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Sirius' Savior

Chapter 58 the Fallout Part Three

Amelia Bones ignored the chaos of the Wizengamot chamber and stepped to Montgomery Scott. "How long ago did the attack take place?"

"Three hours ago I think."

"Shack apparate to St. Mungo's get their most senior healer with experience with sectumsempra. You've got ten minutes I'll pay for anything he or she needs while there. If Moody's right we don't have much time, if it's not already too late. Montgomery do you have a way to bypass the portkey restriction?"

Montgomery suddenly realizing where she was going, nodded. "The President gave me a portkey that will take two and only two people back to D.C. He'll undoubtably be willing to give the healer a portkey to Chicago. I'll go too and update the President on what happened here this morning."

"Great. Meanwhile, I and the rest of these people will figure out who is going to get the joy of cleaning the mess up." As sounds of nominations for Chief Warlock rang out across the chamber.

Sirius walked into the office Rick had called him and requested he come to the Castle ASAP and to please turn his phone off. As he walked into the office he said "I'm here Rick what's up?"

"I need you to go home and stay there phone off. No one can see you."

"Something happened on the jump didn't it. How bad?"

"You and Harry are in Chicago Magical Mercy Hospital's Trauma Ward. You're in critical but stable condition. Winry is watching over you and Harry."

"Got it."

"Sirius do you want to know?"

"No. since Harry and I haven't left on the jumps yet it's better I know nothing."

"I was hoping you'd say that. Now I get to go brief my counterpart. I hope to everything that Montgomery Scott can clear things on his end or life is going to get very …"

"Sucky?" Sirius said using one of Harry's newest slang terms.

"Yes, very sucky very soon."

"George, I realize that you want to come down hard on Magical Britain and this isn't easy, but I only need you to increase the security level. I plan to have WIS agents in every airport that gets international flights... We can't afford to let any British witches and wizards that may try travel by muggle means through... If you feel it's appropriate of course you may call the queen and Prime Minister Thatcher. I know for a fact both of them are in the know. ..I'm praying it doesn't come to that... I respect Montgomery's abilities his shock when I sprang it on him argues it was the act of a few which means that the majority will prevail and it will be sorted out in the three days I gave him. I'm also applying pressure from other directions I've pulled in some favors from leaders of other governments and Britain Magical government has few friends at the moment so we've pretty much locked the magical population onto the island. Thanks. I'll repay the favor when I can...yeah. Goodbye."

A half an hour later Chambers was sweating because the short list of those who knew Black's location came around to his name. Roy Mustang was heading up the D.C. Interviews.

"Director Chamber's I'm sorry to pull you away from your busy schedule, but WIS appears to have sprung a leak. The President himself interviewed me under veritaserum before assigning me to this investigation. As per WIS regulations a veritaserum interview may be requested at any point in your employment. I have the affidavit and waiver you signed forty years ago when you first started with WIS allowing this interview."

After giving the Director of WIS three drops of veritaserum, Roy started the questioning. "Name?"

"Jonathan Alexander Chambers."

"Director Chambers did you know the whereabouts of Sirius Black on July 13th?"

"Yes."

"Did you in any way communicate that information to anyone outside of WIS?"

"Yes."

"Who?"

"Alastor Moody."

"Why?"

"Black is a disgrace to purebloods he married a squib. He is wielding too much influence with the President. By telling Moody who has spent his spare time and all his money on trying to track Black I get rid of a thorn in my side."

Roy gave him the antidote. "Director Chambers you are under arrest for treason to the Magical Administration of the United States. You have the right to a trial. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one one will be appointed for you." Roy snapped the magically binding cuffs onto the director. Then handed him to the two other agents who had served as witnesses to the interview.

"You can't do this Mustang!"

"I can and I have; the days of pureblood bigotry in WIS is over. I would wish you have a nice life but given you're guilty of treason for making an attack possible yours is likely to be cut short. Even in prisons most of the people don't like those that betray their own country. That's of course assuming you get to go to prison after all one of the penalties for treason is the death sentence. Get this scum out of my sight."

"Daddy what is going on? James Baker gave me a call and sent me here to you. There are people running around in the European division like there's a crisis in the offing but no one has information as to what this crisis is or what precipitated it."

"British aurors attacked a WIS exercise today. One man was killed three others are in bad shape."

"Sirius? Harry?"

"Both are in the hospital."

"And because they're looping I have to play it cool and can't tell them squat. But I have to help deal with the crisis; don't believe in making my life easy do you?"

"Sorry?"

"Have they caught who did it?"

"A few but not all, I won't rest till we've got them all. I stole Roy, so I hope your subs are good because you'll have them for a while."

"Riza is a good second." She smiled at the woman standing by the door.

"I..."The President started before he was interrupted by a knock sounding on the door.

"Sir, Montgomery Scott just arrived on the portkey pad in the east garden."

"Bring him in."

"He's got someone with him sir."

"Fine bring them both in."

Montgomery hurried in to the office hauling a second man behind him. "Sir I'm sorry for barging in but we don't have a lot of time Alastor Moody is in a holding cell and he identified the spell that was fired in Chicago this is Healer Castleton the most experienced with that particular curse. The sooner you give him a portkey to Chicago the better the chances for the patients."

Roderick looked at his daughter to get her read, at her faint nod he snagged a coaster he glanced at a paper on his desk. And tapped his wand to it. "Beth baby, I wanted to say you're going to have to make do with Walter and Zoe and the private guards because I'm shifting Hawkeye to Sirius and Harry and because of this crisis I haven't got people to replace them with."

"Understood."

"Miss Pierce you will escort the Healer here to Chicago Magical Mercy Hospital's Trauma Unit. While he does his best for my son-in-law and grandson, you will watch him like-"

"A hawk, yes sir." she took the coaster from him. Then stepped to the Healer a second later they winked out of the office. "Now Montgomery care to enlighten me as to what you're doing back here so soon for? I thought you needed three days in England to get this cluster coital experience sorted."

"I didn't anticipate having allies there sir. Madame Bones of the Department Of Magical Law Enforcement and Andromeda Tonks and Augusta Longbottom are formidable women and they brought more information out that pretty much toppled the current power brokers in the Wizengamot. I'm not sure who will replace the Minister or Chief Warlock but sufficient evidence was gathered that both are sure to be replaced."

"That great but I think the house cleaning over there is going to need to go a bit further, corruption there has run rampant for decades. Do you want another portkey back?"

"If you don't mind?"

"Here, oh and you can inform them by order of the ICW grand council minus the Supreme Mugwump at the request of forty of ICW members there will be an inquest into this matter and into the rampant corruption present in the British Government in three weeks time. That should encourage a through housecleaning."

"I see not holding back, Rick?"

"They made the poor decision to make it personal and Sirius has quietly made lots of friends in the international community over the years." Rick handed him another portkey.

Winry was sitting in between Sirius and Harry fiddling with her wand looking very hollow eyed. She jumped when Riza came in with someone she had never met.

"Winry this is Healer Castleton he's a specialist from St. Mungo's in Britain and he's the closest thing there is to an expert in the curse that hit these two."

Healer Castleton ignored the overtly hostile glare he was being given in favor of examining his patients. He knew he was someplace in Chicago to treat two victims of sectumsempra and that his presence was supposed to appease a political situation but he felt very off balance because he had been plucked from St. Mungo's without so much as a by your leave and transported half a world away without even a toothbrush. What he found when he examined them surprised him he had been told no one here knew the counter curse yet if his readings were accurate both had already had it applied. "Who gave the counter curse? I was told no one here knew it."

"Someone at the site did." Winry said a very cagey look in her eyes.

"What all has been done? And on what time line?"

"They were hit Sirius fell on top of Harry. Putting pressure on Harry's wounds slowing the bleeding. I got to them two maybe three minutes after they were hit. I attempted to treat them for a minute before I was told the problem. The counter curse was applied shortly after that to Sirius followed by a pressure bandage spell he was then lifted off Harry and Harry's bleeding became much worse his counter was applied a minute later. On site Sirius was given two doses blood replentisher. On site Harry was given the counterspell and a pressure bandage spell then we portkeyed here. He was given a blood replentisher and both of them have been getting IV fluids. Harry's wounds were complicated by the presence of Sirius' blood that entered his blood stream through his wounds and the fact that we believe he is an elemental mage and accidentally worked the magic that killed their attackers. We've cleaned both their wounds and done our best to seal them as you see we haven't been completely successful and they've both had twice the recommended amount of blood replentisher. Sirius is more or less stable. Harry is the biggest concern."

"Bathing the wounds with Dittany should help with wound closure." He cast a few spells he hadn't had to cast in almost nine years. They had been created strictly to do very fine measurements of magic and were necessary in dealing with sectumsempra they measured the energy residue both of the curse and the counter as applied. That was odd Black, only had residue of the counter meaning the wizard who'd applied it to him had correctly charged the counter. The boy still had residue of both spells. "Who applied the counter was it the same person for both of them?"

"No why?"

"Well, whoever applied it to Black knew what he or she was doing. Who ever applied it to Harry didn't. They did well but they obviously either weren't as strong as the curse caster, or were to unsure of what they were doing in casting the counter."

"So what's to be done?"

"I'll cast the counter curse again, and a couple other spells that should help him stabilize more quickly and as far as the blood problem which one is a stronger wizard?"

"Harry is." Winry answered unhesitatingly.

"Then in forty eight hours his system should clear it on it's own. It would only be a major problem if the boy was the weaker wizard."

"Then let's get to work."