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Chapter 2
Somewhere in England: 8:20 p.m.
"You better have good news, you conniving, traitorous rat or you will pay", Voldemort said while sitting upon his throne.
Wormtail looked up from his position on the floor but tried to divert his eyes from his master's. If he did he probably would have wet himself from fright. Though, looking at everything else did not help his wetting situation. The throne which his master sat upon was pure white and was fit for a king. Upon further inspection one could see that the white was made up of bone and not just any bone. It was made up of humans; those that were worthy adversaries to Voldemort. Dumbledore's was on the waiting list for it.
Looking somewhere else around the dark and empty room, Wormtail saw a slight movement out of the corner of his eye. Whipping his head around, the rat barely managed not to jump and squeak right then and there. Slithering, not five feet away from him was Naigini, the master's pet snake. The enormous pet scared him to no end and somehow the snake knew this and took advantage of it. This intelligence made Wormtail loathe the creature along with fearing it.
"Are you paying attention to me, or do I have to motivate you?" Wormtail jumped at this, which was a mistake to be regretted because not a second later the dark lord whispered 'crucio'.
Less than a minute and many screams later, the worm of a man was crawling to the throne and thanking the dark lord for punishing him for his lack of attention. He was rewarded with a kick to the jaw which would leave a gigantic bruise in the morning.
"I want answers now Wormtail"
"Yes master. The Order is having a meeting at this moment. I managed to slip away with the excuse of visiting my mother, while most of the members are attending including the Longbottoms and Potters. I slipped away from this meeting because I have been made the secret keeper for James and Lily." Wormtail managed to blurt out rather quickly in one breath, not wanting to feel his master's real fury.
"Where are the members not in attendance", Voldemort then asked in an icy tone.
As soon as he finished talking, Wormtail replied, "They are either on Order business or at the Lonbottoms', playing bodyguard to Frank and Alice's child, milord".
"Then this will be easy. Tonight, history will be forever changed. Gather the rest of my faithful followers. We will give the Order something to talk about for years to come. Tonight, my faithful will attack the Longbottoms' house, to provide a distraction. Meanwhile, I will take care of the real threat. Harry Potter will die".
Order of the Phoenix Meeting, 9:00 p.m.
Come on. Hurry up already, both James and Lily thought while fidgeting in the stiff and uncomfortable chairs. Both were anxious to get home. They could be called overprotective, but who wouldn't be anxious to get home if a sixteen year-old girl was taking care of three young and rowdy infants.
Looking to their left, Frank and Alice Longbottom were having the same train of thought. And the meeting was useless anyway. No new attacks or kidnaps had taken place, so to James, the meeting was as boring as could be. Fifteen minutes into it, Lily had to wake James, Sirius, and Remus up since all of them had fallen asleep. Looking around now, the two couples were now the only ones up, along with Arabella Figg, who was currently getting off topic. She was supposed to be reporting what she had seen this last week, but all the small, pale woman had reported, was which of her cats was pregnant. Even Dumbledore looked like he was only half awake.
Getting angry, James jumped up out of his seat, intent on going back home. His plan was immediately put to an end when he felt a sharp tug on his new blue robe. Looking into Lily's green eyes, he saw a reflection of his own boredom and anxiousness. Sighing, he reluctantly sat back in his seat, content to wait for his wife's patience to run out before he ditched the stupid meeting.
With nothing else better to do, James started to think. There were only two people who were 'missing' the rest of the Order that wasn't there, was at the Longbottoms'. Snape and Peter were missing. Well, Snape was probably with his dark lord right now, while Peter had mumbled something about his 'mum wanting to see him'. That almost sent James into a fit of giggles. Yes, James Potter did giggle, but silently. Seriously, Peter needed to grow up and act like a man, now a little boy. Peter was always going to see his 'mum' whenever she called. He needed to let it be known to her that he did have a life, if not a girlfriend.
James' train of thought was brought to an unexpected stop, when the fireplace that was on his right, started to come to life, signaling that someone was trying to come through. With their Auror reflexes, James and Lily had their wands trained on the man who came through, before he even knew what had happened. After looking up, neither husband nor wife were surprised to see a messy looking Snape. The man did look worse for wear, though. He had a long cut running across his left temple to the bottom of his face. He was covered in soot, but not from traveling by floo. His robes were torn and burned. All in all, he really looked like crap.
James did not have time to comment though because the man said, "The Death Eaters are attacking the Longbottoms' house right now. They have already made it inside. Voldemort is planning on killing the boy". Right after the words left his mouth, the man fainted and chaos broke loose in the meeting.