Prologue
A light breeze blows the trees out in the warm night. A lovely woman with long thick red hair lays her one year old son down in his crib for the night. She smiles down and gives him a kiss on the forehead. "Good night my baby." she whispers down with a loving smile. She turns and gasps as she runs into a figure, which then embraces her. She smiles at her initial shock. She looks up at her husband and gives him a peck on the lips. "So he finally fell asleep huh?" he asks. Normally he would've asked why she was so jumpy, but he already had the answer. She smiles up and nods. The link hands and head into the living room of their beautiful home. The both sat on the couch. That's all they do for a while, then they just fall asleep.
A howling wind rips through the darkness. The man sits up quickly, causing his wife to fall over on to his lap. "What is it?" she asked worriedly. He puts a finger to his mouth and the both stand. He opens the curtain and can see the wind is blowing violently. He glances up at the clouds and squints to see closer. His wife joins him and looks up. "You don't think that's.." She trailed off.
"It can't be" He murmurs. He runs to bolt the door.
"James..." The woman whispers. He turns around with a smile.
"I'm sorry Lily, I didn't mean to frighten you. I've just been a bit on edge." He apologizes. She smiles back to show she forgives him then turns back towards the living room, staring into the fire bored.
The wind begins to pick up again. All of the sudden the fire goes out and the electricity starts to flicker. The couple slowly walk together away from the door and into the hall way, stopping by the stairs. Lily is breathing very hard, her fear apparent in her green eyes. James grabs her hand and squeezes it. The house is so quite that it's eerie. The both hear the light rap at the door. They look at each other confused. Time seems to stand still for a moment, then the door bust in with a loud boom and a smack against the wall, proceeded by some maniacal laughter.
"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'all hold him off !" James yells. Lily's eyes grow wide. It kills her to leave her husband, but she tears her eyes from his and runs to their sleeping son's room. James stands straight up and take a ragged breath. He pulls out his wand and braces himself as a black cloaked figure walks into the hallway.
As Lily closes the door behind her, she is fighting the urge to cry, though she's always been a strong person, she feared for her husband's life. She looks into the crib at her baby boy, he was just waking up. She bends over to pick him up when the door rips from its hinges and clatters to the floor. A cackle of laughter rings through out the room. Lily whips around to face the figure in the door way, her wand in her hand. The hooded invader smiles and flicks his wand. "Expelliarmus" he recites. Lily's wand is wrenched from her hand.
The man walks forward and pulls of his hood, showing a malicious smile. "Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!" Lily pleads to the man.
"Stand aside you silly girl stand aside now." He demands, a glint in his eyes.
"Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead " She begs as he takes a step closer. "Not Harry! Please have mercy have mercy " The man simply laughs and Lily screams. The entire room fills with a bright green light, enveloping the man and the boy.
Three days and 3969.667 miles later in rural Kentucky, a one year old little girl is fast asleep in her crib. Her parents lay asleep in the bed next to her, completely oblivious to the man standing next to their child. He whispers some words and touches her eyes for a moment, then draws his fingers away. He smiled at the child with a shark-like smile and vanishes.
The next morning the mother wakes up to the little girl crying and picks her up to feed her. She sits on the couch in their little apartment and begins to feed her child. After burping her the woman lowers the girl and goes to look into her eyes, only to be shocked by the bright golden flecks that painted through the dark brown of her eyes.