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One Wish: The Beginning

Chapter Title: The Attack
Rating: PG13 - for some gore and innuendo
Summary: "There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit." - Napolean Bonaparte
Beta: No Beta, but if you want to volunteer, I'd be very grateful!

October 31, 1982

Black Summer Villa, Lake Como, Italy

They spent so much time preparing in case of an attack. Somehow, all of their plans fall short. When the attack happens it is nothing like what they expected. The wards don't stay up as long as they were supposed to and they can't activate the floo to get Rose out of the Villa. The foolproof, two-way mirrors aren't working so there will be no splitting up and trapping the Death Eaters between two attacking teams. The attempt to create portkeys fails miserably and the Death Eaters' signature anti-disapparition wards have been up for hours, without any of them noticing. The alert rings are the only working piece of the plan – Remus, Lily, and Peter have all shown up to help out. The fact that the three showed up is proof the rings work, and therefore, proof that the Order has been alerted via Dumbledore. There is no proof, no guarantee, however, that the Order will show up in time. The Death Eaters were clever and thus managed to stay under the radar for almost a full week – slowly sapping the wards of their strength. In the end, the residents of the Black Summer Villa only have each other to rely on. Each other and their absolute loyalty to their legacy - a tiny, innocent two-year old. No matter what it takes they will not let her fall.

"Shit, the wards are fully down."

"James, language! And what do you mean the wards are down? They were supposed to stay up for at least another hour!"

"Lils, they're down." James' voice is grave as he turns to look at his daughter. "Princess, you know I love you, right?"

"I know! I love you too, Daddy!" She responds in her cheerfully childish voice, innocently oblivious, while the others all turn to face the doors, wands ready, as they begin to hear the chanting of the slowly approaching death eaters. The main door blasts inwards, but James is already at work, wand moving in a blur. He promptly and efficiently transfigures the splintered door into burning hot silver and then banishes the entire mess backwards into the approaching death eaters. Meanwhile, Remus, having forced a partial transformation, lopes towards the back door. Within minutes, he is busy grappling with the vicious Fenrir Greyback, who has entered from the back of the house hoping to add Rose, and maybe even Lily, to his "collection". Straining with effort, Lily begins to chant, gathering raw magic in case she must perform her well-researched, final spell – a last ditch attempt to protect her daughter. Despite James' efforts more and more death eaters are breaking into the house. Peter and Sirius both join in casting spells at the intruders.

"Expelliarmus! Stupefy! Stupefy!" Peter quickly grabs the wand that comes flying towards him then turns and incapacitates both Lestrange brothers. Lucky for Peter and the rest, the Lestrange brothers are already practically unconscious from the pain caused by their severe metal-burns to put up much of a fight. After all, Peter is quite clever and knows more dirty tricks then most anyone else, but at full strength the Lestrange brothers would've destroyed him.

"Avada Kedavra!" James deflects Amycus Carrow's curse with a piece of the door and fires his own back. "You're a pathetic excuse for a pureblood, Potter! Don't worry, once you're dead, I'll teach your daughter all about being a proper witch!"

"REDUCTO!" Amycus is so busy taunting James, he doesn't manage to dodge James's enraged response. The curse hits him point blank in the face. Alecto screams in rage and sorrow as Amycus's head is brutally blasted apart, bits of his brain splattering all over his sister.

"Defodio! Confringo! Crucio!" James struggles to dodge all of Alecto' curses and is clipped by the third one. James falls to the floor, seizing violently, and tries not to cry out. Sirius seeing his friend in danger quickly sends a confundus at Alecto, disrupting her curse when she shifts to bat away Sirius' spell. James rises slowly but a rapid-healing charm allows him to regain his strength. Conjuring up a pair of lions he uses an oppugno to buy himself some extra recovery time. Alecto rips the pair apart with a vicious obliteration charm, but the momentary pause in their duel is just enough time for James. He continues his battle with Alecto and finally brings her down with a diffindo to her wand arm, banishing the psychotic witch - minus an arm - through a glass window.

"Tarantallegra! Petrificus Totalus!" Remus, in the interim, finally succeeds in bringing Greyback down and, with a combined stupefy and incarcerous, stuns and binds the rogue werewolf to prevent his escape.

"Imperio!" A high, cruel voice casts the spell directly at Sirius. Unable to dodge, Sirius feels himself floating away to a peaceful place where he has no worry about anyone or anything. *Kill the girl.* As the thought drifts across his mind Sirius turns to do so. The moment he sets eyes on the frightened toddler his mind rapidly clears and he shakes off the remnants of the curse. Turning he looks directly at Lord Voldemort and immediately begins to fire curses at the monster.

"Stupefy! Expelliarmus! Furnunculus! Incarcerous! Reducto! REDUCTO!" Curse after curse erupts from Sirius' wand as he attempts to give the others enough time to escape with Rose.

"Avada Kedavra! Crucio! CRUCIO! Avada Kedavra!" The Dark Lord's curses are repetitive but effective. Sirius has to dodge all of the unforgivables or waste time conjuring objects to block them. Sirius' curses on the other hand are often blocked or deflected by a wordless shield charm. As Sirius ducks, attempting to dodge another killing curse, he is blasted backwards by a wandless, silent reducto. The splintering of his ribs is loud in the room, which has gone suddenly quiet. He turns to see that Voldemort has put up an immense shield, a shield that has trapped him and Rose in with Voldemort.

"Well, well, the infamous Marauders, you have certainly put up quite a fight! But it won't matter; you will all still die today. Although, I must admit Mr. Potter, your daughter is quite beautiful. Perhaps, I will let her live after all. When she gets a bit older, I might even let her service me as my personal servant." The perverted smile that suddenly appears on the monster's face as his eyes rake over the child terrifies her family. James jumps forward attempting to breach the shield but his attempts are in vain, Voldemort is too powerful and his shield is unbreakable. Enraged, Sirius suddenly fires a quick reducto straight at Voldemort who deflects the curse back towards Rose.

"Rose!" With a rapid, panicked lunge Sirius pulls her out of the way. But the second reducto deflects into his chest rupturing a lung this time. Sirius can feel he is weakening and unless he gets immediate healing, he won't survive the night. He is too tired to dodge or deflect Voldemort's follow-up expelliarmus curse. Normally, the powerful Black heir is quite capable of wandless magic, but with his severely injured state Sirius realizes he will only be able to gather enough energy for one curse. The others are all exhausted and can do little anyway as the shield Voldemort has put up prevents them from coming to Rose and Sirius' rescue. Voldemort reaches out and catches the wand that comes flying.

"Do you love her, Black? The daughter of a mudblood and a blood-traitor? My, my, how far the Black family has fallen. Such a shame. I suppose it falls to me to restore the Black family honor. AVADA KEDAVRA!" Sirius twists pulling her out of the way, gathers his strength, and then fires his own wandless Killing Curse back. After all, dark magic runs in the Black veins and Sirius channels every bit of that darkness to power his curse. Caught unaware, Voldemort doesn't even have time to cry out as the Unforgivable hits him in the chest. The shield flickers then fades completely and the Marauders and Lily come rushing towards Sirius and Rose. Remus immediately binds Voldemort's body and takes away his wand. Suffering from severe magical exhaustion, Sirius passed out immediately after casting the spell and his breathing is rapidly becoming more labored.

"Is, is he...g-gone?" Lily's soft voice seems extremely loud in the silence. Peter turns to look at her, opens his mouth, but then closes it again, unable to figure out what to say.

"I-We have to check. But I can't, uh, what's the spell, I don't remember..." Remus trails off as he stares at the body, stunned speechless. James is the first to regain his senses and swiftly takes charge. He quickly begins to direct the others.

"Peter, Lily, make sure Rose is okay and stabilize Sirius as much as you can. Remus make sure all the death eater's are either dead or incapacitated. I'll see if he-if Voldemort's alive. Oh, Remus after you secure the DEs send your Patronus to get Dumbledore and the Order." After verifying Rose is unhurt and simply shaken, Peter and Lily quickly turn to Sirius and begin to chant healing spells. "Shit, he's not gone! Lil-get Mari-" Voldemort suddenly begins to glow a murky purple-green. James is blasted backwards as something shoots out of Voldemort's body and heads directly at the unconscious Sirius.

"Mine!" An odd ring of gold appears in her eyes, as two-year-old Rose immediately climbs atop her favorite Marauder. Lily and Peter move to pull her back, just as Remus begins to move back towards them. James rises from his position on the floor just in time to see Rose begin to glow a brilliant silvery white. Voldemort's shade lunges towards Rose who is clutching tightly onto Sirius' hand. The moment the shade touches Rose she lets out a heart-wrenching, agonizing scream. Sirius' eyes snap open and his body arches up, mouth opening in a word-less yell, pain evident on his face. The bright glow extends to him as well. Suddenly, the shade lets out a pain-filled yell as right then a large explosion seems to take place. The smoke clears and the others swiftly move to Sirius and Rose. Both are crumpled on the ground, unconscious, and the shade is nowhere to be seen. Slowly, Rose stirs and then winces when she lifts her right hand.

"Baby, oh my baby! Are you hurt! Rose?" Lily immediately crushes Rose to her and begins to throw diagnostic spells at her daughter and then Sirius.

"Are-are they okay?" James is shaky and Peter helps him to the ground next to his family.

"I think-" Lily breaks off as Fawkes, the phoenix, suddenly appears and begins to cry onto Sirius' chest. "The Order's here! Oh thank Merlin." The three conscious men immediately gather around Sirius, Lily, and Rose, happy that someone else will be able to take charge.

"Siri okay, Mama? Birdy sad?" Before Lily can reply another voice does.

"With proper rest and relaxation, I have no doubt that Sirius will recover. The bird is a Phoenix and also my familiar, my dear girl. He possesses healing tears and is crying in order to heal young Sirius's worst injuries. Poppy, I believe these six may need some of your expert healing once in Hogwarts. Alastor, Minerva if you two as well as the Prewett twins would be so kind as to gather and identify the death eaters, living and dead? Nicholas perhaps you could help me examine Voldemort's body? Now as for the rest of you, I believe we should all move to Hogwarts so we may determine just what has happened this night." The entire time Albus was giving out orders his voice remained calm and soothing in deference to the battered and shell-shocked six survivors. He gently asked them all to grip Fawkes tail-feathers, as the bird would flash them to the Hogwarts hospital wing.

Relieved to no longer have to think, they did exactly that. Poppy appeared in the hospital wing a split second later, ushered them all into bed and quickly began to examine each one. Poppy moved efficiently from bed to bed. Within moments of examination, skele-gro was poured out, anti-bruise creams were rubbed on, and various cuts and injuries were bandaged. Upon determining they needed sleep more than anything else she gave each of the six some dreamless sleep potion. Each one was suffering magical exhaustion and restful sleep would be the best cure.

Lily was the first to wake. She had been the least injured of the six, having received only minor cuts and bruises. Although she was sore she quickly rolled out of bed and began to check on the others.

"Lily! You shouldn't be out of bed!" Poppy came bustling out and shooed Lily back under the covers.

"Please, Poppy, I need to know Rem-James is okay and that my daughter's unhurt!" Tears forming in her eyes, Lily pleaded with Poppy for information.

"Don't worry, Lily. Both your husband and daughter will recover. James needed some anti-cruciatus potions and I had to set his broken arm the muggle way. The anti-cruciatus potions react badly with skele-gro, as you probably remember from Potions class. Other than that he has minor cuts and bruises, which are healing, and he exhausted himself with the amount of magic he used. Both of you simply need food and time to rest. Rose is essentially unhurt minus a scar on her right palm..."

"What about Remus? Is he okay? Can I see him?"

Raising an eyebrow at Lily's pushiness and apparent lack of concern about her husband, the Medi-Witch replied, "Remus was bruised and banged up, it appears he took quite a beating but thanks to his increased strength and healing he will recover completely, most likely faster than the rest of you. You'll be able to visit him later. You need to rest first. As for the rest of your friends, Peter had a fractured leg, - already healed with skele-gro-, bruises, cuts, and magical exhaustion. Now, if it weren't for Fawkes, Sirius would probably have been in critical condition right now. Luckily, Fawkes healed the worst damage and Sirius's lungs and ribs will all heal perfectly. As for Rose, both her and Sirius are suffering from complete magical exhaustion. Until their magic begins to replenish, neither one must perform ANY magic! They both have identical lightning bolt scars, Rose's is on her right hand's palm and Sirius' is on his left, both of which I attempted to heal. Unfortunately, both scars resisted my efforts and though I managed to reduce the size of the scars, I have not been able to completely remove them. I believe the Headmaster will be coming by to explain his theories as to why this is and to also discuss the attack. I suggest you go back to sleep, I promise to wake you in two hours when he arrives." Overwhelmed by the information dump, yet relieved her family was fine, Lily drifted back into a sound, dreamless sleep.

A/N: As always, PLEASE review! It makes me a bit sad, knowing that each chapter is getting hundreds of hits and visitors, but only 2-3 reviews per chapter. So please let me know what you like and what you don't like - otherwise how will I ever improve?

Edited for typos: 08/05/2011