Marauders preferences and Imagines

The Loyal Servant's Undoing - Peter x Reader

TW

Sirius Black, arrested for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and 12 muggles.

The headline was written in bold just above the picture of Sirius. His mouth was wide open as he screamed, two aurors either side of him fighting desperately to hold him back as he thrashed. The newspaper lay descarded on Y/N's side table, the pages slightly crumpled from how tight she had held it in her hands. She was still in disbelief over it all, she had only spoke to Sirius a few days prior to the event at James and Lily's funeral, he was in bits, unable to stop himself from sobbing the entire ceremony. Y/N remembered how he swore to her that he'd always be there for Harry from this moment on and how he'd be the best godfather the kid could ever ask for.
And now the papers claimed he was the reason for their demise, that he led He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named right to them, that he was the one who killed Peter.
Y/N couldn't believe any of it, what she couldn't believe more was the fact that the man she had grown to love, who claimed to be dead only a few short days ago was now standing in the middle of her living room, alive and well.
"Y/N, I can explain -"
"Then start explaining, Peter!" She snapped, her wand still griped tightly in her hand from the shock."Explain to me how you're alive!"
The short man looked nervous. He stood there a slight tremor taking over his body, his hands clearly sweaty as he rung them both together.
"I didn't have a choice," he said, his voice low. "He would have killed me,"
Y/N frowned slightly.
"Whose he, Peter?"
Peter visibly shook more, beads of sweat forming on his temple.
"I did this for us, Y/N!" He exclaimed, going to move towards her, y/n instantly moved back, her eyes slowly widening in realisation.
"What did you do, Peter?"
"Y/N p-plea-"
"What did you do?!" She yelled, her own hands begining to tremble, the pieces slowly falling together.
Peter took a step back, letting out a shaky breath, his gaze fixed on the ground.
"I had no choice!"
"He was your best friend!" She moved forward, grabbing the newspaper as she did, throwing it at his chest. Peter fumbled to grab unto it, their eyes meeting as he looked up, his own a void of no emotions. "He was sentenced to life! Life in azkaban, Peter!"
The paper crumpled further in his hands, a flash of anger painting his face. "I did this for us, Y/N!" He yelled, finally crumbling under the pressure. "The Dark Lord can protect us. We can live a happy life. He's going to make everything right! I just had to do a few tasks to prove my loyalty!"
"He-who-must-not-be-named is dead!"
"He will return!"
Y/N suddenly moved back.
"Did you lead them to the Potter's?"
She didn't need an answer. She could see it in his face. The way he dropped his head back down to stare at the floor, the way his fists tightened, the guilt radiated off of him, filling the room with a toxic silence. She swallowed the bile that formed in her mouth, feeling sick to her stomach at the thought. The thought the man she loved for so many years could do something so gruesome to his own friends. The friends he had spent nearly every waking moment with for seven years at Hogwarts. She watched him mourn at their funeral and watched him hug both Sirius and Remus, all three reminiscing the old days before the war. She felt disgusted knowing he'd watched their coffins lower to the ground bellow, having just orphaned their son.
"You're a coward." She spat, moving further away from him."How could I ever love someone like you?"
Peter instantly looked up, and a pained expression crossed his face. "Y/N, you don't mean that." he moved over to her, she flinched, moving back even further as he did, making him stop in his tracks "Y/N" he whispered
"I meant every word I said." She raised her wand at him."No one will protect you now, "
"The Dark Lord will,"
"He-who-must-not-be-named is dead, Peter!"
She watched him suddenly pull out his own wand, pointing it straight back at her.
"He will return, Y/N," he took a step towards her. "How many times do i have to tell you?! don't make me do this, we can still be together, I love you. "
She scoffed, taking another step back, feeling the wall press against her back.
"You're going to go straight to azkaban, Peter, i''ll make sure of it. You're going to rot for the rest of your li-"
The flash of green hit her before she could even finish her sentence. She barely heard him pronounce the dreaded curse that would steal her life away.
Memories flashed before her eyes in those few seconds as it hit. It's true what they say, your life flashes before your eyes in the few seconds before you die. She could see it so clearly. The house she had grown up in, her mother and father's faces, her first steps, her first words, her acceptance letter to hogwarts, the first time she sat on the hogwarts express. She saw each marauder, she saw Remus with his books and how he grew up to be the wisest one of the all. Sirius, with his unruly hair, as rugged now as he was all those years ago. James had a huge grin on his face as he pranked Severus once again, his trickster behaviour never truly leaving him. Peter, a shy mess as always, always trailing along behind them, slowly growing more into himself as the years passed. She remembered the last words Lily had said to her. 'Were going to make it out of this together'. She couldn't even laugh at the irony as her body slumped into the wall behind her, her wand discarded at her side, her once bright eyes now glazed over, a single tear slipping down her pale cheeks.
Peter let out a shaky breath as he stared at her, the last bit of goodness within him dying along with her. He gritted his teeth, a few tears leaking down his plump cheeks as he stared at her.
And without a second thought, he apparated, leaving her lifeless body to grow cold.

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- Cas