"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit" Lily screamed, then common sense took over. She flooed Sam. "Sam!" she yelled.

There was shuffling down the stairs. "Yeah what is it Prewitt?" He questioned looking irritated.

"Death eaters have attacked a muggle orphanage, we need to get there now!" Lily screamed at him, "floo to my place then I'll show you where to apparate."

Lily quickly took her head out of the flames, and yelled "Auror headquarters, Britain!" "Help! Deatheaters are attacking a muggle orphanage where Annette Longbottom works, she says there are 6 deatheaters holding about 30 muggle children, and some of the children are badly injured!"

Remus Lupin had been the one to receive the fire call, which was probably a good thing Lily may not have been able to help. Quickly 8 aurors apparated to Lily's apartment, where they met Sam. Lily had changed so she had black jeans on and a black jacket. She quickly showed them where to apparate and they all apparated there……

'At the orphanage 20 minutes earlier'

Anne had just closed her necklace and was desperately hoping Lily would get there soon. She heard one of the deatheaters say her name.

"Where is she, where is Annette Longbottom?!" Screamed one of the deatheaters. Anne knew who it was, it was Bellatrix Lestrange.

"Tell me or I will kill someone! Perhaps you," she snarled, directing the comment towards Arianna, a little two year old, who was clutching the hand of Avalyn, who was 16, the only person over 13 who wasn't in the hiding spot.

"Please no, don't hurt Ari, please….." the older girl begged desperately.

"Fine I wont but….crucio," she shot out of her wand. This was when Anne jumped infront of the group and took the curse.

"Well, well, well if it isn't the little Longbottom girl, I had the pleasure of well getting to know your mother and brother." Bellatrix sneered at the younger woman.

Anne wanted to respond but was screaming in pain on the ground. All of the children were terrified although Avalyn was just staring defiantly at Bellatrix.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT!" she screamed at Bellatrix.

"What do I want you filthy little muggle, you bitch, I want this girl to suffer, for everything that happened to my lord, I want to see her in pain!" Bellatrix spat at the defiant girl.

"THAT IS THE MOST AWFUL THING I HAVE EVER HEARD! ANNE CAME HERE AND HELPED US, SHE TREATED US WITH RESPECT AND SHE LOVED US!" Avalyn screamed. She and a lot of the older kids were particularly protective of Anne as they were so close to her age.

"Did you know she's a witch?" Bellatrix asked seemingly calm.

This made Avalyn falter, from what she had seen witches were bad and evil, but why had Anne taken that curse for her that made her scream in pain.

"Ah, I see you didn't know this piece of information, well I'll tell you something she is a very bad witch and….." Bellatrix continued but was cut off.

"But NOTHING Bellatrix, I am NOT a bad witch, don't you dare suggest it!" Anne screamed at Bellatrix, she had finally managed to stand up.

Anne whipped her wand out and held it at Bellatrix's throat. "Don't anyone MOVE!" Anne yelled at the top of her voice. Bellatrix cackled. "See what I mean little girl, she's trying to kill me, she's actually going to kill someone, isn't that a bad thing?" Bellatrix asked raising her eyebrow at Avalyn questioning her.

"Please Ava, believe me, Bellatrix killed my mother, and tortured by brother and almost killed my nephew, please Ava, understand." Anne practically begged the girl.

"Anne, killing her isn't going to make a difference, you won't feel any better." Ava practically whispered.

"I've had enough! Avada Kedavra" Rudolpus Lestrange said. That was the curse that killed Avalyn Smith.

"No, oh god no, please, GOD DAMN IT!" Anne screamed dropping to the ground and cradling the other girls head. Arianna was about to rush forward, but Rudolphus stood in the way with Bellatrix. Even though Ari was terrified of what would happen to her if she went and spoke to Anne, and what would happen to her she wanted to go and see what she thought of as her mum. (After all she is only 2). Sure she was scared of Anne because she almost killed someone, but she wanted to see Ava.

Bellatrix stuck her arm out and was about to cast the killing curse when "Accio Death Eater's Wand's"Was from 10 different voices. The 8 aurors had all cast an anti-apparation ward so the death eater's couldn't leave. The auror's made quick business of rounding up the deatheater's and sending them to the MoM.

All the while Anne sat there cradling Avalyn's head. Ari wanted to hug her, but she couldn't bring herself to do it, it was Annie's fault Ava was dead.

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"Longbottom, I said Longbottom," Anne finally looked up at one of the auror's who was addressing her.

"What is it?" she spat, angry at being interrupted.

"There are some children in a bathroom who won't leave it until you come and get them, a girl was called Carrie I think, and a boy called Brett?" The auror commented, while looking down at Anne who was still cradling Ava's head.

Anne stood up and said to the auror, "I want to get Avalyn some kind of award, she saved about 30 other children, and spoke out to Bellatrix Lestrange, even though it was clear she would die if she did, she gave her life to protect these children, and I want to see her get an award for it. Oh and it's Callie not Carrie" Anne told the auror before stalking off towards the bathroom.

"Thank merlin you guys are ok!" Anne exclaimed walking into the bathroom. Callie and Brett immediately got up and went to hug her, but she shook her head.

"There's something I need to tell you guys, look I don't know how to say it but, I….I well Avalyn's dead." Everyone else gasped, while Callie started sobbing, she and Avalyn had been best friends.

"Look guys, I need you to come outside I need to talk to you all." All of the children silently followed Anne.

She sat them all on the ground with the others. Avalyn had been taken away.

"As some of you already know, well I'm a witch." Anne said. The younger children who had been with Arianna and Avalyn, looked terrified.

"I'm not an evil witch but it's partly my fault Ava's dead, there were deatheaters here today because they wanted to find me and either kill or torture me into insanity. None of you guys would tell them where I was, but, the worst death eater thought she'd torture Ari to get Ava to speak, but Ava got in front, and that's when I jumped in front. They tortured me for a little while, before I got up and lunged myself at Bellatrix. I held my wand at her throat and I was ready to kill her but Ava told me to stop."

All of the children who weren't there were sitting on the ground holding each other. Most were terrified.

"I didn't kill her, and my hesitation led to an evil wizard killing her. I'm so sorry guys" Anne sobbed the final part, Callie was standing up, and about to walk over to Anne when a girl about her age ran over and put her arms around Anne. Everyone looked at the girl questioning her. She looked up.

"Oh my name is Lily Prewitt, I'm her best friend." Lily told them, then went back whispering soothing things in her ear.

"Well I'm Callie, and I'm probably I guess the leader of all the girls now, I mean Avalyn was, but I'm the oldest now." Callie told her nervously.

"I'd shake your hand right now but I am sort of busy." Lily said smiling.

"So what will happen to Anne now?" questioned Callie.

"Well unfortunately Anne will have to stop working here." Lily told them sadly.

"What, no! That's not fair, we don't care if she's a witch!" Callie screamed.

"Look, Callie I understand that, but Anne won't want to, it will be putting you guys in more danger, because there are more people like the witch and wizards who were here earlier, that haven't been captured. They will some to try and get you to hurt Anne, and I'm sorry but she won't let that happen, and neither will I." Lily explained.

"Pwease, dwon't takwe Anne away," Marcie begged. Lily felt her heart break, this was obviously little Marcie who Anne loved very much.

By this time Sam had escorted Anne home, after making sure that she would be with Kat the whole time.

Lily bent down and sat next to the children and place Marcie in her lap.

"I'm really, really, really sorry guys, but we can't take the chance that someone will die again, I'm not even sure but we may have to destroy all your memories of Anne all together." Lily told them with tears forming in her eyes.

"Please no, we don't care if Anne's a witch, we at least want to remember her," Callie told her with tears streaming down her face.

"I can arrange that if you want guys, but you won't be able to see her but….actually I have an idea" Lily said smiling. She took off her necklace and placed it around Callie's neck.

"Keep this safe, if you think hard enough about talking to Anne you can send her a message and it will appear in her head. But please only use it if it's an emergency, it's magical properties will run out if you use it too much." Lily explained.

Callie was nodding seriously, "I completely understand, but is there anyway we can talk to her normally?"

"Yes, but I won't be able to get it to you for a week or two because there are a few charms I would need to put on it, but basically you would put a letter in what would look like a shoe box, but it will magically shift the letter to Anne, although she could shift letter's back, but it might be a while before I could get it to you, because I'm pretty busy at work and stuff at the moment." Lily told them, smiling at how happy they looked that they were able to communicate with Anne.

Callie smiled and walked up to Lily. "Thank-you so much, you have no idea how much this means to me." Callie hugged Lily.

Lily grinned "I think I might have an idea actually, and patted her back. "Right well, unfortunately I need to go back home now, to make sure Anne's ok, Oh and make sure you think about getting help from Anne because apart from you and Anne there are 13 other people who have them, and although they would help you, they would be suspicious of how you got my necklace, although you can also think of Kat, because she lives with Anne and I."

Lily walked off, and apparated away.

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Lily apparated right outside Anne's room. She knocked on the door, she could hear Anne crying inside the door.

"Can I come in?" Lily asked.

"It's your house isn't it?" Anne told her as an answer.

"I guess, but it's your room, I gave it to you, that's what friends do." Lily told her as she sat on the bed and wrapped her arms around Anne.

"What happened out there Annie? Did the death eaters hurt you?" Lily asked. As Lily was a hufflepuff she was extremely loyal.

"Yeah, I was under the cruciatus for about 5 minutes. That's not why I was crying though, the girl who died was called Avalyn Smith. We had all been playing sardines, and after about 25 minutes of hiding and no-one finding us I went to find them." Anne sobbed.

"It's ok Annie, everything will be fine," Lily soothed, trying to calm Anne down.

"Well I found them, I attacked Bellatrix and held my wand to her throat, Ava told me not to kill her, she said it wasn't worth it, that it would make me an evil witch. I hesitated Lil, if I hadn't hesitated, if I had have killed Bellatrix, Ava would still be alive, so why do I feel like I made the right choice?" Anne cried, sobbing into Anne's shirt.

"Because, that's what Ava would have wanted, by stopping you from killing Bellatrix, she stopped you from killing, I know you Annie, you have compassion and if you had to have killed someone you would have felt guilty for the rest of your life. Ava stopped you from in effect killing yourself." Lily told her calmly, looking directly into Anne's eyes.

"When'd you get so wise?" Anne asked earning a chuckle from Lily.

"I always was, it was just none of you realized." This made Anne laugh.

"I don't know Lil, I reckon Chelse thought you were wise, but maybe that was just coz you knew heaps about Quidditch." Anne told her matter-of-factly.

"Whatever Annie, now let's go find your nephew, my cousin and our best friend.

The two girls walked out with they're arms linked into the hallway.

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Whoa, that was long, real long…My longest chapter yet, I hope it was enough action, and I hope it seemed realistic, I haven't really ever lost anyone close to me, except my aunt, but we weren't close so……

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