A/N ok so I know this is another one of my lily and/or James lives fanfics but this time Harry has an older sister instead of a twin. Enjoy.

Chapter 1

Desiree potter played on her bedroom floor with her dolls on Halloween night when she heard footsteps coming fast up the stairs. She heard her mother's panting as she ran, looking around the doorframe she saw her mother disappearing into her little brother's room. Confused she looked to the stairs from where her mum had run from. On the stairs was a man with a long black cloak, he had his wand raised walking after Desiree's mother. The two and a half year old shrunk further into her room. Her parents had warned her that if someone with a long black cloak came that she should hide. She was scared though, she could hear her mother pleading for her baby brother's life. She hid in her closet like her dad had told her, she cried falling asleep listening to her mother's pleading.

Desiree woke to find the walls around her were not much but rubble. She could hear her baby brother crying. Good she though he fine. She slowly made her way over to her brother's room where he sat crying in his crib. She looked around and saw her mother unconscious on the floor.

"Mummy!" she yelled running to her mother. "Mummy wake up!" lily opened one eye looking at her two year old daughter.

"Rhea?" lily asked. Desiree hugged her mother tightly. She fell asleep again with her mother only to wake in her godfather's arms.

"Hey Dee." He said hugging the toddler to his chest.

"Siwius?" Desiree asked. "Where mummy?"

"Mummy's sleeping." Sirius said, Desiree looked around just noticing that she was inside. The place looked vaguely familiar but she couldn't think of where she was.

"Where daddy? Where harry?" she asked. Sirius smiled.

"Daddy and Harry are with mummy down the hall." Sirius said pointing down a long white hallway. James was just stepping out the door with Harry in his arms. He was to take Harry and Desiree down another hallway to pediatrics, so they could get a checkup after the attack.

"Daddy!" Desiree yelled jumping up from her seat on her godfather's lap and into her father's arms. James hugged his daughter tightly still holding his son.

"Hey rhea." He said. "Come with me, we need to get you a check up." Desiree nodded and took her dad's hand as they walked down another white hallway.

"Now what happened Desiree?" asked the nurse.

"I was pwaying in my woom, and mummy was wunning up the staiws wiff hawwy, a man wiff a cwoak fowowed hewr up the staiws, mummy was cwying tewwing him not to take hawwy, I fewl aseep in my cwosset until hawwy stawted cwying." Desiree said through her lisp. (A/N from now on just pretend that the little kids talk with lisps because that's really annoying to write.)

"So you were not in the room when he sent the curse. Is that right?" asked the nurse. Desiree just looked at her confused. "Did you see him shoot light out of his wand?" Desiree shook her head her silky black hair falling in her face. The nurse nodded as well and continued the quick check up. Both children were fine other than a nasty scar on Harry's forehead. But the nurse could find nothing deadly about it so she pronounced him fine and James took them to Sirius's house next door to his ruined house. He aperated right in so her wouldn't have to look at the wreckage that had been his house. Desiree ran up the stairs to her permanent room in her godparents' house. James sat Harry down in the play room and walked into the kitchen where Sirius and Rachel waited, Rachel making lunch.

"Hey guys." James said sitting down.

"How are you mate? And down say fine because I know your not." Sirius said sitting across from James handing him a mug of coffee.

"I'm just worried. Worried about lily, worried about the kids, especially harry. I mean he came after Harry not us." James said putting his head in his hands.

"You know mate I wouldn't worry about lily, she's strong." Sirius said.

"Yeah strong enough to deal with you for seven years at Hogwarts." Rachel put in sitting down with her own cup of coffee.

"But we all had to deal with the prat for seven years at Hogwarts!" Sirius complained. Rachel raised her eyebrow.

"I'm sorry did you have to endure James asking you out every day – five times a day I might add – and having to be the responsible one and try to stop the ridiculous pranks you three pulled?" Rachel said Sirius opened his mouth to respond but shut it quickly not being able to think of a response. Rachel came up with it for him. "No you didn't because you were in on all the pranks and if James asked you out that would just be plain gross." The three of them laughed.

"Daddy?" asked a small voice from the doorway. James got up and picked up his daughter who looked like the spitting image of himself, black hair and hazel eyes. The only difference was that Desiree's hair lay perfectly on her head unlike James and Harry's. Desiree clung to her father, so James walked back over to the other two sitting down at the table with his sleepy two year old. Rachel smiled sadly as Desiree yawned widely.

Lily woke in a white room and knew exactly where she was. Saint Mungos of course, after an attack like that they would have to take her here. She looked around the room; James was no where in sight. He's probably just home with the kids. She reasoned with herself.

"Oh good you are awake Mrs. Potter I shall inform your husband." Lily blinked as the nurse left as quickly as she came. Lily waited as patiently as she could – which is not very patient – until James came in a few moments later.

"Hey Lils." He said sitting down in a hard plastic chair by the hospital bed.

"James? You're safe." Lily breathed a sigh of relief. But it was short lived; she had more worries on her mind. "Where's harry? And Desiree? Are they alright? What happened to Voldemort? Is her coming after them?"

"Whoa lily calm down. Harry and Desiree are both safe Rachel and Sirius are looking after them, well Rachel is anyway I think Sirius is probably on the receiving end of a prank by now." James said laughing. Lily rolled her eyes. "Anyways Voldemort vanished, disappeared right after his curse rebounded upon himself. Most people say he's dead, course I don't believe that, he's just lost his powers and is afraid to show his cowardice face."

"James calm down." Lily said stopping James rant. James looked down into his wife's sleepy looking emerald eyes.

"So can I go now?" lily asked the nurse impatiently.

"Now lily we are just doing a final check up. Please try to be patient." One of lily's coworkers who knew how impatient lily could be said smiling. "All right everything seams to be in order except… wait what's this?" the nurse looked confused for a second. Then looked at lily that looked confused and frustrated.

"What? What's wrong?" lily asked annoyed at not knowing.

"Lily? Did you know you were pregnant?" asked the nurse. Lily stared at her in shock.

A/N hey so as I said, yes this is another one of those lily and/or James lives fanfics. And if you have read any of my other stories you will know that I take one tiny thing that will completely change the course of the story and go off of that. Please review and tell me what you think. Also any British people out there that want to help me with British terminology I can say that I speak fluent Americanease. So for instance I have no idea what a dummy is. All I know is that it has to do with babies because I've seen it in other fanfics. So if I got any British terms wrong or anyone wants to explain what a dummy is please tell me. Thank you.

Twinesstar.