Severus/Lily

Lily survives the attack and so does Harry. His father's love saved both of them

Lily apparates back to the order's hideaway with Harry and a diaper bag and a duffle bag.

Lily blinked against the harsh light shining in her eyes. It was the street light outside the window. Sitting up slowly she discovered she was in the floor of Harry's nursery. Blinking owlishly she touched a sore spot on the side of her head where she apparently had hit it and winched softly.

"Lily?! James?! Harry?! Is anyone here?!" she heard a yell from down stairs. Shaking her head and trying to stand she heard loud boots stomping up her stairs. It must be Sirius. He was the only one who stomped the steps.

"In here." She weakly called as she reached around and grabbed the side of Harry's crib. He garbled a happy noise at her. Smiling softly at her sweet boy she wondered again how she ended up on the floor.

"Bloody hell, LILY?" Sirius yelled as he got to the top step. His steps sounded a bit off before they returned to normal.

"Nursery." She said a bit stronger as she stood up and stretched a bit.

"Thank Merlin, at least your ok. I came as quick as I heard. Snape barely got in the door to the order before saying he was on his way already. Apparently Voldemort was not too happy with him tonight." Sirius said in a rush as he hugged Lily softly.

"Who… what are you going on about Sirius?" Lily said still holding her head.

"Voldemort. He was here." Sirius said looking her dead in the eyes. He waited paitently as the new sunk in and watched as her eyes turned wide with horror.

"but, Harry and I are fine. James must be too, he's… he said… oh god." Lily gasped bringing her hand to her mouth in horror. "Where's James Sirius." She said in a hard whisper looking desperately at her husband's best friend.

Sirius looked panicked as he floundered.

"Sirius Orion Black, where the bloody hell is James." She repeated in a louder much harder voice as she jabbed a finger into his chest.

"He's gone, Lily. At the top of the stairs." Sirius said in a defeated voice.

Lily gasped as she brought her other hand to her mouth, looking around desperately trying to understand. She looked around Sirius' shoulder and saw a wand and a bit of a hand just outside the door.

"Oh god…" she gasped as she tried to stumbled around Sirius. He stopped her and pulled her close, burying her head into his chest.

"No, Lily. He is gone. Don't do this." He barely managed as he tried to soothe her as he blinked back the sting of his own tears.

Lily felt as if her whole world had been ripped away from her. James had became everything in such a short amount of time and she didn't know what to do without him. She was glad Sirius was there because she didn't know what would have happened if she had walked out that door and saw James lying there. Lily was powerless to the gut wrenching sobs that tore through her body relentlessly. After an unmeasured length of time she could hear Harry wailing. Quickly she pulled herself away from Sirius as she tried her best to compose what little dignity she had left before reaching for her son.

"Shh, it's ok Harry, mummy is here. Mummy's here." She cooed as she bounced him lightly to get him to calm down. Lily looked at the red eyed Sirius and sighed.

"What now?" she asked her old friend quietly, still bouncing her son on her hip.

"We have to get you to the house. Both of you, and then send a pair of aurours over. They will want to scour the house top to bottom so we will have to gather what we need for now and anything you don't want to lose. Just in case. If you want to pack Harry's room, I'll grab some of your things. I won't even look." He said with a pitiful smile.

"thanks." She said replying in kind with a soft smile. "Come on Harry, love let's put you in the car seat while mummy gets your toys. We're going to go stay with uncle Padfoot for a bit." Lily said softly trying not to let the boy know how panicked she really was. He could always pick up on when someone was feeling off by the sound of their voice.

Once he was strapped in she handed him one of his toys before heading to his closet to grab both of his diaper bags. One regular diaper bag and another with an undetectable extension charm for trips. Quickly she flicked her wand that she found in the floor at each thing in the room at a time shrinking it and levitating it inside the bag, before dumping all the clothes in the bag as well; hangers and all.

Lily touched the picture on the wall of all three of them on the beach. It had been taken in July, back when Voldemort wasn't nearly as big of a threat. It had been a quick three day vacation but it was still the first time they had been to a beach as a family. Lily sucked in a pained breath as she realized it would also be their last as well.

"I got your bag. Along with a few things I thought you might need. I also grabbed his wand, and wedding ring." Sirius added in a soft voice handing both of them over to Lily.

Lily simply took the ring and stuck it on her thumb before holstering the wand on her hip before handing Sirius the bags and walking over to pick up Harry in the car seat.

"Come on, then. Let's go." Lily said holding onto Sirius and Harry as if her life depended on it.

Sirius landed them on the top step of number 12

Grimmauld place and let her enter quickly before joining her through the front hallways.

"Careful, don't wake up mum." He whispered as she let him pass to lead the way to the kitchen.

Sirius opened the door to the kitchen and could feel the hushed silence as they took in his face.

Albus was the first to notice Lily and Harry behind him.

"is James?" he simply asked taking a step forward. Sirius looked down at the distraught woman next to him before looking back at his old headmaster and nodded somberly.

"Snape's warning was a bit late." He ground out.

"Yes, well he had been unconscious for a few hours before he came to." Albus said quietly in the man's defense.

"Yeah, I know." Was all the response Sirius gave before sitting the three bags down on the floor next to the door.

"Well a most interesting thing was discovered after you left Sirius; it appears that Severus' mark is faded. To nearly nothing at all, your brother is helping him upstairs now. His mark is nearly gone as well."

"and, who cares." Sirius grumped at the older man not caring about the stupid mark on his brother or snivillius' arms.

"We all should. It means he is gone, or nearly gone. Reg said he had something he wanted to talk about regarding the mark fading when he got done healing Severus." Albus said calmly looking at the sad young man in front of him.

Just then a wisp of a patronus flew in front of the small group. It was Augusta Longbottom's kneazle. "Frank and Alice were attacked. I am taking them to St. Mungo's then headed there with Neville. The two that attacked them are currently stunned and hogtied in the living room of my living room. Albus, you know the address."

"Oh dear. Arthur can you accompany me to Augusta's." Albus said turning to the red headed man hovering near his very pregnant wife, Molly, who was bottle-feeding their youngest son.

"Of course, Albus. Come Molly, I'll help you and Ronald upstairs before I go." Arthur said trying to get his wife to stand.

"I will be more than fine right here, Arthur Weasley. Go with Albus once Ron has settled I can help Lily and Harry." She said in a tone that everyone there had learnt not to mess with.

"Very well dear." He sighed before kissing her and walking over to Albus.

"we will be back shortly. Lily? Try and get some rest dear. Young Harry will not understand where dad is. Please, think of him before all things right now."

"Of course Albus." It was a testimony of just how bad Lily was if she wasn't putting up any sort of fight.
"Keep an eye out Alastor. Hopefully this shouldn't take too long." Albus said giving a heavy sigh before leading Arthur out the kitchen door quietly.

"Where is Remus?" Lily asked softly, looking around the table and only missing a few members, but she knew where Emmiline Vance and Minerva McGonagall were. They were at the school.

"I would suppose he is going into hiding. You made him secret keeper over me just last week remember. Voldemort could only find you one way. Bloody traitor." Sirius barked madly.

"Remus was never our secret keeper. We told bot of you it was each other. Peter was secret keeper. And he was supposed to be at his mums since she just got out of St. Mungo's the week before last." Lily said sadly.

"Wait… you mean Peter. Peter Pettigrew? He was your blasted secret keeper. How… why…" Sirius looked completely befuddled.

"James thought no one would think it was him, that the obvious choice would have been either you or Remus. We were trying to protect everyone." Lily said softly trailing off looking at Harry as his little eyes drooped slightly.

"Come on we can take Harry and Ron upstairs now. It's really early and we don't need them off their sleep schedule too much." Molly said bracing one hand on the table and holding little Ron tightly with the other to stand easily.

"I can take him Molly." Gideon said holding his arms out for the little tyke.

"I've had five boys already and I'm carrying another. Don't you worry about me. I think I have got this whole baby thing down by now don't you dear brother." Molly said to her brother before kissing him on the cheek. "you can however grab Lily's duffle bags. Come on dear."

Lily nodded as she picked up Harry in his car seat before grabbing one of the duffle bags.

"I've got it. Three little bags is nothing when you see what Molly has to tote around." Gideon said with a charming smile.

Once Lily was out of the room Sirius stood and looked at Fabian.

"I'm going to go check Remus' safe house. I'll be back in a few hours." Fabian only nodded knowing there was no way he was going to let another friend go tonight. Two was bad enough, no matter the circumstances.