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Chapter 4: four years later

Since that night the Potter household has grown, by adding a daughter on June 10, in 1982. Jessica was exactly like lily, with auburn hair and bright emerald green eyes.

Harry was distant from both James and lily, only talking and playing with Jess. Lily and James tried their best to spend equal time with all of their children but as they got older and Zach started training, it got harder to spend time at home, because they were at Hogwarts making sure Dumbledore didn't corrupt their son into believing that he was all knowing and always right.

Knowing that the boys birthdays were coming up they decided to stay home for a couple of weeks while they sent Sirius to Hogwarts with Zach. They were planning on spending time with just Harry and Jessica.

They were hesitant though to send Zach to Hogwarts with Sirius as he had been acting strangely lately; lily was worried about Zach getting hurt. Why Dumbledore insisted on starting Zach's training so early she would never understand. He was only 5 years old. She had argued with him several times over this and every time he would use the, "dark times will rise again and Zach must be able to protect himself' card. It pissed her off to no end.

Lily's POV

I woke up to a large clap of thunder. I hate storms; they remind me so much of the night my father decided I needed to be taught a lesson. It still sent shivers down my spine and caused nightmares almost nightly.

I got out of bed slowly so I didn't wake James and went to the bathroom to splash my face with some cold water. As I got back into bed, the door cracked open and Jessica walked in clutching her teddy bear, Mr. Bear, to her chest.

"What's wrong Jessica, did the storm scare you?" I asked. The only reply I got was the frantic shaking of her head, indicating that the storm had indeed scared her.

"Well come here sweetheart, you can stay in her with me and daddy ok."

"Ok mama." She quickly crossed the room and climbed into the bed. Just as I was covering her with the blankets a large thunder clap made her jump and she snuggled close. I would never admit it until later but I loved it when Jessica got scared during storms. It was the only time that Jessica let anybody hold her and I loved holding Jessica.

As I felt her silent tears soaking the front of my shirt I started whispering a soft lullaby in her ear to calm her down. It took a couple of minutes but Jessica was soon fast asleep and snoring lightly. I started to drift to sleep myself after I had watched her sleep for a while. The storm was letting up and my eyes drifted closed and my mind surrendered itself to sleep. I didn't have any more nightmares after that.

Jessica's POV

The really loud sound woke me up. I really wanted mama but the bad man said he would hurt harry more if I was near mama. I don't want harry to hurt anymore. He is always hurting and it's my fault because I like being near mama. Another loud sound made me jump out of bed and I grabbed Mr. Bear and ran to mama and daddies room.

I opened the door a little bit and saw mama sitting up in bed. She turned her head and saw me. She asked me if the storm scared me and I could only shake my head. "Well come here sweetheart. You can stay with me and daddy, ok." "Ok mama." I climbed into bed next to mama but more loud noise caused me to snuggle closer into mama and I started crying. Mama sung me a lullaby and I fell asleep. The only thing that I dreamt that night was harry getting hurt for me going near mama.