"If you want to I can save you
I can take you away from here
So lonely inside So busy out there
and all you wanted
was somebody who cares" --Michelle Branch

"What?" spluttered James, Iris, Remus, and Channing at the same time.
"Sirius you cannnot possibly think..." It was then that Channing noticed the telltale redness of James's neck. "Oh my God! You're right! James likes Lily too!"
"Er... Wh-what are you talking about? Nooo! I mean me and Lily is just ah-uh... Just absurd, " James concluded lamely, the rest of his face now matching his neck.
"I don't believe it," breathed Iris, "How could we have missed it? With all the fighting and the teasing it should've been obvious."
"What I don't believe is the fact that Sirius got it before the rest of us," Remus joked, although he looked just as shocked as the rest of them.
All faces now turned to look at James, who was currently swaying from side to side, and shifting his feet, as if undecided on whether or not he should pass out or break into a run.
"You have to tell her, you know," said Sirius very seriously.(AH! sorry, I swore I would never do the Sirius/Serious pun)
"I can't," moaned James. " I mean it's against all laws of man and nature, and if I say anything Lily will probably just laugh at me or punch me."
"Have you not been listening to everything that has been said? Lily feels the same way about you, I'm sure of it! Now go tell her how you feel and make with the smoochies!" Channing shoved James toward the portrait hole, "And remember when your planning the bridesmaid dresses that my favorite color is purple."
James gulped and stumbled through the portrait hole and out of the common room. He considered the options he could A.) Go swimming in the lake and pray the giant squid was hungry, B.) Charge into the Slytherin common room calling them names at the top of his lungs or, C.) go find Lily and tell her how he felt. Option C seemed like the most dangerous of all the options, but he figured that if he didn't have anything else going for him, he did have his trademark Gryffindor courage, and he should probably have a go at it.
James didn't have a clue where Lily was. He could've easily summoned the Marauders Map, but he wasn't completely sure he *wanted* to find her. It was much easier to say he was looking for her, and hope that he didn't actually find her. It happened that the fates where either very pleased at him or very angry with him (depending on how one looks at it) and he found Lily in the first place he looked. It was also the one place he didn't really think she would be, the astronomy tower.(Lily wasn't fond of heights)
He really didn't know why he was surprised she was there, though... Lily was always a very contradictory person. "Hi," James didn't have anything else better to say, so he did the greeting thing.
"Uh, Hi. Go away?" Lily tried to come out sounding stern, but she was too tired and too confused to keep the phrase from coming out as a question.
"I need to talk to you," he decided he better go ahead and get it over with. At least if she started laughing at him he could through himself off the tower before he was *completely* humiliated.
"No," Lily stated flatly. "I don't want to talk and I don't want to listen either."
She didn't want to talk? Well, he really didn't know what to say anyway... He always heard that actions spoke louder than words.
He kissed her. Lily stood rigid for a moment, and he fully expected her to pull back and slap him. She didn't. She kissed him back. From the balcony two figures watched underneath the safety of an invisibility cloak.
"Wow! I'm glad that's over, I was beginning to think they were going to fight again."
"Oh they will... They'll just have more fun with it now because of the making up part."
"How did you find out who Lily liked anyway ?" questioned Channing.
"Peter told me. He said he knew it all along and was working to get them together."
"Really? We were so mean to him! Now I just feel awful! I know he may have messed up, but his heart was in the right place .(Author insertion: DIE ratboy, DIE!) We really should let him back in. The Damsels and The Marauders can peacefully work together, and the pranks can be aimed at the where they should be, at the Slytherins, instead of at each other.
"Yeah!" He slung an arm around Channing's shoulder, "This is the start of a beautiful relationship."

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Disclaimer: If I owned them I would be very rich, and since I am not rich I have to infer that I do not own them. All belongs to the wonderful J.K. Rowling.

AN: Hey. OMG? Did I finally get a chapter out? You all hate me, for taking so long, I'm sure... There will be one more chapter. So look forward to it. Will I write another fanfiction? Yeah. But I'll probably only post short one time stuff while working a chapter story. I'm going to have a few chapters written on it before I start posting it anywhere. I need to work in the writing area, I know I'm severely lacking in description of any kind... I am working on it. And yes I will follow everyone's heartfelt advice and grab myself a beta **looks around for my old pal DRI who is probably too busy Beta'ing for Irina** I will find one somewhere.

AN2: Yes, I really had to make them forgive Peter. Where would the cannon go otherwise? I'm not looking to write a AU fic, so I had to re-introduce Peter back into the gang somehow.... I wish I could throw him off a cliff, but *shrugs* You can't get everything you want.

AN3: Uh, and anything that looks like it might be stolen from Buffy is not intentional... I'm obsessed with the show a few things might have leaked over. **mutters about throwing Joss Whedon off a cliff, with wormtail, for killing Tara** Sorry, didn't mean to go all Buffy rant on you.

AN4: If anything in this sounds like it came from another fanfic it was not on purpose. So please don't flame me for plagiarism of someone else's work.

Shout out to Katie, the bestest Online Buddy O' Mine who you should all thank for nagging me into finally getting the already written chapter typed. Read her stuff under Le Chat de la Lune, it rocks!

Bye all~*