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The screams were paralyzing in moments curses were flying everywhere. Tables had been turned over and people were running everywhere. James could hear shouts. Most of them were dangerous curses and death threats. His main concern was getting to Lily.

"LILY!" He panicked. He couldn't see her anywhere. He started shouting wildly.

"EXPELLIARMUS! PROTEGO! PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Anything that he could think of was being used. He dodged curses. He glanced to see Alia dueling someone and Connell dueling someone. He watched as the hooded figures started to gang up on Sirius.

"Expelliarmus!" He nodded to Sirius.

"Thanks mate. I can take it from here." James was looking furtively for Lily. He saw his parents. They were aurors so they were naturally holding their own. He then heard something.

"Die Mudblood!" He sprinted to be rewarded with the sight of a very pissed off Lily. He gave the jelly legs hex and disarmed the death eater. He ran over to Lily and pushed her down behind a table.

"Lily, are you all right." His breath came out rushed. He stared at her intently. She nodded and smiled.

"Thanks James. Dying wasn't really my top priority yet." She smiled shakily. She saw Alia dueling over in the corner.

"I need to go help-" James grabbed her arm.

"No, I'll do it." Lily was about to protest and stopped.

"It's all right, Tristan's got her." Tristan hadn't been fighting too much. She hadn't sought out Death Eaters. Instead she'd defended. Normally this would have been suspicious. She sighed and squared off with the person dueling Alia. Lily couldn't hear what she was saying.

"Bella." The hooded figure shrugged.

"Trixia. I never trusted you."

"Use your head, I'm not going to publicly serve the dark lord." Bellatrix scoffed.

"Move aside and let me kill her."

"No. You're not killing Damascus while I'm here." Bella glared.

"Well to make this more convincing let's have you put up a fight." She shouted something and Tristan went flying into a wall. She coughed as she slid to the floor. Alia was thrown towards Lily and James. They grabbed her and yanked her behind the table. Tristan was up in an instant and facing the death eater.

"Good. You know you can't kill me yet. Lucius and the dark Lord would be very displease."

"True but I can still hex you." They started shooting hexes at each other quickly. Another hooded figure caught sight of the dueling pair. They came over and wrenched Bella away.


Tristan laughed and returned to the frenzy. James and the girls had emerged from behind the table and Lily was casting any shields that she could on the helpless. Within about five minutes the death eaters all disapparated.

"Sirius? Sirius? Oh Merlin, there you are." Sirius didn't look too great. He had a cut lip and a bruise on his cheek and he was sweating. His robes had been torn. He was panting.

"Hey mate. I'm fine. Is everyone all right?." Lily and Lia nodded.

"What happened to Tristan, and don't say anything, Sirius." Sirius glanced around. They saw Tristan coming towards them. Her hair had fallen loose and a few bits of hair had curled around her face. She had a scrap on her cheek at the top of her head. her robes were torn along the sleeve revealing a thin line of blood trickling down her forearm.

"Everyone all right?" she glanced at all of them intently, even Sirius. Alia nodded. Tristan turned to leave. Apparently whomever she was with was leaving as well. Just before she turned to leave Alia spoke.

"Thanks for helping me out." Tristan shrugged.

"You're too young to die." She smiled tiredly and sat beside them on the floor. She smiled faintly before leaning against Alia and sighing. They all sat there in silence for about a half and hour, waiting for the aurros to get around to questioning them.

The aurors that approached them looked at them gruffly. He looked a little frightening, and Lily shied back into James arms. James smiled and stood.

"Hi MadEye. Did you already talk with my parents." The auror nodded. He had a scraggly beard and a slight limp.

"All right, so who wants to go first." He went around the group asking their names. Lily noticed that here were other aurors beside him writing down everything that they answered.

"Name." He looked at Tristan long and hard. Lily couldn't really blame him, if anyone in their group looked like they were on the dark side it was her. She stared up into his eyes and didn't so much as blind.

"Tristan Hollis." He stared at her. He gave her an even more intense look than he'd given Sirius.

"Well Ms.Hollis. Daughter of a famous pure blood family. Interesting that you should happen to be here the night that Death Eaters attack. How do you know the Potters." She looked at him coldly.

"I'm not a death eater if that's what you're implying. I've gone to school with this lot. Evans, Damascus and Holt are my best friends." She looked at him, waiting for him to make his next move.

"Really, such a friend. A friend that we all noticed was not firing any hexes." Her eyes hardened. Sirius watched this exchange with amusement.

"Moody, if you're insinuating that I'm a death eater than put me in chains now. I did hex a death eater, and I did fight other wise I would have cuts and bruises, and Damascus wouldn't still be alive." Moody glared at her.

"I don't trust you. A Hollis, at a party where the death eater's attack, suspicious wouldn't you say?" She let out a little breath. She smiled at him a little.

"Mr. Moody, if you want to accuse me, then do it. Don't try your battering ram or your subtle slip up questions."

"I just find it fascinating that you're dressed in all black and some of the guests saw you conversing with a death eater when you were 'hexing them' there is also the fact that a guest commented that you seemed to know that they were coming." She shrugged.

"I could hear a pop near there. I was telling the death eater to rot."

"You're lying. You know that you're lying. " His voice was rough. She held her wrists out.

"Arrest me now then if you're so sure that I'm a death eater, or that there are holes in my story." She glared at him. He didn't say anything. He turned to Lily.

"Ms. Evans, care to tell me what happened from your point of view." She shrugged.

"It was much like the other's said it happened. I was dancing and the next thing I knew we were surrounding by death eaters. We were fighting. James grabbed me and pulled me behind a table. Saw Alia fighting and we were about to go rescue her but Tristan stepped in. Saved her life. They you all came." He nodded.

"Who were you dancing with at the time?" Lily blushed.

"James." Moody gave a rough laugh and raised his eyebrows.

"Fine. You're a muggle born?" He asked. She nodded slowly. He moved on to Alia.

"Ms.Damascus?" She shrugged.

"Everything was exactly as you've heard Sirius and James and the others tell you. Tristan heard something and drew her wand, she as in the middle of arguing with Sirius. Everyone started dueling the death eaters. A particular death eater was fighting me, and I was getting beaten. Tristan saved me." She shrugged again.

"Exactly how did Hollis save you." He glanced over at Tristan. She gave him a cheeky smile.

"Well, she came over, started to say something. I couldn't quite hear well. Started throwing hexes. The death eater hexed her and she went flying into a wall. Tristan sent a hex at me that flung towards the table James and Lily were at, just before the death eater could finish me off." She smiled tiredly.

"Fine. That's enough, for now."James stood up and started to walk around. The other teenagers looked at him in surprise.

"James, where on earth are you going?" He paused and looked at them.

"Don't worry. I saw someone before and I just want to make sure that they're all right. I'll be back." He had seen Parrick earlier dueling with a death eater. He had looked like had was holding his own so James had left him to search for Lily. Now that they were done being questioned he just remembered that he had seen Connell and he wanted to make sure that he hadn't been hurt. Sure enough Parrick was in the corner, and had just finished being questioned by other aurors.

"Mate, are you all right?" Connell nodded. His robes were also a bit torn, but he looked quite good.

"Potter, is your family all right?" James nodded. He then glanced at Parrick's darting eyes. A thought occurred to him.

"Hey mate, it'll be a little while until the floo is set up and the auror's say the guests can leave. Come over by me. Lily, Sirius and Alia and Tristan are here." It was at the last two names that Parrick's face changed.

"Are they all right." He seemed to be holding his breath, and expelled it when James nodded.

"I suppose I might come over and say hello." James nodded and they walked back towards where Lily and the others were. James shrugged.

"'Lo Evans, Black, Damascus, " His eyes paused for a split second on Alia and he turned to Tristan, "Tristan. Are you all alright?" They nodded. Alia was staring at him with a peculiar expression on her face. She shrugged and turned away to start a conversation with Sirius and Lily and James. Parrick sat off towards the corner with Tristan.

"Are you really all right?" She nodded.

"You?" He nodded. Her eyes looked tired and he sighed and put an arm around her. She stiffened for a moment before relaxing. She laughed a little.

"Moody thinks I'm a death eater. I'm sure the rest of them do too. The only reason that they're not being suspicious is I save Lia's life." He stared at her.

"What! Umm, I mean, how did you umm save her." He had forced his words to be calm. She noticed this and a ghost of a smile played on her lips.

"Death Eater, good dueler. Going in for the kill. I interfered, save her. You know, you don't need to act any less concerned in front of me. I'm not a stupid prat, sides you can see it in your eyes." He sighed and his shoulders slumped. He stole a glance towards Alia who was talking with the other three and looking anywhere but at him and Tristan.

"Does she hate me?" Tristan let out a wry laugh.

"Not anymore than she hates me, which at this time is highly debatable." He laughed. He then looked at her closely.

"I'm also noticed the way you were fighting the death eaters. What are you playing at?" She stared at him.

"Nothing. I'm not playing at anything. I just found it more prudent to cast shields as opposed to directly attacking." He scoffed.

"This is the girl that was throwing every hex she could think of at her own Housemate," he glanced pointedly at Sirius, "What are you doing?" She shook her head.

"Nothing. I'm not doing anything. Now you better go, I think I spy your parents." They stood and he kissed her quickly on the lips before walking away. She walked over towards the others. They had all caught her goodbye with Parrick. Alia wasn't looking at her and Lily eyed her skeptically.

It took almost three hours for the aurors to finish questioning the guests and assessing all of the damage. Everyone also had to be attended to by Healers. By the time that they left it was already past midnight. Lily had been falling asleep on James shoulder. He sighed and swung her into his arms. She leaned her head into his chest and sighed before completely going limp. He glanced at his mother and father.

"What went on?" His parents shrugged. He was struck by just how tired they looked. His father sighed wearily.

"You know, it's the death eaters. A lot of important people as well as muggle born people were here. Also a chance to kill the Potter's couldn't be passed up." James nodded. He saw Sirius face set in grim determination.

"Bella was there. I'm sure of it. My family, are those killers." He spat angrily. He stared at Mr. Potter. "I'm sorry." Mrs. Potter's eyes were starting to tear as she flung her arms around him and held him tightly.

"You're our boy. Don't you dare apologize." Sirius sighed and let her hug him. James sighed as he watched his parents wearily murmur the necessary spells to clean everything up.

"I'm going to take Lily to bed. Goodnight." James shifted Lily in his arms. He deposited her on the bed gently. He sighed and undid her dress robes. Underneath she was wearing a cotton dark red t-shirt and a thin black skirt. He pushed a strand of hair away from her eyes and kissed her forehead. He tucked her in gently.

"Good night, love." Normally he wouldn't have stayed and watched her sleep. He just needed to make sure she was breathing. For a brief time tonight he had thought that she might have been killed. The idea of it made his skin crawl. He stood up and turned out the light.

Familiar faces greeted Alia as she entered the train compartment. She stood and hugged Lily. She then stood aside as Cris threw her arms around Lily.

"Oh Merlin, thank god you're all right. Alia said you were fine-Merlin my parents feel so guilty." She tightened her grip on Lily. Lily laughed.

"I'm fine, honestly. It's great to see you. How was your holiday?" Cris shrugged.

"You know, France… Need I say anymore?" The girls giggled. Sirius gave a cheeky grin.

"What about the French women? Were they… need I say anymore?" Lily hit him He rubbed his head and pouted.

"Owww, see Lia? See Cris? See how she hurts me." He pouted and the two girls whacked him hard at the same time. They glanced up at Remus who was hysterical laughing. Cris flung her arms around him.

"See, this wonderful man. She planted a big kiss on his cheek." He stopped laughing and raised his eyebrows. She winked and he smiled. Sirius looked confused and then grinned.

"Moony, want to share something with us?" James whistled and Lily looked confused.

"Of course, you see Remus and I have found out that we're long lost siblings." Sirius eyes widened James' jaw dropped and the girls started to laugh hysterically.

"Merlin, we're just fooling. Honestly you all will believe anything, right Remus?" He nodded and smiled at her. He had to admit though, it wasn't so far off. He had started to really think of her as more of a sister. Besides, what could he ever off her? Him being what he was. It was better this way. He was also sure that she loved him as a brother as well.

They were sitting in the Great Hall when Dumbledore cleared his throat.

"Everyone has no doubt heard about the attack on the Potter mansion, and those of you who read the papers will also know that this was merely one of many attacks. We are in a time where it is no longer safe to be in your own home. We have not canceled Hogsmeade, but I do ask that all of you do not be alone when going into the town and to be careful. You are safe here. Now everyone get back to your meal and welcome back. I hope that aside from all this tragedy that you have all had a splendid holiday." Every one clapped dutifully and went t back to eating.

"Alia, look, there's an owl here." Alia shrugged.

"That's odd. Let's see what it has." The owl flew towards her. Most of the people in the great hall were now watching her. She pulled a small parcel and opened it. Inside it was a slim ring with a diamond. She opened the letter and read it.

Dear Miss. Damascus,

I suppose I can call you Alia now. I have sent this ring as formal proposal of marriage. I understand that this marriage was more arranged, but I would still think that you could wear this ring. I look forward to seeing you and to our engagement.

-Michael Parker-

She sighed and slipped the ring on her finger. A hush settled across the Gryffindors, then a sudden rush of whispers broke out. She sighed and put a brilliant smile on her face.

"Look, Lily, Cris… Tristan." Tristan stared openmouthed at the diamond engagement ring. She smiled and choked out a 'congratulations' She turned and caught someone with curly dark hair stand and leave the Great Hall. She stayed there for another few minutes, eating very little while listening to the excitement of Lily and Cris and Alia.

"Well Hollis, you don't seem too interested." Sirius commented smugly. She sighed.

"Leave it, Black." He stared at her.

"Well for-" She stood up.

" I said leave it, Black." She glared and stormed out of the Great Hall. She sighed and walked up to the one place she could think of. She went to the Astronomy tower. She sat there for hours. She had her face in her hands.

Lily sat beside James in the common room on the couch. They had been planning out Hogsmeade and Lily had been arguing that they should come up with better safety measures.

"Lily, there's not much more we can do to make it more safe. Besides we don't want to alarm them."

"James, look at your house. Both of your parents were aurors, I think that was one of the safest places, but something still happened. I'm just saying that we should have some sort of plan of actions that the students should follow if death eater's attack hogsmeade."

"Lily, you were there that night. What was the first thing that went though your head? It wasn't a plan it was basic instinct. You knew that you needed to fight. Just relax." She looked at him and sighed.

"You're right. I'm just tired, sorry. I'd better get to bed. I suggest you do too. Tomorrow we have classes and tomorrow night we have patrols." James nodded. She walked to her room. He waited about fifteen minutes before slipping out. Getting sleep was never an option on the night of a full moon. There were six Gryffindor beds empty that night.