She felt it when her husband fell, sickly green light filling the dark house for but a moment. One single moment in which the current head of the Potter family fell, taking the wards protecting the house with him. Dashing through the closest door she could find, she spun on the spot, clearly expecting something to have happened, devastation filled her face as she finished her spin. Holding her precious bundle closer to her chest, green eyes met green eyes as mother looked upon child;

"Be safe, be strong" a whisper of breath across the baby's brow followed with a kiss before being placed in a cradle. Lily Potter turned her back to the cradle facing the door as she heard the slow steps of her husband's murderer heading towards her. She firmed her heart and sent a prayer to any being listening that her child survived the night, as she knew she would not.

3 times the monster offered to spare her. 3 times she begged the monster to take her life instead of her child's. "So be it" the monster decreed and Magic heard the call, Magic bound the monster to his words, and as the monster cast the spell that ended her life, Lily smiled as she felt Magic protect her child. Then, knowing that she had done all she could, she meet death with open arms.

But the Monster was damaged and he could no longer feel Magic as it worked, so he was already turning towards the cot and drawing upon the death spell as Magic settled around the child. As the green light speed towards the child that the monster had sworn to leave alone, Magic reacted with all its fury towards the Oathbreaker, rebounding the death spell and following it back to its caster. Magic enhanced the death spell and used its strength to tear apart the monster, to take its due from the Oathbreaker; only to find that the monster had gone even further than Magic knew. This monster was Oathbreaker, Kinslayer, and Soulripper. So Magic took, grabbing ahold of any parts of the monster that it could and ripping them away from the monster, as his tattered shade of a soul escaped. Gathering the parts of the monster Magic had claimed, it cleansed the corruption from the strands of magic and gently twisted the strands into the child Magic had been called to protect, a gift for Magic's failure to destroy the monster.

Magic drew away from the child as it was picked up and comforted by the man newly arrived in the house. Magic could feel the child was safe with the man. With a gentle nudge to his mind from Magic the dark haired man turned quickly on his heel and disappeared with a crack.

More cracks sounded from outside the cottage as members of the Auror force arrived; falling into a defensive position as they approached the now dark and silent cottage, missing half of its roof, fire still smouldering on the edges of the rafters that reached out into the empty sky like skeletal fingers. One brave man stepped through the open door stopping short at seeing the face down body of a messy haired brunette man. Turning the body over the officer, recognising a former comrade in the Auror force, called "Potter's gone captain"

"His Wife?"

"Same captain," called a fellow Auror who had headed upstairs. "But you need to come see this captain."

Running up the stairs Captain Travis headed towards where his Auror was standing in a doorway looking into a room. It was as if a blasting curse had gone off inside the room only leaving the empty cot untouched. Lily Potter was dead, her distinctive red hair, splayed out on the floor around her head, almost looked like blood in the light of the moon, shining through the hole that used to be a wall and most of the roof. Across from her body was a dark burn mark in the shape of a man. Captain Travis took all this in but…

"Where's the baby?