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Chapter 7
Hovering orbs patrolled the house at Grimwald Place. Harry had been up late designing them and he was confident that they would do their jobs properly. They were the new security system. They were a surprise to the twins as they stepped through the floo. A quick voice command later and they left the girls alone.
"Stand down and record signatures. Highest priority access granted to Padma and Parvati Patill." he snapped off.
They stopped where they were. One orb stopped in front of them each.
"I'm Padma."
"I'm Parvati."
Their identification was recorded and they were both now authorized. They turned to Harry and looked at him with questions in their eyes. The orbs looked dangerous for little baseball sized balls floating in the air.
"They are the new security. With most of my gold stored here for foreseeable future I need something to keep the place safe. Once we have a look at the ward-stone we can stop port-keys and soon enough this may even become a small bank for undocumented half-bloods and squibs. Squibs aren't allowed to bank at Gringotts anyway. They are armed with overpowered stunners and can kill if set to that. The nanite soldiers that are building in the back garden can also call the DMLE so soon enough this place will be the most protected for money outside of Gringotts. Which reminds me that I need you both to read this." said Harry as he handed them a slip of parchment.
"Okay...The Potter vault is in the basement of Grimwald Place. Oh, right the fidelis!" said Parvati.
"Thats right. If you're going to be assistants you're going to need to be able to go get to the money. I'm putting a lot of trust in you two and you haven't shown any tendency to let me down yet. Soon the first set of nanite bots will be ready and we'll have humanoid robots patrolling the house for intruders as well. Anyone not on the access list will be stunned and sent to the DMLE for safety sake. That is of course if we are not here."
"Sensible. Ok, whats on the agenda for the day?" said Padma.
"Today we go to Gringotts again for the Black account. I already got an owl from Gringotts saying that we should proceed at our earliest convenience to pick up the monies. The account is bigger than the Potter account and it seems they decided to be proactive and withdraw the account for me. That means that they will for sure have taken their percentage off the top. Basically their kicking me out of the bank. Its a good thing that there are very old ancient vaults in the basement of this place." Harry said with a shrug.
"Good thing for sure. Okay, you might need us to help you again so we are ready when you are." said Parvati looking to her sister. Padma nodded.
Harry smiled as they headed for the floo to follow him to the Leaky Cauldron. The pub and the alley were nearly deserted as they were leaving pretty early in the morning. The trip to the bank was relatively short. Walking up to a teller he greated the goblin politely.
"Good morning sir. I received a notice to be here to collect the Black account?"
"Ahh the thief. We were warned you would be here today. Griphook! Please take this wizard down to collect his last account and to meet the Black account manager." the goblin sneered.
"Come thief so we can get through with this unpleasant business concluded. Its not every day that an old account is evicted from the bank." said Griphook with a sad look.
The trip down was longer than the one for the Potter account the day before and the empty vault bigger as well. There were two trunks waiting there for them. One was full of money and one heirlooms as it was described to them.
"The galleon trunk is of goblin design and is a single compartment about the size of this vault. It holds exactly twenty-three million galleons, five million sixty seven sickles and forty-five nuts. The other trunk holds the contents of the heirloom vault minus any unauthorized dark artifacts. Furniture and the likes. The trunks were of course paid for after the initial twenty percent was deducted for the expulsion fee. They should shrink well enough then I will take you to your account manager." said Griphook, not happy that this duty fell to him.
"I'll do that now." said Harry waving his hand twice to apply feather-light and then the shrinking charm. Griphook frowned again as he expected him to draw his wand.
The trip to the account manager's office was short as well. They found themselves in relatively the same section of the bank as the day before and were bid to enter by a very testy goblin.
"I am Bloodtooth, he Black account manager. We have a forced closing of the Black account to do today and it is loosing me much profit. First the goblin investments were pulled then the account itself. Now I see why when the one Ragnok wishes labled thief is the account holder." the Goblin handed over a file. "This is the ledger for the entire account including those business investments that are still paying dividends to the account. You will have to inform them of the change in payment arrangements yourself. Do you have any questions?"
"Yes. What goblin investments?" this was the second time such investments had been mentioned to him.
"Mostly gold futures in the muggle world. We at Gringotts own a portion of all of the gold in the world. As the muggles have switched off of the gold standard there has been a rise in the value of gold since. That is as much as you're going to get on the subject from me. Any other questions?" Bloodtooth waited patiently as they thought hard for a while before shaking their heads.
"Then I hope your banking with Gringotts has been pleasant and with you luck managing your accounts yourself."
"May your accounts never run dry Bloodtooth." Harry said as this had been the least insulting meeting he'd had with the goblins today. Bloodtooth just nodded and waved them out.
The lobby was a little more populated when they were done but no one that they knew was waiting on them. The trip back to Grimwald Place was contemplative and quiet.
"Well that was interesting." said Padma.
"Yes it was. Not every day you see someone kicked out of the bank. After all of the fees and such I've had to pay since the Lestrange vault its a wonder they didn't make sure I was broke. I guess they really didn't find reason to break the treaty against me. Then again that would have probably started another war." he said. "Anyway I'm going to go put this stuff away. Come on and I'll show you where it all is.
Downstairs was even darker than the rest of the house. Barely lit adequately, they made their way to the vaults. They were pretty large, as in bigger than the ground floor of the manor. There were cobwebs all the way down the stairs cleaned away to a degree by Harry the day before to make his way down here looking for a place to store all of the gold. He'd been happy to find that there were vaults under the place at all.
"You definitely need another elf. Father has found you one but we need to set up a meeting to transfer the elf. Five thousand galleon price tag on the elf." she trailed off at his frown. Understanding his frown she continued. "The money is not for the elf but the loss of the convenience of the elf in taking care of the house. The elf will be happy to have so much to do. Sorry. I forget sometimes that you are muggle raised." said Padma.
"Well as long as that distinction is made...Anyway the first shipment of naquada was made last night which is why it was that I got started on security. The first bots will be down here then the ground floor. Soon they will be all over the house and we won't have to worry about anyone taking any of the money without permission of some sort. I may as well grab that five thousand now as well." he moved to the Potter trunks and opened one to start counting out galleons. The first shipment had included coins but only a few hundred.
"Thanks, by the way, for the advice on printing my own galleons. The first shipment included some precious stones, and a few hundred galleons as well as enough building material to get started on some of the new projects. I'm also starting on a few Potentia. The molecular constructor will be out of sorts for a day while it builds them. There is also an undiscovered gate and a depleted potentia in the Arctic that we can retrieve when the new shuttle arrives. We can power the gate with a potentia and use it to go to Atlantis. That would mean we have to bring the gate here. We can set it up out back and shave over a week off of our travel time. The potentia to power Atlantis will be done soon and we can rebuild the potentia in the arctic as well then rebuild the ones in Atlantis already and we have what we need to build my new battleships as well. They will all be powered by a potentia each which will make their shields near unbreakable because they are two layered. Come on, let me show you the designs." he said making to take them back upstairs again.
The designs were strait forward. There were drone shops that he based on the Destiny class but weren't really designed for a crew so there were only three decks with only one for living space for maintence crews. They were still designed to be powered from solar matter so all the extra space lost was used for power storage and armor. The backup system was naquada based and could still run the cloaking system on its own and power the ships weapons long enough to take it to the nearest star and dive in. These drone ships would carry no combat drones for fighting but were covered in beam weapons as they were in antiquity.
The next redesign was to the Aurora. Added were point defence cannons that could and would shoot down smaller threats. The beam weapons were a given and were simply upgraded for maximum damage and the crew decks reduced or maximum drone storage. These ships were not intended or artificial intelligence but to be crewed by at least twenty with a maximum of seventy-five. The AI could and would assist with targetting and navigation but there would always be a human at the helm. Transporters could and would be able to pick people up from the surface of the planet from beyond lower Earth orbit.
The next design was a refit for a new class of city ship. The first of its class would be the upgraded Atlantis. She would be repaired were required and her transporters upgraded as well as sensors. The city ships would be able to dock the battleships for repairs and transport if damaged. It would also be able to build ships off of the docks.
The girls were speachless. He was serious about bringing them back to the stars, by force if need be.
"These designs were meant to go to war, if needed, to protect or claimed territory. After I intercepted that Goauld communication I realized that the ships in the archives are just not up to par. We already lost a bad war with the wraith because we had no idea how to fight a war with a hive mentality. All of the ships have two layer shields that while the first layer recharges the second can take the pounding. All but the Destiny mark two have intergalactic hyperdrives so movement isn't an issue either. Within a year we will have the firepower to take a war to the wraith again. We won't be doing that however, until its absolutely needed. The Goauld think that they are gods and actually own the majority of the galaxy so we can focus on them first." he said in the silence.
"So this is what you do when we're not here..." said Padma. Parvati was still a little stunned.
"Mostly. I wanted these designs read for production as soon as possible. The drone ships were already building. Oh, and the first set of nanites already expanded production better than anticipated. They analyzed the production schedule and build themselves for efficiency so the new MEV will be ready in a couple of days. The first drone ships a couple of days after that as they are building two at a time. That is why I'm saying in a year we would be able to prosecute a war."
"Okay. As your assistants we need to get on the construction of your new products and get your black investments coming here and getting your products out on the market. You don't mind if we cut back on the learning programs for a while and start getting contacts for the companies that will sell this stuff for you do you?" said Padma.
"Whatever you have to do. I just want to be ready."
"Looks like you will be." said Parvati, having finally gotten over her shock.
"I still have to write the drone ship AI to patrol the two systems and stay under cloak. The cloak is run on the naquada generators and the whole ship can be anyway just works better if its extremely solar powered. I've got four days to write a whole AI. It will be simple but there it is."
"Are you still going to have time for us? This is going to keep you very busy." said Parvati, looking like he'd already pushed them aside.
He smiled and against his normal way of handling women pulled her in with a hand on the small of her back and the other into her hair. The kiss was another toe-curling expression of how he felt. He soon released her and pulled in Padma for the same treatment.
"I already announced to the goblins that I intend to make you both the new Ladies Potter and Black. I'm not taking it back now." he was still a little nervous.
"Good" they said together before looking at each other and giggling. They didn't want to miss out on Harry time. Then Padma took on a pensive expression.
"Harry...when we snog, why don't your hands do a little wandering. We know you want to. So why?" he was surprised at Padma's question.
"I didn't think it would be appropriate. You let me know you wanted me to kiss you by kissing me first and initiating kisses whenever you wanted one so I figured I could do that too. But I wasn't about to grab your bits without permission from you. I thought it would be better if we all knew each other a little better first." he sighed as he was happy with that answer. They both smiled at him.
"You really are a noble git of a gentleman. Yes you should be careful not to push us to much but you can push a little. We would have let you know how far was too far." said Parvati.
"I'll never push you. When it comes to the tech its my show but I am pants at relationships so I'll let you two control how that goes. Its what we agreed on isn't it?" he responded. That brought them both up short.
"That kind of is the agreement isn't it? You're right. It is up to us to decide where we take things, not you as we already discussed. So...we should be pushing you then. Glad we cleared that up." Parvati smirked. That smirk made him nervous.
They both stepped up to him and pressed in with their bodies. Each grabbing and hand and looking to the other firmly attached that hand to their arses before leaning in to get some kisses.
"Go ahead and give us each a squeeze." said Padma while Parvati claimed his lips first. The new level of intimacy continued for a few minutes as he explored their bottoms and their tongues explored each others mouths. Finally they broke apart.
"Thats more like it!" said Parvati, more keyed up.
"It is indeed." said Padma satisfied for now.
Harry was more turned on than he'd ever been and didn't know what to do about it. He wasn't exactly being teased at all but this two girls at once thing was definitely starting to get serious. But, he reminded himself, the girls were in charge of where this went an how fast.
"Next time its each one separately so you can grab hold with both hands and we can control where those hands go. This was fun and we definitely have to do it again." breathed Padma as she reached around and squeezed his but cheek.
"Getting back to work," said Parvati, "how much material is still out back and do we have another molecular constructor? Or do we have to build a new one. We don't have the knowledge to make them ourselves. And we really need designs for the tech so we can get to work developing stock."
"You're right you do. And we need to get in touch with St. Mungos for the scanners, the twins for the toys, the ministry for the stunners...I'll get on the molecular constructor to add to your station immediately." he said giving them one more squeeze before he released them.
It took about an hour and a small chunk of the remaining material out back to build a new constructor and hook it to their workstation. The new one was a little larger and the additional room would and could be used to build two small items at the same time. It was agreed that Parvati as the more sociable one of the girls would network with people to sell their goods Padma would be better to explain the technical side of the operation. Harry was already deep into the programming stage as the programs were needed for the ships.
As Padma was getting started on the medical scanners, Parvati went to the floo and called their father to tell him that Harry was ready for the elf he'd procured. It didn't take long for Suva Patill to floo over.
"Stand down and record signature. Lowest priority access granted to Suva Patill." Harry quickly clipped out as the orbs moved in. he saw the confirmation on his workstation. "Sorry about that. I programmed them to stun in ten seconds unless I tell them to stand down and or add you to the access list. So how do we do this?"
The man was staring at the orbs in wonder. "First I call the elf, named Tipsy by the way, then you bind her to yourself. To bind her you simply have to ask her if she wishes to bond with you and if she says yes, and she will, place your hand on her head and say 'I, Harry Potter, take Tipsy to be my elf. Its really simple." he said distractedly watching the patrolling orbs.
"Okay then lets do this." said Harry.
"Tipsy!" a little elf wearing a pillow case appeared.
"Stand down and record signature. Highest priority access granted to Tipsy...Tipsy, would you like to be my elf? You would join the Potter Black family." asked Harry gently. The little elf was staring at the patrolling spheres.
"Tipsy would like that." she said. He stepped foreward and placed a hand on her head.
"I, Harry Potter-Black, take Tipsy to by my elf." he said.
"Tipsy acceps!" she said excitedly. There was a flash and it was done.
"Tipsy is a young elf and hadn't ever bonded anyone before," said Mr. Patill, "and that is why is so much more simple. She was a free elf looking for a home and had just reached bonding age. Its also why she was so expensive. Where is your other elf by the way?"
"I don't know. He really prefers to stay out of the way unless I call him. Kreacher!" said Harry as he took off a shoe and a sock.
"What does nasty half-blood master want!" said the elf as soon as he appeared.
"I've got a new elf so your services are no longer required." said Harry as he handed over the sock. Kreacher stared at the sock in his hand for a moment and smiled, trembled, and fell over dead.
Everyone stared in shock. No one had expected him to die like that. For a second Harry thought of perhaps mounting his head like the crazy elf had always wanted but shook off the idea. He wouldn't dessicrate the body.
"Tipsy give elf a good burial Master Harry."
"Could you include the elf heads on the wall?" at her horrified expression he pressed on. "The last masters of this house used to mount the heads of their old elves and I think it best that that tradition dies with Kreacher here. I'm not like that I promise." he assured her. She seemed to sigh in relief before snapping her fingers to levitate the body.
"Show Tipsy the grounds Master Harry?"
"Oh, sorry, this way to the limited grounds we have here." with that he walked her to the back yard. On the way he grabbed the mounting for the elf heads and took it with him. Everyone came to the back yard as well to see the show. She picked a spot out of the way of everything in the yard and with another snap a hole was dug. It was pretty deep and into it floated Kreacher. She snapped her fingers one more time and the heads disappered from Harry's hands and at the bottom of the hole with the dead elf. One last snap and the hole was covered. She pressed her hands together as if she were praying.
"May Tipsy serve Master Harry better than poor Kreacher." she said simply. She turned back around. "Tipsy will explore the house now and prepare lunch for master Harry and his guests." then she popped away.
"I don't know what I expected except a little more than that." said Harry after a minute.
"Well the first thing Kreacher did in front of her was insult you. Maybe it was all she could do?"
"Maybe. At least I got my sock back. And we don't have to worry about being poisoned if Kreacher made lunch." said Harry.
"I think the bond was the only thing keeping that elf alive." said Mr. Patill. "When you broke it he just gave up. At least he was happy." with nods all around they headed back inside but not before noticing what looked like bodies lying on the ground near the building materials.
"What in blazes is this?" exclaimed Mr. Patill.
"That's the next level of security. Robots, or golems if you prefer that term. They will guard the place for me if I'm asleep or away. They will help the orbs and floo call the DMLE. Those are just the first batch and they should be ready in an hour or so. They look mostly human but their not. Just magical technology." he said quickly not wanting a misunderstanding.
"So this is more of your magic technology?"
"Yes sir. As this is the home base of my new technology firm, I will need security. These will provide it. They are already programmed and producing more as the week goes on." Harry said.
"Remarkable!" he said moving closer. "They look so life like."
"I wanted them to. They could have been cat people for all I really cared. They will patrol the house including the vaults downstairs. They carry stun pistols built into their arms and a reducto to the head won't stop them. They are all but immune to magic."
"You didn't tell us that bit." said Parvati.
"You didn't ask. I wasn't actually keeping it secret." she nodded.
"Well lunch is in an hour so lets get back inside." he said finally after giving them some time to look.
Back in the work room he sat back down to his station and went back to work on his programming. He only had four days to get it done if he wanted everything churning out with any efficiency.
"What else are you working on?" said Mr. Patill. Harry responded without looking up.
"Toys ships they can fly about the room and fire off a mild stinging hex and medical scanners. The scanners should be able to, once all potions ingredients and potions are scanned in, be able to identify just about anything wrong with anyone coming into St. Mungos without having to go through extensive tests and soon maybe even healing machines. You know, minor regeneration and the like."
"Then there is the stun pistols I mentioned earlier that I am going to try to sell to the DMLE. They stun with the force of four stunners at once so an enervate will not do the trick to wake them all the way. It takes them out of the fight and if I did the math right will punch through simple shields."
"All that from the materials I arranged?" Suva was curious.
"I used that material to build a ship, sent it to anther location, and have it mining raw materials for me. I don't need any more materials shipped here. Oh and before I forget, Parvati could you get your father that bag of galleons I owe him for the elf?" Parvati nodded and rose to retrieve the bag. Padma had sat to go through the ledger they had gotten from Gringotts earlier in the day to find the investments so she could tell them where to send the money instead of Gringotts.
With the bag in hand, Suva sat down in an empty chair to wait for lunch.
"Sorry that we won't be such good company for a while before lunch but we really have some work to get caught up on sir." said Harry still not looking up.
"Think nothing of it. I would like to see what you actually do here all day other than the romantic overtures. I was young once too." he said with a laugh as Harry looked up and blushed before turning back to his screen. The girls just giggled. "They told me how you announced them as your intendeds to the goblins and I am curious as to your seriousness. If you are serious then I would like to spend some time after lunch with you and draw something up a pair of contracts for betrothal. Nothing onerous but with only two daughters I would like to make sure they are taken care of. And that nothing happens between you three before we have an official agreement on hand."
"Sounds fair," said Harry as he turned to regard the man. "We will all sit down after lunch and discuss it."
Suva frowned. "Normally the heads of the houses alone do the negotiating."
"The pace of the relationship is set by the girls. If we are going to discuss anything to do with that they need to involved. I won't take any choices away from them." staring back unintimidated.
"Very well," he said nodding to his daughters, "they will be included."
Harry nodded and turned back to his screen. His fingers began flying over his keyboard as he typed at a furious pace. With serious negotiations on the horizon for the afternoon he had a lot to get through. How the AI would pick targets for destruction in case of an incursion was a tricky bit of programming. He couldn't have them blowing away the communication satellites in orbit around the planet just because they were there. But certain elements were present in the construction of alien technology that wasn't present on Earth so he just excluded things made solely of materials found on Earth. Anything transiting into the system not made of stellar matter would be challenged to identify themselves or be fired upon. He was deep into the program but could here the twins talking to their father about what they were doing as the hour rolled on.
"Master Harry sir, lunch is ready." said the young elf.
Lunch was a simple affair of sandwiches and baked chips with a light wine to wash it down. The little elf had outdone herself and it seemed she was trying to be leaps and bounds above Kreacher.
"Thank you Tipsy this was very nice." said Harry.
"Youse be thanking Tipsy! Youse is a good master." the elf said as she popped away.
"The good thing is she will do your shopping for you if you give her your key or the money. Whatever it takes to keep you happy. No more running down to the market yourself." said Padma as she polished off the last of her chips.
"So Kreacher really did the bare minimum to get by huh? Which reminds me I got to find a way to get the portrait of Mrs. Black off of the wall. Maybe if I take down that portion of the wall..." Harry thought out loud.
"It depends on how it was put up. If it was an elf charm your new one should be able to remove it." said Suva.
"Tipsy!"
"Master Harry bees calling Tipsy?"
"There's a portrait up in the entrance hall that does nothing but insult me and any guests I have over. There seems to be a charm keeping it up on the wall. If you can remove it, even if you have to take down a portion of the wall to do it I would be so grateful." he said.
"Tipsy will get right to it." she popped away. She returned a few minutes later as the portrait began its usual vitriol but in a bit of a panic in Mrs. Black's voice.
"Tipsy has it down off of the wall Master Harry. Where yous want Tipsy to put it?"
"Can you store it in the attic please? Thank you so much!"
"It bees no problem Master Harry. Tipsy be cleaning after." and the little elf was gone and so was the ranting.
"That elf will be so much better for you. I can already see it. Now down to business. We're going to need parchment...but not quite yet. We first should discuss the terms and not add them willy-nilly."
"I agree. What are your terms?" Harry said, drawing a touch on the ancient knowledge.
"First I would like for your assurance that the girls are cared for. After that, you will defend them. That includes their honor. And we need to negotiate the bride prices. Oh, and I want a clause that, if there is sex before marriage you will be immediately married. The reason is with these contracts the girls can stay here indefinitely for work or whatever you do when I'm not here." Suva had apparently planned ahead.
Harry thought about the terms. Looking to the girls he saw a thoughtful look on Padma's face but, maybe not surprisingly, a slightly outraged look on Parvati. The implications of such a contract with an automatic marriage clause meant that they would have to keep themselves in check on their own. It also meant that the girls father, who knew that the girls were the ones in charge of how fast things progressed, didn't want to risk trusting them that far. Harry continued to look to the girls though. He felt most of this was up to them. Padma spoke first.
"I would agree with most of it. But why the marriage clause. Don't you trust us?"
"In principal yes. But you've seemed to accept to be his intended, the both of you. It has seemed to become a tradition in this country that betrothed couples engage in sexual activities ahead of their weddings and , whatever their reasons, they may break up before the marriage. For this reason, if you engage in such before the wedding you will be instantly wed by contract bond. Also we will need an escape clause for if you find yourselves incompatible before now and then." said Mr. Patill.
Harry nodded. He could see where the man was going with this and agreed in principle. He didn't want just any old bloke "enjoying" his daughters without being sure they were to stay together. He was forcing them to be careful instead of just saying so. Parvati sighed.
"This is to make me behave isn't it?"
"Not particularly just you. You just worry me the most." he said, not sugar coating it at all. Harry winced but continued to observe the girls. They stared at their father for a while before looking to each other, then Harry before nodding. Harry finally spoke up.
"Then lets move on to negotiations for the bride price. What do you want?"
"I'll be losing them in the greenhouses and will have to hire someone to help in their stead so ill have to ask at least twenty-five hundred galleons each." Harry nodded to this.
"Then better make it an even five thousand galleons each. I wouldn't want you to come out of pocket to replace them for a while yet. At least until your profits catch up to your employees. And be prepared for a contract for all of my grown potions needs for the future." Harry said with finality. Mr. Patill was stunned.
"Generally you negotiate down not up. And this offer for contract...what will it entail?"
"I will be bringing in something soon that will require the food and potions capability to support a small city. I will look to you for supply." Harry said simply.
"Then, if there is nothing else, we need parchment." Tipsy popped in with parchment she'd found in the masters bedroom along with quill and ink. Harry was shocked. He hadn't expected the little elf to have inventoried so much of the house already.
"Thank you Tipsy. I had expected to go get that myself. Very good work." said Harry, shocking Suva and raising the eyebrows of the twins.
Tipsy blushed and popped away.
"I will be writing these. I really don't need any other input other than the final check and signatures. I will sit here and work while you get back to work with whatever all that gibberish on you window thing is." said Mr. Patill.
They all nodded and went back to their stations. Before they made it the back door opened and closed and heavy footsteps sounded through the house. One of the human replica security bots walked through the room on its way to the front door and the other was heard heading for basement. He'd set them to guard the entrances and the vault. Harry thought about it and went to the basement instead to count out the bride prices and get that out of the way.
Now back at his station he went back to programming. While they had been talking he'd remembered the fact that the Goauld tended toward carrier action and so did the Wraith so he retooled the designs while he was at it. All ships would be fitted with 360 rotating pulse cannons for anti-fighter operation. The point defense this added would increase the operations the designs would be able to participate in and would help increasingly against the Wraith when the time came to take back the Pegasis galaxy.
The program was a simple as he could make it. The drone ships already had a program to use but it was an exploration one not a guard. With this he removed the exploration protocols and added guard duty for the two claimed systems. They would challenge any ship moving into the system and instruct them to power down their weapons. The old alliances with the Asguard, Furling, and Nox would continue however and free passage continued. But anyone else would be warned off. He knew that, as of now, the Goauld wouldn't listen and would instead seek to fight. They don't like when others don't bow to them as gods. Anyone right thinking would, however, back off or sit in place and attempt to get something living on the line instead of a bot. The program would be simple but required quite a bit of coding and Harry was deep in the contingencies an hour later when Mr. Patill was satisfied with the contracts.
"Harry, Parvati, Padma, it's ready for our signatures." was all he said.
They all rose from their stations after saving their progress. Harry, who was not expecting any trouble as of yet from the Goauld as they seemed to not know the Earth or Centari were at the moment, was almost ready to send the instructions like the modifications he'd sent almost an hour ago. He wasn't entirely sure what the girls were working on but it would have to do with his plans so far. He trusted them but he would still ask after he was done with his task.
Looking over the contracts, the girls looking over their own and Harry checking them both, found them acceptable. Then Harry frowned as Suva pulled out a blood quill. He intellectually understood the necessity but still didn't like the things. Taking his frown for dissaproval Suva spoke up.
"Necessity calls for a blood quill, my lord."
"That's not it. I've been tortured with one of these before. Under the device on my hand is the phrase 'I will not tell lies'. I gained it in detention under Madam Umbrage."
Mr. Patill frowned. "I assure you that that was never the intended use of the blood quill. We only need two signatures from you and me today and one each from my daughters."
Harry nodded and took up the quill. He signed as he ignored the mild pain in the back of his hand before handing the quill back to Suva for his two. The signing went quickly. When all were done the pages glowed for a bit then settled. Mr. Patill quickly made copies and stacked the copies for himself.
"Now that it is unbreakable, even with the destruction of the originals unless there is full agreement by all parties involved, I would still ask that you put them in a safe place until such time as you put the rings on their fingers." said Suva.
"Tipsy!" called Harry.
"Master be calling Tipsy?" the little elf chimed as she popped in.
"Please put these in the vault downstairs if you would please." he said handing her the original copies. She took them and was gone. Suva spoke up again.
"If you girls have no objections, I will have our house elves prepare you some overnight bags that you may make your first stay over here for the night. You may even move in, if Harry allows it, for you are now mostly his responsibility. I would ask that you not embarrass the family or him but I know that you will not. Be good and work hard my daughters." with that he stood and headed for the floo, taking two large sacks of gold and the two contracts with him.
The twins smiled and sauntered up at him, each taking a side as they were seeming to do a lot recently and took turns kissing him and guided his hands again to their rears. The snog with light petting, he was beginning to think of it as, continued with more passion than the earlier one. He supposed that they were happy with the arrangements they'd just completed and simply responded as directed and it soon broke up as everyone went back to work.
"By the way, you two can give provisional permission to come here, which will come in handy when your stuff arrives by elf in a bit. Do you remember what I said?" Harry said without looking up from his programming.
"Yes. 'Stand down and record signature. Highest priority access granted to Tipsy'." said Padma.
"Good. It will be lowest priority access granted when your elves get here. They'll need it or they'll get stunned."
"I won't forget."
Only a few minutes later two pops sounded in the center of the room and two elves handling two trunks were standing there.
Padma barked out, "Stand down and record signatures. Lowest priority access granted to Tinky and Dinny.
"Nice command voice." said Harry with a smirk.
"Hush you and show them to our rooms so they can unpack us." she responded.
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" he stood and saluted before laughing and leading the elves to their rooms.
He decided to room the girls on the other side of the hall from the master suite. That way he could quickly find them for any reason. That and his sensors would always be able to find them as well.
He went downstairs to get back to work on his coding and managed to finish before dinner, after which he learned that goodnight snogs could be a torturous way to go to bed.