Informing the Bosses

Dominique smiled to herself as she walked down the corridor to the Minister's office. Molly had just finished up the latest report, adding in everything they found yesterday. While they still needed to speak to the professor directly, Dominique had found his studies to be enlightening and she felt like they were on the verge of discovering everything they needed to know. If only they could track him down.

If anyone would have heard about people like Iris, Daisy and Jamie, it would be Professor Nikos Aliefantis.

Dominique walked into the antechamber of her aunt's office, smiling as she saw Magnus.

"Good morning," she said warmly. He stood and walked around the desk.

"Here to see the Minister again?" he asked. Dominique nodded.

"Just delivering another report," she said.

"Still can't tell me what it is?" he asked his blue eyes twinkling. Dominique chuckled.

"No, still can't," she said, stepping over to the doors leading to her aunt's office.

"Well, I suppose she's ready for you," he said. Dominique nodded and stepped in.

Hermione was sitting behind her desk, pouring over various parchments and scrolls.

"Hope I'm not interrupting," Dominique said as she shut the door behind her. Hermione looked up, noting the smile on her niece's face.

"I take it you have some good news," she said, perking up as Dominique walked over and sat down, holding the folder out to her.

"We've found someone who might have the information we need," she said, grinning. Hermione looked surprised as she opened the file and skimmed through it.

"A professor?" she asked, looking up. Dominique nodded.

"Chris has started going through records to try and locate him. Shouldn't take too long, I should think," she said.

"And you think this professor will know about what Iris, Daisy and Jamie are?" Hermione asked cautiously.

"I feel he may be able to," she said earnestly. She was nearly bouncing in her chair from excitement. Hermione sighed and put the file down on her desk.

"Well, let's hope he can," Hermione said. "Have you told the others? Iris will want to know."

"Not yet, but I'm planning to owl her today and see if I could pop by tomorrow," Dominique said. "Already owled Jamie and I'll go over tonight to explain things to them." Hermione nodded. "How are things going with the forum?"

"A bit better now that we've started working on planning the security network. I have a meeting later today with Harry and the rest of the team to go over their ideas," she said with a sigh. "Just hope we can convince the rest of the leaders of the necessity for it."

"I'm sure you will. Even they can see that it's useful and needed after the wizarding wars," Dominique said. "Not to mention, they'll be more likely to consider it coming from you. You are a war heroine after all."

Hermione smiled and sat back in her chair.

"Either that or they'll think I'm being paranoid," she said. "Seeing a war in all the shadows and such."

"I doubt that. You've been highly respected since you took office," Dominique said. "And a great diplomat."

"Who would have thought years ago at Hogwarts that I would be leading the British wizarding world?" she said with a sigh.

"I'm sure Uncle Ron is proud of you," Dominique said, causing Hermione to chuckle.

"He does quite relish being first husband, so to speak," she replied. Dominique chuckled. She then stood.

"Well that's about all from me. Is there anything else?" she asked. Hermione shook her head.

"Get back to work. You all are doing a great job," she said, causing Dominique to beam. She nodded, turned and walked out of her office.

"Take it your meeting went well?" Magnus said from his desk. Dominique looked over at him, smiling.

"Very well. I got to deliver good news for once," she said.

"That's good to hear," he said. He looked around his desk and cleared his throat, awkwardly searching for a reason to keep talking to Dominique. "I, ehm, well I suppose I'll see you next time." Dominique smiled and nodded.

"Hopefully sooner rather than later," she said, walking towards the door. "See you."

"Good-bye!" Magnus shouted. Dominique laughed softly to herself as she walked down the hallway.

Dominique had just settled on the sofa with a beer while her family all chatted around her. She had to admit that she missed hanging out there a bit. With the season starting up in a month, she hoped long enough had passed so she could start coming to parties again without things being awkward with Paul.

"The first run in is always awkward. Best to just get it over with," Jamie said from where he sat next to her.

"Mind giving me some warning next time you do that," Dominique said, frowning slightly. Jamie chuckled.

"Thought you might be used to it by now," he said. Dominique looked around. Molly and Toby had come with her and all the Woods were present, as was Lucy, Lila and Wills. She didn't quite understand why the chaser was there, until Jamie informed her that he had inadvertently overheard Lucy and Daisy talking about things and there was no choice but to tell him everything.

Dominique replied that was exactly what she was worried would happen, with a roll of her eyes. She didn't even want to think of the row Daisy and John were likely to get into once he found out that Wills was told more information before him.

"So what's this news?" Daisy asked from where she was perched on the arm of an armchair. Wills had tried to pull her onto his lap just a few moments ago, resulting in a bruise now forming on his cheek where the spritely young woman had slapped him. He was currently rubbing it and alternating between scowling at her and gazing at her in awe. Dominique would never understand the dynamic between those two.

"Well, Chris and I went to speak with a muggle professor yesterday and he suggested we talk to this other bloke who is an expert in ancient Greek myths – especially those surrounding Athena," she started.

"A muggle professor? How could that help?" Wills asked. Dominique rolled her eyes and took a deep breath.

"If you would let me finish… Turns out the new professor is a wizard. At least we think so. He's written a lot of the books and studies we've been looking through in the archives," she said. An air of anticipation filled the room.

"You think this professor, he would know about what Mum, Daisy and Jamie are?" Alan asked.

"We think that if anyone is going to know, then he will," Dominique said. "Chris and I are working on tracking him down, but in the meantime, we're going over all his work with a fine tooth comb to see if he's mentioned it."

"So… he could probably tell us about these… abilities. And why we have them?" Daisy asked. "And maybe give us a hint as to what might be coming?"

"That's what we're hoping," Dominique said before taking a drink.

"It's the first big break we've had since we started," Molly said.

"And I think it might actually lead to something," Toby added.

"Have you located him yet?" Jamie asked.

"Not yet, but if he's still in Britain, it shouldn't be too long," Dominique said. "We're starting with Ministry records, but also plan to do some digging in muggle records as well. For whatever reason, he chose to teach in muggle universities and interact with the muggle world. So we're not too sure what we'll find or where we'll find it."

"Well, I for one think this calls for a celebration!" Wills exclaimed, summoning a bottle of whiskey and several glasses. Of course he would. He made quick work of pouring glasses and handing them out.

"Well… seeing as we're making announcements," Daisy said. Everyone stopped and looked at her. "Some of you may not know, but… I felt something this weekend."

Dominique looked towards Molly and Toby. Molly looked just as confused, though Toby smiled as though he knew what was going on.

"I think I'm starting to feel the connection with John," Daisy said.

"Finally," Molly said with a roll of her eyes, causing half the room to frown at her. Daisy cleared her throat.

"And after speaking with him, I've decided that I'm moving in," she finished, smiling around the room. Toby seemed to be the only one who knew about this and was smiling his encouragement at her. Everyone else seemed shocked – even Jamie. Dominique couldn't imagine how Daisy managed to hide that bombshell from him. Wills looked downright heartbroken, though he quickly tried to hide it.

"Is that such a good idea, Pix?" Alan asked. "What with all the, ah, the-"

"Exploding windows, glassware and televisions," Remus finished with a frown.

"It'll be fine. Now that that I've felt him, things are much better," Daisy said, scowling at her older brother. "We won't be fighting as much and I'm starting to get better control of it. Besides, I think it'll be good. If we're living together then the connection will get stronger."

"Kingfisher's funeral," Remus muttered, causing Daisy to scowl harder at him.

"I think it's a good idea," Lila said, glancing at Remus. Dominique figured she also had picked up on the recent animosity between Daisy and Remus. Everyone looked at her.

"And why is that?" Jamie asked, puzzled as to why his girlfriend would be siding with his little sister on this matter.

"She's right. It might make the connection stronger. I don't see how it could hurt," she said, looking at him.

"Unless we open the Prophet one morning and find out she's blown up the flat after John didn't do the dishes right," Remus said wryly.

"Remus," Jamie said warningly.

"Are you sure you want to do this, Pixie?" Wills asked, looking up at her. She looked down at him and nodded.

"I wouldn't have suggested it if I didn't want to," she said, frowning down at him.

"You suggested it?" Alan asked. Daisy looked over at him.

"Yes, when I told him," she said.

"I thought you were going to wait a bit before you told him about the connection," Wills said. Daisy shrugged.

"Didn't see the point in waiting," she said.

"I bet he was elated," Lucy said, rolling her eyes.

"He was, actually," Daisy said, shooting a warning glare at her cousin. Dominique took note, wondering what had gone on between them and how exactly Daisy had started feeling the connection. Though she reckoned it was better to ask in private rather than in front of a crowd. She looked over and noticed Jamie was studying Daisy intently, probably reading her mind from the looks of it.

He finally sighed and nodded.

"Maybe it's not such a bad idea," he finally said. Alan looked over at him, confused at his sudden change in opinion.

"Are you serious?" he asked. "You're fine with our little sister moving in with her boyfriend?" Jamie looked at him. After a moment Alan nodded and glanced over at Daisy, who was now chattering away with Wills. Dominique decided before she left she was going to pull both of them aside and figure out just what was going on.

As luck would have it, Dominique got her chance just 30 minutes later. The rest of the group was chatting and drinking in the living room while Alan and Jamie volunteered to get some snacks ready. Dominique got up, under the guise of helping them.

"I suggest you start sharing out loud. Everyone knows you're having one of your mental conversations," she said, walking up behind them. Both tall men jumped slightly, not hearing or seeing her walk up. Jamie looked over at the group and sighed.

"We were just discussing that it might be good for Pix to get away from Remus for a bit," he said.

"He still antagonizing her?" she asked.

"It's getting worse," Alan said.

"At first it was both of us, but for some reason he's been going after her the most now," Jamie said. "Not sure what's gotten into him."

"Laura said he's been a bit of a git with her as well," Alan said.

"She's not breaking up with him, is she?" Dominique asked.

"No, she's not. But he's been getting more insufferable," he said.

"He's the reason Daisy's been losing it lately. Usually she's had a fight with him before she gets into fights with Kingfisher. Hoping if we removed one bit of that equation, it'll calm down the other," Jamie said. Dominique looked over, seeing Daisy laugh at something Wills said. Not far off, Remus was scowling at her, then turning back to talk to Toby.

"What do you suppose has gotten into him?" she asked.

"Mostly jealousy," Jamie said. Dominique looked over at him. "He's frustrated that once again, Daisy and I are the gifted ones. But he's harder on Daisy than me."

"I'll keep working on him," Alan said with a sigh. "He'll come around." Dominique nodded.

"Hopefully things work themselves out. Wouldn't do if a war is coming and we're busy trying to keep the peace between Daisy and Remus," she said.

"Isn't that the truth…"

And finally we're caught up to where Where There's a Wills... left off and here on out is all new stuff from all the characters. ^_^ And we get to start finding out a bit more about this connection thing.

I had meant to post this sooner since I'm nearly done with at least getting the first draft of the last few chapters done, but I can't lie, I was getting bogged down a bit. Some chapters are more exciting than others and I got those knocked out rather quickly. And then others are a lot of... not so much filler but less exciting stuff that is necessary to get from one place to another. And that takes me awhile to get down for some reason. I'm editing as I post so that I can clean things up and get them flowing more naturally, a bit more interesting and less "I just wrote this because I needed something here." And, of course, life is still ridiculously busy at the moment. And then I went and drunk posted two random King Arthur stories that I hadn't intended to post at the moment (wasn't even sure if I was going to post them at all, to be honest), so I'm doing the honorable thing and trying to continue on with them as well because I don't want to be that writer that starts something and never finishes it again... I'm on a good roll with finishing stories...

Anyway... hoping to get back on track with posting a chapter a day. And getting more work done on this. And starting on planning out Book 7...

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