the girl who lived

PART I - 1

October 31, 1981

It was a stormy night of October. Lily Potter was rocking to sleep the two fifteen months old babies. Harry James Potter and Evelyn Lily Potter. Twins. They didn't expected to have twins, but they loved them very much.

She was singing to them a beautiful lullaby, just so they can sleep well. Everything was going just perfect. Well too perfect, but she didn't thought too much of it. She continued singing to them, when James came into the room, smiling at his gorgeous wife and beautiful kids.

It was quiet. Too quiet. It only took a second for the quietness to be destroyed by the front door being removed from the hinges and slammed on the hard oak floor. Lily looked at James concerned. Was someone breaking into their house? The twins started to cry slightly. James looked in between Lily and the babies. He kissed the forhead of each twin and finally kissed Lily.

"Take care of them. I'll go check it out", he said taking out his wand.

"Be careful", she said and he nodded, getting out of the room.

He had his wand at the ready and went downstairs slowly. He was looking around the staircase.

"Who's there!?", he yelled.

"You can't protect them forever", an unknown voice said, it seemed to come from the big shadow that was in front of the door.
The person was approaching James, who took a step back. The unknown person raised their head and a pair of red glowing eyes met James'. He immediately recognised them. Voldemort.

"Lily! It's him! Take the twins and run!", he yelled to his wife.

"Expelliarmus", yelled James but it was too late, Voldemort already used the killing curse. James fell on to the floor facing the ceiling. Voldemort walked upstairs silently.

Lily heard what happened. She put the twins into their bed. A few tears were running down her cheeks. She bends down to their height and started to whisper.

"You're so loved. Momma loves you. Dada loves you. Harry, Evelyn, be safe. Be strong", she whispered to the twins making them stop crying and looking at her with tears in the eyes, when Voldemort bursted into the room. Looks at Lily then at the babies, who started to cry loudly.

"Please, take me. Leave them alone and take me", she said with tears in her eyes. He was just looking at her with cold eyes.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!", he yelled killing her. The impact of the curse made the ceiling breaking into pieces.

He finally turned his attention to Harry and Evelyn. He didn't expected to be two babies. Even then he would kill both. He'd do anything to earn power. He raised his wand towards Harry, and yelled the killing curse once again. Before he could celebrate, something went wrong, awfully wrong. He couldn't believe it. The most powerful curse in whole world got broken by a fifteen months old boy, somehow returning it to himself making him weak, as his own spirit was dragged out of the house. The little boy had a scar left right where the curse hitted him. It was in the shape of a lighting bolt. He was crying so loud. He didn't know that his twin sister was also hitted by the curse and also survived, being left with a scar on her left shoulder.

Minutes later, someone rushed into the house. It was Severus Snape. He walked in and went upstairs passing by the lifeless body laying on the stairs and went into the babies room. He fell on the ground when he saw Lily's body. He took her in his arms and hugged her, crying until his gasps turns into hiccups. A few more minutes later, he rested her body on the cold floor, closing her eyes. He got up and looked at the babies who were visibly tired. He whipped his tears off and looked at them. He could see Harry was looking exactly like James, except for the eyes, he had Lily's eyes. Then he turned his attention to Evelyn, she was a miracle. He thought she would have an only child, yet here he was in front of the beautiful twins sleeping next to each other. She was looking just like Lily, except for the hair and eyes, they were dark brown and hazel, just like James'.

Suddenly he heard people talking outside. He knew the Aurors and the Minister of Magic, already came. He took Evelyn, knowing that no one knows about a second child. So he took her and Apparate to his small house. She was sleeping peacefully into his arms. He lied her down on a soft surface and covered her in blankets. He was determined to keep her safe. For Lily.

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Title: 'The twins who lived'
Words count: 781