Harry Potter: And the Mothers Sacrifice

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Warning: Hagrid is in this chapter, please excuse my writing as he is hard to write for

Chapter 2: Monster

Lily didn't know how long it had been since the house had stopped collapsing around them, she estimated maybe a hour or a hour and a half. What she did know was that in that sixty to ninety minutes Harry hadn't stopped crying and she was still stuck in Voldemort's full body bind.

She was over the initial relief that had occurred when she had first heard that Harry was still crying and starting to worry that Harry was going to start to cause serious damage to his throat if he didn't stop crying soon.

"Please stop crying baby, oh please stop crying. Please stop crying baby, oh please stop crying." The words had become a silent mantra in her head for the last half a hour, and she was becoming highly frustrated with the situation.

By now her magic should have naturally countered Voldemort's Petrificus Totalus spell. But no she was still stuck listening to the sounds of her precious baby boy cry for love and reassurance that things were ok.

"NNNNOOOO JAMES" She heard a loud below from downstairs followed by loud sobs. Some one was here, some one who cared for James, some one from their side.

Her mantra immediately changed from please stop crying to "Come up the stairs, just come to the nursery and help Harry"

And to her relief not two minutes later did she hear some one sniffing at the door.

" So K Harry, Haggie's here now." And as Hagrid made his way across the room to Harry she felt a wave of relief so strong she new she would have cried if it hadn't have been for the spell still holding her.

"It's a right good thing Bathilda flooed Dumbledore right away, when she saw the 'plosion, other wise," and the large man fell to his knees, awfully close to Lily's head, and started crying loudly again, "Merlin Harry you'd be 'ere all alone."

"Please he needs comforting pick him up Hagrid, please just give Harry a hug," Lily didn't think she had been ever this frustrated about anything before, listening to Hagrid cry next to her head while Harry cried above her in his cot.

"JAMES NO," Another voice from downstairs startled Hagrids so much he stopped crying, "LILY, HARRY ARE YOU HERE?"

Sirius, Sirius was here. She had never been so grateful for his presence in all her life.

"Sirius that you?" Hagrid called out getting up and moving next to the door.

"Hagrid, were is Lily and Harry?"

The question caused Hagrid to burst into sobs again, which in turn caused Sirius to barge up the stairs and straight into the nursery.

"Lily" Sirius's whisper of her name was almost worse than the gut wrenching scream of James's name she had heard from downstairs, if only for the fact that she did not disserve the pain and pity that filled that voice.

"Her eyes are still open Hagrid, why?"

"Because I'm not dead" She wanted to shout it but all she could do was franticly move her eyes around in her head in hopes that Sirius looked down again.

"I didn' notice what with Harry crying and what not," Sirius looked towards the little wailing boy as if he hadn't noticed him before.

"Harry, Harry your alive," and Sirius without another delay crossed the room scooped his crying godson into his arms and started to shush him.

"So K Harry, every thing will be Ok, just stop crying fro your uncle Padfoot K?" And to Lily's great relief the crying stopped.

"Mum," the little voice replaced the crying, and Lily thanked every god that she had learnt about that her son could still talk after the abuse that he had just put his throat through, "Wan' mummy 'adoot."

Hagrid started to sob loudly again, while Sirius took in a deep breath to compose himself

"Harry I'm so sorry mummy's slee…" Sirius trailed his sentence off as he looked down into Lily's face, her eyes moving franticly try to get someone's attention.

"Lily? Merlin Lily your alive but how?" Sirius had dropped down next to Lily's head were Hagrid had been kneeling previously. Relief flooded through Lily when Sirius secured Harry in one arm and took his wand out and preformed the counter curse.

Lily flew up from her position on the ground and took Harry from Sirius franticly checking if he was alright. Resulting in Hagrid promptly fainting in the doorway, Sirius being pushed over, and Lily finding a lot of blood on Harry's head, which had come from a now scabbed over lightning bolt scar.

"Gosh Lily you could at least say thank you, you know," and with that Sirius began to hysterically laugh that bark like laugh that was so Sirius.

"Thank you Sirius, you don't know how long I laid there wanting to comfort Harry, wanting to see if Jam… he… he didn't make it did he?" She new the answer already by Sirius's and Hagrid's reactions when they had come into the house.

"He looks so peaceful Lily, he's eyes were open too, like yours were, but…" And Sirius trailed off into raking sobs, crying for the loss of his best friend, his brother. And as Lily sat there and watched him cry, she hugged Harry closer to her and felt her shoulder dampen with small salty baby tears.

But Lily herself didn't cry, she felt a deep lose for her Husband, for the father of her child, for James, but she couldn't cry and she felt terrible for it like she was a monster because all she could fell was relief that her child had survived.

AN

Thank you to Chameleon7, Christopher Kidwell, Cross Country Chick2008 and angelXwithXbrownXeyes for your reviews of the last chapter. Too Christopher Kidwell Lily did save Harry, but how she did it and what she sacrificed will be answered in a later chapter. And thank you too Cross Country Chick2008 for the spell cheek. Hope you all enjoyed this chapter