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"Bloody Hell, Bridget, why do you find it so hard to keep accurate notes…..so now you are telling me, I have no idea how hard it is to be a secretary…."her voice suddenly changed from loud and furious to dangerously calm, her foot began tapping in away that almost seemed like she was trying to calm herself. This was her second person that had thoroughly pissed her off today. She liked to vent her anger and stress at people who deserved it, unlike her kids at home.

"Ash, Ash I think Mommy's gonna explode like a fire cracker," came the innocent yet not squeal from Rory.

"I got an idea Rory," came the conspirisational reply form her twin brother, "we should cool her off."

"BRIDGET, DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT YOU JUST TOLD THE WOMAN WHO WHILE RAISING FIVE BLOODY CHILDREN MANAGED TO WORK TWO BLOODY JOBS, ONE BEING A SECRETARY, YOUR JOB, AND NOT SCREW UP AS ….."Her rant had been ended prematurely by a bucket of water being poured over her head.

The icy water was frigid, immediately cooling her temper and reminding her that she was now at home. After telling the secretary that she would deal with her later, she hung up the phone and said one word, "Run" with a manic grin and charged after them soaking wet.

Right as the trio started running through the house Matt came down the stairs with Bella to ask for some advice on baking cookies. Matt and Bella thought it would be a great idea to teach little 2 year old Sky how to bake, putting her in charge of pouring the flour. Not a good idea.

Those three were covered head to toe in the white powder, while twins were being held under a merciless tickle attack by the victim of their prank. But all of a sudden crackling energy could be felt in the air.

A green bolt of light flew through the window. Quickly she threw all the kids on the ground. Matt, the oldest, had just completed his first year at Hogwarts. He had told Gaby all about the witches, wizards, and the 'meanie' Death Eaters. He was still naïve in the ways of the world, but she had managed to understand that the direness of the situation in the magical world and the problems their Dark Lord would bring. She understood about their raiding tendencies on muggleborn households. And if her intuition was right her house was next on the list to raid.

She was terrified, thinking of the prospect of fighting a trained wizard. The only thing she knew was that she had to try. Speaking to all the kids but directly to Matt she said, "I want you to take all of you guys into the hidden tunnel. You are going to stay there and keep very quiet okay. I'll send you a message when it's okay to come out. I love you all so much. Hurry!"

Gaby silently thanked the builder of her home for his paranoia. The hidden tunnel was a perfect escape route and safe place for the kids to hide. The Tunnel was something they always laughed about, but now it looked like it would save some of their lives. The best part was the entrance. It was in a long hallway, full of portraits and paintings, but the one that covered the entrance was different. The painting was a forest scene with a serpent hanging in the trees, almost invisible if someone did not know where to look. The key to opening the passageway was to poke the snake in the eye.

It was so ironic that their secret was kept by a snake because in reality the family's biggest secret that they tried so vainly to hide around anyone outside of the household revolved around the serpents. All 6 of them could speak with the serpents. Gaby wasn't ignorant enough to not know that their ability to talk to snakes was definitely a magical trait. She had tried to ignore it. Every once in a while when she couldn't control her temper, something would explode. She knew she had the ability, but she was in denial. She had not received the chance to learn about magic. After Matt had gotten his letter, she knew that she couldn't avoid it any longer. It was time for her to acknowledge her heritage, even though it had killed her mum.

While she was helping them close up the passage she asked Matt for his wand, in the chance that she might be able to perform magic in desperate situation even though she had no formal training to save her family. Quickly reviewing what he had told her about magic, she remembered his telling her about the Reductor curse for offensive and protego shield for defensive. Both were too advanced for him, but he had heard his older housemates talking about it after they came back from their secret defense club.

"Remember that I love you, And I'll be back soon." and with that she closed the passage way, closing the portrait.

Quickly she sprinted to the kitchen in hope that she could grab some extra ammunition from her cutlery drawers. After a quick prayer, she decided she needed to take a look at what was outside her window. There were at least a dozen walking corpses on their way to her front door, but there only seemed to be one of the Death Eaters, Matt was talking about. Obviously she was supposed to be easy target, well she had news for them, she wasn't going down without a fight.

Climbing out the back door, she snuck around until she was within her range. Quickly she began throwing knives at the corpses, but they didn't seem to even faze them. They still trudged along her drive to the front door.

Desperately she tried a spell with the wand, it was her last chance. Other than running out there and chopping each body into so many pieces they couldn't move. To her surprise and shock red sparks came out of the wand as she muttered reducto, scorching the grass. Now armed with a weapon, her grin turned feral, and she began her attack.

The Death Eater's P.O.V.

At first everything had been going just like the Dark Lord had said. Easy target, but then as I looked back at my inferi troops more than half had been blown apart. Some how this muggle house had a witch or wizard inside that was casting spells.

He began his trek to the house to eliminate the fighter after disillusioning himself, but forgot one important part of his concealment. Whoever had been casting the spells could see the indentation of his feet in the grass.

Whoever it was was making fast work of his inferi, he thought grimly. Wand at the ready mate, he told himself, preparing for a battle.

Normal P.O.V.

The corpses only command was to attack anything in the house that moved, they were at an unfair advantage. Because while Gaby was moving she wasn't in the house so they wouldn't attack her.

Bloody and nasty, and hurt from a cutting hex the wizard had sent her way, she tried to come up with a plan to get rid of the white masked man. Her best idea was to silence her knife and her body minus her voice, and hurl the sharp knives at him as fast as she could. Then after catching him off guard, blast the ground in front of the man and then at his middle where he had the least chance of dodging.

For a laid back girl, her knife throwing skills were surprisingly good and fast. It was one of the unusual skills she had learned in the two years she had been sent to a military school. Two of the chopping knives hit their marks. One in the thigh, the other in his right hand.

By the time she was casting her 2nd blasting hex at the man to finish him off. She was only running on nervous energy. Right then she heard about 15 pops, along with people appearing with each of them. Lucky for her these were aurors and medical crews not reinforcements.

Collapsing in a heap on her bloodstained lawn, she began to cry. Her day had been so long and tiring and stressful, not to mention life threatening.

The Auror groups were talking the scene over when one of then sighted a moving body among the massacre. The rookies were trying real hard not to vomit at the sight of the mangled bodies, while the veterans, too were having that problem, but for a different reason. You-Know-Who's favorite toy was back into play. Inferi. That was what whoever was in the house had been fighting.

Stifling a shudder, a pink haired witch cautiously walked over to the shaking figure. On closer inspection, she saw that it was a woman sobbing next to a death Eater dead in pool of his blood. Carefully, she put an arm around her shoulder, and tried to comfort her.

"Ma'am, are you all right? The aurors are here now."

"Do you think I look bloody alright," she cried slightly hysterical. Quickly she began to regain composure as she looked around her seeing the aurors. "I'm sorry; it has just been a really hard day for me. I wasn't just fighting for my life against these bastards, I was fighting for my kids in the house."

Looking around a sudden thought dawned on her, What if what I did was against their laws? She was still in a flighty fighting mode, and her eyes darted back in forth in search for an escape.

Suddenly Tonks realized something. The briefing they had received said this was a muggle born second year's home, not a wizarding one. Why was there an adult witch, claiming that she lived here? Something didn't add up. Moody had headed over to talk to Tonks when he saw the girl tense up as if she were getting ready to run. He decided to put her worries to rest. "Missy, don't worry about arrest. You did nothing wrong because everything you did was in self defense and there is a warrant out for Death Eaters death in most cases. The only thing we need from you is a statement, and then I will have Tonks help you get your kids and floo to Diagon Alley."

"Floo, sir? What's that?" Gaby asked.

Moody looked at her strangely, but continued his mutterings about paperwork. Tonks took over form there. "Okay, I need to ask you a few questions, and then I'll need your statement on the attack," she said while taking out a dicta-quill and parchment.

"First question, What's your name?"

"Gabrielle Blyss Slythe." She said without faltering. The last name was the one she had legally taken up after she had found out she was pregnant.

"School and house?"

"I went to a military school as dictated by the bloody government but I um…well you don't need to know that. And what the bloody hell are you talking about house? This is my house."

"What do you mean? You never went to Hogwarts?"

"Bloody effing hell. I'm sorry I'm not thinking straight. Of course you're talking about Hogwarts. Matt told me all about it, " she said continuing to mutter to herself under her breath.

"Ma'am, I grew up in a muggle neighborhood, so I know what you are talking about with the military school, but why didn't you go to Hogwarts?"

Sneering slightly, "I never got a letter. I always thought I was a once in a life time freak. But then all my kids were able to do this 'magic' but it was mostly accidental. Then I thought that it was some weird thing that I managed to pass to all of them. So, imagine my surprise when Matt gets his letter to go to Hogwarts. No one ever came by to explain anything, just to be at the platform 9 ¾ on September 1st.

Tonks did a good job hiding her shock when Gaby told her how she was introduced to the wizarding world. "How did you find the Alley?" she asked, totally forgetting that she needed to get a statement.

"A lot of luck. To make a long story short, I saw someone cursing something about muggles and then heading into a building called the Leaky Cauldron. Followed them. Took Matt shopping, figured out that I would probably need to change my whole family's way of life, and been dreading this summer because this is when I decided we would begin with our entrance into the wizarding world. I was just a little pissed off that the esteemed headmaster had not thought I was fit for entrance into his school, but more so that he was so stupid to think that he would basically leave Matt for the same life by not even giving directions to find the alley."

At that moment she was very glad she was not Albus Dumbledore because he was going to be getting an earful very soon. "So you got your wand last year?"

"No, I refused last year. I was in a bit of a state for a few weeks," Gaby said with a slight smirk.

"So, basically you are saying that tonight was the first time you have ever cast magic. And with that you single-handedly managed to take down 15 inferi and one trained Death Eater."

"Not trying to sound like I'm bragging or anything, but yea. Can I give you that statement now? I really need to get back to my kids. I don't want them to see this blood bath out here. I told them to stay put, but they haven't always been known to listen to me."

"Yea, start from when they got here to when we arrived."

"Okay. I was in the house with my kids, when some green light come flying in the window breaking the glass. Quickly I pulled everyone down and told them to hide. I took Matt's wand and grabbed some knives and snuck out the back door to meet the attackers. I first tried throwing the knives, but even if they hit, it had no effect on the corpses. In desperation I tried the wand. And imagine my surprise when sparks came out. So then I started casting the Reductor Curse at the bodies. I was mostly through with them when that bastard noticed his troops were loosing. He made himself invisible, but he forgot that I could see his footprints. When he got close enough, I threw 4 knives at him form that tree over there. Two hit. Then I cast reducto at the grass right in front of him and then at his chest. Both curses hit. And that's him over there."

All Tonks could do was pat her back trying to keep her calm as she looked for the all clear from her colleagues. When she got it she led Gaby into the house. She offered to take Gaby and her kids to the Leaky Cauldron if they wanted to leave the house for a few days. With a thankful sigh, Gaby agreed.

While she was giving her statement, the forensics checked the scene and the other aurors checked the area for danger. They found that the raid had been a simple one, with only one Death Eater leading it. The real surprise was who the Death Eater was. The aurors had thought he was a rookie, but in reality he was Rabastan Lestrange. Brother to Rodolphus Lestrange who was the husband of Bellatrix Lestrange.

Once in the house, Tonks asked her where they were hidden. Quickly Gaby walked into the hallway and tapped a complicated knock on the wall. Skipping over some portraits, finally stopping at the one of a forest. She poked the serpent in the tree, unlocking the portrait. And she hissed at it. It is me, open. Excitedly the painting was thrown to the floor from the inside, and 5 balls of energy pounced on her. Two redheads, one platinum blonde, one brunette, and one raven haired.

Tearing up again, Gaby hugged all her kids and showered them with kisses. "I promised I'd be back, and here I am." Putting the youngest on her hip she told them all to go up to their rooms and put out some clothes and stuff that they would want to take and leave it on their beds to go take showers so she could pack it after she took her shower and packed.

Once the four ran up the stairs she turned back to Tonks still holding her youngest. "Do you think you could hold her while I go pack for myself and take a quick shower?"

"Sure, She's a cutie. What's her name?"

"Sky and thanks." With that she ran up the stairs to her room. With the water being turned on immediately. Within 10 minutes Tonks could see her running out of her room with a towel on her head and a pair of comfortable jeans with a jade tank top.

Tonks just giggled and kept playing with the 2 year old as she watched the woman about her age run around the house in organized chaos trying to get everything done in record time. In 40 minutes time, there were 6 clean, showered bodies, 7 bags, 1 small tawny owl, and a knocked over coat rack.

Tonks shrunk the bags, and put them in Gaby's purse. For the first time she got a good look at the family. They made such a beautiful picture. Gaby was gorgeous with her mercury eyes. Her crimson hair contrasted beautifully against her ivory skin. She had a willowy figure but an wiry, athletic build. The oldest, Matt, and the twins, Ash and Rory, all were tan, tall, and lithe. Both boys had Gaby's gray eyes, while the girls all had blue. Bella and Sky were more petite than the rest of the family. They had also inherited her ivory skin. Bella had a silky, platinum blonde hair. And the youngest, Sky, and the girl twin, Rory, both had her crimson hair falling in soft curls. Matt's brunette head of hair had a permanently mussed up look. Ash like his twin had curly locks, but his were black as night.

Coming back to her senses from examining the family, she said, "Well, let's get going then. Instead of using the floo, we are going to use a portkey I picked up. Now everyone needs to touch it on the count of three. Three…Two…One."

Soon the whole world was spinning and overly colorful. With a thump they were all, once again on solid ground. All seven of them stumbled and fell to the ground. Immediately the twins were begging for another ride on the 'whirly ride'. Sighing and turning back to the pink haired Auror she asked, "Where are we?"

She answered, "Right now you have just landed in the back of the Leaky Cauldron, which as you know is the entrance to wizarding London. Because of You-Know-who's Return you shouldn't have much trouble getting a room here. We can head into the Alley after you guys get something to eat."

"Thanks, Tonks. You don't know how much it means to me to be able to get away from that house right now. It holds too many terrors. I don't know how I'm going to bring all of them back there and still be able to sleep at night. I mean, bloody hell, those were lucky shots I got against one real opponent. We weren't even really dueling. What would I have done if I hadn't been able to use magic?"

While Gaby had been talking, Tonks got an idea that just might work. "Gaby I have an idea on where you might be able to stay, but I'll get back to you later this week. Go eat with your kids and then I'll take you to Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

"Hey Tonks, Come eat with us, my treat. Ash, Rory, what have a said about throwing food at the table? Sorry about that." Tonks just laughed and took a seat in between the up and coming pranksters.

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A.N. So what did You guys think. The Golden trio will be making an appearance somewhere soon but right now I'm still giving out the background.

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