Chapter 17

James felt a fear like he had never ever felt in his entire life as he saw his little babies body laying there're motionless. There she just lay, no longer moving. Elle used to be so alive then suddenly she wasn't.

Running passed all the other adults there he went to her side. As he passed them he heard a few of them sobbing in shock and horror but he paid them no heed. He had to get to his baby.

He cradled her in his arms and his salty tears ran on to her blood covered forehead, she was losing it rapidly.

"Call an ambulance!" he yelled to anyone not knowing or caring who was listening as long as someone was. "NOW!

"Oh baby," he said softly to the unmoving body of his daughter in his arms. "I'm here, daddy's here and his so sorry. I'm so sorry." the guilt that he had let this happen was overwhelming.

Ever since he had been back for what 18 months now he had been trying to get to grips with being a dad to two very danger pro teenagers and he had been watching others dads constantly for help. He had watched them in cafes when he had been on his breaks and he had been taking mental notes on what you did and what you didn't do when you had the title dad attached to you.

If he had raised her himself things would have and could have been so different fot them. He wouldn't have had to look at all the dads with there kids for help but he hadn't and he did. He had never thought a muggle could know more than a wizard till that topic had arisen.

When lily had been pregnant he hadn't even worried about not being able to be a dad to the child inside. He had always thought it'd just come naturally and be there. Especially after Harry. He had been so easy to look after.

And so had Elle in that two weeks he had her to hold tight and tuck in at night and love unconditionally. Even that summer it had been there. They had always naturally loved one another. And it wasn't that they didn't at that moment but……

The point the guessed he was trying to make no matter how hard it was to admit it was when he had been looking at all the dads he had seemed to be able come up with one and only golden rule tot being a dad.

Never ever did you ever allow your bay to get hurt but he had hadn't he? And that meant that he had failed in the only thing he had never been allowed to fail in. father hood.

Lily watched on as the seen rolled out, what could she do? Elle wouldn't make it through apparation in her state. There wasn't a way that they could get her to saint mungos before she died in the journey. She watched as Dursleys sister ran in and called for the ambulance that James had called out for. Elle needed it and if there was one thing that contacted all the adults there, it was Elle.

She didn't move to her husband's side. There was a look that scared lily in James' eye at that moment. It was a daring kind of look trying to challenge any person that would to try and take his girl.

It was all too much for the pregnant lily and she turned and ached herself on to Sirius just needing the support.

By this time the driver. Who was shut himself but thankfully not to badly had got out the car.

"I never her coming," he said to the others. "I didn't have time," he muttered. "Where did she come from?"

But as he looked round it became only to clear they all loved the girl so deeply and no longer knew who to answer him through there own separate grief for her.

Just then there was a siren and it was the paramedics, had arrived.

"O ," said the women, for there was another who was a man .

The women went to James.

"Sweetie?" she said to the elder Potter, "my names Comfort, darling," she said. "I need you to give my some room," she said trying to get a better look at Elle's injures whilst not angering the protective father speaking softly.

"What's her name?"

"Elle, Ellouise she's my little girl, you have to help her," he begged.

At this remark Marge try to move forward and tell her that this man was a liar, she wasn't his daughter at all but her brother held her back. Why would he do that? How could it be true?

"Ok, I'll do my bests,"" said Comfort and looked at Elle. "Come on darling," she said to the girl, lets pull you through this." after tending to the two patients as best they could at the scene if the accident they knew they had to get her back to the hospital.

Getting Elle up on a bed, Comfort looked to the adults.

"Ok as she's child its best if Elle has someone she knows incase she wakes on the journey, whose coming?" she asked at the adults.

"How many can go?" asked Sirius.

"Just the one of you I'm afraid."

"Me," they saw a red head come forward, "I'm her mother, I should be with her" said Lily. "Jamie do you mind?" she asked.

"Not at all baby, me and the lads will meet you there ok?"

"No, I'm her dad I want to be with her," protested Vernon.

James got his wand out and drew it on Vernon.

"You want to say that again?"

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"Here," said Remus to Sirius they sat in the muggle hospital and he gave eim a cup of coffee.

"Thanks Moony," he sighed tiredly.

"Any news while I was gone?" asked then fretful godfather.

"nothing." said Sirius regretfully

He watched as Remus moved to the window.

"What am I going to do if I loss her?" he murmured. "In a way it'll be ok for you, you'll have Harry, Mel and Beth but I lost ruby long ago. "He said to Sirius. "We were going to have it all," he laughed at himself. "We we're going to screw all the laws. I was going to be a dad, a real dad, to her kids." he said as he had his friend. "I remember the night she proposed to me. She wasn't tone for the normal way, ever.

"Then It all happened and I lost everything. Ruby, you lot, and my Elle. I begged Hagrid not to take her to that family. She already had a family."

"I know you did."

"If there was one thing calling me on it was the faith that one day she would come home to our world and that she wasn't a muggle in her heart, she was a witch. She was a marauder. She was one pf us."

"And she is and that means she's made of the strong stuff. Don't fret. She can pull through this"

"What if she doesn't?"

"I can't think about that and I wont. Not till I have to."

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Ass lily and James sat by her side they couldn't believe how ill there baby looked.

"How did I let this happen to our girl?" Lily asked her husband ass she held her daughters hand tightly.

"You didn't know Lil's. We were both so concerned with Harry, the new baby. She got pushed to the back of the thoughts cue I guess. She was one of the things I thought, we both thought was ok in our lives," he said bitterly. "we were wrong. She needed us more than she let on to us Lily," he said.

"I know. Why did she think she had to face this all alone?"

"Because she did, didn't she? No one else in the world seemed to know how she felt in her eyes." he stated.

"But I would have tried to help her," said lily.

"Me too but lets be honest with ourselves. If she had come to us telling us she missed them we would have been upset and she would have seen that as a disappointment to us. She would have seen herself as a failer to us."

"She could never fail in my eyes."

"Mine neither darling," he said moving to his emotional wife and holding her tight. "But we have to reassure her of that when she wakes up, she feels unsettled right now, at a guess." he said with tears hot in his eyes. He had to try and understand her. He had to try and be the dad she so rightly deserved. After all she had been through, she needed him more than ever to be a kind off walking stick for her to lean on when the days got to long, and he would be there, from then on.

When he and his grandfather got to his little sisters bedside, Dudley felt just plainly ill himself. He hadn't got the whole story out of his granddad all he knew was Elle had been at his aunts and then somehow there had been a car accident. And now she was intensive care.

"Ellouise," he mumbled to her but she didn't wake up and for that night, she wouldn't.

The next day Harry who had been going, mad up at the castle got to go and see his sister and was also shocked by the state the car had left her in all battered and bruised. Lily and James didn't leave her side that day.

Night came and a relief as they saw an improvement in there girl and she went to a normal ward instead of I intensive care. That night lily and James had sent home o tto get some rest not that they could sleep with the worry of it all.

However one person who didn't ever leave her side was perhaps not unexpectedly the ever devoted godfather.

It was in this particular watch however that he heard something.

A moan.

"Elle? Baby?" he asked her as for the first time she opened her eyes.

"I'm sorry,"" she choked out. "So sorry."

"Its ok baby, I've got you now, your safe." he soothed her as tears fell form her eyes and he wiped them all always gently.

"I didn't mean to hurt mum and dad, there dead though at Hogwarts," she begged him.

"no shh baby, it was a dream, and we're all fine." he said kissing her forehead and covering her up fully with her blanket. The tubes and thing's going in and out of her could not be comfortable for the poor lass he thought. "You just go to sleep."

Do as she was told she rolled back over and feel in to uneasy dreams but Remus felt all the better for seeing her eyes however glazed over they were and how ill she was. In that moment he knew she was going to be ok.

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