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Ch.37: Not so great break and a new job

Lily awoke the next morning with the thought of her parents on her mind. She couldn't believe they were dead. She knew there was always a chance of them being killed do to her job, but she never thought it would happen. Just the year before she had moved her parents into a new house because of MI-5 it wasn't because of the threat of Voldemort, which lily had told Petunia; it was her job.

Lily got up slowly and walked to the bathroom, she got cleaned up and dressed and went back to her room. She didn't feel like doing her homework, which she usually did the first day of break, she was too depressed and curious of how the accident happened. Lily went downstairs to see the others. They all were sitting in the common room talking quietly. James looked up to see Lily.

"Hey Lily, how are you?" he asked gently. Lily walked over and sat down next to him.

"I'm okay; just . . . just shocked; that's all."

"Everything will be okay," James said reassuringly, pulling lily into a hug.

"Thanks."

"How's your sister taking al of this?" Remus asked

Lily looked over and anger filled her mind.

"Huh, don't get me started with her. I'm officially cut off from her, She's leaving the country with Vernon and never wants to see me again, but I don't care, once the funeral is over, I'm never speaking to her again." Lily said forcefully.

"Well lily you can always stay with me and Emily, we're getting an apartment once we're out of here." Alicia said warmly.

Lily smiled softly and said thank you.

"Well I better go to MI-5 and see how all of this happened." Lily said gloomily. She got up and headed to the portal.

"Do you want one of us to go with you?" James asked.

Lily thought for a moment.

"Yeah, do you mind?" She asked James.

"Not at all," He said and followed her out.

"We'll see you later, Bye," lily said and James and her left.

The others went down to breakfast then went outside to chill.

Lily and James entered the muggle world and Lily got into her car. James followed but was stopped abruptly for he saw something large covered up that was sitting in the corner.

"Lily?" he asked.

"Yeah?" She said popping out of the car and looking over the top to James.

"What's that over there?" he asked pointing to the large object.

Lily smiled. "Oh that's my gift for Sirius, for Christmas." She said and went back into the car.

"Oh well what is it, I won't tell." James said as he sat down and buckled up.

"Oh no I'm not telling, you'll have to see for you self on Thursday morning." Lily said. She opened the garage door and drove out. About a half hour later they arrived at MI-5 and Lily and James entered.

"Burns where's Langston?" Lily asked and she walked through the main office.

"He's in the back," she responded. Lily then went to the back of the office where Langston's office was located. She knocked on the door.

"Come in," A man's voice said. Lily opened the door and there sat Langston, he looked stressed out and tired in lily's opinion. The man looked up and greeted them.

"Hello lily, how are you?" he asked gently. Lily sat down in front of him and James sat beside her.

"I could be better, and I think you know why I'm here." Lily said calmly.

"Yes, about your parents. I'm sorry to hear what happened, my deepest sympathy goes to you and your sister." He said kindly. Lily knew he was sincere, but still had a feeling that MI-5 was a part of the attack.

"I imagine you'd like to know who has done this." Langston went on.

"Yes I would, who was it?" Lily said.

"Rockwell, Monroe's associate. You see Lily; you have become a major target to Voldemort do to your relation with James. You know very well that he is on the hunt for him according to what Grey back has said, yes Dumbledore informed me of the Order's mission. He has also promised the book to Greyback for another attack, which unfortunately we do not know when it will take place. Your parents were killed in hopes that it would show you just how dangerous Monroe is and how he is willing to do anything in order to get the book from Voldemort."

"But I thought Voldemort was giving it to Greyback?" James asked.

"Yes he is but, Greyback is then giving it to Monroe, who plans to use it in the muggle world, hence terrorizing both worlds."

Lily looked to James in worry.

"Lily, I understand if, you'd like to take some time off . . ." Langston began once more.

"No, I'm fine, I will continue to work. Thank you Langston."

"You're welcome. Good bye," he said

James and Lily left and headed back to the school

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-Hogwarts- during the time when Lily and James are at MI-5-

"It's a bit too cold, can we go inside?" Alicia asked. They all were sitting by the frozen lake thinking.

"Yeah, sure it is a bit chilly." Sirius said. The four of them walked back to the school and put their things away in their rooms. They then went to the head's common room to see if lily and James were back yet.

"Quidditch," Sirius said and the door opened to the common room. They entered and found that they weren't there.

The window was open and blowing cold air into the room. Alicia walked over tot the sill and closed it. Sirius sat down on the couch, as did Emily. Remus went over to the book shelf, Lily's bookshelf to find a book to read while they waited. Remus walked over to the bookshelf next to the desk and something caught his eye. On the desk laid a sleek black envelope with the lettering "Potter" Remus's eyes widened.

"Oh my god," he said, reaching for the letter.

"What is it moony?" Sirius said looking over to where he was standing.

Remus didn't say anything, but just stared at the envelope.

"Remus what is it?" Emily asked with concern. Remus came back to his senses and held up the letter and turned around to show them.

"Oh my god is that for James?" Sirius asked immediately.

"Yes . . ." Remus began when suddenly the portal door opened and James and Lily walked in. James looked up to see what Remus was holding. His eyed widened.

"Hello, how are . . ." Lily began then was stopped suddenly by the site of the black letter.

James looked from Sirius to Remus.

"Whose is that?" He asked.

Remus gulped and said "It's yours" gently.

Remus handed him the letter. James took it then looked to Lily; she had tears in her eyes.

James opened the Letter it read.

Dear Mr. Potter

We are very sorry to inform you that at ten forty five this morning, December 22, 1977, an attack took place at number 5 Seating Crest Drive, Ireland. Mr. Robert Potter and Mrs. Amelia Riddle Potter were casualties of this accident. Our deepest regards go to you. Funeral arrangement will be made by the Ministry and be announced at a later time.

Sincerely,

Davian Craawford

Chief Aurora, Ministry of Magic

James folded up the paper and looked up. He saw the fear in Sirius's eyes and looked back down.

"Who is it?" Sirius asked.

"They found them, Mum and Dad." James said softly.

"Mate I'm sorry," Sirius said. The other's followed in saying their condolences.

The next few days were hard for Lily and James and the group as well. Both lily and James's parents were dead, Voldemort was hunting down both of them, Remus and Emily were being hunted down by Greyback, Sirius was feeling horrible for he felt like his family was gone since he was like a second son to the Potters and Alicia was trying to console them all.

Perhaps this holiday isn't turning out the way they had all planned.

The next night was the girls' night in, as Emily put it, it as the day before her transformation and she, lily and Alicia were going to test their long awaited goal of becoming animagi.

"Alright, so all we have to do it drink this and we should be animagus, hopefully." Emily said with cheer.

"Great." Lily said with a smile.

"Okay on three, one, two, three." Alicia said.

Each girl drank their flasks of potion and nearly gagged, it was terrible. Lily coughed a bit but then suddenly felt woozy.

"Everyone okay?" Alicia asked as she looked around at her friends.

"A bit woozy," Lily admitted.

"The book said that would happen," Emily pointed out.

"I guess that means we did it right, because I feel a bit woozy myself." Alicia said.

"Do we just have to think of transforming?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, you try first lily." Emily inquired.

"Okay," Lily thought hard of her animal, she had found out the year before when in transfiguration they transformed each other in to their animagus forms. Lily was a Tiger, hence her name, Tiger Lily.

Lily thought of her animal and suddenly transformed. Alicia and Emily gazed in amazement. Lily was a gorgeous black and orange tiger.

"Wow lily, it worked." Alicia said.

"Alright Alicia you try." Emily said

"Okay," Alicia then transformed in to a Grey Tabby cat with blue eyes.

"Great it worked." Emily shrieked with happiness.

Alright I give it a go." She then thought hard of her animal, a White owl with dark brown eyes. Lily had transformed back and was amazed at how beautiful she looked.

"Wow you look so beautiful Emily gosh Remus should see you." She said with joy. Emily and Alicia soon transformed back to their normal selves and they went to go meet up with the guys.

"Hey guys." Alicia said.

"Hey did it work?" Remus asked as the girls entered the Gryffindor common room.

"Yup, and If I do say so my self we looked amazing." Alicia said with a laugh.

"Cool you must show us later, but we actually have some business to attend to." James said.

"What business would that be?" Lily asked.

"We are going to have a little chat with Peter" He said slowly and with a bit of dislike.

"Oh okay, don't hurt him, alright?"

"I'll try not to," Sirius said.

The guys left with the marauders map and went to find Peter.

They found him in the Library in the back.

Peter sat there reading a book on the dark arts. Sirius, James and Remus came up from behind the book shelves.

"Hello Peter," James said coming up to the nervous boy. Peter jumped at the sound of his voice.

"O- Oh hello James," he muttered

"James is it, I thought it was Potter?" James asked sitting across from him on the other seat.

Peter looked up at the three of them.

"What is it you want?" He asked.

James looked to Remus and Sirius; he could see the heat rising out of Sirius.

"Look, Peter all we want to do is make peace with you, we're not here to fight or anything, we just want to know why you did it." Remus said calmly.

"Why I did what Remus?" Peter asked.

Remus was taken a back by his question.

"Why you betrayed us that what," Sirius barked.

"Why you sided with the slytherins, you know damn well they're no good!"

"Oh sod off Sirius, like hell you know what they're like." Peter yelled, he had never yelled at Sirius before. The three of them were shocked to even hear him raise his voice.

"I-I- don't know what they're like, Peter, I know damn well what they're like I lived with Bellatrix's family for years, don't tell me I don't know how they're like Peter, they're bastards who are overly obsessed with the dark lord and everything pure and evil!"

"Look, I'm not sorry for becoming friends with them but I am sorry about the moon beam, I didn't know Lucius was carrying one and I didn't know they knew about you. (Pointing to Remus)"

There was silence for a long time.

"Well if that's how it is, then fine stay with them if you wish, but if you ever hurt Emily, Alicia or Lily, be far warned there will be consequences." Sirius said and walked away with James and Remus following.

The guys went back upstairs. They entered the common room and found it empty except for a brilliant white owl sitting on the couch and a grey tabby cat sitting near the fire.

"Who is this?" Remus asked walking up to the Owl, with great interest. He stroked the bird's feathers gently. Sirius and James sat on the couch. The tabby cat got up and jumped on to the couch and sat on Sirius's lap.

"Is this Lily's cat?" He asked James.

"No, lily has an owl, a brown one, so I don't know where that owl came from." He said

"It's not a ministry owl, but whose owl is it?" Remus questioned. Suddenly the cat sprang from Sirius's lap and onto the floor. It walked a little ways away back near the fired and Alicia suddenly appeared.

"Wow, Alicia you're a cat?" Remus asked surprised, he had seen McGonagall transform but she always did that seeing someone else transform was a big change for him along with the other guys.

"Yeah, you said you wanted to see." She said.

"Where's Emily?" Remus asked still stroking the owl gently.

"You're stroking her right now." Alicia said with a smile.

Remus looked down and smiled. Emily flew to where Alicia stood and transformed back to her normal self.

"Whoa that's cool I didn't know you were an owl, Lune." He said.

"Emily you told him your nickname?" Alicia asked.

"Uh yeah he found out a while ago, from when we transformed." Emily said.

James looked around.

"Where's lily, is she transformed as well?" he asked

"Uh, she actually went to see Dumbledore, he came through the fire ad asked for her to see him."

"Oh what about?" I don't know sounded important though.

-Dumbledore's office-

"Ms. Evans I'm sorry to hear of your parents." Dumbledore said as lily sat down in front of him.

"Thank you," Lily said

"As you know about the book of Vlasco, Voldemort is in dire search of it and his associate Rockwell is in possession of it."

"Yes I'm aware of that."

"Do you remember earlier this year, Croft found a goblet, that was said to have belonged to Helga Hufflepuff?"

"Uh yes, briefly, we thought it maybe one of the hercroxes Riddle was looking for to use, wasn't it?" Lily asked

"Yes, well Croft did some further research and indeed found that it is being used by Voldemort as a place holder for his soul. Croft found the goblet in Denmark at Monroe's house, now as you know him and Voldemort are working together to plan a massive attack."

"Uh hum."

"The Order along with MI-5 and with Croft's help have found a way to get into Voldemort's inner circle, just how you and Croft went to the Death eater Party a couple months ago, the Order and MI-5 would like two agents to go undercover as followers of Voldemort . . . it is up to you, but I would like you and Sirius or possibly Alicia and James to take this task I do understand if Mr. Potter does not want this but I would like at least two of you to do this, I have already asked Alice and Frank but they are doing something else for me concerning Voldemort right now, Langston has them doing another project. What do you think?"

"Well I think it's a good idea, if it will help bring him down." Lily said.

"Who do you think should do it with me, James or Sirius?" she asked

"Well, Mr. Black would be good partly because he might have some connections through his family and Mr. Potter would also be good due to his relation with Riddle and that he is a powerful wizard, not that Mr. Black isn't they both are powerful, but James has the leg up do to his relation, but then again he is also the one being sought out by Riddle. But if I had to choose it would be Mr. Potter. It is up to you though, who do you think would be better suited?"

"Well James hasn't been on a mission with me, Sirius has and I feel that James may want to sort of protect me from Riddle and be more of the leader than my partner, not that's bad but he is my partner and he has only just been recruited, perhaps I should go with him on a mission to see how we work together, do you need us immediately or do we have time before we start the undercover work?"

"I was hoping to have your answer by the end of the winter break, which gives you another week, perhaps you could take James on a small mission, for perhaps a different case and see how it goes." Dumbledore said.

"Yes I think that would be good, I'll talk to him, thank you Professor." She said and got up.

"No, thank you Ms. Evans," Dumbledore replied and went back to his desk. Lily left the office and headed back to the common room.

"I wonder how James will be on a little mission." Lily thought to herself as she walked back.

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