Author's Note: This is short but I think rather good and too the point! I really enjoyed writing a side to Peter that I normally wouldn't have expected and really who wouldn't feel a little shame after what he did.

This is for the Chocolate Frog Card Challenge and my prompt was 'write about a betrayal'.

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Shame

He had been so afraid for so long and finally he had earnt the trust, if not the respect, of his contemporaries. So why didn't he feel a sense of accomplishment? Or at the very least a lessening of the fear that gripped him daily.

As he walked past the members of his group, taking in their hostile glance although less hostile than usual, he realised that there was only one emotion that he was feeling and it was far from happy.

Shame choked his throat, building up like a lump and threatening to overwhelm him. Tears stung at his eyes as he gasped quietly for breath.

He knew he wasn't really choking, not close to dying, but he wanted to be. Anything was better than the crushing weight now settled directly above his heart. He wished he had given his own name, that he would die, rather than those he cared about; but it was too late

He could feel the eyes of his Dark Lord burning into the back of his neck and remembered the cruel smile that curved his pale lips as he was given the information he so desperately desired.

A shudder crawled down his spine as he recalled the words, whispered sweetly, tenderly as if to a lover, once he had finished his report.

"You have done me a great service, Peter."


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