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Chapter 23

September 21st 1980

"Do you think he realises?" James asked

"Realises what?" Remus replied distractedly, barely looking up from the paper.

"Do you think that he realises that he's being sabotaged? That we're confunding him?" James said.

"I don't know, I'm sure he's noticed something going on." Remus said.

"But do you think he knows its us thats doing it?" James persisted.

Remus looked over the top of his paper, noticing James's expression, he folded the paper and put it back on the table.

"What are you getting at James? You can't be feeling sorry for the bastard surely?" Remus asked.

"I'm not feeling sorry for him, of course not." James said

"Well then what is it?" Remus asked.

"Do you think he knows that we know?" James tried again.

"Does it really matter? James he is spying on the order? He deserves everything he gets." Remus said hotly.

For the last month Remus, James and Sirius made sure that at least one of them went to any order meetings. Preferably Remus as he had better hearing than the rest of them put together.

At the first order meeting the month prior, Remus happened to be in attendance along with Sirius, James begged off stating that baby Harry was less than a month old and he really should stay with Lily at home. In actuality James and Lily were busy packing up their belongings in order to move the following week.

A few minutes after the meeting had started Remus heard the sound of tiny paws on the bare floor boards of the meeting room. Remus listened to the newly silent scratching of long nails on wood, he knew exactly what it was. The Rat! Peter had told Dumbledore that he couldn't attend the meeting because his mother was so sick she couldn't be left alone for even an hour.

Remus felt the tension in his body increase. The urge to pounce, to kill the traitor, to tear him apart was nearly overwhelming. He knew that Sirius had not picked up on the Rats presence, although he saw remus stiffen up. There was no way to explain why, although Remus was sure he could guess.

Thinking quickly, Remus eased his wand out of his pocket under the table they were all sitting at, turned it in his hand so it was pointed at the base of the sideboard directly behind him, and shot out a silent Confundo followed by a silent Muffliato and put his wand away again.

After the meeting Remus told Sirius what had happened, and after laughing about it for quite some time, this had become standard practice in the month that followed James or one of then group would write to Peter letting him know about a private meeting that had been attended privately with just the Marauders and Lily regarding top secret order business that he would have been invited too if he had been around.

They knew it was working, as in the last month none of the people who had died fighting according to Hermione's timeline had even been attacked while on missions. It seemed that the death eaters just could not find the order members. When ever Dumbledore sent anyone on a mission, a letter would be sent to Peter telling him of a mission in a completely different area.

Now that Sirius had been reinstated as an Auror, he would just happen to be in the area that Peter had passed on as the next Order mission location. What a coincidence. Although Moody was more than a little suspicious.

Which was why they were now waiting for Moody and Sirius to arrive at Godrics Hollow. They had decided to let him in on the information they had, but he had been required to make an unbreakable vow before he was even allowed enter the house. Even though no one lived there now, the upstairs was completely empty. Downstairs only had the equipment necessary to make tea.

"Have they arrived yet?" Regulus asked Rushing in to the kitchen.

"No not yet. " Remus said

"Good. I don't think me arriving late would go down well with Sirius's Boss!" Regulus said, sitting down at the table.

Regulus took his trunk out of his pocket and set it next to the table out of the way. Before enlarging it. He had found that is was much simpler to brink the whole trunk with him rather than risk the papers getting lost.

Regulus had spent most of the last month with Remus making changes to Hermione's timeline to reflect the things they had changed. For the most part their plan seemed to be working. There were more convicted death eaters in Azkaban now then there was at the end of the whole first war. Voldemort's followers had been decimated, but they were getting more vicious in their attacks. They were starting to do things that Hermione had not known about, it was obvious they were getting desperate.

For that reason, everyone moved into the Potters newly acquired muggle house in Kensington. It was big enough to accommodate everyone and no one knew about it.

As predicted Dumbledore had informed James after the last Order meeting that there was a Prophecy which could be about Harry or Neville. Also as Predicted Dumbledore had not given them all of the information regarding the prophecy. This relieved some of Lily's guilt over keeping Dumbledore in the dark. Lily had dutifully aided Dumbledore in putting the home they no longer lived at under Fidelius charm. With Sirius as the secret keeper.

The plan was that when they were ready to take on Voldemort, once they had found and destroyed all of the Horcruxes he had made, they would switch secret keepers from Sirius to Peter. Hopefully Peter would sell then out as he had done before. Only this time they would be ready.

Sirius and Alastor Moody walked in through the front door at that moment. Sirius had briefed him on who would be there, Regulus included but he looked just as sour as he always did.

"What you need to see is down here." Regulus said getting up from the table and climbing into the trunk.

Everyone followed suit, with Moody grumbling a bit. He stopped dead in his tracks as he looked around the room Regulus had created.

"What is all this boy?" Moody sneered at Regulus, taking note of the dark mark on his forearm.

"it's everything we know sir." Regulus said strongly. "I think it's better if you look at it yourself and draw your own conclusions. We have a pensive set up over there in the corner when you are ready to view them. They are the ones left to Sirius and I." Regulus said taking a step back and sitting on the bed in the corner with Remus, James and Sirius who were already seated.

"Might as well get comfy, this is gonna take a while!" Sirius said reclining against the wall along the side.

"Black!" Moody called Regulus and Sirius both sat up. "Sirius." Moody said rolling his eyes "That's going to get confusing. This bit is your writing" Moody said indicating a section on the wall. Sirius nodded. "Next time you tell me you can't update the boards at work for whatever reason you come up with, I'm going to know your bullshitting!" Moody grumbled waving Sirius away again with a smirk.

Sirius was startled out of his daydreams by a sharp laugh.

"i like this bit." Moody said indicating the part on the wall where it detailed how they were foiling Peters attempts to spy on the order.

After an inordinate amount of time, where the four men daydreamed about a time when they were not waiting for Moody to finish investigating their work, Moody finally stood in the middle of the room and looked around him in awe.

"Well, it seems we owe this Hermione alot." He said. "What can I do?"

All four men sat on the bed looked at him with their mouths gaping. They were expecting to be told where why had gone wrong. Not "What can I do?"

"Help us save our friends." Sirius said solemnly.

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