Disclaimer: All characters belong to the brilliant J.K. Rowling
AN: when words are surrounded by "..." that means they are actually speaking out loud and when they are like this '...' that means they are thinking it to themselves and if they are in Italics that means they are having a conversation with another mind via Telepathy. Also the Lullaby in this chapter has an inportance in later chapters so keep it in mind.
Prologue:
CRASH!
"Waaaa..."
Lily sighed as she looked up from her work. She stood and quickly walked to Harry's nursery to see if she could calm him down enough to put him back to sleep. She had only gotten him to nap a half an hour ago because of Sirius. With him around there was no way for Harry to even get a wink of sleep, or anyone else for that matter. Walking down the hall she spotted a flower vase that had been knocked off the table broken on the floor and the guilty culprit, Snuffles, hiding under a chair. Snuffles was a Shetland Sheepdog Sirius had bought Harry for his first birthday. She continued down the hall, deciding she would clean it up after she put Harry back to sleep.
She quickly made her way to Harry's crib and looked down at him. His face was scrunched up from still crying and he was small for a baby of his age, though James told her that it was normal as he himself was quite a small child. Harry seemed to notice her for he stopped crying and giggled a little as he held his arms up to her. Smiling Lily pulled him into her arms looking lovingly at his bright green eyes that were so much like her own. He was her little angel and will be forever. She started humming his lulliby and noticed that his eyes started to drift close almost instantly.
"My Dearest One
You must sleep
Nothing can harm you
Whilest I still breath
Dream of Unicorns, of Forest Cats, and Deer
Of running through the forest
Without any fear
But dont forget to return home
You can fly and
You could run but
When you come home to clean your whethered feet
We shall be waiting to take you in our arms
We'll heal your wounds and calm your heart
Dream of birds and soaring high
But do not fly away
Your Mum and Dad love you
So here you should stay"
Noticing Harry had drifted off once again to sleep she kept humming the tune as she gently laid him down to sleep. She quickly cleaned the mess Snuffles had made earlier and let him out in the backyard to romp around before she found herself once again in front fo her desk, papers still strewn across the desk. Sighing she plopped down in here chair and put her head in her hands.
'I just didnt understand. The black veil had been around for hundreds of years, what could be so important about it. Could it be that it was just a random black veil, but why did certain people hear muttering behind it, she herself could hear it but so did James and about half the Order. What did all of them have that would lead them to being able to hear the disembodied voices?'
She pulled out a spare piece of parchment and began to list all the people who she knew could hear the voices and what they all could possibly have in common. An hour later she had accomplished a very long list but it took her no where near what it could possibly be causign this ability.
'hmm let's see, Alice Longbottom can hear the voices but Frank can't so we can narrow down the things they had expeirianced together...the only big thing i can recognize is Alice having witnessed her parents deaths over christmas holidays in their seventh year. That could actually be it. Alice had witnessed someone killed by the Avada Kedavra curse, so had she and James.' Lily's eyes saddened at the rememberance of that . 'We probably wouldn't have survived if it weren't for Andrew Potter, James' father. It was right after James and herself first got engaged and they had spent Christmas eve with James' family. When he showed up we wanted to fight but Andrew wouldn't let ushe tried to make us stay quiet in a closet and hide, when we resisted he petrified us and threw the invisibility cloak over us. James wouldn't eat for weeks afterwards knowing that he should've fought along side his father.'
A single tear slid down the side of her face at the thought of her painful memories. She stared dazedly at a clock she had gotten only a few months ago. It had a hand for herself, Harry, and James as well as one for Remus, Sirius, and Peter. The border of the clock instead of having number told different locations including work, home, traveling, and mortal peril along with a few others. She was snapped out of her reverie when James' hand went from work to Traveling then to rest on Home. Confused she stood up. James never came home early from work unless he had some bad news to tell. He should have been home for another five hours.
"Lils I'm Home, where are you"
"I'm up in the study," she called and went to meet him halfway down the hall. "What's happened James, you shouldn't be home for another five hours."
"Albus wanted to speak with us, he said it was urgent, something to do with Harry."
Lily's eyes bulged as she hurridly went to Harry's nursery promptly waking the sleeping baby up.
"What could be so urgent about harry, why would he be in danger." Lily said as she clung to Harry as if her life depended on it.
"I don't know, the sooner we leave the sooner we find out."
Nodding Lily ran to the fireplace, lit a fire, grabbed a handful of floo powder and throwing it in while shouting Headmasters Office, Hogwarts, Cockroach Clusters and walked into the flames clutching Harry tightly to her.