Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Lily and James or any other characters you may recognize throughout this story. I also don't own the wizarding world or basically anything else you recognize from the Harry Potter series. That all belongs to the wonderful goddess of writing, J.K. Rowling. So don't sue me!

A/N: Well here is the climactic chapter! Hope you all like it. Thanks to my many reviewers:

chprincess: It would have been cool if they died? You are one weird girl! Anyway, yes they are still alive, and you will now see how the wand stealing goes. Hope you like this chapter.

MuGgLeNeT27: I hope this chapter is as good as you hoped. :)

LauraKay: Sugar highs are great! Hmm . . . history, I vaguely remember that class. Ha ha. College is great when it comes to not having to take classes you don't like anymore (at least after your first year is out of the way) Anyway, I hope you like this chapter.

Athena Diagon Cat: That is an interesting theory. I guess you'll see in this chapter whether or not you were right! ;)

Padfootlet: Ha ha, I was only kidding about the bossy thing. Sorry this chapter took longer than the others, but I'm back at school. I should actually be working on my short story for my fiction class right now, but I figured I should get this up before people start sending me howlers in my email! Anyway, hope you like it!

Rebecca Lynn: Ha! I knew YOU would like that chapter, even if everyone else hated it! Hmm . . . maybe one day I'll write a fluffy little Lily/James story and dedicate it to you, how about that? Anyway, I do rock, don't I? :) I hope you like this chapter.

Oorjit: New reader! Yay! Glad you like it, and hope you like this chapter!

Tarheelsrule01: Yeah, I liked that Lily and James popping up thing too. I hadn't planned it, it just kind of happened. Sometimes these characters have minds of their own. Anyway, hope you like this chapter.

Rinnington: Yeah, I agree that the love/hate fics can get annoying. She had to have always liked him in order to fall in love with him, but I could definitely see her fighting it for quite a few years. Especially when he was being a big jerk like we saw in that chapter of OOTP. Ha ha, Sirius does have the worst timing doesn't he? All well, we all know that those two will get together some day. And yes that line did belong to Sirius, could it belong to anyone else? What you may not have known was that the "You're on" was our dear sweet Alice! Hee hee! Yay, you're going to read my baby! :) I hope you like it, and I hope you like this chapter.

Now, on with the story!

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Chapter 6: Remus and Amelia

"So we definitely lucked out in terms of pairings, didn't we?" Amelia said smiling at Remus who was cooking their dinner over the fire.

"Yeah. We may be the only two people paired together who don't hate each other," Remus said without looking up from his task.

Amelia nodded though her face had lost its smile. The two Gryffindors had been together for the past two hours now, and Remus had barely glanced at her the whole time. It was really starting to bother her.

"Though you sure have been acting otherwise," Amelia finally said.

"What?" Remus said looking at Amelia strangely. She was standing with her hands on her hips and her lips pursed. She looked remarkably like Professor McGonagall.

"You have not even looked at me this whole night. You're acting like you aren't happy to be paired with me," Amelia said sitting down next to him by the fire.

Remus sighed and looked into the fire. Amelia waited for him to say something, but he just sat there, unmoving, and not speaking.

"Remus?" Amelia said placing a hand on his shoulder.

He looked down at her hand and smiled then turned and gazed into her eyes. She wasn't used to seeing his eyes so close, and she realized that they were beautiful. She looked away, blushing.

"It's not that I'm not happy to be paired with you Amelia. In fact it is just the opposite. I'm afraid I am too happy to be paired with you, a girl who has a boyfriend," Remus said quietly, with his gaze still fixed on her, despite the fact that she was now staring into the fire.

Amelia had like Remus almost since the first time she met him. But after four years of his mixed signals she had decided to move on and had begun dating Mundungus. She had never really expected to fall for Dung. He was quite the rule breaker, while she was more of a rule follower. But after his parents, Amelia's close family friends, had died, she had been the one to comfort him. And as people always say, tragedy can bring people together.

But now, sitting here by the fire with Remus, and having heard him finally admit to having feelings for her, she wished that she and Dung weren't going out. But the fact was they were, and she did care a great deal for him. And she knew that he cared a great deal for her. The last thing she wanted to do was break his heart. Besides, who knew whether or not this was just another one of Remus' mixed signals.

"You're right. I do have a boyfriend, a boyfriend who I care about and who is always honest with me about how he feels about me, and I couldn't be happier," Amelia said, knowing that was not entirely true, because she had a feeling that if Remus would just be himself, she could be very happy with him.

Remus nodded and turned his gaze to the sky. Amelia looked up as well and was amazed by how many stars were visible tonight. It never ceased to amaze her how beautiful nature could be.

Suddenly Amelia jumped and grabbed at Remus' arm.

"What? What is it?" Remus said looking around.

"The bushes. I heard something rustling in the bushes," Amelia whispered so quietly Remus could barely hear her.

"Are you sure? I didn't hear anything and I have pretty good . . . " Remus stopped as he heard the rustling, too.

"Remus!" Amelia gasped clutching his arm tighter. "What do you think it is? I've heard all kinds of rumors about what lives in these forests. What if it's a troll or a werewolf or something?"

Remus actually laughed causing Amelia to frown at him. "Sorry. I'm not laughing at you. I can just guarantee that it's not a werewolf is all."

"How can you guarantee that," Amelia said clearly upset about being laughed at.

"It's not a full moon."

Amelia looked up and could only see stars and trees. "How do you know, we can't even see the moon."

"I just know. The full moon is still a couple weeks away."

"But . . ." Amelia started to say, but upon hearing more rustling in the bushes she jumped and held onto Remus once more. He put his arms around her to comfort her.

And this is how the two of them were standing when Dung stepped out of the bushes. The two immediately jumped apart, red-faced, and stuttering to explain.

"I KNEW that you would try something with Amelia. It's just lucky I happened to walk by your campsite," Dung said glaring at Remus and walking over to put an arm around Amelia.

"No Dung, that's not it at all. I was just scared, because I heard you rustling in the bushes, and, yeah, Remus was just trying to calm me down," Amelia said, though she wouldn't look Dung in the eye as she spoke.

Dung narrowed his eyes and continued to antagonize the two, though he was only half serious in his ranting. The main reason he continued to act angry was to create a diversion. He grinned to himself as he saw Alice and James sneak over to Amelia's and Remus' bags. But his smile faded as they both shook their heads, indicating that their wands were not there.

Dung nodded and coughed, signifying that plan B was to be put in effect.

Suddenly Severus, Sirius, and Peter came running out of the woods, covered in leaves and jumping up and down screaming.

Remus' and Amelia's eyes went wide and they both began to scream, backing into one another and screaming once more. Before they knew what was happening, they were both tied back to back and were surrounded by their classmates.

"What in the world is going on, Dung?" Amelia demanded, eyes flashing.

"I'm sorry darling, but some things just must be done in order to gain what we need," Dung said smiling sweetly at his girlfriend.

"James, Sirius, Peter? What are you doing? Why are you tying me up? And why in Merlin's name do you seem to be getting along with Snape?" Remus said trying to wrap his brain around the strange events taking place.

"Sacrifices, my dear Moony, sacrifices," Sirius said grinning widely.

"Sacrifices for what, if I may ask? And don't think I don't see you hiding behind Peter, Alice. You and I are having a few words later," Amelia said glaring pointedly at her friend who just waved sheepishly.

"Sacrifices for the things that we desire most in the world, Ms. Johnson," Severus said stepping forward, and looking quite intimidating in the moonlight.

"And what is that, Snape?" Remus said stepping so that Severus was facing him rather than Amelia. The Slytherin prefect intimidated many people, but Remus was not one of them.

"Your wands, Lupin, your wands," Severus said with a smirk.

"Yeah, buddy. Just hand over the wands and we'll untie you and be on our way," Peter said in a much less intimidating tone than Severus'.

Remus and Amelia both looked at each other then looked back at all their classmates.

"I don't know what all of you are on, but Dumbledore took our wands. Didn't he tell you when he took yours that part of this weekend's activities included camping as muggles?" Amelia said.

"But . . . but . . ." Peter said, turning to look at the others.

"Why did we ever even think that they would have their wands?" James said looking at Alice, who turned and looked at Dung, who looked at Severus, who looked at Sirius, who was slowly backing away grinning.

"Well, who knew that I could be wrong. I think I'll just be going now," Sirius said then turned and made a dash for the forest.

The others followed and tackled him while Amelia and Remus protested loudly about still being tied up. Everything was complete and utter mayhem and was only stopped by the sound of hysterical laughter.

One by one, everyone turned to look at Lily who was rolling on the ground, holding her sides, and laughing. She had tears streaming down her cheeks and only stopped laughing when she realized everyone was looking at her.

"What, may I ask, is so funny?" James said angrily, still holding onto Sirius' hair.

"It's just . . . I knew the whole time . . . of course Remus . . . and Amelia . . . wouldn't have their wands . . . Dumbledore said why he took them," Lily finally managed between giggles.

Eventually the others started to laugh as well and the pile of conspirators got up and untied the victims.

"Guys?" Peter said after everyone had brushed off their robes and calmed down a bit, "This still doesn't solve the problem of WHY we were going to steal the wands. None of us know how to camp the muggle way."

Remus cleared his throat and gestured to the perfectly built tent and the roaring fire.

"Hey! How did you two manage this without wands?" James said.

Amelia pointed to Remus and said, "It was all him."

Remus rolled his eyes and said, "You all forget that I'm half and half. My dad is a muggle and used to take me camping all the time when I was a boy. I know how to do all this kind of stuff. It's been a while. I haven't been camping since . . . well since I was a lot younger," Remus said pausing and catching his housemates eyes. They boys nodded, knowing what Remus meant. "But it was actually pretty easy to do it again. And you are all welcome to stay here and eat with us."

And they did. They all slept there that night as well, not wanting to go back to their sites where there were no tents up and no fires built. And the next day, each pair went back to their site (everyone accompanied Alice back to hers so as to ensure Rabastan wouldn't cause any problems) and Remus set up their tents in his and Amelia's area. The group talked and laughed and all made fun of Sirius for his ridiculous idea. And at the end of the trip, each student had learned something new that they really hadn't known before.

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A/N: I know that sounds like The End. But I have a bit of an epilogue planned. But after that it's done. Anyway, this chapter was fun to write, and I hope you all liked it. :)