My apologies! I had to delete the chapter because the site wasn't accepting the coding or whatever, but now here it is, I hope.

I had some time and decided to post it. I don't like how it turned out, but I'm already writing the other one and I really don't want to write this one again. But it will get better… I hope. Lol;

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Chapter 8

The Greengrass Manor was a beautiful two-story building with large panel windows and a wide garden out-front. The silent night pared with the fairy lights throughout the trees brought a delicate and gentle sense of beauty to the view those arriving on the property's grounds.

Nevertheless, Edward Tonks was a man on a mission and hardly paid attention to any of it as he apparated just outside the wards that surrounded the Greengrass state. Carrying the two little girls in his arms, he hasten his steps to get himself and his precious cargo inside the safety of the house.

"I didn't know you would come here, Ted" Magnus Grengrass says as he opens the door wide open for his friend to step through.

"I didn't know it myself. Andi is with Harry." Perhaps it was he's tone of voice, or maybe his pale and sorrowful face. Magnus knew.

"So it came to happen after all. Pettigrew betrayed them to the Dark Lord." His face falls. He shakes his head as he closes the door and directs his friend to the sitting room where they meet a blotched face Daphne and a worried Clarissa Greengrass.

"Andi told me to not let Daphne sleep until she gets here. She need her awake for the ritual she's performing on the boy right now. Their bond will let Daphne help him through it." It seems impossible, but Ted's face pales further as he remembers all his wife told him.

Claire walks to him and takes baby Revna from his arms and brings her to a firm hugs, trying to draw comfort in the knowledge that at least her friends could save their children.

"What happened?" She whispers barely audibly, tears already fallen on her cheeks as she keeps the baby girl to her chest.

Ted sits with Dora by his side and sighs. One of his hands pressed his eyes closed for a second before going through his hair.

"We had just finished dinner when Dilly, Lily's house elf, showed up with little Rev. He told us Lily sent him there. He said he needed to go back to take Harry and then he was gone again. We waited for what felt like hours, but he never came back. Roughly twenty minutes later we heard the bodies landing on out doorsteps." His voice tremble as he says this.

Dora hugs him closer, trying hard to understand what happened to her uncle Jamie and aunt Lily. She saw their bodies. She saw how much blood there was in Harry's face and clothes. Her heart hurt knowing that her friend had been hurt so badly, but she didn't understand why her uncle and aunt didn't do anything to stop it or why they were asleep when they have gotten to her home. I didn't make much sense to her seven years old mind, but she hopes her daddy would explain to her later.

"Andi took one look at the boy and started treating him for injuries. There was a lot of blood, but I couldn't see it closely as she took him before anything. I don't think she spared one look at James or Lily for that matter. Her sole focus was on the boy. That's when she told me to leave with the girls and come here. She will explain everything to you both when she gets here. We just can't let Daphne sleep."

"Twenty minutes you say?" Claire pales as she hears her husband's question.

"Oh, God! You think she saw it?" She asks him hating the possibility of her daughter seen someone being murdered. Much less someone they consider family. Her tears fall from her eyes and a sob comes through her lips before she can hold it.

Magnus hugs her and tries to sooth her before she can wake little Revna or even make Daphne even more distressed the she already is.

"What are you on about?" Ted asks confused.

Neither are answered as in that moment Daphne starts to glow.

As her mother goes to take her from the floor, Ted stops her. "Don't touch her. It must be Andi's ritual, we shouldn't interrupt or intervene." He thinks for a second before he speaks again. "Better yet, let's give her some space. Move everything away from her, come on." They do as suggested and wait, watching.

The glow rescinds and suddenly Daphne's body goes rigid and a circle with runes are marked on the floor around her. She screams, her eyes firmly shut as the wind crackles through the room.

Everyone can feel and taste the excessive magic saturating the air around them. The awe and worry on their faces clear as day for any to see.

Magnus tries to go to his daughter, but a dome is formed around the area and he can't break it for it might bring disastrous consequences to them.

Claire is openly crying holding a wide-awake and crying baby in her arms.

Ted holds his daughter firmly against his chest as if trying to hide her from what they are all seeing.

A couple of minutes later and everything is still and silent. Everyone is waiting with batted breath for any sign, all of them looking at Daphne waiting for a reaction. She opens her eyes and the adults gasp.

"What has she done?" Magnus whispers but no one answer him. They are too entailed by the sight before then.

The once ice blue eyes are now one ice blue and one emerald green. They pulse with barely restrained power and awareness that were not there before.

Magnus tries to reach his daughter and this time he succeeds. He takes her in his arms and looks at her eyes with awe on his own.

"You are both there aren't you?" He whispers to her. "I can almost feel you there too Harry." Daphne blinks and quietly lays her head on her father's shoulder. "You are safe now, love. Harry will be here in a bit." He whispers to her while running his hand through her back in a soothing way.

He turns to his wife and friend and says in a low, soft voice. "Go put the children to sleep. I have a feeling Andi will be here any moment now and she might need assistance." He still holds Daphne as Claire and Ted leave the room. He walks toward the front door waiting for his other friend. She has much to explain.

ust as he calls for the house elf to take Daphne to the sitting room and take care of her while he waits, he senses the wards. Andromeda is barely standing on her own as she approaches him. She hands him the boy in her arms and promptly passes-out.

He catches her just in time.

With effort he takes into his house, he gives Harry to the elf that popped right beside him and lifts her. When he gets to the sitting room, Harry is already there, hugging his daughter. He shakes his head at the sight and lays his friend on the couch.

He walks to the children and sits in front of them, his hands reaching for both. When they turn their heads to look at him, he sees it.

"We will have to do something to hide those beautiful eyes of yours. We can't have anyone knowing something happened to you, now can we?" He murmurs thinking out loud.

"Come on, I'm going to put you to bed." He takes both children in his arm and takes them to Daphne's room. "Lets settle you both here tonight. I don't know if you can be separated from one another for the moment, and Andi is still out, so let's do it this way."

He transfigurate their clothes and puts them in the crib. As he stays there, staring at them, he can't help but think and hope that they must be able to help and take care of their children, even if its the last thing they will do. He sighs heavily and leaves the room in search for his wife and friends.

They have much to talk. The need to proceed with Lily's plans, after all.

-MLNO-

As Andromeda starts to stir, Magnus promptly gets up from his chair. He hands her a bottle of potion of what she recognizes as a Blood-Replenishing

"I needed that. Thank you." She says gulping the liquid in one go.

"I thought so. I saw your hand, but I don't know any healing spells, so I did the best I could."

She just nod muttering the spell to heal horrible cut on her left hand. "Vulnera Sanentur". She barely winces as the cut starts to sew itself close

"Now that you are awake, would you mind telling us what happened? What did you do Andi?" His shoulders slumps lightly and he seems tired, worried and full of sorrow. "Have you seen his eyes? My daughter has the same eyes. So, please, Andi. What the bloody hell did you do?"

Clarissa reaches for her husband and guides him back to the love seat they were sat before and turns to her. Waiting.

Andromeda takes a deep breath and begins. She tells them about her research about bonds and how almost nothing new was found, she tells them about trying to research for souls in an attempt to maybe get a better idea about how could they bond. She explains about going to Sirius and asking him to take some books from the Black Family library without anyone knowing and how he only found one book that spoke of souls. She goes into the detail of said book. She needs to stop for a moment because Claire and Magnus seem to be getting extremely pale.

She lets them digest what she just told them as she takes a sip of her tea. The silence in the room is deafening. And then, there is a loud gasp.

"No! He didn't!" Magnus looks more disgusted than anything. "That is beyond absurd. It is absolutely vile. Tell me he didn't." He whispers the last part horrified, already knowing his answer.

"He did. He did worse though."

She goes on to explaining the theory behind the sizes and possibilities. She then speaks of what she found in Harry's head. How she suspected it was too small to be only half, or a first in any case. She doesn't explain how she took the splinted piece from him, though, that is considered Black Family magic and she wouldn't tell anyone who is not a Black by blood or magic about it.

"As for their eyes, it might have something to do with the fact that in the ritual I had to involve Mother Magic herself to judge its worth and help me get rid of the darkness invading him. Perhaps she judge them more than, as I saw right after the amount of power in Harry's eyes. If Daphne has the same raging and pulsing eyes, we will have to find a way to hide it from everyone. Eyes like those two have are not common and it will certainly attract unwanted attention to them."

After some time of silence, she gets up, ready to leave when she remembers what is waiting for her at her house. She takes a heavy breath stealing herself for what she still has to do.

"I'm going home. There is much to do still."

"Don't go, Andi. Stay for the night. Revna is asleep at Astoria's room, Harry is with Daphne and Dora is in the guest room. Stay for tonight. We can take care of the children tomorrow while you go take care of whatever Lily told you to do." Claire says softly. Her eyes practically begging with the older woman.

"Alright. Thank you, Claire." She sighs hugging her friend. Tonight they lost part of their family and now they have to stay together and help each other. Thinking of that she knows there is still one thing left to do tonight that can't wait for tomorrow. Tears came to her eyes as she remembers her friends. "Dilly" she whispers.

There is a soft pop and the elf appears "What can Dilly do for you ma'am? Mistress Lily told Dilly to always answer when Mrs Andi and Mr Mag call for Dilly." The elf says as he bows to theman.

Andromeda smiles a small smile as she thinks of how prepared Lily made them be for this and more tears are brought to her eyes that she furiously blinks back. 'You have to keep it together for a bit more Andi, you can cry all you want inside you room later.' She thinks to herself as she tries to hold back a sob.

"Thank you Dilly. Go to my house and clean everything you find in the sitting room. If you can ask an elf from Slytherin estate to help you, call it to help you prepare Lily's and James body for the burning. They wanted the old rites to be performed after their deaths." She explains as she sees the others blank looks.

"Dilly will do it, ma'am. Mistress was too kind. Is the least Dilly can do for his late Mistress." The elf bows his head and pops away.

"Let's go to bed then. Tomorrow there are too many things to do." Everyone agrees to talk more in the morning over breakfast as they go to their rooms.

As Andromeda is about to sleep she thinks 'I hope we can make it. I hope we can live up to her expectations'