James stared at the cowering figure,one of the two silhouettes that was at his door, with a look of horrific revelation. The one he was staring at with a look of pure horror and disbelief plastered on his face, that was slowly paling as the seconds went by, was Peter Pettigrew, his supposed best friend. It didn’t even take James a second glance at the second silhouette on the paved steps to the door of the safe house, that harboured his beloved wife Lilly, who stood behind him,and their son Harry plastered on the side of her hip, to realise that it was lord voldermort. With his tall and deathly thin figure being covered by a ebony cloak, and his skeletal like face, that resembled that of a snake, with his nose being flat like a snakes with slits. Despite that, the most menacing thing about the dark lord was his eyes. His eyes, wide and as scarlet as the blood of those he had slain, with slits for pupils.
James felt as if a piece of him had died, as he look at peter through his eyes welling with tears. Peter, his loveable friend that had been at his side all throughout hogwarts, as well as Remus and Sirius, the very person he had held his hand out to when he was on the floor after getting hexed by some rowdy second year slytherins. The very person he had thought how to do the lumos spell in second year, the person he had ranted to about Lilly and how much he loved her for hours.The very person he made he secret keeper after Sirius vouched for him,because peter was like a brother to them all, he couldn’t do any harm. How wrong they had been. It seemed like years before peter, the coward, managed to lift his head from looking at his feet , to look him in the eyes. When James hazel eyes, filled with tears and a look of betrayal on his face, met peters blue eyes filled to the brim with tears and a look of despair on his face. Thats when James tore his gaze off his former best friend , hell James thought of him as a brother, and spun around to face his beloved Lily and yell
‘ TAKE HARRY AND RUN, I’LL HOLD THEM OFF.”
Lily didn’t hesitate, she lifted harry of her hip and into her hand and bolted for the stairs.James spun around taking his wand in his trembling hand,among it at voldermort. The mouth of the dark lord formed into a sadistic smirk as he pointed his own wand at James,but instead of killing him immediately like james thought he would,he paused and shifted his head to look at peter. Voldermorts smirk transformed into one of pure satisfaction and demented glee.
“ My, my peter,”
peter looked up with tears falling freely down his face,
”I didn’t know you would be so upset, if i did, i would of kept you with the other death eaters.”
‘Death Eaters,’James thought. Two words he thought would of never have been said to describe peter.
Peter looked at voldermort, responding,
‘I’m not upset my lord, I’m simply overjoyed to be with you my lord”
Voldermort looked back at James, James felt a sense of dread wash over him , he knew that he wasn’t going to walk away from this alive, he was never going to see lily again. Never going to be able to twist her soft ginger hair in his fingers again,never going to gaze into her determined , emerald eyes again. Most importantly, they would never be able to raise harry. Just as voldermort mouth stared to whisper the all to familiar words of the killing curse at James, James turned his attention to peter, he opened his mouth for the last time and whispered, staring into peters eyes,
‘ wormtail,i forgive you for betraying me,but never will I forgive you for betraying lily and Harry’
“AVADA KEDAVRA’