Special Agent Franks
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Chapter 1 Time passes...
Previously in Special Agent Franks Euphemia Potter was left with her relatives the Dursleys because of a manipulativ old man's mistake. After a move to the united states, due to the patriarch Vernon havind received a promotion, The durley's constant abuse of their young charge was discovered by a marine's Staff Sergeant Micheal ''Mike'' Franks who was after some trials awarded custody of the young Euphemia.
Now...
It turned out that Euphemia had to stay in the hospital for a long time to recover from her wound and the abuse her relatives gave her. The doctors were able to heal most of the damages, the young girl would only have some scars to remind her of this ordeal.
While she was recoverring in the tender care of the doctors her new father did all he could between his new job as a NIS field agent and as a new father, thankfully his superior and teamleader Special Agent Dan McLane gave him more leaway so that he could spend time getting to know his new daughter and so that he could take care of her.
So the new father registered his new daughter in primary school so that she could start in September 1986. The man also taught his daughter to read so that she wouldn't be bored when a hard case would keep him at work late in the night, he also hired some babysitters to watch his daughter when he couldn't. As usual a social service member was tasked with observing the new familly to be sure that everything was alright, because Euphemia's case is sensitiv due to the abuse she already suffered.
The years passed quickly for Euphie and Mike, they got to know one another and Euphie was happy with her new dad. Mike learned that his dughter was quite bright and couldn't wait to learn new things, she also admired his old bones (since he saved her from her relatives) and every time he was here to say goodnight to her asked him to tell her some of his war stories as a marine.
28 February 1991 17h30 on a road somewhere in Virginia United States
Euphemia and her very best friend Kelly Gibbs were in the a car with the mother of the latter Shannon and a NIS agent that was tasked with the safety of Shannon who had witnessed a murder.
The two ten years old girls who were as close as sisters looked almos identical exept Kelly had red hair where Euphie had black hair and Euphie had green eyes where Kelly had blue ones.
The girls liked to pretend they were twins as the two of them had issue with being alone, Euphie because she was once abused and Kelly because her father wasn't there for long periods of time due to his job as a marine and while she understood it didn't mean she had to like it.
Kelly's parents and Euphie's adoptiv one didn't meet but the three of them unknowingly agreed that the friendship between the girls was a great thing, in fact Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Kelly's father took the time to train the girls in self defence when he was home. The father in him knew the time of boys approached and so he did everything in his power to help the girls with keeping themselves out of harm ways.
Now the two girls weren't at school because it was vacation time but since Mike was working Euphie did what she did in those case : she went with her best friend and almost twin to have a sleepover at the Gibbs' home.
That was how Euphie ended up in the Gibbs' car with Kelly and Shannon, the NIS agent was currently driving, Euphie was disappointed that the agent wasn't her dad but he had recently been promoted to leader of the MCRT so it was below him to do this kind of escort job.
Suddenly the sound of glass breaking could be heard jsut before the agent slumped over the wheel dead, the car went out of control, Shannon tried to move the wheel to keep the car from crashing but the weight of the dead agent didn't allow her to do it. The mother sensed the desperation grow into her as she saw her life flash before her eyes, she knew this was it the car woud crash and her, her daughter and her daughter's best friend would die.
The two girls were screaming in fright and nothing could be done to keep the car from crashing, the car seemed to move in slow motion, the time seemed to stop as Shannon tried to think about what she could do to save them or at least the girls.
The two ten years old girls were holding one another as close as they could and they had closed their eyes as soon as they felt the car going out of control. Shannon could only watch as the car seemed to approach the wall that was going to kill them all.
As the car slammed hard into the wall, the bystanders watched helplessly only one of them had called 911 from a phone booth as soon as he heard the gunshot. Help was on its way but the car was in a pretty bad shape, the same courageous young man approached the car and saw what seemed like two unconscious young girls, a woman that was gravely injured and the driver was dead for sure as his head had been destroyed by the gunshot.
The man tried to open the doors to help the injured but saddly they wouldn't budge, the mad was getting desperate when he saw that gas was leaking from the totalled car.
Thankfully the firemen, the police, the FBI, the NIS arrived on the scene, the firemen quickly took over and opened the car, then they stabilised the woman that was the most grievously injured, she had been impaled in the stomach by a metal pole, they cut the pole to avoid doind more damage by removing it, the woman was then immediatly sent to the closest hospital.
The two girls were also checked but found to have miraculously come out of this accident completely unscathed, they were only unconscious.
The NIS and FBI teams were arguing with one another about who had the right to investigate when the leader of the NIS team spotted a familliar head amongst the injured.
Mike paled seeing Euphie's injured body being taken from the totalled car, he immediatly went to find out how she was, he barked some orders at his men before leaving with the firemen that carried his daughter to the same hospital as Shannon.
Once there the Senior Special Agent let the doctors take care of his adoptive daughter and went to learn how the other passengers were doing.
He learned that his daughter's best friend was physically alright just some bumps on the head but mentally that was another thing alltogether, both girls would probably require special help : a shrink. The woman was addly still in surgery, so it fell to him to learn of the whereabouts of the father.
5 March 1991 10H30 NIS building Navy Yard Washington D.C. United States.
It took several days of investigation to find where Leroy Jethro Gibbs was, and then they had to wait fo him to recover from a bomb attack he and his units were in. While that was going on Mike couldn't help but think of his daughter who was still in a coma as well as her friend, this fact puzzled the doctors since physically they were both fine.
Then it was time to announce to Gunnery Sergeant Gibbs that whil he was fighting for his country in the Middle East, his wife and daughter were attacked and put in comas.
"Gunnery Sergeant Leroy Jethro Gibbs? I am Mike Franks a NIS Special agent." said Mike introducing himself to this man he never saw but heard much about.
"Yes Sir, I am he but I wonder what could a NIS agent want with me... It's been months since I left home." wondered the marine Gunnery Sergeant.
"I am afraid I have to tell you grave new Gunnery Sergeant Gibbs : Two weeks ago while shopping for food your wife Shannon witnessed a murder. As sole witness of the act she was immediatly out in protective custody by the NIS with an agent tasked with the safety of your wife and daughter. Six days ago on the way back home from your daughter's school the car they were in was attacked by a sniper. The sniper shot the agent, who was driving the car provoking a car accident they were four passengers in that car Gunnery Sergeant Gibbs! The agent was shot in the head and died, your wife was impaled by a metal pole and transported to the closest hospital once help arrived on scene, as of now your wife is in a coma the doctors said that they were able to mend her wound but during the surgery she lost much blood and as her blood type is rare a transfusion is unlikely to happen. Your daughter was unhurt during the accident but for reasons doctors are unable to comprehend she is tsill unconscious as well as the last passenger your daughter's best friend. Due to this circumpstance you are cleared to return home Gibbs, you should spend time with your familly." explained Mike to the shocked marine. "Ah and you should thank the brave man that was the one to call for help he is a Navy lieutenant one Harmon Rabb Jr."
"...Sir I will be home as soon as I can, but who is the one that provoked the accident if you don't mind me asking sir?"
"I can't tell you that Gibbs! You can't go do justice yourself and even if I could tell you I wouldn't do so over communications." stated Franks shooting down Gibbs' idea of revenge.
7 March 1991 12H30 Bethesda's military hospital United States.
Gibbs, who returned home, and Franks stood in the hospital waiting hall. Thanks to some of his old contacts the NIS agent was able to get all the victims of the accident transfered to the military hospital of Bethesda, to have the best doctors in all of the country look at the three cases that puzzled the doctors in Fall's Church.
"Gibbs and Franks? Doctor Bauer will see you now." said a nurse.
She then led the two men inside an office where a man wearing a white coat was frowning over some papers.
"Gibbs and Franks, doctor Bauer as yo asked." said the nurse.
"Ah thank you Brenda that will be all, Now Gentlemen please be seated we have much to discuss." said Dr Bauer.
"So We did all kind of tests over the three patients and found somethings really weird. First Your wife should be dead Gunnery Sergeant Gibbs with the amount of blood she lost she shouldn't have been able to survive. As for the girls they both should be able to wake; their unconscioussness have no physical causes." explained the doctor to the worried adult in front of him.
"What are you trying to say doctor, that you can't do anything?" asked Gibbs quite rudely in fact.
"Not quite like it in fact I may have an idea to help your wife Gunnery Sergeant Gibbs. As you must know your wife's blood type is quite rare, so much that a blood transfusion is usually done inside the immediate familly where the odds of finding the same bloodtype are much higher. We tested your daughter and find that she didn't share your wife bloodtype but obviously yours, however her friend has the same bloodtype so if I was granted permission to do so by the girl's parents or guardian I will be able to transfuse blood into your wife, saving her life." explained Doctor Bauer.
"Where is Euphie's Guardian, I know that girl, she doesn't have parents she has an adoptive father so where is he?" asked Gibbs.
"He is right next to you Gibbs, I am Euphie's adoptive father, and I grant permission to draw blood for her, but be carefull doctor don't take too much." said Mike.
"Thank you Agent Franks. I owe you one." said Gibbs.
"Bah anybody would have done the same thing, but since you owe me something here is what you will do, you will retire from the marine and join the NIS particularly my team. Do that and you may find some intel on who attacked your familly and where they are." said Mike in a way manipulattting the marine into doing what he wanted.
Having been granted leave to do the transfusion, the doctor didn't waste anytime and prepared both patients for the intervention.
Two hours later and results were already seen, Shannon was slowly gaining conscioussness and at the same time she did, so did the girls.
After this event, professional help was given to the survivors of the crash, especially the two youg girls. What the shrinks found out was that the girls in this traumatic experience bonded in a way never seen before much like the urban legend of twins bond the girls could somehow feel each other therefore they warned the two famillies that the girls shouldn't be separated from each other for too much time.
This and the fact that they already saw one another as sisters made them even closer, they swore to each other to remain friend and to follow one another into any school they wanted to join.
When Gibbs told his wife he was leaving the marines to work with NIS to be closer to his familly, made her very happy, they unknwowingly conceived their second child this night when Shannon ''thanked'' her husband.
31 July 1991 14h00 Gibbs' familly home Fall's Church Virginia.
It was Euphemia's birthday but strangely enough it also was Kelly's birthday so the two famillies celebrated this event together seeing as the two girls were as close as sisters.
Both girls turned 11 this day and unknow to them and their familly this means that they would get the visit from an envoy of Salem's Witch Intsitute a magical school.
The party was going since midday when all the girls' friends made it for their birthday's party. Jethro and Mike had taken the day off as turning 11 didn't happen everyday.
For Jethro it was also a way to breath a little since being a Probationnary Agent or Probie meant that you were often tasked with the work nobody wanted to do, the former Gunnery Sergeant didn't believe his ears when Miek told him it happened to him once too.
Suddenly the doorbell was heard despite the noise made by the children who played hide and seek by the sound of it.
Shannon, before her husband could protest went to open the door, what she found outside made her froze in shock, a man wearing a strange black cloak was standing outside her door with some yellowed paper in his hand.
"Am I right in saying that you are Shannon Gibbs nee Fielding?" asked the strange man, his tone sounding formal as if he was from something official.
"...Yes..." could only say the woman.
"Great! Please let me inside we have something to discuss with your husband and daughter concerning her future school and her future." said the man.
"I am sorry but we currently are celebrating my daughter and her friend birthday so this will have to wait." said Shannon trying to get the man to leave.
"That friend isn't she Euphemia Diane Franks, that's great that way I can kill two birds with one stone." said the man looking relieved of the fact that Euphie was also inside.
Not waiting for another seconds the man entered the home, as if he was welcomed inside.
Shannon was flabbergasted, here was a man who pretended to be an envoy from he governement that entered people home without being invited and without proper paperwork.
In the living room the two NIS agents currently nursing beers looked over the children, when the man came in lie he owned the place the two jumped on their feet lookin ready to fight if necessary.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my home?" asked Gibbs looking ready to fight if the man had come looking for trouble.
"Mah Don't worry Mr Gibbs, I am here to talk to you and your friend about your daughters' future. As for my name you can call me Mr Pierce." said Mr Pierce trying and failing to defuse the siuation.
Then the children ran into the room having heard the shout from Gibbs and as curious little thing they wanted to know what was going on.
Mr Pierce frowned seeing this, he put his hand inside his strange coat and pulled a piece of wood, and with a swish all the children bar Kelly and Euphie stood frozen.
"Pierce what did you do to those children?" roared Mike angry and terrified at the same time.
"Don't worry Mr Franks I just stopped the time for those children, they won't be hurt you could say that they are in stasis and will remain so while we discuss what I came here to discuss with you."
"Now to start as you probably noticed I have some powers that may seem strange to you, this power is called Magic. It can be channeling through a wand such as this one or when channeling powefull emotions we call this accidental Magic, that is how children who possess the gift are detected." started Mr Pierce.
"Now I am here because both Kelly and Euphemia showed up on our detectors showing that they possess the gift of Magic, that means they can join Salem Witch Institute this September and they will go to this Boarding School for seven years."
"Wait a minute here Pierce if that is your real name, Our daughter don't have this magic of yours, we never saw them do any Hocus Pocus." stated Mike.
"Ah but because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. As a matter of fact their strongest show of magic happened on the 28th February of this year." explained Pierce causing all the adults to pale as they realised that the miracles that saved Shannon and the girls that day wasn't a miracle after all.
"Yes Now I don't know what exactly happened that day, but the girls used so many magic that their cores must have been near depleted so they must have been unconscious, and what is even more baffling is that they used magic for days continously, I wonder how you could have explained this but I am not here for this."
"I see... So that's how and why." softly said Shannon as she remembered that day.
"But enough of that, I am here to formally welcome your daughters in the Magical United States of America or MUSA for short, so here. Also be warned that refusing this opportunity could be very dangerous for your daughters and yourself as magic always find a way to be used." said Pierce as he a gave the adults two letters adressed to each girls:
Kelly Lilian Gibbs
4 Jefferson Street
Falls Church Virginia
Dear New student,
I am pleased to welcome you in our wonderfull school for witches, With us you will learn all you need in order to become a great witch, you will stay with us all year exept for christmas if you so wish and the summer vacations. You will find with this letter your school supplies and where to buy them. As you are a new mag an official will have been dispatched by the MUSA to introduce you to the Magical world. He will be the one to get you your plane ticket, the one that will bring you to us.
I hope that you find the magical world as wonderfull as the non mag one.
Mafalda Klint
Headmistress of Salem Witch Institute.
First Year School Supplies List :
A first year is required to have :
- dress robes for the welcoming and end of the year feasts as well as any party held for celebrations
A wand and a holster
A cauldron, made of pewter.
Magical Ingredients and How to prepare them by William White
Change the unliving by Athena Goodwitch
First year book of spells by Mark King
MUSA History by Georges Washington
Guide to the Magical World by Mafalda Klint
Warm Clothes for the winter
A familiar or at least a pet that could become one.
All this things can be found in the magical street Horizont Alley, the entrance can be found in any city, find the shop called Magical things for you and I in any train station, please all new mags are required to stop by Gringotts, the bank, to create an account if one isn't found by way of blood test.
Euphemia Diane Franks nee Euphemia Dorea Potter
4 Jefferson Street
Falls Church Virginia
Dear New student,
I am pleased to welcome you in our wonderfull school for witches, With us you will learn all you need in order to become a great witch, you will stay with us all year exept for christmas if you so wish and the summer vacations. You will find with this letter your school supplies and where to buy them. As you are a new mag an official will have been dispatched by the MUSA to introduce you to the Magical world. He will be the one to get you your plane ticket, the one that will bring you to us.
I hope that you find the magical world as wonderfull as the non mag one.
Mafalda Klint
Headmistress of Salem Witch Institute.
A first year is required to have :
- dress robes for the welcoming and end of the year feasts as well as any party held for celebrations
A wand and a holster
A cauldron, made of pewter.
Magical Ingredients and How to prepare them by William White
Change the unliving by Athena Goodwitch
First year book of spells by Mark King
MUSA History by Georges Washington
Guide to the Magical World by Mafalda Klint
Warm Clothes for the winter
A familiar or at least a pet that could become one.
All this things can be found in the magical street Horizont Alley, the entrance can be found in any city, find the shop called Magical things for you and I in any train station, please all new mags are required to stop by Gringotts, the bank, to create an account if one isn't found by way of blood test.
After reading those letters, the adults didn't know what to do so with a sigh they handed the girls their letters.
"Can we go please?" asked Kelly using the dreaded technique, the puppy dog eyes.
"Allright allright, we will go." said Gibbs not being able to withstand the pout on his daughter's face.
Meanwhile Euphie was silent as she starred at her letter.
"What's wrong princess?" asked Mike her adoptive father.
"Why is there another name after my own?" asked the girl frowning as she didn't remember being named Euphemia Dorea Potter ever before.
"Ah yes you are a special case little one, you see the first name on your letter is your current name and the second is your birth name, since you were officialy adopted your name changed." explained Pierce.
"Wicked you got two names! Think of what we could do with it!" exclaimed Kelly as she read over her best friend's shoulder.
"Calm down Kelly, Let Euphie get used to it a little before planning mayhem and mischief." teased the mother.
"I am not!"
Then Shannon took the letter to see what was that about, before freezing in shock at the name displayed on paper, her eyes went from the name to Euphie and back again.
"What?!" asked Euphie "I have something on my face or what?"
"I get it now, that's why you and Kelly look so much alike and that's why we share the same bloodgroup. You and I are related through your birth mother." softly said the redhead woman as she starred at her newly revealed niece.
Euphie could only stare at the adult woman in front of her as she slowly hugged the shocked girl, the three males wisely kept their mouths shut.
Kelly not really undestanding all hat was going on, only remembered that her nad Euphie were related, that meant they really could be familly just like they pretended to be twins at school.
After this emotional revelation, Pierce unfroze the room after everyone got back where they were before, and then the day restarted for the unfrozen children.
The day after the two famillies went to the shop near the train station to reach Horizont Alley. There they first went to Gringotts the bank to do the blood testing.
The results were shocking to say the least, Euphie was found to be part of several prominent families but as she wasn't the heir of any of them she couldn't touch the money, only the Peverell vault would open to her. Kelly was found to be the heir of Rowena Ravenclaw, a famous british witch, in the MUSA it only meant she had money to her name, the name itself is meaningless.
After withdrawing the amount of money needed to do the shopping, they bought what was needed for their first year. When looking for familliar Kelly found an female snowy owl she instantly bonded with, as for Euphie not one but two familliar reacted to her : both of them were still in their eggs so she bought the eggs hoping they would hatch soon, one looked like an ostrich egg and was red and gold, the other looked reptilian and was black and grey the latter looked quite scaly as for the former it was smooth and quite warm to the touch.
For their wands the two girls were matched with sister wands, Kelly's wand was 15,5 centimeters made of yew with a dual core of Phoenix feather drenched in Basilic venom. Euphie's wand was 14 centimeters long and made of Elder wood with also a dual core of a Phoenix feather drenched in Basilic Venom, both feather and the venom came from the same Phoenix and the same Basilic.
The shopping spree ended with the book shop where the girls not only got the books needed but several more in order to know more about this new magical world.
During the remaining month of summer vacation both girls spended time with their friends and when they were at home they learned all they could from the various books they had bought, they were carefull not to do much magic as many books warned them not to do magic without an adult witch or wizard nearby when in learning.
Soon it was time to leave for the school as both Gibbs and Mike were working on a hard case Shannon was left with the task to drive the girls to the airport.
"Are you both sure you have everything?" asked the worried mother who was used to send her daughter to a boarding shool.
"Yes mom I have everythig I need, Even Amelia agrees with me!" exclaimed the eleven years old girl even as her owl screeched as if to agree with her owner.
"Yes I know that your owl agrees with you about everything but did you really have to name her Amelia?" asked the mother.
"Yes Amelia Eckheart is the first woman that flew over the Atlantic, She is what women today must take as a model."
"Allright enough fangirling, and you Euphie are you ready?"
"Yes Aunt Shannon I have everything I need and my eggs are safe in my luggage." said the young black haired girl.
"Allright then let's go."
The party of three then followed the instruction given with the tickets and asked the receptionnist the way to gate "M".
The lady asked for the tickets and after checking the surrounding area told them to come through as she opened the portal to the magical side of the airport.
Once there the mother had to leave her young charges, after a tearfull goodbye, the adult woman left as the young girls went to board the plane that would take them to Salem Witch Institute.
The flight took five hours meaning they arrived near dinner time, after leaving the plane they saw the school, hidden inside a mansion (like Charles Xavier's mansion) the school was melanging old and new in a strange way that worked.
"Hello young ladies, I am Sarah Jones I am the deputy headmistress, as you may have seen this is a girl only school, young boys are sent into our brother school Ipswich Wizard Institute. Now Let's go inside the mansion for a much needed meal where the headmistress Mafalda Klint will welcome you, then you will be asked to hold a stone and depending on the color it takes you will join one of the four houses of this school, if it's blue you will join house Washigton with the eagle as it's symbol, it means you value bravery above all else, if it's green you will join house Harkness with the fox as it's symbol it means you value deviousness above all else, if it's yellow you will join houe Jefferson with the dolphin as it's symbol it means you value wisdom above all else and finally if it's red you will join house King with the buffalo as it's ymbol it means you value friendship above all else." explained the deputy headmistress.
That said she led the you ng girls into the school where the huge dining room was.
"Here are the first years Headmistress."
"Thank you Sarah." replied the Headmistress a tall woman whose age couldn't be deciphered she had grey hairs and blue eyes.
"I am headmistress Mafalda Klint, and I welcome you in our school Salem Witch Institute. Now before the school year officialy start you will be sorted, please hold the sorting stone as you are called" explained the headmistress.
After at least 25 names were called Euphie was called and after 30 seconds the stone turned red meaning Euphie belonged in house King some names later Kelly joined her best friend in house King.
"So ready to take this school by storm." said Kelly to her best friend as soon as she sat down next to her.
"Be nice Kelly, but I think this year will be one of the best we will ever have in any school." said Euphie as she watched the remaining first years get sorted.
The End...
Next time School time for the girls and also we will see what happens back in Britain!