Chapter 1
“It’s been quite a while since I last saw you,” Harry said using his customer service voice and smile, “works been keeping you busy then?”
“Yeah, it’s been what two years, I’m surprised that you still remember me, ” he said casually, but his concealed curiosity was easily sensed by Harry.
“Well, I tend to remember the people who order the biohazard coffee, speaking of coffee would you like to order the usual or would you like to try something new” Harry replied, shifting the topic back to what he supposedly came for.
The people who were with him were much more approachable than him (except for the Asian woman who looked like she could easily kill him if she wanted to), in fact, two of them were English, and looked particularly happy when ordering a jam roly-poly and a banoffee pie.
While Harry was preparing their orders, an unusually hesitant voice interrupted his string of thoughts.
“Hey… ummm …. Harry…. Can I bother you for a moment?” asked the usually confident Kyle.
“Err yeah-sure Kyle, is something wrong?”
“Umm well I don’t know how, but… well …. the dishwashing machine broke, I honestly don’t know how or why but it made this weird noise and then stopped working, I don’t mind paying for it from my own money, really Harry I-”
“Oh, is that it,” Harry replied relieved it wasn’t something worse, “don’t worry about it, I’ll have someone come look at it as soon as I can, you don’t have to pay or anything its fine, really. You can help me by staying a bit more after your shift to help clean the dishes if you want, but even that is not really necessary.”
“Are you sure, cause I don’t mind pa-”
But, Harry stopped paying attention to him when he saw about a dozen people in uniform enter his shop, most of which were holding some kind of gun. Except for the one that walked in front of them, and looked like he was in charge.
“You really thought you could hide forever?”
“I’ve got to say, Talbot, I’m pretty honored that you personally came after me, don’t you have better things to do?”
“Well, Coulson,” he said, “I tend to personally go after those who incapacitate my men ”
“I think you forgot the part when you got taken down too,” Coulson said with a smirk.
“Alright then, what’s going on over here,” interrupted Harry.
“And who exactly are you,” the general snidely
“I’m the owner of this bloody cafe, and I’d like to know what the bloody hell you’re doing here,”
“Well, I’m here to take his group into interrogation, so if you don’t mind us we’ll be on our way”
“I don’t think so,” Harry calmly responded, “I’ve only just finished preparing their drinks, and they are not easy to make and are very expensive, so I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait.”
“Did you even hear what I just said,” said Talbot slightly fuming, “this is official government business, and if you do not help us we have the right to take you in too.”
“Well, I don’t think you’d want to do that, after all, I am British, and you’re going to have to contact the embassy once you arrest me, and I’m sure that neither of us wants the headache that comes with that.”
Talbot just glared daggers at him.
“Besides,if you’re going to take them in, don’t you think they one last good meal, I assure they will walk out the front door the moment they pay the bill, just please leave my store, men with guns pointing at everyone don’t do too well for businesses, or so I’ve heard”
Talbot glared some more, but then realized that he did not have the patience for doing this. He moved out with his soldiers but kept one behind. Just in case.
After they left, and the remaining soldier finally stopped pointing his gun at Coulson’s table, Harry went back to work as if nothing had just happened.
The agents stared at Harry when he got their orders and continued staring in shock as he left their table. Then, a few seconds later Coulson and May brought the agents’ attention back to their main problem: Not getting caught by Talbot.
Finally, they established a plan, May would go out first, with Skye after her, and Fitz after her, and Trip after him, and the Simmons, and finally Coulson will be the last one out. He would start taking out the soldier that stayed behind, when he saw it was the best time to, and then they would take the rest of them down. FitzSimmons would have the icers since they were the least trained, and there were only two icers. Though they were under strict instructions to only use it when absolutely necessary. When everyone was taken down, they would split up into two teams (May, Skye, and Fitz would be one team, Coulson Trip and Simmons the other) to avoid being followed. They would each take several routes, making sure no one was following them before going back to the hotel. It wasn’t the best plan, but it was the most they could do without raising any suspicion.
They asked for the check, and as Coulson was paying -by cash of course -he started talking with Harry.
“I wanted to thank you for what you did for us”
“Oh it was no problem,” he said rubbing his neck, “Really don’t mention it”
“Well can I at least know the name of my knight in shining armor,” he said jokingly
“Ermm -well it’s Harry says so right here,” he awkwardly pointing at his name tag, “Harry Potter.”
“Well thank you very much, Mr. Potter, my team and I really appreciate your help,” he said glancing back at his team only to find Skye and Trip snickering quietly, Fitz and Simmons, hiding their laughter behind their hands, and even May smirking slightly. “I apologize for them they’re usually much more mature than that,” he said fondly glancing at them.
“Oh, it’s no problem at all,” he said awkwardly.
“Right, well thank you anyways, we’ll be on our way now,” he said as he signaled his team to move.
They headed outdoors, and walked with their heads held up, until Coulson punched the soldier in the face before quickly ducking, then he went back up, hit him on the side, quickly bent backward to avoid the coming hit, and then finally went for the soldier’s arm before lifting him by his arm and dropping him, knocking him unconscious. Meanwhile, the rest of his team were also taking down the rest of the soldiers and Talbot. He saw that May had already taken down Talbot, so he went after another soldier, the soldier tried shooting him. So, he quickly moved towards him avoiding the bullets, twisted his arms dropping the gun and swiftly took him down. By the time he finished, he saw that everyone else had also taken everyone down, and FitzSimmons didn’t need to use their bullets. They split up into their two teams as fast as they could and left the scene.
***
After a few minutes of going around in circles. The two teams arrived back at their hotel. After making sure that everyone was fine Coulson turned to Skye.
“I want everything you can find on Harry Potter”
“On it”