A/N- Well this was the old chapters 8,9, and 10…I hope you like the changes…it has been forever since I have read FATE…I didn't even remember half of this stuff…so kudos to you if you remembered it! oh well, most of FATE is going to get trashed and revised into this fic…so… yeah… don't feel the need to re-read FATE unless you want to compare the new stuff to it… so here is the new condensed chapter 3


It had been two days since the meeting when the next attack happened. It was on the front page of the prophet, staring up at the wizarding world as they sat down for breakfast. A small wizarding family called the Doufs was murdered last night. This was the first reported case of a child being killed. That was what really bothered Lily. This Tom Riddle character was a creep…killing innocent children should never be heard of. It was all very depressing and after a while she just stopped reading the prophet all together.

Lily was depressed by that last attack that had involved the little 5 year old girl named Halle, but two days later there was another attack that had caused her to lock herself in the bathroom for a whole day, much to James' dismay. Rain, one of Lily's best friends, had been driven to insanity. Luckily she was still alive thanks to her muggle neighbors, who had heard her screaming, but she was forced to make St. Mungo's her new home.

Lily still hadn't gone to visit her friend. She had this fear of seeing Rain in a hospital bed looking like all of the people in muggle movies who had been tortured. She did not want to distort her old image of her friend. Amy kept trying to get her to accompany her to visit Rain, but Lily always found some sort of an excuse. She knew she couldn't avoid it for forever, but she wanted to wait until Rain was back to her normal condition, physical condition that is. Her mental condition would never be the same, that was for sure.


It was Saturday morning during breakfast when Dumbledore apparated in the corner of the kitchen. Lily jumped up and threw her fork across the room when she saw him appear. "Good gracious!" she yelled now pulling her hand over her heart.

"I am sorry for dropping in like this, but I am afraid that the meeting tonight will have to be cancelled. Moody said that he had a feeling that something would go wrong, well you know him relying on his dark magic detectors and what not. Well that is all, and Lily, I am so sorry about your friend," he said.

Lily nodded, "The sooner we find out who it is, the better."

Dumbledore nodded to James and Lily and quickly disapparated. Lily went over the living room and picked up the fork that she had flung and sat back down next to James at the dinner table. James sighed with relief. Another free evening and this time he would have Lily to keep him company. "So what are your plans for to night?" he asked.

"Nothing really, just sit around I guess. I don't really want to leave the house," Lily said smiling. "I'm full," she said pushing away her left over scrambled eggs. She looked over at the pile of dirty dishes. Lily went over to the kitchen window and closed the drapes. After being sure that no one could see inside, she flicked her wand and the dishes began to wash themselves. She was sincerely glad that she had learned magic.

James walked up behind her and slipped his hand around her waist. Lily sighed and leaned into him. They swayed back and forth for a while as Lily stared into space and James leaned his head on her head to breathe in the aroma of her vanilla smelling hair. Lily closed her eyes relaxing and taking a break from the recent devastating events.

James led her slowly over to the couch in the living room and sat down with her on his lap. Lily curled up into a ball, hugging her arms around James' neck with her head under his chin. She closed her eyes as she felt sleep began to swallow her. James noticed that she was asleep and laid her down on the couch, curling up next her putting his arm around her shoulder with his nose touching hers. The couple lay sleeping on the couch not aware of what else was happening in the world around them.


Peter walked into the house that was described to him in the note his master had sent to him. It was pretty big, but the family who had lived there had died long ago making it the perfect place for a meeting not meant to be over heard. Peter saw a light shining through a crack of a door in the hallway ahead. He walked towards it swallowing nervously. He pushed open the door. "Peter, your late," said a cold voice coming from the couch.

There sat a tall man with dark brown hair wearing tattered wizard robes. "My lord, I have some news," said Peter approaching the couch.

The man turned around, his gray eyes surveying Peter like an x-ray machine. "Well, don't keep me waiting, spill it!" he said, raising his voice.

"They are wising up to you. They know how you have been killing people and they are plotting against you."


"I'm just so scared James," Lily said after they had woken up from their little nap.

"Scared of what?" he asked as he stroked her hair.

"They attacked my best friend, how can I not be afraid?" she asked.

James sighed. "Lily, Rain was more connected to the wizarding world than you are. Her father works with the minister of magic. That might have had something to do with it," he said.

"Your parents work with the ministry of magic," she said after a moment of thinking.

"Well no one knows that they are working for the ministry of magic and they are purebloods unlike Rain's parents who were half and half," he said, kissing her head.

"That is another thing that bothers me…I am a- a mudblood and I am married to a pure blooded wizard who is on England's Quidditch team…will something happen to me?" she asked.

James laughed. "I am on the Quidditch team. I don't keep secrets for the ministry," he said, bending his head so he could lovingly kiss her neck.

Lily leaned into him. "I suppose so, but still, this guy obviously has a thing for killing off important wizard's relatives, and your and important wizard and I am your relative and I am a mudblood."

"Lily don't call yourself that. You're worth more than a pure blooded witch any old day to me," he said, caressing her sides.

Lily smiled. "Really?" she asked.

James laughed. "Did you not know me at Hogwarts? I could have had any of those pure blooded witches in our year if I had wanted them, but I didn't want them, I wanted you. I still want you. I could care less as to what type of blood you have, as long as you have blood inside of you and not outside of you, then that is all that matters," he said, kissing her lips.

"But…"

"Lily lets not talk about this any more," he said as he kissed her again.


"Lils, you should really go and see a doctor," said James holding back Lily's soft red hair as she leaned over the toilet. This had been going on for the past 4 days. "Just go today! I can handle making the snacks for the meeting tonight," James pleaded.

Lily sat up and wiped her mouth on her pajama sleeve as she flushed the breakfast she had eaten an hour ago down the toilet. For once in her life she had to admit that James had a good point. Lily had lost her appetite and had been getting sick quite often. "Maybe your right, I'll go to Mungo's," she said. Lily showered, got dressed, and said good bye to James as she disappeared in the flames of the fire place.

Now James was all alone in the house with the daunting task of preparing snacks for the evening's meeting. He had no idea when Lily would be back. Was Friday a busy day at Mungo's? James got out Lily's list and picked out the easiest item to make, cheese cubes. He walked over to the fridge and retrieved the block of yellow cheese and set it on the cutting board. James pulled the curtains closed on the kitchen window and pulled out his wand to magically cut the cheese into even pieces.

Two hours later as precisely one pm James heard someone arrive in the fire place. He looked over the snack list and was happy to have completed three out of the four items on the list. Lily would be pleased with his progress.

He saw her sitting on the couch with her head in her hands. His spirits fell. He was hoping that she just had a bad case of the flu bug or something, but that was obviously not the case.

"So what did the doctor say?" asked James nervously.

Lily moaned and mentioned something incoherent. "What?" James asked, sitting next to her, taking her hands in his.

She looked at him, eyes filled with tears. "I-I'm pregnant," she said.

James looked at her. "And you're upset about that because why?" he laughed.

Lily smiled lightly. "You're not mad?" she asked.

James laughed and kissed her cheek. "Of course I'm not."

Lily smiled a bit more. "Its just that we had never really talked about it before, that's all," she said.

"I love kids! This is the best news I've heard in my life!" he said, standing up.

"Really?" she asked.

He picked her up off of the couch and hugged her tightly. Lily winced. "Oh sorry," he said putting her down. "Don't want to hurt you or the baby."

Lily started crying again. "Now what? I thought we just went over this…I am happy that you are pregnant!"

Lily sat down again on the couch, crying her eyes out on the red pillow. "James, what if something awful happens to us one day? What if we d-d-die and our baby is left all on its own?" she cried.

James hugged her. "Lily, just because there is a raving lunatic running around doesn't mean that everyone is in danger, and it doesn't mean that we should put a hold on our family. It's just not right. Obviously we were supposed to have this child, you were supposed to get pregnant, or you wouldn't have. Everything happens for a reason," he said.

"But…but…what if something does happen to us?" she said.

"Lily! Nothing is going to happen to us except we are going to have another member of our family," he said kissing her head.

"Everyone is getting attacked though James! He is killing little children and grandparents and parents and cousins, and…and…" she started crying again.

"Come on Lily, nothing has happened to anyone closely related to us. We are fine. I won't let anything happen to us and that is final. If we hear of this creep getting anywhere close to us or we get the least bit suspicious we'll move to France or something," James whispered to her.

Lily stopped crying. "You mean it?" she sniffled.

James nodded. "Yes. Now be a normal person and be happy that you are going to be a mother! Usually it is the man that freaks out!" he said.

Lily laughed. "Thanks James."

"For what?"

"Being so strong and supportive."

"That is what a husband and future father is for," he said, smiling at her.

James pulled her into a kiss. They sat, lost in time, as the world went on without them. She kept her arms on his shoulders and leaned her head under his chin. "Did you make any of the snacks on the list?" she whispered.

"Three of them, I left the cookies for you," he replied.

Lily led him into the kitchen. "Come on, we'll make them together," she smiled, wiping the remaining tears from her face.

James followed her into the kitchen as the shock slowly wore off. He was sure that right now he was the happiest person on the face of the earth. He listened to all of Lily's directions and by the end of the hour he knew all of the secrets that went into her cookies.

They ate dinner at five, giving them two hours to prepare for the meeting. "So are we going to tell everyone at the meeting about or news?" James asked as they sat on the couch holding hands.

"I don't think that that would be too smart. I think that they would react the way I did at first. And I want to wait a while before telling anyone just to be sure," said Lily.

"What do you mean just to be sure?" James asked.

Lily shrugged. "You never know with babies, let's just keep quiet and hope for the best," she said.

James kissed Lily sincerely hoping that nothing was going to go wrong. "Nothing is going to go wrong," he whispered to her, pulling out of the kiss for a slight second.

Lily smiled and relaxed into his shoulder closing her eyes. She was full of joy and wonder. She couldn't help but wonder what was in store for James and her as she sat contently lapsing into her own little world.


Lily sat nestled between her two best friends, Gloria and Amy, as she waited patiently for Dumbledore to start the meeting. She was glad to see that word of the Order of the Phoenix, which was the name that Dumbledore had decided on, had spread. Every one who had shown up last Tuesday was there except for Dumbledore's brother Aberforth. There were six new members Gloria and Amy, of course, along with James' parents Sarah and John, Lily's other friend Teresa, and Matt Halker.

"Welcome all, especially to our six new members Gloria, Amy, Sarah, John, Teresa, and Matt. We are all thrilled that you could be here tonight. I trust that our not so new members picked up a group portrait on their way in. Good, good, now down to business," said Dumbledore.

Remus stood up with the latest news of an attack in his hands. "Luckily there haven't been any more attacks since Rain, who luckily wasn't killed…"

Gloria cut in, "She would have been better off dead, she can't do anything, can't remember anything, she can hardly even talk."

Amy hung her head. To every one the news of the attack on Rain had been a shock, but it had affected her the most. Rain was Amy's twin sister and without her twin, Amy felt lost. Lily looked over at Amy and immediately felt her friend's grief and tried to change the subject. "So, Sturgis, Peter, have you found anything at all?" she asked.

"Not yet, but I am working on it. I have a few friends who are well connected, I should be able to find something soon," said Strugis.

Peter looked nervous and fiddled with his fingers, "I haven't found anything either," he said.

"Not to worry Peter, we hadn't expected you to find anything yet. Just keep your ears open," Remus smiled at his friend.

"Next order of business," said Dumbledore gesturing to Moody.

"Right, we all need to be careful and to do that we need the latest model of the Sneekoscope 500. It is guaranteed to detect even the slightest trace of evil doings. They are very expensive, but it will be worth the money in the end. I want everyone in this room to have one in their house by the end of this month," said Moody.

James rolled his eyes. "If it detects every trace of evil, then it would be going off every second in some households," he said grinning at Sirius.

"Well it is better to be safe then sorry. If you don't want the Sneekoscope 500, then I could equip you with man eating garbage cans," Moody suggested.

"NO!" cried everyone.

"Then it is settled, bring in 30 galleons to the next meeting and I will get you all a Sneekoscope 500," he said.

Everyone agreed. James laughed inside about the man eating garbage can. Sirius would want one of those more than a Sneekoscope 500. He could just imagine his friend using it on his neighbors who were supposedly growing even more annoying by the minute.

The meeting concluded as everyone started to leave as the night wore on. Soon only Lily, James, Amy, Teresa, and Gloria remained. "Thank you so much for coming tonight," said Lily turning to her three friends.

"No problem Lily, always willing to help out a friend," said Teresa.

"Yeah, and after what happened to Rain I'll do anything to fight off this evil," said Amy confidently.

"Lily, every time you have ever needed anything I have always been there. Whether it was planning a prank on James or picking out a new set of dress robes, I have always been there. This is just one of those times when we need to all stick together. I am sure that if she was better, Rain would be here as well," said Gloria.

Lily hugged each of her friends as they got into the fireplace to leave. They disappeared into the whirling green flames leaving Lily and James alone in their empty house. Lily got the chills as she walked up the stairs to her room. She brushed them away thinking of what James had told her earlier that day. They would move at the first sign of danger.


Peter arrived in his fireplace in his living room. The clock on the wall read 11 pm. He ran to his messy desk at moved the stacks of parchment around haphazardly looking for a blank sheet, a quill, and a bottle of ink. He then sat down at his desk and began to write all of the names of the Order of the Phoenix that he could remember. Peter stopped writing for a brief moment as words from his Hogwarts days came back to haunt him. "Friends forever…" "Traitors always get what they deserve…" "We can all trust each other…" "We will always be by your side, Peter…"


The Daily Prophet had no more news of deaths until one week later. Everyone in the Order of the Phoenix sat bewildered at their breakfast tables the morning of October 1st, as they stared at the front page of the prophet. There was a picture of a house that was completely demolished. The attacker had struck again. This time the victim was one of the Order, Marlene McKinnon's family. Many members of the Order began to have second thoughts about being apart of their little defense group.

It could have been a coincidence that one of the Order members had been killed, but according to Moody, who was making a very big deal about this attack, nothing was coincidental. Dumbledore spent many hours trying to console the members and to shut Moody up, trying to convince him that he was going to drive away all of their members. Moody had caused such an up roar that members were asking him how the man eating garbage cans worked and how much one would cost.

James of course had kept his cool, knowing that Marlene wasn't the easiest person to get along with. He kept insisting that she had just had a grudge with the enemy. But, a grudge wasn't a good reason to kill off her 4 children and husband too. There was something going on. Had word reached the enemy?

Gloria had spent many days over at the Potter house with Lily trying to find the answer to questions that people had. Gloria, Amy, Teresa, and Lily had become the people that Daily Prophet reporters were bombarding with questions on the street ever since the attack on Rain. So, since Lily and James lived on private property, the reporters couldn't reach them at her house. They had officially named Lily's house as their hide out.

James' Quidditch practices had moved from Tuesdays to Mondays and Thursdays, leaving Lily alone quite often now, but she dare not leave the house because of the reporters. Teresa on the other hand, loved answering questions and begged for attention. Gloria was always warning her not to answer their questions because of the possibility of revealing the Order to the media. That was the last thing that they needed, for someone to let their presence slip. Then they wouldn't stand a chance of having their meetings in secret.

Lily was now finding it very difficult to hide the fact that she was expecting, and one day Gloria guessed it. They were sitting on Lily's bed flipping though the scrap book when she brought it up. Lily was relieved that she could finally share her news with someone. She made sure that Gloria promised not to tell anyone about it. "It is so wonderful Lily! I am so happy for you and James!" she squealed when Lily spilled the beans.

Lily blushed. "We didn't want to tell anyone just in case something happened," she said.

"Oh, Lily, I hope that nothing terrible happens, it will be so nice to come over to your house and see a little child running around the yard! I hope it's a girl," Gloria sighed.

"I don't care what it is, as long as it is a healthy and a witch or wizard. I couldn't imagine having a squib for a child. That would be awkward," Lily laughed.

"Yes it would be. How did James handle the news?" she asked.

"He was shocked of course, but it is natural for most people. I think he is going to make a great father," Lily sighed.

"He will be, don't worry," laughed Gloria flipping to the next page in the scrap book.


Peter lay tossing and turning in his sleep. Was he doing the right thing? Once again quotes started coming at him, "Traitors get what they deserve…" "We are a team…" "Best friends never tell on best friends…" "When one person goes down, we all go down with him…" "Friends always stick together…" "We would do the same for you Peter…"


A/N- Well this was….well I forget which chapters…like 8, 9 and 10 or something.

Changes

Chapter 8 got totally trashed and was changed cuz I did not like it at all in the original version.

Lily and James' reaction to the news that Lily was pregnant changed

That is basically it…I really hope that you all like this version! I like it a whole lot better than FATE!