Pieces and Prophecies:
" This is becoming outrageous Dumbledore!" Mundungus shouted at Dumbledore a few nights later at the Order meeting, " at this rate every Order member will dead by June!"
The atmosphere was very tense. Dumbledore had just informed the Order that their fellow member Benjy Fenwick had been found dead.
It was Moody who had found him. Benjy had gotten into a very public argument in the ministry with Yaxley. He accused him of being a Death Eater in front of half of the Department of Law Enforcement. Several Days later, the Dark Mark was hovering above his house.
They hadn't found a body. They had only found pieces. He was tortured and killed in a brutal way.
" The work you do for the Order is extremely important" Dumbledore said, " and as unfortunate as it is, death will sometimes be the result"
" So you want us to put our bleeding necks on the line?" Mundungus demanded loudly.
" You knew what you were getting yourself into Dung" Doe said to him firmly from the other side of the table, " there's a bloody war out there. You have just as much a risk of dying out there"
Mundungus eyed her darkly, " Well I don't fancy increasing my chances" he snapped.
" No one is forcing you to be here," Moody said harshly from beside Dumbledore, " feel free to leave"
Mundungus leaned back in his chair looking like he would rather do anything else besides getting up and leaving.
" Voldemort has much more support than we do" Dumbledore said, " we are fighting a many headed monster"
" Well how do we know if were targets?" Caradoc asked quickly.
Dumbledore sighed, " I'm afraid we are all targets, Mr. Dearborn. But it is safe to say not all of our identities are on the radar of the Death Eaters. I feel that anyone with any identifying features are in the most danger, that is to say Muggleborns, Ministry officials, aurors, and 'blood traitors' are those who are obvious targets"
Beside her, Lily's eyes widened and she grew pale. Sirius and James exchanged a look, and then looked to her.
She knew what they were all thinking.
Lily was muggleborn. James was a blood traitor. Doe was an auror. And Sirius was both.
They were all targets.
Doe took Lily's hand to comfort her. She smiled slightly.
" I know that this is hard" Dumbledore said, " but your support and cooperation is the only thing that-"
His words were cut off.
There was a great bang and the house seemed to shake.
The chandelier above the table shook violently, and a few of the crystals fell of it and shattered on the table.
The house shook again and a few of the windows all shattered at the same time. Everyone got to their feet and took out their wands.
Beside her, Remus tightened and gripped his wand tightly.
" What the devil?" Deadleus Diggle asked moving towards the door.
There was an explosion and the door was ripped off it's hinges. The entire entry way to the house was blown away, exposing it to the night.
They all moved towards it at once.
The large chunk of house that had been disappeared now revealed that terrifying scene that had broken out on the lawn.
There were 20 masked people brandishing wands at the opening to it.
Death Eaters.
Everyone moved very quickly then. Those who hadn't drawn their wands, did so.
They spread out slightly, so that everyone moved towards a Death Eater, determined to cover all of their bases.
A few of them laughed.
" So this is the little Order of the Phoenix?" One of them called loudly.
" What a pathetic bunch" another laughed.
" Now now my followers let us not dawdle" said a cold high pitched voice. The group of Death Eaters cleared slightly and a figure emerged.
He was pale and cloaked. He reminded her so much of death that she shuddered.
It was Voldemort.
Several people gasped. Mundungus disapparated. So did Emmeline.
Dumbledore pushed past those of us closest to the entrance and stood in front.
" It was foolish of you to appear tonight Tom" Dumbledore said clearly.
Voldemort raised his wand and so did Dumbledore. They shot spells at each other and everyone moved very quickly.
The Death Eaters began to move towards them. Shooting spells at all of them. It turned into a duel very quickly.
The death eater closest to Doe shot a red spell at her. She ducked, missing it narrowly. She shot a stunning spell at them and they dodged it as well. Beside Doe, James, Sirius and Remus were all dueling with their own death eater.
Lily and Alice were tag teaming one of them together.
" Doe look out" Frank said pushing her out of the way in enough time to dodge a killing curse from the Death Eater in front of me.
Frank shot a stunning spell at him.
" Thanks" Doe told Frank quickly. He nodded and they both shot jinxes at the Death Eater in front of them.
" Go" Frank ordered, " help James I've got this one".
She turned to where James was. He was attempting to duel with two Death Eaters at once.
Doe ran to his side and joined him, dueling with the one to his left.
A third Death Eater came to where they were. Doe pulled James down in just enough time to avoid a killing curse fired at his chest.
" Thanks" James said quickly, helping her back to her feet and avoid another spell.
Remus was battling with a Death Eater to her right, and it terrified her to watch him duel. She was plagued with anxiety. Doe shot another spell at the Death Eater in front of her. This one hit him in the chest and a wound opened on his forehead.
He disapparated quickly.
Dumbledore raised his wand and a large silvery mist seemed to fly at all of the Death Eaters.
They stumbled backward and instantly all began to disapparate.
A moment later the lawn was empty.
" What in the name of Merlin was that?" Slughorn asked, his hand covering a wound on the side of his face.
James and Doe walked over to where Sirius, Remus and Lily were.
She pulled Remus into a hug. He wrapped his arms around her tightly.
James pulled Lily into a tight embrace a well.
" You alright?" I asked him.
Remus nodded, and tucked some of her hair behind her ear kissing her quickly on the forehead.
" You?" he asked, tracing a small cut under her eye with his thumb.
She nodded, " Fine, thanks to Frank"
Sirius was sporting a split lip. He was anxiously talking to James in a hushed whisper.
He looked up at Doe and nodded. He was fine.
" You're all right?" Lily asked coming over to Doe.
" " Yes. You?" she asked her.
She nodded.
The rest of the Order members were cleaning themselves off. It seems there had been no fatal injuries. However, Peter stood in the back looking quite shaken.
" You alright Wormtail?" Sirius asked him.
Peter looked nervous, " Yes. I'm fine"
They turned to Dumbledore, who was standing on the edge the lawn, looking quite puzzled.
" It seems" he said firmly, " that the location of our Headquarters has been revealed"
The attack on Headquarters had caused everyone in the Order to become quite tense. They hadn't had a meeting since. Moody had told Sirius and Doe in his office that Dumbledore was worried and was desperately trying to find a safehouse for Headquarters with enchantments that would be suitable to protect it.
A few days after the duel at Diggle Manor, Lily and James had informed Sirius, Peter, Remus and I that they needed to speak with them about something important. They had invited them over to their house for lunch that Saturday. So around noon, Remus and Doe got ready to leave for the Potter home.
" What do you think they want to tell us?" Remus asked me as he put on his coat and handed Doe hers.
Doe shrugged, " I dunno. I mean they're already married and having a baby, what else could they have"
Remus laughed, " Maybe they're having twins"
" Merlin can you imagine?" she asked with a smile, " two James' running around"
Remus smiled widely, " Imagine the havoc they would reek at Hogwarts"
Doe grinned, " I'm pretty sure any child of a marauder will reek havoc at Hogwarts" she told him, " it's genetic"
Remus raised his eyebrow, " Of any marauder, Hmm does a child of mine fall into this category as well?"
Doe nodded, " A genius they would be, but would also inherit your talent for trouble"
" Or maybe they would inherit all of their mother's good sense" he said stroking her hand.
She looked at his face. He had begun to blush slightly. She pulled him towards her and kissed him quickly.
" What was that for?" he asked.
She shook her head, " Nothing".
Remus smiled and took her hand. They disapparated together to Godric's Hollow.
Lily and James cottage stood out on the street. It was now lined on either side of the door with flowers.
They walked over to the door and knocked. James answered it quickly.
" Remus, Doe. Come in" he said ushering them inside.
Sirius and Peter were already laying laxily on the couch and Lily had just come out of the kitchen wearing a shirt that showed how her growing stomach. She carried a tray with teacups and placed it on the coffee table.
" Doe" Lily said happily. She hugged her quickly. Remus and Doe sat down on the couch.
" Good" Sirius said, " the happy couple is here, so what do you guys have to say?"
Lily took a deep breath and took James hand.
They sat down together.
" We asked you guys to come here" Lily began, " because we have something very important to tell you"
She looked down and then looked to James.
" You tell them" she begged of him.
It dawned on Doe that the news they had to tell might not have been good.
" Well, you see Dumbledore came to us the other night" James said. He adjusted his glasses.
" He told us that there was a prophecy made about us, and that it was about You-Know-Who as well"
" A prophecy?" Peter asked.
James nodded, " And Dumbledore reckons that it's made us a target for You-Know-Who"
Doe gasped.
" A target, why?" Sirius asked quickly.
James shrugged, " Dumbledore won't tell us, he's tried to convince us to go into hiding, but Lily and I won't do it"
" But James," Doe said, " what if he tries to hurt you two?"
James shook his head, " I won't let him"
" Neither will I" Sirius said loudly.
" Nor I" Remus added.
" I won't either" Doe said firmly.
" We just wanted to let you know" Lily said, " because we wanted to give you the option to stay away from us, and protect yourselves"
" What?" Sirius roared just as Remus said " Lily, that's ludicrous"
" Lily, we never stay away from you" Doe told her.
Lily's eyes welled up with tears, " I don't want any of you to get hurt for us, I don't want you made targets"
" We don't care about that" Sirius said firmly, " we're already all targets anyway"
" Not like this" Lily said shaking her head.
Sirius stared at her firmly, " Lily, I am the biggest blood traitor of them all, my brother is a death eater. I'm already a target"
" And I've already been attacked, I'm marked with or without you" Doe told her.
" I am werewolf," Remus reminded her, " I'm a target to both sides"
" I'm in the Order" Peter said quietly, his eyes darting around.
Lily dabbed at her eyes again, " You're all too good to us" she said quietly.
Doe pulled her into a hug.
" No amount of dark wizards are going to stop us from loving you two" Sirius told her.
James smiled fondly at his best friend.
As she gazed around at the five other people in the room, she felt an upsurge of affection for all of them.