Hey so this is midterm-ish week for me. So I'll try to get write every now and then and try to get this posted. Thanks to Hp-Twil-Fan for telling me how to do that! And it's not Voldemort who's come back to power, he's gone for good, but rather an avenger. It's someone we all know and hate and you will probably guess right about now and get it right. Haha. And I can't promise you he won't touch a hair on Lily's head, but I can promise you that he should never mess with her or her family, even at her young age!

The dark lord knows about her from spies in the Ministry. Must've looked up their file.

For those who were wondering where the Weaselys are, they don't exist in my story. I do not favor them, therefore I do not write about them very often. I'm sorry to all the Weasely-lovers out there! Haha.

Anyway here's chapter 5! This is set in April 1999. Lily had a birthday so she's one. Harry and Hermione don't know her birthday, so they just picked a day in March.

Chapter Five: New Threat

"Mummy! Daddy!" a cry erupted throughout the whole household at about midnight. Both Harry and Hermione jumped out their beds to run to the nursury to Lily. She was standing up in her crib, crying. When she saw them, she held out her arms. Hermione lifted her into her arms and she wrapped her arms around her mother's neck. "Shh, it's okay, Lily, it's fine, what's wrong?"

"S-scared."

"Of what, sweetie?" Hermione asked.

"Bad man," she replied shaking with sobs into Hermione's shoulder.

"What bad man, princess?" Harry asked stroking his fingers through her hair.

"Bad man hurt Daddy and Mummy. Green. Wiwy weft awone." A tear rolled down her cheek. (A/N: just in case u didnt catch that: she said "lily left alone" haha. fyi)

Harry looked at Hermione worried that something was wrong. They knew what "green" meant. The Killing Curse. They just didn't know how she knew about that. They had never, ever used it. How could she know? They could tell their daughter was special in that way.

"Scared, Mummy. Don't weave me." Their hearts broke.

"Come on, both of you, come sleep with me in my room so she won't get scared," Harry said leading them out if the nursury to his room. Hermione set Lily in the middle of Harry's king-sized bed and got in next to her. Harry slipped in on the other side. Hermione began to stroke Lily's hair, soothing her and calming her down. Lily looked up at her with her emerald-green eyes that Hermione loved so much. She smiled down at her and began to hum and sing a soft lullaby.

"Hush, little baby, don't say a word.
Mummy's gonna buy you a mockingbird.

"And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mummy's gonna buy you a diamond ring.

"And if that diamond ring turns brass,
Mummy's gonna buy you a looking glass.

"And if that looking glass gets broke,
Mummy's gonna buy you a billy goat.

"And if that billy goat won't pull,
Mummy's gonna buy you a cart and bull.

"And if that cart and bull turn over,
Mummy's gonna buy you a dog named Rover.

"And if that dog named Rover won't bark,
Mummy's gonna buy you a horse and cart.

"And if that horse and cart fall down,
You'll still be the sweetest baby in town."

They watched as Lily closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. "Goodnight, baby girl," Hermione kissed her temple and Harry followed suit with, "Goodnight, princess." He looked over at Hermione with a soft smile. She returned him one.

"Goodnight, Hermione, I love you."

"Goodnight, Harry, I love you, too." They laid down underneath the covers and joined Lily in dreamland.

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The next morning, Harry woke up to Lily's sleeping face right in front of his. He smiled. She looked so peaceful. He noticed movement behind her and saw her mother gazing at him.

"Good morning."

"Good morning, Harry."

He turned behind him and reached for his glasses. He put them on and looked back at Lily. "What do you think was wrong last night? How did she know the Killing Curse was green?" he asked his girlfriend.

"I don't know. But what I do know is that whatever she dreamed about scared the life out of her. Why would she dream about Voldemort? Voldemort died before she was born. How would she know who he was?"

Harry shook his head. "Maybe she wasn't dreaming about him. Maybe it was someone else." Then he had an idea. "Hey, do you think I could use Legilimency on her?"

"I guess, I mean if she relived it, she might get spooked again. She's asleep, just try it," Hermione said uncertainly.

Harry nodded and stroked Lily's hair. "Please forgive me." He inhaled, grabbed his wand, and said, "Legilimens!"

He entered her mind. He saw countless images and memories of Lily's past. None, however, were of her real parents. He sifted through them, seeing many, many memories of himself and Hermione. The first was of Lily meeting himself and Hermione for the first time.

Lily's eyes fell onto his and Hermione's. He felt her emotions change dramatically from frightened and cold to safe and warm in Hermione's arms. He felt a strange connection that happened when her eyes met theirs. Like a bond forming between the three of them. 'Was this what Lily felt when she met us?' he thought to himself. 'A bond? Is she bonded to us?' He smiled and went through more memories.

He saw Lily learning to walk, crawl, talk again, but through her eyes. He saw other images of him and Hermione that he did not recognize. He realized that he had arrived to her dreams. He searched for her latest dream. Finally, he found it.

It started off simple and happy. He, Lily, and Hermione were in their house sitting on the floor of the family room, playing with toys. It was a cold, dark, and quiet night, but inside the Potter Manor, it was warm and cozy in front of the fireplace. He looked at Hermione's beautiful and content face. He noticed a sparkle on her hand. A beautiful diamond ring. He recognized it as his mother's. He looked at his own hands and saw a gold band around his ring finger on his left hand. He smiled, realizing he and Hermione were married in Lily's dream. They were having a good time until the fire went out and it got cold. There was still light from some candles that were scattered around, so they weren't in complete darkness.

All three of them looked at each other, puzzled. Harry got up and went to light the fire again, when he saw movement outside. He walked to the window and looked out, seeing three figures about to walk through the gate. He gasped and shut the curtains, making sure they couldn't see their silhouettes and turned to his girlfriend, or wife now, and their daughter, who were looking at him confused.

"He's here, Hermione! Take Lily and go!" Harry saw himself shout to her. Harry was immediately reminded of what occurred on Halloween night in that very house seventeen years before.

History was repeating itself.

Hermione complied and grabbed her daughter off the floor. "What about you, Harry?"

"I'll be fine. I'll fight him off. Go!" Hermione reluctantly ran away up the stairs and to Lily's room.

Harry saw himself grab his wand and wait for whoever it was to open the door. It came a minute later and Harry's jaw dropped at who it was. It wasn't Voldemort like Hermione thought it was. It was his best Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy and two other Death Eaters.

"Potter, we meet again."

"For the last time."

Malfoy laughed evilly. "Yeah, exactly. One will die tonight and it's not going to be me or you. Where's the child?"

"What do you mean?" Dream-Harry asked fatherly instincts taking over.

"Your child, your adopted daughter. I want her. You killed my master. I'll kill your heart."

"I won't let you touch her!" Harry, Dream-Harry, and Malfoy heard coming from the stairs. It was Hermione. She was running down the stairs, with her wand pointed at Malfoy.

"Hermione, get back upstairs!" Dream-Harry yelled.

"No, Harry, you need help!" she protested, but then got thrown across the room, and was held down against the wall by an invisible force. Her wand lay on the floor just out of reach.

"Mummy!" Harry heard. He looked at the stairs and saw Lily Lily at the rails on the stairs, her face peeking out between two of them. Malfoy noticed her immediately. "Ah, there she is!"

Motherly instincts taking over, the Dream-Hermione shouted, "NO! Don't you dare touch her!" and tried to get out of her restraints.

Dream-Harry pointed his wand at her to release her, but it was tossed out his hand by one of the Death Eaters shouting, "Expelliarmus!"

"Crucio!" Malfoy shouted at the Dream-Hermione. She screamed in pain. Another Death Eater did the same to the Dream-Harry, making him shout in pain as well.

"No! Mummy! Daddy!" they heard Lily yell.

And then two green lights shot towards her parents, killing them instantly.

Harry was thrown out of Lily's mind. He heard her yelling and sobbing. "No! Mummy! Daddy!" Just like in the dream, Lily cried and shouted for her parents. Hermione grabbed for her and stroked her forehead again. "Shh, Lily, it's okay. We're here. No one's going to hurt Mummy and Daddy. We're fine."

Lily woke up and grabbed onto Harry, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Daddy, don't do dat, Daddy! Wiwy scared!"

"I promise, princess, Daddy won't do it again. I'm sorry," he said sadly holding onto her.

'Who was it?' Hermione mouthed to him.

'Lucius Malfoy,' he mouthed back watching her shocked expression.

Hermione stood up and walked out of the room. She came back a minute later with a potion. She sat on the edge of the bed on Harry's side. "Lily, here, I want you to drink this. It'll make you feel better." Lily looked at the vial and allowed her Mummy to pour it in her mouth. She swallowed and began to fall asleep on her Daddy's chest.

"What was that?" he asked Hermione.

"Sweet Dreams Potion. Instead of a Dreamless one, I chose this one so that she could have happy dreams and forget her nightmare. Come on, let's put her in her crib. I need to talk to you." She grabbed Lily and they brought her into the nursury and laid her in her crib. Hermione looked at her daughter and a tear rolled down her cheek for her.

They left the room and went into the family room. They sat down on the couch. "What did you see?"

"Lucius Malfoy kill us basicly. It was just like a reenactment of when Voldemort killed my parents. But he killed you and I while Lily had to watch. Apparently she doesn't know that I cannot die by another person except by Voldemort. But Malfoy said something very interesting. He said that he was not going to kill me, but rather he was after Lily," he explained.

"Why?" Hermione asked him curiously. "Why would he go after Lily? And how does she know about him? She's never met him."

"Malfoy told me that since I killed his master, he was going to kill my heart, which is Lily and you, but I guess he decided to go after her. As for her knowing who he is, I have a hunch." He inhaled deeply and let it out slowly. "When I was going through her memories, I saw a memory of when we found her. I could tell it was the happiest moment of her life. Well, since I was seeing through her eyes and could feel what she felt, I felt a wave of a magical energy flow through me or rather, her. Hermione, I think we bonded with her." He slightly smiled.

She widened her eyes. "That explains a lot. How she can understand us really well and how fast she's mentally growing and how she can talk just like how a two year old can talk and not a one year old. She must have seen something in your mind. A glimpse of what Lucius Malfoy looks like and developed a nightmare out of it." She then just thought of something. "Or...she's a Seer."

"You really think so?" he asked her uncertainly.

"Well, it also explains Malfoy," she reasoned. "and how she knows what he looks like and what he is and what the Killing Curse looks like. It's a possibility."

"We'll figure it out," he said wrapping an arm around her shoulders. She leant into him and rested her head on his shoulder. Then he remembered something. "You know, in Lily's dream, she dreamt about us being married."

She picked her head up and looked up at him smiling. "Really?"

"Yeah, you were wearing my mother's wedding ring and I had a gold band around my finger," he returned her smile.

She looked at him seriously. "Do you think that the married part will come true?"

"One day. I really would like to marry you. I love you."

"I would like to marry you and I love you, too." She kissed his mouth passionately.

When they parted he said, "I'll go make breakfast."

She nodded and with one last kiss, he left to the kitchen. Hermione stayed in the family room and thought. She looked at her ring finger and imagined Lily Potter's ring there. She turned to look at a picture of Harry's late parents on the wall above her. She gazed at her best friend/boyfriend's mother and the beautiful diamond ring on her finger. "I hope you don't mind if I wore it, Lily Potter. Harry loves me and I love him back." She smiled and shook her head.

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The two teens ate breakfast in silence and right when they were done, Lily woke up. Hermione went to get her. She gave her a bath and put a new diaper on her. Harry came up into the room as she was putting some play clothes on Lily. He had a perfect idea.

He had just showered and smelt freshly clean. "Hey, Hermione, I'll be right back. I'm going get something."

"What are you going to get?" she asked.

"It's a surprise," he grinned.

"For who? Me?" she asked playfully.

"You...and Lily." He kissed her lips and said. "I'll be right back. 'Bye, 'Mione. 'Bye, princess." He kissed Lily's cheek as well.

"'Bye, Daddy!" he heard as he left to get their surprises.

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Two hours later, Harry finally got home from Gringotts and a Muggle toy store. He had bought a playset for Lily. Spring was coming and they could now play outside. He brought it to the big backyard, which was almost bare, and he got to working on it. It had a swing, a slide, a monkey rope that led to the top of the swingset, as well as a set of stairs for smaller children like Lily.

After about a half hour, he got it set up. He used magic for most of it. He went inside and found his two favorite women in the nursury. Hermione reading Lily a book about a deer family. "Hey," he smiled at them.

"Harry, you're home!"

"Daddy!"

"I've been home for about half an hour. I have Lily's surprise outside in the backyard. Come see it." Hermione picked Lily up and they followed him outside. Hermione gasped at the playset. Lily widened her eyes.

"Look what Daddy got you, Lily. It's a playset, princess. I've never had one but I've heard their tons of fun," Harry said smiling at Lily. Hermione set her down and she just stood there and stared at the playset. Harry crouched down to her height. "Do you like it, princess?" Lily looked at him and nodded.

"Thanks, Daddy!" She hugged him. "What it for?"

"You play on it. Come here, Lily. Daddy will show you what to do," Harry grabbed her hand and they ran to the playset. Hermione smiled at them. 'He's such a good Daddy.' She watched as he set her on the swing and he swung her back and forth. Lily had the biggest grin on her face. She laughed and waved at her Mummy. "Wook, Mummy!"

Hermione waved back, laughing at her enthusiasm. "Hey, Lily!"

Harry swung her for a little while more before he took her off and let her go onto the playset and go down the slide. Harry walked over to Hermione and stood next to her. "This is...so amazing, Harry!"

"Well, she deserves it. She needs something like this. I wanted her to learn how to play outside, you know," Harry smiled at her.

"Well, you did great, Harry." She kissed his cheek.

"Thanks, Hermione." They looked back at Lily.

However, Harry turned his head back to her and smiled as she grinned at their daughter sliding down her new slide. Harry slipped his hand into Hermione's. She looked at him, smiling but then looked curious. She took her hand out of his to see what he slipped into hers. She gasped and looked at him.

"Will you marry me?"

TBC...

Dun Dun Dun. That's becoming a habit of mine now. Haha. So you like it? I do. Hehe. I'm going to have more of Lucius Malfoy next chapter. I just wanted to get the proposal out of the way. I didn't even think about him proposing to her until I wrote the dream sequence.

Well I got a B and two Cs so far on my midterms. Ugh! Vomit! I studied hard for that! But I'll take it! Hehe.

Well pleez review. I'll be working on the new chapter of Bitten.