[FFML] [Fanfic][Draft 1][Harry Potter/Marvel] Two Wizards - Chapter 4

[Rens Houben]

In other news for Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 07:03:41AM -0700, Ragman Jack has been seen typing:
 
> Previous chapters can be found at:
 
> https://www.fanfiction.net/u/476480/ <https://www.fanfiction.net/u/476480/>
Added to +follow.

> http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ragman_Jack <http://archiveofourown.org/users/Ragman_Jack>
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> “You are failing, Stane,” said the man on the computer screen. “Stark is supposed to be dead.”

> “There were complications,” Node said, though he looked slightly guilty. He was a dark skinned man with a bald head and glasses. 
> 
> “Complication,” Stane corrected. “Raza fucked up.”
Complications.

> “That’s your concern,” Node shot back. “You hired him, you must deal with his failure.”
 
> “Stane snorted. “I leave for Dubai in a month and a half. Simple enough to make a side trip.”
Probably don't want that first " at the start of the line.

> “And Stark?”

{...} 

> Pepper gave him a pained look. “Remus, we pay you enough, you have . . . a wide choice of neighborhoods.” Remus’ neighborhood, a swath of homes out in the desert,  was more like a demilitarized zone than a community. 

> Remus shrugged. “I’ve lived in worse. All the houses have good solid walls. Nice and are soundproof, good for privacy.” He smiled that twisted, sardonic smile that Pepper found to be equal parts fascinating and frustrating. “Besides, I’d miss Clarence.” 

Not a bad place to live if you have a very pressing need to be entirely
alone for several nights every month...

> Remus struggled to keep his expression neutral, as he pointed out some of the castle’s more notable features. Pepper had that iron-clad sense of self-awareness and refusal to compromise that awareness that he’d always found attractive in someone and it was stirring feelings that he hadn’t felt since . . . Remus clamped down on that as well. A relationship with Sirius had never been in the equation and even if the he turned out to be innocent, and Remus couldn’t see how that would happen unless Peter turned up alive, they were both different men now. Too different to pick up where they’d left off.

Interesting you bring that up now...

> “There’s werewolves in the forest?”
Not in the forest, no... :D

> “Lupin,” a man dressed entirely in black had caught up to them. His voice was level, and despite that they were the same height, Pepper suddenly felt like she was a kid on the very first day of school.
Saved by Snape from having to answer an awkward question.

> “Hello, Severus,” Remus replied. “How’s the new crop this year?”

{... }

> Harry nodded. “Otto Octavious.”
Octavius, I'm pretty sure.

> Pepper nodded. “Remember what he said about science? It was about being able to understand something well enough to explain it to other people and if you couldn’t understand something well enough to explain it, don’t try.” Harry nodded. “I don’t understand magic, Harry. I don’t understand what being magical means or is and until Remus showed up. there was no one who could teach me.” She put her arm around his shoulders. “Harry, when Dumbledore brought you to me, you were this . . . bundle in a basket with a cut on your forehead and the most brilliant eyes I’d ever seen and he told me exactly what I needed to hear to take you in and I’m glad he did because you are the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”

> “Really?” Harry asked. 

> “Really,” Pepper confirmed. “But, it also means I’ve pretty much been in the dark. Harry, you’re going some place where Tony and I can’t follow; you’re magical, we’re not. It’s two different worlds.”

> “Like that’s going to stop us from trying,” Tony added and Pepper glanced up. Tony stood by the sliding glass door. “Face it, Mop.” Tony continued, sitting down on Harry’s other side. “You’re stuck with us.”


Aww.

> As the sun set, a very unconventional family sat on that balcony, reaffirming that whatever else, no one would be taking them apart. 

> What none of them saw was that through the window, Remus Lupin was watching, and considering leaving. 

Awww.


> “Jas?” Phillip Coulson asked. He was one of those men who was capable of blending in anywhere by dint of being very forgettable. Short brown hair, unremarkable facial features, and dressed in a suit that gave no hints to its origins. Anyone from a lowly office drone to a lawyer on their way to court might have worn such a suit, and Coulson could have been any of those. 

PHIL! XD XD XD
... Sorry, will stop squee'ing now.

> “Stark has no biological children that we know of, but his assistant Virginia “Pepper” Potts is raising a young boy named Harry Potter who is supposedly her younger cousin from a distant relative but there are inconsistencies. . .”
 
> As Coulson continued, Sitwell paid very close attention and gave no hint that he was smiling in triumph. 
 
> He’d found Harry Potter. His superiors were going to be very, very pleased . . . both those in Hydra . . . and the ones like him . . . who still served the Dark Lord. 

... Oh dear.


> It was New Year’s, and Tony, Pepper, Harry, Lupin and Yinsen had been invited to spend it at The Burrow. 

Wait, isn't... 

> In the years to come, Pepper would look back on that first trip to The Burrow as the day she’d begun to understand the dual nature of Remus Lupin and more importantly, what Dumbledore had truly signed her up for when he’d given her Harry. 
> 
> Remus, always conscious of his curse, sat slightly apart from the others, a tumbler of fine wizarding brandy in his hand. Tony had acquired the bottle the moment he’d been told about the invitation and had brought it as a thank you gift to their hosts. Pepper had confided that Tony Stark actually had impeccable manners . . . when he bothered to use them. Which was less often that either Pepper or Stane would have liked.
 
 
> Sighing, he opened his eyes and found himself looking at Harry and Ron, who were seated next to Charlie, and having a rousing Quidditch discussion. Ron had his pet rat, Scabbers, on his shoulder. Despite being ten years old, Scabbers still seemed to be quite the spry little fellow as he chewed methodically on a bit of shortbread cracker, the black patches on his fur . . .

> It was though someone had slammed on the breaks, bringing time to a standstill and Remus paled feeling as though  his heart had become encased in ice as he actually took a good hard look at Scabbers and then somehow, he was on his feet, wand out, and the blue light of a reverse Hormorphus Charm sending Scabbers flying from Ron’s shoulder, following it with a binding spell. 

Brakes


> He wanted so badly to for that light to be green, so badly to let the wolf out, but a lifetime of control had come to his rescue. Answers. He need answers. He needed proof.  The ice around his heart filled him, everything was deadly, frozen calm. 

> Ignoring the fact that everyone had their wands pointed at him, he instead walked over to the man who lay on the floor, struggling against the binds that held him down and gently poked his ratlike nose with the tip of his wand as he smiled a predator’s terrible smile.

> “Hello, Peter.”

Excuse me, I need to make a doctors appointment. Somehow I've just
acquired a grin that'll need surgical intervention to remove... :)

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