This took a while, because I had a hard time writing it….

This is a rough chapter, just a warning.

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I am not JKR

Chapter Twenty-Two

Gone

Harry's birthday came and went that year in a very nervous and unusual fashion, there was no party in the play park, no friends over at the house, it was all family, just the six of them. Mid August was approaching and all four adults were dreading telling the two kids that they wouldn't be returning to school. To lighten the blow Sirius and Remus had gone out to pick up special food for dinner before Mel got home from the ministry. Jessalyn was messing about her and Remus' room, trying to make it not look as cluttered when there was a knock at the door. Before she could get there she heard Sammi yell back to her.

"Mummy, Harry's healer is here to see him!"

She narrowed her eyes and walked into the sitting room, surely she couldn't have heard that right. When she came around the corner everybit of blood in her body ran cold standing outside the doorway, as no one could walk in without direct invitation from an of age resident of the house, was Healer Avery. Behind him stood a man that she would know anywhere, whether it be from a picture or in person. She had stared at his face and dreamed of his face for far too many years to ever forget it. Travers, the man that killed her Michael. If the men being here was not enough, the kids were overly welcoming even at the best of times and recognizing his trusted healer, Harry was outside holding his hand, and Sammi the other. Jessalyn couldn't speak, she stared in horror at the sight in front of her.

"I think letting us in would be the best option here." Avery said softly.

"It would be polite. I always wondered what Michael was blocking in his mind that night. It would be a pleasure to meet the youngest McKinnon." Travers added, his voice silky, deadly.

Her eyes darted between the two unaware, smiling kids. She sucked in a raking breath and felt sick at she heard the words come from her mouth.

"Come in."

She watched in terror as first Avery, gripping the hands of both children and then Travers walked safely over the threshold of the house and then Travers walked in smiling evilly. She looked around herself. There was no way she was going to be able to protect both kids and herself. She knew that much already. There was no way she stood a chance against two death eaters by herself, not while protecting two kids. In that second she knew exactly her fate. She held her arms out and smiled a happy smile. To her surprise Avery released the kids and they both skipped to her happily.

She knelt in front of them and pulled them into her arms, she watched the men over her shoulders warily. Avery put his hand in front of Travers' chest, holding him in place.

"You have two minutes." He sneered.

His words felt like a steel hard blow to her ribs. He knew her fate as well as she did. He was giving her time to tell them by, the problem was how to protect them, how to keep them from following her beyond the veil? She looked at Harry and then to Sammi.

"You two are two of the most amazing gifts I have ever been given that I never even knew to ask for." She said tears spilling from her eyes. She saw the alarm in the kids' eyes.

"These men are bad men, and you are to stay where I put you. I will keep us safe." She felt guilty that one of the last things she said to them was a lie. "I love you both, so very much. Harry, I never expected to find a little boy that would steal my heart like you. I love you like you are my own, and I would give up everything for you my sweet. You are perfect and special and worth everything your daddy James and mummy Lily gave for you. Your daddy Sirius and Uncle Remus love you so much. "

She turned her face to her daughter.

"You are so amazing Samantha, my little Sammi girl. You are the greatest miracle my life has given me and I would be incomplete without you. If I could live life all over again just to see you smile every time that you have, I would. No one has ever, or will ever love you the way I do. You are everything that is perfect in my life. And your mummy loves you, with everything that I am."

She stood and pushed them behind her, casting an impenetrable protection charm over the two scared children.

"You can't protect them forever. Once you are gone, they will be easy to take. " Travers said, his voice low.

"How did you get past our wards?" she snapped.

Avery laughed.

"I was in school with the Dark Lord, I learned all of my tricks, right beside him. If you break wards slowly, over many days and weeks, no one feels them fall. But does the how matter? Surely all that matters is that we are here."

Jessalyn pursed her lips together and raised her wand.

The fight didn't take but a few moments before she lay on the floor, alone and lifeless, when her life fell, so did her protective barrier, releasing the children to the demons that stood in their midst. When Harry watched in horror as Sammi joined her mother and father on the other side of the veil his fear overtook him and a magical blast burst from him. Shaking the house at its core. Rubble and debris began to fall, knocking him facefirst onto the concrete. He could hear the house falling in but could hear nothing of the men who had changed his world. He felt a wet sticky substance under his face and a shart pain in his chest before he passed out.

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Sirius and Remus were almost home when a blast rent the air and made the ground shake under their feet. They both looked at each other in trepidation, the sound had come from infront of them, the only thing down this street was Sirius' cottage. They both began to run full out. When they arrived on the property both of their hearts fell into their stomachs. They were there just in time to see a black robed man shoot a green symbol into the sky and disappeared, that's when Sirius realized the wards had fallen. His world had fallen, for several shell shocked seconds he was back in the middle of Godric's Hollow staring at James and Lily's bodies. He felt a dry sob wrack his body.

The two men looked in terror at the sight before them, their home broken and smoldering on the ground. It took only seconds to find them in the midst of the rubble. Closest to where the door should have been they found Healer Avery and Sirius let out a string of expletives when he found the darkmark on his arm while checking for a pulse. When they didn't find one Sirius kicked at the man's lifeless body, screaming obscenities at him before turning back to find his family.

Remus was first, he found Jessalyn's body and he broke. It reminded Sirius of himself when he found James. Unfortunately he couldn't stop to comfort his friend, there were two children to find and he was praying that they hadn't been taken by the unknown deatheater. He was spelling debris out of the way when he found Sammi and Harry, wrapped together in a hug. Both of their bodies lifeless. Sirius' heart ceased to exist, Harry hadn't looked like this when Voldemort attacked. He rushed forward for the children.

"Remus! Remus! It's Harry and Sammi! Remus!" Sirius screamed.

Snapping out of it Remus came to Sirius' aide. Remus was closest to Harry and he lifted him from Sammi's arms, he held him close, yelling his name.

"Siri, Siri he's unconscious. He's alive, but he's bad off, he's." Remus looked up into Sirius' face to see a look that changed his world forever.

Sirius' face was lost in tears and he shook his head softly at Remus.

"Harry, take Harry to St Mungos, get Dumbledore. Give her, give her to me."

Obeying his friend's request Sirius lay the little girl in Remus' lap and he pulled Harry into his arms. He took a moment to examine his godson, his son. He seemed so much littler in his arms right now. He looked back down to his broken hearted friend.

"I'm taking him." He choked, his own tears filling his throat. "You'll follow?" he asked, knowing just where Remus' head was at, he had once been there.

Remus nodded but said nothing. Sirius turned and dissaparated from the spot with Harry in his arms, it would be the last he saw his friend for a very long time.