Chapter one

Lily potter sat on the couch watching her baby's playing with one of their toys. She heard the creak of the door opening, she pulled her wand out of her pocket and slowly edged her way towards the front door, Harry and Roxy, who realized how important it was to be quiet crawled over to the corner and hid from view. Lily rounded the corner.

'Petrificus Totalus' Lily thought there was a flash of light and the person in the doorway fell down unable to move. Realizing who it was Lily ran up to him and tried to apologize.

"Oh my god, James, I'm so sorry" Lily said as she revised the spell and helped her husband up.

"It's alright. It's my fault I didn't warn you" James said pulling Lily into a hug "Where's Harry and Roxan?"

"Roxy's hiding somewhere with Harry"

"Dadda" they said crawling out from their hiding place

"I thought that they were meant to be at the Weasleys?" James asked

"Ron's sick so Harry and Roxy can't play with him and his little sister Ginny"

"What one's Ron?" James asked confused because the Weasley's have so many kids, 6 boys and 1 girl to be exact.

"He's round Harry and Roxy's age, he's better but Molly wants to keep him in his room for a little while longer so he's fully recovered before he can play with Harry or Roxy because she doesn't want them getting sick as well" Lily said picking Harry and Roxan up and giving them to James. She walked into the kitchen and started making dinner.

After dinner

Lily walked into the living room to find her husband crawling on his hands and knees making car noises with their son Harry on his back. Roxan was sitting on the couch giggling. Lily stood in the doorway laughing quietly to herself. James turned round and yelled in fright.

"Shit Lil don't do that, you scared the crap out" James said covering Harry's ears. Lily laughed even harder.

"It's not funny Lil"

"Yeah it is" Lily said between giggles, James sat down on the couch, Lily walked over and sat next to James and lent her head on his shoulder. They looked at each other and kissed passionately.

"Bed time for the baby's" Lily said reaching for her children, James passed Lily their children then threw his wand down upon the sofa stretching and yawning.

Suddenly the door burst open. Voldemort was over the threshold as James came sprinting into the hall. It was easy, too easy, for James had not even picked up his wand…

"Lily, take the kids and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off –"

Hold me off, without a wand in his hand!... Voldemort laughed before casting the curse…

"Avada Kedavra!"

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glare like lightning rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut…

He could hear her screaming from the upper floor, trapped, but as long as she was sensible she, at least, had nothing to fear… Voldemort climbed the stairs, listing with faint amusement to her attempts to barricade herself in… she had no wand upon her either… how stupid they were, and how trusting, thinking that their safety lay in friends, that weapons could be discarded even for moments…

He forced the door open, cast aside the chair and boxes hastily piled against it with one lazy wave of his wand… and there she stood, the children in her in her arms. At the sight of him, she dropped her kids into the cot behind her and threw her arms wide, as if this would help, as if in shielding him from sight she hoped to be chosen instead…

"Not Harry, not Roxanne, please not my children!"

"Stand aside, you silly girl… stand aside, now…"

"Not Harry, not Roxanne, please no, take me, kill me instead –"

"Oh I shall but first I need to dispose of your children"

"Not my children, please no… Please not my Harry, not my Roxanne…Please"

"This is my last warning –"

"Not my children! Please… have mercy… have mercy… Not Harry! Not Roxanne! Please – I'll do anything –"

"Stand aside – stand aside, girl –"

He could have forced her away her away from the cot, but it seemed more prudent to finish them all…

The green light flashed around the room and she dropped like her husband. The children had not cried all this time: they could stand, clutching the bars of the boy's cot, and they looked up into the intruder's face with a kind of bright interest, perhaps thinking that it was their father who hid beneath the cloak, making more pretty lights, and their mother would pop up any moment, laughing –

He pointed the wand very carefully into the children's faces: he wanted to see it happens, the destruction of these two, inexplicable dangers. The twins began to cry: it had seen that he was not James. He did not like it crying, he had never been able to stomach the small ones' whining in the orphanage –

"Avada Kedavra!"

And then he broke: he was nothing, nothing but pain and terror, and he must hide himself, not here in the rubble of the ruined house, where the children were trapped and screaming, but far away… far away…

Voldemort had fled before Hagrid got there.

"Oh god" Hagrid as he arrived at the Potter's house the house was half destroyed. Hagrid made his way over the rubble and found the twins under what looked like Harry's crib. He picked them up and made his way back.

"Hagrid? What are you doing here?" Hagrid turned round to find young Sirius Black standing next to his motorbike

"I'm getting Harry and Roxanne"

"Give them here I'm there Godfather, it's my responsibility"

"Sorry Sirius but I have to take them to there aunt and uncle's. Dumbledore's orders."

"Well take my bike I wont need it any more" Sirius handed Hagrid the keys then slumped away muttering to himself about James and Lily being dead. Hagrid jumped on the motorbike and attached the twins to himself then took off into the night.