A/N: Hey guys, this should have been up ages ago but college got in the way of things and obviously that takes priority for me, however, we are here with this chapter and please, please, please review!


"Hello Peter. I'm going to kill you." He gulped.

"Lily, come on, let's talk about this." Her eyes widened as she laughed with disbelief.

"Talk about this? Pettigrew you almost had my family killed. Talking about this is only going to delay the inevitable." He frowned at her, his left hand slowly inching towards his pocket.

"But Lily, what about our history? We've been like family ourselves for a few years." Lily nodded, not noticing his hand that was now in his pocket and wrapped around his wand.

"We have Peter but apparently family doesn't mean the same thing for you as it does for me." His eyes narrowed and angrily whipped out his wand, pointing it at her heart. She didn't even blink, disarming him within seconds. With his eyes resting on his wand a few feet from him, he realised now how much danger he was in. His eyes flickered back to her and he swallowed with obvious discomfort. "Ah, Peter realised how much shit he really is in now? Your weakness is just overwhelming, you know?" His eyes flashed and she knew she struck a nerve. "Ah, did that hurt you? Really doesn't surprise me, I mean you have Remus, the smart yet subtly dangerous one who is gorgeous to the point of drooling." Her wand was still aimed dangerously at Peter. "You have Sirius, the womanizer and blood traitor but he is still gorgeous, confident, funny and talented." Peter's body was stiffening now, and an angry look was on his face but she ignored it, carrying on. "And James, ah good old James. Head boy, quidditch captain, one of the most talented boys of our time at Hogwarts and also one of the most gorgeous. He even managed to get the girl Pete, managed to have a family. What about you Pettigrew, what about you?"

Lily knew she was baiting him, waiting for him to snap so that she could hurt him but she still didn't expect him to launch himself at her, tackling her to the floor and causing her hand to let go of the wand, accidentally flinging it near Peter's. She kicked his shin, crawling towards her wand but his grip on her ankle pulled her back to him. She twisted so that was on her back and kicked his face.

His nose shattered and he roared in pain, stumbling backwards and clutching his bleeding feature. When she started to crawl back to the wands, he grabbed both feet and yanked her back, resting a knee on her back as she wriggled to get free. Before she could wriggle free and defend herself in anyway, Peter had grabbed a chunk of her hair and pulled her head up before slamming into the ground. Once. Twice. Three times.

She lay there in a daze, her head resting on the ground and she watched Peter's feet as he walked to where the wands rested before slowly pulling herself into a standing position, ignoring the pounding pain in her head and the blood that was trickling down her face. If she was going to die, it was going to be on her own terms.


"Prongs, calm down." Sirius said. James' eyes flashed to his and Sirius sighed with defeat. Though he couldn't let it show, he was just as torn up about Lily's disappearance as James was. Obviously not as much as James but Sirius had grown to love the fiery red head like his little sister. "Okay, don't calm down." James growled, stopped in his pacing and stared at his friend.

"Peter betrayed us. My wife is missing. We're in a middle of a war and you want me to calm down?" James shouted. Remus stood up from his seat and placed a hand on Sirius' shoulder.

"Shouting and pacing isn't going to find her James. We broke into Filch's office, checked the map and she's not on the grounds. That means she went through a passage to Hogsmeade and is either still there taking a break or she apparated somewhere else. Have you spoken to Molly?" James sighed, running his hands through his hair and grumbled.

"Yes. She said that she was talking to Lily about Percy then Lily asked her to look after Harry whilst she came to talk to me. The next thing she knew was when Minerva wandered in looking for her." The three were sitting in one of the classrooms that were near the hospital wing. After finding out about Lily's disappearance, James had refused to stay too far away from his sleeping son but once the other Marauders realised his temper was getting the better of him, they dragged him into the nearest room.

"Why was Molly talking to Lily about Percy?" Remus asked, his brow furrowed with confusion. James shrugged.

"Beats me. Those girls can natter for hours about anything."

"Yeah but Molly obviously said something that would trigger this." Remus pointed out. Sirius nodded, seeing where Remus was coming from. They all had thoughtful expressions on their face before Sirius cursed.

"Ah Merlin's balls. You don't think she's gone looking for Wormy do you?" He exclaimed, running hands through his hair and messing it up like James always did. James stopped pacing and looked at them with wide eyes. "Fuck it, we know that she would. Remember that time she hunted down Avery for calling James a blood traitor? We warned her that she would get hurt but she still did it once we turned our back." Remus nodded in agreement.

"She was in the hospital wing for the weekend." Remus added, a smile gracing his face at the memory.

"Yeah but she got Avery good. He was in there for a whole week." Sirius responded, smiling proudly.

"My moron of a wife has gone hunting a death eater." James mumbled, his face pale and eyes wide.


"Lily, why do you insist on fighting? The Dark Lord will be triumphant." Lily shrugged, taking a step towards him.

"I'm a Gryffindor. Brave and loyal. I'm also ridiculously stubborn but I fear that it's more me than my Gryffindor blood." Peter smiled despite himself. "Pete, why?"

"He was going to kill me." He whispered. She stepped closer and he hadn't noticed. "You know he already killed my mum, took her away before my eyes and then threatened me. I was distraught and scared and I said yes. You don't know what it's like Lily, to watch your family disappear before you and have your own life threatened."

She was standing before him, an arms stretch away from grabbing a wand from his pocket. "I don't?" she asked him and he nodded. "What about my own parents Peter? Killed in a death eater attack during the Christmas holidays of our seventh year; I was making them tea and came back out of the kitchen just in time to see the flashes of green hit my parents." Peter stared at her with wide eyes and shock. She forgot that he had been on holiday in France with his parents during that Easter and he hadn't questioned why all the Marauders were suddenly so protective of her. "Yep, I came out and saw three of them standing there laughing. Malfoy, you know the Slytherin who kept trying to get me, the year above us?" Peter nodded. "Yeah, he was there and recognised me, told the other two to have some fun with me. I ran, ran out of the house and into the garden, hopping the fence to the field behind my house. I could hear them chasing me but I didn't look over my shoulder to see how close they were. I didn't want to lose hope."

She took a deep breath to try and calm herself. "James and I hadn't officially got together then, we'd flirted sure and everyone knew how we felt about each other but during that run I was scared that I'd never get to see him again and obviously we know that my apparating skills aren't top notch so I didn't want to risk splinching myself." She took a small step closer to him; he was too entranced in her tale to notice. "I grabbed the wand out my hoodie pocket and sent a patronus to him, telling him how much I loved him and I was sorry about everything. Seconds after I sent it, Malfoy tackled me to the ground. James got my message, obviously, Sirius and Remus saw it too as well as his parents. At first they thought I was finally admitting that I liked him and they sent a few jibes but then they all heard the underlying fear in my tone and then my confession of being sorry, I think I told him that it hurt that I'd never see his face again." Peter looked like he was going to cry.

"His parents, obviously being the best aurors in the Ministry used practically all of their resources to go to my parents' home. James, Sirius and Remus went too and I heard that they all cried and feared the worst when they saw my parents laying there and the smashed tea cups in the kitchen doorway. I guess I have James to thank for actually believing I was still alive, searching the house until it got to the point where Padfoot had to drag him into the garden for some fresh air and to calm himself. I guess I also have Sirius to thank for finding me; he saw movement through the trees at the end of the garden, saw a flash of light which was me trying to escape somehow, and heard my screams. He didn't even tell James what he saw, just ran. He could've gotten himself killed just to save me. Remus and James followed after him and if they had been seconds later then yeah, I'd have been killed but I wasn't and they fought for me, and they saved me." Her hand was outstretched, she could practically feel the wand and when Peter drew in a shaky breath she surged forwards, snatching the wand out of his pocket and disarming him again as she whirled out of his reach.

"That's what a family does Peter, we save each other, not kill each other."

This was it. This was the moment that she had been waiting for since she woke up in her shattered home to see Remus' concerned face fill with relief and to hear Harry crying for her and James. She levelled the wand at his heart and she saw him trying to think of something to defend himself, to get out of there as quickly as he could and never face the wrath of Lily Potter again. She was more pissed than James and Remus had been at Sirius when he had told Snape about the furry little problem.

"Lily please. What would James think? What about the Marauders? What about Harry?" Her breath caught in her throat and she had to hold back the tears of never seeing her baby boy again.

"They'll understand. I have to do this, the others, they might hurt you a bit but they wouldn't kill you. They'd hand you over to the aurors and you'll go to Azkaban. Peter I need to do this, I want to watch the fear and terror on your face and I want to watch you stop breathing. Sure, I'll regret it when I can't see my baby boy go to Hogwarts for the first time and I never get to hold my husband again but I love them and this is a sacrifice I'm making for the good of everything."

"As painful as this is for me Lils, I understand."

"Good." She raised the wand, let her rage and anger, her hatred, want and need for this fuel the fire in her and soon there were sparks at the end of her wand. Green sparks. "Avada Ked-"

"Expelliarmus." The wand flew from her hand and she stared at the wand as it clattered to the floor with confusion on her face before looking up at Peter who was staring at her with the same look of confusion. But then she felt it.

She felt the tingling sensation that she always got when James focused his attention on her. She took a deep breath, looking up and flinched when she met the gazes of three, very pissed Marauders.


A/N: There we go, lot longer than I imagined it to be and originally there was only going to be one more chapter and it might still be one more unless I can figure it out how to make more than one, all depends on the magic of my imagination! Also, I hate to do this because I feel like such a beg, which I'm not, but can we check out my OTHER HP fanfic, I tried something knew and the chapters are really long, I know this but I've had people at home/college tell me it's great but only one favourite and review, normally this wouldn't bother me but for some reason it does so please, ignore my begging and just check it out please? See you when I next update – love, wannabewyler xo