Chapter twelve
A/n- Wow people really hate cliffs... My apologies... Wont happen again... I promise *crosses a finger at the back*... :ppp...All the secrets are unraveled... Lots of drama... Hope you like it...
They fell silent. They knew what it meant. They could put two and two together. Only peter wasn't with them, reading. Sirius was innocent and he wanted to kill peter. Peter spent twelve years as a rat, a pet to someone, which innocent man in the world would do that.
"So its Peter then, he was the spy" Remus finally broke the silence. "Yeah he was, he was the reason James and Lily died." Ginny said. James looked close to tears. Lily wanted nothing more than to wrap him up in her arms, but she just had a fight, he may push her away, she thought. "That filthy stinking turncoat! Of course he was the spy, he's a rat after all. Cant believe he's the reason I spent twelve years in prison, he sold away his friends and what's worse, I haven't even killed him yet. Can we please read further, I wanna know how I kill that rat!" Sirius spat.
Chapter eighteen
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs
It took a few seconds for the absurdity of this statement... we've got to explain-"
"You are trying to stop me Moony! Are you mad!" Sirius yelled at Remus. "If you killed him as a rat, we wouldn't have any proof to show to Harry and if you kill him as a man, you think Harry would just standby and watch? From what I've gathered from story, Harry was too much like his parents and both of them wouldn't do that, atleast Harry would want an explanation" Remus replied calmly. Sirius grunted, knowing that Remus was right.
"We can explain afterwards" snarled Black... the screams and howls that villagers used to hear were made by me."
Lily's mouth formed a large 'o'.
He pushed his graying hair out of his eyes... and wait for the moon to wane again.
"Oh right! I need your help in the Wolfsbane potion Lily, I never made it, but I got the recipe." Ginny said rummaging through her bag to bring out a book of potions. Lily quickly scanned the ingredients "Hmm.. We might have to ask Professor Slughorn and Hagrid for ingredients"
"Before the Wolfsbane potion was discovered... They became Animagi!"
"There you go Lily! I told you I had my reasons" James said finally getting over the shock, that his little friend could betray them. "Still James! What you did, even for your noble reasons, is terrible. You broke a law and you dragged Peter along with you too" James stared at her incredulously "You are kidding right! You are defending him! You just heard he sold us off to Voldemort, made your son an orphan, forcing him to stay with the terrible excuse of your sister, forcing him to face Voldemort thrice just by the age of thirteen and you are portraying him as some innocent small boy that I corrupted!" James again yelled at her, and boy did he looked scary and kinda hot doing that. Lily focus! "James, I'm not defending Peter, what he did to you is really horrible, none of you three would ever do it to each other, or even to Peter..." Lily said gesturing to the guys "...but what I know about Peter is that he's a really scared kid always trailing behind you guys, you really think if it wasn't for you guys he would have done something like that?" James clutched his hairs in frustration "You are impossible Evans! What is with you and supporting people working for Voldemort, first snape and..." Lily cut him off with a sort of shriek "Cant you leave snape out of any argument!"
"James relax okay!" Sirius said before James could do anymore damage to his relationship "You know Lily has a habit of looking for good in the worst of people, you said so yourself" James left out a bitter chuckle "Yeah, even in the worst of people, but never me. To her, its always my fault" James said grimly. And Lily was speechless, what he said was quite true, she always always blamed James for everything, may be because she cared for him the most, in the magical world. The thought made her feel warm and she wanted nothing more than to crawl in his lap and snuggle peacefully, but James wasn't even looking at her.
"My dad too?" said Harry, astounded... And I haven't changed..."
"When will you stop blaming yourself mate, as Prongs said, we don't regret it a bit, we chose to do it" Sirius said. Remus smiled slightly.
Lupin's face had hardened... but from that time on he knew what I was..."
The marauders waited for Lily to start shouting again, after all, even James and others took a week to forgive Sirius even though they knew how reckless Sirius could get. But much to their surprise Lily sat quietly eyeing James up. She hated to fight with him, and this one seemed quite intense so she decided to stay shut, and was actually quite proud of him for saving his rival.
"So that's why Snape doesn't like you... pointing it directly at Lupin.
"Cant he ever keep his greasy nose out of other people's business!" James said.
Chapter nineteen
The servant of Lord Voldemort
Hermione screamed. Black leapt to his feet... impossible to say which face showed more hatred.
"He seriously holds the school boy grudge even after fifteen years isn't it" Lily said quietly. "He had his reasons too Lily" Ginny replied. This caught them by surprise, they conveniently assumed that Snape hated them because he was jealous of James, looks like there's more to it.
Harry stood there, paralyzed... He seemed beyond reason.
"Wow he wont even hear you out, he's gone mad by hatred" Remus said.
"Come on, all of you... he cut it off himself?"
"Ooo.. Ooo.. The biggest bit they found of Peter was his finger, he faked his death" Lily said quite excitedly. "Who knew peter could be that smart!" Sirius said laughing bitterly.
"Just before he transformed" said black... His voice broke. He turned away.
"I cant believe I could even live with that guilt" Sirius said gulping down his emotions. James patted his back as Lily got up to give him a hug. He buried his head in her shoulders. Lily was already sobbing and the guys pretended to look like they weren't trying to blink away tears. For all the tough act they pull, they surely keep a huge amount of emotions stacked away.
"Enough of this" said Lupin... My friends... My old friends..."
"Oh this is gonna be fun" Sirius said, all traces of tears gone, he had a sort of mad glint in his eyes.
Black's wand arm rose... If they ever got wind that you were alive then-"
Sirius had a dangerous grin on his face.
"Dont know... What you're talking about... He had never seen anything quite like her.
Sirius rolled his eyes "Yeah she's hot, but that's not possible, I've seen my fair share of women, even after twelve years of prison I wont look at a girl like that" "Except for Marlene" Lily chimed in and despite of himself, Sirius broke out into a toothy grin.
"If you dont mind me asking, how... I would have died before I betrayed them.
"Awwhh" Lily said before hugging Sirius again. James joined in, before pulling Remus and Ginny with him too.
And at long last Harry believed him... And he scrambled around to Ron.
"What I dont understand is, why is he begging for mercy, what's left there in life for him? No family, no friends and he spent twelve years as a rat! Why can't he just accept his death?" James said. "Because it takes a lot of courage to do that James" Lily replied, biting her lips, as if afraid he might snap at her. As her anger started drifting away, she could finally see, whatever James did, he always had a good intention at heart and she felt immensely guilty for fighting with him. This chapter must have been really difficult for him. James loved his friends and getting betrayed by someone who was so close, wont have been easy.
"Ron... haven't I been a good friend... he would have shown me mercy..."
"Like hell I would" James muttered, but everyone knew he would have spared Peter. "That reminds me, what are we gonna do about Peter, now that we know" Remus asked Ginny. "Yeah, I had a chat with Dumbledore about that, he's already in fifth book you know, and he reckons we should just keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't do something suspicious like disappearing at nights or something."
Both Black and Lupin strode forward...he said breathlessly "You can't"
"Wow he's actually defending him" Sirius said.
Black and Lupin both looked staggered... would've wanted them to be killers- just for you"
Lily smiled at James, she knew what Harry said was true. But James still wasn't looking at her. Stealthily, she scooted closer to James and kept her hand right beside James', not touching, but close enough for James to realize it was there. He looked at their hands and then looked away, without any expression on his face. But at least he didn't remove his hand.
No one moved or made a sound... his bottlebrush tail held jauntily high.
Lily silently looped her little finger over James'. A small smile appeared on James' face and they sat the rest of the time, looping their fingers.
A/n- Two more chapters for this book, one for Jily.. one for blackinnon... At least I'm planning to do that... Well lets see...
Leave a review...
