Here it is. The last chapter. *screams* YES! I rule!

Chapter Twenty Nine

Destinies

Lily woke and lay in the bed. She felt so weak. She tried to raise her arm, but couldn't. She opened her eyes slowly, feeling as if there were lead weights on her eyelids. She was in the hospital wing and a smiling old man was sitting beside her.

"Hello Lily." Dumbledore said.

"Professor." Lily managed to rasp out.

"Lily, I think you need some food before I talk to you."

"It could be an idea." Lily said weakly. Dumbledore smiled.

"Your friends are all very worried about you. Shall they come in?" Dumbledore asked.

Lily had barely nodded when Arabella and Karrie ran into the room. "Lily!" they screamed, flinging themselves at their friend. Dumbledore told them to be careful with their friend and then got up to leave.

"Where are James and Sirius and Remus and Peter?" Lily asked.

"James is still in the hospital wing. He's still unconscious. You should've heard Madame Comfrey yelling at Sirius for letting him do whatever he did." Arabella said.

"He's still unconscious?" Lily tried to get up but Karrie pushed her down.

"Not only are you way to weak to walk anywhere, but James is perfectly fine and Sirius and Remus are coming over here right now." She said.

"Let me sit up." Lily pleaded.

Arabella put the pillows against the head board and helped Lily sit up. Sirius and Remus appeared soon after.

"LILY!" Sirius flung himself towards the bed and into a chair. "You're back!"

Remus smiled but he looked wan and tired. "Remus, you okay?"

Remus looked at Lily, "It's coming around to the end of the month." Lily took Remus's hand.

"Not again."

"It won't kill me."

Arabella and Karrie looked confused. "What on earth—"

"LILY EVANS!" A voice roared from down the hall.

"Mr. Potter, get back in your bed!" Madame Comfrey could be heard.

"No!" James's voice came down the hall. Lily laughed quietly to herself as James burst into the room.

"You beat me!" Lily managed to gasp out. James collapsed on the bed, rocking with laughter.

"Mr. Potter!" Madame Comfrey stood in the doorway, her face red. She was carrying a try of food. "Get back to your bed!"

Peter sidled into the room behind Madame Comfrey, his eyes pleading with Lily.

"Oh, but Madame Comfrey, as your favorite student I think you could let me stay with my friends." James sucked his lower lip into his mouth to make him look completely pathetic.

"You have just gotten out of a deep sleep; you should be able to walk!"

"Ah, but my friends were abandoning for the young lady here, so I thought I'd come and see who it was." James smiled hopefully. "Please?"

"Fine." Madame Comfrey pointed to the bed beside Lily's. "Get on that bed right now or you'll go to your original one."

James slide off Lily's bed and dragged himself into the one beside her. "Thank you Madame Comfrey."

Madame Comfrey narrowed her eyes at James and placed the tray of food in front of Lily. "Eat."

Lily began to eat hungrily as her friends chatted about things.

"It was really scary being out here and not knowing what was going on." Sirius said.

"You didn't endure five days of it Sirius." Karrie said.

"I think Peter had the longest." Lily put in.

"No, I got out when Karrie did." Peter said.

"Hmmm, wonder why." James said. "Lily can I beg a piece of bread?"

"No. I have to eat this all." Lily replied.

"What? You can't give me a crumb?"

"And have Madame Comfrey's wrath upon me, I think not." Lily smiled.

The conversation was light and cheerful. They tried to steer away from talking about what they had all just gone through. When Lily finished, Madame Comfrey came in to shoo the others away.

"The headmaster needs to take to Miss Evans." Madame Comfrey said. "You too Mr. Potter."

"He can stay actually Galena." Dumbledore said, standing in the doorway. "What I have to say concerns them both."

Madame Comfrey looked at Dumbledore then left carrying the tray.

Dumbledore sat down between them. He sat there for several minutes before speaking.

"Lily, James, everything in there was truly what you would have seen if it was really a Circle of Light. I should have realized that the Circle was different then the original one since Karrie and Peter turned up along with your bodies. That never happens with a normal Circle of Light. I didn't though, since I'm not experienced with bringing the Circle in existence."

"Sir… I was the one, who was being protected, but why?"

"Didn't Tom tell you?"

"Tom?" Lily looked puzzled.

"Voldemort's name while he was at this school. I taught him myself." Dumbledore sighed.

"Voldemort did tell me." Lily said quietly.

"Lily, child, you must find a way to forget it, or it will over shadow your life. Please, don't talk of it." Dumbledore said.

"Sir… what are you talking about?" James asked.

"James, you will find out one day. Forget that any of this ever happened." Dumbledore closed his eyes. When he opened them he stood.

"I'm sorry if I was not able to help you any farther in this journey we call life. If I could I would put you all on my back and carry you." With that, he left.

Lily considered on the train ride back Dumbledore's words. It seemed so much like this was all a dream. The station at Kings Cross came into view and Lily went to say good bye to her friends.

"Bye Ari." Lily hugged her tall friend. "I'll see you over the summer yeah?"

"Of course. I might be able to get tickets to the World Cup!" Arabella said. she waved to her parents and said a quick good bye to everyone before hurrying off.

Peter was pulled away by his mother. Karrie followed behind, rolling her eyes. Remus saw his father and mother, a tiny baby was in his mother's arms. "Romulus!" he cried running over to his parents.

Lily smiled and turned to Sirius and James. Their parents were standing at the gate waiting.

"Well, see you around." Lily said.

"Yeah. Diagon Alley, or the World Cup."

"Yeah." Sirius moved away and James looked at Lily.

"Well, bye." Lily said. James took her hand and squeezed it.

"Good Bye Lily." James said and kissed her on the cheek.

Lily pressed a hand to her cheek. Then she went out to the gate.

"Good bye Hogwarts. For a year."

And with that, Lily Evans went back into the Muggle world.

A/N: My first fic is done! WAHOOOOO!!!! Please review though.