Author's Note: Here's another chapter! I know it's short, almost a drabble, but this is more about the feelings and motivations of canon characters than a whole new story with unfamiliar characters and events. Yes, I am trying to make this adhere to canon as much as humanly possible, but I do have a fairly likeable Peter because, the way I see it, we all have light and dark inside us and it's our choices that make us who we really are and Peter hasn't made all his choices yet, and, besides, there has to be some reason for Sirius to be friends with him. Updates should come much quicker now, I've plotted out the whole story and I think I've gotten them psychologically all figured out now. ;)

"That was brilliant, Pete!" Sirius' sides shaked with laughing. "I can't believe Nott's scared of rats. One step closer and he would have seen me and our wands. You're the best spy we've ever had, mate!"

"It was pure luck," Peter admitted. "He was coming too close and I panicked. Lucky for you though that I did. I doubt Nott would have run away from you."

"Hey, I'd frighten him out of his wits! A biiiig, scaaaaary Grim, an omen of his death."

"He'd be suspicious." said Peter practically. "You're too large and unfamiliar to just happen to make it through the wards around his house. Besides, we are an omen of his death."

"Right. After tonight, we finally have enough information for the Order to go after Nott. Thanks to you."

"It was nothing." Peter nearly blushed and Sirius felt a surge of affection for his friend. Peter had been so hesitant to go with him to spy on a secret death eater meeting, so afraid of losing his nerve and ruining the mission. That insecurity had been the reason, he knew, that Peter wasn't as involved with the Order of the Phoenix as he, James, and Remus were. Peter preferred to stay in the shadows and help out in ways that he couldn't muck up. This was the first active mission he had carried out in months.

Of course, Peter had done magnificently. Sirius' friends always did.

But even if Peter had made a total mess of things, Sirius would always be there for him. If he would have admitted it to himself, Peter's hesitance still reminded him of a little brother he had had once, a very long time ago. He had ruined and lost everything then.

He would not do it again.

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