3º New life, new plans
Haresa looked at the rune circle of protection. She would have to get out of the public eye, again. When she first got pregnant Hermione and Ron brought her to America to be closer to Tony and spent nine months doing protection rituals every day.
Because that was the father's task
The mother stopped being able to use magic completely in the third month. So it was considered the father's job to establish protections for his pregnant wife. Besides that the nucleus of the woman would look for the father to obtain security in those difficult times.
That was why they had to go to the United States. Haresa was strong enough not to need daily or close contact. But her magic would burn out if she reached across the ocean for Tony. And she may have pulled some strings to keep him in the same city for nine months
When she appeared with her twins her magic had returned, as powerful as ever. And she moved to Black Mannor, renewing the ancient protections in the process.
Of course there were a couple of remnant Death Eater attacks, but after being very brutally defeated, ahem… After Haresa showed them the mistakes of the path they chose to follow in public the people left her alone. She got strong, she got ruthless and she couldn't have done it without the Weasley family and hers other friends
George above all had been someone essential. That is why the flagship of her company was that store. A shop where George not only created magical products, he also created Muggle pranks that her father loved to try.
This time it would not be so easy to hide.
This time it would not only be her enemies, but also Tony's and she could not ask Ron and Hermione again to give up nine months of their lives. Not again.
Black Mannor's barriers were good, but not good enough. And she needed to be close to Tony. Should she talk to them? They were acquaintances, they were a married couple, they lived in the magical part of New York, ...
And he was that fucking thoroughbred snob
Haresa took a pen and sighed before writing to them. Tony could take care of the physical barriers, she had to put up at least a few magical wards and, since she didn't know when her magic would be cut, she had to use another wizard
Even if he was that jerk with a stick permanently stuck up his ass in depths that wouldn't normally be possible, or Draco Malfoy.
Fortunately, if she stayed in New York, she and Ginny could reconnect.
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Tony looked at his friend for almost twenty years and then at that friend's wife. His friend looked at him as if she were going to kill him and her knuckles cracked menacingly as he looked at him sinisterly.
- What's up, Rhodey? Or should I say Mr. Potts? - Tony tried to use humor to avoid violence
-Don't give me that tone, you cheated on Pepper- the man's voice was a knot of ill-contained rage that desperately wanted to come to light.
-Where did you get that from?
-Of that pair of fifteen-year-olds identical to you that walk around the building!
Tony looked at Pepper and could see a slight betrayal shining in his eyes. A piece of a past pain that returned now after so many years. For both of them their little adventure had been something special, something magical. He had marked them in so many ways.
It was something painful that they could never bury in the past, an ever-open wound. The pain subsided with time, but it was always there
Tony guessed that Pepper must have been hurt, the twins were conceived a few months after the baby's death. It hurt him too. But the children looked fifteen or sixteen years older than fourteen. So he understood what they thought
-They are fourteen. They are the result of my first adventure after… Cut- Pepper sighed in relief. Tony had never lied to her. Not about those things. And she had been forced to pull him out of a sadomasochistic knot while her penis was trapped in a leather cage, after seeing that it was difficult to think of keeping secrets
She sat next to him
- Is the mother giving you a difficult time?
-No ... She apologized for not telling me about the twins until Orion came looking for me. She and the children have come to the Tower.
The two friends of hers shared a worried look
-I know your protocols, so it is sure that they are your children- Pepper took her hand- Are you sure that the mother is not looking for your money?
Tony laughed heartily and his friends looked a bit offended
- She is from the English nobility, very old money. Besides that she is the owner of The Marauders.
Pepper started laughing heartily as Rhodey watched them. The Marauders were a company made up of other smaller companies, so a lot of people didn't know the name of the company behind it all.
-Is rich Rhodey, at the level of Tony or maybe more
The two sat down and questioned him about her. Something about Tony's answers must be weird, because they were both looking at him with bigger and bigger smiles on their faces.
- Do you have plans for that lovely lady?
-I want to marry her- his two friends looked at each other- Not only because of the children, but because I slept with her and she is ...
- - Man, you just demoted Hawkeye as the best-aiming Avenger. You surpass him. Twice having sex with a girl, two pregnancies- Rhodey sighed dramatically- I guess I'll have to start preparing my best man speech and looking for the most embarrassing pictures I have of you to show your kids.
-Ha, ha ... Do you realize that you are not the only one who made that joke? He himself has given me a medal in which he puts that
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Tony poured himself a whiskey.
The shareholders' meeting had been so deadly boring that he was grateful that he had learned Morse code so that he could convey all of his ideas and calculations to Friday without alerting them.
-Hard day? -Haresa sat next to him- I have someone who meets with the shareholders and presidents of the different companies, but I have gone to those meetings and could put me to sleep in them
-I hate when they say that we should promote the inclusion of genders and that I am a homophobic male chauvinist. I don't contract based on whether you have boobs or not, or who you sleep with, I've had men in my bed before and it was nice. I contract based on capacity. I won't make the weakest teams just to be inclusive. If you are worth it, you can work, if you are not worth it, Hammer Industries is always looking for new workers
Haresa made a face
For some reason she reminded him of the sixteen-hour Wizenmagot sessions on creating incentives to get more young people to join the auror program.
Or to debate how many galleons had to be diverted for the lobby remodel
Or to discuss what new subjects would be suitable at Hogwarts
Or to know if it was appropriate to allow the mini skirt tunics or not
They were a real horror
-Why do you insult Hammer Industries so much?
Tony grimaced and leaned back staring at the amber liquid in his glass. Haresa leaned against him and ran his fingers over the place where the arc reactor scar that had adorned his chest for years was located.
-The jerk Hammer designed a faulty assault rifle model. Yet in some way, called "bribery," his rifles passed through security and reached the troops. Eighty-five dead soldiers and the loss of a base later that rat with human skin, that damn pile of manure ... - The man looked at the woman next to him and tried to compose himself- Before nothing came to light and The investigator made a public statement that the casualties were caused by a defective batch of Stark bulletproof vests.
Haresa froze, that wasn't just foul play. It was even worse. It was very illegal, it was trying to destroy the competition in a vile and cruel way
-We almost went bankrupt and the idiot's company grew. We were on the verge of losing our contract with defense until the training rifles of that model began to fail.- Tony looked at his glass- He had to pay one of the largest compensations in a trial, publicly apologize in all the programs and media in the that he had insulted Stark Industries and was banned from selling weapons to the army for five years.
-God… didn't he go to jail?
-He has several senators in his pocket. Senator Stern made him a government consultant, he's his nephew. There was a sentence, but he never fulfilled until the expo.- Tony looked at his glass- He is one of those bastards who come from a wealthy family that has been in politics for generations. He even now he's in a posh jail with all the luxuries of him and doesn't even mix with normal inmates. Too bad he would have been popular in the showers
Haresa shuddered. Tony put his arm around her
-Is something wrong, precious?
--- The prisons ....-- Haresa thought of his visit to Azkaban and shuddered. - Muggle prisons are luxurious Spas compared to magical ones. We have some creatures that suck your will to live and all the joy in your body.- Tony shuddered, he was remembering when he was under Wanda's spell- I ... They affect me more than usual, when I was a teenager they made me faint alone with getting closer. Now I can take it a little better, but not too much. I need a spell to counter them
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Banner watched Lily work. Magic was interesting from a theoretical point of view. It was energy and at the same time it was not. She was sensitive and thinking. She was powerful and in all things, according to Lily
-The only difference between wizards and Muggles is that our body is adapted to be able to use magic and we have more than normal. Muggles and non-magical things have a twist. A sealed marble with liquid inside. Magicians are water tanks connected to a tap. My mother, for example, is a reservoir.
Lily and Orion gasped as Butterfingers sprayed motor oil on them. Banner picked up the books from him and walked away from the fire zone. He decided to go to his room and spread his mat to meditate for a while when he was surprised by the sight
Tony and Haresa were kissing in the hallway that led to their rooms. Bruce hid as he watched them both kiss against the wall before Tony opened his bedroom and they walked in with a giggle.
-The children won't look for us? -Haresa whispered quickly
-No, I asked Butterfingers to play with them
Bruce sighed as he let them be. He didn't know what was wrong with them. Tony wasn't like this normally and from what he had heard from the twins his mother didn't behave that way normally either.
Why would they behave like this? What didn't he see? ... Magic
-If magic allowed them to mate because Tony was the best match ... Is it making them feel horny for each other? There are precedents of females only coming into heat in the presence of suitable males.
-Nah, that's partly true. But it is also something normal of the magical pregnancy.- Bruce turned and looked at the twins who were running their hands over their bodies and cleaning themselves.- Father is not entirely subtle, Butterfingers has told us everything, more or less.- He young man grimaced and ran his fingers through his hair
-Basically the magical pregnancy requires the presence of the father almost constantly. And it also increases libido. Mother wouldn't let us visit Uncle Ron while Aunt Hermione was pregnant because once we went to see them and they were asleep and naked on the couch.
Bruce made a face.
-That sounds quite annoying, especially if you have to go to work
-In the magical world, paternity leave is recognized from when the pregnancy is known until six months after delivery so that the father can create adequate barriers and make sure that his child is well. Although many families opt for ancestral defense barriers.
A peck at the nearest window revealed a bald eagle with a letter in its talons. The twins looked at each other and said something about a pretentious idiot before opening the window and letting the bird in. Before letting her out, they made Steve put on the suit and took a photo of him posing with the eagle. The eagle turned out to be dramatic and spread its wings while cawing menacingly
It went viral in less than three hours
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The pretentious idiot Malfoy stood in a black four-piece suit and a silver-handled cane the tip of which rested on the ground less than two inches from the tips of his mirror-shiny black leather shoes. Haresa fought back the memory of polishing some shoes like this for her uncle Vernon hers once for an important meeting.
The meeting did not go well and it was Haresa's fault, not his uncle's friend, who was an accountant and who had made a mistake in the figures. Haresa hated Draco more and more. Then a red head came out from behind him
-Ginny, you look great. --- Draco smiled warmly as he looked at his wife. How that pair had ended up getting married was a mystery to everyone, but there was no doubt that they loved each other. On another note, Ginny and Draco were about to outnumber Mrs. Weasley in children, something that surprised everyone.
- Thanks, Draconys chose the dress I'm wearing right now. Ginny, despite her designer clothes, was still a warmer and younger version of Mrs. Weasley. A thirteen-year-old teenage girl approached the twins with a slight blush directed at Orion.
- We make the protections and we go. -Draco was not happy with his eldest daughter's childhood infatuation with Orion. It was clearly seen
-Draconys, the more you deny it the stronger you will- Haresa highlighted Draco's name
-Don't call me that, only my wife can do it
-And your mother- Ginny added with a smile