"I need to talk to Sirius again okay." Beth felt almost ready to weep because she could hear how sad Harry was. "Feel better kiddo. You'll get through this. See you soon."
A second later she heard Sirius' voice. "Eat your supper then go brush your teeth. I follow you in a bit. Why Guam, Beth?"
"I have a cousin he's a in the Air Force there. I'll have him meet you and escort you to your flight. You and he have a fair amount in common. You're both considered renegades by your families."
Sirius remembered one of his old jokes with the Marauders. "How'd you know I was the white sheep of the Black family?"
"It makes sense, you said your family was the Blackest in England. Yet you are the lightest wizard I know."
"So do you have those guarantees yet?"
"No but I will, if I don't have them when you get to Guam you can delay there until I do."
"Okay tell me about this cousin of yours."
"Jack is an interesting character he's smart as a whip but likes to play the country hick. His father wanted him to go to Cornell and study business, Jack applied to the Air Force Academy and got in he and I don't talk much but he's family. He'll do as I ask."
"All right as much as I wish we could talk all night I have an eight year old to comfort and he's already spent too much of today taking a backseat."
"Give him a hug from me, I can only imagine what you two are feeling right now. Goodnight."
Beth ended her call.
Rachel knocked and stuck her head around the door. "You get him?" She noticed Beth's expression "You okay?"
"I got a hold of him, but...he and Harry just lost the closest thing they had to family. I'm almost ready to go. Could you ask Radar for five copies of the file on Sirius for say by lunch. I need to get them pronto."
"Sure." A short time later they left the castle to take Beth to work. Once at work Beth sat at her desk and typed a couple of memos and made a phone call to her brother Nicholas. "Hey Nic, it's Beth I need to consult with you."
"What laws have you broken?"
"I haven't broken any, yet. If Dad doesn't lay off the overprotective father act soon though... Actually the consult is for a friend."
"I'm free this evening Della and I came to a parting of the ways. She tried a little to hard to use me to get to Dad and I've got two tickets to the symphony at seven and reservations at Antonio's at ten. It was going to be Della until two nights ago, I just hadn't gotten around to canceling them yet."
"Ouch."Beth had a great deal of sympathy for her brother. Nic was the same age as her and was a very successful criminal defense lawyer for a firm that represented both worlds here in Washington DC. He actually lived in a condo half way between Baltimore and D.C. "Sounds good though. Also can you give me the name of a reputable real estate agent."
"Tonight. My next appointment is here. Gotta go."
Beth went to her assigned meetings and did her usual through job of finding the middle ground in the dispute and working for a win win situation. She called the castle and asked Bess to pull her sky blue satin evening gown, her marquise diamond choker and the diamond chandelier earrings, and the royal blue velvet cloak together and send it with the courier that was bringing the files she'd asked Radar for.
She called Radar directly and asked him to let the team know about the change in plans for the evening. She knew it wouldn't be a huge adjustment for two reasons both locations were well know to the security forces and Nic's security would have already put plans in place. Midday she was surprised to see Roy doing courier duty. She was on the phone when he came in. she smiled then finished her conversation.
After she hung up the phone, Roy started talking, "Beth here's the file you requested copies of and I'll let you have it this time but these files are not for your use their meant to be internal for risk assessment. And here's your dress and Bess sent this along too."
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