Hey everyone this is the long awaited Chapter 14, although I don't suppose it's as long awaited as Chapter 13. And by the way, all of the other chapters are written but they're written in a notebook (they took up over half the notebook!). Also, I'm going out of town pretty soon, but I'll try and post as much as I can! Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince is the title of book six! Yay!

Disclaimer: If I were J.K. Rowling, Sirius would NOT have died in the fifth book.

Chapter 14

Lily wasn't sure how long she stood in that hallway. It felt like hours and hours to her, but for all she knew it wasn't more than three minutes. Lily was feeling more confused than she had ever felt in her life. Hadn't James said to Anna and Remus that he wasn't going to tell her the truth? Why had he suddenly changed his mind? Lily's legs felt heavy as she started towards the direction that James had gone. She didn't hurry because she wanted more time alone with her thoughts.

She stopped by the library, wondering if James would be there. She found him sitting at a table with Sirius, and surprisingly Max.

Max looked up at Lily, jumped out of her seat, and ran towards Lily as though she had not seen her months. James and Sirius stared at Max, and then James's gaze turned to Lily. He looked a little shocked to see her there so soon after he told what had really happened.

"It's been horrible," whispered Max.

"I need to talk with James," said Lily sitting in the empty chair next to him, and giving James a small smile.

"Okay," said Sirius grinning at Lily and James, and staying in his seat.

"She meant alone," said Max, grabbing Sirius's arm painfully, and practically dragging him out of the library.

"Now we can't hear them, Maxie," complained Sirius.

"I know. That's why we can out here," said Max as though she was talking to a very small child. "And don't call me Maxie!"

"I want to hear what they're saying," protested Sirius.

"We'll find out later. Just find a way to entertain yourself until we get to the Common Room," said Max as she headed off towards Gryffindor tower, followed closely by Sirius.

"Excellent," breathed Sirius suddenly looking at a nearby Slytherin with greasy hair. Then Sirius looked out of a nearby window, and out at the full moon (which he had forgotten about). "Snivellus."

"Great," said Max sounding annoyed as she caught sight of Snape. "Just great."

"Yeah, it will be," said Sirius who was now walking up to Snape, with Max trailing behind him. Snape looked at the two of them with a confused look on his face. One hand had just moved down to his pocket, and Snape was now clutching his wand tightly.

"What do you want, Black?" spat Snape.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to hex you," said Sirius who had obviously figured out that Snape was holding his wand in his pocket.

"Then what do you want?" asked Snape looking suspiciously at Sirius.

"I just wanted to know if you were still curious where Remus goes every month," said Sirius casually but with a venomous look in his eyes.

"Well, I just saw Madam Pomfrey leading him to the Whomping Willow. Interesting, isn't it?" replied Snape with an air of supremacy.

"I suppose so, but you don't know where he goes after that, do you? Or how to follow him?" asked Sirius smiling wickedly.

"And you do?" asked Snape in a doubtful voice, but with a hungry look on his face.

"Yes, you see, all you have to do is prod the knot on the tree with a long stick. The branches will freeze, and you'll be able to get in after him," Sirius told Snape.

"You're lying," Snape accused.

"I would never!" Sirius said pretending to be insulted. "But if you don't believe me, why should I care? I just thought that it was time that I was a little nicer to my enemies." Sirius wrapped an arm around Max, who hid a look of disgust, and Snape looked at them suspiciously before heading off towards what appeared to be the school grounds.

"What was all that about?" asked Max sounding very confused.

"Remus is a werewolf," said Sirius opening his mouth to add more, but never got the chance.

"Sirius!" James yelled from behind Sirius and Max.

"Oh, hey, Prongs," Sirius greeted. "Lils," he added as he saw that Lily was standing next to James.

"You just told Max that Moony's a werewolf," James said as quietly as he could for fear of being overheard.

"I know and when Snape gets to the end of the tunnel, he's in for the surprise of his life. This is the best prank ever!" said Sirius with a satisfied smile.

"Sirius that prank will kill him!" Lily shouted exasperatedly.

James turned around, and ran off in the direction that Snape had gone in only a few minutes earlier. Lily, on the other hand, ran off in the direction of Professor Dumbledore's office, leaving Sirius and Max alone in the hallway.

"Great prank, Sirius," said Max sarcastically. "You'll probably be expelled. Well, at least some good will come out of it."

"You'll miss if I'm expelled, Maxie, and you know it!" grinned Sirius.

"I can't think of anyone I'd miss LESS! And stop calling me Maxie!" shouted Max.

"If I'm expelled, you'll be expelled too! You were part of that prank!" argued Sirius loudly.

"I was not!" shouted Max even louder than Sirius. There were now about five or six students standing around watching them.

"Yes, you were," protested Sirius. "I said that it was time that we were nicer to our enemies, and I put my arm around you so he'd believe me!"

"I can't believe you're trying to drag me into your stupid prank! And I can't believe I let you put your arm around me!" shouted Max.

"You guys fight an old married couple," hissed Lily, as she and Professor Dumbledore passed them on their way to the Whomping Willow. But neither one of them said anything else, instead they kept going. Sirius and Max followed Lily and Dumbledore on their way to the Whomping Willow.

Dumbledore, Lily, Max, and Sirius reached the Whomping Willow about fifteen minutes after James had gone in after Snape.

"If James and Snape die ..." whispered Max to Sirius.

"They won't die, and you don't have to worry about me being expelled," Sirius said to Max who was wearing a look of repulsion on her face.

"Make sure no more students come out here," warned Dumbledore as he began to walk up to the tree. But before Dumbledore got to the trunk of the tree, a battered looking James dragging an unconscious Snape crawled out of the tree. James dragged Snape over to where Sirius, Max, and Lily were standing. Dumbledore conjured up a stretcher and put Snape on it.

"Professor Dumbledore. He saw Remus. He knows what he is," said James frantically, as Lily flung her arms around James. Lily couldn't believe how worried she had been about James. Her stomach had been twisting in knots ever since he went after Snape.

"I'll tell him not to tell anyone in the future. Now, Miss Evans, Mister Potter, could you please take Severus up to the hospital wing?" asked Dumbledore sounding tired.

"Yes, sir," replied James, pulling out his wand and moving the stretcher with it.

"Mister Black, Miss Pierce," Dumbledore addressed Sirius and Max. "I'd like to speak with the two of you in my office, please."

"Yes," they replied looking extremely nervous now.

"I can't believe you saved Snape's life," Lily commented looking awed, as she and James were heading to the hospital wing.

"Yeah, well not even Snape deserves to die like that," James responded, as if it wasn't a big deal.

"I know, but you risked your life for someone you hate," Lily said looking admiringly at James.

"Well, if he died he'd probably come back to haunt me as a ghost, so it was really better that I saved him," said James.

"Don't joke about it, James. That was the bravest thing I've ever seen anyone do," responded Lily quietly.

Lily and James left Snape with Madam Pomfrey. Then they turned around and left, as they saw Dumbledore coming towards the hospital wing to check on Snape. Lily and James arrived outside the Common Room, but they didn't go inside yet.

"That was a really amazing thing you did, James," said Lily.

"Thanks," James muttered with little patches of pink now appearing in his cheeks.

Then Lily did something that she had not expected herself to do. Something she had not done since she got her memory back. She wrapped her arms around James, and their lips met.

How long they stood there, Lily wasn't sure. Time had seemed to speed up each second they were together. She also wasn't sure why she didn't stop or pull away until they were interrupted.

"Get a room you two!" came Sirius's voice. Lily pulled away, blushing slightly and turned her head towards Lily and Sirius who had just appeared next to them.

"Did you guys get into trouble?" Lily asked concernedly.

"I've got detention every night for six weeks," said Sirius bitterly.

"You're lucky you weren't expelled," pointed out James.

"Yeah," agreed Lily as James put his arm around her waist.

"Lily, can I talk to you?" Max asked while staring at Lily and James.

"Sure," said Lily as Max snatched her arm and dragged her up to the girl's dormitory,

"What are you doing?" hissed Max, so quietly so no one would wake up.

"What do you mean?" asked Lily genuinely confused.

"I mean with Potter!" Max yelled. "You hugged him at the tree, you were kissing him outside the Common Room, and you let him put his arm around you!"

"You are the one who said that I might have to do this sort of thing," Lily pointed out.

"Yeah, but you don't really seemed to mind anymore. You're not really complaining about it anymore. I suppose you were just snogging Potter in the library when you had me and Sirius leave!" said Max failing to keep her voice down.

"We were not!" said Lily, her face turning red. "And are you mad because I'm not whining about him anymore?"

"No, but you are still pretending, right? You don't actually have feelings for Potter?" asked Max with a gaze so intense that Lily felt sure that Max would know if she was lying or not.

"Of course not!" said Lily, although she wasn't sure that she believed the words herself. Did she really have feelings for James?

"Good!" replied Max.

Lily and Max didn't say anything else to each other for the rest of the night. Lily was certain that Max had not believed her when she denied any feelings that Lily might have for Potter. And truthfully, Lily wasn't too sure that she believed what she had said herself.

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