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Chapter Four
Looking back none of them would be sure how long the silence filled the room but by the time the someone finally had the nerve to say anything they were well past worry and working on the fear.
"So what happens now?" Caroline finally managed. "Do we hide for the next twenty years or do we wait for the Dark Lord to make his first move? What do we do?"
"The most logical step would be to figure out what the prophecy means," Lily said and looked down at her sleeping son. "We won't know what Voldemort will do unless we know what it all means."
"I couldn't agree more Lily," Dumbledore replied. "But there is just one other thing."
"What else could there be?" Sirius sighed wearily.
"He has decided that the green eyed man in the first image he saw is Harry with you two," Dumbledore looked at the tiny baby asleep in his mother's arms. "And he has decided that his first target is your family."
Lily drew in a sharp breath startling Harry from sleep. He let out a disgruntled cry and beat a tiny fist against his mother's chest. James wrapped his arms around his wife, "What do we do Albus?"
Dumbledore's face was once again somber and sad, "You must go into hiding."
"Oh no," Tears had started falling down Lily's cheeks. "Please I couldn't bear to be tucked away somewhere in the dark and not see anyone. I want to be able to help. We can send Harry somewhere where he'll be safe. I don't want to be hidden away from the world and my friends."
"Lily this is your life we're talking about," Mo said softly. She watched her friend's tears and felt her chest start to ache. "This is Harry's life we're talking about. You all have to be kept safe."
"What about you?" Lily answered. "We were all in the prophecy. What happens when Voldemort can't find us so he moves on to Sirius and Mo or Caroline and Remus? What then? We can't all go into hiding."
Sirius spoke suddenly and they all looked at him, "You know that Harry will be the one to stop him, don't you sir? We have to protect him."
Dumbledore looked sadly at Sirius, "That's part of it, but there is a chain of events that will happen in the next fifteen years or so that involves all of you, I'm sure of that and so, I'm afraid, is Voldemort."
"Who will be their Secret Keeper?" Remus asked not wanting to think about the Headmaster's last statement. "We don't know who we can trust besides the people in this room."
"I'll do it," Sirius's voice was quiet, almost serene. "They're my family, I want to be the one."
"Mr. Black I'm not-"
James interrupted Dumbledore, "There's nothing I wouldn't trust him with, even my life and the lives of my family."
"Very well," Dumbledore said regarding Sirius in a new light. "Then he shall be your Secret Keeper."
"What about the rest of us," Mo asked looking into the face of each friend. "Will we be able to see them?"
"That is up to them," he replied. "When the spell is cast the only people who will know where Lily and James are will be myself and Sirius. Afterwards, if Sirius tells you, you will be able to find them but only if James and Lily want to risk that."
"Of course we do," Lily replied.
"Someone has to tell us what's going on in the world," James added. "Just because we're going into hiding doesn't mean we have to be totally cut off from the everyone does it?"
"No of course not," Dumbledore replied. "But the more people who know the better chance that the Dark Lord will find you."
"We trust our friends sir," Lily said almost coldly. "But they will be the only ones to know."
"Then we have decided what will be done," Dumbledore concluded. "We shall perform the spell tomorrow night at your home James. I will be there to witness and Sirius to accept his duty. I suggest you all go home now and get some rest before tomorrow. I must tell the rest of the Order about the prophecy but I will be in touch with all of you."
They all waited silently as Dumbledore took his leave of the room. When he had gone none of them knew what to say or even where to begin.
Lily sat cuddled under James's arm holding Harry close with a pale face, "What are we going to do? I never thought in all my worst nightmares that it would come down to this. I never thought that we would be the ones he would come after. I didn't think he could touch us."
Mo let out a half laugh that made her want to cry, "He couldn't touch us because he wasn't real. We made ourselves believe that we were invincible to give each other hope. Now he's even taken that away."
"We'll face this together," Remus said hugging Caroline close more to sooth his own worries than hers. "We've never been beaten by anything when we stayed together. That can't stop now."
"Y-you were a-a-always braver than m-me," Peter stuttered standing in the corner looking particularly gray in the face. "I could never m-measure up to you guys."
"Don't worry about it Wormtail," James shrugged. "Sometimes the strangest things can scare a person."
"Nothing ever scares you J-James," Peter danced from foot to foot like he was a nervous little boy.
James laughed and looked adoringly at his wife and little boy, "I've never been so scared in my life as I was the day Harry was born. Nothing has ever terrified me more than knowing the tiny thing in my arms was mine. It was the most amazing and terrifying experience of my life."
Lily smiled, "James was meant to be a father. Just the simple fact that it scared him proves it."
Mo listened absently as her friends chatted nonchalantly about fear and courage, as though they weren't going to need it in the coming months. She laid a hand protectively on her belly, how could such a happy thing happen at the most dangerous time of her life.
The cool March air was refreshing as Mo stepped hand in hand with Sirius from the battered remains of the Order's meeting place. Her mind was spinning with questions, and plans, and everything else that she just wanted to collapse in bed and sleep for a week.
She had known in the back of her mind that things would boil down to this. That she would eventually have to face the Dark Lord again, but she hadn't counted on her friends being involved. This time it wasn't her life they were fighting to save it was all of them and all Mo could think about was facing that horrible thing again.
She sighed and cuddled under Sirius's arm, "Let's go home Sirius. All I want is a hot bath and you for the rest of the night. I have had it with bad news. I don't want to talk to another person for the next twenty four hours."
Sirius stopped and pulled her against his chest and the smile that she loved so much winked brilliantly, "Well I guess I better get my girl home then."
Mo laughed as he swept her up in his arms and Disapparated from the street. When they finally stopped spinning they were in the dark in what Mo could only guess was their apartment. She slid liquidly down Sirius until her feet touched the ground, "Leave the lights off and lets just go to bed."
"But I promised you a bath," he said and she could her the grin in his voice. Oh she loved when he got in a playful mood. She was ready to start tearing at his clothes when he flicked on the light and she gasped.
"Oh my god Sirius," Mo stared wide-eyed at their bedroom. "This is our flat, this is our new room. Everything's here! How did you do this? It's wonderful!"
Sirius smiled, "You're not the only one with the powers of persuasion. Between James, Lily, and I we got it done."
"But it's only been what two days?" she exclaimed looking happily at her surroundings. "How did you do it?"
"I hired an entire army to please my princess that's what I did," he scooped her up and into the bathroom where a hot bath was already waiting. "Now lets see about that bath."
"Tonight was wonderful," Mo murmured stretching catlike to return to the warm circle of Sirius's arms. "Thank you for everything. I don't deserve you."
Sirius laid his head against her chest as she ran her hand through his hair, "Well I figured we should take advantage of this while we can. I have a feeling we won't get to be alone a lot in the coming months."
Mo sighed and wondered what he would do if she told him the secret she'd been harboring for almost two weeks now, "Yes, you're probably right. But, um, Sirius we have to talk about something."
Sirius lifted himself up on his elbows so he could look at her a frown forming in his eyes, "What's wrong?"
"There's something I've been meaning to tell you but just never found the right time," Mo sighed and smiled when he absently traced her belly button.
Sirius raised an inquisitive brow and grinned, "This sounds serious."
"Well it is, in a good way I suppose," she answered. "I'm pregnant."
She couldn't help but grin when his jaw dropped and laughed happily when he attacked her rolling over on the bed so she was in his arms. He beamed up at her, "This is great. I'm going to be a dad. How far along are you?"
"Two months," she laughed. "I'm due in October."
"This is so great," he sighed and sprawled his arms out on the pillows. "Who would ever have thought I would be a dad."
"Me," she smiled down at him. "I knew from the moment I laid eyes on you that you were destined for it. Someone needed to give you a sense of responsibility."
"And who better than you right?" Sirius pulled her down and kissed her until she couldn't think straight anymore.
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