Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:16:22 -0400 From: Ron Subject: Heritage of the Ancients- Ancients Ascended ch 03 Arrival plus 1 Finishing breakfast Harry placed a warming charm around the rest, so the boys would have something hot to eat when they woke up. Turning around after placing his dishes in the sink we smiled when a sleepy Bryce stumbled into the kitchen and sat down at the table. "Morning, you're up early." Harry told him as he placed his hand on his shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. Laughing at the sleepy expression he received as a reply, Harry told him he had to leave for his morning meeting, but would be back in several hours to pick up the boys, and to make sure his brother ate breakfast. Getting a sleepy nod in return, Harry asked Aloria to pass on the message when the teen woke up just in case. Walking over to the TS Harry made his way to the embarkation corridor, taking his time to walk to his work area this morning. Waving back in greeting to those on the late shift, Harry stopped to chat for a few minutes seeing as he was the first to show. Walking up the steps to the work platform Harry noticed that several small remotes were busy reworking the end of the table. 'Aloria more modifications.' Harry questioned with a thought through the link. 'Just a standard non Holo keyboard and data ports." Aloria replied 'If you plan to have more meetings with those from Earth, it would be easier for all involved to have an interface for their equipment.' Activating his displays Harry noticed a message had come in last night from Charlie. Playing it back Harry was interested to find out there was an update attached from the crew manning the observation Isle giving the current climate of the Wizarding world they had left behind. Forwarding it on to Gran and Remus for their attention and further study, Harry noticed the two leaders from Atlantis had arrived. And it looked like Sheppard was not much of a morning person. "Good Morning." Smirking at the sight, Harry greeted them. "Thank you for including us." Elizabeth told him cheerfully. "I always knew you were a closeted morning person and this proves it." Sheppard groaned out, his comments directed towards his superior Dr. Weir. Chuckling quietly Harry summoned a steaming hot cup of coffee for the grumpy Colonel, with just a dash of pepper up potion in it. Harry was amused when Sheppard grabbed the cup and took a big gulp and steam started to come out of his ears. And Elizabeth's eyes were as wide as saucers when she saw the steam coming out of John's ears. Taking another large gulp John started to perk right up. "Whoa, this is good, wakes a body right up." 'Commercials.' Aloria scolded with disgust. 'What's wrong with commercials?" Harry fired back through the bond. 'Of all the things you remember from finally being able to watch the telly is commercials.' Aloria said with disgust. Harry just shrugged his shoulders mentally, not about to get into an argument about the funnier aspects of the telly from his point of view. While laughing at the banter at the end of the table, Harry took a moment to look over towards the doorway, and groaned seeing an animated, one could almost call him hyper, Jack waving his arms excitedly while conversing with Vlad and Powaqa. As the rest of the department heads and advisors arrived for what he was going to start calling the council, Jack started to get more animated and holding what looked like a slender tube started to jump and flip around in the air, almost as if he was fighting another swordsman. Staring at Jack like he had lost his mind, Harry suddenly remembered where he had seen moves like that. 'Aloria lock out every version of Star Wars in the data bank until further notice.' 'What?' Aloria was startled by the request. 'Open your sensors and take a look at what Jack is doing.' Harry told her through the link. 'Well, you have to admit that there are some good ideas from those movies that you can easily make real with the ability to do magic.' Aloria told him with a renewed respect for the films. 'I have to do no such thing.' Harry said obstinately. Standing up Harry smirked at the trio as they made their way onto the platform. "You three are banned from watching anything related to Star Wars until we have the settlement finished." "Hey no fair." Jack yelled out in a hurt voice. Laughing at the expression on the threes faces Harry sat down. "Look I agree that there is a lot of good material we can make use of from watching those dratted science fiction films Jack found a way to upload into the data base." "But let's get our people relocated first before starting a new project that is going to turn the world upside down for our people hmmm." Harry softly told them with a smile. Seeing that everyone was here Harry was about to start when a voice from Minerva's console interrupted him. "Excuse me Minerva?" The voice said. Pressing a key on the input pad in front of her." Yes, Schmidt what is it?" Minerva asked in exasperation. "Yes ma'am. I have several groups of students and a few teachers clamoring after me about some material they needed for their research project, it seems it has been locked out as restricted until further notice." Schmidt told her. "Well why are you telling me give them access and be down with it." Minerva said sternly. What is the point of having a deputy if they didn't do their job she thought, when she got out of the meeting she was going to have to have a long talk with him. "I tried ma'am, it won't accept the codes." Schmidt was panicking just a little. "Tell me what they want access to and I will try it from here." Minerva sighed, really she thought, she was still amazed that students were so eager to do their assigned work so early on a Saturday morning. "Thank you ma'am. If you would unlock the Star wars saga and the accompanying technical data base." Schmidt sounded relieved. Harry groaned before spitting out. "What in Merlin's name do those films have to do with homework." "Lord Commander?" Schmidt said nervously hearing the voice of their leader. "They are the advanced engineering students trying to design a new class of long range cruiser for their midterm project." Schmidt rushed out. "Mad." Harry thumped his head on the table. "The whole lot of you are Star Wars mad." Harry finished face still on the table. "Aloria release the lock outs on the Star Wars Stuff." Harry sighed in defeat. "Yes Lord Commander." An amused Aloria told him not doing a good job on hiding her laughter. Picking his face up off the table Harry said. "Schmidt pass a message along to those students." "Of course Lord Commander." Schmidt said as one word. Taking a second to sound out the word into more than one so he could understand what was said, Harry replied. "Tell them the first person who dares to propose a death star for their project will be scrubbing every park fresher with their tooth brush for a month." Sitting back up, amid the laughter from everyone around the table, Harry just shook his head and repeated under his breath. "Mad I tell you." "Alright who wants to go first?" Harry tried to get the meeting back on track. "That should be me." Tanaka stood up. "All the control crystals that we have replaced on Atlantis have been logged, their alterations noted and the originals destroyed. Also all the data crystals have been copied to an isolated avatar only restricted data base before I took great pleasure in melting them down into their component atoms." Tanaka glared at his data pad slotted in the desk in front of him. "I realize that in war people will do strange things, evil things, that under normal circumstances they would never consider doing. But as I cataloged the evil that was created on that city, and I noted that it became a game to them to see who could create the greater evil, I fear they lost themselves to the dark long ago." Tanaka shook his head sadly. "And what of the labs they left and the creations still in them?" Minerva asked sick at the thought of what could be hiding there waiting to be unleashed. "Destroy them, destroy them all." Tanaka fiercely told them as he sat down. Neville spoke up softly, just loud enough over the murmurs. "I must say I agree, the farms and greenhouses.to tell you the truth, I went over some of the technology profiles in the repository of knowledge and still think the only safe way to make sure it's all destroyed is to set off an anti matter bomb taking it all out in one single blast." "Wouldn't a blast of that size take out the rest of the city?" Elizabeth asked with horror. "More than likely." Jack said frowning at the direction of the discussion. "Kevin how much of Atlantis would need to be upgraded or repaired compared to building new." Harry asked pulling up a Holo in the center of the table of Atlantis. "Vlad how long would it take you to build a new city from the ground up?" Kevin asked as he stood up, activating his Holo controls so they would be at the right height for him to continue to stand and input data. "Eight months, in eight months I could have a complete modern replacement built. That is if I do nothing else but that, no new projects, no repairs, nothing." Vlad told them as he looked at his calculations. Entering some data so that three of the pylons of Atlantis glowed, one a light red the other two dark red. "Were talking eight to ten weeks for a full upgrade to the city." Kevin told them, so it is more feasible to upgrade than build new. "The two in red are those sections dealing with the labs, greenhouses and farms, the lighter red one holds questionable technology and labs." Kevin pointed out. Ever the logical one Remus asked. "What if we cut those sections off and towed them towards the primary for disposal. How long to build replacements?" Vlad inputted a few parameters into his pad and then replied. "Four months, eight if we take the time to do other things. It's not a matter of technology it is a matter of not enough personal or remotes." "And if we brought in others from the Alliance to help?" Augusta asked. "They would not do much to help, our technology is based on being able to merge ourselves with it. They unfortunately cannot do that." Harry answered her question. "What about us." Sheppard offered. "I am able to activate the Alteran systems and some of the others also. There must be more back on Earth we could bring out to help with the project." "That's not a bad idea, in a month's time we will have colonized BP6-3Q1 and be full members of the Alliance. Why can't we start now by helping with the rebuild of Atlantis?" Elizabeth asked. Harry leaned back in the chair as he thought of the best way to say this without trampling on sensibilities. How does one go about saying we can't trust your people to learn to use this technology, while at the same time trying to accept them as valued members of the Alliance. "Ages past when the last survivors of Atlantis used the Astria to travel to Earth, they eventually fell in love and interbred with the children of the Ancients." Harry started a history lesson. "The children of the Ancients of course is your race, during the time that the great plague was wiping out our people, a plan was formed to use our DNA as a blueprint and to seed life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy so some form of our race would live on. We called you our children. And being so close genetically it was possible for the Alteran's who escaped Atlantis to have children with your race when they found that the children had started to grow up. Over the millennia since then as your race grew more prolific and the genetic drift separated and then started to come back together, you now find yourselves with those who once more carry enough of our blood in you to be called Alteran. But you are not loyal to the Alteran Race." Harry tried to slowly explain, nicely. "So you are saying you trust us to a point and would work with us to a point." Elizabeth said shaking her head. "But how does that go with the concept of us joining the Alliance?" "From a military point of view it makes sense Elizabeth." John told her. "Let me ask you it this way. " Harry offered an analogy. "Would you take a young adult that has no concept of technology or computers and sit them down in front of the computer that controlled the nuclear missile firing controls your people still have. And on top of that have no safety lock outs installed." Harry asked her. "Of course not.I.I would wait until they had been fully trained and understood the responsibilities of that could occur by using that computer. And we knew they would not purposely try to do harm to others. "Elizabeth said with dawning realization. "Yes." Harry agreed with her. "On the one hand it is a matter of trust, trusting that the technology would not be misused by your politicians for their own advantage. The other is until you learn how to use the technology you would have to be trained and supervised." "In a long term project that has no rush on it that would work. What this situation calls for is a way to scan the present structure break it down into its component atoms and re." Harry stopped his explanation. Looking at the Seleri though the bond in the back of his mind with the station, Harry thought long and hard about revealing the secret to the council. Knowing that with this unit he was able to build the one hundred some odd weapons platforms in two days, it would be a great help to rebuild the capitol city and completely rebuild and modernize Atlantis in one go. Then again it could also be used for destruction, in a sense it was the ultimate weapon, able to turn matter into energy, store it and later turn that energy into matter. Oh but what it did to organic matter was not a pleasant sight. While it could turn it into energy without a problem, the resulting mass of protoplasmic goop that was the result of attempting to re-integrate it was not pretty. There.Harry's thoughts found a solution. An advanced transport device, never built past first trials to make sure the concept worked, similar to the old ring system and yet more like the Asgard beaming technology. It should be able to target and lock onto any matter and beam it out right towards the primary. Scanning the ship database he even found the perfect ship to modify, it would only take a week to do so, more because it was almost complete with its refit and needed to have the new power cores installed. Throwing up the schematics of the transport device with the Holo display along with a Holo of the long range cruiser Harry opened his eyes. While Harry was glowing and still as if asleep, John Sheppard leaned over towards Jack and whispered so no one else could hear. "Does he do that often?" "He's accessing the repository of knowledge, looking for a solution." Jack whispered back just as Harry opened his eyes and several new Holograms lit up. "The long range cruiser Vryaelys is finishing its refit and can easily be modified to handle this modified transport beam, very similar to the Asgard Beaming technology, but slightly more advanced." Harry narrowed his eyes when the unheard of comment by Jack caused those at the end of the table to stifle their laughter. "I always knew he was a closet Trekkie." Jack had whispered. Still staring at them Harry said. "Anyway Neville to address your concerns and those of Tanaka, we can use this technology to beam the effected parts of the city off Atlantis and direct them to the primary for destruction." "It will take a little longer to repair the gaping holes that will be left in the infrastructure, but we can assured none of the freaky plants will be left." Harry ended his statement with a dig at Neville, still upset with that monstrosity that tried to eat him last month, that Neville still claims is harmless. "I will leave the details to be worked out among yourselves." Harry pointed at those sitting at the end of the table. "Lantera, was nothing found at all in the way of structures or civilization at all?" Changing the subject Harry asked not quite believing nothing had been found so far. "Nothing, not a single remnant that we remember is still here. If it was not for the landmarks seen from orbit I would swear this was a different world." Lantera told him. "This could only have been done purposely, to wipe out all traces of our capitol to this extent." "Why would they do something like that?" Remus asked in confusion. "I have no idea, but it is to thorough to be have any other explanation. Even some of the islands are gone." Lantera told him "Those that were deeply hollowed out to fit in some of the off planet support structure." "We have decided that the best location at the moment is near the old capitol city." Lantera inputted the data so that they could all see. "Right here on the other side of the lake that used to be the capitol." Harry watched as part of the Holo changed color to indicate the spot she was talking about. "Is there anything significant about this spot other than it being the site of the old capitol?" Lantera looked over to Augusta for help on answering the question, as she was not sure what the hell she had felt when examining the site early yesterday evening. "When we reached the planet's surface the very first thing I noticed was the almost overwhelming sense of magic in the air." Gran started to explain what she felt, getting lost in the memory. "That site had the highest concentration of magic of any that we surveyed and.Well to put it simply my magic seemed to sing with power, most of all at that site." Intrigued Harry sat forward. "Really, do we know why?" "To tell the truth it probably will take years of study to find out why. All we know for sure is that Lantea is highly conducive to magic users." Gran spoke in excitement. Watching her fingers fly across the input keys Harry was shocked with how quickly she had accepted and made part of her all the technology that surrounded her. Come to think of it almost everyone that was raised in the Wizarding world accepted the technology much faster that he thought they would. "Aloria let slip about all the housing and other infrastructure you have secretly been building and stashing in that shifted space of yours." Gran acted like she was scolding him for keeping secrets. A new diagram became visible and was laid over top the first Holo map. Now showing the layout of a nice size town in the chosen location. "Aloria also informed me that after placing the beacons where we want the buildings to be, we should be able to shift all the buildings and facilities to normal space in just over an hour." Gran told him what they had planned. Entering some more data several other locations started to glow as dots filled open areas in singles and then in large clusters. "Everyone that has their own personal manors or dwellings in storage has also taken the time to choose a location for their home to be shifted too." Gran said before finally calling up the last of the pre-programmed data to overlay on the Holo map with. "The main farm and greenhouse complex will be anchored in the center of the lake, leaving it in a safe zone, while we start extending the agricultural farms to outlying areas, but always leaving the main farm operational and in a sealed environment." "This is an impressive amount of work. A lot of thought and planning went into this." Harry told them, impressed with how thorough the presentation was. Hand caressing the link Harry fed some commands into the system and a blinking red dot appeared near the center of the city, while blue blinking dots appeared in intervals around the city at in the center of the large groupings that could be called towns. 'These beacons should be placed first." Harry told her. "The red one is where the Astria will be located and the blue ones where the transport stations will be set up." "By setting them up first there will be no mistakes in placing the other beacons to close together, not leaving room for any of the transportation support structures." Harry explained. "Also lets hold off on moving the farm and greenhouse pylon down to the planet's surface for now. I know we planned on it, but instinct is telling me not to. So for right now let's take it out of the plans and plan to build something on the planet's surface in its place." Changing his mind Harry told them. "Now the real question is when do you want to start?" Harry asked as he leaned back into his chair. "Right now." Lantera said with excitement. "We could begin moving the children into their new homes by lunch time tomorrow." Gran answered. "Why so soon?" asked Harry wondering why the rush. "We want the children and babies on the surface of a planet as fast as possible for their development." Agatha answered for the other two. Seeing the concerned look on Harry's face Agatha added. "While all the past studies done in artificial environments by the Alteran's show no measurable difference from those raised planet side to those raised in an artificial environment, nothing was ever studied with those children with our abilities to do magic. So it is better to be safe." Agatha told him as Lantera nodded her head in support. "Ok.Once we get the city set up we can move the children down there after lunch tomorrow, but what about any dangerous animals, what do we have ward the area for?" Harry asked making notes to set some time up to find a spot to place Potter castle in an isolated area. "There are no animals larger than a rabbit down there, makes one wonder if the Wraith visited this planet in the past." Tanaka read the report out loud. "So they became so hungry they drained even the animals in this section of the galaxy." Neville speculated. "We know that every couple of hundred years they wake up and do what the locals call a culling. Where they halve the planets population, taking the rest to feed on." Elizabeth volunteered some information. "Yes in the coming weeks we are going to have to meet with the Athosians and representative of some of the other peaceful planets you have visited." Harry told her, planning on detailed DNA analysis of those representatives before he decided whether to extend an invitation for them to join them or let them develop at their own pace. "This also means that we need to send out search teams to find an appropriate planet to house the dragons, and a few of the other more exotics the ark is housing." Harry pointed out to Tanaka in Alteran, knowing of the Earth legends of dragons and most of the exotics he could mention. Nodding his head Tanaka made several notes to do that as soon as possible. "Does anyone else have anything to add before we break up for the weekend?" Harry asked noticing the time. Seeing negative shakes of the head from those around the table Harry stood. "Ok we will meet back here Monday morning around nine." "Dr. Weir if you could bring with you logs of what planets you have already visited along with any notes on the conditions or inhabitants with you, I would appreciate it." Harry told her before looking at Colonel Sheppard." And Colonel Sheppard if you would like to meet with our security division during that time to go over any concerns you may have." Seeing Molly stand and get ready to leave Harry called out. "Molly if you could stay behind for a moment." "As honored as we are to be included in your meetings. I am unsure as why we have been included." Elizabeth asked slowly. "For the foreseeable future, at least you are inhabiting Atlantis and should be kept informed on what is going on. And when your world becomes a member of the Alliance your leaders may agree with merging your expedition to the Pegasus galaxy with our teams, as part of the recruits provided in exchange for our providing Earth with system wide defenses." Harry told the stunned woman. After every one had left and Jack said something about checking on the boys to make sure they were ready, Molly walked down the table to sit in the chair nearest Harry. Seeing the worried look on Molly's face Harry was quick to reassure her. "No it's good news Molly." "The healing cycle on the Hiber units the twins are in is complete. Right now they are catching up with what has been going on while they were gone." Harry smiled. " I think we can expect them to be ready to be released tomorrow night." "Why don't you plan to come over after supper, we can skip out and go wake them up. I would invite you to supper, but I am not sure if we will eat on the way back or after we get home from the camping trip." Harry planned. Molly burst out of the chair and grabbed Harry into a hug in her excitement of getting her boys back. Releasing Harry she blushed slightly before starting to wander off. "Oh, there is so much I have to do to get ready." Harry chuckled in mirth as he watched her run off across the deck before shutting down his console and start to walk out to go his quarters. XXXX "So did you enjoy your first camping trip?" Harry asked as they walked back into their quarters. "It was fun, but nothing like my friend Terrance was telling me it would be like. The tents we used did not have stoves or kitchens in them." Cadfael told him, confused by what he had been told and what he had experienced. "Was he having me on?" Cadfael asked wondering if his friend making fun of him. "Ah Terrance must have been talking about Wizards tents." Harry answered hoping to clear up the confusion. "Wizard tents on the outside look like a normal tent, but on the inside there is no difference than our quarters." Harry explained the concept. Jack made a face before saying. "If they wanted a hotel suite why the hell do they even go into the woods in the first place?" "If you want to go camping, go camping. If you want the comfort of being pampered stay home." Jack shook his head at the strange idea of carrying a house on your back. Putting their packs down near the hallway Jack had a thought. "If a Wizards tent could be made to house all the comforts of home could they be modified for other purposes?" "I suppose so.like what?" Harry asked distracted by getting things ready for supper. "Emergency shelters, basic field hospitals, recon posts. There are so many things I can think of." Jack casually threw out ideas. Putting the rest of the sandwich fixings on the table while he thought about it. "Well you would have to have a long talk with an enchanter on what you could put in one of those expanded spaces. But I do think most of our technology will not work in expanded space, though you do have some interesting ideas that should be followed up on." Harry mused thinking it would not be pretty if the space suddenly failed. "You will have to get together with Minerva, she will be able to steer you to the person you need to talk to." Harry nodded his head in satisfaction problem deftly handed off to someone else. Jack smiling happily with the ideas running around in his head nodded his head as he fixed his plate. "Why don't you hand off the idea to the students, give them a list of things you want to use the tents for and let them go at it." Bryce asked as he came into the kitchen. Harry liked that idea a lot, it might be a good way to show, what the students were being taught could have real world applications. "That is a very good idea." "Write up what your recon teams would encounter and the types of conditions they would find themselves in and give them several empty tents that have already been spatially expanded on the inside and tell them to have at it. Have the older students expand the tents with the goal of being as light as possible and as large as possible. Between the differing groups you are bound to come up with what you need" Harry told Jack, thinking it had a lot of possibilities, as the biggest complaint he had while attending Hogwarts was not being able to correlate what was being taught with the modern world, maybe eight hundred years ago it would have been useful to turn a rock into a pincushion, but the curriculum definitely had not kept up with the changing times. "You guys want to give me a hand after supper with this idea?" Harry has to go get the twins out of Hiber sleep as soon as Molly gets here." Jack informed them. "Even me?" Cadfael asked surprised to be included in a project geared towards those much older than him. "If you want. I was thinking about seeing if we could find out from Terrance if he had one of these tents. That way we could set it up and go through it seeing how well it would work, and what would need to be changed." Jack thought out loud. As the three walked out of the kitchen plates full of food, Harry decided he just had enough time to grab a hot shower before he had to meet Molly. XXXX Shifting into the Commanders personal med bay, Harry let go of Molly's arm and willed the lights and temperature to come up to normal levels. Escorting Molly down the short corridor to where the Hiber units were, Harry stopped part way down and turned to Molly. "After checking up on the twins it might be best if you waited for us back in the central chamber. It will give Fred and George time get dressed properly." "But they have nothing I have not seen before." Molly started to protest, just wanting to hold her boys again. "Be as that may Molly, we boys have this phobia if you will, about waking up and mothers seeing us undressed," Harry tried to explain. "You don't want to shock them so much they retreat back into Hiber out of embarrassment do you?" Sighing out "Boys" Molly finally agreed. Continuing on, Harry looked at the displays while Molly spent a few minutes gazing at her twin terrors as she affectionately called them. "How long will it take Harry?" Molly whispered the question. "Ten maybe fifteen minutes. Not long really, long enough to make sure nothing went wrong and they have been brought up to date with everything that has happened." Harry answered while reading the treatment report. Seems the twins had needed about ten years of therapy before they deemed themselves ready to rejoin the rest of the world. Looking over his shoulder when Molly's footsteps started to retreat, Harry let the shudder come over him as he thought of all the pranks they could have invented during that time. Firmly resolving to make sure the twins knew what a bad idea it would be to prank his fosterlings, never the less he initiated the cycle to awaken the two. "Initiate Hiber termination sequence." Harry gave the verbal command. Watching the monitors with one eye Harry saw that the chambers slowly slid out of the wall to their most extended position and start to glow as the chambers started to cycle. First the chambers flashed several times as the cleansing cycle started, cleaning both Fred and George's bodies of any accumulated oils and grime during their three month plus stay. After that the chambers started to glow with a soft white light coming from the bottom of the chamber as two probes, one to each side of the neck, snaked out and injected an energy potion followed by a regenerative potion, one on each side. After the potions had been injected the covers of the chambers opened up and the bio links disengaged. Both Fred and George took in huge gasps of air, practically arching their backs in two as they started to re-connect to their bodies and wake up. After several minutes Fred started to stretch before opening his eyes and attempting to pull himself into a sitting position. Moving to help the red head, Harry pulled Fred enough out of the tube so that he could sit up and dangle his feet over the edge. Seeing George start to stretch and move, Harry let go after he was sure Fred was steady enough and went and did the same for George. Standing in the aisle between the two chambers with both of the twins facing him Harry asked. "Alright there Fred, George?" Seeing the two wince as they nodded their heads Harry activated with a thought the diagnostic displays to give them a final once over. Seeing that the ELS of both of them were still low Harry prepared another energy potion for each and also one of the new high calorie energy drinks they had all come to use as a routine basis. Handing each of the twins a glass full, "Here drink up this will help a lot, while I give you both another round of energy potions." As the life started to return to their eyes the twins started to look around their surrounding and noticed that each of them were baring it all. Blushing furiously, "Um.Harry, mind telling us where our clothes went." Fred asked, being the one that was the most awake. "Fred?" George said confused. "Yes brother mine?" Fred answered. "Why are your bits hanging out?" George now a little more awake asked. "Yours are two." Fred informed him. Looking down he saw that he also had no clothes. "Right you are brother mine." George looked at Harry. "Seems to me we are the only ones not wearing clothes." George told his brother a gleam in his eye. Looking at the two as they communicated with the freaky twin bond, Harry quickly conjured some clothes for the two. "Right then, something to wear is next to the both of you and I will be waiting down the hall with your mother." "I don't think Harry wants to see our bits brother mine." Fred leaned forward mischievousness in his voice. "Seems so brother dear, what with him being spoken for and all." George countered "Right.Clothes, before your mother comes looking for you." Harry told them as he started to walk towards the corridor. "Harry." Fred called out. Stopping and looking back over his shoulder, Harry raised an eyebrow questioningly. "Thank you Harry." George told him softly. "We really mean that." Fred told him. "More than you will ever know." They both whispered. "Your more than welcome. After you get settled back in we will talk." Harry said with just as much emotion. Once the twins were dressed they made their way unsteadily out of the treatment area towards the central hub. As soon as Molly spotted the two she rushed over and squeezed them together in a hug. As the tears were falling from her eyes she refused to let go, holding on for dear life. "Mrmph.Help.Not so tight.Hard to breath." Came from the middle of the hug. "Molly.MOLLY." Harry yelled getting her attention. "If you don't let go you are going to put them back into the med bay, they need to breath." "I'm sorry dears, it's just." Molly started to apologize. "It's ok Mum." George interrupted by placing his hand on her shoulder. "We understand." Fred said, just happy to be able to breathe again. "Let's go get something to eat." George's stomach growled. "Were starving." Fred finished. "Right." Molly said pulling herself together. "There's a pot of stew and fresh bread waiting back home." Walking over to the three, Harry made sure he had a hold of part of everyone and shifted them to an out of the way TS so they could make their way home from there. Saying his goodbyes Harry left the three so he could go back to his quarters to see what sort of trouble his three had gotten themselves into. Scott lent me his eyes and brain and provided the wonderful job of editing this chapter.