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A RUMOR OF PEACE	By : Acaciarose Category: Harry Potter Crossovers > Slash - Male/Male Views: 6494 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Roark nodded as Harry sat forward in his chair. "So, have Logan and Kili told you everything?"
"They have," Bill answered with a slight grin, seeing Roark's brow arch as he looked from him, to his brother and back again. "Where do you stand right now?"
"Same place we stood when we sent them home. Other than a few raids on our part, it's been uncharacteristically quiet. It's almost as if Riddle has gone to ground."
"Any idea why?" Charlie asked, moving to where Dylan now sat and took a seat on the arm of his chair. "You'd think he'd take advantage of all the turmoil, as well as all the losses that you've had. Hit you, and hit you hard."
Roark glanced over at Harry again, who gave him a smirk. Shaking his head, Roark looked back at Dylan and Charlie, brow arching again as he studied the two.
"I think he would have," Harry began, "but for one small problem as far as he was concerned. The Terminator that was hired to kill Tristyn screwed up in a big way."
"Screwed up?" Gwydion sat forward. "Rodolphus Lestrange? From what little we know of him, he's too smart, too careful, and too much of a ghost to make those kinds of mistakes. Rabastan too--"
"Alright," Roark suddenly interrupted as he looked between Dylan and Charlie and saw the two of them flush. "I just can't resist any longer, Just when the HELL did the two of you get together? Last time Harry saw either of you, you were fighting like cats and daggit's { dogs}."
Laughter sounded as Colten spoke up. "Ah the stupidity of trying to deny attraction, and trust me Rory, those two were so in denial, there was no talking to either of them about it. It was best to just let them fight it out."
"And fight they did, right up until Charlie took matters into his own hands and kissed him right there in the middle of the Officers Club. It was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop," Bill laughed as Dylan hid his face in Charlie's side. "Then, as fast as the place had gone silent, the noise began. Shouting, whistling, calls of 'about damn time', and so forth and so on."
: We're falling like moths to flames, : Roark spoke privately to his brother,
: Um...mm, : came his response, his emerald eyes narrowed on the two.
"HADRIAN!!" Roark exclaimed, turning his chair to look at his brother. "Both of them?!" he demanded.
"Well, not at the same time!" he defended himself. "And before they even thought of looking at each other like that. It was also only the one time."
"Just how many of the Durin boys have you slept with?" he asked, looking around the office to see if any of them would give anything away. None of them did, their expressions remaining placid.
Harry flushed and shook his head. He wasn't going to answer that. He just wasn't. "That's because Rodolphus didn't, Gwyn," he said instead, "Rodolphus and Rabastan both kill by contract only, and his contract is for Roark, just as Rabastan's is for me. Not for Tristyn, not Logan, and not Kili."
Roark, acknowledging that his brother just wasn't going to answer him, let it drop for the moment. But he was definitely going to talk to him about his sexual exploration with the Durin brothers and cousins, as it was now obvious it had been more than the 'couple' he had mentioned in that com call to Sebastien and Robin.
"No. Whoever killed Tristyn is the one who screwed up. His death was way too public, and there is nothing that Riddle hates more than that kind of publicity. It really wouldn't surprise me if--" his com pad beeped just then. Reaching out, he pressed a button to accept the call. "Lt. Roark," he said distractedly as the screen lit up, typing on his keyboard.
"Lt. Roark. Security Agent Corporal Regis. You and Lt. Hadrian asked to be notified if we found any unidentified bodies?"
Roark's head snapped around as Harry quickly left his chair to move to his side, saying as soon as he saw the face on the screen. "Yes, we did. Where, and is the body male or female?"
"Both, Lt. Hadrian," he answered at once. "There's a female. They just pulled her out of the Aqualeen River near the Canal. She matches the description of the woman last seen with Lt. Tristyn. The male was found not too far from that pleasure house you raided last night. He matched the description of the man who took a couple pot shots at the two of you last night."
A savage grin of pleasure. "Ah...yes."
"Cause of death for both, Corporal?" Roark asked, nudging his brother to behave.
"There's a hole in the woman's chest where her heart should be. The man died of severe blood loss do to knife wounds, also to the heart, and his throat was sliced open, though oddly enough the wound is much more jagged."
"Hum...high-powered laser pistol set to kill. Of all Riddle's Terminators, the only ones able to afford those are the Lestrange's. As for the man..." he shook his head. "You would think they'd stop trying, especially when all the ones before them ended up dead for failure." He glanced over at Harry. "A double kill, you think?"
Harry nodded. "It certainly sounds like it. We do know they like to work together occasionally. Thank you, Corporal, for calling us," Harry said, disconnecting the call.
Roark sat back in his chair, hands lifting, fingers twining together under his chin, a look of satisfaction on his face "So," he began slowly, "as I was about to say, it would not surprise me if a body was found. I wasn't expecting two, but I guess I should have. That Rodolphus was the one to take care of the man...with Rabastan helping is also no surprise."
"Because they clean up messes?" came the question.
They both looked over at Ron, who had been the one to speak. "If he...and they feel it worth their time, or if Riddle orders them to deal with the problem, then yes, they've been known to clean up messes others make." 'And knowing how I felt about Tristyn's death orders or not, he'd have done something about the woman.'
"That was a very good guess, Roark. But what about the man?"
"That wasn't a guess, Morgan," Desmond said with a soft chuckle, turning his head to look at him. "We learned a long time ago that Roark very rarely guesses about anything. He seems to know what Riddle thinks, how he'll react to any given situation, and how he'll likely move in response to a strike we've made against him,"
"As for the man..." Alexei turned his head. "Rodolphus had been killing anyone that attempts to kill Roark, just as Rabastan kills the ones going after Harry."
"But...why?" Jacen asked, clearly confused. "Why would they do that?"
"Because they hold the loan contracts to kill us, Jacen," Roark answered, a slow grin beginning to turn his lips up, a brow arching as he noticed how he and Kili kept stealing glances at each other when they thought the other wasn't looking. "He's been so busy cleaning up the messes left by the others, and playing his little cat and mouse games, that he hasn't done anything about me yet."
"And you, Harry? Why hasn't Rabastan done anything about you?"
'Because I'm sleeping with him,' he thought behind tight shields, knowing very well that any one of them could pick up on that thought in a heartbeat. Instead, he moved to retake his chair. "Same reason Rodolphus hasn't taken care of Roark. He apparently finds me fascinating. He's too busy, and having too much fun playing his little games of hide, seek, and taunt."
What about the other stuff? How do you know all that about Riddle, Roark? About all the other things?"
He shook his head. "I wish I could give you an answer about that, Ryder, but I can't. I'm not sure how I know some of the things that I do when I do, and until very recently, I didn't even know, let alone understand, what was going on with me." He shook his head. "Hell, half the time I STILL don't know, OR understand how I know, or KNEW the things I did, or do."
"And now you do?"
He shook his head again. "No, Morgan, not really. Look, we really don't have time to go into the full explanation of how, why, where, when, and everything else that goes with it. Let's just say that I know the things I do, and leave it at that."
Gwydion nudged his partner, and when he looked down at him, he gave a small shake of his head. 'Later,' he mouthed to him, giving a brief head tilt toward Aiden.
Morgan turned his head to look at his husband and saw him give the slightest shake of his head. : We'll talk later, : came his murmur into his mind.
"So what now?" Colten asked, looking up from the file he had been reading through as everyone else had been talking, though that wasn't to say he hadn't been listening, for he had been.
Close enough attention to realize that Roark was clearly in trouble, and he knew that Ethan and Roan were going to have to deal with him before his psychic gifts, obviously now fully awakened and at full strength, got any more out of control than they already were.
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