Remus was devastated that his "friends" had turned on him so quickly and he had simply left Hogwarts refusing to face the hypocrisy; sure he was a werewolf, but that didn't mean that he was on Riddle's side. It had started with an attack on a small village at the beginning of the war; only a hand few of people had known that a specific part of the auror training camp was located there and he had been one of them. It didn't matter that Sirius, Peter, James, and Lily had all known the same information or that certain officials in the ministry had also known. Since he was the only werewolf he was the obvious choice to blame and James had started to get suspicious and questioning everything that Remus did. When another village had been attacked mere two weeks later James became more suspicious and convinced his Dad, Charlus, to ban him from Potter manor informing Dumbledore that he thought Remus was working for Riddle. Rather than face persecution at the hands of the people that he loved he had decided to leave and now here he was in America with nowhere to go and no one to turn to.
James stared at the state of his house that was in ruins; how had it happened? Remus had no idea that they were living in Godric's hollow; he hadn't even spoken to Remus since fifth year when he had left. The only people that knew were Sirius and Peter...this meant that Remus had not acted alone when he went to the other side and James knew that he had to find out who had betrayed him, Lily, and their boys.
"James, what...what happened?" Sirius stuttered and James turned to look at Sirius uncertainly.
"Is it you?" James demanded and Sirius took a step back at the anger in James's eyes.
"James, think about what you're saying! I'm not the secret keeper anymore remember? I couldn't tell anyone it's...it's Peter!" Sirius screamed and James realized Sirius was right and reached to hug the man he really considered his brother and started sobbing uncontrollably.
"My boys...my boys are in that house!" James sobbed and Sirius shook James to snap him out of it and then he started running to the house and James was right beside him as he bounded up what was left of the house and into the shattered living room. James headed up the stairs and jumped over the debris fighting his way to the twins' nursery. "Jamie!" James screamed and lifted his older son into his arms cradling the screaming little boy and trying to wipe the blood off of him.
"James! James, I found Harry!" Sirius hollered and James ran to where Sirius was making sure not to shake Jamie badly. Harry was sitting and staring with tears in his eyes up at the adults and you could tell the little boy was in shock. "Easy, Harry, don't start crying." James soothed as he knelt and picked up his youngest son handing Jamie to Sirius in the process. Harry started bawling though the minute he was picked up and nothing that James or Sirius did would console the little boy. Jamie started crying as well and in a loss of what to do James took Jamie back and handed Harry to Sirius as he started rocking Jamie who quieted almost the moment that he was held by his Daddy. Harry continued to cry and when Madam Pomfrey arrived she took the little boy and started to gently rock him, but Harry continued to cry and then Madam Pomfrey realized that the way the little boy was being held was causing him pain.
"Wait, James, Harry's been hurt he's got burns on his back." Poppy informed and James turned. "Can you put some cream on his back there's something wrong with Jamie he has blood all over him and were trying to find were it came from." James stated and Poppy stared in shock at the man before rolling Harry's shirt up and starting to apply a burn salve to the deep burns. "Poppy, what happened?" Albus demanded seeing the burns on little Harry's back. "I don't know Albus, but these burns are really severe even with the cream there may be some scarring left." Poppy stated and Albus turned to get James and Lily. "James, Lily, you need to see Harry's back, he's..." Albus began, but James and Lily both cut him off. "Albus...there's something wrong with Jamie's head and hands come look at this." James yelled and Lily was too occupied holding the little boy to pay attention to her younger son. Albus sighed and turned to inspect the other little boy, but before he did he turned back. "Once his back is better take him to the castle with you and wait for me in the infirmary." Albus instructed and Poppy nodded in understanding gently applying the burn cream to the back of the little boy.
"What is the matter with Jamie?" Albus questioned trying to keep the irritation out of his voice. "Look!" James snapped pointing to the boy's head and hands. On the head there was a mark that looked like a small feather and on the hands there were little marks that resembled paw prints. "That means that Jamie is the one that has been marked as Riddle's equal!" James insisted and Albus stared in fascination at the scars before turning to look at Harry. Marking someone didn't mean that it would be scars exactly and there was no reason to rule out little Harry just because Jamie had visible scars. "We need to heal the cuts so that he won't have bad scarring." Albus stated and Lily's eyes snapped up in anger to glare at the headmaster. "No! Jamie was brave and he deserves to be recognized for what he did! These are the scars that he got from the battle and he's keeping them!" Lily exclaimed and James and Sirius nodded along with her and Albus could only sigh and insist that they at least go to Hogwarts. "Fine, but you're not prodding on Jamie!" Lily snapped and Albus nodded refusing to fight with Lily knowing that he couldn't force her to heal her son. What angered him more though was that neither Lily nor James nor Sirius had inquired about where Harry was or what had caused his back to be scarred. "Harry is at the hospital wing with Poppy." Albus informed and Lily simply nodded her head in slight appreciation that at least someone was taking care of Harry.