A woman's mission
Chapter one- Troop #19852
Her green eyes sparkled as she slipped her billowing black cloak over her head. She looked at herself in the mirror. This uniform had not been designed with a woman in mind. It was far too big in all the wrong places but with a flick of her wand the masculine all black out fit tightened comfortably to allow her freedom of movement. She had had to do this everyday for the past year. Since the day she had become an aurour.
Yes, Lily Evans was an aurour. In fact she was one of the only Female Aurours in the country. When she had turned up to interview for the position the entire panel had laughed at her, which was except one Alistor Moody. However when they realised she was serious and gave her a chance, Lily actually proved a lot more capable then most of the male aurours and they had no choice but to hire her.
Since then Lily had managed to climb the levels of the department. However, she was not respected as a leader or even an equal by the other aurours.
The short, petite, redhead was strong, intelligent and highly underestimated. But Lily was set out to prove that image was just a five letter word and any man who wanted to prove otherwise would quite literally eat the dust.
Grinning, Lily sat down at her desk; looking at the little plaque she had acquired only 3 months ago. It read "Sgt Lillian Evans". Going from a private to a sergeant was a big step for her, it had meant she could not only go out onto the field but also command her own small diligence of aurours, if she were to be sent on a mission. It also meant a lot more paper work, but hey she had to take the good with the bad.
At the moment, she was studying a case of suspicious disappearances. Recently there had been reports of a young intern from the department of mysteries having not shown up in the past two weeks and also an old Muggle caretaker who lived somewhere in Hull. What Lily was trying to work out is where they had gotten to and if there was any way they were connected.
By lunch time all she had figured was that the caretaker, a Mr William "Bill" Waterstow, looked after a small number of big houses, in which only one was magical. And he was married with no children to Mrs Doris Waterstow.
However as she ate her lunch she continued to peruse the files, occasionally jotting anything she found valuable on to a note pad.
"Hey Evans." One of the other sergeants greeted sitting next to her. "Didn't see you in the changing rooms earlier after work out. In fact I didn't see you at work out. I suppose you didn't want to break a nail right." A round of laughter sounded round the room, and as Lily looked up, she realised every eye was on her.
"Actually Jeff, I thought I would spare you from embarrassment today and do my work out this afternoon. Also if you hadn't realised I use the ladies changing room. Although I did wonder why you kept coming in, personally I thought you were a bit of a pervert. Never mind, all clear now." Another roar of laughter sounded along with a few cat calls.
"Hey, no need to be touchy Evans, I mean I understand and everything, it must be hard knowing there's all these tough men around and you're on the same level or higher then most just because you're a woman." You could hear the tension of the room and everyone inwardly taking a breath, awaiting the reaction of the small woman.
"Are you threatened by a strong woman Patterson?" She asked smirking and squaring up to him. It was amusing as she was a good foot shorter.
"No." He replied grinning cockily and stepping forward.
"You should be." Lily replied, and before anyone knew it she had flipped him over and had him pinned to the floor facing down with his arm locked behind his back. She stood over him, her foot on his arm keeping him down with very little effort and very little force. "Now," She said loudly, looking around. "Anyone else have the same view as Patterson here? Cause I will gladly prove my strength. Just think if I can get him squirming on the floor with my hands, imagine what I can do with my wand. Anyone?" She looked around. "Nope I didn't think so." She picked her foot off of Jeff and helped him to his feet.
"You just surprised me is all Evans, don't mean you're good." He grunted and walked off.
Lily rolled her eyes and sat back down at her table picking up her fork and digging back into her pasta. Just as she reached her mouth an alarm went off. And a disembodied voice sounded.
"Will all Privates, sergeants and Head aurours please report to the apperation room."
Lily got up and made her way quickly to the room set up especially for a quick pre battle position run through and pep talk before they were sent out to battle. This must be a big job as everyone had been called, normally only privates and sergeants were used.
When Lily reached the apperation room Bartemeius Crouch stood at the front of the room. "…an emergency, Diagon ally has been attacked. I want Jones, you to take Fewn, Lee and Hind to the Leaky cauldron, King, you take Ellis, Brown and Westridge to the top end of Diagon. Firth you take Wright, Patterson and Zane to check out Gringotts and Finally Evans you take the rest to the bottom of Diagon leading into Knockturn. I want you to secure the area, rid it of death eaters, capturing as many s possible and check for casualties. You're up against the forgivables, it doesn't seem fair but it's not legal to use them in return so remember that. Now off you go, quickly."
And with that everybody scattered.
"Ok Jordan, I want you to bring up the rear, you need to be on constant guard see if anyone is about to attack us from behind. Longbottom, you will be my cover, stay behind me make sure the perimeter is clear and I will go on the front line. We need to be spread but no so much that we can be divided. You got me?" Lily laid down the rules just before they apperated. The two privates nodded slowly.
Lily decided she would have to accept that. She often found that her co workers often thought less of her because she was a woman. They would soon respect her once they had worked with her, but up until recent months she hadn't really had the chance.
Three loud pops and they had all arrived on the scene. If you knew Diagon ally you would have been shocked by the eerie silence they had arrived in. The usual hustle and bustle was now replaced with the odd faint scream or distant blast of a wand.
"Stupefy!" Lily yelled pointing her wand to a corner. A small thud was heard but they didn't stop to see who it was, they continued. As they rounded the corner they could see a few more of the shops and Gringotts down at the end. The robe shop opposite seemed to be on fire so casually Longbottom and Jordan put it out with their wands, whilst Lily kept an eye out behind them. They stepped inside to see if anyone had been trapped in there, but it seemed everyone had escaped.
Gradually with just a couple more spells they reached the bottom of the street. However as they did they realised a lot of commotion was coming from inside the wizarding bank. Gringotts had a faint green glow coming from with in it, along with what sounded like a chanting noise.
When they went inside, they realised that there were four death eaters apparently trying to force entry to the vaults. The Goblin in charge seemed to have gathered the others into a circle and were using their unique brand of magic to banish the intruders.
But when the head Goblin was grabbed by one of the death eaters and held by wand point the rest of the small critters companions stopped their mission. This was when Lily felt the need to intervene.
"Ingorgio" She announced pointing her wand at the head Goblin causing the death eater to get a shock of his life time as the creature in his hand started to grow and grow and grow.
Everyone turned round to see what had happened and already Lily was prepared with her next attack. "Brastar katargie!" and the death eater was thrown to the floor almost as though a big gust of wind blew him over.
"Stupefy!" Was yelled from behind her and at a quick glance Lily saw Longbottom fire a curse at two more death eaters coming at her from the rear.
"Avard…" One man came towards her wand out.
"Silicium" She said quickly and almost like an invisible shield forming around herself the curse bounced off her and rebounded on its caster, causing him to fall to the floor.
Two days later the battle was being described as one which stood out amongst most. It had been the first in which three whole Death eaters had been caught in one go. It was something the ministry could put their name against and gain respect and trust once more from the people under their reign. It had especially been good to have glazed over their most recent blunder of being so desperate to show a front of doing something, and wrongly accusing poor Archibald Thatcher of belonging on the dark side.
Well since then Lily had had nothing but praise from her fellow workers. She was the man, or should I say woman of the day. And she had most definitely deserved it after all she had eventually been hit but a Jelly legs curse and had managed to fight off the last death eater from the floor. She had stunned him just before he had managed to say the last syllable of the killing curse. She had also been subjected to quite a large dose of the Cruticus curse whilst her troops were fighting off others.
Lily and the two members of her troop were awarded with and order of Merlin 5th class for their actions. It was a proud day for them all.
However what Lily brought to the attention of those in command was, what had the Dark lords followers wanted that day? They may have just attacked to bank because no one had tried it before, however Lily didn't think so.
Authors note
I hope you like the first chapter
I have planned this thing up almost in whole I will try and type it up as much as poss- going thru a bit of a ruff time at work but will try my best all the same (sometimes that helps as typing takes my mind off how crap my life is!)
Love yaz
Jess xxx
