a/n: i know wonderingment is not a word, it was a word i made up for the name of my last chapter. hope you like this one...

disclaimer: not mine.

"What's up with Peter?" Sirius asked,

"Padfoot, you asked us that about an hour ago." Remus told him.

"Oh, well still, he's being all weird." Sirius said, they were sitting in the hog's head. Sirius and James were having the usual – Fire Whiskey, Remus was sipping butterbeer. "What's up with Peter?" he said again.

"Yeah, just before he waddled off he kept looking at me weirdly. It was like he was hiding something." James said vaguely,

"How lame are we? Surely we have better things to talk about than little old wormy bum!" Sirius laughed

"Sirius, exactly how much Fire Whiskey have you drunk tonight?" Remus asked,

"Exactly none!" Sirius sung, as he drained the last few drops of his sixth glass, "My loony Moony bobbles, you have purplebutterflies coming out of your ears. Did you know that?"

"No I did not know that Padfoot."

"I had a dream last night."

"Yes you did, it was about me, dancing on a cloud singing to you, wasn't it? Admit it! We deserve the truth, the only truth and nothing but the truth!" Sirius yelled

"No, it wasn't." James said, "It was about George and Eleanor."

"Who is Jeff and Helen?" Sirius asked,

"George and Eleanor are Lily's parents."

"Ooh, kinky dream!" Sirius laughed

"Padfoot I don't think you need anymore alcohol." Remus said

"I need lots more alco-mo-hol!" Sirius sang in a high-pitched voice

"No you don't, and it wasn't kinky, I think it was before they were killed." James said slowly, "They were talking to each other, then this rat appeared, it was circling Eleanor, then it got bigger and bigger. Maybe I'm just going mad."

"Hmm, that's strange." Remus said thoughtfully,

"Is that all you can say?" James asked with a stunned expression on his face.

Sirius slumped in his seat, and puffed out his cheeks, "Puffy fishy, heehaw!"

James frowned; Remus had a confused look on his face.

"It's coming to me, I know it is." He said, and continued to think on it, until Sirius finally said something that was useful.

"Wat! Wat! Wat! Wormy Rat! Wormytail! He's a rat you know, a funny wittle squirmy wat!"

Then James realised, but it couldn't be true, he was one of his best friends. He wasn't capable of murder. James had to go back to the scene, no matter what Lily said.

"He did it." James said almost inaudibly, "He killed them."

"Who did?" Sirius yelled,

"He couldn't of, he's too… what's the word?" Remus was lost for words, they still weren't sure, but they had pretty good proof.

James marched up to the house, ripped away the plastic police tape that read 'caution do not cross this line'. He stormed into the kitchen and looked closely at the white outlines. Sirius had lost his drunkenness and found his temper. He was walking around in a rage, however Remus was in shock, how could he of done it? It was Peter, squirmy little Peter the rat. A murderer.

'Don't think that way, you're jumping to conclusions. It might not be true; there are plenty of big rats in the world.'Remus thought to himself hopefully.

"Maybe it's just a freakish coincidence,"he said.

All three of the Marauders crouched down on the floor, examining the floor. Had it been any other situation people might of thought they were crazy, but they were trying to solve a murder mystery.

"At least we get to be crime-fighters." Sirius said glumly.

"Our best friend betrayed us." James said, he was in a trance; his hazel eyes were strange and distant.

"You don't know that for sure." Remus said,

"Yes I do." James said sadly, he was sitting in the corner of the room, holding up a plastic, sliver painted ring. Sirius' jaw dropped, and Remus put his head in his hands in disbelief. Sirius was the first to talk,

"You know what we have to do now?" he said, he face was turning red, "We have to kill him."

a/n: hope you liked this chapter, i think it's better than the last one...

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