AN: This is unbetaed but as soon I receive my betaed forms I will post it.
The Order in Action
The next morning found the Order gathered around the kitchen table, cups of tea and coffee grasped in their hands. At the head of the table stood the four Bandits, maps spread out behind them. A list of names and special operation teams were laid out on the table top, with the mission description by them.
Ron stepped forward, effectively directing the Order's attention toward himself, "Yesterday we received a rather disturbing note from our spy in Voldemort's ranks. This note has caused us to agree to step up our plans for the special ops teams.
The teams will be subject to two more days of intense training before they are sent into the field.
Every special ops team has prepared for this moment and we are certain that these plans can be pulled off without a problem.
Lily, Peter, and Moony, your teams are going to be assigned to watching homes of muggleborns. Each member will be assigned a muggle partner,
Ria and Hermione have perfected the charms for detecting dark marks, so that will make things easier. Over the next few weeks a gradual evacuation of muggleborns and their families will be taking place. We hope to draw very little attention from the Death Eaters.
For the teams led by James, Padfoot, Sirius, and Bill the infiltration of the camps and the extraction of prisoners will be the main goal. You will concentrate on getting the youngest and fittest witches and wizards.
Voldemort is planning something big, and he needs his system to be stable, it is our job to rock his world," the last part was said with a smirk, mirrored by the other Bandits.
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The next day the muggle sharpshooters arrived and the teams were deployed. Extraction teams were also sent out to watch the camps that they would later be responsible for infiltrating.
Ron and Neville would be leading the actual extractions over the course of the next month. Draco had declined the mission, choosing instead to head out with the sharpshooters in case he was needed at headquarters for any reason. Hermione was of course staying behind to tend to any wounded that came in.
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Ria sighed and stood from her desk, beginning to pace back and forth across the bedroom, nimbly stepping over Snuffles, who was lying in the middle of the floor. She couldn't settle down at all today, the special ops teams had been deployed and so far everything had gone to plan, but she had a feeling that this was only the calm before the storm.
Remus tried to suppress a smile as he watched her move gracefully across the room, "Ria, baby, pacing and worrying is not going to help anything, come to bed and stop worrying."
"I'm sorry Rem, it's just that I have this feeling that magic is trying to send me a vision, but it can't decide what I need to see."
"Well maybe we need to open up the pathway and make you relax."
Ria rolled her eyes, "You just want to have sex."
He shrugged, "It is a convenient side-effect."
"You're lucky you're so cute."
"Come here baby," he pulled her towards him by her shirt, nuzzling her neck and running his hands under her shirt. Ria surrendered as she felt Remus unhooking her bra.
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Lily was perched on a rooftop across from the home of a 12-year-old muggle-born and her family. So far there had been no sign of Death Eater activity in the area, though one of her team had encountered a lone scout in his.
Peter and Moony had the same general reports as well. Nothing but life continuing on as normal for these people.
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Halfway across the country from where Lily was perched, James was scouting out a prison camp with a group of three men, Ron included. As they watched the guards change shifts and the prisoners line up for roll call, identical cerulean blue eyes met across the barbed wire, magically charged fence, and Ron found himself staring at himself.
Shaking himself out of shock Ron turned and wrote a quick report to Ria, sending it off with Devlin. This may give them an extra boost inside the camp if they are able to get a message to him and if the other Hermione is still in a camp to her as well.
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Ria was lying in bed with Remus when a searing pain ripped through her head causing her to sit up gasping before she was assaulted with a vision. The following cry of pain woke Remus, who wrapped his arms around Ria's shaking form, waiting for her to come out of the vision.
When she finally came back to reality Ria scrambled toward the door, but only managed to make it halfway before collapsing. Remus ran over to her, "Arianna you have to tell me what you saw."
"Lily, the Death Eaters are coming, they are going to be over-whelmed. Send help to them…" the rest of her statement turned into a cry of pain as another vision assaulted her.
Jalen flamed into the room, followed shortly by Hermione, Draco, and Harry, who she had obviously alerted. Remus looked up at them, "She just came out of her first vision, Lily's being attacked and overwhelmed. One of you needs to go, but don't cal anyone else off their posts until she comes out of this one."
Draco left the room at a run heading toward the apparation point, hoping to get to Lily before it was too late. As Draco left the room Ria came out of her second vision, "'Mione you need to set up the hospital. Tell Poppy that a large group is coming in, we lost none but they had some trouble getting away from the Death Eaters."
'Mione nodded, "Who's group is it, Ria?"
"Peter's." Harry and Hermione quickly left the room to get everything ready.
Remus helped Ria back into bed, wrapping the blanket around her, before lying down and cradling her to him. She curled in to him and slowly managed to drift back to sleep.
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In the hospital wing Poppy and Hermione were frantically trying to make sure everything was prepared for the influx of patients about to arrive. Harry was standing ready, accompanied by Molly Weasley, at the portkey point for all of the incoming wounded.
The first group arrived and Harry ushered the three injured young muggle-borns into the wing, letting the women take over from there. Peter and his partner arrived next, towing three Death Eaters along as well. The other two pairs, one with two Death Eaters and the other with four followed them.
When he landed Peter looked at Harry and gave his report, "Everything worked just like you planned, except that we were outnumbered, but we did manage to get all the targets removed from the area. The counts are four Death Eaters dead, nine captured, and five escaped. From our side we all made it back, though all of us are injured."
Harry nodded to Peter and waved him to the hospital wing. He bound the prisoners and levitated them to the cells below the headquarters, deciding to take care of finding out their identities at a later date. Shouts from the level above sent him heading back upstairs, coming face-to-face with his mother and a group of people he didn't recognize.
Draco's head appeared at the back of the group, along with four other Order members and their muggle partners. He pushed his way to the front, his voice quickly shaking Harry out of his daze, "Harry, is the hospital wing set up?"
"What? Oh, yes it's all ready, take everyone there for a check-up, but someone needs to tell me what happened and then write up a report."
Draco nodded, turned, and gave instructions to the group standing there, they all left, leaving behind a group of ten prisoners. He focused back on Harry, "There were over thirty Death Eaters Flame. We weren't prepared for that number, and the only reason we managed to get back was that the muggles in the village began to fight with us. After that I couldn't leave them there so I brought them with me here."
Harry looked thoughtful, "This is good in a way Draco. Maybe the muggles are finally beginning to get their hope back, before they wouldn't have helped us fight. I'll take the prisoners down, you go get checked over."
Once the prisoners were stripped of their wands and robes, Harry left them in the cells with their comrades and headed upstairs to check on Ria before he collapsed from exhaustion. Ria and Remus were asleep, with Cuil between them, the wounded had been taken care of, and all the other reports from the other teams were positive so Harry felt that he could finally relax. He climbed into bed and fell asleep wishing that Sirius was there with him instead of out on a mission.