A Cup Affair

Chapter Fifteen

This is our second to last chapter, folks!

To those who got the plot right, cheers! It's the way I intended.

We've got next chapter and an epilogue already translated, and some extra scenes yet to be translated. I'll try to do it as I can, but residency is hard.

Thanks for the support.

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"My father's figured it out. The murder injected air on Jack's vein. Copious amounts of air. It created a massive venous gas emboly. The air didn't let the blood go through, the heart couldn't pump the air away, and it stopped."

"Air?" James asked. Lily looked at him and nodded.

Before Lily could talk more, the door opened again, and Remus and Peter entered, the first clearly vexed.

"James, we're going to your folks' place, alright? Peter wants to watch that bloody TV show and won't hear no..." Remus said, grabbing something on the other end of the table.

"Don't talk like that about Quincy MD, Moony!" Peter cried out, approaching the others. Then he noticed the files on the table and gulped.

"Yeah, yeah, it's the best TV show, c'mon Wormtail..." Remus replied with a roll of his eyes. Peter mumbled something and followed his friend out of the suite.

"Is this normal on the Muggle world?" Benjy asked Lily, but James noticed the girl was distracted; not distracted, she was just focusing on something else entirely: her eyes travelled from the pictures to the official-looking paper, until she chose to answer.

"No, it's not normal. In order to kill like this, our person would have to either know medicine, or have already seen something like it on the television, for example...or..." Lily gasped, "or both!" She turned to James, grabbing his hand to get his attention. "James, I'm going to ask you something about that Friday, and I need you to be completely, one hundred percent honest with me."

James nodded at her request. Lily hoped like hell she was wrong, because if she were right...she didn't even want to think about the consequences of that. But everything fit for the first time, so she had to consider it, she had to exclude that possibility.

Lily sighed.

"That night...tell me what happened. Everything you can remember."

"That's the question?" James asked, clearly confused.

"Not yet. But it'll help if you tell me."

"Well, we did what we always do. We took Remus to the middle of the forest, we turned and waited for his transformation. We run a bit, being careful to not get too close to people. Then Remus turned back, so we did the same, and we all went back to my place."

"And, hm, all of you were present that day?" Lily asked, hesitatingly. James frowned.

"Yeah, the four of us were there."

"The whole time?" She pressed on.

"Lily, what's your question?"

She sighed.

"James, can you guarantee to me that Peter was with you lot the whole time?"

Lily, grimacing, watched James's face turn into a mask of surprise and shock, while Benjy raised his eyebrows.

"Peter? Why...you reckon Peter...?"

"James..."

"Well...I can't guarantee. Peter turns into a rat, so we can't see him the whole time. He usually stays with me or Sirius. I..." James hesitated. "He really wasn't with me for a while. I can't say precisely for how long. I just assumed he'd been with Sirius. So, no, I can't guarantee."