with this development, but then settled on a cheerier look when she turned back to Harry.

"Come on then, I'll take you down to the Dining Hall, Nat's already there and I think Bruce has got bored on Tony's antics and will be heading there soon, if he isn't already"
"Actually Miss Potts" JARVIS interrupted "Dr Banner is currently still in the lab, I can locate Mr Stark for you if I need to"
Pepper shook her head "That's Ok JARVIS he'll turn up eventually" With that she turned and lead both Harry and Clint into the elevator and pressed a button.

Harry's eyes opened huge as the stepped out of the lift, the Dining hall was the size of the Dursleys ground floor. One wall was made entirely of Glass and the view of the city was amazing, in the distance Harry could just see the sea. In the centre of the room sat three very comfortable looking couches arranged in a semi circle around a large table. Turning he froze and stared at the woman sitting at the island for a moment he though he was looking at a ghost of his mother with the red hear and piercing green eyes, but then his brain caught up with him and he realised that it wasn't his mother just someone who looked a lot like her. Harry realised he was staring and he blushed and looked at the ground in embarrassment. He shouldn't have worried because she was staring right back.

"Umm Clint" she sounded nervous, why Harry wasn't sure "Something you need to tell me?"
Clint for the first time since meeting Harry look apprehensive "Harry, this is Natasha Romanoff, Natasha this is my son Harry" The woman Natasha just stared for a moment longer before
"Hi" she sounded nervous and confused. Harry Smiled "Hi, don't worry I don't bite" that made her smile and relax slightly before turning her gaze to Clint.
"Going to explain" she asked in a voice eerily similar to the tone Pepper had used earlier. Clint nodded "I will do, I just don't want to more than I have to"

"I believe Mr Stark has just landed on the roof" the voice of JARVIS rang through the room, defusing the tension that had built up. Harry shook his head, that was going to get some getting used to. At this announcement Pepper jumped up and hurried to the lift muttering about irresponsible man children and their love of oversized toys. Clint just smiled, it was obvious to him that Pepper cared greatly about Tony even if he did drive her crazy.

Moments Tony Stark walked into the room whistling, Harry recognised him instantly from the interviews he had done on T.V. Pepper was on Tony's heels trying to get him to look at something he didn't seem interested in.

"So Legolas" Tony's voice was filled with humour and reminded Harry of Sirius' when he had just pulled a prank on someone "What's this I hear about you having an illegitimate love child, I never knew that I was such a influence on you" Clint groaned, really he should have expected something like this. Natasha just smiled, amused by the way that Tony seemed to be able to just walk into a room and make everything into a joke, Harry noticed that when she smiled her entire face seemed to relax. Pepper just rolled her eyes, used to Tony's antics.

Harry just looked confused "What's a love child?" he asking sounding more innocent then he meant to. At this both Natasha and Pepper laughed, Tony just looked upset that someone didn't know, and Clint gave Tony a look that said you mentioned it, you fix it. Tony just rolled his eyes "JARVIS you can explain"
"I will not" JARVIS sounded insulted "It is not right for me to corrupt the mind of someone so young however much you wish for it."

At that everyone laughed while Tony sulked slightly, "It's not right, why does my AI that I build bully me more than anyone else" he huffed
"Well sir" JARVIS began
"Don't answer that" Tony spoke quickly before it could continue, however this just made everyone laugh harder, even Tony managed to see the funny side of it.

The lift door opened and Harry turned to see another man walk in the room, he was slightly shorter than Tony only a bit taller than Harry himself, who thought that he was short, but maybe that was because he hung around Ron all the time. The new man also seemed slightly nervous as if he expect to hurt someone, it reminded Harry of the way Moony acted on the week leading up to the new moon.

"Hi" the man walked over nervously and greeted Harry "I'm Dr Banner, I'm going to guess your related to Clint, either that or your some sort of experiment that Tony whipped up" Harry smiled and introduced himself, but before he could ask any questions Tony interrupted them
"Hey I resent that, if that had worked you'd all be call me a genius"
"Yes well you already call yourself that and your egos big enough as it is" Natasha threw back at him. Tony looked hurt, well pretended to anyway, Harry got the feeling that this was the usual way of things around here.

"JARVIS do you know where Steve is?" Clint asked into thin air, still rather strange in Harry's opinion.
"Yes I believe he has been helping Coulson's team would with a problem down in Mexico" JARVIS replied.

"Ok, well since everyone's here I guess we should all get comfy, I've got a story to tell" there was a slight sound of worry in his voice, Harry wasn't sure anyone else picked up on it but him. Tony lead everyone over to the couches and settled himself down and beer in his hand the glimmer of excitement in his eyes, it seemed that he enjoyed a good story.

Harry didn't follow them to the couch, he knew the story already, instead he wanted to watch to city descend into darkness. He stepped out onto the balcony which ran along the outside of the tower and let the cool breeze which was blowing in off the ocean roll over him. He smiled this city looked amazing, he had the feeling that he could get used to it here. It almost seemed more home than Hogwarts ever had done.

Night had fallen by the time Clint had finished his story, he didn't want anyone to judge him or see their pity so he stepped out onto the balcony to look for his son. He saw Harry sitting on the top of the railing that ran along the outside of the balcony, he smiled at how similar Harry would react to his reaction when he was left on his own for awhile.

"Harry" he called out so not to startle him. Harry looked over and swung himself off the railing and back onto the balcony.
"I'm not in trouble am I" worry was in his voice.
"You're not, just be careful whenever you sit up high Ok?" The smile lit up Harry's face, and Clint couldn't help but to smile back.
"Now come on, time to show you to your room, its getting late and knowing Tony we'll all be woken up early by some sort of explosion, or him wanting to show us something" he was smiling when he said this, whatever Tony did they were still friends.

Clint lead Harry back inside and upstairs, Harry realised they were almost as high as they could go, but he was too tired. Clint showed him to his room and Harry stepped inside, tiredly calling out goodnight before undressing and collapsing into the bed falling asleep almost immediately.

Clint stepped out of the room and closed the door quietly, turning he saw Natasha standing against the wall, the worry that he had seen on her face earlier was back, twisting a lock of her hair around her finger.
"What's going to happen" She asked
"Nothing bad, we'll be fine" Clint tried to reassure her.
"You sure? I've never opened up before, or told anyone what I've told you" tears formed in the edge of Natasha s eyes "I can't do it again, I can't go back to the way we were" She stepped forward towards Clint as she spoke.

Clint closed the gap and kissed her hard running his tongue across her lips making her moan into his mouth. He pulled back as breathing became a problem and looked her straight in the eye "Nat, I promise we'll be fine, I know we decided to keep this a secret but can I tell Harry? Is that what you're worried about?" Natasha nodded sheepishly. "Then I'll tell him, for what I can tell he'll be happy for us" Natasha smiled and pulled him in for another deep kiss moaning as the kiss deepened and their tongues dulled for dominance. They pulled back when the need for oxygen overcame their hormones, they were both flushed and breathing deeply. "I'll see you in the morning" she whispered with a smile kissing him lightly on the lips before sleeping away. Cling smiled widely before slipping into his own room and closed then door.

The same evening at the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters Charles Xavier was having a meeting that could once again disrupt Harry's life. Across from him sat Jean Summers nee Grey and Scott Summers two of the most powerful mutants Charles had ever encountered. He had called them to this meeting after a session in Cerebro "I found a young man I need of our help, well specifically yours Jean" He got straight to the point as time was of the essence, even if young Harry didn't know it. Jean looked confused but worse she looked worried .

"Why's this young boy so important?" she had never before seen the professor looked worried
"Because he has part of another inside of him, and if that part is allowed to gain control of the body they it could rip our world apart and I don't know if we would be able to stop it"
Now both Jean and Scott looked scared, someone this powerful needed to be watched, guided to ensure we went down the right path and not to the path to darkness.
"Where is he?" Scott asked concerned for his wife showing in his voice.
'At this moment he is in New York, with the Avengers' a small smile graced Charles face, hopefully his old friend Dr Banner would be there.

"Crap you mean we have to deal with Mr Stark?" irritation filled Scott's voice, he couldn't stand Stark and his never grow up attitude. Charles nodded 'Indeed Scott we do, I'll be coming with you, we leave in the morning, so if you could ensure that Mr McCoy has the blackbird ready to fly please' Jean and Scott nodded and stood to leave.
They turned back when the professor spoke again "The boy's name is Harry Potter, and because of this part of him that isn't actually him, I can not tell if he's a mutant or a wizard."

Both Scott and Jean look confused for a moment, they knew what wizards were of course but Charles never knowing if they were a mutant or not was something they had never heard of before.
"And can someone see if they can contact Scarlett Witch, we might her unique abilities"
They both would have spoken but Charles had already turned his chair and was looking out the window and was watching the younger members of his school play as kids there age would. With a look at one another Jean and Charles left and went to prepare for whatever would happen tomorrow.

AN: As normal please read and review. I hope it isn't too long but this chapter more or less wrote itself and I didn't realise how long it was getting. Any suggestions are welcome. Three guesses what that part of Harry is.