[Comprehensive] Science and Magic

Can you drive me? "

"I won't." Laura still pointed her wand at him.

He didn't seem to care, and stood up calmly.He was tall and straight, wearing a very formal three-piece suit, as if he had just returned from some high-end drinking party.

"I heard you've been transferred to the No-Maj Department—" He moved over to Laura, and moved the tip of his wand away with one finger.Laura tensed up.

"Shouldn't I be honored once again because I gave up my job?" He reached out to touch Laura's cheek, but Laura brushed her off unceremoniously.A red mark suddenly appeared on the back of his hand. Looking at the back of his hand, he said softly and slightly weakly, "I'm hurt."

Laura said nothing.

He looked into Laura's eyes. "You love being a therapist so much, you love healing people so much—why don't you come and help me? Huh?"

A cruel look came over Laura's face.If Lillian had seen her expression, she would have thought that someone had put the Imperius Curse on her.She grinned and said maliciously: "Because they can still be cured, but you have already rotted from the bottom of your bones."

The man's cheek twitched uncontrollably.The charming smile on his face disappeared, and his eyes became very dangerous for a moment.But soon he returned to his natural attitude and said firmly: "You still think I killed Cecilia, Laura."

"You have no right to mention her name!"

"I've explained to you many times that I didn't kill Cecilia - she was killed by wild beasts in the Forbidden Forest, and the Aurors have confirmed that."

"Tell that to Cecilia!" said Laura bitterly.

"I've already told her, in front of her tombstone." The man took two steps in the living room and continued: "Everyone, everyone—including your school girl Smulders—they all believe Me. Why do you—Laura, my girlfriend—why do you keep believing that I'm a murderer? Why?" He came up to Laura again, hurt and said, "Why don't you believe me? Why? What evidence do you have—"

"I don't have evidence, if I had evidence, I would send you to that chair with my own hands—(Note ①)"

Laura's eyes were red, whether it was from hatred or regret.With the tip of her wand on the man's chest, she said through gritted teeth: "She's only 17 years old, and she's only going to be 17 years old in her life-I don't know where she is in your way, Paltrow, let you Able to kill - she's our friend! She's a friend!"

Sparks began to appear from the tip of her wand.

Paltrow watched her silently.

"Looks like we're not going to get any further today." He clamped two fingers around Laura's wand and pushed it away from him.Then he dusted his chest and said, "You ruined my new suit. I won't be mad at you."

Laura wiped her face.She gasped and trembled.

"Be careful working with No-Majs. But don't worry too much, I'll let them help you with the aftermath - surveillance video or something. As you should already know, I've been transferred to the Law Enforcement Committee. Senator Graves Looks good on me. Maybe I'll take over Porter's job one day, who knows."

Before Laura got mad again, Paltrow apparated away with a "poof".

As soon as he was gone, Laura slumped on the floor.The wand was dropped on the floor and rolled under the couch.She covered her face and wept silently.

Laura collected her emotions before Agent Coulson came to fetch her.Her swollen eyes were magically swollen, and there was no sign of crying.

She followed Coulson into his black car, and as soon as he got in the car, he asked: "Tony Stark just announced the closure of the Stark Industries weapons manufacturing department. Do you know what happened to Stark in Afghanistan? "

"No, I don't know. He was in the desert when we found him."

"I've got to find a chance to get him to give me a briefing," Coulson said, frowning.

Laura followed Coulson into the New York Branch of the Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency, which was heavily guarded.After filling out the personal information (in fact, the content is terribly simple, and many key questions have not been recorded), and signing a thick non-disclosure agreement, Laura got her badge.

"Chief Ferry wants to see you," Agent Coulson said.

Laura met the famous Director Nick Fury in the conference room.He was a No-Maj who had lost an eye in a fight and now wore an eyepatch like a pirate.

"Hello, Miss Johnson." Fury nodded to Laura, "Welcome to the Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Agency."

"Uh, thanks."

"I think you must be very confused about the content of your job here."

"Yes, sir."

"We have reached an agreement with the Magical Congress of America. From now on, you are no longer under the jurisdiction of the Magical Congress of America, but an agent of our agency. Externally, you are our specially hired psychological counselor; oh, for you The same is true for my colleagues. We will not mark your status as a wizard on your file, and only a few people will know your true identity, such as me and Agent Coulson."

Director Fury walked a few steps closer as he spoke, tapping the conference table with his right hand.He seemed to think about it, and continued: "At this stage, your main task is to gain the trust of Tony Stark. We will arrange for you to enter Stark Industries as a life assistant. gram……"

"Wait." Laura had to interrupt Fury, "You want me to be a spy?"

"No. We want you to protect Tony Stark."

"And be a spy," Laura went on.

"Miss Johnson, there are things you don't understand. Tony Stark has deep ties to our establishment, and we're not going to hold him against him. He's going to need our help, too, even if he doesn't realize it now. a little."

Nick Fury's one eye is fixed on Laura.It was an oppressive look, and it made Laura feel uncomfortable even knowing that the other person was just a No-Maj.

"Can I say no?"

"No." Fury said, "You are the best candidate."

"Okay, but Mr. Stark doesn't necessarily want me to be an assistant..."

"He will." Fury stood up straight, "We will have a perfect arrangement. In addition, you can show magic in front of him. Just in front of him."

Laura didn't feel much better when she got back to the apartment than when she went out.

a spy!She's going to be a spy for Mr. Stark!Laura thought back to what Tony Stark looked like, with short messy dark brown hair, big and bright eyes, a personality mustache, and a really personality temper.

She wants to be a life assistant beside this kind of person... They also want to gain the trust of Mr. Stark.Laura didn't want to expose her identity as a wizard. This alone made it difficult for Mr. Stark to fully trust her.Who would trust a man with a secret?

Suddenly, a silver Patronus came through the living room window and fell in front of Laura.It was a rabbit, and it spoke in Lillian's voice: "Laura Johnson, if you don't answer the phone I'm coming to see you."

Laura then remembered the mobile phone.She forgot her phone at home when she and Coulson went out.She unlocked her phone, and there were at least twenty missed calls and unread messages, all from Lillian.She asked Laura to come to her house for dinner in the evening, reminding her in the last few messages that if she didn't have time for the car, she could Apparate directly to her guest room.

It was nearly eight o'clock.Laura quickly returned a message to Lillian, dressed up a bit, and Apparated in the guest room of Smulders' house.

As soon as she landed, she heard the sound of going upstairs.Lilian appeared at the door of the room in the next second, and she said angrily: "I told me you were back at four o'clock, but I didn't reply to my message until almost eight o'clock. Where did you go?"

"I went to report to the bureau." Laura said apologetically, "I forgot to bring my mobile phone again."

Lillian came over and took Laura's arm.She said: "I really can't stand you, you are working in No-Maj now, how can you forget your phone like before?"

In the dining room, Mrs. Smulders has already prepared a sumptuous dinner table, and she can start the meal when Laura arrives.Laura and the Smulders each embraced and sat down beside Mrs. Smulders.

"I heard Lillian say you've been transferred to the No-Maj department?" Mr. Smulders asked.

"Yes. It's the organization that has been cooperating with our department. They are all acquaintances." Laura was afraid that they would worry, so she deliberately said it lightly.

"Be safe," said Mr. Smulders, "but I don't think there will be any problem, since you are a wizard after all."

Mrs. Smulders gave him a reproachful look.She's a No-Maj.

"Oh, Allie, I mean it." Mr. Smulders stopped slicing his steak. "We just admitted a No-Maj man and woman to our hospital. They're from a mental institution in Louisiana. They've been claiming that they Their young bodies were usurped, and their spirits were forced to be locked in their old bodies—the local No-Maj put them in the hospital as mental patients. Some people said they were old and confused—after all, they looked 80 years old. Luckily this caught the attention of a wizard and reported it to the Aurors—it turned out that what the two No-Majs said was true." (Note ②)

"My God!" Lillian exclaimed, "this