Chapter 29

"Petunia must have been livid," Alice giggled as Lily gave her the inside details of what had gone on at Aunt Evelyn's funeral.

"You should have seen her," Lily chuckled as she brought her tea cup up to her lips. "She was mad because her kid was ugly and looked like a pig, and the fact that Harry is a beautiful baby."

"That he is," Amelia nodded.

"Then the fact that James kept saying that the place smelled like pork and look directly at their kid."

"He did not!" Sirius screamed like a little girl as butterbeer flew out of his nose.

"Sirius!" Amelia hissed, "That is disgusting."

"Then in the will she called him Dwayne."

"Totally pissed off," James said ending that conversation.

Remus Flooed in and looked ghost white, "Another Order member killed."

"What!" They all screamed.

Remus nodded, "Albus just contacted me. He wants to see us all in an hour, but he wants to see Lily, James, Alice, and Frank now."

"I wonder why?" Lily looked concerned.

"We don't even have time to find a sitter," Alice pointed out.

"Just bring the babies with us," James said grabbing Harry out of the playpen as Frank followed James.

"I am glad to see the six of you could make it here in such short notice," Albus Dumbledore said smiling as he let them into his Headmaster's office.

"Was very short notice," Alice pointed out as her bossy rich girl tone kicked in. "We didn't even have time to find a babysitter for the boys."

"That's fine," Albus said now walking behind his desk and motioning them to sit down in the four seats across from his desk. "I was hoping you would bring the boys with you as this does concern them."

"What?" The four parents said at the same time.

"You might want to sit down for this," Albus sighed.

"We are sitting," Lily reminded him.

"Oh yes," he then flicked his wand and Firewhiskey appeared. "You might want a drink then."

"No thank you," Alice chimed.

"Okay," he sighed as you could tell he really didn't want to bring this news to their attention. "As you all know I have a secret spy on the other side that none of you have ever seen as we have our own spy and our spy is very valuable to us."

They all nodded as they remembered hearing this in last weeks meeting.

"Our spy has just come to me with some horrible news, he has known this for sometime but figured that Voldemort would just ignore this and move on."

"Obviously he hasn't or else you wouldn't have called us in," James finally spoke.

Lily could see the worry on her old Headmaster's face and took Harry from James's arms. Alice on the other hand was chewing her nails and was too afraid at the moment to take Neville from Frank.

"We have found out that one of Voldemort's Death Eaters overheard a Seer…"

"An actual Seer?" Alice asked amazed, you hardly ever heard of true Seers anymore.

"Yes Mrs. Longbottom, an actual Seer." Albus chuckled.

"Shh, you!" Lily hissed and Alice stuck her tongue out at her best friend.

"Okay can the two of you act like adults for once?" James rolled his eyes.

"You would think you all were still Seventh years here, but really I need your undivided attention."

"Sorry," Lily and Alice apologized.

"One of Voldemort's Death Eaters overhead a Seer's prediction."

"What was the prediction?" Frank asked.

"That a child that will be born at the end of July, whose parents have defied Voldemort three times, will be marked as an equal to Lord Voldemort himself…"

"What!" Lily, James, Alice, and Frank yelled and their eyes all popped out of their heads.

"But…but…" Frank stuttered.

"There have to have been other families that have gone against Voldemort three times…"

"No," Albus Dumbledore shook his head. "Only the four of you have and are still alive to speak about it."

"So…" Alice began to get all chocked up.

Lily nodded as tears fell down her eyes, "That means that one of our sons is the child that is suppose to be an equal to Voldemort…what does that mean! Does that mean one of our children will be evil like him!"

"I am not quite sure, but I do know that Voldemort has a hit on the both of your children."

"But…but this is insane," Alice said as tears were now falling down eyes as she tightly held on to her son.

Lily's eyes lit up and she looked at Dumbledore, "You mean that explosion in Muggle London was intended for us!"

"Oh Merlin, no." Alice began to sob.

"I am sorry to say, but yes Lily that attack was to kill both little Neville and Harry."

"No!" Alice screamed as she began to sob, holding the baby even closer to her. Frank held his wife and his son as close as the chairs would let him.

Lily's eyes bugged out as huge crocodile tears fell down her face. Lily also held her son close to her bosom and James just tried to hold on to Lily as much as he could. He actually was surprised that she wasn't crying out loud like Alice.

"This is absurd Albus!" James spoke out, "How could our baby sons be a threat to Voldemort? Voldemort is the most powerful dark sorcerer since Salazar Slytherin himself! Why would one of our sons as babies be a threat!"

"Which ever child the prophecy talks about may be a threat now or might not even be a threat for years to come."

"So why come after our children now?" Frank asked and he sounded both angry and upset.

"Get rid of the threat before he is truly a threat," Albus shrugged his shoulders. "I honestly don't know, but it just a theory. I do not know what goes on inside Voldemort's head, except for the fact that he wants one of your sons dead."

"Then why did both of our children, including Lily and I get attacked!" Alice asked still very upset.

"I am guessing the Death Eater that is suppose to figure out which one of your children is the threat decided just to kill the both of the boys that way he was over and done with it."

"That is horrible!" Lily sobbed.

"I am sorry Lily, but it is just an estimated guess." Albus Dumbledore apologized.

"But it does sound like something a Death Eater would do," James pointed out.

"That it does," Frank agreed.

"So what are we to do to protect our children?" Lily asked as she squeezed Harry so hard that he cried out in pain. Lily sighed as she realized that she had just awoken the sleeping babe and tried to calm him back down.

"I am working that out now," Albus sighed. "I am going to have order members guarding the both of your homes until we can figure out which one of the boys is the child that was prophesied about."

"But there is a spy for Voldemort in the Order," Alice stuttered. "What if the person you send to my home or even Lily's is the traitor? What if he hands our entire family over to Voldemort?"

"That is why there will be two people assigned to your homes at all times. An Order member and an Auror. Myself or Minerva will be checking in with the two people at their posts at your house. Minerva will be in charge of the morning and I will take care of the night."

Lily had pulled Harry's bassinet back into their room and she had put it right beside her bed. Then she couldn't sleep because every time she was almost asleep, she would jump up and look over to make sure Harry was still there fast asleep.

"Lily," James groaned after a constant hour of this.

"Shh!" She hissed at him, "Harry is sleeping."

"I know and if you keep up to what you are doing then you will not only keep the two of us up, you will also wake Harry up."

"What am I doing?" Lily said turning to frown at him in the dark.

"Every five minutes you are jumping up to see if Harry is still there."

"So shoot me," Lily growled. "I am worried about our only son, in fact our only child!"

"Lily put him in bed with us if you are so worried, I am extremely worried about him too."

"I don't know…"

"We will both be put to enough ease to fall asleep. We will feel him between us and he will be able to sleep and so will we."

Lily was overly protective over Harry, even more than usual. She wouldn't even keep him in a stroller anymore, he had to be on her hip or in his infant carrier that hung off of her body. Anytime she would put him in there he was instantly asleep.

James picked Harry out of the playpen when he was done with his paperwork for the day for work, Lily was in the kitchen cooking dinner and had just hollered for him to bring the baby with him.

"Put him in the highchair," she said as soon as he walked in with a gurgling Harry.

"I was going to…"

"Make sure he is secured in by the strap."

"Lily!" James yelled as he strapped Harry into his baby seat and then walked to put his arms around his wife.

"Don't leave the baby alone!"

"Lily!" James turned Lily around to look at him eye to eye, "He is my son too! I understand how worried you are about him, but how do you think I feel! I am as worried about Harry as you are. I am also really worried about you…"

"Now you know how I feel everyday when you go to work…"

"Yes love," James said kissing her on the lips. "But you can not keep this up! You have drove all of our friends so crazy that now when they come in they won't even go near Harry because you start screaming orders around about how to hold him and to watch what he puts in his mouth."

"You are suppose to do that every time someone that is not you or me is holding him."

"Lily, you are going insane!"

"You would too," she finally broke down into tears. James hated to make her cry, but she hadn't showed any true emotions in over a month now. Harry had slept in their bed every night since the night they had gone to Albus Dumbledore's office at Hogwarts and found out that either their son or Frank and Alice's son was the child that could bring Voldemort down. Now both of their sons were in mortal danger.

"Wormtail!" Voldemort screamed and Wormtail came skidding into the room.

"Sir!" Wormtail said bowing down to his master.

"Have you been around the Potters, Black, Bones, Lupin, and the Longbottoms?"

"No sire. I have only been doing my Death Eater duties and working."

"Your Death Eater duties include spending times with those goody too shoes to find out what is going on, not just Order meetings!"

"I am sorry master, I just want to prove my worth."

"Other than the Order and the goody too shoes you use to call friend, you are worthless here!"

Peter showed up at Godric's Hollow and knocked on the door.

"James can you get that?" Lily yelled as she was changing Harry's nappy.

"Hey!" James yelled as he opened the door and hugged his longtime friend, "Where the hell have you been?"

"Busy with work, you know how it is."

James narrowed his eyes, "I thought you were a waiter?"

"Oh no," Peter blushed. "I guess it has been that long since we saw one another, I am now working for the Ministry now!"

"Alright, come on in!"

"Who is it love?" Lily asked and to hear her voice made Peter boil inside but he put on a pleasant smile on to be nice like the Dark Lord told him too.

"Peter."

"Hello Peter," Lily smiled as Peter and James walked back into the living area.

"What's that smell?" Peter's nose curled up.

"Harry's dirty nappy," Lily said as she put Harry's clothes on him and sent his dirty nappy through the air and to the rubbish bin.

"Nasty."

"Yes," Lily sighed. "But that is the responsibility of a parent, but it is wonderful to see you again!" Lily hugged Peter and Peter honestly wanted to throw her to the ground and kill her right there, but he sucked it up and hugged the nasty Mudblood back.

"Nice to see you too Lily."

"Where have you been?"

"I got a job with the Ministry and been very with it. You know how the ministry has been the last year."

"Of course," Lily said as she picked Harry off of the ground and began to throw him up and down to make him gurgle. "So what are you doing for the ministry?"

"Writing out notices to Hogwarts students that are using magic outside of school."

"Wonderful," Lily lied through a smile. "Thrilling right?"

Peter narrowed his eyes, "Yeah."

"Here James," Lily said handing Harry over. "You can put him in the playpen while you catch up with Peter, I have to start dinner. You will stay for dinner, won't you Peter?"

"Uh…"

"Oh you have to stay," James said kissing the top of Harry's forehead as he set him down into the playpen. "Lily's cooking is the best."

"Oh I don't know…"

"Aw come on!" James said hitting Peter on the shoulder, "Remus, Sirius, and Amelia will be by."

"What about Frank and Alice?" Peter asked as he remembered what the Dark Lord had just yelled at him about.

"Mrs. Longbottom's birthday."

"Oh," Peter nodded.

"James could you help me real quick?" Lily yelled from the other room.

"Be right there!" James yelled back and then turned to Peter, "Could you watch Harry for me real quick?"

"Uh…I don't know…"

"He'll be in the playpen, just make sure he doesn't hurt himself and if he does yell at me."

"Uh, okay."

James ran into the kitchen and Peter looked behind him to make sure James was gone. Peter got down to Harry's level at the playpen, "Hello you little filthy halfblood."

Harry looked up at Peter with his teething ring in his mouth and Harry began to whine.

"You should have never been born! You and your mummy are not good enough for you daddy, but I will take care of that. You and your mummy should have died the night I made the explosion happen."

Then Harry began to scream out and Peter jumped back.

"Shh! Shh!" Peter's eyes bugged out as he tried to calm the infant down.

James ran out into the room and looked at a bewildered Peter, "What happened?" James yelled over Harry's screams and tried to console his son.

"I…I have no idea."

Lily ran into the room, "James I thought you said you were going to calm him down?"

"I am trying!"

Lily took Harry away and her eyes got wide, "Go get the thermometer and my wand." James nodded and Lily ran across the room and opened a book out on the living room table.

"What's wrong with him?" Peter asked.

"He's got a very high temperature."

"What's a thermometer?"

"A muggle device to see how hot he really is, I swear by it. I actually convinced Molly and Alice to get one too and they love it for the children." Lily yelled over Harry's screams and Peter backed away again.

James ran back in the room and Lily took Harry's temperature which was over one hundred degrees. She then waved her wand over the infant's head and said a spell that was in the book she had been reading. Soon Harry's cries began to go down and soon the infant was asleep.

"Is he okay?" James asked very scared for Harry.

"He will be," Lily sighed.

"What's that smell?" Peter asked again.

"Crap!" Lily's eyes got wide, "Food is burnt. Take Harry and lay him back down in the playpen. I will throw the food out and just order some take out."

A few weeks later Alice showed up at Lily's house for lunch while Lily was feeding Harry.

"Good thought," Alice said opening her diaper bag. "I need to feed Neville too before he goes all crazy on me."

"You know," Lily said as she looked up at her best friend. "The weirdest thing happened the other night."

"What?"

"Harry had this really high fever and was all upset…"

"Neville gets like that every time he gets sick."

"Yeah but even after I got his fever to go down, well anytime I would bring him around Peter he began to scream like I was beating him."

Alice stopped feeding Neville and looked at her friend oddly, "You know Peter stopped by the other day and Neville was acting the same way. In fact he would not calm down until Peter left."

"That is exactly how Harry was. Even though he still had a slight fever before I laid him down for the night, as soon as Peter left he was fine."

"Think about it Sirius," Peter said trying to push an idea into Sirius's head. Peter had had a few drinks, but Sirius was almost completely intoxicated.

"I don't know man…"

"It makes since."

"But why?"

"I don't know why."

"He has always been a wonderful friend!"

"He disappeared after Gabriella's death…"

"He was distraught," Sirius said blinking because he now saw three Peter's in front of him. "He lost the love of his life. He loved Gabriella as much as I loved Cassidy, as much as James love Lily, and as much as Frank loves Alice."

"You remember how the ministry still thinks Remus was the reason she was murdered, they read her old diaries and saw that everything was fine and dandy."

"No relationship is perfect…"

"Why was he gone for so long though?" Peter asked still trying to push Sirius into persuasion.

"He was trying to get over her, you saw how I was after Cassidy died."

"Yeah, but wasn't it just a bit too odd that a short time after Remus got back that Dumbledore announced that there was a traitor amongst us?"

Sirius's eyes got wide and he gasped, "I never thought about that."

"Even when he came back he was distant and now that things are starting to get worse he is around all the time?"

"Oh Merlin," Sirius sighed. "This is nuts…but he was our friend…"

"Key word," Peter smiled from ear to ear knowing that Sirius had taken bait. "Was."