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Sirius' Savior

Chapter 52 Planning Ahead

George had not really known what to expect when he took the job with Sirius. He thought he'd be basically doing the same stuff he'd been doing without the headaches that working for WIS under Chambers brought him. Instead he felt much more utilized and better paid to boot. He was very surprised to realize that Sirius for all his lackadaisical ways, was actually a very astute businessman that seemed to have a vision for what all his security hires would accomplish.

Six of the twelve hires had warding and curse breaking backgrounds and one of the first things he had them do was travel to all of the various businesses and holdings that belonged to him and examine the security already present and to make suggestions to improve both the security and the safety of all those properties. Those teams were still gone on their world tour. Alexis Cruz had gone with them with instructions to observe and report any inconsistencies he noticed. George felt those instructions were very vague but when Alexis said the was something odd at their second stop. Sirius sent a two more of the hires that had background in investigation together with a goblin that was an accountant and a week later there was proof of the manager of that company was skimming the off the company profits. Obviously Sirius had known what he was doing.

George found his work schedule amusing. Monday and Tuesday were his days off. Wednesday and Thursday he was busy doing interviews, paperwork and planning for the training program Sirius wanted to implement. Friday afternoon through Sunday he worked long days with Harry; occlumency work, fencing and kendo. The later two were interspersed between talking about the memories Harry was sorting. The workouts were serving as a very physical outlet for the anger the memories generated. Harry was angered that anyone could do some of the atrocious things that he was seeing in the memories. They would do the sorting when Harry first came home for the weekend then they would fence. Harry would have dinner with the family then George and Harry would talk about his feelings and do a clearing of the mind exercise before Harry went to bed. Depending on the memory they had examined sometimes, frequently, Harry had nightmares and sometimes, rarely, he didn't. Saturday morning they would again review the memory note any noteworthy information in the memory follow it with a kendo workout after which Harry usually moved on to one of his other magical subjects. Late afternoon they would talk again and after dinner they would repeat the occlumency mind clearing meditation. If Harry had a nightmare again they would talk again in the next morning as Harry would make breakfast for everyone. Harry typically spent Sunday with his family doing homework from Stuart-Cavanaugh and volunteer work at the food bank or women' shelter or spending the afternoon getting taught strategy, tactics and politics by his Granddad and Uncle Nic. If the nightmares were very bad he would talk with George again. If the nightmares were particularly bad on Saturday Harry would take a dreamless sleep potion with him to school for Sunday night.

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Rachel was getting more and more fed up with WIS. Chambers had instigated new reports that had to be filled in by security teams on a daily basis. Which didn't really make sense because Beth and Sirius had a pretty quiet lifestyle since mid-way through Beth's pregnancy. They went to the castle every other weekend and their days were very routine. Security at their house was actually tighter than at the Magic Castle so much so, that the crew went light at night. Rachel went to the State Department on weekday mornings. Sirius stayed home and worked from his office in the house and helped Sonia Barstow, the new nanny, with the babies. To Rachel there was nothing worse than having to fill out repetitive boring reports that no one read anyway. Even Roy hated the reports and didn't see the point. Rachel suspected a lot of the purebloods didn't bother with the reports, but as a muggleborn Rachel knew one missed report would be a blackmark in her jacket so she filled out the reports. Finally the day for her annual review came. She dressed carefully then went in to see Chambers.

"Ah yes, Miss Luttrell please come in." Chambers opened the folder in front of him. "You are security for the President's step daughter's family correct?"

"Yes sir."

"That means you take orders from Roy Mustang correct?"

"Yes sir."

"And does Mr. Mustang always follow procedure Miss Luttrell?"

"Sir?" Rachel had the nasty feeling that Chambers was hunting for something, something that would allow him to get rid of Roy. After all Roy was bucking to take over Chamber's job.

"It's a simple question does Mr. Mustang follow procedure?"

"Yes sir."

"Really? Then how do explain your being on a protection detail? You were in the arithmancy research department doing spell analysis."

"Roy pulled me to Miss O'Neill's detail because I am muggleborn and would be better able to fit in to the lifestyle which she leads."

"Yes, so I've heard. I've also heard that you have run some of his non-approved trainings. Hardly following procedure, Miss Luttrell."

"Sir isn't the ultimate goal of any WIS agent to be effective in negating threats to the wizarding population?"

"Yes,but I fail to see how that relates."

"More options to choose from sir."

"I'll tell you what I see, Miss Luttrell. I see a witch that prefers to live like a muggle, who was drafted by her lover. A lover, that judging by the other witches he has drafted isn't even a faithful lover, to a detail that she isn't really qualified for. Not that I care what happens to that squib, she's a disgrace to her mother and I fail to see why the President cares what happens to her."

Rachel hit her limit. For the past six years she had come to these reviews, and inevitably she heard insults about her abilities and her morals. She had know what to expect when she entered the room, so why was it bothering her so much now. Maybe it was because before she didn't have options. She loved the work she'd done since joining Beth's detail. It satisfied her more than any work she'd done previously. It followed her family's example, and was what she had signed up for WIS to do; but was it truly worth the grief that Chambers was handing her. Rachel was convinced that if she quit WIS, Sirius would hire her in a heartbeat and he would let her continue to do what she loved. Decision made she spoke,"You misogynistic pureblood bigot. You know what I quit, I don't have to sit here and listen to you degrade a man that is easily worth fifty of you, and to be insulted and degraded by your puerile imaginings. Not to mention the things you said about Beth. She deserves better. People don't have to have magic to be worth knowing. It's pathetic that you think that way but it's your loss. Furthermore Roy Mustang isn't my lover; he's a visionary leader that one day will move WIS into the next century even against the wishes of dottering idiots like you. Goodbye Director Chambers, if I every meet you again it will be to soon."

As she walked out of the meeting she pulled out her cell. Dialing Sirius she hoped she hadn't just made a mistake.

"Black."

"Sirius, I find I am in need of a job. I just told Chambers to take his shit and shove it..."

Sirius' barking laugh echoed in her ear. "You're hired. But you get to explain to Roy why I have yet another of "his" people. He told me I couldn't have anymore. I want you working the same schedule as George. I have a project for the two of you, I'll let George explain. Sorry, no more weekends. Also I'm tentatively planning a four month time jump for Harry's next break. Hawaii since I hear it's warm and has good surfing in February. We'll be using just De Sable security for that jump. The second jump will be Chicago again."

"What does Charlie say about that?"

"He's looking forward to it, wants to see Harry's silencing dome. He thinks it could be useful. We'll be taking George and Sheba with us, she acts like she might be a familiar to Harry and it may help. Did you hear what she did when I took him back to school without her? She's repeated that performance three times each time he's been home for the weekend."

"So where in Hawaii?"

"I'm looking into it I got a lead on a private estate that has surf beach access. Working through the memories is hard enough that I want the rest of that time to be completely stress free."

"Will two months be enough?"

"Probably not. But two months is the longest I'm willing to put Harry through the torture of dealing with them on a daily basis. He'll probably need the time in Chicago to recover. The plan is the Friday after finals we'll port key to Hawaii and then jump back. I'm bringing a house elf and having the goblins go the week before to see about the wards there going to be similar to the ones on the house..."

"In other words heavy as hell, heaven help the poor sod that thinks they can get in to steal or hurt one of us."

"Precisely." Rachel could hear the grin in Sirius' voice. Before he continued, "Given what we're going to do in Hawaii the plan is no sightseeing so we're going light in the security department and are going to rely on the wards. You're doubling as martial arts teacher, George is going as counselor and fencing instructor, Rick, Hal, and Peter for security. Harry will be more comfortable with fewer people hearing him and seeing him in a post nightmare state, and to be honest I suspect sleep those two months will be crap. I'll probably suggest that you all put sound barriers on your bedrooms. Once we're back from both Jumps you and George can take two weeks off since you're jumping with us and are going to pretty much going to be working most of that time."

"Understood."

"Rachel, glad to have you on board."