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Iron Dragons and Firelegs COMPLETE	By : FemmeBono Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 2353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: I am now truly glad that I've been taught to save religiously and
often. Bastard computer gave me the blue screen of death and I had to restart
before posting this fun little update... *mumbles angrily*

And Trickie, Menwith was so perfect I had to use it. Not only is it the
northernmost base we have over there before you get into Scotland, but it also
houses an intelligence detachment. Kismet!
Uncharted Territories
They swerved in for a smooth landing right in front of the castle and Lacey
dismounted cradling the sword and saber, only to see a gaping Brynne standing
speechless, shielding her eyes with the flat of her hand.

"And where have you two been, then?" she asked, marching up to her
counterpart and smacking her on the arm. "You've been gone all last night
and this morning too."

Severus raised an eyebrow before striding straight into the castle without so
much as a word.

"Screwing each other senseless," Lacey said tartly, giving Brynne a
slap of her own.

"Bollocks. If you had, you'd both look a lot more relaxed."

"Well, I had gone first thing to get in some swordplay with that
Walloping Willow or whatever it is and wound up having it fling Dumbledore's
sword five miles off into the forest, where I got accosted by the biggest effing
spiders you've ever seen. To top that off, Severus showed up in time to blast
them away with some kind of spell that left a crater the size of an RV--no
kidding--and in the midst of which landed a half bird-half horse that winged us
out of there to some waterfall fed pool that it proceeded to go fishing in...
and now I'm starving."

"You don't say."

"Yeah. So, what's up?"

"Well, Dodds has been looking for you for a while. We found out at
breakfast that the members of Dumbledore's order are due here tomorrow and he
thinks it's high time we started training against all the magicians."

"Wizards."

"Sure. And anyway, they also thought it might be a good idea to get in a
little scouting mission so that we will have some idea how to map out this
attack. Dodds seemed to think you might be up for it, considering you and Tall,
Dark, and Brooding appear to get on so well..."

"Absolutely not talking about it," Lacey replied to the unasked
question. "And don't even think about getting the guys started on it."

"Sure, sure. Mum's the word. Oh! and that reminds me as well. Would you
believe there's yet another spy from the opposing faction who's joining our
little soiree?"

"Seriously? Who?"

"Some poor bloke whose wife and kid took off and left him in prison.
She's divorced him, claiming disgrace to the family or some such tripe, but he
still wants them protected by Dumbledore--Dumbledore mind you, not the
Ministry--in exchange for whatever information he has, in addition to him
helping out in this little venture of ours. So they've arranged for a quiet
little release from the jail and he arrives tomorrow with the Phoenix
outfit."

"Interesting. You've really had your ear to the ground."

"Not in intelligence for nothing, love."

"Well, I'll hit up Dodds and see what more he's got to say about this
scouting mission. After lunch though, because I could eat a truck tire right now
and be happy."

"Calm yourself, dearest, there's a veritable buffet in there again.
Those elves really outdo themselves... I wonder what they're like. I'm dying to
meet one."

"They're pretty docile as it happens," said Lacey, fighting the
urge to squirm.

***

Sure enough, after Lacey had her fill, she and Severus headed back out of
Hogwarts and down the steep hill to the gates. They ventured carefully through
the forest, trying to steer clear of the outside edges of town. Lacey tried to
take note of how far the forest ran from the gates of the school down to the
village and in turn from the village to the depot. The depot itself was not so
much of a thing. It consisted of one long narrow room that opened out onto a
platform. And the train was a simple affair as well. No more than five cars
long, it opened straight onto the platform where the kids were either loaded
onto waiting carriages or ushered down to the lake to coast up to the castle in
boats. Trying to picture students filing off of the train, Lacey had a queasy
feeling roil in her gut at the idea of dozens of trained killers dropping them
like flies as soon as the doors opened. It gave her some small satisfaction to
know that rather than one near giant waiting for the arrival, these Death Eaters
would find Hagrid, plus dozens of trained officials, soldiers and regular
wizards lying in wait. Consoling herself with this fact, she followed Severus
across the platform and prepared to follow the students' usual path up to the
castle. Just as she stepped off onto the trail, Lacey heard something that made
the blood freeze in her veins. Two people, both men by the sound of it, were
walking up the other side from where they had just come.

"Do you hear that?" she mouthed, pointing in the direction of the
voices as they both slid quietly around to the side of the building. "Who
is it?"

"Death Eaters," he whispered tensely as they heard someone
approaching from the opposite side of the platform. "Yaxley and Macnair, I
believe. Don't move."

As he said this, he tapped her smartly over the head with his wand, eliciting
the strangest trickling sensation she had ever felt running down her body. She
watched him do the same to himself, and barely stifled a gasp when she saw him
take on the appearance of the trees and bushes behind him. Examining her own
hand, Lacey realized that they both had best camouflage she had ever seen. They
were practically chameleons, blending into their surroundings, and should be
able to surprise the men easily.

Soundlessly, Lacey cross-stepped up behind the largest one as he turned to
face his partner. Quickly and deftly she jabbed her taser into his side with a
loud zap, effectively dropping him to the ground unconscious as Severus Stunned
the other man from behind. He stepped over the prone bodies saying, "not
bad work, not bad at all. Now come here so I can remove the charm."

With that he tapped her head again with his wand and she held up her hand to
see that she no longer resembled the Predator. "Now that was
amazing." While she was still marveling over the things she had just
witnessed, Severus braced an arm around her waist, and without warning she found
her body pressing in on itself before it popped back out again. Looking around
quickly as her system righted itself, Lacey was speechless to find herself no
longer in the forest, but right at the gates of Hogwarts again.

"What the..." she began.

"A simple apparition," Severus said quickly before Lacey unleashed
the stream of questions he knew she must have. "I have to go back before
they awaken. Get yourself through the gates so you have the castle ground's
protections about you and whatever you do, don't come out. I'll meet back up
with you just inside and you can assault my person with whatever volley of
concerns you have about what just happened. If, for some reason, I do not return
within about ten minutes time, get up to the castle and get Dumbledore.
Understood?"

"Yeah, sure, Colonel," she said, slightly perturbed that he
considered her enough of a liability that he had to bring her back instead of
having her stay as back-up. As she dutifully walked back through the gates, she
curved her arm around behind her back and raised her middle finger. It was
petty, but it made her feel loads better. Barely a split second after, she heard
another pop and turned to see that he was no longer standing outside the gates.

By the time he arrived minutes later, she was pacing back and forth just
inside them silently fuming. He approached slowly, almost warily as he regarded
the agitated woman before him. Without anymore warning, she turned on her heel
to face him and unleashed her wrath.

"Are you insane?! How dare you just-- I'm in the flipping military,
do you not think that the two of us against those two assholes might be better
than one?" she snapped, giving him a shove. "How do you justify
that? Did it ever occur to you that it was the perfect moment for me to see what
it's like to fight one of them? How am I going to go into this battle untried?
We had the element of surprise for crying out loud. Do I look that inept
to you?"

Severus fingered his wand pensively before grasping her upper arms firmly,
giving her a shake. "I simply did not want to run the risk of you being
seen and having that memory survive. Really, any memory of either of us would be
the death knell to this whole operation. Instead, what I did was erase their
memories of being ambushed only to replace them with a false memory of one of
them surprising the other, and stunning each other by accident. I Disapparated
directly after and came straight back here."

"You couldn't have had me hide somewhere and then Apparate us both out
or something? What if one of them had come out of it too soon? What if there was
another one somewhere? You could have been killed."

"That, your highness, is a risk I take every time I walk out those
gates."

"Well, it's an unnecessary risk I'd rather you didn't take."
Realizing the full import of what she had just uttered, Lacey flushed scarlet
and started to step away.

Severus, his hands still on her arms, pulled her back and in effect, knocked
her off balance so that she fell into him. Bracing her arms around him for
support, she looked up astonished to see his face, always unreadable, tipping
closer to hers. Sliding his hands down to her waist, their lips meeting,
brushing tentatively, Severus pulled her closer. Her lips parted under his, her
fingers tracing up his back as their mouths melded, fusing while they plunged
deeper together into each other. It was a kiss that threatened to push them from
tentative reticence straight into primal need. Yet just when she felt
precariously close to that point, Severus eased back, still close enough that
his breath rasped as he pressed his face into her hair. Lacey, her pulse
kicking, gave him a squeeze before stepping back out of the embrace.

"Well. Now that we cleared that up..." she said, with a shaky
laugh.

Severus' mouth twitched into what she recognized as the closest thing he did
to a smile--the same expression he had worn that morning in the shower room.

"Can we agree that next time we take it on as a team and just be assured
that we'll definitely have each other's backs?"

"Certainly," he replied, clearing his throat and adjusting his
frock coat. "Now I suppose we should get ourselves up to the castle before
the cavalry arrives looking for us."

"We may not have a cavalry, but they probably wouldn't be above taking
the chopper up." And as they walked, he placed a hand on her waist, without
so much as a word, pulling her closer. Only when they approached the great oak
doors did he release his hold.
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