Friendship.
{After Getting The Mark}
People were wary with James.
However, Trinity wasn’t. Trinity trusted James for some weird reason.
She walked up and sat down next to James and Barty, interrupting their conversation.
“Sorry, did i interrupt?” She asked. She was much nicer than the other death eaters.
James just smiled slightly “No you didn’t interrupt, we were just speaking about the mark.” He admitted.
“It stings for a while but it eventually calms down” she offered.
James liked Trinity, she seemed sweet.
“So, James and Barty” she began. “Tell me a bit about the two of you and I’ll reciprocate.”
James and Barty looked at each other.
“What type of stuff?” Barty asked.
Trinity smiled before continuing. “Anything, I don’t mind”
So James and Barty explained how they met, James’ mums cooking and other stuff. James loved his mum but soon, she wouldn’t love him anymore.
{At Hogwarts : A Week Later}
James started hanging out with Barty and his friends more which he enjoyed since he got to see his boyfriend more often.
James, Barty, Regulus, Evan, Dorcas and Pandora were sat outside at a table when Lily came running up.
“Hey James” she said with a smile.
James smiled back and said “Hey Lils what’s up?”
She flicked her fiery red hair over her shoulder as she began to speak. “Sirius was complaining about you spending less time with him lately and it started to piss me off so I came to find you to see if I could hang out with you guys instead”
James looked at the others to see if it was okay and Pandora and Dorcas looked happy to invite her to hang out. James woke Barty up and he just said “sure” before falling back to sleep on James’ shoulder.
Lily sat down next to Pandora and Dorcas and they started talking.
Regulus and Evan were having a conversation and Barty was asleep so James was left alone with the memories of killing and torturing that man and when he got the mark. He began to think about how his mum would react and it scared him. It scares him so much to know how she will react to James’ choices.
An owl came swooping down and landed right next to James, it snapped him out of his thoughts. He gave the owl a treat and it flew away.
James opened the letter and read who it was from ‘Trinity Dagger’ it signed. James woke Barty up. “Barty.” He said loud enough.
Barty rubbed his eyes “wha-“ he didn’t finish talking because James said “It’s from Trinity Dagger”
They read the letter.
𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴,
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘐’𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬! 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘐’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩.
𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴,
𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳
Barty laughed. “At least she’s supportive!” James replied as he smacked Barty over the head with the letter.
Dorcas looked up and said “Wasn’t Trinity Dagger at hogwarts last year?”
James and Barty nodded.
Barty began to speak “We met her last week, super nice”
“She always seemed nice” Dorcas said.
Lily looked up “Wasn’t there rumours she was a death eater?” She asked.
Regulus chimed in “Only because her parents were accused and since she was of age she was included in the accusation. They checked to see if she had a mark and she didn’t.”
Lily seemed to buy this and she nodded. “So where did you meet her?” She questioned.
James looked at Barty.
“Err we were just walking around hogsmeade and she tripped over so we helped her up and she bought us some butter beer as a thank you” He explained.
This seemed to work considering they just nodded and went back to their conversations.
{A Week Later : Quidditch Changing Rooms}
James was nervous to change in front of people in case he accidentally showed his mark.
Barty came into the changing rooms and people around was shocked but James just ran up to him.
James nodded at him “Hola Barty, ¿qué pasa?”
Barty replied with “Oye, Trinity acaba de aparecer y está en las gradas, ¿quieres ir a verla?” James nodded in reply as they walked out of the changing room and ran up to the stands where Trinity is.
Trinity stood up and hugged James and Barty each.
“Blimey, I haven’t been to one of these matches for ages I missed the thrill. I’m glad you still play so I have an excuse to come” she laughed. Trinity was wearing all gryffindor colours and it was incredibly over the top.
James and Barty laughed too.
“Y’know, I’ve already spoke to loads of people I was friends with last year. They asked why I was here and when I mentioned you they were all shook. I knew you were cool and stuff but it seems you’ve somehow gotten even cooler?”
{Fifteen Minutes Later : On The Pitch}
James was looking for the snitch high up, the Ravenclaw seeker was also there, on the other side.
James looked to the crowd and saw Remus, Peter, Sirius, Trinity, Dorcas, Barty, Evan and… Regulus were cheering him on. James smiled so big his mouth hurt.
Soon enough, James caught the snitch.
When he landed he was tackled by the gryffindor players and then Dorcas, Barty, Evan, Pandora, Trinity and Regulus all hugged him too.
“That was so awesome James!” Trinity said as she flung herself at him. People in the stands were confused about their friendship considering they didn’t speak in school.
James smiled at her “didn’t disappoint then?” with a chuckle.
{A Week Later : Death Eater Meeting}
Regulus, James, Barty and Evan all walk into the meeting together.
James and Barty grin as soon as they see Trinity there. She runs up to them and hugs all of them but Regulus dodges her.
“So what’s this meeting about?” Evan asked.
Trinity just shrugged and then they took their seats at the table.
“Greetings.” The icy voice said as he walked into the room and sat at the head of the table.
“We have a new recruit joining us today.” He continued before the large, wooden doors opened to reveal Peter Pettigrew.
Barty, Evan, Regulus and Trinity turned to James in shock. James didn’t move at all.
Peter sat down and seemed shocked to see James there.
As the meeting ended, everyone mingled which gave James the perfect opportunity to talk to Peter.
James walked up to Peter and said “Hey mate, fancy seeing you here”
Peter seemed scared but James just acted normal.
Peter began to speak. “What are you doing here prongs?”
James just smirked before rolling up his sleeve.
Barty appeared behind him. “Wrong arm mate.” Before lifting James’ other sleeve to reveal the mark.
Peter gasped but Barty and James both just smirked.