A/N: Sorry the wait took a little later than I originally planned, but I didn't really have time before now, then I started a new story, which I really didn't mean to do. Sigh, oh well.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these wonderful characters, but I'll treat them rather nicely when I borrow them.

Chapter 11

"So what do you boys have in mind," Moody asked. Lily cleared her throat kind of harshly, catching the older man's attention, and I couldn't hold in my laughter as he looked down sort of sheepishly.

"Sorry Mrs. Potter," he mumbled. "Didn't mean to forget about you there." She just huffed and crossed her arms, not ready to forgive old Mad Eye just yet.

Remus rolled his eyes, exasperated. "Ok, so Sirius and I were thinking…"

"Yeah, so you guys get all the credit, huh," James asked, glaring at the werewolf playfully as he interrupted him. Remus looked like he was getting agitated, so I put my arm around his shoulders and glared at my best friend. "Well, it was our idea to begin with so…"

"I helped," James protested, while Lily and Moody looked on, amused.

I huffed. "You didn't do much. All you did was…"

Remus jabbed me in the side, shutting me up. "You're not helping Pads." He turned back to look at Moody. "Now, as I was saying, Sirius, James, and I," James grinned goofily as Remus mentioned his name, and I laughed at his childishness, "were thinking that perhaps we could use a map such as the one we had back at Hogwarts to keep tabs on Pettigrew."

Moody looked confused. "How the bloody hell would a map work?"

Remus, James and I shared a mischievous glance, our marauder selves showing through, causing Lily to look at us wearyingly. She had never saw the map that we had kept at Hogwarts, since I had always been afraid that she would confiscate it, being the perfect Prefect that she was and we hadn't shown her what we had been working on now, since Remus and I knew how much it annoyed her when she was left in the dark. It was just so amusing to see her flustered and annoyed.

She growled softly, as if reading my thoughts, and I buried my face against Remus' shoulder to hide my cheeky grin.

Remus pulled the map, which looked like nothing more than a folded piece of heavy white paper, out of the messenger's bag that he had brought along with him, and looked at me and James. "Who wants to do the honors," he asked, grinning in that way I loved. That grin that held mischief and the sort of childish eagerness that was both endearing and slightly frightening. I couldn't help but grin back as I held out my hand.

"Why don't we let Lily do it," I asked, turning my grinning face in her direction once Remus had handed the folded map to me.

"Do what," Lily asked as she looked at me wearingly as Moody looked on with curiosity.

James came to stand beside his wife, excitement shinning in his eyes. "Don't worry honey. It's nothing painful,"

"Or dangerous," Remus added.

"Or humiliating," I said, still grinning at her.

She took the piece ofpaper out of my hand with shaking fingers. It had taken us over a month to create it, all of us splitting up at separate times, off to separate locations to make sure we got every detail into it.

I'm actually kind of surprised it hadn't taken us longer to complete.

"What do I do," Lily asked, looking slightly afraid now. I laughed at her expression, and Remus nudged me again.

"Take out you wand," James said, voice shaking with excitement. Lily did as he told her.

"Now what?"

"Tap it against the paper," Remus said, grin reappearing on his face. He gripped my arm in excitement.

"Is that all," Moody said, as Lily did as she was told and nothing happened.

I shook my head. "Now, as you tap your wand against the paper, say I solemnly swear I will always be true to you."

Remus' grin widened as I said the password, and he turned his head, softly kissing my cheek.

I couldn't help but blush. It wasn't something he did often.

"Why," Lily said, wand still posed.

"It's the password," Remus answers, shrugging his shoulders slightly.

Moody looked confused. "Why is that the password?"

"Well, the password to our old map was I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good," I say, and Moody chuckles hoarsely. Lily just shook her head, looking annoyed.

"Because you all were up to no good so often," she snapped.

I laughed. "But of course. It's what we did best."

"Why couldn't you keep that password," Moody asked, looking from me to James to Remus, magical eye twitching a little.

I chuckled. "That's a stupid question sir. Peter knows the password to the old map, and if he ever came across this, and knew what it was, we don't want him to be able to gain access to it."

Moody nods, looking proud. "Smart Black, very smart. Now, come on now, Potter. Say the password and let me see exactly what it is your boys have come up with."

I scoff. "The only boys that belong to Lily are James and Harry. I am a man, and Remus belongs to me."

"Are you calling me a boy," James asked, looking offended.

"Are you calling me yours," Remus asked, looking torn between shock and aggravation.

I laugh, nodding on both accounts.

James just huffed, pouting softly, while Remus pulled away from me (My arm had been wrapped around him this whole time) and turned to look at me sharply.

I felt my heart drop down into the area of my knees. Oh, I had screwed up this time, and we had been doing so well. I thought I was getting somewhere. Why did I have to have such a big mouth? Why was I always so stupid and…

My mind went completely blank, whatever negative thoughts I had been thinking vanishing almost instantly as Remus wrapped his arm around my neck, jerking me towards him, and kissing me, hard and fast.

I gasped for breath as he released me, managing to do nothing more than gape at him with an open mouth and wide eyes.

The room had suddenly become deathly quiet.

"R-Remus…" I asked hesitantly, wrapping my arms around his waist. His right hand was tangled in my hair, and his left held my hip firmly.

"I'm not yours Black," he growled, voice low and fierce. I looked down, throat tight and eyes burning with the tears that were fighting their way to the surface.

He lifted my chin, and as my eyes locked with his, brown meeting grey, I caught a glimpse of the small smile on his face. "Unless you're mine as well," he whispered.

I faintly hear Lily squeal in excitement as I pull Remus' face down to meet mine, and kiss him long, slow, and deep, moaning in the back of my throat as my tongue touched his.

"I love you," I whispered, but before he could say it back, Moody laughs loudly, and when we turn to him, he's shaking his head in a sort of shocked amusement. James is sniggering beside him, covering his mouth with his hands.

"Guess we won't have to convince Remus to go out on a date with you after all, will we Black?"

I look at Remus for confirmation and he nods at me, smiling softly. "We'll talk about it later. Lets talk about how we're going to crush Peter for now. Lily, say the password please."

Lily does as she told, still grinning at me and Remus, before she's gasping as the piece of paper seems to spring to life, right in her hands.

Moody stands quickly, trying to get a better look as writing and figures begin to form on the paper."What the…" he says, sounding amazed.

James, Remus, and I grin at him, looking proud.

"This," I say, with a sweep of my hand towards the map, "is yet another version of the Marauder's Map. It's a map of London. All you have to do, after you've unlocked it, is tap your wand against it once more, state the location that you want to see, and it'll show it to you, along with everything that they are saying, if you say the password that gives you access to that."

"That's bloody amazing," Moody says, closely studying the map.

Remus grins. "We also have it charmed so that you can look for specific people. There's another spell that you have to utter for access to that feature, but once you have, all you have to do is tap your wand, again, and say the full name of whoever it is you are looking for. It will give their location, whoever they are with, and however long they have been there."

Moody makes a sound of surprise. "How did you lads do this," he asks, and Lily looks just as shocked that we have managed to pull this off.

James grins. "With a lot of hard work and research, little to no sleep in the last month, and one hell of an imagination."

I grin. "Actually, it was three sets of imagination, but I think you get the point."

'So you guys plan on using this to see…"

"If we can ever catch Peter with Voldemort," Remus finishes, looking grim and pleased all at once.

Moody grins. "I think that you all are on to something. Any other plans you lot have for the little rodent?"

"Well," I say, grinning darkly, "I was thinking that maybe, once we've caught him in the act, we could chop him up and boil him in a soup (Totally Danger's Princess's idea. Lol.)."

Remus wrinkled his nose at me. "That's disgusting Pads."

"It's not like we'd eat him or anything," I protested, looking over at the werewolf. "We'd just… I don't know, maybe sell him off to the black market, or give him to a gang of giants or something."

Remus just shook his head in exasperation as Moody laughed again. "Sorry to say Black, but you can't do that just yet. We're gonna need some hard evidence before we can even think of harming Pettigrew."

I nod, grinning mischievously. "I know that. I've worked with you for ages now, haven't I? I know the drill, and we do have an actual plan, but we need more people."

Moody nodded. "Who do you all trust, that also has the skill to carry out whatever plan you guys have developed in those mad minds of yours'?

James grins widely. "Any way you can get Shacklebolt in here?"

Moody grins, throwing his head back as he laughs. "Oh, I like the way you boys think," he said, standing up to call who they had asked for.

A moment later and the tall man had joined their group.

"What's going on," he asked, looking around the group.

"They know who Voldemort's spy is," Moody said, filling the tall Aruor in on what had been discussed so far. As he finished with his explanation, Kingsley grinned, excitement filling his dark eyes.

"Of course I'll help in any way I can," he says, rubbing his arms together gleefully.

We all grin at him in return.

"Glad to have you working with us," I say, and Remus and James nod their agreement. Lily just stays silent, taking everything in.

"Now he's what we had in mind. James has an invisibility cloak over at his place, and I'm sure that you and Moody have a few extra lying around." Moody nods as I say this, and Remus takes over the explanation of our plan.

"Once we've got a more solid picture of where he's meeting Voldemort, and exactly what he's been doing for him, we figure that we can sneak out on one of the nights that he's meeting with the bastard, and using the invisibility cloaks as cover, we can get everything on record."

"Isn't that what the maps doing for you," Shacklebolt asks.

I sigh. "Yes, but not everyone will trust the map. The three of us are known as childish pranksters after all, and so people may just think it's all some trick."

Shacklebolt nods in understanding. "So you get the recording, get a bit more evidence that will show that what you all are saying is true…"

"And once we have the evidence, not only will we have proof that Pettigrew is the traitor, we'll also have a few new ways to stop Voldemort from killing people and stealing our secrets, because having the map will tell us exactly what plans he's formulating before he even finalizes them."

Shacklebolt grins. "I knew I liked you all for a reason."

The whole room erupts into laughter at his words, and Remus grins at me, softly squeezing my hand.

Oh, this was going to be fun.

A/N: So I hope you all liked that chapter. Lol longer than I usually go for, so show your appreciation by reviewing, please? lol