The Burning Red Box
It was Cold on the autumn night of August 10th 2002 in the little town of Godric's Hollow. In one of the homes in this little slice of paradise lived a small family of three that's lives were going to be changed tonight for the better of their family and the world.
The potters, that was their name, were unassuming to most of the general population. They were anything but. James and Lily Potter were very powerful wizards in the world of magic and were seen as a great threat to the dark Lord Voldemort. It was not their magic, however, that made the Dark Lord scared, it was their now 2 week old son, Harry.
They were safe from the Dark Lord for the moment as he did not know where they were and the young family were having a peaceful day in their home. Lily was cooking dinner for her and her husband while James was entertaining a young Harry as the boy giggled at his father's attempts at silly faces. All was relatively quiet until they heard the noise that would forever be burned into their minds.
The sound was what a muggle, or non-wizard, would describe a cat dying. The ‘wvop vop wvop vop’ that was the sound made the wizards still. They knew from their time at the ministry no cat or muggle creature could make that noise. James tapped his wand on the four corners of the painting under the stairs to see a small room open up. He then grabbed his son and placed him inside closing it back up. Then both wizards walked outside with wands drawn, ready for a fight. What they saw in their small yard was not something they were prepared for.
“ Lily, what is that box?” James asked his wife while his wand was drawn towards his heart. The box was about two meters tall and colored the red of rubies and appeared to be made of metal and had smoke coming out all the cracks.. The front of the box was made of a glass door with one shiny handle.
“I believe it is a public call box. My parents used them to make cal--” just as Lily was about to explain their uses both of the wizards saw the box open and the smoke of billow out along with the shrill cries of an infant. Lily drew her wand just as her husband had and readied for a fight they were expecting.
Out of the box a woman with long blond hair and emerald eyes limped from the box carrying the baby that’s own screams the young couple had heard before. She was covered in blood and wounds but the child appeared to be fine.
“Please help me,” the women breathed, “ I don’t know where else to go,” she pleaded.
“What do you mean? Why do you need help?” Lily asked.
“My people are at war. I know none of them will survive and earth is the safest place for my light. I must fight for it is my battle but Eliaria doesn’t have to. I’m asking please, I want her to have the chance to grow up and see all of time and space, please take her.”
“Why would you ask us to take care of your daughter we just met you,”
“But, that is the thing james, you do know me. I was just less curvy and more brooding,” the woman said amused.
“Maximul?!? How is that possible, you were a man and also dead,” James deadpanned.
“ A simple cheat of death my friend. You see when you met me at Hogwarts I did not tell you that I was human because I am not. I am from the planet gallifrey in the constellation kerberos and my people are called the time lords. When we die we simply change our bodies out for a fresh one, unless someone only kills one of our two hearts,” Maximul explained.
“Well aliens are a bit out there but ok. There is just one thing, why are your ‘people’ at war?” Asked lily, who was a little enchanted by the prospect of life on other planets, as she completely blanked at the suggestion of two hearts.
“Galifray has angered many, But I do not have time to explain why. Please James will you raise my daughter well. Just as you will do for your own son,” Maximul Pleaded.
“We’d be happy to Maximul, but what would we say to the rest of the wizard kind about our sudden daughter, who unaceptidly has two hearts?” James asked.
“For her sudden appearance I will simply put a glamor on your timeline making them think she is your daughter. As for the two hearts they would only be a problem if noticed outside the family so you should be fi-” Maximul was cut of by her ships aggravated hissing, “I am sorry my TARDIS is being called back home I must go and head back home,” Maximul said then paused giving them a birth certificate, “ This will be enough proof that she is your daughter. I made her appear to be Harry’s older twin. I have to go now,” She handed over the little girl to the Potters then tearfully said, “Goodbye my sweet Eliaria, Goodbye!” She then turned around and walked inside the once smoltering box and the potter family watched as the box faded out of existence with the same sound they had heard before.
James looked down at his newly acquired daughters birth certificate and saw her name glistening at the top: Elizaria Moonva Potter. “ Didn’t she say the girls name was Eliaria?”
“The z must be silent,” Lily replied