𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝐼𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡

But Your Enemies Closer

1981 dawned on the world, bringing with it twelve months full of opportunity. Some would like to believe that with this new opportunity, good things would come about to the world, but they often forgot that with a good opportunity, came the bad. And, it was far harder for the light to absorb the darkness than for the darkness to swallow the light whole.

For James and Lily, on the first of January, shock had struck them like bullets.

Dumbledore had called them to his office alongside their friends Alice and Frank, and Dorcas and Myles. Each couple had to bring their child with them as well because of the short notice.

He told them what seemed to be a tall tale, nothing more than a story. They would all use the Fidelius Charm to go into hiding away from the world, away from all the opportunity.

Not long after this, he explained that they would perform the charm tomorrow. This meant that the decision of who became the Secret Keeper would have to be made today.

The headmaster had offered to be everyone's Secret Keeper, but only one couple had taken them up on this.

There they sat in the office where old opportunities lay around them, struck still by the rude awakening. Lily and James were the last to get up from their charms, afraid of what was going to happen in the upcoming months.

"Mr. Potter?" Dumbledore said, making both Lily and James's heads fly up to see the headmaster.

"Yes?"

"It has come to my attention that you own an invisibility cloak," Dumbledore started. "Would it be alright if I inspected it for a little while?"

Hesitating for a moment, James raised an eyebrow at the request. It wasn't what he was expecting, but he complied to the request and took the invisibility cloak out of his robes.

"Here it is," James said, still uncertain about his decision. "Take good care of it, please."

"Of course, James," Dumbledore said, transfixed on the cloak in his hands.

Lily stood up, hushing Harry as he stirred in his sleep, and prepared to exit the room. James walked out right behind her with all kinds of thoughts floating around his head.

Portraits passed by in a blur as did staircases, and very soon they were ready to apparate. Yet, before he turned on his spot, James hesitated in the silence as

james and lily walk silently through the walls of hogwarts

"I want to see Remus and Sirius," James spoke, splitting the silence in half.

"That sounds good, I'm just going to head home," Lily said before kissing him goodbye.

...

It didn't take long for James to sit down with Sirius and Remus in their living room. James was glad that Leilani was in Mary's flat at the moment because he really needed it to just be the marauders, even if Peter wasn't present.

"You alright mate?" Remus asked as he handed James and Sirius their tea.

"Not really, no," he responded at once. "You won't believe what Dumbledore told Lily and I."

He spent the next fifteen minutes explaining what the professor had told them, and spoke about how he felt with all this new information. Then, Sirius took the floor and told James about the mole in the Order.

"I think it would be smart to make Sirius the Secret Keeper," Remus pointed out the obvious.

James and Sirius nodded in agreement.