It was surprising how quiet the London street was compared to the chaos and destruction that they had just escaped from in the Ministry of Magic. The portkey had taken Andromeda, Carmen, Moody and a seriously injured James to a quaint street corner about a mile away from Trafalgar Square. Waiting for them there were Sirius, Frank, Kingsley and Quentin looking worried and solemn at the same time as the Order of the Phoenix was reunited at last.

"Where's Remus?" Andromeda asked.

"He had to leave, some sort of emergency" answered Sirius, who looked at James guiltily before looking up at the moon-lit sky. But Andromeda had bigger worries, not everyone had got out of the Ministry successfully.

"I'm so sorry, Tonks" James whispered beside her. "We thought the Lestranges were unconscious and they apparated at the last second-"

"We couldn't have predicted it" interjected Carmen, who came limping up to them with tears in her ocean-coloured eyes, "they just grabbed him and-"

"It's done"

"But-"

"It's done" she repeated. The portkey had taken her to where she wanted to go, but her sister had grabbed the almost unconscious Ted by the arm and taken him with her and her own rotten husband. She didn't know what she was going to tell Nymphadora when she got home; it would be a miracle if Ted was still alive wherever the Death Eaters had taken him.

"What do we do now?" Kingsley asked expectantly to the group, looking much less worse-for-wear that the others.

"We have to tell Dumbledore. It appears Lord Voldemort has taken over the Ministry of Magic so we're going to need all the help we can get, and Dumbledore can get that for us". Andromeda looked over towards Quentin and Carmen, who were now holding hands in a way that she had never seen them do before. At least some people are still happy she thought with a mixture of delight and jealousy.

"Argh!" she cried out in agony.

"What's wrong?" she heard several voices ask frantically at once; she had fallen to the concrete pavement with her hands clutched around her head. The same words were echoing in her mind over and over again in Nelly's familiar voice 'the blue eye's child is one of three' as if it were some kind of prophecy that had been sent to her telepathically.

"Mrs White is dead" she said aloud, causing her fellow Order members to step back in shock. She had pictured a confrontation between Mrs White and You-Know-Who in the Department of Mysteries as if she herself was there and now understood why Kendra had hinted she should go there herself. "Bellatrix Lestrange is currently with her master in the Department of Mysteries and you've already met Alastor Moody's son" had been the auror's words when she went to see her what felt like a lifetime ago, but now she wondered if the missing child was indeed a boy.

She had no idea how old Alastor Moody was; he looked middle-aged but it was as if we could make himself look that same way for decades; so his child could be anywhere between five and twenty. Her last argument with Ted had been about Moody's story of how he'd gained his magical eye and lost his beloved family, but Andromeda had failed to yet obtain the full and true story about who the surviving child had been. She stared for a long time at Moody's electric blue eye and then at the normal golden-brown one, suddenly realising something she had been too oblivious to notice before.

Carmen has electric blue eyes

Mrs White's adoptive son has electric blue eyes

Nelly had golden-brown eyes. It seemed almost ridiculous to think that any of these people could live and breath in such close quarters to Moody without him suspecting anything, but then Andromeda remembered how mad he had become since the Death Eaters had attacked hi family. The blue eye's child is one of three she thought desperately; knowing that the pieces of the puzzle were coming together much quicker than any plan to save Ted and defeat the Death Eaters was.