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Chapter 2

"Brriinngg" the phone rang waking Raven MacTavish with a start. It took him a while to realize what the sound actually was before he picked up the handset.

"Hello?"

"Hello, is this Dr MacTavish?"

"Yes may I help you?"

"This is Mercy Hospital calling, your wife and children are currently in the emergency room."

"Oh" Raven said shocked "can you tell me what happened?"

"There was a car accident that is all I know"

"Thank-you I will be there soon" Raven dropped the handset back in its cradle, sitting there dumbly for a moment before jumping up to leave. It wasn't long before he was out the back kick-starting the motorbike since Rachael had taken the car, he absentmindedly wondered what was left of it.

They lived only a ten minute drive from the hospital and so it wasn't long before he was parking the bike on the footpath outside the doors and running inside, helmet still on his head,

"Where can I find Rachael MacTavish?" he asked while removing the helmet.

"Dr MacTavish?" at his nod she continued "if you would wait here I will fetch her doctor before you go in to see her"

"Dr MacTavish? I am Dr White, before I can let you in to see your wife I must tell you her condition. Before I continue though are you a medical doctor? Yes? Well that helps things a lot. Your wife was in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. The speed at which he was going pushed the engine in to the front seat which crushed her legs and almost severed her torso" Raven paled, he knew what that meant. "Because of the extreme bleeding and the toxic shock from her intestines we were unable to completely stabilise her. We have put her on life support until you arrived so that you may say goodbye. You also have the final decision on whether or not we pull the plug, though as you should be aware she will likely never wake again and will eventually reach a stage where even the life support will not be able to keep her alive."

Raven stumbled over to a chair his face in his hands. He looked up at the doctor warily "and my children how are they?"

"Because they were in the backseat, they escaped relatively unscathed only a few cuts and bruises. They are currently in the paediatric ward."

"Thank-you" he whispered hoarsely. "May I see my wife now?"

"Certainly follow me" the doctor led him to a single room at the back of the emergency department.

"Oh Rachael," he whispered when he saw her "I am sorry Rachael, I know how much you hate driving, I should never have made you pick up the kids from day care. I love the children right? You know that don't you? They are our pride and joy. I remember your face when you held them for the first time. It was in this very hospital, remember? I was an intern on duty that night; they ran to get me when you arrived. It's the children's second birthday tomorrow. I am glad we took all those photos, they will always know what you look like." Raven paused, tears streaming down his cheeks "we also met in this hospital. It was ten years ago. You were the nurse assigned to stitch me up, you were so gentle. For me, it was love at first sight. We got married on Halloween three years later. I am so sorry. I hope you see your heaven, you deserve it. Maybe one day I will see you again." At that he leant forward, hugged her and broke down completely every so often muttering "goodbye" or "sorry". It was a good fifteen minutes before he was composed enough to go and get the doctor. Once the life support was turned off he kissed Rachael's forehead one last time and left the room to go and find his children.

"I'm here to see the MacTavish children"

"Right this way sir" the nurse led him to a room that had two sleeping children in it. "You may stay in this bed tonight Dr MacTavish"

"Thank-you"" when the nurse was gone he climbed onto the bed pulled the two small cradle-beds that held the last of his family in them as close to him as he could and let his grief out. Tomorrow he would decide what to do.

The funeral went off without a hitch, now he was back at his house packing it up. He had gotten rid of Rachael's stuff, the memories were too painful. All that was left was one box for each of the twins and two for himself. He was leaving all the furniture behind. He didn't have much money but didn't think it was too big of an issue where he was going. He took one last look around his home for the past ten years and sighed. He was going to miss it all, especially Rachael. He used his first bit of magic in ten years and shrunk the boxes putting them on the tray of the pushchair. He went out the front door, locked it and gave the keys to the realtor waiting. With that he walked away from his old life and toward his new one.

Many miles away in the Headmaster's office of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, an ornament in the shape of a lightning bolt lit up. Seeing it, the normally unflappable Albus Dumbledore spat out the mouthful of tea he just drunken. He hurried to the fireplace to call the remaining seven members of the Order of the Phoenix. It wasn't long before sitting in front of Albus were Ron and Hermione Weasley, Neville and Luna Longbottom, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape and standing on the Potion Master's left, Draco Malfoy-Snape.

"We are all that remains after the disbanding of the Order," Albus began "and we are all here because we believe that Harry Potter is still alive. Finally after ten years we have our first sign that our hope is not in vain." And he pointed at the glowing lightning bolt. They all looked at it except for Severus who drawled "Merlin Albus, could you have sounded more pompous?"

Albus' eyes twinkled "probably, but it did sound good, after all we have waited a long time for this. Severus, could I get you to trace it and then tell me what you observe?"

"Certainly, although I have always thought that maybe Potter doesn't want to be found; we did ask a lot of him you know.

"I know Severus" Albus said heavily.

Severus nodded "I shan't be long."

While waiting for Severus to return the rest of them retired to the Great Hall as it was summer holidays and no awkward questions would be asked as to why they were there.

Severus returned twenty minutes later. "I went to where the signature was; all I found was an empty house. The realtor who was there said that it belonged to a Rachael Owens who had just died and that her husband was selling the place. There was no sign of Harry anywhere." They all sat pensively for a minute until the lightning bolt which they had brought down with them suddenly gave a high pitched shriek and went black. "Oh dear, well wherever Harry is now we can no longer track him through his magic. We will find him though" Dumbledore reassured them.

Raven had caught the train to London. He paused for a bit before going inside the Leaky Cauldron. He was confident he wouldn't be recognized; he had brown hair which he constantly died, grown long and pulled back into a ponytail, he had finally had his growth spurt and now stood at about 6'3", his scar had faded and could no longer be seen, the only thing that remained to tie him to Harry Potter was his green eyes; though even they were distant from what they used to be recent events making them rather dead looking. He didn't even have any glasses to give him away as he had had his eyesight corrected bys surgery citing that it would be easier that way as a doctor as his reason. Raven shrugged, he was going to have to do this at some stage so he took a deep breath and walked into the pub. He had to give tom credit since he hardly batted an eye at the two sleeping children in the muggle pushchair. Raven just smiled and went through to the entrance into Diagon Alley. The first thing he needed to do was go to Gringotts. He had two vaults that wouldn't connect him to Harry Potter as no one knew that he had them.

When Raven stepped into Salazar Slytherin's vault for the first time he was pleasantly surprised. There was a nice pile of gold so he no longer had to worry about money and many books. It was one of these books which caught his eye. It was titled simply 'Cloaking Spells'. He checked the twins who were still asleep though how he didn't know and sat down to read. Ten minutes later he had reached a spell that was designed to cloak a person's magical signature. Although he doubted that anyone was still looking for him he decided to cast it anyway. A part of the spell was to create a false signature that other people could sense if they decided to check. As the blue light flashed around him Raven realized that if he was going to move back into the Wizarding World he was going to have to get used to using magic again. He hadn't lost any of his power so it shouldn't be hard he would just have to be careful to not come across as too powerful; he wouldn't want o be recognized as Harry Potter for something do silly.

Raven left Gringott's in a better mood and immediately went to Madame Malkin's Robes for all Occasions. He had robes but they were 'Harry Potter's' and were too short for him. He also wanted to buy some wizarding clothes for the twins.

Walking out of Madame Malkin's Raven saw a tattoo parlour. He had always wanted a tattoo and it would serve to distance him even further from Harry Potter as Harry was too much the Golden Boy to ever do something like that. Raven came out of the parlour half an hour later with a phoenix on his back between his shoulder blades and a snake which was supposed to be coiled around the Phoenix's legs but instead had decided to take up residence on the back of his hand. Magical tattoos, there was just no arguing with them. Raven was glad for the phoenix. It had been the first picture he had seen when he walked in and it had great symbolism for him. He would rise from the ashes of his two former lives and become only Raven MacTavish, the man he wanted to be.

A/N: well there is the second chapter. I will warn you all now that this is likely to be slow updating, but I hope you all enjoy the story and review if you want to.