Chapter 6: Questions That Need Some Answers
The marauders were all sitting in the kitchens and processing what had just happened. Could Remus really have had a cousin this whole time and not have known anything about him? Why didn't Teddy say anything about this until he was caught? What's up with this whole Al being on Teddy's doorstep? How didn't James know him? Why do Al and James look so much alike? Why do Remus and Teddy look alike? These were the questions flying through the four boy's minds while they sipped their butterbeers.
"This doesn't make any sense…" whispered a frustrated Remus.
"It doesn't fit together at all..." murmured an equally frustrated James.
"He's lying; we just need to figure out how to prove it. We can't just say 'Hey, you're lying,' we need actual proof….he needs to be caught in the act." Sirius declared.
"Yeah!" Peter said while he pounded his fist on the table.
"Well how do we do that!" an irritated Remus persisted.
"We need to find something that really gives him away… Something the screams 'I'm lying.'" James added.
"Well we know Teddy said Remus was his cousin and the rest of his family were killed and he was thought to be dead too, and Al just randomly showed up on his porch one day." Sirius restated.
"Yeah, but that's just really unlikely, we need proof that he's lying." Remus declared.
"It's so improbable that it could be proof though!" Sirius retaliated.
"It's not enough to really prove he lied. Improbable things happen all the time!" Remus shot back.
"Fine, whatever." Sirius mumbled angrily.
"Moving on," James continued, "He must have done something that would give it away."
"Well," Peter added, "Didn't he say he knew we used the map… how could he have known about that."
"Oh. My. Merlin. THAT'S IT! Peter you brilliant little rat-face! YOU DID IT!" Sirius howled as he got up to bear hug the so called 'rat-face'.
"We caught him. We actually caught him! I thought this whole discussion wouldn't lead anywhere, but we caught him in the lie!" Remus bellowed while he too bear hugged Peter.
James just stood up and yelled, "GROUP HUG!" then tackled the other three marauders to the ground.
After they had finally settled down and were seated, Remus turned to his 3 best friends and said quietly, "I'm just afraid of what the truth will be."
I'm so sorry I didn't update for forever! I really don't have any down time….at all, so I never had any time to write. Don't hurt me! I would also like to say thank you for all of your reviews, favorites, and follows. (That didn't really make any sense, but you know what I meant…right?) I will try to update more often, and I am going to wrap up this story soon, but I am going to start working on another marauder era story after Teddy's time travel tale is finished. (Try saying Teddy's time travel tale 5 times fast!) Thanks for reading!
~Meeks