Mum, what's going on? Why are we at

Mum, what's going on? Why are we at St Mungo's? Mum!" Damien was trying not to panic but the tears that had just appeared in his mother's eyes and her shaky breathing was making Damien very nervous.

"Damien…j-just come w-with me." Lily managed to croak out and took her son's hand, gently this time, and led him to the lifts on the other side of the hall.

"It's your dad Damy, he was hurt last night."

Damien felt his entire world crash around him. His dad had been hurt before, being an Auror, it was an occupational hazard, but never before did he end up in the 'Serious Injuries caused by Illegal Curses' Ward. He had never seen his mum this upset either which made him think that his dad might be badly injured this time.

"What happened?" he asked as they made their way up to the seventh floor. They were alone in the lift.

"He was on duty last night and was injured during a duel." Lily was trying her level best to keep her voice steady. It was unfair to upset Damien more than he was already.

"What duty?" Damien asked, knowing his mother would understand his real question, Auror or Order.

"The first one." she said as she never said the word Order of the Phoenix when outside safe walls. She knew her son always referred to the Order as James' second job.

The doors opened and Lily and Damien rushed out of the lift and ran to room number five. They were not at all surprised to see a very tired and disgruntled Sirius sitting next to James. Damien breathed a huge sigh of relief as he saw his dad sitting up in bed taking animatedly to Sirius. He looked really pale, and there was a bandage wrapped around his neck and one on his forearm. Other than looking really tired, James seemed to be okay.

James looked up at the two new arrivals and his face broke into a smile. Sirius also looked like he had been through hell and back, but he let his handsome face break into a smile at the sight of his pup, Damien.

"Hey guys, come on in." James called out and extended his hand to take Lily's as she rushed to his side. Damien still stood at the door leaning against it to steady his heart at the sight if his dad and godfather, looking so beat up.

"Hey pup, come on in." beckoned Sirius and gave him a lopsided grin. Damien walked in slowly and sat next to his dad.

"Oh come on guys, cheer up, I'm fine." James tried to get his wife and son to stop looking as if he was already dead and they were attending his funeral.

"Fine! You call this fine. My God James, you could have been killed…" Lily stopped suddenly and looked towards a much shaken Damien who was staring at the blue swirls pattern of the bedspread.

"Damien, I'm sorry, I should not have taken you out of school like that. I had just found out about your Dad and I just reacted without thinking."

Damien looked up his mother.

"You did the right thing Mum. I would never have forgiven you if you had not brought me here. Just don't scream at Dad, he looks as if he's been through hell."

"Oh, thanks son, I'll remember that!" smiled James trying to look offended. Damien smiled back at him.

"So, are you gonna tell us what happened to both of you?" he asked already knowing the answer.

"Can't pup, top secret and all that, sure you understand." Sirius replied in a boring voice that he always used to answer Damien's questions regarding the Order.

Damien looked towards his father, "Dad, are you going tell me?"

James smiled sadly at his son.

"Honestly son, it's really boring stuff, nothing interesting."

Damien huffed a little and sat back with his arms crossed at his chest. A few minutes later Damien was asked by his mum to go up to the food court on the nineteenth floor and get some refreshments. Damien got up and left, quite thankful to get away from all the boring talk that was happening.

As soon as he had left Lily cast a Silencing charm on the room and rounded on James and Sirius.

"Alright, spill. What happened last night?"

James and Sirius almost looked ashamed.

"Well, I guess there is no other way to say it but…um…we kind of underestimated the enemy." replied a very red looking Sirius.

"What do you mean 'underestimated'? Were there too many Death Eaters? How many were there?" Lily asked trying to imagine five Aurors fighting an army of fifteen or more Death Eaters. That would certainly explain the injuries.

"Um…one." replied James not quite meeting Lily's eyes.

"One" repeated Lily

"Yeah one." answered James and Sirius together.

"Okay! I don't understand how could one Death Eater fight against five Aurors and put two of them in hospital?" she asked starting to feel really annoyed.

"Three" said a small voice that surprisingly belonged to Sirius.

"Excuse me?" Lily was definitely annoyed and a little ashamed.

"Well Kingsley is here with me and James too."

"Hold on a minute, Kingsley Shacklebolt, the huge bloke who three Death Eaters weren't able to bring down, is also injured." Lily was staring to get really freaked out.

"What the hell happened?"

"The damn kid happened." snapped Sirius, obviously not taking his failure well at all.

"The kid, what kid? What are you two talking about?" Lily asked, no longer able to keep up with their conversation.

Both James and Sirius explained what happened. They told her about catching Hunt in conversation with the 'Dark Prince' who turned out to be none other but, Lord Voldemort's son.

Lily was looking from one to the other. They were famous for their pranks. Maybe this was just a joke to freak Lily out. Well it worked.

"Please explain this to me before I pass out from shock." Lily said, hoping it was nothing more than a silly prank.

"I don't know what to say. I'm kind of hoping it's not true. But from seeing first hand what the boy is capable of, I think there's a good chance he is his son. The boy was just a blur at times. He moved so fact and there was no way his moves could have been predicted." James replied.

"And it wasn't only wizard duelling, he was kicking our ass muggle style. Really, Lily that was the weirdest thing. The Dark Lord's son taking muggle style fighting to tackle us." Sirius informed an open mouthed Lily.

"And he wasn't even intimidated in the slightest that he was being faced with five fully grown Aurors. He just wiped the floor with us." James said with a slight red twinge in his pale cheeks.

"What…what happened to Hunt?" Lily asked already fearing the answer.

James's face fell and a look of anger darkened his hazel eyes.

"He killed him, right in front of me. He was so powerful Lily, there was nothing I could do. He sent me flying in the air wandlessly and the way he dealt with Hunt, it was co sold! He just killed him, without a care in the world, no remorse, nothing!" James said. "But the really weird thing about the kid was that something about him just didn't make sense."

"What do you mean?" Lily asked James as he dropped his gaze from her. Even Sirius was leaning closer to hear this.

"Well, he just, I don't know, he just made me feel really uneasy. Like when he was fighting he didn't use any Unforgivables, just standard spells like Stupefy and Incendio. He didn't actually kill anyone except for Hunt. That just doesn't make sense. Death Eaters are all about numbers. They kill and torture as many as they can. But this kid, he just dealt with us and got to Hunt. He didn't cause any other casualties."

"He could have!" interjected Sirius with a nod towards James. "You were lucky that…that…blade, star thing he threw didn't cut you too deep, otherwise..." Sirius couldn't finish. He looked away, trying not to remember how his friend had looked when he found him in a pool of his own blood.

"It's called a Shuriken." James informed him.

"How do you know that?" Lily asked at once, surprised that James knew the name of a muggle weapon, such as the ninja stars.

"Healer Thomas told me. He's a muggle born and recognised it from my description." James told her before turning to Sirius. "I know that he tried to kill me, but see that's the thing. I don't think he really wanted to hurt me. He told me to move out of the way like three times, it was only when I attacked him that he retaliated. I mean I did give him quite a nasty cut…"

"Why on earth are you making excuses for him!" exclaimed Lily.

"He tried to kill you and you are going on about him as if he was forced to do this!" added an irritated Sirius.

James closed his mouth and bowed his head slightly, why was he making excuses. He had seen the rage quite clearly in the boy's eyes. He knew that the boy had attacked him with the intent to kill but something inside him just didn't want to believe it. Then there was the fact that the boy had seemed somewhat familiar to him. James didn't know how it was possible but he felt that he knew him from somewhere. That voice had seemed very familiar. He didn't want to admit it, but the boy's voice has reminded him of Damien. However he kept this from Lily and Sirius. He didn't want to sound crazier than he was sounding already. He sighed.

"I guess I just don't want to believe that a child can be so evil." he told them.

Lily comforted her husband and Sirius looked down at the ground deep in thought. He understood what James meant. It was not only disturbing but a little heart breaking to see such a young boy in battle and taking other's lives so mercilessly.

Before they could say anything else Damien reappeared in the room, holding lots of refreshments. He took in the sight of his mother, her arms wrapped up around his father, who was looking really defeated and his uncle Sirius also looking very upset.

"Is everything okay?" he asked as he dumped the goodies on his father's bed.

"Well it is now, that you got chocolate frogs and sherbet pops!" said his father while taking one each of his favourite candy and looking at Damien as if he were Father Christmas.

Damien sighed and ripped open a chocolate frog of his own and watched it jump up and down on his dad's bed. Honestly, he didn't think his