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Chapter 12... Boxing day with Friends.
"What does Moody want me to do for the next 7 and a half months. Stay at home and be a nice house wife? I can't even go into work and fly a desk." Neville had been ranting for almost an hour when they got home.
"At least you are still getting paid, and you will go back once the baby is born." The vase next to Alice exploded. "Nev, you need to calm down you will destroy the house."
"Your right, what's done is done."
"Remember we are to go to Potter Manor tomorrow for boxing day, James has been bugging us all month and since our folks are close to his, we really should get to bed soon."
The following morning Neville and Luna got up and had a leisurely breakfast and then Luna went into the office to do some paperwork and returned home before noon to floo to Potter Manor. Neville made some cookies while Frank was away so they could take them to the party.
When they were ready to go they went to the floo and threw in a pinch of powder the flames turned green and Frank stepped in and said "Potter Manor" and was flung out of the fireplace. "Something is wrong we need to get to Potter Manor, we will apperate to the orchard, I have a bad feeling". They quickly turned, and everything went dark, and the air seemed to tighten around then it was a bright day. Heading toward the Manor they heard spells being yelled and explosions and could see flashes of light brighter than the sunlight. Luna you need to go on up to the fight I will try and snipe from here in the trees. I hate to say it, but that fight is not for a pregnant woman."
Frank made his way around the edge of the stone wall as Alice moved closer through the trees. Alice spotted a Death eater at the edge of the wood and dropped him with a stunner. Moving into position and looked over the field of battle. The defenders were in the manor, which was on fire, the death eaters mostly were in the garden, then Alice saw a death eater hidden on a grassy knoll near Frank draw a bead on him with his wand. Alice used a summoning charm to drop a large statue on the death eater, Frank spun and hit a second one with a stunner. Frank was now outed. He began to fight in earnest.
Alice who had always been good at long range spells, dropped 3 death eaters with snap spells. Frank had also dropped two death eaters but was wounded. The defenders were now forced out of the house because of the fire. They ran while flinging spells the 6 or seven people who came out hit several death eaters. It was then that it happened Lord Potter came out of the door and took a killing curse to the chest. Jame lost it and came out flinging spells, he looked so like Harry when he lost his control. The spells came so fast that his wand began to smoke. Alice, Frank and Lily all had the same idea and kept placing shields in front of James and the other people from the house let loose. The Death eaters began to fall from James' overpowered bludgers, and he pulled on onto the spear of a statue, others fell to the others spells. The remaining death eaters grabbed their wounded and apperated, they knew the battle had turned, but more important they had killed the man they had come to kill. There were more pops as the aurors finally arrived.
James looked exhausted, he walked over and knelt down by his fathers body. The others could see the rage boiling in James. His mother was tending to the injured with the help of arriving Medical personnel. People could feel power crackling off James. Frank walked over and put a hand on his shoulder. "James, I am so sorry. If we would have been quicker, getting here."
"No! It was better you came the way you did as you would have been in the house with us and not been able to flank them! This is only one persons fault, and I will see the end of him. Lord Voldemort will be taken down, and I am going to do what I can to drop him." Everything stopped while James vented. He stayed and helped with the injured got Lady Potter to their house in Godric's Hollow. He returned to the manor or what was left of it the fire was still going though it had consumed all of the fuel. It had not been fiendfyre, but it was a cursed fire all the same.
James sat on the only thing not damaged by the attack the a bench by the fish pond and cried, he was exhausted, but still rage flowed through him, like the tears did down his cheeks. Snow began to fall and so did James rage but as it did it was replaced by despair.
After hours of sitting in the cold and snow James stood and walked from the garden turned into a stag and ran for the woods, not knowing what was going on in his own home.
Lily didn't know what to do, Lady Potter had taken to her bed in the guest room and had not moved except to use the bathroom, she would not eat or talk, she didn't seem to sleep either. Whenever Lily, Sirius, or Remus looked in on her she was just staring at a picture of Lord Potter. "James needs to be here, his mother needs him, and there is much to be done, and Lady Potter is not able to do it." Sirius was worried for both his friends mother and his friend. "James has to be strong, and stand against this or it will look like he is going to let everyone run over him. He can't show weakness now, he was raised as I was knowing how politics work, and we need to get him back here."
Remus looked at Sirius, "Your the dog track him down, since it is a full moon I would be no help today tonight or tomorrow. You should go get Frank, and we will go find him, one of keen nose."
Sirius looked at Remus like he had grown another head, "You are smarter than you look, and being as you look like a bookworm you must be pretty smart. But I can't release the hound with Frank around."
"Maybe we should let Frank in on our secrets.'
"You maybe right."
Remus left for his home to hold up for the night, and Sirius went to find Frank. Sirius found Frank at the office, and he was glad to go with him to look for James.
James in the meantime had had ran for hours and the sun was just coming up as he looked out over the cliff at the rising sun. The sun was warm on his face and he was tired from the run he had just done. All of what had happened made James so tired he dropped his guard. He didn't notice the smell of the human before the shot ran out, James jumped off the cliff and transformed on the way down the cliff and used a cushioning charm. Even with the charm he hit hard, and blood gushed from his arm. He quickly backed into the cave at the bottom of the hill and used a charm to slow the blood, but he couldn't stop it. James lost consciousness from shock and blood loss.
Two days later James was awaken by Frank, "Hey buddy took Sirius and I quite awhile to sniff you out", Frank had a smirk on his face , the muggle police want to ask you some questions. Some hunter said he was shooting at a stag, and it jumped over the cliff, when he went to find it he found you. You may want to tell them there it was what they call a ricochet. I will be back in an hour to take you home. Your cloths and wand are in the drawer" With that Frank looked around and apperated.
James found his wand and cloths in a drawer like Frank said, and took out his wand and when the police came in used the cufundus charm and told them a story of being at the bottom of the cliff feeling a sharp pain and he lost consciousness. Of course the police believed it even though there was no way that a ricochet would have been able to hit him, but the charm did what he wanted.
An hour and a half later Frank took James home. James was upset when he found out his mother had taken to bed and had shut down. He went in to talk to her but all she did was stare at the photo of the man she had loved for all her adult life.
James was sure of one thing he would make the people responsible for this pay, especially Voldemort. James started making plans to push an offensive against the death eaters, and he would be helping Dumbledore all he could.
James ate and made some soup for his mother and took it up and feed her. He sat by the bed and held his mothers hand and fed her soup. Luna was there to help Lily walked into the room and covered James at one in the morning as he had fallen asleep. The next morning Luna convinced James to take a shower and stayed with his mother. "Mrs. Potter, it is important that James and Lily stay strong, you need to show them how to do it. I am really not Frank, I am Luna Lovegood, I married Neville Longbottom in the future. Frank, Alice, James and Lily are very important to stopping Voldemort, you need to be strong for them."
Lady Potter looked at Luna, "Don't lie to me young man, you still are not too big to turn over my knee."
"I speak the truth My lady."
"Tell me what you know about our futures."
"I don't feel I can say much without risking the future, but like I said James, Lily, Frank and Alice as well as Sirius and Remus will play major roles in stopping Voldemort."
A/N Sorry this took so long, I will not drop this story it and the next one will be finished before I go on to my next item it just may take some time.
