"Are you sure?" Lily Potter, hugely pregnat with twins looked at Dumbledore in concern. "I'm not so sure about this."
"I agree," Sirius and James agreed at the exact same time. They were like twins born to different families, Lily thought with a pang.
"It is the only way," Dumbledore told her. "I regret that it is the only way, an old man's mistakes cannot be undone sometimes."
"I'll do it," Minnie cradled her newborn daughter. She looked directly at Lily. "It'll keep both of them safer."
Lily hesitated, then looked to her husband. He sighed before turning to Dumbledore.
"We'll do it," he agreed reluctantly.
Dumbledore nodded. Then looked at Minnie and Sirius.
"You both will have to go into hiding," he warned.
"We'll be fine," Sirius touched his daughter's cheek. Love plainly in his eyes. He adores his daughter, Lily realized. She never thought Sirius would be capable of such tenderness. Siren would have a great father, all the guys that chased her would be in trouble, Lily smiled at the thought.
"The spell will wear off when she turns twenty," Dumbledore warned. "I'm the only one who will be able to remove it."
"Just do it," Minnie said.
Dumbledore litely touched Siren's forehead with his wand, and her features shifted.
"What is her name?" he asked Lily.
"Halley," Lily said. "We wanted to name our daughter Halley."
Minnie nodded, knowing she would never be able to call her daughter by her birth name, that she would live with another person's face. A person who, hopefully, she would never meet. Siren was now Halley. And when Halley was born she would be Siren.
"We'll have to work quiclky after Halley is born," he told Lily and James as he took his leave. "Enjoy your time together."
"I'm still not sure about this," Lily said as the Potters took thier leave a few hours later.
"Me either," Minnie admitted.
And that was the last time Minnie would ever see Lily alive.
