A/N: I'm so sorry that it took me this long to get this chapter out, and it's not even as good as I had hoped! My excuse is though that with school and softball I was totally swamped for good couple months. Please don't hurt me!

Disclaimer: Well just to review… I don't own anyone except Vivian and Gabby. Besides that the rest all belongs to the famous J.K. Rowling!

A Story that Never Ends

Chapter 15~ Christmas Time

The morning after the ball was something of a slight disappointment. All the "hoopla" and excitement slowly died out just like a fire with very little wood left did.

Every Gryffindor that attended the ball didn't want to get up the following morning, so it wasn't until around 11:30, when some students headed down to the Great Hall for an early lunch, or what they would call a late breakfast.

"I can't believe it's over." Gabby sighed, running a hand through her hair as she picked through her salad.

"I know." Lily said. The conversation ended there, and the girls ate their food in silence. It wasn't until the Great Hall door's swung open to reveal the whole of the Gryffindor Seventh Year Boys dorm that they talked again.

"Hello Hogwarts!" Sirius called to the rest of the hall as him and the others headed over to the Gryffindor table. Most of the girls in the hall giggled and waved at the handsome boy. "And hello to you too." He added as he slid in next to Vivian and giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"I'll take it you slept well?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Just a bit." He said grinning.

"So how did you enjoy the ball?" Gabby asked Fletcher, Frank and Peter. "I didn't see much of you."

"That would be because you were with Remus the whole time." Peter said grinning, while both Remus and Gabby blushed.

"It was nice." Frank said, "You two did a good job." He said gesturing to Lily and James.

"Well that's why they're our head students!" Sirius cried grinning.

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"I've never been so bored in my life." Moaned Gabby from her game of Wizards Chess with Sirius.

"Aha! Checkmate!" Sirius said grinning. "I beat you again!"

"Sirius, I don't call it a true win when you're playing someone you forced to play with you." James said casually from his chair with Lily.

Sirius chose to ignore him, and did his victory dance for the fourth time.

"I wish we could get out of this castle." Sighed Lily; "I'm getting sick and tired of the things to do here."

"Or are you just not enjoying Sirius' victory dance?" Vivian asked, "Because I'm not!"

"Aw, c'mon Viv! You know you like it." Sirius said wiggling his eyebrows at her.

"What about Hogsmede?" Remus asked. All of the heads shot towards him.

"Um, it's not a Hogsmede weekend Remus." Lily said just as the other two boys jumped up.

"I'll go get the stuff." Sirius said, bombing up the stairs.

"What 'stuff'?" Gabby asked, sitting up more. "What's going on guys?"

"We have this map of Hogwarts… and it shows us all these secret passages we've found. And one of them leads us to Hogsmede." James explained

"Really?" Vivian asked, excitement in her voice. "How long have you had it?"

"Since last year." Remus said tugging on Gabby's hand, "Now go and get dressed! It's cold in Hogsmede."

The girls ran up the stairs, nearly crashing into Sirius, and into their room to get changed.

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"Um, where are we?" Lily asked nervously as the six trudged along a long passageway.

"Not really sure." James said, and Lily looked up at him with fear in her eyes. He laughed and squeezed her shoulder. "I do know that we're going to end up under Zonko's Joke shop though."

"Promise?" Lily asked.

"Promise." James said kissing her on the top of the head, "I've done this millions of times." Lily seemed to relax after this, and continued along with the rest of the group, asking questions about the map.

"It um, came to us one night." Sirius said, glancing quickly at Remus and James.

None of the girls knew about their "secret" and they weren't really sure how they would take it. Gabby was Remus' first serious girlfriend and he didn't want to ruin it, when she found out he was a werewolf.

"This is so cool." Gabby said grinning, "I wish we had thought up something like the map."

"You girls would never use it." Remus said grinning.

"So? It's just so fantastic."

The rest of the journey to Hogsmede was a bit scary to the girls, as they didn't exactly know where they were going in the dark. Soon though, the ceiling began to become lower and lower, so they had to duck and it was beginning to put a sharp pain in Lily's back.

"Are we there yet?" asked Lily.


"Yep!" Sirius said stopping. The rest stopped behind him and watched as he carefully opened the trapdoor and then climbed up. A minute later, his head re-appeared and he stuck his head and hand out. "Miss Vivian?"

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"This is so cool!" Gabby squealed as the six began their walk around what seemed to be, deserted Hogsmede.

"Where do you want to go first?" James asked the group as they paused in front of a giant fountain (that was currently turned off) in the courtyard.

"Zonko's!"

"Honeydukes!"

"The Three Broomsticks!"

"Gladrags!"

"Padfoot we were just at Zonko's." James said.

"So? I want to go back!"

"How about we split up?" Lily asked, whose vote had been for Honeydukes.

"Good idea." Remus said.

And with that, each couple took off with their significant other, agreeing to meet the others at the Three Broomsticks around three-ish.

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"What a cute owl!" Gabby said smiling, at the small owl that was on display at the post office.

Remus grinned at his girlfriend, who was now gently stroking the owl's head with her finger. Her eyes were lit up as the owl hooted softly at her. It had taken Remus all the courage in the world to ask her out last night, but he was so happy that he had done it. If not, he'd just be standing and wishing about her, instead of actually being with her.

"Not as cute as you, though." Remus said as he grabbed her hand and squeezed it. Smiling she looked up at him.

"I know."

Remus burst out into laughter and her grin took up her whole face.

"C'mon, lets go get an owl to send to my mother… I want to tell her all about you!" She said, pulling on him.

He just grinned and followed.

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"Viv?" Sirius said, not looking up at the packets of pranks he was sorting through

"Mm?"

"You're so pretty."

Vivian looked up at her boyfriend and smiled. The two were currently in Zonko's enjoying each other's company, when Sirius sprung that on her.

"You are too, honey." She said.

"No, really." He said turning to her and making eye contact with her. "You get prettier and prettier every time I see you."

Vivian turned a bright red.

"Why do you bring this up all of a sudden?" She asked, glancing around the room. It was pretty much empty except for a few younger children with their parents.

"Why not?" He asked and leaned in and kissed her lightly on the lips.

"I never thought Sirius Black would be such a romantic." Vivian said smiling up at him.

"Yeah, me either."

Vivian giggled and went back to sorting through pranks.

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"This view is absolutely incredible!" Lily said as her and James walked through one of the small parks in Hogsmede. The two had already headed to Honeydukes but there was only so much candy one person could take in one day, so they had ventured off towards the secluded park.

"I know." James said coming up from behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist. She leaned back into his warm embrace.

"I'm so glad we're together." Lily said leaning her head back to see him.

"Same here." He said flashing her a grin and then leaning down to kiss her, upside down.

"Mmm, that was interesting."


James laughed and pulled her to him more.

"You know, I never thought you'd like me." Lily said.

"And why is that?"


"Because your James Potter, International Man of Good Looks! Every girl swoons towards you, I just never thought you'd look at me twice."

"Well I did." James said softly.

"And I'm glad."

A few moments passed as the two just stood there and enjoyed each other's company.

"James?"

"Yes?"


"When did you exactly… 'Look twice'?"

"When we were walking down to the first head meeting. You just had this amazing personality and you glowed whenever you smiled. I was intrigued."

Lily closed her eyes as he spoke the words to her. She had struggled a long time, waiting for someone to love her as much as he did, and now she finally had him.

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"You know, we haven't done a prank in a long time." Sirius said as they all sat in a booth at the Three Broomsticks, drinking and eating.

"We're not living up the Marauder Name!" Remus said.

"This just won't do!" James cried. And with that, the boys buried their heads together to discuss their 'master plan'. Meanwhile, the girls sat around and chatted.

"You know, we should all come to my house for Easter break." Vivian said. "My parents would love to see you guys again."

"Yeah!" Gabby said. "When was the last time we saw them?"

"June." Lily said after thinking.

"Okay, I'll owl them and ask them if that's okay." She said grinning, and then lowered her voice. "And who knows, maybe the boys can come too."

The girls all grinned at that thought.

"I love the shops near your house." Lily said, "They always have fun clothing."

"I agree." Gabby said. "So when we go, that's where we're going first!"

The girls kept chatting away as did the boys. Everyone was content.

* * * * *

"What are you doing up?" A voice said, alerting the pensive Lily, who jumped.

"Oh, I couldn't sleep." She said as he came over. Lily had woken up in the middle of the night, after a long day at Hogsmede and a fun night upstairs with the girls, due to a dream about her parents. Not wanting to even try going back to sleep she chose to come down here and think.

"Care for some company?" James asked.

"Of course." Lily said, shoving over on the couch and making room for him. Sitting down, he motioned for her to come to him and she did. Switching positions, she was soon leaning into him, her head by his shoulder and her hand on his stomach, going up and down with his breathing pattern.

"So why couldn't you sleep?" He asked, playing with some of her hair.

"I had a dream about my parents." She whispered. "It was about their death, and how they had blamed me for getting everyone in trouble because I was a witch."

"You know that's not the cause of their death." James said kissing the top of her head. "Voldemort is just a cruel man who wants to ruin others lives. I'm just so thankful that you weren't part of that mess either. That you're in one of the safest places possible."

Lily snuggled up to him closer.

"I'm scared, James. Voldemort obviously wants me. Why else would he make someone charm a Bludger to knock me off my broom and put a tracking device on my skin?"

"I'm here." He said, making her look at him. "I'll protect you no matter what."

Her eyes fluttered shut and Lily smiled as he kissed her.

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A/N: So what do you think? I'm kind of in search of a new Beta Reader, due to the fact that I've kind of lost touch with my old one. But if you're reading this A.L.S.O, please e-mail me!

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