Marvelous Return

Sirius followed the instructions clutching Harry tightly to himself and looking back every so often at the room he left until he couldn’t anymore, Clint could guess leaving Luna with them left him unsettled.

(this scene is seen by the others through JARVIS’ projection)

“Little Pup?” Sirius said softly looking to Harry would look up at him sleepily. “Do you remember much about the future?”

Instead of answering him Harry just snuggled against his chest putting his head on his shoulder.

“I am not going to ask.” He assured the little boy. “Would you do something for me though?” Harry nodded against his shoulder. “I promise to help with all the plans you and the others made, I’ll even save and be nice to Severus, but please forget about it all.”

Harry lifted his head up to look at him, but Sirius kept going.

“I know, it will be hard, I can only guess as to what happened, if you all thought it was a good idea to use that ritual, I don’t want you to remember all that. I hope you had someone to love and a pack of your own, and we’ll see what we can do for you to get them back, but I don’t want you to get lost in ‘what should have been’, this is a new life for you, you are just a little boy, and you should just be a little boy.” Sirius pleaded with him and Clint could see that like himself, Phil and Natasha both approved.

“I’ll ask Severus if he knows any potions or spells that could help. He was always the best at mind magic.” Sirius informed Harry.

“’kay,” Harry said after observing his Godfather for a few minutes in silence.

“Now do you remember your last 15 months of life too?” Sirius asked with a mischievous smile.

“Hmm!” Harry said nodding with a gummy grin.

“So, you remember how we deal with a grumpy Moony?” Sirius laughed.

“’i’’le Cub,” Harry said making himself look even more innocent with his big green eyes wide and shining. “Kiss, cu’’le.” He said giggling.

“Oh, we are all so screwed,” Clint commented while watching the scene. He could already see Phil melting and Natasha looking forward to the next move.

“Just a sec” Sirius said getting the piece of wood out once more and taping it against Harry’s bandage. “We wouldn’t want our little Cub to become a wolf, now would we?” Sirius asked though he looked like he was doing it more than a habit than an actual threat.

“’own Pa’foo’,” Harry ordered.

Sirius obeyed putting him down. “’ea’y,” Ha said pushing against the door.

“Okay, little Pup! Time for the show.” Sirius laughed opening the door.

For some reasons they didn’t know JARVIS had kept his focus on the two and so they only saw what was waiting behind the door at the same time as they did.

Clint heard Natasha gasping, but he wouldn’t comment as he had almost done so too. Inside the bedroom was a man, naked and covered in bleeding scratches and deep older scars, he looked lost and terrified. Clint had seen better-looking torture victims, and to think Sirius had said the man had done this to himself.

Harry barged into the room and ran, on his little legs, straight to the man, crying loudly for Moony.

The man looked up and opened his arms without a word, holding on to Harry for dear life before a faint “Cub” could be heard.

“Moony,” Harry repeated as the man rubbed his cheek on his hair than his cheeks, his neck, making the little boy giggle. “’ick’e Moony.”

“My little cub. I missed you so, so much.” The man, Remus, Clint remembered, said.

“Mish ‘oo Moony,” Harry told him snuggling in so that Remus could hold him up against his chest, securing him in his arms.

“Do you know where we are little Cub?” Remus asked kissing Harry’s forehead frowning at the bandage.

“I think he does but he isn’t going to answer you Moony.” Sirius finally talked. “And all I know is that we are in the United States.”

“Sirius?” Remus asked in a soft whisper as if he was scared of hearing things.

“I am here Remi. I am here.” He said and approached the man kneeling in front of him and allowing himself to be dragged into an awkward hug as they were trying to be careful of the little boy between them.

They stayed like that for almost half an hour, Remus acting as if he was scenting them, for there was no better word for it. But he looked better now, calmer, taking a few deeps breathes and kissing Harry every few minutes as if he was the most precious thing in the world.

“I don’t have any potions with me Moony. Did you have any?” Sirius finally asked when Remus release him from his hold.

“Pain and Dittany. I don’t know if the man brought my clothes with me though.” Remus said and then looked down at Harry. “Don’t give me the pain potion now please, I missed him so much.”

“No pain potion, okay,” Sirius said looking around them to see if there were any clothes around, spotting a bundle on the bed and getting up to get them, retrieving a clear vial of blue liquid and a jar of an off white cream. “Are they from Severus?”

Remus looked up in surprise. “Severus?”

Sirius sighed. “Long story, I’ll tell you after some sleep. So?”

“The Dittany yes, the pain potion comes from Madam Pomphrey, so I assume Slughorn made it,” Remus told him.

Sirius put the blue 0liquid back into the push it came from. “Then you won’t be taking it,” Sirius said and looked up to look at Remus. “I know I have been a shitty friend these past months but please trust me.”

“Always,” Remus answered with a small smile.

“I’ll explain everything I know after some sleep, Marauders’ oath,” Sirius told him seeing the curious look Remus was sending him.

“Can you scourgify me?” Remus asked, watching at another piece of wood, on the bed, it was different from the one Sirius was wielding.

“To be honest I’d rather you take a bath. The Dittany works better on cleaned wounds.” Sirius said, and a light went on the other side of the bed they were sitting next too.

Sirius went to investigate and came back smiling. “Come on you big wolf lets get you in a bath.” He said helping Remus up.

“Harry?” Remus asked looking down at the little boy still in his arms nodding off.

“He can use a bath too,” Sirius said grinning before he sobered up. “I am not going to take him away from you Remi. Just keep is head out of the water yeah?” He asked hugging his friend.

“Like I would forget,” Remus said with a soft smile and a kiss on both Sirius and Harry’s forehead.

“You’re a good Alpha. We missed you a lot.” Sirius told him softly, tightening his hold on his friend for a minute before releasing him, leading the still naked man to the bathroom.

“JARVIS, we don’t need to see so much of him, focus on their upper body,” Clint whined, but JARVIS followed the order anyway.

Sirius leaned over the tub to work out the water then started to take his clothes off too, which made Clint glad he asked even if Natasha stuck her tongue at him playfully, behind Phil’s back.

“Can you put Harry down or do you want me to spell his clothes off?” Sirius asked.

“Spell off, please I don’t think I can let him go,” Remus said tightening his hold on Harry who opened his eyes to smile at him.

Sirius hold his wood piece once more and JARVIS’ feed froze for a couple of seconds and when the image started to move again Harry was still in the man’s arms, but he was now naked and whimpering.

“Co’d Moony,” Harry complained.

“Just a second Cub, the bath is almost ready,” Remus told him.

“Bash?” Harry looked around curiously.

“Yes, a bath, Moony as to be cleaned so everyone is taking a bath,” Sirius explained to him.

“P’ongs’et ‘oo?” Harry asked with big eyes.

“Yes, Prongslet too,” Sirius said with a deep laugh.

“P’ongs’et c’ean.” Harry protested.

“Well, you’ll be cleaner than,” Sirius told him tickling him. “Plus, we don’t know where you’ve been, it’s just as well that we bath you and check that you don’t have any other injuries.”

“’kay.” Harry said but didn’t look convinced.

“Come on, it’s ready,” Sirius said and guided Remus who hadn’t taken his eyes off of Harry to the bath, helping him get in before turning to look for something. He grabbed a small bathroom trash can, reaching over the sink to grab the wood again, JARVIS froze and when the scene was back to normal, the trashcan disappeared in its place was a plastic looking seat that could hold Harry out of the water, it was placed by Sirius in front of Remus in the bath, which Clint had to admit was abnormally big as Sirius slid in behind Remus to start cleaning his back.

“This magic stuff seems pretty useful,” Clint commented.

“I had never seen it in action before, but they could be great assets to SHIELD if they can do that all the time,” Phil admitted.

“That’s child play to what they can do. It’s called Transfiguration, they can change everything into anything, there are inherent laws as in physics, but I once saw a Durmstrang student change himself into a rabbit, it’s called Animus, I think.” Natasha explained.

“That could be dead useful for a spy or for an infiltration mission,” Clint commented though he was thinking of something else entirely.

“Give it up Barton you’re thinking about becoming a bird,” Natasha said laughing at him when he pouted, they knew him too well.

In that time, Sirius and Remus had stayed silent, only whispering reassuring words when a particularly deep cut was cleaned.

“Why don’t you bath Harry?” Sirius said stroking Remus’ shoulders gently with soppy hands, after having emptied and refilled the bathtub twice to get all the blood and grim out of Remus’ wounds.

“I can’t let him go, Sirius,” Remus admitted with a sob.

“That’s okay. You don’t have to let him go.” Sirius said looking around them, he grabbed the seat he had made and took it off the bathtub. “Just turn around, I’ll clean him while you cuddle the little Cub.” He said with a soft smile and Remus followed his suggestion.

“He is so calm and sweet,” Remus said with a small smile of his own.

“He knows how to be a good cub for his Moony,” Sirius said rubbing soaps all over Harry’s body.

“Goo’ Cub,” Harry said nodding off against Remus’ shoulder once more, lulled by the gentle caresses of Sirius' hands rubbing soap bubbles into him and the hot water of the bath.

“You’ve always been a good Cub,” Remus told him kissing his nose.

Sirius made them stand up, so he could rinse them off with the shower head and then helped Remus out of the bath.

“Go lay on the bed.” He said after yet another freezing moment. “I’ll be just a second.”

“We need to put clothes back on Harry.” Remus reminded him.

“I’ll see about grabbing him some clean clothes and I didn’t think about clean nappies either so, for now, we’ll wrap him in the covers while I put Dittany on you,” Sirius explained looking sheepish.

“We are free?” Remus asked unsurely.

“As far as I can tell, yes,” Sirius assured him. “There are people here they want to ask us questions but as far as I can tell they are not hostile and Harry and…” He said stopping himself not knowing if it was the right moment to bring up Luna. “Harry was with them before the same man brought me to them and he is unarmed and happy so, for now, I’ll trust them.”

“What is it, Sirius?” Remus asked once he had put Harry over the covers and wrapping them over him kissing his forehead once more as the beautiful green eyes had troubles staying open. “Sleep Cub. We’ll keep you safe.” Harry yawned and finally closed his eyes.

“Harry isn’t…” Sirius started before he stopped concentrating on his task, which consisted of rubbing the off-white cream on Remus’ back, for a few minutes.

“Padfoot?” Remus asked grabbing Sirius’ hand on his shoulder and holding it.

“The man, Strange, he brought back Harry’s consciousness from the future. It was so awful they used the ‘walk in the past’ ritual, the one Dumbledore said was too dangerous.” Sirius said with a defeated sigh.

“Sirius? Where are Prongs and Lily?” Remus asked after thinking it over.

“They are gone, Remus. Peter he…” Sirius stopped himself letting out a deep sob. “I agreed with him. When he said I was an obvious choice and they would come after me. I agreed that Peter would be a better choice than us and he…”

“He betrayed us,” Remus said coldly.

“Voldemort wanted to kill Harry. James, he fought against him, the house it was scorched all over, walls exploded. Lily, she was with Harry in the nursery, I don’t know why they didn’t apparate, they should have apparated away. We had changed the wards so they could get away from Harry’s room but we couldn’t apparate in.” Sirius explained to him crying in his arms when Remus turned around to hold him although he too was crying. “Voldemort is gone. He couldn’t kill Harry.”

“We’ll take care of our club.” Remus affirmed after almost half an hour passed again running his fingers through Harry's hair as he slept peacefully.

“Cubs,” Sirius said, and Remus looked at him sharply. “I didn’t…” Sirius started to protest but it died down when Remus started to growl. “Remus we wouldn’t have kept something like that from our Alpha,” Sirius told him sharply making Remus whine. “You are and will always be the alpha of the pack, if I had a pup of my own or if Prongs had another Prongslet you would have had Howlers coming after you to get you back to us immediately and the fuck with Dumbles orders.”

“Whose cub is it then?” Remus asked looking calmer.

“Lovegood,” Sirius said and kept on not noticing the widening of Remus’ eyes or his breathing picking up, the spies in the other room did, looking down at the still calmly sleeping Luna. “I don’t really know what she is doing here, they said Strange brought her after he brought Harry and Xeno and Pandora just gave her up.”

“Lu… Luna is here?” Remus whispered reverently.

“Moony?” Sirius asked concerned.

“My cub is here?” Remus asked looking panicked.

Sirius looked down at Harry and then back up at Remus, only to notice that his friend was looking at the door longingly.

“Remus?” Sirius inquired.

“Dumbledore, he sent me to the pack in France.” Remus started his tale.

“Yeah, I remember that was just before he had us move to the cottage,” Sirius said with a frown.

“He didn’t want me there when the Fidelius was cast, Sirius. He wouldn’t tell me who the secret keeper was when I came back, he implied that it was you and told me it was James’ and Lily’s choice who was told but you had some input.” Remus said, though clearly, this wasn’t the story he was originally going to tell.

“I remember you didn’t come around the cottage until Harry was born, that was almost 2 weeks later. I didn’t really notice at the time because we were busy between the Order and planning how to get Alice and Lily in St Mungos safely when they went into labors. You came to my place every night and I guess we didn’t really notice that you never came to the cottage.” Sirius reminisced.

“Peter got drunk the night he came back from his mom’s, kept complaining that he wasn’t the Godfather to ‘the brat’,” Remus said with a disgusted sneer. “None of us were faring better on the drunk part so I only remembered that later and thought he was just jealous we hadn’t included him, though I don’t think we ever told him Harry’s name since he wasn’t there for the blessing. Anyhow that night he told me where the cottage was.” Remus said. “I was already suspicious about Dumbledore. Well not so much as suspicious as furious.” Remus snarled making Harry and Sirius both whimper coming closer to him unconsciously.

“What happened Moony? What did he do to you?” Sirius asked clearly expecting the worst.

Those people wouldn’t make good spies they were wearing every emotion on their faces, at least that was Clint’s assessment, though he was impatient to learn what that Dumble man did as he was clearly a manipulative ass.

“The mission in France. When I found the pack, I wasn’t the only stranger there. Xeno, Dumbledore sent him there telling him that the alpha had agreed to work for the light side for a price, Xeno thought the price was the article he was coming to write.” Remus explained.

“Wait! No!” Sirius protested. “The French pack, I told Dumbledore years ago that they would never follow us, but they wouldn’t follow Voldemort either. The Malfoy family stole their land centuries ago they still have a blood feud against them.” As Remus stayed silent Sirius’ eyes grew wide. “He didn’t… Please tell me, he didn’t send Xenophilius to them as payment to join our side.”

Remus grabbed a frantic Sirius and rolled them out of the bed before they could disturb Harry’s sleep.

“I did not let that happen, Sirius. I couldn’t.” Remus assured him.

“Xeno never wanted any part in the war and he certainly didn’t volunteer to be a sacrifice to a pack who hates his family more than they hate him,” Sirius said crying softly on Remus’ shoulder.

“I didn’t let it happen. I made them an offer and they gave me back Xeno before anything could happen.” Remus said. “I had to Sirius.”

Sirius looked up at him sharply. “What did he force you to do?”

“I had to claim him, Sirius, what they were planning on doing to him… I had no choice and neither did he. But he agreed, Xeno, I explained to him what was going on and what the outcomes could be, he begged me.” Remus was distraught.

And to be honest so were the people watching in the other room, Natasha even settled down next to Luna on the floor carding her fingers through her soft blond hair.

“Shush. Moony, it wasn’t your fault. I know you had plans, and ideal, about sex, I am really sorry it was taken away from you in such an awful way. I can’t say I am sorry you saved Xeno though, you are such a good Alpha.” Sirius told him cuddling up to him.

“Luna? She is mine, Sirius.” Remus admitted after a few minutes.

Sirius snorted and Remus cuffed him on the back of the head for it. “Sorry Moony but seriously on your first time? And you make quite a good looking cub. Is she why you haven’t been around as much? Why didn’t you tell us? ...” Sirius was about to go on when Remus stopped him by putting a hand over his mouth.

“I never saw her Padfoot,” Remus revealed with a pained sob.

“WHAT!” Sirius cried out pushing himself away from Remus who looked away. Sirius started to growl trying to get up but was held down by Remus. “Let me go Moony, I am going to go kill that old man right now.”

“Sirius no,” Remus told him jumping on top of Sirius to stop him. Which to the people in the living room was slightly funny, seeing as Remus was still naked.

“Yes, I am going to grab onto his beard and hang him on top of the Astronomy tower.” Sirius snarled at him.

“They’ll take the cubs away from me,” Remus told him firmly. “Don’t give them a reason to do that to me again.”

“He will die,” Sirius told him just as firmly.

“He will.” Remus agreed.

“Tell me what he did Moony, please?” Sirius asked.

“Can I have my daughter first?” Remus asked and while Sirius seemed to hesitate Natasha and Clint grabbed Luna, the blankets and the diaper bag to bring them to the bedroom.

“Sirius look at me,” Remus ordered gently, and Sirius obeyed. “I will never ever put anyone above Harry, but you know how werewolves pack work so why are you worried?”

“I know you see all the pack cubs as yours, I just… I don’t know if he knew any of that if it’s why she is here. I don’t even know if Harry was friendly with her in the future. He, no, we, just lost Prongs and Lily, I don’t know if he will feel like he is losing you too. But I don’t want you to feel like you should stay away from Luna either. It’s just so much.” Sirius admitted, tears rolling down his cheeks again.

“I don’t think it is going to be a problem,” Clint said from the doorway having caught the last of Sirius rant. “From what we have learned so far they were really close in the future, brother and sister close, Harry clearly remembers that his first thought, once we got her, was to make sure she was okay,” Clint explained to them.

Remus suddenly scrambled to grab onto something to cover himself finally settling for placing Sirius in front of his naked self.

“That’s not really useful as we have been watching you since you came in,” Natasha told him raising an eyebrow and showing her burden. “We brought Luna here, we thought it was a good idea.” She said before handing her over to an overwhelmed Remus.

“You heard what I did, you’ll let me have her anyway?” Remus asked not taking his eyes of his daughter.

“You did nothing we haven’t done before,” Clint admitted putting the diaper bag on the bed. Looking to see that Harry was still sleeping. “According to Bill, the bag is spelled so that only Harry, Sirius and myself can open it.” He held up the journal that was in his other hand. “We’ll wait until we are all together to read more, so I’ll keep that for now.”

“Finish your talk, yes we’ll keep listening, we aren’t judging we just need as much Intel as we can get since you know each other and some of what we are up against and we don’t. We can learn a lot more that way, people tend to forget things when asked directly about it.” Natasha admitted to them which was a good strategy as far as Clint was concerned. Being SHIELD’s assets, they were under surveillance all the time, they knew it, even now they were only allowed away from their guards because Phil had approved of it and they were together so if needed Fury wouldn’t hesitate to debrief them on each other.

“Sleep, we’ll talk once everyone is awake, the little ones aren’t going to give us the opportunity to stay in bed for a long time,” Phil said from the doorway. “If you need anything JARVIS is in walls everywhere if he can’t point you to what you need he’ll call for us. You could probably apparate out with the kids but please try to remember that we want to help, and it was Harry’s choice to come to us, you aren’t prisoners but I’d rather you don’t run. We won’t offer again.” Phil told them firmly before waving Clint and Natasha out of the room.

“We are staying,” Sirius told Remus before he could argue. “I don’t know what is going on, but I feel like it’s the good call.”

“Whatever you want Padfoot.” Remus said unwrapping Harry, waiting for Sirius to pull clothes out of the bag before spelling them onto him and putting Luna next to him. Smiling brightly when automatically both little ones reach out for the other.

“They will be happy, Moony will make sure of it. Us and Severus. Don’t look at me like that he was not negotiable, our Little Pup got Lily’s stubbornness.” Sirius explained when Remus raised an eyebrow at him. “Will you tell me what Dumbledore did to you, Remus?”  

“When we got back from France, he was furious, he played the concerned grandfather like he usually does but the full moon was so close I could smell it on him. He obliviated Xeno but not me he said it would remind me of why he had to push all those laws on creatures, the ones James refused to sign on. About a month after Harry’s birth I was in St Mungo's to get my Wolfsbane, which I stopped taking, but he has made it mandatory for me to see you and the others, said that if I didn’t he would send me to Azkaban, I have been out of the country for so long, on his orders, since we graduated, I wasn’t sure if he could do it or not, so I went to take my dose like a good little wolf, but they can’t say if we took it or not and that was the last time I took it. I ran into Pandora and Xeno. Pandora was furious, yelling at him for being a worthless Malfoy, I had never seen her so angry, she is usually so calm. But that’s when I smelled Luna. Xeno was pregnant…”

Natasha put a hand over Clint’s mouth before he could comment wanting to hear the rest.

Remus kept on talking. “Having been obliviated he couldn’t even tell her how it happened. I couldn’t tell them because they could have accused me of rape, or line theft, I would have been Kissed right away, Pandora was a new Lady and she is a gray witch both sides would have wanted to please her, so she would side with them.” Remus took a deep breath looking down at his cubs before he kept going. “I went back to Dumbledore, I asked him to go and explain things to them, when we got there we saw Pandora putting an abortive potion into Xeno’s tea, he was absolutely out of it, looked at her doing it and he had no reaction, even when Dumbledore knocked Pandora startled but Xeno didn’t move.”

“I guess he was in shock. He was always really sensible.” Sirius commented.

“Pandora let us in, Dumbledore explained to her what happened in aparté so Xeno wouldn’t hear…” Remus kept going.

“Yeah, that could really mess with someone’s head.” Sirius agreed.

“Pandora calmed down, she even thanked me for saving Xeno but she was still going to give him the spoiled tea. I begged her not to do it.” Remus said sighing.

“Lovegood is a matriarchal line, Pandora didn’t even need to have Xeno’s agreement. How did you get her to back off?” Sirius asked grateful but surprised.

“I didn’t, Dumbledore cast the Imperio on her. At first, I was shocked but all he made her do was spill the tea and clean up the cup, so I didn’t protest.” Remus admitted looking ashamed. “He told her she was pregnant and happy to be because Molly was pregnant again and they could share it together.”

“Molly had Ronald in March and wasn’t pregnant again until December,” Sirius told him dubiously.

“He told her she’d have to hide to protect her baby against Death Eaters and he would come back and tell her when it was okay to go to Molly,” Remus said shaking his head. “I have my guesses as to when that happened.”

“You’ll tell me later,” Sirius told him yawning.

“He told her he would put upwards around the Rookery so that no one will be able to bother them. Then he told her he was going to send Poppy to look after her pregnancy and that it was okay if she looked after Xeno too while she was there, you can never be too careful.” Remus said shaking his head. “I let him do it I didn’t protest, it would keep my cub safe after all. It was once outside that I understood what the old man had planned.” Remus snarled once more.

“Moony tell me. We’ll make him pay.” Sirius told him.

“He casted the Fidelius Charm on the house, told me to write the address down on a paper for himself and Poppy as he had made me their secret keeper, then he put wards against werewolves, dark creature, wizards, everything I was he warned against. I was the secret keeper, but I wasn’t allowed to see them.” Remus said tears rolling down his eyes onto Luna’s blond hair as leaned over the cubs to kiss them. “I asked him to make an exception and he told me it would be unfair to Xeno that he deserved to never remember what had happened and that I should just forget about the cub. When I disagreed he became angry, said that if I hadn’t sullied Xeno with my bestial manners he wouldn’t have had to do that, that I already cost him the French pack’s allegiance and I should be grateful he wouldn’t get rid of the child himself, but that I shouldn’t have any illusion of ever being the cub’s father or ever meeting them or he would tell the world what I had done, what I was.” Remus said with a growl.

“You didn’t do anything wrong Remus, and if Xeno had thought you did he wouldn’t have come back with you to see Dumbledore he would have gone to the DMLE to talk to Shacklebolt. If he had been scared, he would have run to his brother before he went to Dumbledore. You know he had been wary of him since he supported his disownment for marrying Pandora.” Sirius reminded him.

“He threatened to lift the Fidelius if the wards ever told him I came close. Not just theirs Sirius. James and Lily’s too, Harry was only a few weeks old.” Remus explained cuddling close to the cubs.

“Oh, Remus!” Sirius said coming over to Remus’ side of the bed to hug him.

“He said I was a danger to them. To you. That Greyback had some kind of power over me and one day he could just order me to hurt you all.” Remus explained.

“That’s why you only came around the new moon.” Sirius sighed as he realized it.

“I couldn’t stay away from you. You’re my pack and he is my cub. I just needed to make sure I wouldn’t endanger you.” Remus admitted.

“And then 2 months ago we came to join you for a run,” Sirius said pulling the sheet over them.

“You brought Harry with you,” Remus said in an angry voice.

“Harry is your cub. Magic wouldn’t allow you to hurt him, and you know it. You spend the night curled up around him growling at us.” Sirius said playfully.

“You were being idiots. He was supposed to be at home in his crib under the Fidelius not in the forest on the other side of the Island playing with a werewolf.” Remus mumbled.

“We didn’t know about Dumbledore’s threats we just thought you were being your old grumpy self-deprecating self and we wanted to prove to you that you weren’t a threat to Harry,” Sirius admitted.

“The full moon had been harder since Luna was born, not being able to smell her or sent her. I only knew she was a ‘her’ because Molly was going on and on about how they would be able to have playdates with her own daughter once she was born.” Remus explained. “Being around Harry after the full moon just made me want her more, I needed to know my cubs were safe. She wasn’t safe with Dumbledore keeping an eye on her.”

“He’ll know she is gone,” Sirius swore.

“He took down the Fidelius charm tonight. I was in the forest near the Rook, I was hoping they would take her to the Diggorys’ for Samhain and I would be able to see her and smell her.” Remus admitted blushing.

“It’s okay, I would have been hidden in the bushes as Padfoot all day long if Harry had been kept away from me,” Sirius assured him.

“He won’t be back for her, he is probably hoping the Death Eaters will take Voldemort disappearance on every light families they can find,” Remus told him, tensing up once what he had told sank in.

“Everyone is protected,” Sirius assured him. “Pandora and Xeno gave Luna to Strange they must have known someone was coming, they’ll protect themselves.”

“They’ll know to make up something to explain why she isn’t there anymore,” Remus said with a yawn.

“Go to sleep Remi. The cubs will wake us up soon enough.” Sirius told him and settled himself on the other side of the bed, so the kids were sleeping safely between them.

“Okay, I didn’t get everything they said, but I get the gits of it. That Dumbledore guy is an asshole of Hydra’s proportion. Using kids against their parents, selling friendlies out to their enemies, leaving babies in the street without protections…” Clint rambled.

“Okay, Clint we get it,” Natasha told him. “I don’t think there is any need to ask really but just to make sure we are in, right?”

“this will complicate things a lot,” Phil said pacing. “And I thought Stark would be a pain to deal with.” He sighed. “I’ll have to report all this to Fury at some point, he knows about wizards he probably has contacts there if they report Harry or Luna missing before we do we’ll be in major troubles.”

“As far as he is concerned we still have a week before he calls out for us. That’s what the Budapest protocol is for and he will know to deny everything he doesn’t have answers to just to be on the safe side.” Clint reminded them. After all, that’s what they did when they were actually in Budapest and Natasha defected to SHIELD.

“A week Barton, not one more day,” Phil told him.

“Yes, sir,” Clint answered cheekily knowing Phil wouldn’t say anything about it. Having been friends for years after having been mentor and mentee for the first year Clint spent at SHIELD.

They didn’t know yet how much they would learn and be able to do in a week.