Life After Graduation

The group of three landed outside of Peter’s flat, which was in a very rundown section of London. Remus raised his hand and knocked loudly on the door waiting for an answer, though none came, “Peter are you in? It’s us!” He called and then heard shuffling on the other side of the door.

“Shit!” Peter said to himself as he began to rush around his room nervously. He pulled off his shirt and kicked his cracked mask under the bed. When Voldemort had seen that Sirius had overpowered him and got into the room he had been punished.

Gingerly he pulled a fresh shirt over his head and resisted yelling in pain as he pushed an arm through the sleeve. He had been thrown up against a wall and was sure it had been dislocated. When he heard the knock again he rolled his eyes before walking down the hall, pushing garbage out of the way with his feet. “I’m coming!” He called.

Finally the door opened and the group of three stumbled into the flat. “It’s about time,” James joked as he looked around the flat. It looked as if no one had cleaned it in years, old food was on the floor, clothes were all over the place, and spider webs coated the walls.

“Sorry,” Peter said staring at the ground, though he already knew Remus had seen his black eye.

“What happened to you?” Sirius asked as he pulled out a chair for James to take a seat, but Remus was already on it.

Remus grabbed Peter and led him over to the couch, acting like a mother, like he had always done during school. He made some ice and found and a clean wash cloth from the closet putting it on his eye. He could see bruises and cuts all over his arms and face.

“I was cornered by a death eater in the woods and he overpowered me,” Peter lied as he held the ice pack to his face. “By the time I woke up everyone was gone, so I came home to try and fix myself up.” He looked at the three men’s’ faces, they bought it.

“What happened to you?” Peter asked James, though he already knew.

“Voldemort made me his play toy for a bit,” James said with a smirk. “I was almost killed but Lily saved me, though she is pretty banged up, splinched during apparition.”

They sat and talked for about an hour, and Remus of course began cleaning up the place for Peter. “Alright we best be going,” James said checking the clock, he hated leaving Lily alone like this.

After goodbyes were exchanged the three of them left, then once James was home Remus and Sirius went back to their own apartment. James slowly made his way to the room and saw Lily stir and open her eyes to look at him.

“Go back to sleep,” James said with a yawn as he changed then climbed into bed.

“No it’s alright,” Lily replied a bit groggily as she curled up next to him on the bed, though she was very careful about how she moved so as not to agitate her side any more then it was.

James turned off the lights and the television with a flick of his wand before wrapping an arm around her gently, “so how did you find me?” He finally asked, it had been weighing on his mind for a while.

“I thought you were never going to ask,” Lily replied before recanting everything that had happened to her, and James told her his side of the story as well.

“He is going to be so mad at what you did” James said laughing.

“It was worth it though,” Lily replied with a smile, though he could not see it in the dark.