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Kara wished that she could be surprised but honestly, quite frankly, she wasn't surprised. Disappointed that they would do something this stupid, perhaps, but really not surprised. After all her and Harry talked about, being this surprised was very low on their list of probable reactions.
"They're….they're that stupid?" Kara asked Harry and the green eyed wizard nodded for a few seconds.
"Yes, they are that stupid."
"Stand down and no one needs to get hurt," the lead Auror said and Harry sighed.
"I could say the same thing about you, there's no need for you to get hurt," Harry replied to the blonde and the blonde placed her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, you have a minute to leave or…" Kara said and she dodged an attempted stunning spell. Anger flowed through her eyes. "Okay, screw subtly."
Kara launched heat vision from her eyes and burned the wand in the hand of the wizard to a crisp. She stopped herself from completely burning his hand, although there were blisters.
"Oh, what did you do?" the Auror yelled and Harry knocked two of them off of their brooms.
They fell down to the ground, and taking pity on them, Harry slowed their descent. Magic could cause people to survive an amazing fall but at the same time, Harry doubted that he would want to tempt fate.
"Mr. Potter, it's going to be alright, you…"
Harry waved his hand and the Ministry idiot was wrapped up with several cords, falling down from the broom.
"Well so much for getting out of her discretely," Kara said, she wanted to throttle them for what they've done to her and Harry.
"Keep your cool, I've got an idea," Harry said and Kara sighed, before she calmed down just a little bit.
"Okay, keeping cool, I'm keeping cool," Kara said, given that there were at least three Ministry blunders that she could count off the top of her head regarding Harry, she was not in a happy mood regarding them.
Harry sent several bright lights, blinding them, and he grabbed Kara around the arm.
"Let's go!" Harry yelled and Kara didn't need to be have to told twice. Both of them shot through the air like a cannon, going completely far.
Kara could feel her heart quicken and she decided to make any attempt to follow them more harder. Three more diversion spells, followed by super breath should have done the thing nicely.
"Dumbledore, just had to go there, didn't he?" Harry asked Kara and Kara sighed, as the two teenagers continued to fly.
"I think we lost them," Kara said, and she looked at Harry. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, fine, you?"
"Fine, but those idiots….I don't expect them to listen to reason," Kara said with a smile on her face. "Are you going to go back to get the rest of your gold?"
"You know, I'm going to have to find a way back to drop off Pettigrew, as well, because I do want to get Sirius his trial," Harry said, holding the unbreakable cage with Pettigrew inside. The rat snoozed on, blissfully unaware that he was getting caught.
"Maybe you could just portal inside the Ministry of Magic?" Kara asked and Harry smiled.
"That's a good idea, but finding someone who is trustworthy in there, because I don't want to be detained until Dumbledore came back," Harry said and he decided that it was time for drastic action. "I'm going to have to make my move now, and I know what to do. I just hope that we can get this done without Dumbledore finding out."
"You think that he might use Sirius for leverage?"
"I think that he might," Harry said. He was pretty sure that Sirius wasn't as loyal to Dumbledore, as Lupin and many others were. That being said, he could not risk being caught.
He sketched something on a piece of paper.
Are you in?
Harry waited for the answer, seconds turned to minutes, but then there was an answer.
What in the name of Morgana happened?
Harry smiled as he wrote back.
Well, it's like this, I decided to leave Hogwarts early, because I had it up to here with this stupid tournament that I didn't sign up to.
Kara and Harry both watched in anticipation for the response.
Figured as much, I hope that you know what you're doing. Dumbledore won't give this up with a fight. Especially that he thinks that Kara is some Super powered kidnapper who has subverted you over to her wicked way of thinking.
"For the love of…" Kara said and Harry tightened his arm around her and scrawled on the paper once again.
Trust me when I say that the Ministry got the drop on us, that will never happen again. We're going someone secure where their foolish wand waving and silly incantations won't even touch us.
The person on the other end of the paper link stopped.
Trust me, once you're outside of Europe, the ICW can't even touch you. For an International Governing body, it's amazing how ninety five percent of their countries are located in Europe.
Harry wrote back without missing a beat.
We both know that they only do that to make themselves come across as more important.
Harry decided to add his next point.
I have Pettigrew…..how can we get him into the Ministry without Fudge or Dumbledore finding out about it? Actually, come to think about it, can I get him into the Ministry without Fudge and Dumbledore finding out?
There was another long pause and she responded carefully.
I'm working on it, don't panic, please stand by.
Harry was standing right then and he waited to see what would happen. He and Kara made their way to the Potter Estate in Smallville, where they would crash for a couple of hours. He would have to thank Lana for giving him the run of the place the next time he saw her, although to be fair, he technically owned it.
I'll be back in an hour.
Harry and Kara started a fire and got some hot chocolate, as they sat around. It was like a winter blunderland in Kansas tonight.
"So, I'm number one with a….well wizards don't use bullets, so that joke doesn't work," Kara said, chewing on her lip, as she drank the hot chocolate slowly. The blonde crossed her legs, wiggling her foot in time with the music that was playing.
"Well, it's good to be wanted, not like that," Harry said.
"They won't rest until they have you back," Kara said and Harry smiled.
"You remember the one thing we talked about…"
"We've talked about many things, so could you please stand to be a bit more specific?" Kara asked Harry and the green eyed wizard smiled as he elaborated. Pettigrew was now on the table in his cage, still out like a light. As far as he was concerned, no time was past.
"Well….remember what happened after my first year….."
"Besides the fact that I wanted to kill the Dursleys and Dumbledore and the Ministry," Kara said, as she drained her cup of hot chocolate, sitting it down on the table.
Harry snuck outside of the Burrow. If he had just waited another day, Kara would have rescued him anyway and likely would have fitted the bars on his window around Vernon Dursley's fat head like a noose. The thought made him smile.
A blonde haired blur glomped him from behind.
"Harry….so…so….sorry….I was…..well I was on board an alien space ship," Kara said and Harry blinked. "Yeah, there is this nutcase computer, who…..you remember me telling you about the lost city of Kandor? How it disappeared one day?"
"Yes, I remember you telling me about that," Harry confirmed and he could not believe it, he saw a wide grin on Kara's face. "You mean…..you mean to tell me that…"
"Yeah it wasn't as disappeared as I thought that it was, or rather anyone thought it was," Kara said, sighing. She was bouncing up and down and smiled, as she saw Harry watching her a little bit more intently than he might have a year ago. "But…..never mind, Kal-El, he has the bottled city in the Fortress, and….there are people still alive inside that….including my mother."
"Well, that's great," Harry said, sounding happy for his friend. The blonde nodded happily, placing her hand on his. "But….."
"Oh, they're still shrunk in the city," Kara said, leaning back against the Burrow. The Weasleys were still asleep. Kara kept her voice down, reminding herself that there would be a lot of uneasy questions if anyone caught her. "But my cousin is looking for a way to safely restore them and…"
"Well I'm sure that he'll do a great job, with his Fortress," Harry said and Kara smiled.
"I'd take you there sometime, it's an amazing place, maybe when he's not around though because….well he doesn't know about you," Kara said and Harry hung his head.
"What are you ashamed of me?"
Kara suddenly looked like a deer in the headlights, looking at her. The blonde stared him down.
"No but you see….." Kara said and she could see Harry smiling. That caused her to be even more gobsmacked than normal. "Oh, oh, I see, you have finally developed the ability to joke."
"Yeah," Harry said with a laugh. "Oh the look on your face."
"I'll show you the look on my face," Kara said, tackling Harry into the ground and she began to tickle his ribs. He returned fire.
Kara froze, the fact that Harry was on top of her, well that introduced sensations that she was not used to feeling. Harry's hand was underneath her breast, for a split second, and he pulled away.
"Is there something wrong?" Harry asked, he had no idea how it felt so good to be on top of Kara, it just did.
"No…nothing wrong, nothing at all," Kara said, with a long breath out of her body, as she got up to her feet. Ignoring the warmth between her thighs, and the fact that Harry was looking more mature for his age than she expected, she decided to switch tactics. "So, what are those things?"
Kara pointed to the potato like creature and Harry smiled.
"That, my dear Kara, is a garden gnome," Harry said and Kara looked at them.
"They look like ugly deformed potatoes," Kara said, looking at them. "I guess that's one of the things where Earth mythology got wrong."
"Yes….just de-gnomed the garden not even yesterday, and they're back with a vengeance," Harry said with a smile.
"De-gnome?" Kara asked as she looked at it. Her eyebrow was raised and curiosity brimmed through said eyes.
"Yeah you pick up the gnome and you chuck it out of the garden, but don't feel sorry for them, because they bite," Harry warned her and to demonstrate, Harry bent down. He picked up the gnome and hurled out over the fence, to its doom.
"Oh….and who says there isn't any excitement in the Wizarding World," Kara said, bouncing up and down, once again her tight shirt getting a bit tighter. She cleared her throat and picked up one of the lawn gnomes, with good grace and gave it a good toss.
The garden gnome flew high into the air, up, up and away, and reached space orbit.
"Congratulations Kara, you've just been the first person to send a garden gnome into orbit."
Kara smiled. "Well hopefully it can breathe in space."
"What do you think that the garden gnome is secretly Batman?"
"You never know," Kara said, as she launched another garden gnome up into the air, although with a lot less spirit than the first one.
"Kandor has been restored, and it has been transported to another planet, where the Kandorians are going to flourish under their new society," Kara said and Harry looked at her. "My mother, would like to meet you."
"Should I be worried?" Harry asked and Kara shook her head.
"No, she's just curious, I'm sure that she'd love you, me and her are very similar," Kara said with a smile. "I don't know what she saw in my father but…he's long gone. He got himself blown up with his stupid mining operations. Of course, that also contributed to the decay of the planet."
"Well love is blind," Harry said and Kara smiled.
"That's for sure sometimes," Kara said but then she stopped. "Wait a minute…..are you suggesting….what I'm thinking that you're suggesting?"
"If you think that I'm suggesting that we go live on New Krypton, then yes, I am," Harry told her and the blonde smiled, stroking her hair thoughtfully.
"You know, it might not be the worst idea," Kara said after a brief thought. "The Kandorians need all of the help that they can live to rebuild and…..let's face it, I think that you'd fit it well there."
"You really think that, don't you?"
"No, I don't think that," Kara said and she smiled. "I know that."
Kara smiled at him but then she brought things around to something that they were discussing earlier. "We were having another conversation before we got so rudely interrupted, you know."
"The Deja-Vu thing?" Harry asked her and the blonde smiled. "I don't know, if it's past lives, reincarnation, or just some weird quirk of magic, but there are sometimes where I think that I've been somewhere and done something before and it's just weird."
"Sure you might not be one of those seers?" Kara asked and Harry shook his head.
"I can't predict anything for anyone else but there was this sense of foreboding that I got when the Goblet of Fire was brought out, and it kept on going," Harry said. "It was these weird senses that weren't completely clear. It was almost like I was being sent a message. Nothing to do with the scar that was on my head, at least I don't think."
"Well…..it might be useful if you can figure out what it means," she replied and Harry smiled at her. "Long time coming, I know."
"Yes, it's weird…..then again with magic, it could be normal," Harry said, as he fixed him and Kara another cup of hot chocolate. Harry waited for his answer, the blonde waiting just as anxiously as he did.
"It could be normal…"
"It could be really screwy," Harry said and Kara chimed in.
"Or it could be some kind of combination of both?"
Harry and Kara could hear the people sparkle to life and this was the answer that both of them were waiting for.
Bring Pettigrew to Godric's Hallow in twenty minutes. I've got a Portkey, I'll take him straight to Amelia Bones. I got the authorization to do this from her, it will be done before Fudge and Dumbledore had their morning tea. Might want to fabricate a sighting or two of you two, so you can throw the Ministry idiots off this trail.
Harry and Kara smiled, they figure out their next step.
Harry and Kara returned to Smallville, they had been sighted in Hogmeade briefly, very briefly as it turned out. It was enough to let them know that they might be in the United Kingdom.
"Okay with any luck, Sirius will be out, and Pettigrew will not have his soul," Harry said and Kara smiled.
"Fate worse than death that one," Kara suggested and Harry smirked but then stopped. His eyes widened as he saw something, a spark of light over Smallville. "Har….what is it?"
"I just…..well…..I'm not sure," Harry said and Kara was thrown off because her mate was thrown off. It was hard for her to focus when Harry was in such a weird state of mind.
"What aren't you sure?" Kara asked and she grabbed Harry around the arm to get his attention. It was firm but at the same time gentle. "Harry….hello Harry…earth to Harry, come in…"
"Did you ever think that there was an answer to something that was right underneath your fingers?" Harry asked and the blonde blinked at him.
"Yeah but….."
"I feel something," Harry said, flying forward towards the cave and Kara tried to keep up with Harry but he was going further from her.
"Harry, slow down, please," Kara said, balling her fists to her side in frustration. "Is this….is this one of those Deja-Vu feelings?"
"Yes, it's one of those Deja-Vu feelings, but it's stronger than ever before, I'm sure that I'm going to find something here, anything here, right in these caves," Harry said and Kara stopped along with Harry.
"What?" Kara asked and the green eyed wizard looked at her. "Are you having…"
"No, I'm not having second thoughts, if that is what you're asking.
There were rocks at the edge of the cave, in fact it looked like it caved in. Kara pushed the rocks, but she could not bend and break the rocks. The blonde looked at him and Harry told her calmly.
"Stand back."
Kara stood back, floating backwards, and Harry placed his hands on the wall. The symbols glowed to light and the rocks shifted, to allow them an entrance.
Harry stepped forward, with Kara following him. The blonde wondered where he was going.
"There," Harry said, as he saw a black box lying in the middle of a set of rocks in the cave. The green eyed wizard stepped forward and Kara looked rigid, she looked nervous.
"Um Harry….." Kara whispered.
"It's going to be okay, I swear," Harry said and Kara looked nervous. That was not a normal look for her but Harry picked up the box and held it in his hands.
The box vibrated within his hands and the symbol on the box glowed. There was an upside down triangle, along with a circle and two dashes through it.
"I…..I vaguely remember that symbol, I've seen it somewhere," Kara whispered.
"We both have, I think."
"Is it right that you've never been taken to visit your parents?" Kara asked, as she was practically fuming. "You pretty much had to research where they're buried…..shouldn't that be first hand knowledge?"
"I'm beginning to think that they don't tell me a lot of things," Harry said and Kara shook her head.
"Just beginning to think…"
"Actually….I've known that since about ten seconds after I found out that I was a wizard," Harry admitted and Kara looked at the headstone.
"That's an interesting symbol, seems almost like a Kryptonian crest," Kara said and she pointed to the symbol. "I'm sure it isn't, but….it sure looks like it."
"I can't believe that your symbol was really a crest but I guess that it does work out well for Superman and Supergirl…"
"The Superman thing is all on Lois, and the Supergirl thing as well," Kara said, throwing her hair back. "If I had my way, I would be called Flamebird, but the Supergirl name stuck."
"But you are a Supergirl," Harry said, and Kara smiled at him. "And you wear the "S" better than your cousin does."
Kara blinked, she did wonder where Harry had a sense of humor.
"Oh, you've been staring at my "S", Harry?" Kara asked and there was a moment where he smiled, slightly embarrassed.
"I do know what that means, Kara," Harry said and Kara grinned.
"I've done a good job at corrupting you."
"So….shall we do it," Harry said and Kara nodded.
"On three, I guess."
Harry touched the box and a blinding light appeared around him. A few crystals popped out of the box and a young man with messy black hair and green eyes, with a lightning bolt scar appeared out of the box.
"Hello, younger me. I guess you're about ready to put it together. I should have figured that you would be nosy enough to do so."
To Be Continued.