Chapter 15

My family had been through lots of battles against evil. In fact our battles against evil started over a thousand years ago, when Salazar Slytherin killed on of my very great uncle Ethan Gryffindor. Poor baby never even had a chance. From that day forward my very great grandfather declared war against the entire Slytherin bloodline until we finally got our revenge for my uncle Ethan. A thousand years later and we Gryffindors are a very high leg up on the Slytherin bloodline. Everyday it seems as if we are coming closer and closer to very great grandmother Cassandra's vision. That one day we will all be happy and never have to worry about the Slytherin line again. The Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff line is safe and at the moment no one really knows where little Cedric David Diggory Jr. is.

My family had a close call battle just over a year from where our story is right at this very moment in time. A battle, one of the last battles that my family would have to face. My parents, aunts, and uncles thought fighting the Queen and King of the Death Eaters would be easier then fighting Lord Voldemort, but Merlin were they in for a task especially after the Queen got betrayed once more to finally set her over the edge. Maybe this is why my parents waited so long to have me.

The Queen and King of the Death Eaters had started one of the final battles. An attack on the Potter clan at Black Manor, a part of the magical community that was supposed to be untouchable, like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

There was wall, ceiling, and flooring all over what was Black Manor kitchen. A young Harry Potter looks around in desperation hoping that all of his family would be alright.

"Is anyone else alive?" Harry screamed with desperation choking him up.

There was a cough across the room and Harry jumped up with a loud groan, Harry pushed the rubble away and saw Adora with a huge gash across her head. She was also coughing up blood.

"Adora!"

"Save Ginny and the twins," Adora coughed. "Autumn knows…"

"What!" Harry screamed as he felt his whole body go cold.

"Get the children, and Ginny out of here!" Adora coughed up more blood.

"Anyone else alive!" Harry screamed, they were running out of time and he could hear the Death Eaters, Autumn, and Neville getting closer and closer. Sure they had blown up the house, but there were still many charms and barriers that they had to go through to actually get to the house.

"Harry!" Ron's voice yelled from across the room.

"Yes Ron, hurray! It's Adora, she's hurt really bad!"

"Come over here, I found Ginny and James!"

Harry and Ron switched places, and began to dig all the rubble off of his wife, son, and unborn babies.

"Ginny, Ginny wake up!" Harry said shaking his wife, "Love please wake up."

"I will be okay," Ginny said blinking open but coughing because of all of the smoke that was all around her.

"James!"

"Right here," and Harry saw that Ginny's motherly instinct had kicked in as she had protected her unborn children and baby James.

"Adora is badly hurt, she's bleeding and coughing up blood."

"Oh Merlin," Ginny's eyes widened.

"I need you to go to St. Mungo's with her…"

"Harry…"

"Ginny please don't fight with me right now. Autumn, Neville, and the Death Eaters are on their way. They are fighting against the barriers and will be here in the house in no time. You, the twins, James, Breeanna, Lily, and Adora all need to be checked out at St. Mungo's."

"Okay," Ginny agreed. "What about the others?"

"I have only found you, Ron, and Adora."

"You have to find the others."

"I will, but make a promise to me Ginny."

"Anything," she nodded.

"Stay at the hospital, even if you are released stay with Adora until one of us contact you."

"Okay," she nodded.

"Contact your parents, the ministry, and Minerva let them know we are under attack. Minerva will contact the Order."

"I will."

"I love you."

"I love you too Harry," she kissed him goodbye as she waddled across the room with James on her hip.

"Where did that music come from?" Bridget asked as she was dancing in Oliver's arms in her living room of her beautiful estate in Milan.

"I did a little magic?"

"Oh really?" She giggled at him.

"Just a little flick of the wrist and tada!"

"This is beautiful, thank you."

"For?"

"Putting up with me…"

"What do you mean?"

"When we thought I was married to Blaise and even though I didn't even like him but I loved you more than life, I would not leave Blaise…"

"You stayed with him for a good reason. You thought that if you left him that I would die and that curse would have worked if you were really married to Blaise and not me."

"It's weird to think that we have been married for almost a year now," Bridget blushed.

"I know next week will be our anniversary."

"Yeah," Bridget smiled.

"How about our one year anniversary we go on our Honeymoon on our anniversary?"

"Where should we go? I really only ever wanted to go to Milan."

"Then we will stay here and go see things like tourists."

"But the house is a wreck, we can't stay here."

"Your house-elves are still here, we can get them to clean up and we can fix all the rest after our honeymoon. We will just fix up the master bedroom and just stay up there the whole time. What do you say?"

"Sounds like a great idea to me…"

"Will you go ask Moon to fix up some lunch with butterbeer," Bridget asked Oliver as she walked over to the French doors to walk out on the patio.

"Sure, but where are you going?"

"Going sit out on the patio and enjoy the view, the view is actually what made me fall in love with this place. Aunt Bella said my mum said the same thing, kind of makes me feel closer to her."

"Okay, I'll meet you outside."

"Mrs. Potter!" A nurse said very surprised when she came running in the hospital with two babies on her hip and a very pregnant. "You are too far along, you shouldn't be carrying those two."

"Never you mind! There is a hurt woman outside and two other children, the Black Manor has been attacked. I need you to contact my parents, the ministry, and Minerva McGonagall so she can contact the Order. I need someone to come and get Adora Potter, she is severely hurt."

"Of course," the nurse nodded. "Chelsea!"

A teenage volunteer ran up and looked up at the receptionist, "Yes ma'am?"

"Get a wheelchair and get Miss Adora Potter into the Emergency Room. I need Mrs. Ginerva Potter and all the children to be looked at by a Healer."

"Oh Merlin," Ginny gasped.

"Eh what is that!" Chelsea the teenage girl gagged.

"Oh Merlin!" The receptionist gasped.

"My…my water just broke."

"Get Adora Potter into the ER now! I will get a nurse to take all the children and another nurse will take Ginerva Potter into a room."

"Hello Bridget," a slimy voice came from behind her.

She turned around and her eyes went wide, "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Coming to see you, I heard you left your husband."

"I was never married to Blaise and no I am still with my husband, you know…"

"Me," Oliver said throwing down the lunch and butterbeer and raising his wand.

"I heard about that," Neville Longbottom sneered. "I figured Bridget would finally find out how much of a loser Blaise was and you. Finally come back to me."

"You are married!" Bridget laughed like a mad woman, "You married the one woman who has been after my family for years. She blames my family for all the troubles in her life! You raped me, why the hell would I want to be anywhere around you and then add that you are a married man!"

Neville got within inches of Bridget which made her skin crawl, "You know I love you. You know I would get rid of that bitch at any moment. I was fine until I met you Bridget Potter."

"You get away from her!" Oliver ran to hid his wife behind him.

"You threw me over the edge Bridget, if it hadn't been for you I would probably be an Auror like my parents had been and would probably still be an Auror."

"She did not throw you over the edge…"

"Shut up you!" Neville screamed at Oliver and threw him across the grounds to knock him unconscious. "If you would have never cheated on me, I would have never went to the dark side and married that evil bitch Autumn."

"I thought you loved her!" Bridget asked scared of Neville, she had only ever seen him this scary once and that was the night he raped her.

"I only ever loved you and you betrayed me!"

"I would have never cheated on you if you hadn't passed out at the Halloween ball. I liked you Neville but I could never deny my feelings for Oliver. I have been in love with Oliver since day one. We were friends because of Susan and then I formed a crush on him. Then I fell in love with him."

"Bullshit! You were to marry me and be happy with me!"

"Neville…"

"Shut up whore!" He waved his wand and Bridget flew back and hit her head up against the house.

"Damn it Neville!" Bridget screamed and her telekinetics sent him up in the air and slammed back down to the ground.

"The Halloween ball you were a total asshole and I was embarrassed to be with you in that horrible Twinkie costume of yours. I loved Oliver and he loved me and he was my Romeo. I would have broken up with you that night if you hadn't passed out."

"You cheated on me and broke my heart."

"I was felt horrible and was sorry until you raped me."

"That's okay," Neville's eyes lit up because tonight I will take what is mine and kill you.

"Over my dead body!" Oliver screamed and threw 'Avada Kedavra.' Neville saw it coming and disapparated. "Damn it!"

"At least he is gone," Bridget sighed as Oliver threw his arms around her protectively.

"Yeah," he kissed the top of her head. "He won't get away with threatening you like that."

"Oliver don't…"

"No we are going to finish this and finish it tonight."

Bridget and Oliver followed Neville's Apparation path to end up a mile from what was the Black Manor. Bridget and Oliver were just feet away from Neville, Autumn, and a hundreds of Death Eaters.

"Where have you been?" Autumn hissed at her husband.

"Taking care of some business, I see you have held the battle up."

"There are more barriers here than what we thought."

"Where is my Aunt Bella's house?" Bridget gasped looking at Oliver in total horror.

"Why wasn't I notified of this attack?" Oliver asked as he saw the terror in front of him.

"Maybe the ministry doesn't know yet."

"You get to your Aunt Bella's house, I am going to the ministry to inform them and get us back up. I will be back shortly."

"I love you," Bridget said with tears in her eyes as she kissed Oliver goodbye.

"I'll be back soon."

Bridget had apparated outside of the Leaky Cauldron and then Flooed to her aunt's house, she knew if she apparated right in they would be so jumpy that Harry would kill first and then ask questions.

"Aunt Bella?"

"Bridget?" Susan said running into what would have been the living room and hugging her baby sister. "What are you doing here?"

"Oliver and I were at the estate in Milan and Neville showed up wanting to rape me again and kill the both of us. He ran and we followed him a mile away from here but you could see all the rubble that the house has become. What the hell is going on?"

"We are under attack," Draco said running into the room. He had a big gash across his arm but it wasn't near as deep as the one on Susan's head.

"I know there are hundreds of Death Eaters out there, how long have you been under attack?"

"About an hour now," Harry said with broken glasses that he threw to the ground.

"How will you see!" Bridget freaked out.

"I put a temporary charm so that his eyes are normal," Arabella said with a broken arm and a homemade sling.

"Where is Remus?"

"Checking what is the rest of the house," Arabella sighed. "So much for my childhood memories and the memories I shared here with Sirius when he was still alive."

"He is alone?" Bridget asked a bit scared for him. True she still didn't know him that well and obviously not as close to him as her aunt and siblings had been but she still remembered how good of a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher he had been to her in her second year.

"No Ronald went with him."

"Where is Adora?"

Susan bit her lip.

"Well?"

"Ginny rushed with her to St. Mungo's, she had a huge gash to her head and was spitting up blood."

"Oh Merlin," Bridget fell to the floor.

"We need you to be strong," Harry said picking his little sister up. "This could battle is going to be tough."

"I know," Bridget nodded. "Wait…is Ginny okay?"

"She is fine," Harry nodded. "I just wanted her and the twins checked on, to make sure they are okay. She took all the children with her to make sure they would be okay too."

"You do have your wand on you right?" Draco asked.

"I always keep it on me, especially in these dark days."

"Good," Susan smiled. "This will be a battle of all battles."

Oliver apparated in with tons of Aurors and Order members.

"Thank Merlin you got here," Bridget ran into his arms and even in this time of crisis her family looked pleased that she was back in Oliver's arms.

There was a siren and Arabella turned ghost white, "They got through all the barriers."

"The war starts now," Harry said with a determined look upon his face.

"Mrs. Potter, please just let me get a hold of your husband." The nurse pled with her for the umpteenth time that day.

"No!" Ginny screamed through another contraction, "He is fighting evil right now all he needs to know that is wife is in labor!"

Autumn cackled much like what her father would have sounded like, "We broke the barriers! We are in!"

Her followers roared and Neville stood back jealous of the power his wife possessed and how he was just to sit back and behind her.

Then the saw them, the Lestranges. A nerve struck Neville, he had been ordering their deaths for months now but none of the people that were loyal to Neville and not Autumn knew where the Lestranges had been. They were the reason Neville's parents were insane in St. Mungo's. They would die tonight…

Death Eaters began to charge into what was Arabella's childhood home and the house she shared with Sirius and raised their daughter in. This house was totally destroyed and would never be the same again.

Aurors and Order Members were fighting off Death Eaters. Harry, Draco, and Ron put their Auror talents to work as they killed Death Eater after Death Eater. Later on that day they would find out that some of them were their old classmates and some of these Death Eaters were just kids that got mixed up with the wrong crowd.

Susan wasn't doing as well as the others, but then again she hadn't done a true duel in over two years and had been a stay at home mother only. She now had clumps of hair missing, blood in her hair and she felt very faint.

Then she saw her, a strawberry blond now three year old crying out as she was alone and she was scared. The little girl looked so much like Draco and Susan's eyes went wide, Desdemona.

"How could her mother bring her out here!"

Even though Susan hated Autumn with all of her soul and was angry for all of the things Autumn had put Draco and her through, her motherly instincts kicked in. A crying child left alone in a war, how irresponsible. Even though that little girl had half of Autumn in her, she also had half of Draco.

Susan began to fight with all of her might to get to that little girl, to save her even though she was Slytherin.

There they were, the two people that had driven his parents insane and made his crazy grandmother have to raise him. They could be the reason he was like he is now.

"Bellatrix!" Neville yelled as he ran over to her.

"What! Oh, your lord." She bowed while fighting an Auror.

"Avada Kedavra!" Neville yelled as he pointed his wand at her, "that was for my mother!"

"You bastard!" Rodolphus yelled, "That was my wife!"

"That was for my mother and this is for me and my father!" Neville screamed, "Avada Kedavra!" Rodolphus Lestrange fell to the ground, dead.

"What the hell are you doing!" Autumn stormed over to her husband, "You are suppose to be killing Potters, Aurors, and Order members! Not our faithful Death Eaters!"

"They drove my parents insane and I never knew them! I had to be raise up by my crazy grandmother that eventually disowned me!"

"You are going back to the good side!"

"No!"

"He went to Bridget's Milan estate to try and get her back, he said that he would leave you!" Blaise said interrupting the marital dispute.

"I knew you never got over that common Potter slut!" Autumn screamed.

"I…I…"

"Avada Kedavra!" Autumn screamed and killed her husband in cold blood.

She then turned to Blaise, "Never betray me!"

"Of course not," Blaise bowed down.

"Now let's kick some Potter, Auror, and Order members arse."

"Of course my lord."

"Shh, honey!" Susan said trying to console the toddler.

"Mama! Mama!" Desi screamed as a strange woman was taking her away.

"Shhh!"

"Ma ma!"

"I got you, you little tramp!" Blaise said snatching the Potter princess up.

"Blaise no!" Bridget screamed.

"You will be mine, whether by law or by me forcing you!"

"Over my dead body!" Oliver yelled as the threw a curse at Blaise which made him let go of Bridget as she ran behind Oliver for safety.

"That can be arranged I hope you know."

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Duck Bridget!" Oliver screamed as the both of them barely missed the curse and it hit one of the Death Eaters.

"Avada Kedavra!" Oliver yelled and it hit Blaise square in the chest to have him fall to the ground.

"He…he's dead," Bridget said in awe.

"The nightmare is finally over," Oliver said smiling at her.

Bridget looked around her, "Not yet."

Hours later Harry ran up to the front desk at St. Mungo's.

"Mr. Potter!" The receptionist gasped, "Let me get you to the ER, you look horrible."

"How is my aunt Adora?" Harry asked ignoring the receptionist.

"She is in critical condition, she lost a lot of blood. Now I really need…"

"My son?"

"He is fine."

"My nieces?"

"Fine too."

"Little cousin Roselyn Black?"

"She is fine and is with the other children in the children's ward playing."

"My wife?"

"In labor in the delivery room."

"What!" Harry screamed as his eyes popped out of his head, "How long has she been in labor?"

"Since she got here…"

"That was over four hours ago!"

"She was just about to deliver when you walked in."

"Why the hell didn't you tell me!" Harry yelled pulling his hair out.

"You didn't ask."

"Bring me to my wife now!"

"What do we do with her?" Draco asked looking at his three year old daughter, he hadn't spotted her in over two years now.

"What do you mean what do we do with her? She is your daughter."

"Yes but she is a Slytherin…"

"Draco!" Susan yelled outraged, "If we get her away from Autumn early enough then she should be fine."

"You know the legend, I could not lose you or the girls because of her."

"She is your daughter, I don't understand you. You were so sad not to be around her the last few years."

"I am just afraid that Autumn has already drawn the evil out of her."

"That crazy, she is only a toddler."

"You know Autumn will come back for her."

"Do you want to keep your daughter or not?"

"Of course I do," Draco said looking at the corner where the little girl was crying in the corner. She was scared out of her mind and didn't know what to do without her Mummy or Daddy. After all the only Daddy she had ever known was Neville.

"Then we will fight for her…"

"Even though she is a Slytherin?"

"She is your daughter and I will love her as if she was my own."

"You sure?"

"Positive."

"Aunt Bella," Bridget spoke up as Arabella looked at the rubbish that was her house.

"Bridget what am I going to do? Even if I rebuild, Roselyn and I will be out of a home for a few months at least."

"The two of you can stay in Milan with me and Oliver."

"Are you sure, you guys are just now honeymooning."

"It will be fine, I swear."

"Okay."

"Wait," Bridget had a thought come to her. "What about Remus?"

"He is going back to Hogwarts to teach, he was suppose to start tomorrow as it September first. The ministry is pushing the starting date back a week so families that lost family members time to grieve. He is already there trying to help Minerva get everything back to normal."

"I'll get Moon to clean out a few rooms for you and Roselyn."

"Roselyn and I can share a room."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course."

"Love," Oliver said looking down into Bridget's beautiful eyes. "When should we start our honeymoon?"

"Next week on our anniversary."

"I can't wait."

"Me neither," Bridget said as she kissed her husband.

"They are beautiful," Ginny said looking down at the twins in her arms. "They have your dark hair, the both of them. Your eyes too."

"But they look just like you," Harry said looking at them as James was jumping up and down to see his little sister and brother. "Can't believe he will be two years old in three months."

"Me neither," Ginny smiled. "Oh how our family is growing."

"I know."

"You do realize how much of a threat these two are going to be to the rest of the wizarding world. Not only with the battle tonight, but the fact that they are the twins we will need even more security on our house."

"I know love and I swear to protect the four of you."

"You do realize that this is going to be all over the press tomorrow."

"I know, but what part of our life isn't documented by the press?"

"True."

"I love you Ginny Potter," Harry said leaning in to kiss his beautiful wife.

"I love you Harry Potter."

"Adora, please come back to me." Ron cried as he sat beside his beloved fiance's bed. "They are saying they don't know if you will come out of the coma you have fallen into. Please come back to me. I need you! We are suppose to start our life together and have little Weasley's running around."

"Ronald," Molly Weasley said placing her hand upon her son's shoulder.

"I am not trying to be rude Mum, but I would like to be alone."

"Too bad," Molly said pulling up a chair to Adora's bed and sitting next to her youngest son. "I am here for you no matter what and Adora is like my second daughter. I am very worried about her."

"Mum, what if she doesn't come back to me?"

"Ron you can't think like that, keep your hope up."

"Where is everyone else?"

"Ginny just gave birth to the twins!" Molly squealed.

"What! Oh I am so happy for them, but I am so upset about Adora."

"I know. Arabella and Roselyn are going to be staying with Bridget and Oliver in Milan until they buy a new house or get the Manor rebuilt."

"This is horrible Mum."

"I know love, I know."

My family got through this battle against the Queen of the Death Eaters, and they knew it was just going to get worse. With Bridget and Oliver now happy, Susan and Draco had taken Desdemona and going to raise her, and Ginny and Harry and brought the twins into the world. Arabella and Roselyn were out of a home and Adora was now in a coma.

What was in store next for the Potter kids?