31 October 1981:
Tobirama has seen enough snake-faced bastards to last two lifetimes. He can only look on helplessly when the man with red eyes and slitted nose and pupils steps inside the nursery, and the woman - Lily - pleads and begs for him to spare her sons (one son and one imposter) in exchange for her own life. The man, Voldemort, sneers and commands her to stand aside, to save her own life while he kills her children (or rather, her child and the man who she believes is her son). She gets slain, bloodlessly, by green lightning, and, in the end, her death is meaningless.
The same green curse Voldemort sends at Harry gets reflected back to its caster, burns the dark wizard's body and blows a hole in the house.
Tobirama awakes in the ruins of what was once his and Harry's nursery. Rain pours through the hole in the roof, and next to him Harry sniffles. On the toddlers forehead is a zigzagged cut, half-closed by clotted blood. Apart from this, the both of them are miraculously uninjured. The roof is partly collapsed; Tobirama sees a hand sticking out from under it, and a few strands of red hair. He tries to steer Harry's attention away from it.
When Tobirama sees Sirius, the man doesn't smile. He silently argues with the bigger, wild-bearded man Tobirama remembers from a few occasions in the past, and who has come earlier and swooped them up from the rubble, all the while visibly holding back tears at the sight of Lily Potter's corpse. Sirius appears when the man is about to leave the house, looking at the sight of it like his world just collapsed. They retreat into a small side street several houses away, out of sight of numerous other people who begin to arrive (too late) at the scene of destruction that was once the home of the Potters. There, his argument with the giant man comes to a sudden conclusion, when Sirius unexpectedly folds. He agrees to the man keeping Harry and 'Timothy', and taking them to 'Hogwarts' (a place Tobirama has heard of before, though it has never been clear to him where or what it is), and hands the vehicle he arrived on over to him, together with a short explanation on how to handle it (it is apparently able to fly). There is an expression in Sirius' eyes Tobirama doesn't like - it looks to much like the madness in a shinobi who has lost anything and everything, and does not focus on anything else than the mission for revenge he set himself on, something Tobirama has seen (too) often during the Clan Wars. But he can't do anything else than look back at Sirius, when the giant - Hagrid - takes them away. Not even Harry, squirming and longingly stretching his toddler arms in Sirius' direction, can sway the man from the path he seems to have set himself on.
1 November 1981:
Hogwarts, it turns out, is a giant castle on a cliff above a big lake, located somewhere in the north of the country.
When they arrive shortly before sunrise, Hagrid carries them up several (moving) staircases, his way leading into a part of the castle which seems to serve as a hospital. Once there, Harry and Tobirama are examined by "Madam Pomfrey", a middle-aged witch and apparently the local version of a medic. Afterwards, they are turned over into the care of tiny, towel-clad, big-eared and wide-eyed creatures that man the castle's kitchen.
At this point, Tobirama, who, unlike Harry, has managed to stay awake so far, finally has to give in to his body's need of sleep; the last thing he remembers is the sight of the tiny creatures starting to prepare giant amounts of food, while he and Harry are tucked away in strangely convenient small beds. Then there's nothing.
He doesn't get much sleep, though, because Harry wakes up sometime around mid-morning, when the 'elvses', as they call themselves, are busy cleaning dishes and already starting preparations for lunch. And when Harry wakes up, and neither his Mum nor his Dad are there, Harry is understandably upset. Tobirama wakes up to the sounds of a crying toddler.
The elvses are giving their best, but they don't seem to be used to dealing with crying one-year-olds. An old one finally manages to calm Harry down enough to feed him some cornflakes and a few apple pieces.
At lunchtime, an old man with a long white beard enters the kitchen, and sends the elvses into a frenzy. Tobirama remembers "Headmaster Dumbledore, Sir" too from some past visits at the Potters' home, the last maybe a week and a half ago. The old wizard asks the elvses to bring Harry and Tobirama into the hospital wing again; once they have arrived, he examines the both of them with the help of a few muttered spells (some of them quite long), after having heard a report from the old elf named Wendel, who has fed them and changed their diapers earlier, and the results of her earlier examination from Madam Pomfrey. Dumbledore seems to be satisfied with the results his spells are providing, because they get send back to the kitchens.
Hagrid reappears in the evening. The elvses hand them over to him (with thorough instructions from Wendel), and Harry and Tobirama get strapped in front of Hagrid's chest with a cloth. It's already dark outside when they set out with Sirius' strange vehicle.
They arrive at their destination sometime around midnight; it is a street full of similar, near identical looking houses in a small town. It is also the only street without burning lamps. Harry has dozed off one or two hours earlier; even Tobirama has trouble keeping his eyes open. Dumbledore is already there, together with a witch Hagrid greets as "Professor McGonagall".
From what Tobirama understands of the conversation, this is the place where he and Harry are supposed to live now. He doesn't get everything though, because Dumbledore mutters a spell, and suddenly Tobirama can't keep the tiredness at bay anymore.
2 November 1981, in the morning:
The woman's scream that rips Tobirama and Harry out of their sleep, could wake even the dead.