Harry Barton
AN: Thank you everyone read this story, I'm amazed by the response and all the positive reviews I've received.
Wow this story seems to be writing itself, I guess my update estimate of one or two chapters a week is a bit few, but I guess being out for the summer and not having a holiday planned for another month would do that. Knowing where I want each chapter to go helps as well, don't know how long I'll be able to keep it up, several other ideas for stories have been popping up in my head the past few days, maybe one of them will turn into something maybe not.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of Harry's superhero name, I have a few but they all seem a bit tacky.
I have feeling that is won't end up as Harry/Hermione story, just doesn't seem to fit where it is going. I haven't decided how big a role she'll end up playing though.
Outofthisworldgal: Mini Merlin Awesome, can totally see Stark calling Harry that.
Maquislady 1388: Thank you for that review, honestly is always nice, especially when they come with thought out reasoning. I am in the middle or rewriting chapter one slight to make it more believable, that main reason for Harry to leave with Clint so quickly is I needed to get the story moving, looking back at it now I realise the mistakes I have made,
The annoying guest reviewer who keeps saying update soon, I will update as soon as the chapter is ready and not because you have asked multiple times so please stop
And for those of you asking no Harry will not be attending Xavier's School, I'll not reveal my plans, you'll just have to keep reading to find out, unless you guess correctly then Kudos and cookies to you.
Chapter 4: The Start of Something New
Harry was laying on possibly the most comfortably bed he had ever had the pleaser of sleep in, it was even better than the bed in his dormitory back at Hogwarts. His eyes where closed the previous day had been more tiring then he could have imagined after he had met his fathers friends. His father he was still getting used to that idea, but it was something he could get used to, he just hoped no-one would come and mess this up, for the first time something finally seemed to be going right for him.
But for now he knew it was early, and so was contented to just lie here knowing he didn't have to get up. He had just started to slip back into the realm of dreams when
BOOM!
Harry shot upright in bed looking around frantically
"STARK FOR FUCK SAKE" Harry heard Clint yell in both frustration and anger, with a groan Harry rolled out of bed and reached into his trunk for some clothes. He sighed as he realised how baggy they were. He would have to ask Clint if someone could take him shopping.
Sleepily he pushed open the door and saw Clint stumbling down the hall, rubbing the sleep from his eyes he decided the best course of action would be to follow him. He followed his father down the stairs into the Dining hall and flopped into a seat by the island table.
"Coffee?" the far to awake voice of JARVIS asked.
"Coffee, milk no sugar" Clint responded
"Same for me" Harry spoke up, annoyed at how raspy his voice always sounded in the morning.
Harry blinked and almost fell backwards as the centre of the table opened and two cups of coffee rose up. Clint didn't even have the smallest reaction so Harry assumed that this another normal thing to happen around here. He grabbed his coffee, well the one Clint hadn't grabbed and let it rest between his hands the warmth of it spreading up his arms. Several minutes passed in silence both of the drinking there coffee before Harry's stomach decided to make itself known. Clint laughed at this
"Hungry Kid?" Harry nodded blushing in embarrassment "Hey there's nothing to be embarrassed about, everyone gets hungry" Harry didn't even react when two plates of food rose up out of the table, he had been expecting that after the coffee.
"Thank you JARVIS" Harry said into the air.
"You're welcome, I like you Harry, you have manners others seem to have forgotten" he didn't sound upset more amused.
Harry smiled at this, and began to eat. It was very good he realised, whatever else JARVIS could do, it could most defiantly cook.
Harry then realised everything seemed normal, no smoke nothing to indicate any explosion of any kind. "Umm Clint" he asked "What was that explosion about earlier?"
"Kid I have no idea, but it happens all the time around Tony, especially in the morning" He had a wry smile on his face "I've learnt if there's only one explosion its either deliberate or Tony made a mistake"
At this point JARVIS pitched in "If was anything over important that put lives at risk I would inform everyone"
"See" Clint said with a nod to the ceiling JARVIS looks after Tony, well when Peppers not, speaking of Pepper she's normally awake by now, JARVIS where is she?"
JARVIS voice spoke "Miss Potts is on her way to DC, she has a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should I call her for you?"
"No need JARVIS I'll speak to her when she gets back"
Clint glanced over at Harry and noticed the confusion on his face, he also noticed had only eaten half the food on his plate and was just pushing the rest around.
"What's got him looking so confused?" Bruce's voice asked as he stepped into the room, another plate of food and cup of coffee rose out of the table "Thanks JARVIS" Bruce said in an almost off hand, automatic kind of way while looking at Harry with a bit of concern.
"What? Oh hi Bruce, nothing I was just wondering about what JARVIS said" Harry replied to Bruce's vague question.
Clint instantly understood what he meant "Well DC is also known as Washington DC, or just Washington, its where the White House is as well as the houses of congress, The Joint Chiefs of Staff or JCS as there also known are the people who run the American military and decide how to fund it, they want one of Tony's suits to test on when he refused they requested a meeting with Pepper."
Harry shot Clint a grateful smile "Thanks, makes sense now, I guess I'm going to have to learn a whole new set of rules"
Clint nodded "Probably but we're all willing to help" Bruce nodded encouragingly. "And if you mess up too bad, your my son so SHIELD can just clean up the mess" He added with a mischievous smile.
"Hi boys" the voice of Natasha announced herself. "Morning" they all replied. She moved and took another seat at the Island. Harry looked at Clint intending to ask him something but stopped him self when he saw the look he was giving Natasha, he smiled to himself there was defiantly something going on there, and given by the glances that she shot Clint over her breakfast when she thought no-one was looking it was definitely a two way street.
"What's wrong Harry" Natasha's voice broke him out of his thoughts.
He looked confused "What do you mean?" Harry was confused "Why would there be something wrong?"
"They starved you didn't they" Clint's voice was low and angry. He had Noticed that Harry had stopped eating. Natasha looked confused for a second before realising who they were, when she did her eyes became dangerous and everyone was reminded that was had been trained as an assassin. Harry just looked ashamed and nodded at the floor. Clint sighed, he wanted to go and hurt those Dursley's but his first priority here was to ensure his sons well being.
It was at that moment Tony walked in, covered in soot and one of side of his face singed with a light burn. But for once no-one reacted to it. He noticed the tension in the room. "Guys, what's wrong" he asked? Bruce just nodded across the where Clint was sat next to his son, quietly taking, Natasha just look furious, she stood and moved past him stopping and whispered in his ear "Those Bastards abused him Tony" fury shone in her eyes, for all her past she had never once hurt a child. She continued on into the elevator.
Tony just felt bad for the kid, he seemed like such a nice child, he made the decision there and then to help Harry, he would have a childhood, even if it came a bit late, that was something he could do. Tony moved to the island and took the seat the other side of Harry, Clint looked annoyed for a moment for noticing the look in Tony's eyes and nodded.
"Hey kid, how about we get JARVIS to have a look at you?" His voice was calm, relaxed even though inside he was furious. "What do you mean?" Harry was confused how could a machine take a look at him.
"Well I've got a full medical lab downstairs which JARVIS runs, and since those glasses don't look prescription and I haven't been able to find any medical records for you, I would guess you've never been to the doctors?" Harry shook his head sadly "The Dursleys said freaks like me shouldn't need the doctors" Clint's eyes narrowed what sort of people wouldn't take there own family to the doctors.
"You should go do this" he told Harry "That way we can make sure you're fully healthy" Harry just looked nervous "It would make me feel better knowing that your healthy" Clint added seeing Harry's apprehension.
Harry nodded "Ok, I'll do it" he said, the nerves got, determination in his voice instead.
"Come on then, if your finished breakfast I'll take you there now" Tony said with a smile, he placed his arm round Harry's shoulder and led him to the elevator.
Bruce narrowed his eyes at the slight flinch Harry gave when Tony touched him. He waited before they had entered the lift before turning to Clint "I'm guessing he's not used to being touched" he asked concern in his voice. "Oh he is" Clint replied "But not in a non harmful way" his voice filled with restrained rage.
"They beat him" Bruce's voice was long and angry. Clint nodded. "Bastards" Bruce spat "How could anyone do that to a kid" He thought for a moment "JARVIS" he called out, and raised his hand to forestall any questions from Clint. "Open a file on the Dursleys and find out everything you can about them please"
"Of course Mr Banner" the voice of JARVIS echoed back. Clint nodded "Thanks" he said with a smile.
The medical lab was amazing, it looked like something Harry had seen on T.V in those Star Trek shows. He couldn't help but gape at it, open mouthed in shock. How was it that the wizarding world decided that all this was useless, the more he saw the less he wanted to return to that world.
"Come on the Harry" Tony called "sit up here" he patted the bed next to him. Harry walked over and swung himself onto the bed, perching on the edge of it, his eyes darting around the lab trying to take everything in. "He's all yours JARVIS" Tony said taking a few steps back and turning a monitor away from Harry so he could look at the results.
Harry Sat as still as he could while still trying to look at everything. Tony smiled at the obvious enthusiasm he had for learning about something new. Harry barely noticed when the needle punctured his wrist and drew a blood sample. A light was shone into his eyes making him jerk backwards before he realised it was JARVIS running some sort of test, so he held himself still until the light had moved on. Tony nodded as he looked at the screen, one thing he loved about having his own medical lab was that he didn't have to wait for the results to come back.
"Ok so far what I can tell is that you shouldn't need glasses" Harry looked amazed at this fact and couldn't help but ask "Why? I've always had them" Tony smiled sadly if only his relatives had been kinder to him. "No from what I can tell you had an accident when you were young, about 5 which caused you to need glasses, if you'd gone to the doctors straight away they would have been able to fix you, as it is JARVIS can perform surgery on your eyes and they'll be as good as new" Harry looked conflicted almost nervous "How long would it take?" he asked.
JARVIS answered before Tony could "It would take about several hours for the surgery and then would have to avoid bright lights for about a week to ensure your eyes don't regress" Harry nodded a genuine smile appearing on his face. "That would be amazing" he said. Tony couldn't help but smile back, really Harry's smile was infectious when he was happy.
"For now I need you to lie back so JARVIS can run a full body scan and check all your bone structure and vital signs, as well as calculate how much damage those damnable Dursleys did to you" Harry looked nervous but they were tears in the corners of his eyes, someone seemed to finally care. Harry laid back, looking straight up wondering what was going to happen, when for several minutes nothing did he looked around confused. And saw Tony looking in disgust at the screen in front of him
"Tony?" Harry asked in a small voice. "What, oh sorry you can get up now" Tony looked up and smiled at Harry trying to reassure him
"It's done?" Harry asked "And what's wrong?" he had noticed the look on Tony's face.
"You, well not you but your body condition, your far to light and skinny, I'll get JARVIS to put together a nutrition schedule for you that will help you grow and put on weight" Tony noticed the look in Harry's eyes, it was one he used to have when he thought he had failed his father.
"Hey look here" her said stepping round the monitor and crouching in front of Harry "No-one here blames you Ok, especially not your father, not after seeing what your home life was like, but at some point you will have to tell someone about it" Harry nodded "I just don't want to let anyone down" he said in a small voice. "You won't trust me" Tony said with a smile. "Now how about we go and see your dad, and we need to get you out shopping if your going to be hanging around me you need cool clothes" Harry's face lit up at the prospect of getting clothes, Tony smiled but felt sorry for him, he had received so little in his life that even getting new clothes made him happy. Well if he had anything to say about it that was going to change he would spoil the boy as much as he could get away with.
Harry and Tony entered the combat training area where Natasha and Clint were sparring, Bruce wasn't there. From what Tony had told him Harry assumed that he would be in one of the labs higher up in the building. Tony and Harry watched the pair of them spar for several minutes, Harry amazed at how easy they made hitting someone looked.
"Hey, you two" Tony interrupted them, they stopped and looked at him with annoyance before noticing Harry and their gaze softened. "If you can stop try to beat each other up, or its it flirting now" his usual smirk back on his face. "We've got the results from Harry's medical exam." Clint and Natasha ducked out of the ring and made there way over to where Tony stood. Clint looked at him in expectation "So what's the verdict" he asked anxious to know if there was any major damage done to his son.
"Well first off, he does, or won't need glasses" Clint nodded he had hoped this would be the case, it would make teaching him how to shoot easier "JAVIS can have his eyes fixed in a couple of hours but he'll have to wear a special pair of glasses for a week so that light doesn't damage them. Clint was surprised by this and showed it causing Tony to chuckle slightly "Second JARVIS is currently developing a nutrition schedule which will help him grow to the size and weight he's supposed to be"
Natasha glanced up "I'd like to take a look at that before it gets implemented" she sounded worried. Tony glanced at her confused so she elaborated"The Red Room used similar ideas to make us grow faster and stronger, but some of the substances they used affected our minds" Tony nodded seeing the look of worry that crossed Harry's face "That shouldn't happen here, even I can't get into the files from the Red Room, but you can still look" Both Natasha and Harry relaxed at that.
"Other than those there's nothing physically wrong with him" Tony continued "Harry here has excellent reflexes, way above average, and for his size has good muscle strength so that's good" Clint flashed Harry a proud smile and Harry blushed never before having felt the praise of a parent it felt good, even if he didn't want to say so out loud.
"Mr Stark" JARVIS' voice rang out "I've finished that schedule" Tony nodded "Ok, Print out a copy and leave in on the island table" Turning to Natasha "You can read it whenever you like, probably should let young Harry here have a look too" Natasha nodded and headed for the elevator fulling intending to go and read that now.
"So what happens now?" Harry asked looking between Clint and Tony. "Your call Legolas, he's your kid" Tony deferred to Clint, Clint blinked in surprise not normally used to Tony letting someone else take charge. "Well I need to check in with Fury and probably should explain everything to him, so why don't you get JARVIS to give Harry that operation and I'll be back in a couple of hours, then I guess we could go down town tomorrow and take Harry shopping" Tony looked at Harry and smiled as he nodded brightly. "See you later son" Clint walked towards the elevator pausing only to grip Harry's shoulder in support.
"Come on" Tony motioned with his head "lets go get this operation started" Harry smiled, something Tony noticed he was doing more and more the longer he stayed with them. They moved off back to the medical lab to get rid of Harry's glasses.
It was early afternoon and central park was full of people Scott swung the blackbird around looking for a decent place to land before settling it over the water. It sank slightly before settling, Scott relaxed and smiled at Charles "It seems like everything Hank does to this plane just makes it better" he said with a smile.
Charles nodded "Well were only about 10 blocks from Stark Tower, its easy enough to find" The ramp on the back of the plane lowered and they walked, well Scott and Jean walked Charles set his chair to roll rather than hover so not to draw to much attention to themselves. Looking around to check that they hadn't been spotted, Jean's powers ensured that the normal person wouldn't notice them but you could never be too careful, they made there way towards Stark Tower.
Back in England it was still morning when the twins, Hermione, Remus and Sirius were sat in the library, the only room they seemed to be able to escape the harpy that was Molly Weasley and that was only because Sirius had to personally allow them access to the library, which he was refusing to do for anyone apart from those with him at the moment.
"Right" Sirius started off "Well all know that Harry wouldn't have just vanished without a trace or struggle unless he had good reason too, Dumbledore sent Mad-eye and Tonks over earlier to talk to the Dursleys but they couldn't get much out of them, apparently someone turned up a couple of days ago claiming to be Harry's father, broke his uncles leg and then left with Harry and whoever this was they were a muggle as Dumbledore's wards weren't set off"
Remus frowned, deep in thought while Hermione and the twins looked in shook before grinning at each other
"Cool"
"That would be"
"The best Prank ever"
Sirius just shook his head in amusement at there antics, he envied the fact that they could see the lighter side of everything. Hermione however looked worried "Surely he wouldn't just follow someone just because they said they were his dad I meant his dad's dead, isn't he?" Sirius nodded, a bit sadly "Yes Hermione he is dead"
"Actually he might not be" Remus sounded unsure and slightly worried, "we never did find out what that spell 'infelix aevitas' was" Hermione gasped and put her hands over her mouth in shock. They all looked at her "What?" they all chimed.
She looked and then explained "I don't know why that spell is even legal, its a infertility spell, it means if you get hit by it you'll never be able to have children, and there's no counter curse for it"
Sirius and Remus looked furious. Sirius jumped up "I'll kill that filthy snivelling bastard" he shouted. Remus placed his hand on Sirius' arm and dragged him down.
Now it was Hermione and the twins turn to look confused. Remus sighed and then explained "Snape cast that spell on James during our sixth year, I'm guessing he found out what it did, that would explain why Snape hates Harry so much, as it was supposed to be impossible that he was ever born" Hermione just looked shocked that some who was a teacher could do just a thing. The twins were already planning how to prank Snape.
"So what your saying is that Harry should never have been born?" Sirius asked, this seemed all too confusing. "well it's possible" Hermione began "Is there a magical version of IVF?" she asked "Yes there is why?" Remus replied, holding up his hand to stop Sirius' inevitable question. "Well is it possible that they got some to donate and then had James blood adopt Harry?" Sirius' eyes widened as he realised what Hermione was getting at, Remus was nodding along as well, and the twins had stopped paying attention. "Yes that's possible, I know several pureblood families who do that as common practice, but it wouldn't explain how the father knows Harry or why he's showing an interest in him."
The knocking on the door interrupted them "Sirius, Remus" Molly's voice rang out, far too loud, they could hear the portrait of Mrs Black start up her shouting "Dumbledore's here, he's called a meeting" They pair of them grimace. "Ok you three keeping thinking of ideas, we need to contact Harry and make sure he's fine" They nodded and Sirius and Remus opened the door and slipped out carefully ensuring that Molly didn't see that there was anyone else in the room.
As Sirius and Remus were walking into the meeting with Dumbledore three people approached the base for Stark Tower, almost unobserved. JARVIS however saw them as they stepped inside and recognising them knew they weren't an enemy so activated on the of elevators for them and allowed them to ascend to the meeting room.
In the dining Hall Clint and Natasha were talking about what to do about Harry's relatives unaware that in the labs Bruce and Tony had already gather as much information as JARVIS could collect on them both through legal and illegal methods, not that Tony really knew the difference anymore. One thing that stood out more than anything else was a monthly sum of money being paid into their account from a bank called Gringotts and bank that seemingly didn't exist on paper. They were all waiting for Harry to re-emerge from the lab, His procedure had finished several hours before but JARVIS wanted to keep his eyes shut for 3 hours to allow the healing to begin fully.
They were all interrupted by JARVIS' voice announcing the arrival of the visitors and where he had put them. Tony looked confused they hadn't been expecting anyone.
"Who is it JARVIS" he asked "and why did you let them in without letting me?"
"That would be Professor Xavier and Scott and Jean Summer" JARVIS replied "And as for why they let them in, you promised me a full reboot and revamp last week and I still haven't received it" Tony groaned and Bruce laughed patting him on the back sympathetically. "Well lets go meet our guests" Tony said standing up "Bring that file, we'll show Clint and Natasha"
All four of them arrived in the meeting room at the same time, Clint and Natasha from the stairwell, Tony and Bruce from the elevator, had it been planned Tony would have said it was brilliant tactical planning, as it wasn't it he didn't and it wasn't as it the people they were coming to meet were potential enemies. "Charles, Jean, One-eye" Tony greeted them "Welcome to Stark tower"
"Stark Tower" Natasha cut in, "How come it's Stark Tower when your meeting people but call it the Avengers Tower in private?" she crossed her arms, but the small smile on her face showed that she didn't really care. Tony spluttered slightly caught out by the question before just huffing. Bruce stepped forward "Charles good to see you again old friend, how have you been?" Charles smiled and moved his chair forward "Good too see you too Bruce"
Clint and Natasha stepped forward and introduced themselves to Scott and Jean and the four of them made conversation while Bruce, Charles and Tony caught up. Charles spoke getting everyone's attention "While I would love to stay and talk we've come to talk about Harry" instantly Clint and Natasha were on guard "Why?" Clint ask defensively "What do you need with my son?" Both Scott and Jean seemed shocked by this while Charles just smiled slightly. "Nothing bad at least I hope not, come sit its probably best if I explain it all with Harry here" Clint nodded "I'll go get him" and left the room
Natasha look suspiciously at Charles "your not going to hurt him are you?" Jean shook her head and the Professor smiled his polite smile "No I have no plans on hurting him" What about you one eye" Tony asked. Scott turned his gaze to Tony, if he hadn't got those glasses on Natasha would have guessed that he was either glaring at Tony or had just rolled his eyes.
Clint returned a couple of minutes later with Harry by his side, the glasses covered Harry's eyes completely and Tony smiled brightly at that, he had photos of Clint wearing almost exactly the same shade glasses. Clint introduced them and the sat down, waiting for Charles story.
"First off do any of you know what a Horcrux is?" he asked when everyone shook their heads and responded no "Good that means your all on the same baseline"
"A Horcrux is a peace of someone's soul, that through magic have broken off and place in a container, this Horcrux allows the owner to be able to cheat death so long as the Horcrux survives" He smiled grimly as he noticed Harry sit up and take full notice, he obviously had guessed what this meant.
Charles continued "This is the darkest form of magic, it requires the murder of an innocent in cold blood coupled with a ritual to even break the soul. I will not going into the details of the ritual, suffice to say anyone who even thinks of attempting it needs help" Everyone looked disgusted by this explanation.
"That's how Voldemort survived isn't it?" Harry asked. Charles nodded sadly. "It is, but it gets worse than that, on the night that he attacked your parents house he had already completed the ritual ready to use your death to create his final Horcrux, so when his killing curse rebounded his soul was split" Charles stopped to compose himself he looked sadly at Harry"I'm sorry Harry but that piece of his soul attached itself to the only living thing it could find, you"
Harry looked horrified, Tony and Bruce looked slightly sick while Natasha and Clint looked ready to go hunt down Voldemort themselves and kill him. Charles calmed them down with a look and the words "If everyone would calm down, we've got a solution" with that Clint and Natasha sat down looking slightly better but still furious. "How?" Tony asked, furious that anyone could do this to a kid, especially one as nice as Harry
"Jean here is a very powerful telepath, she'll use her powers to enter Harry's mind and remove the Horcrux." Harry blanched at this "Would it hurt" Jean smiled sympathetically at Harry. "It won't hurt for me to enter your mind, however I've never removed a Horcrux before so I couldn't tell you"
Harry looked towards Clint. Clint could almost feel his sons fear so smiled and placed his hand on his shoulder to try and calm him
"What happens if we leave it?" he asked. At this Charles and Jean had a look of fear cross their face. "What?" Natasha asked quickly Charles looked upset "If we leave it the Horcrux could take control of Harry's body." At that revelation everyone look horrified
"I want it out" Harry's voice was hard and determined. Clint glanced at him "You sure son, it could hurt a lot"
"Yes I want it out, I don't care if it hurts, I won't want to lose anyone." Clint nodded he could understand that after what Loki did to him during the invasion of New York. "Ok" Clint said nodding his consent "What do we have to do?"
"I need everyone to stay quiet while I do this"
Jean moved forward and knelt on the floor in front of Harry, taking his hand in hers "I need you to trust me, relax and open your mind." Harry nodded and closed his eyes he felt a presence enter his mind and when he opened his eyes he was in a room full of Globes, Jean standing next to him, he looked to her in confusion. "Where are we?" This is your mind scape, where all your memories are stored, that big ball of white is your brain, or what represents your brain" Harry nodded this all seemed to make sense.
"Does everyone have a mind they can enter?" he asked. Jean shook her head "yes but only telepaths and wizards who have trained themselves can enter the mind" Harry looked around, this seemed like a whole other world. Then he noticed a large black shape moving on the edge of his mind scape
"What's that?" he asked pointing towards it. Jean turned and looked "That Harry is what I've come to remove." Harry nodded determination filling his stance "So what do I have to do?" Jean shook her head "Nothing, just leave it to me" Harry felt her power build up and watched as she reached out towards the darkness.
Clint sat worried watching Jean enter his sons mind worried, wishing there was something he could do. Natasha reached out and held his hand smiling trying to impart some kind of comfort. He smiled gratefully at her. He flinched as Harry's head snapped back and an unearthly scream filled the room. Jean fell back breathing heavily she threw out her hand to stop Clint from touching Harry as a black cloud swarmed out his head and exploded in flash which made everyone flinch and Harry fell back unconscious.
AN: Another Chapter down, still in the building stage of the story, there is action planned, and even some written, should appear in the next couple of chapters. Please read and review, reviews keep me going, encourage me to write more.
We will be visiting Asgard soon and bring Thor and Loki's characters into this, I love the portrayal of Loki by Tom Hiddleston and he quickly became one of my favourite characters from the films.
Out of interest what would your reactions be if I removed Harry's magic? Haven't planned either way just wondering.