Lily walked down the hall carrying a large pile of clean towels. As she walked past Harry's room, she thought how oddly strange the silence was, but put it off as catching up on his sleep after all those late nighters. It even stranger that Crosby hadn't woken up, but that was probably because he was just getting out of his sleep deprivation phase. Boy, was she grateful for that. That baby had more of a mouth than his mother had, which was saying something.
She kept walking and entered the bathroom where James was in the shower singing at the top of his lungs to some muggle song. She laughed and put the towels on the table. The singing stopped and the shower door opened. James grinned at her and as she headed to the door, tried to pull her in with him.
She giggled and fought off her husband before running back out into their room then the hall, the singing starting up again even louder. As she passed Harry's room again, she decided to check on him. She didn't know why, maybe a motherly instinct. Maybe Lily sensed something wrong? Did she? We'll never know for sure.
"Harry?" She came into the room and expected to find him sleeping. Instead, there was no one there, a distinct lack of the snoring she had heard for the passed year. He had never really snored before, but as the doctor had said, his lungs had been quite crushed up with his body having to make room for the 18 inches of baby, and unfortunately, would most probably never completely recover. The covers were messed up and a book was on the bed while his pajamas were scattered across the floor.
"Harry?" She called as she looked for him round the large space that was his room. She couldn't see anything and sank onto the bed in worry. Where could he have gone? What would make him just leave his entire trunk, family, his son.
She suddenly jumped up and ran out the room before opening the door to Crosby's. She gasped as she looked round. The crib was empty and quite a few things were missing, her mind put all the information together before she collapsed onto the floor in a flood of tears.
That's how James found her a half hour later, sobbing her eyes out and kneeling on the floor of their grandson's empty room. She explained to him what she saw and he just held her and just calmed her down.
"Maybe He's just left for a little while, he'll be back I'm sure." James said and Lily just nodded into his shoulder. "Now come, let's get going, or Moody will have our heads."
"Potter!"
James jumped; knocking over the card tower and making it explode as he heard as heard a voice growl his name. He looked up to see Moody standing the doorway of his cubicle.
"Yes sir."
"Where's Black today?" He said and James shrugged but before he could say anything, the secretary appeared next Moody.
"Mr. Moody sir, Black called last night. He resigned." She said and James, Peter and Remus all looked up in shock.
"What?"
"He flooed here last night, look pretty jumpy, said he had to go away for a while." She replied.
"Why? Where? How long?" James asked and she shook her head.
"He didn't say, just that it was important and couldn't wait any longer." She said and winked at him. James rolled his eyes, she had been flirting with him for years, despite that the fact that she knew he was married, Lily was right there for god's sake!
"Well, you'll just have to go on duty without him today, you 3 can manage?" He said and they nodded.
As they walked out the cubicle, they heard a soft crying coming from the next cubicle. They looked in and James rushed in as he spotted Lily crying.
"Lily, I never knew you cared about Sirius so much." Peter said and she looked up and glared at him.
"I quite honestly could not care about what Black does with himself." She snapped before going back to crying to James.
"It's not Sirius." James sighed. "Harry went missing this morning." He added quietly.
"What? And you didn't say anything to anyone? He could have been attacked by death eaters!" Moody growled.
"No, his wand was gone and a lot of Crosby's stuff is gone too." James said.
"Potter, you've been an official auror for what? 12 years? Have I taught you nothing?" Moody said. "Locator charms?" James looked up, a sparkle of hope in his hazel eyes
As they stood, now in Harry's room, hands held, wands placed together, and James muttering a spell, suddenly, a bright light flashed in front of them.
There was Harry. Not looking worried at all, sitting at a café of some sort. They couldn't hear anything but he was clearly talking to someone across from him, he frowned,laughed and leant forward, obviously going to kiss someone's cheek. They both watched eagerly, wanting to see who he was with, when suddenly…
Sorry for the long wait, unfortunatly 'No one can save us now' was taken down and I was banned till yesterday. I'm going to wait till I've finished it and then put it up rather thanstraight away. I'll mainly be focusing on this one and the others already up. Thanks to all who reviewed and the wonderful folk at GAFF who are helping to make my fictions better, even if they are sporked a bit :S.
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