A/N: Hey guys, I just want you to know I am leaving for a week on Sunday but I will try and post a chapter as soon as I can when I get back.

Chapter 26

Lily's POV

I started to walk back to the Head's Common Room.

I cant believe what I just saw.

Lily, come one, you know it had to come some day.

I know but I didn't know he would do it while he was still at Hogwarts! Dumbledore trusts him!

He's not the same guy he was seven years ago.

I know, I knew he was going to change. I am so glad I am not in Slytherin.

I never wanted to close my eyes, when I did all I could see was the Dark Mark on Snape's arm.

After a while of thinking and walking slowly I finally got back to the Common Room. When I got inside after saying the password, I saw that James wasn't there. I went upstairs and got my book then sat in the windowsill and looked out on the grounds.

I cant believe what this place in turning into. My parents could die because of my stupid blood status. I wish this whole war hadn't started. I wish I could stop Voldemort, he is so bloody stupid. This reminds me of how muggles treat each other different if they have different colored skin. So many people just need to look at how people treat you or how they look or where they come from. It drives me crazy. I felt a single tear fall down my face.

Right then I heard the door open, knowing it was James I whipped away the tear.

"Lils, whats wrong?" James came over to me and put his arm around my shoulder, pulling me into a sideways hug.

"I saw Snape walking back to the common room and we talked about what happened earlier… I wasn't finished and he was I guess, god I wish I was finished. I grabbed arm and I accidentally pulled up his sleeve and I saw…," I swallowed hard, holding back the tears. "Snape is a Death Eater." I told him quickly.

"How do you know?" He asked quietly, obviously trying not to hurt my feelings more.

"I s-s-saw the Dark Mark on his arm when I pulled up his sleeve." I started sobbing into his shoulder now.

"I know you really don't want to do this, but you have to tell Dumbledore. I will come with you." He promised. I nodded my head and got up. He grabbed my hand and we interlocked fingers, heading up to Dumbledore's office.

"Fizzing whizbees." James said quietly to the stone gargoyles outside of Dumbledore's office. They jumped aside and let us in.

"Ahh, I have been meaning to talk to you two." Dumbledore said with his wise voice once he saw me and James walk in.

"We need to talk to you also." James said.

"What is it?" Dumbledore asked.

"Er, sir, last night I talked to Severus and when he started to walk away I grabbed his arm and accidentally pulled his sleeve up, I wish I didn't see what I did…" I said, holding back the tears.

"What did you see, Ms. Evans?" Dumbledore's voice was now sweet and caring, he obviously saw that what I was about to tell him really hurt me.

"I saw the Dark Mark on Serverus' arm." I said very quickly.

"Oh, dear. Oh, this is bad, very bad," He looked down and walked to his desk. "How dark was it?" He asked. I looked at James, puzzled.

"It was pitch black, sir. What does that mean?" I asked, walking up to him.

"It either means that he recently joined, or Voldemort calls him in a lot, he could be his right hand man." My jaw dropped. I looked at James and a single tear fell.

"I will look into this when you guys leave, but I have something very important to tell you and you might be happy about it." He smiled.

"What is it?" James asked curiously.

"I talked to Mad-Eye Moody about this and he totally agrees, seeing how your scores are with O.W.L.s and how you act during your classes, You, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Marlene, Mary, Alice, and Frank are all welcome to become Aurors and join the Order of the Phoenix without any training for it. Peter is allowed to join the Order but not be an Auror, not fighting for him" He chuckled and smiled at us with glee. I let out a single laugh in amazement, my mouth had dropped and I and James instantly hugged.

"I just sent and owl to Remus saying to gather everyone and bring them up here, they should be here in a couple of minutes." He said looking at the door. Right then Remus, Marlene, Sirius, Mary, Alice and Frank all busted through the door, all out of breath. Remus was the first to talk.

"What did you need, sir?" Once Remus saw that me and James were there he waved.

"I would like to tell you all that I talked to Mad-Eye Moody and we discussed. Sense all of your O.W.L.s are so high and you all do great in class, we said that once you leave Hogwarts, no training needed." He smiled at them and then smiled and me and James. They all had the same reaction that me and James had.

Everyone left the room happy as ever. James and I walked down the corridor hand in hand, smiling. James suggested that we go outside because it was a beautiful night. We went and sat on a rock by the lake looking at the stars. I had my head on his shoulder. The night was silent and it was peaceful. I looked up at James in the eye and smiled.

"What?" he asked smiling back.

"This is just so peaceful, and well I guess thank you, James for always being there for me when I needed you. You're defiantly not the same James Potter that I met in first year." I smiled. He started to lean in.

After a couple seconds our lips finally touched. It was so wonderful.' Why does this wizarding war have to be going on?' I said in my head. Then I thought. 'Maybe I should go out with James, I should live my life the way I want to, Voldemort shouldn't make me stop my life because I am too scared'.

James suddenly pulled his head away and looked towards the water. He face looked angry.

"James, whats wrong?" I asked, pulling his head my way.

"I am sick of our relationship, we are best friends. I love you, you love me and we do stuff like this all the time, yet you still don't want to go out with me!" He was standing up now.

"James, I—"He interrupted me.

"No, let me finish. I am sick of waiting for when you are ready to date. I want to date now. I know you don't want Voldemort for have another reason to take something away from you, but I think that is the reason we should date.

"Voldemort made me realize that I might die tomorrow, or next week. I want to live the rest of my life the way I want it to go and not in fear that he is around the next corner. I want to spend the rest of my life with the person I love, and she in standing right in front of me. I—"I pulled him in and kissed him so passionately, it was amazing.

"Do you know you talk too much?" I said pulling away from the kiss. We both laughed. "Yes, James I will go out with you."

A/N: Well I hope you liked this chapter. It finally happened, they are dating! I was going to end the chapter where they are leaving Dumbledore's office but then I realized you guys have been so patient when I didn't post for a couple weeks, I was kinda going through a bad time. But im all better now! Plus I am leaving for a week. So, I really hoped you liked it! See you guys in a week! :P