Kali and Jeffery looked down at their newborn daughter with love. She was their youngest, and the last. She had three older brothers and it was nice to have another girl in the house.
Her brothers adored her, when she was born all they could do was hold and look at her in awe, commenting on how much blond hair she had or how big her brown eyes were or how small her fingers were, but over all she was perfect.
But they had one fear, Voldemort. They were death eaters, and had been for 16 years. He met all of their kids, and told Jeffery that if any of them cried while he held them, the baby would die.
Voldemort was due any moment, and they prayed that their daughter would stay asleep.
There was a knock on the door and without being asked he walked into the house and into the nursery.
"Kali, Jeffery," He greeted. "How is she?" He peered down into the crib and saw the sleeping child.
"She is doing great," Kali answered simply, still fearing for her child's life.
"What is her name?"
"Her name is Laurel Rose."
"Pretty name, suits her I think." He mused, "Can I hold her?" Kali and Jeffery nodded, they only did this because if they didn't Voldemort would kill them all.
Kali cringed as he picked up her daughter. She clutched Jeffery for support praying that she wouldn't wake up.
When her other children were born, she got a potion to make them fall, and stay asleep. Laurel wasn't as lucky. The witch who created the potion was killed by Voldemort two years ago, and never gave the recipe to anyone.
Kali's fears were made true when Laurel woke up and opened her big brown eyes and looked up in horror as soon as he was holding her. Kali cringed again as Laurel let out a loud wail and then started crying.
Voldemort gave Laurel a look of disgust as he gave her to her mother. Kali cradled her against her chest, praying Voldemort would let her live. But knew her prayers went unanswered as Voldemort pulled out his wand.
"Jeffery, outside, now," he ordered. Jeffery bowed his head, and walked out, not giving his family even a glance. He didn't want them seeing him cry.
Voldemort pointed his wand at the child in Kali's arms and yelled, "Do you remember my rules?"
Kali just nodded and held Laurel closer to her as he cast the killing curse. Laurels body trembled as it hit her and then went still. Kali's tears were falling freely now as she pulled Laurels dead body even closer and cradled her. Her only daughter was now dead and would never come back.
Voldemorts voice broke Kali out of her trance, "And since you were the child's mother," he paused before he yelled, "AVADA KEDAVRA!" Kali's body fell to the floor, still holding Laurel.
Voldemort walked out of the nursery, not even bothering to look back at the bodies of the two women he just killed. He saw Jeffery in the hall with his head in his hands and said, "I will see you tomorrow," and left.
When Voldemort left Jeffery, he jumped up and ran into the nursery, and was greeted with the dead bodies of his wife and only daughter.
He took both of their bodies into his arms, but he felt like something wasn't right. He looked down and saw that Laurels eyes were wide open and had light in them, and the astounding thing, was that she was breathing.
He just looked at Laurel in awe, she should be dead, she was hit with the killing curse, and no one lives from that, a few seconds after he came to his senses he pulled Laurel off of her mother and cradled her in his arms and started rocking her back and forth murmuring "How can you be alive?"