A/N- Hello everyone! I haven't been on fanfiction in ages but I've been going through a HP phase right now so I felt like writing. Anyways, a disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story or Harry Potter of course.

Now, on with the story! If there's anybody reading it of course.


This is it. This is really the end.

Lily Evans stood there on Platform 9 3/4 with her trunk for what would be the last year until maybe...someday she came back with her own kids.

Her parents hadn't been able to accompany her this year as they had a business meeting to attend to and she never expected Tuney to come, even more so now that Tuney had found herself a lover in Vernon Dursely.

She felt exceptionally lonely standing there by herself, staring at all the other families bidding goodbye to their kids. Lily stared at eager soon to be first years impatiently waiting for their parents to say their final words; kids too young to go to Hogwarts yet were moaning and some were even crying.

Lily half expected to see Severus appear next to her and saying something about another year at Hogwarts but he wasn't her friend.

Not anymore anyways after what happened in their 5th year.

Another wave of loneliness and maybe even despair crashed over Lily and she was on the verge of tears when three voices disrupted her thoughts.

"Lily!"

"Lil-ay!"

"Lils!"

She looked up to see her best friends Marlene McKinnon, Alice Thompson, and Dorcasa Meadowes running up to her, engulfing her in a hug. "We've missed you, hun!"

"What are you still doing standing here? Hurry up and board! We've saved you a seat in our compartment of course."

"Come on!"

Lily's heart swelled and she nodded, straightening up to her fullest. The minute she had boarded the train, she changed into her school robes, making sure the Head Girl badge glistened on the robe.

"How was your summer, Lily?" asked Alice, smiling brightly.

"Never better. You?"

"Oh it was wonderful!" Her smile seemed to widen even more. "You won't believe it! You know Frank - Frank Longbottom - asked me out during the summer! I haven't seen him yet on the train but oh I can't wait!"

"Alice, that's amazing! I'm really happy for you," Lily exclaimed. "Frank is a great guy for you."

"And what about you,Lily?" Marlene asked, a small smirk on his face. "James bugged you enough that you've fallen for him yet?"

"Someone say my name?"

The compartment door burst open and Lily groaned, seeing the four boys who liked to call themselves the Marauders in the doorway, James in the front, wearing his trademark sneakish grin. "Evans!" He ran over to her, trying to give the love of his life a hug and a kiss.

"Protego!"

James rebounded off Lily's strong shield charm and would have been thrust out into the open dooray if Remus hadn't caught him.

"Attempt to do that again and I'll hex you." She glared at him.

James rubbed his nose, where he had bumped into the invisible wall. "Aw, c'mon, Lilykins. It's the 7th year, our last one. I've matured lots! See? Oi, Snivellus!" he bellowed to the passing Severus Snape, who stopped and looked at James through the curtain of his greasy black hair with hate in his eyes.

"Snivellus! How was your summer? Good, I presume? Good! Have a nice day!" And before Severus could say anything, James had closed the door in the boy's face with a swish of his wand. "See, Evans?"

"Actually no, I don't see."

"Do you see this?" James flicked his wand and a bouquet of floers appeared. "Tada! Beautiful lilies for a beautiful Lily. Although I must say, you put these flowers to shame."

"That is so cute!" Dorcas couldn't help but squeal, causing Peter to turn his back on everyone and try to imitate what James had done. Sirius, having spotted him attempting this, rolled his eyes.

"It is NOT cute," Lily retorted, but nevertheless removed her shield charm and accepted the lilies anyway, her cheeks slightly tinted pink.

James then took this chance to say, "So you want to go out with me?"

"Cough it up. Told you he would ask before the trolley lady came around," Marlene and Sirius said simultaneously while Alice and Peter groaned at the same time.

"No."

"First rejection of the year, mate," Remus grinned. "Congrats."

"I'm not down," James ruffled his hair so the back was sticking up. "You'll succumb this year, Evans; I'm sure of it."

"In your dreams."

"Actually, in my dreams you already did, and we're the happiest couple in the entire wizarding world! Dreams are amazing, wouldn't you agree? For example, yesterday we were in the empty corridor sno-"

"Please shut up, Potter, you're giving me a headache," Lily shot him another deathly glare.

"Okay. But I'll be seeing you more this year than ever, so I'll be talking to you lots."

"What are you talking about?" she asked suspiciously. "You didn't pass your Arithmancy or your History of Magic O.W.L.."

"As flattered as I am that you know what subjects I take and don't take, look!" he said speedily before Lily could interrupt him saying that he had been the one who had mentioned this mutliple times. James pointed victoriously at a speckless spot on his robes, then looked down. "Oh, wait...blimey, what'd I do with it? Uh... ah hah! Found it!" He pulled something out of his pockets, shined it a bit, and held it up: a gleaming badge with the words HEAD BOY.

Lily's eyes seemed to bulge out of their eyes sockets. "NO. No! All right, who'd you steal that from? Give it back to him."

"Hogwarts sent it during the summer by owl," he replied with a straight face.

Lily immediately glanced over at Remus who nodded; she looked horrified.

"Head boy and head girl have many duties together. Isn't that fantastic?" he exclaimed, pinning the badge on.

"Yea. Fantastic," she muttered, looking don at her own pin as if she wanted to rip it off.

"James." Sirius tapped his friend and gestured to the door, waggling his eyebrows.

"Got'cha. We're off, my love. But we'll be back," James inked at Lily who muttered in reply, "Please take your time."

Sirius grabbed Peter by his robes to get him going; "No wait!" he pleaded, still trying to make flowers apear. However, no matter how many times he swished and flicked his wand, no decent flowers appeared. Finallly, he seemed to give up and just tossed a bouquetful of weeds to a shocked and revolted looking Dorcas before being yanked out of the compartment.

"What...the...hell?" Dorcas managed to get out.

Lily let out a small laugh. "Hey, it's the thought that counts. And it's pretty cute if you ask me."

"Where's that bastard, Padfoot?" James growled, causing Remus to sigh and ast the Muffliato Charm on Lily's compartment; this wasn't going to be a sight she would like to see.

"I heard him standing by the door listening and then running that way," Sirius pointed don the corridor.

The Marauders made their way down the halls of the Hogwarts Express, looking everywhere.

"There he is! There's ol' Snivelly!"

James drew his wand faster than lighting. "Expelliarmus!"

"Protego!"

James slid a bit backwards but still kept a steady footing, not distracted by Remus muttering, "Muffliato" everywhere.

"Bastards!" Snape yelled at them. "Not smart enough to make your own spells, but stealing others? How thick can Gryffindors get?"

"I suppose you wouldn't me mentioning that to Lily Evans, would you?" glared James.

Snape seemed to go white at the thought. "I don't mean her."

"But you meant to call her a 'mudblood' did you? I haven't forgotten and you won't get away with that." His eyes flashed angrily. "And now, you're listening in on our conversations?"

Snape straightened up a bit. "I don't have to explain myself to you."

"You better not cross me this year, Snivellus. I'll curse you to the end of time. And don't bother Evans either."

"She obviously doesn't like your presence either, Potter."

"Better me than you."

To that, Snape seemed to find no comeback and just raised his wand higher.

Sirius scoffed. "I don't suppose you'd like to relive that day again? Although I, for one, would not want to see your graying underpants again."

"Sectumsem-"

"Petrificus Totalus!"

Sirius had moved faster than Snape who soon was frozen on the ground.

"Are we just going to leave him here?" Peter asked, looking close at the frozen Slytherin.

"No, what happens when Lily comes out and sees him? He's obviously going to know it was Prongs," answered Remus.

James dragged the body with the tip of his wand and pulled him into an empty compartment. "I suppose we'll just un-freeze him later." He shut the door and the four of them walked into their own compartment at the other end of the hall.

He collapsed into the seat, looking dazed, clutching his heart. "Evans..."

The other three exchanged a look, rolling their eyes. Here he goes again.

"I remember it like it was yesterday," he started. "When I first fell for her."

"Of course he would remember it, he mentions this like everyday," Remus whispered to Sirius, who smirked.

"...SHE WILL SUCCUMB THIS YEAR. I really have matured."

"Wait, does this mean no more yelling inapproriate things across the Great Hall? Prongs, how could you?" Sirius looked horrified at the thought of not doing that.

"We'll see," James winked.

"How is she going to succumb? Are you finally going to just slip her a love potion?" Peter raised an eyebrow, while twiddling anxiously with his wand.

"Of course not! Even I'm better than that. I prefer to use my own skills and charms-"

"What charms?" Remus grinned.

"I can't show my charms to you, Moony! You're not a girl!"

"Oh. Those charms. You don't need to show me, I know what they are."

The four Marauders laughed and James knew that he would never let that seed of doubt buried deep in the bottom of his heart to grow. Never.


A/N- Comments are much appreciated! Thank you for reading!