"A nuclear deterrent," Tony cut Fury off. "because that always calms things right down." He said in a sarcastic voice.
"Remind me again how you made your fortune Stark?" Fury raised an eyebrow.
Harry listened as the group continued arguing, each and every one of them were arguing. Harry didn't join in because he was more than a bit distracted by something else, when he entered the room he felt a tingle on his mental shields, but it was slowly building up to be something worse. It hadn't yet managed to break through his defenses as it was currently choosing to go for a more subtle and gentle approach.
"Put on the suit, let's go a few rounds." Harry heard Cap say to Tony, this raised concerns for Harry, Steve was not the sort of person to make threats like that. As everyone continued arguing Harry looked at each and every one of them, Steve looked more aggressive while Thor looked slightly drunk, the rest looked tired, apart from Banner who was looking as if he was growing more and more angry.
"Stop." Harry said in a quiet voice as he shook his head, but nobody appeared to be listing to him as they were too busy arguing. Harry sighed before his wand appeared in his hand, Harry twisted it and a high pitched sound shot out from it, causing everyone to cover their ears. Harry quickly cut it off once everyone had stopped talking.
"What the hell?!" Stark demanded as he rubbed his ears.
"Got your attention?" Harry asked. "Good," He said before anyone could reply, he walked to Banner and moved him out of the way before waving his wand over Loki's scepter. "hmm." Harry frowned.
"What are you doing?" Thor asked.
"This thing is messing with our minds, it's making us aggressive and tired." Harry explained. "That's Loki's plan, he wanted the scepter to mess with Banner's mind and get him to unleash the Hulk, I don't know if he intended it to affect the rest of us but even if he didn't it is still a nice bonus for the crazy twat."
"Twat?" Tony mouthed to the others.
"He is my brother." Thor frowned.
"Fine, Thor's crazy twat." Harry amended absentmindedly as he continued waving his wand around it, several seconds later he stopped. "I don't know how much help that will be but it should at least reduce the effects it has on our minds."
"Yeah but…" Natasha was cut off by a beeping sound.
"We've got it." Fury said as he looked at the computer that was beating.
"Got what?" Harry asked as he followed Bruce and Natasha over to the computer.
"The location of the tesseract." Fury answered.
"I can get there faster." Tony said.
"The tesseract belongs on Asgard." Thor replied.
"You're not going alone." Steve said to Harry.
"All of you shut up," Harry said. "I can teleport there and get the tesseract myself."
"Oh no." Bruce whispered. Harry turned to him, a question was on his lips but he didn't get to ask as suddenly the room shook as a burst of flames burst out from below.
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A brown haired adult sighed as he stood outside the room, he took in several deep breaths. He thought about what he was going to do, now was his last chance to back out, he could and nobody could blame him. But no… no he wouldn't, no more scars and no more torture, at least not from… him. He took one more breath before he opened the door.
"Father." Theodore Nott Jr, also known as Theo to his friends, said as he entered his father's room. He found his father lying down in bed, he was wearing no clothes on the upper half of his body. His lower half was likely equally as clothed but was thankfully covered by the bed sheets. Next to him was a red haired woman, sleeping in bed and covered by the bedsheets, probably also wearing no clothing.
At first Theodore though it was just another prostitute, but from the shivering and facial expression of the woman in question he realized that this woman was probably not paid for whatever had just happened.
"What?" Nott senior said bored drawl upon seeing his son.
"Father, do you mind getting rid of your little…" Theo paused as he tried to think up the right word. "…'guest'."
"Nah," Nott Senior shrugged. "not much point, I'm going to obliviate the bitch later anyway." He said, he was either ignoring or not hearing the whimper coming from the woman.
"Right… well, I have someone who has come here to greet you."
"Who?" Nott Senior asked.
"Just a good friend of mine." Theo said before he pulled his wand out and aimed it at his father, Nott senior's eyes winded and he quickly tried to get up but suddenly lost the ability to move when his son hit him with a body bind spell.
"What the Devil are you doing?!" Nott senior demanded just as Theo summoned his father's wand into his hand.
"You can come in now." Theo called, a few seconds later Grim walked into the room, his hood up and his face covered in shadows.
"Nice work." Grim said to Theo who nodded in thanks before looking at his father.
"You… you betrayed me?!" Nott senior blurted out with disbelief.
"I'm sorry dad," Theo said, though his voice was far from apologetic. "I've just had enough of your shit, after today you're not hurting me, my brother or my sisters again."
"Take her," Grim said as he gestured to the woman. "get her help."
"You got it," Theo nodded before he walked over to the woman, he slowly reached his hand out and took her hand, she flinched but didn't say anything. "it's alright," Theo said in a soft voice, "we'll get you help, I'll get you away from him." It was slow but Theo was eventually able to get her out of the bed, he waved his wand and created a towel to cover her before he lead her out of the room, she didn't speak beyond a soft 'thank you' to Grim and Theo.
"Nott senior," Grim said as he pulled his wand out, the tip glowing a blood red colour, "let's talk." He said as he walked towards the wide eyed and pale pureblood. "You stupid, little…
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"Mother… fucking… bitch." Harry sighed as he rubbed his eyes, he sat up and shook his head to clear it. It took him about a second to remember what happened, he was thrown through a window when the room exploded and he was pretty sure that he had hit his head when he landed, he was very sure that his neck was hurt as he could feel it fixing itself. Harry looked up and saw the window he had fallen through.
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