"Do we have to do this?" Sirius Black asked a fellow Auror as they stood outside Azkaban Prison. They had to do a routine inspection of the prison, make sure that everything was running smoothly.
"Don't worry, it'll be over soon." The other Auror replied, he was a higher ranked Auror then Sirius, "Handley never likes to drag out his inspections."
Oliver Handley was a senior Auror who was carrying out the inspection, he was quite a tall, well built man with blonde hair that was starting to grey.
"Right, lets get this started," Handley said, "I want to be in and out I under an hour."
Everyone nodded and followed him into the prison, the group consisted of Handley and three other Aurors of varying ranks.
They entered the prison and felt the happiness start to drain from their bodies. Sirius pulled his cloak around him to try and block out the cold.
He really didn't want to be here, not only because this was like hell on earth, but also because of Peter Pettigrew. The man that had sold two of his best friends to Voldemort. Sirius actually thought that if he came face to face with him he might actually kill him.
If Peter had had his way it would be him, Sirius, in this prison right now. If Peter had gotten his way Lily, who is also pregnant, James and Harry, their son, would be dead, along with his own pregnant wife, Emma Black and children, Sinead and Reece, and Remus' wife Jessica Lupin.
Sirius' grip tightened around his wand in his pocket and a few sparks emitted from it.
They walked through rows of cells, the smell of rotting reaching his nostrils and the fait sound of the prisoners muttering floating out of the cells and creeping into his ears.
The group stopped walking as Handley paused to talk to one of the prisoners.
"How long have you been here?" he asked the prisoner, a man who looked like a skeleton with hair.
"Dunno." He replied, "after a while you sorta, lose track of time," the man said and he started laughing manically.
"Right," Handley said writing a few notes down on a scroll of parchment, "lets move on."
After about twenty minutes of walking through the prison they were nearing the end of their inspection.
They were walking along the last rows of cells when Sirius saw a figure in one of them that he recognised.
Curled up in a ball in a corner of his cell was the round chubby form on Peter Pettigrew.
He looked up as the group moved closer and looked directly at Sirius.
"S-S-Sirius," he squeaked, "Sirius my friend, you must help me, you must get me out of here."
"Don't you dare call me friend," Sirius spat at Peter who had crawled up to the bars and was pressing his round face upon them to get a better look at Sirius. "You have no friends you back stabbing, double crossing son of a-"
"Sirius," one of the Aurors cut across him.
"This would be Peter Pettigrew." Handley said reading a sign pinned upon the cell door. "You know him Black?"
"I thought I did." Sirius said not taking his eyes of Peter. His hand was now tightly clasped around the handle of his wand.
"Padfoot you must understand, I didn't have a choice, he made me do it." Peter said desperately, "I had-"
"We always have a choice Pettigrew, you obviously made the wrong one." Sirius said staring at Peter with such loathing that he squealed and sand back into his cell.
"I think that's enough," Handley said, "Inspection over, lets get out of this hole."
The group now moved out of the prison very quickly, but before Sirius left he heard the word Traitor called out and a man squealing like a pig in return.
Later that day Sirius was in his cubical in the Auror department in the Ministry of magic. He had paper work to do but he couldn't concentrate, he couldn't stop thinking about Wormtail.
He remembered how he had caught Wormtail with Remus after Voldemort's attack on the Potters.
2 MONTHS EARLIER
Sirius wrapped hard on the door of Remus' flat.
"REMUS," He shouted through the letter box.
"Coming," came his friends voice from inside, "I'm coming."
A few seconds later the door opened and Remus Lupin appeared on the other side.
"What's wrong, why are you breaking down my door?" He asked.
"It's Lily and James, they've been attacked." Sirius said quickly stepping inside the house.
All colour drained from Remus' face, "what? Are they alright?"
"They're fine, don't ask me any questions now, we have other things to get on with." Sirius said, "Peter sold them out, he was the spy. I've just been to his flat and he's not there, he's gone."
"That deceiving-" Remus started but Sirius cut him off.
"Yes yes, I know," Sirius said impatiently, "but we have to find him before he gets away."
Remus nodded and ran off into his bedroom to pull on some robes and retrieve his wand.
"What about Jess, is she OK? She went down to their house." Remus asked.
"She's fine, her and Emma escaped and alerted the Ministry," Sirius said, "don't ask me how they did it."
"Where are we going to find Wormtail?" Remus asked, "where do we start?"
"Well if you were going to leave the country you'd need money so I'm guessing we head into London." Sirius said, "Lets start at the Leaky Cauldron."
Remus nodded and they stepped out of the flat before apparating away.
They arrived outside the grimy looking pub that was the Leak Cauldron, they stepping inside.
Sirius went over to the barman, "Tom I don't suppose you've seen Peter Pettigrew today?"
"Peter Pettigrew?" The humped back wizard said, trying to remember who he was, "that short fat boy, looks a but like a rat."
"That's the one." Sirius said.
"Not today I haven't, but I'll keep an eye out for you." The barman said.
"Thanks Tom-"
"Sirius he's there." Remus cut across him and Sirius turned tog see the door swing closed and the hem of some ones robes whip out of sight.
Sirius followed Remus who was running out of the pub after Peter.
They ran after him down the street until Remus got close enough to trip him, he would have cursed him but they were in a street full of muggles.
"R-R-Remus, S-Sirius," Peter said scrambling away from his friends and standing up, "I didn't know you were there."
Sirius walked up close to Peter, and stood right in front of him. He was a great deal taller which made him look more impressive, "you sold Lily and James to Voldemort."
"What? I don't know what you're talking about." Peter said, beads of sweat falling down his forehead.
"Don't deny it Pettigrew," Sirius said holding him by the scruff of the neck, "you betrayed them and you were going to let me take the fall for it."
Sirius pulled out his wand and held it to Peter's throat.
"Please, no," Peter squealed, "I had to, I didn't have a choice. The Dark Lord gave me no choice, he was going to kill me."
"SO?" Sirius shouted, "then you should have died." And he moved his wand in deeper to Peter's neck.
"But-But They're not dead, nothing bad happened, everyone's fine, no harm done." Peter squeaked.
"No harm done?" Remus said, "You nearly killed them, you nearly killed our families. You disgust me."
"But Remus I knew that the Dark Lord would fail-"
"Don't make me laugh," Sirius spat, "you don't even know your left from your right. Now give me a good reason why I shouldn't kill you."
"No Sirius," Remus said putting a hand on his shoulder, "we'll take him to the Ministry, he can rot in Azkaban with the rest of his Death eater friends."
"NO, NO!" Peter screamed.
"Yes." Sirius said and he punched Wormtail hard in the face, knocking him out.
"Nice punch Padfoot," Remus said.
"Thanks Mooney," Sirius replied.
PRESENT DAY
Sirius smiled as he remembered punching Wormtail, it had felt good.
He looked down at his watch, it was 7pm, he had had enough of working for one day.
He picked up his cloak and left the cubical, pulling the curtain after him. As he looked up into the Auror department he noticed a sudden flurry of movement, unusual for this time in the evening.
"What's going on?" he asked a fellow Auror as they rushed past.
"There's been another attack by Death Eaters on a young couple, right near where the Potter's live." The man said. "They had a small child, about the same age as the Potter boy as well."
Sirius shook his head as they man hurried off, even though Voldemort was gone there were still attacks going on by Death Eaters, mainly his cousin Bellatrix and her husband.
Well, he thought, I know what's going to be on the front page of the profit tomorrow.
A few minutes he was apparating back home.
"I'm home," He called out as he stepping inside the front door.
"Daddy!" A small child yelled and Sirius looked down to find his daughter standing in front of him, her arms outstretched.
"Hello princess." He said lifting his daughter up into his arms.
He carried his daughter into the kitchen where his wife, Emma, was sitting with his son, Reece. Reece had a crayon and was scribbling on a sheet of parchment, but his hand kept slipping and there was more crayon on the table then the parchment.
"Good day?" Emma asked standing up and kissing him.
"I've had better," Sirius said and he put his daughter down and wrapped his arms around his wife. "I had to go to Azkaban."
"You didn't see-"
"Yes, and I felt like killing him," Sirius said not waiting for her to finish what she was saying.
"Well he's getting what he deserves," Emma said and she pulled out of her husbands grip. She tied her mousy brown hair up and went over to the stove where there was a plate to food lying.
"Dinner," she said to Sirius and she set the food down on the table, "and you two little rascals, upstairs now, it's bed time." She added to the twins.
This is a short chapter but I just needed to explain what happened to Wormtail. The story will start properly in the next chapter I think.