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Sirius Black just appeared on the dark street, not wanting the rumours to be true. But here, seeing his best friend James Potter's house looking broken and dark, he knew; he knew he had heard the truth. Guilt, shame, and anger boiled inside him, he was here not even a week ago trying to save them from this.
   Albus Dumbledore had been informed by what he called a regretful Death Eater; of a plot by Lord Voldemort. There had been a prophecy about a wizard being able to defeat him, and that wizard would be born near the end of July. There were only three wizarding children that could fit under the qualifications.
   The first was Neville Longbottom, born July 30th, to Frank and Alice, both of whom are Aurors. Then there was Harry and Iris, the Potter twins, born on the 31st. Lord Voldemort had some how taken this to mean the Potters. The twins were both half-bloods, as Lord Voldemort was. There was also two options in this house, though he seemed to believe it solely meant Harry.
   So this regretful Death Eater came and warned Albus about a plot to kill baby Harry. With the warning they were able to take action to protect them. The Potters decided to go into hiding, Albus even offered to be their Secret Keeper. But James insisted on Sirius. Sadly, at last minute, Sirius panicked, because most of his family was connected to the Death Eaters, and with Remus's condition there was only one option left, they thought.
   So they changed to their friend Peter Pettigrew, and that was the last he saw of any of them. Sirius fought back the tears remembering that day, sitting on the couch with Harry on the toy broom he had bought him. And little Iris with her mother's hair crawling onto the couch to sit by him, always calling him "Doggie." He was so lost in thought he did not hear the sound of someone else apparating behind him.
   Remus Lupin speed walked up to Sirius. Both looked sad, but neither said a word. As far as Remus knew, Sirius had been the Secret Keeper, making this all his fault. But right now he just did not want to believe this. So he pushed the growing anger down for now. They did look at each other though, and Remus saw tears.
"Sirius?" Remus questioned.
"It's my fault!" Sirius said. "It's my fault! I told him to pick Peter." The tears started to fall now. Remus was shocked by this, and put a hand on Sirius's arm.
"You could not have known!" Remus said.
"I'm gunna kill that rat!" Sirius said balling his hands into fists angrily. He turned to try and leave, but Remus stopped him.
"No, Sirius," Remus urged. "After we see. We need to see." Sirius sighed and followed Remus.
   They lit the tips of their wands as they walked into the house. The main room was a mess, they could tell a fight had happened. At the base of the stairs was James' body with blood coming from his head. Before either of them could rush to James they heard the cries from the up the stairs. At least one of the twins were still alive and in this house.
   Sirius was always the fastest runner, probably because he had grown up running from his abusive mother. Remus attempted to follow him, but as he passed James, he swore he saw him move. So, Remus stopped and bent down over James to check for a pulse.
   Remus nearly fainted when he felt a heartbeat, James Potter was ALIVE! He started shaking his friend.
"James!" Remus said. "James!"
   James Potter started opening his eyes and saw one of his dear friends.
"Remus!" James said sitting up, a little too fast and proceeded to vomit.
"Calm down," Remus said. "I think you have a concussion." James rubbed his head. "SIRIUS!!! SIRIUS, JAMES IS ALIVE!"
"What?" Sirius said, coming out holding baby Harry, and rushed down the stairs. "James!" He squatted holding Harry.
"Dada,” Little Harry said tears in his eyes. James rubbed Harry's head.
"Where's Lily?" James asked, but then saw the lightning bolt. "What is that?"
"I'm sorry Prongs..." Sirius said. "Lily is dead."
   Before any other words were spoken a dark figure appeared in the doorway. The three stood up quickly, Remus and Sirius holding out their wands. This was when James realized he did not have his. He looked around quickly and saw it on the ground, broken into three parts.
"Oh, it's only Snivellus!" Sirius said. "What are you doing here?!"
"Not that it is important to you," Severus said. "But I had to see for myself."
"Wait," James said. "Snape what are you doing here?" He thought for a moment. "It was you." This caught Sirius's and Remus's attention, baby Harry was making faces at Snape. "You were the one who told Dumbledore. You tried to protect us." Snape shifted on his feet, uneasy.
"And if I was?" Severus asked.
"Where's Iris?" Remus said suddenly.
"Lily had put her to bed before..." James suddenly went pale. "Iris." He tried to run up the stairs, but got dizzy again because of his head injury. Remus caught him again.
"I'll checkup stairs," Sirius said. "Snivellus, make yourself useful and check down stairs."
   Remus used his wand to fix up the couch and sat James down, then gave him a glass of water. Sirius gave Harry to Remus and headed up the stairs. Snape grunted and started to look around. James and Remus sat around with baby Harry as they waited. Harry started falling asleep in Remus's lap.
"Sirius said you switched to Peter last minute," Remus said.
"Yeah, he was worried about his cousins and their connections to Voldemort," James explained. "Lily had suggested you, she was not sure about Peter."
"She was never all that fond of him," Remus remembered. "Especially once she found out his Animagus form was a rat."
"I'm sorry Remus,” James sighed. "Sirius and I were worried that your condition could make you vulnerable."
"It is alright," Remus said reassuringly. "I understand."
   A few moments later Severus was shifting some broken beams, and muttering to himself about stupid dogs. Then suddenly he heard crying, but not as loud as Harry had been. "BLACK." Snape shouted, he had found Iris. She was pale and bleeding, so he picked her up and carried her over to the others as Sirius ran back down the stairs.
    Iris Potter's pulse was slow and fading, James was about to lose his daughter as well this terrible night. Snape told them they all need to go to Hogwarts, as he was Potions Master and could help her there. The plan was for them Apparate there; Snape with Iris, Remus with Harry, and Sirius with James who was still wandless and dizzy.
   So, they did this and met up in Hogsmeade and made their way to the castle. They went directly to the hospital wing, it was 4 am now. Severus went to work on Iris, whiles James sat on an empty bed. Remus handed Harry to Sirius and ran to wake up Madam Pomfrey, then went to get Dumbledore.
   On the way to the Headmaster's Office, Remus realized he would not know the password to speak to Professor Albus Dumbledore. But luck was on his side, on the way there he ran into Professor Minerva McGonagall the Deputy Headmistress. She was looking as stern as when he was in school, and she was shocked to see him.
"Remus? Remus Lupin?" Minerva questioned.
"Professor! I need your help!" Remus said.
"Remus, I heard about James and Lily,” Minerva said. "But that is no reason for you to be back here, let alone at this hour of the morning."
"James is alive!" Remus exclaimed. "He's in the Hospital Wing. I need to talk Professor Dumbledore right away."
"Albus is actually meeting with the Minister of Magic," Minerva said.
"Good we will need her too," Remus said. With that Minerva led them to the office.
"I am sorry to bother you Albus, Millicent," Minerva said, "But Remus Lupin is here saying James is alive and they have brought him here to the Hospital Wing."
"James Potter is alive?" Millicent Bagnold asked.
"Yes, and so are Harry and Iris," Remus added. "Well Iris is teetering. But yes, they are all here."
"Minister, I believe you should return to the Ministry, and send Aurors out to find Sirius Black,” Albus told Millicent.
"No," Remus stated. "Sirius is here with us. James says it wasn't him. It was Peter,” They all looked a little shocked.
"I believe we should head back the Hospital Wing and talk to them ourselves," Millicent said, and the three of them headed there right away.
   When the four of them reached the Hospital Wing they found James lying in bed with Madam Pomfrey busying herself over his concussion. In the bed next to him, Sirius was sitting, holding a sleeping Harry and looking over at James. On the other side of the room, Severus was sitting on another bed holding Iris and going between spells and a bottle of Dittany to heal her wound.
"James what happened?" Albus asked.
"The original plan,” James started again. "Was to have to Sirius be our Secret Keeper. But last minute he panicked and changed his mind." Before he could continue Sirius muttered a very disparaging comment about himself. "So, we ended up with Peter. And now..."
   At that last point, James Potter started crying, thinking about his beloved Lily. Before anyone else could try and comfort him, Severus came over carrying a now cured Iris. Alive and breathing normally, she was poking Severus repeatedly until he handed her over to James.
"Dada!" Iris squeaked out. James hugged his little girl, and she gave him a little baby kiss on his cheek. This got James to smile again.
"A miracle in a night that was meant to destroy an entire family,” Albus said.
"Very well said,” Millicent agreed. "For now, I shall rouse some of our very best Auror's and deal with this Peter Pettigrew."
   She turned and left straight away, as there was still work to be done. The whole wizarding world needed to know that the Dark Lord was gone, and that they had new hope in the lives of three surviving Potters. Madam Pomfrey then said James was well enough to leave, but that he needed to take it slow.
"We don't have a home to go back to,” James said.
"I know it's small, but my apartment is always opened to you," Sirius offered up.
"No," Albus said. "Once the Death Eaters find out what happened they will want revenge."
"They couldn't be that daft could they Albus?" Minerva asked.
"The Minister feels the same way,” A black wizard said and he was followed by shorter white one a with weird eye.
"Kingsley, Alastor,” Albus said.
"Crazy old Moody?" Sirius asked.
"Sirius!" Remus scolded.
   Albus talked to Kingsley and Alastor for a few moments. Then Harry woke up and started crying, it was now closer to six am than anyone had realized. His cries set off Iris's whines, neither of them had been changed since eight the previous night, and not been fed in twelve hours. Suddenly Severus handed two diapers to James, because they had not brought any with them.
"Snape?" James asked.
"Just shut them up,” Severus said. "I have papers to grade." Then he left very dramatically with his cape swishing behind him.
"That git really works here?" Sirius asked.
"Severus is our newest Potions Master,” Minerva said.
   She went over to a cupboard and pulled out wipes for them, remembering back when she used to change her nieces' and nephews' diapers. So, James, Sirius, and Remus all pitched in to change dirty, and in the case of Harry, very stinky diapers. Once they were done, Albus and the Auroras were also done speaking.
"We have figured out what to do,” Albus said. "And I have already spoken with my brother Aberforth."
"You have a brother?" James, Sirius, and Remus questioned at the same time.
"He runs the Hog's Head down in Hogsmeade," Albus explained. "He's prepped a room for you and is preparing breakfast. Alastor and Kingsley will accompany you all down there."
"I'm confused," James said, as they were leaving. "What happened, how are we alive? Why does Harry have a scar?"
"All I can tell is that is that Killing Curse rebounded when Voldemort aimed it at Harry,” Albus said as he rubbed little Harry's head. "As to why I do not know yet."
   The three Marauders and twins followed the Auroras down to the village, then to the Hog's Head. First Alastor went inside to check things out while Kingsley stayed with them. Once Alastor was sure it was safe, they went in and sat down. Aberforth brought over tea and plates of eggs and sausages and toast.
"Doggie!" Iris said, reaching out for her godfather.
"She was always very fond of you,” James said as they switched toddlers.
"That's because Sirius is a ladies' man," Remus teased.
"That he is," James said and they all sat down and ate, and fed the twins.
   As they finished up eating, the twins were rubbing their eyes. So Aberforth showed them all up to the room, which had one king sized bed. Remus sat in a chair and fell asleep, and James took the bed with the twins, but Iris still wanted her godfather around, so he laid down too. In moments, all five were sound asleep with the two Aurors postioned outside the room.
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   They all slept for most of the day, having been through so much and up most of the night. James Potter was woken up by his son poking him at around two in the afternoon. He sat up and hugged little Harry and found Remus silently giggling. James looked to where Remus was staring.
   There on the other side of the king sized bed was Sirius, all spread out wildly on the bed. Iris had crawled onto his stomach, in their sleep, and was now sleeping on his chest. Sirius even had an arm around her, to keep her from falling off the bed. This sight made James smile a little, it was rather cute.
   James and Remus watched as Iris woke up before her godfather. She sat up on him and started playing with Sirius' face. At one point, Iris was closing off his nose, and he woke up because he could not breathe. Sirius even sounded like a grunting dog as he woke up.
"Doggie!" Iris said giggling. James, who was now sitting near Remus, with Harry in his lap; was also laughing.
"Everything alright in there?" Moody asked through the door as he knocked. Remus got up and opened the door.
"Yes," Remus told them.
"We will be changing guards soon," Kingsley told them.
"Rosier and Wilkes," Moody said. Sirius was playfully tickling Iris at the moment and did not hear the names.
"Are you all hungry?" Kingsley asked. "I could tell Aberforth to bring up a late lunch."
"Yes, please," James said.
   Around the same time that Aberforth brought up some sandwiches, and applesauce for the twins, Wilkes and Rosier came up to switch up the guards. But neither of them bothered to introduce themselves, they just stayed outside the door.
   They fed the twins first then sat them on the floor with some toy blocks, that Kingsley bought for them from a shop in town. They felt safe as they sat there eating sandwiches, with the twins playing. James was tying to discuss Lily's funeral plans, but it was still too hard for him and kept tearing up.
   None of them heard the door silently open, or that the new Aurors had their wands out, and pointed at toddlers. The only thing any of them noticed was when Remus looked out the window.
"Why is Snape running over here?" Remus asked.
"Snape?" James asked looking out the window suddenly.
"Rosier!" Sirius said, looking over and standing up fast, reaching for his wand.
   In a matter of seconds, Rosier had disarmed Sirius and Wilkes had knocked Remus back. James was terrified as he was still wandless and was conisdering transforming into a stag.
"Expelliarmus!" Severus' voice came from the hallway.
   He then proceeded to duel Rosier in the room, when suddenly Moody was there to helping Severus. During the duel, Sirius and James got on the ground and crawled over to the twins to protect them. By the end of the duel, both Rosier and Wilkes were dead, and Moody was missing part of his nose.
"Remus!" Sirius asked, holding Harry, as they all stood up.
"I'm fine," Remus said, standing up.
"Snape," James said, half in shock.
"How did you know?" Moody asked.
"I heard Dumbledore telling McGonagall their names," Severus said. "I remembered them from the meetings."
"Snap-Snap!" Iris said from her dads arms, looking directly at Severus. This caused him to raise an eyebrow.
"Seems she learned a new word," Remus said.
"Uhh," Sirius said, holding Harry away from himself. "Harry needs a new diaper."
   James checked Iris and she needed a new one too. That's when Snape waved his wand and suddenly had two new diapers, and handed them over. Then he did more magic and produced a black diaper bag with a giant cartoony mouse head on it with more diapers.
"Here," Severus said.
"Is that a mouse?" Remus asked.
"It's Mickey Mouse," Severus said.
"Mickey Mouse?" Sirius asked. "Like muggle Disney?"
"Why do you have diapers?" James asked.
"I have to prep for tomorrow's classes," Severus said and then left just as dramatically as he did the night before.
"Snap-Snap!" Iris said waving after him.
"There are even wipes and powder in here," Remus said looking into the diaper bag. "And more of that Mickey Mouse figure." He then pulled out a plush toy of the mouse in red shorts, and a female version in a red polka dotted dress with a matching bow.
"I dunno if we should be weirded out by him right now," Sirius said.
"Let's just changed their diapers," James said and they did so.
   When they were done, Iris went over and took the female mouse and decided it was hers now. The three grown men shrugged and Remus gave the boy one to Harry. Most of their old toys had been destroyed in the house, so it was good for them to have something new.
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