A/N: I would like to thank Courtney (fanfiction dot net username: Black Rose, Black Heart) for her help in beta reading this story, without her help this story would not be nearly as good as it is, and you are the ones to decide how good that is.

Prologue

The rain fell heavily through thick, low clouds. In the distance a clap of thunder sounds. If one saw this scene in a muggle movie one would have thought that something terrible would happen next. The sky was dark despite the time of the day. Two couples walk across a small village road from an alley to the orphanage, one of the couples include a young red haired woman carrying a bundle of cloth and a tall man with messy black hair and a look to suggest that he thinks he is superior to all those that he looks at. The other couple is a bit older, around their forties; they are both brown haired, the woman's a bit lighter brown then the man's.

Closer than the others, a bolt of lightning strikes a tree illuminating the green eyes of the red haired woman. The thunder causes the air to throb and a scream sounds from the bundle the woman is carrying. She stops for a moment to comfort the child before they enter the dark foreboding building.

Inside a woman dressed in an expensive dress curtsied and lead them into an office where she hurried to explain all the pros of adopting another child and why it is so important that they do it as quickly as possible, and not after the child they decide on has taken even more of the money that she would use for her dresses and other extravagant living style, the last of course, does she not say out loud.

After some more droning of the woman, the two couples walks out into the living area of the orphanage where they look around at the playing children.

"Ann, have you found someone that catches your eye?" the young woman asks the older one.

"No Lily, they are all lovely, I can't decide... Can't you help me find someone?"

A few minutes later the black haired man asks impatiently, "Are you not done, we have been here for..." he was cut of by a sharp call from Lily.

"James!"

He lifts his hands in mock surrender, "Alright, alright, I'll be quiet, if you will..." he bends down and whispers something in Lily's ear causing her to blush. She swats him on the arm and continues to look at the children.

Lily walks over to a section of the building where the infants lie. She plays a little with some of them that are awake until she comes upon a child only a couple of weeks old. There she stops dead in her tracks, her face turning a ghostly white. "James!" she calls out, her voice conveying some of the shock she felt.

The small child that lay in the crib has just enough hair so that one can see that it is a charcoal color and the small green eyes looked up at them with an intense gaze. The two looked down at the child Lily was carrying in her arms. The two babies look very much alike.

"James, we have to adopt crack ," a blast of thunder drowns out the last word to anyone that would happen to listen in.

"Now Lily, we already have one child, we..." he is cut of again by his wife.

"We WILL adopt bang ." Another thunder rattles the windows of the orphanage. James remembers the last times she has had that look on her face and knows there is no way he can convince her otherwise.

"Yes love." he says and gently picks up the child from where it lay. They walk over to the office where the manager had already prepared all the papers and forms needed to complete the legalities of adoption. "Was it not the other couple that was going to adopt a child." she asks surprised.

"Yes, but we saw this here child and..." Lily answers. Within minutes they had filled in all needed papers and they walked out to the older couple who are still looking.

Chapter 1

About a year and a month later at Halloween.

The Potter family sat in the living room of their house at Godric's Hollow. The children, that very much looks like twins, where playing on the floor with the candy they had been given by their parents.

Just as the sun was about to set the shrill sound of an alarm ward sounded and James flew up on his feet holding his wand within seconds.

"Lily, take Erika and Harry and go to the back. There are three possibilities of what can have happened, one, Peter has betrayed us, two, someone has tortured the this house's location out of him or three, he has decided to play us a practical joke and I seriously doubt that he has enough intelligence to even think of the last alternative. Damn Pettigrew, and damn Sirius, I should never have listened to him when he convinced me to change secret keeper from him to Peter." James shook his head and walked out towards the front door, his whole body tensed by anger and fear for the lives of his wife and twins.

As he was just a couple of yards from the front door it exploded inwards in a shower of red sparks. James ducked and covered his face with his arm to protect it from flying splinters. Just seconds later a tall figure clad entirely in black stood in the hole where the door had once stood. The eyes looking out from under the hood were glowing a bright sick red.

Without waiting, James sent a stunning spell which he tried to give as much power as he possibly could to. "Stupefy!" a beam of red light flew and hit the creature dead on in its chest. However, it does not seem to have any effect, the creature just laughed a terrible bone chilling laugh.

"Oh, Mr. Potter, is that how you treat your guests? Well, in that case... Avada Kedavra!" A green beam, so bright that it hurts to look at it, shot out from the wand that was held in its skeletal fingers. James tries to dodge the curse but it traveled too fast and he was hit in his shoulder and he fell limply down on the ground, dead the instant the curse hits.

Voldemort walked past the body of James Potter without sparing so much as a glance, it continues into the house in search of the Potter child. After having passed through the house You-Know-Who comes to the back door and walked through it. Outside Lily fled as fast as she could towards the edge of the forest that borders the property with the two children in her arms.

Just at the edge of the forest Lily stumbles in a hole in the ground and falls, Voldemort walked quickly over to her in a way that seems almost lazy.

"What an honor to meet you, Mrs. Potter. Now step aside and give me your child."

"Never!" The woman spit. She scrambles to her feet and backed away from the creature, she felt a shiver knowing that she just had passed out from under the Fidelius Charm's range, but then her back hit a tree and she was unable to get further. "I will never give you my twins. Take me instead, just don't hurt my twins."

"Twins?" the creature looks surprised, "The prophecy said nothing about twins..." it shook its head, "No matter. Stand aside and I will let you live, otherwise I'll just kill you first."

Tears flow down her face as she tries to get away. Voldemort just lifts his hand and shouted the killing curse; "Avada Kedavra" The bright green ray of light left his wand and traveled through the air towards the woman and her children. Just as the ray passes through the magical dome that is the Fidelius Charm it somehow split, the green of the beam bounces back and hits Voldemort and continuing through the dome came a blue one that spread and covers both Lily and her two children.

Lily died as she was hit by the light but her hands begin to glow and the glow then move onto the twins, she fell to the ground still clutching the two to her chest. The light that surrounded the small children started to collect towards their heads and soon it has taken the shape of a bolt of lightning on their foreheads just below the hairline above the right eye. Suddenly the two started to cry and under the light the skin started to redden and swell, soon the skin burst and a small fragment of green light left through the wounds and the white light fades and dies.

Meanwhile on the road in the front of the house a dozen Death Eaters stood. At the same time as the Dark Lord is hit by his own spell they feel something strange from their right forearms. At the same time all twelve of them roll up their sleeves to look at their dark mark, which had started to fade. A tall Death Eater turned to a shorter one. "Traitor! You lead our Lord into a trap!"

The corpulent man starts to stutter, "N-no, I-I-I did not... I..."

The tall man cut the other short with only two shouted words and a wave with his wand, "Avada Kedavra!"

Eleven Death Eaters disappears in a series of cracks and the twelfth one fell down dead.

Half an hour later Sirius apparated to the road outside the Potter residence in Godric's Hollow where he had arranged to meet up with Peter and the Potter family, he could not wait to meet up with his godson and goddaughter. But when he looks around he notices the black robed Death Eater lying on the ground. He walked over and removed the man's mask.

"Peter!" He gasps in shock as he saw the man's face. He quickly disapparated to the Black's family estate at number twelve Grimmauld Place where he almost dove into the roaring fireplace, he managed just in time to throw a handful of floo powder before he burned himself. "Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office!" he shouts and stuck his head into the flames.

Some nauseating spinning through the floo network later, his head appears with a pop in the fireplace opposite Dumbledore's desk. Just as he saw the old man he choked out "Albus, Peter, the Potters, Death Eaters!" He took a gasp of air "Godric's Hollow!" After finishing saying that he pulled his head out of the fire place and apparated back to the road outside his friends' house, there he starts searching for the house, not thinking on the fact that it is hidden by the Fidelius and is impossible to find unless one is told by the Secret Keeper where it is.

After ten minutes of running panicked around he saw someone lying just inside the forest and he headed that way. When he comes closer and he can see who it is he fell down on his knees beside the body of his best friend's wife with tears streaming down his face.

Sirius sat beside Lily with the twins cradled in his arms and rocked back and forth; his tears had slowed to a tickle. That is how Albus Dumbledore found him some time later.

The old man walks slowly towards Sirius, his wand pointed towards the crying man. "Sirius, what have you done?"

"It's all my fault... It's all my fault; I should not have made them do it." The flow of tears increase slightly again.

"Sirius, tell me the key to the property, you need to tell me so I can get in there." Dumbledore speaks slowly as if he talks to a small child.

"I can't. It's all my fault." He hiccupped "It's Peter that was the Secret Keeper, I convinced James and Lily to take him instead of me. He, he, Peter was a Death Eater." He choked on the last words.

"He was a Death Eater? What do you mean by that?"

Sirius waves his hand vaguely towards the road. "He lies over there on the road..."

Dumbledore straightens his back and looks around for someone or something. He spots what he is looking for and calls, "Hagrid, over here." The big man clumsily moved over to them. The old man bends down towards Sirius and says in a low soothing voice "Sirius, give the children to Hagrid." Sirius just shakes his head.

"Sirius, you have to give the children to Hagrid, he will take them somewhere safe." The headmaster waved his wand over a stick on the ground and transfigures it into a crib made for two. Reluctantly Sirius put the twins into the crib and covered them gently with a small blanket.

Hagrid picks up the crib and as both he and Dumbledore stands up the headmaster whispers to Hagrid "Place the crib outside the door to number 4 Privet Drive." He pulled out a letter from a pocket in his robes and put it in the side of the crib.

Hagrid leaves and the two wizards are left alone. The white haired wizard picks up a stone from the ground, points at it with his wand and says something under his breath. He grabs a hold of the other man and puts it in his hand. They both disappear.