The Next Day
"Hello." Sirius walked in rather gloomily.
"Padfoot," James smiled. "How are you?"
"As well as anyone can be with the war." He said looking around. "Where's Lily?"
"She's with Harry, can you talk to her though, she's upset about the attacks, but she won't really talk to me?" James asked. Sirius nodded.
"These are dark times ahead of us." Sirius said darkly, walking through to Harry's bedroom where he was flying around on the broomstick Sirius had bought him for his birthday.
"Hi Sirius." Lily said.
"Hey." Sirius turned to Harry "Are you gonna be a great seeker and win the house cup for Gryffindor just like your dad?"
"Pafoot." Harry gurgled seeing his godfather.
"That's right." Sirius grinned. "And look what your favourite maurader bought you." He bought out of a bag on his back a package. "Do you want mama to open it for you?" He asked the excited one year old. Harry grinned up at him as Lily took the package and slowly unwrapped it and showed it to Harry.
"Wow, look Harry, it's your very own pretend wand." She smiled and gave it to Harry who clutched it and waved it around happily. He looked at Sirius and jabbed the wand towards him, as if he were hexing him. Sirius flicked his wand slyly, turning his hair bubblegum pink.
"Oh no Harry." Sirius smiled at him. "You've turned my hair pink." Harry made a noise that sounded somewhat like a laugh.
"Thank you Sirius." Lily smiled to him.
"He deserves some fun." Sirius said. "He must get so bored cooped up here."
"It's not right for him. He loves the broomstick you bought him, but it would be so much easier to take him to a green, but we can't risk it." Lily sighed. "It'll only get worse, unless Dumbledore does something soon." Sirius nodded. Lily picked Harry off the broomstick and hugged him as Sirius muttered the incantation to turn his hair back to normal.
"There was another attack." He sighed.
"There always is." Lily whispered. "I heard your brother died a few weeks back. I'm sorry."
"So am I. They poisoned his mind. He was so nice before I went to Hogwarts, and when I came back after my first year, they had brainwashed him. Let him think I was scum. I just wanted to protect him." Sirius' voice grew thick.
"Is this war ever going to end?" Lily murmured.
"Who knows? Maybe, some day, when everyone's forgotten why they're even fighting. Whose futures they are defending." Sirius replied. "At least the order's still going."
"Hardly." Lily turned to look out the window. Dark clouds shrouded the whole village of Godric's hollow. Rain lashed out of the sky, pelting the ground like bullets tearing a body apart. Lightning danced through the skies to thunder's bleak tune. "They're picking us off. One by one."
"They can't get you though." Sirius says.
"Unless they get Peter." Lily carried on looking at the rain slashing at the window.
"They think I'm the secret keeper." Sirius joined her by the window. "It's me they'll go after, not him."
"That's what I'm afraid of."
**A week later**
Halloween
"Lily run, take Harry and run. I'll hold him off." James yelled, he ran straight to the door that Voldemort was blasting off its hinges. What had happened? Why had Peter betrayed them?
"Avada Kedavra." He hoped. Lily would apparate out with Harry. His sacrifice might mean they lived. Then everything went dark.
"Please not Harry." Lily begged. "Take me, not Harry."
"Step aside little girl and I will spare you." Voldemort's voice was cold.
"Please not Harry." Lily's cheeks were soaked with salty tears running down her face. Voldemort raised his wand.
"Avada Kedavra."
"Not Harry." Were Lily's last thought before death took her to her husband.
Slightly depressing I know, but I never intended it to be a long story. Please tell me what you thought though.