Wormtail's Journey

Chapter 3

February 1979

"Oi! You had enough! Give it to me!"

Marlene took the icecream off Peter.

"Rude bitch" he said smiling. Marlene put out her tongue.

Peter was walking Marlene to her house. She was sad, so he bought her an icecream.

"This was officially the worst Valentine's ever" she said.

"Well thank you very much Marlene" Peter said.

"I ment before" said Marly laughing "You definetly made it better"

Peter smiled.

"Well you shouldn't date wankers" he said.

"Aaargg! I know!" Marly said giving the icecream back to Peter. "I don't know why I'm bloody attracted to assholes" she sighed

"I need someone good"

"Birds are definetly insane! Bunkers. Out of their minds" he said.

Marly rolled her eyes and punched the icecream to the floor. Peter opened his mouth.

"Marlene! Not the icecream" Marlene laughted "How dare you?"

"You deserved it!" she said

"You're gonna pay" Peter said

"Oh really?"

"Yeah" Peter tried to reach her so he can tickle her. But Marlene tried to avoid him laughing. Peter finally reached her and she screamed laughing.

"Wait, wait" she said. But Peter started tickling her.

"Hello.." they heard another voice. It was Dorcas, standing at Marlene's door.

"Dorki"Marlene said "What are you doing here?"

"Hi Dorcas" said Peter smiling.

But Dorcas looked angry.

"I heard you slapped Danny on the face" she said "I came to see if you were okay?"

"Danny is a wanker" Marly said. Danny was the lad Marly was dating.

"Alright" said Dorcas. She was kind of pissed off. But that's the way Dorcas usually was.

"Let's get in" said Marly stepping to her door.

"I...I'll better go" Peter said "I have a mission with the lads"

"Great, bye" Dorcas was being really rude.

"Be careful Pete" Marly said giving him a kiss on the cheek.

The girls went inside and Peter smiled to himself.

January 1981

Peter apparated back to the Order's Quarters. He was exhausted. Moony was with him. He had a bruse on his shoulder.

"Are you okay Moony?" Peter asked.

Remus had tears on his eyes. Perhaps he was worried he would get a scar. He didn't need any more scars. Remus said no, but Peter could tell he was pale and his wound was hurting.

Before Peter could say anything, Moody appeared at the door.

"What the bloody hell happened?" he asked.

"The deatheaters appeared out of nowhere" Remus responded "We got out of there as fast as we could"

"And where are..." but before Moody could say something three figures apparated.

It was James and Frank. They had Edgar on their arms, he was hardly wounded.

"Aaaarggg" he was screaming.

Sirius apparated as well. He instantly went towards Remus.

"Are you okay?"

But Remus pushed him "I'm fine" he said glaring at Edgar who seemed even worse.

"Let's put him on the table" said James. Frank nodded and they did as he said.

"It's okay Eddy" Frank said. He seemed worried.

"Arrg Bloody hell!" Moody said approaching them. "Let me see"

"No, way Moody I'm fine" said Edgar.

But Moody was already ripping his shirt off.

"You would've asked me for coffee first, hey Moody?" said Edgar smiling.

He didn't answer. He was already muttering some spell. And Edgar shouted in pain. Peter could see Edgar's chest. It didn't look well. There was blood everywhere. Edgar continued screaming. And Frank and James were holding him. Peter closed his eyes. He hated when this happened.

"The deatheaters used a really dark curse" Sirius muttered to Remus and Peter "If it got to the other side of his chest, he would've died"

Peter found himself with a pain on his chest and he wasn't breathing properly anymore. Everytime someone got hurt, or death. Peter didn't know how they were still alive. Maybe he would be next. Maybe James, Sirius, Remus, Lily or Dorcas could be next. He couldn't afford to loose someone else. Loosing Marly was too painful.

Later that night, Peter apparated to his house. He felt so tired and he wanted to cry. But he had been holding in all that time. He had a knot on his chest.

"Peter?" his mom called him from the kitchen.

"Here mom" he said. His voice sounded more broken than he intended.

Peter went to the kitchen. His mother had been baking. A lot. She used to do that when she was stressed.

"Want some pie? Sweety?" she said smiling.

"No thanks mom"

"Ooh Peter" she sat down "I've been talking my friend Pearl. This bloody war! One of her nieces died. Just went to buy something at Diagon Alley and they got her! She was only nineteen! Such a shame"

Peter didn't answer he just sat down.

"Peter baby" she said holding his hands "Tell me you are being careful. Those bloody assholes don't care anymore about blood. They kill everything they encounter. And you know your father is muggle..."

Peter haven't told his mom he was with the Order. He didn't tell her all the dangerous missions he had been in. Peter didn't want to worry her. And yes his dad was muggle but he abandonded Peter when he was a baby.

"It's okay mom. I'm being careful" he said squeezing her hand.

Peter's mom stared crying. "I'm so scared for you Peter" she said "For us. They could come any minute"

Peter had tears on his eyes. He hugged his mom. She was all he had. She was his whole family.

"I don't know where you are all day. You work a lot and you always come exhausted".

"Don't worry mom" he said "I promise nothing is going to happen to us. You are gonna be safe. We'll we out of this" he promised.

Peter went to his room after a while. He sat down on his bed. He was literaly tired, phyisically and emotionaly. He was so bloody fed up of this war. And then he took a decision.

He took a quill and a piece of parchment and he wrote down.

'Dear Mr. Malfoy,
I'm in.

Sincerely,
The lad who vomited on your shoes. Sorry for that. You can call me Wormtail'.

He tied the note to Maximus, the family owl. And Peter sent it away.