Chapter 39
The End is Near

The Quidditch final was a huge success for the Gryffindor's. They had won 840-20. Not long after the game, Laura the Slytherin slut had dumped her boyfriend Trent, the Slytherin captain, and was making out with Travis Barker in the Gryffindor change rooms. James and Sirius were flying around the castle with the Quidditch cup, shouting out to the cheering Gryffindor's and laughing at the moping Slytherin's. Sirius soon left James to protect Kim from some bitchy first year girls who were yelling "Betrayer!" at her for being happy about the Gryffindor victory.

He simply landed beside them, hissed, "Bugger off!" at them and watched them run away.

"Let's go for a walk. Not a long walk, I need to study, but I also need to unwind." Kim sighed.

"Lake or forest?" Sirius asked.

"Lake." Sirius knew that this meant she wanted to relax and just talk about stupid things, like which teacher would be the worst in bed and if knick knack paddy whack, give a dog a bone was written with the intension to be dirty or if it just developed a sexual implication.

"This old man, he played four, he played knick knack on the door" Sirius sang. "That's so dirty. They did it against the door."

"What does this old man came rolling home mean?" Kim asked.

"It means…that old people can still go for a roll in the sack." He laughed at the stupidity of his answer. "What do you reckon? When we get old, will you wanna roll with me?"

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I want to be with you until we're old and wrinkly. I want to be with you when I can't remember who you are. I want to be with you when I have second hand teeth and spend more time scaring kids with them then using them. I want to be with you forever." He was now standing in front of her holding both her hands in his.

"I want to be with you for the rest of my life, however long it is. I could never imagine spending it with anyone else." Kim said, her eyes were welling up and she was forcing her voice not to tremble.

"Then marry me. Not now, you'd have to wait for me, but when I finish school and get a job and a place to live, marry me."

Kim could not hold back the tears any longer. She threw her arms around Sirius and let her tears soak through his shirt. "I love you so much." Her muffled voice said from his chest. He closed his eyes and forced back his own tears of joy. He didn't know that Kim's tears were tears of pure sadness.


Sirius sat with James and Remus in the Gryffindor Common Room an hour after he dropped Kim off at the library. Remus was attempting to revise with James and James was purposely making Remus as nervous as hell.

"You remember all the properties of Changstone, right?" Remus asked suddenly as he flipped through a large textbook.

"Aaaah…yes. It's a calming stone. Used to help people relax, but has bad side effects if used unappropriately." James replied.

"Inappropriately, not unappropriately, and wrong. Changstone is used in…"

"Care of magical creatures, mostly to cure Vickivolitis, but sometimes used to enhance the performance of competition creatures, like the Srocklehok." James said grinning, "And I said inappropriately."

Remus opened his mouth to argue, but decided against it and turned back to his book.

"Confident?" James asked Sirius, who hadn't written anything on his parchment.

"I know this stuff. I hate studying. Why did I promise you I would come?"

"Because you're so great." Remus answered. "Now, what's in a Rataway Potion?"

"Have you ever thought about the future?" Sirius asked his two friends.

"That's the whole point of studying, Padfoot." Remus replied.

"Why?" Asked James.

"I used to be so scared of thinking about it. I didn't know what I wanted to be or do or anything. I just wanted to think about the next prank or the next girl." Sirius sighed and leant back in his chair. "Where do you see yourself after school?"

"In the shrieking shack." Remus said sadly. "I've calculated and worked out that on the last day of our school careers, it's a full moon."

"That sucks." James said pitifully.

"I mean after school. I mean with jobs and girls and stuff."

"Just tell us what's on your mind Padfoot." James sighed.

"I want to be with Kim." Sirius said quietly. "And she wants to be with me."

"You know, only one in three teen relationships last." James commented, not knowing how to reply.

"So statistically, only one of us will stay with our girlfriends." Remus added.

"Well sorry guys, but Kim and I are staying together." Sirius said, his old confidence returning suddenly.

"Ebony and I have a good relationship." Remus snapped. "We have as much of a chance as you two."

"Lily and I haven't even had sex. Maybe we'll break up before the end of school." James muttered.

"Sex isn't everything. Yeah, sure I don't think my relationship with Ebony would be much without it, but you and Lily have such a great understanding of each other." Remus said, finally putting down his textbook.

"Kim said ages ago that you and Lily would be in love until you died." Sirius added. "That's a pretty powerful thing to say."

James smiled to himself. "Yeah, well love is a powerful thing."

"Fuck the statistics, guys." Sirius said with a grin. "We'll all have lasting relationships with our girls. What could possibly ruin our love?"


The exams were met with different reactions. Kim was quiet and frequently deep in thought, Frank was nervous and talked constantly about his techniques for relaxing, Sirius and Remus were both quite laidback and felt fully prepared, James and Lily spent every spare minute discussing methods of Arithmantic research or which breeds of fish were unable to be transfigured and Ebony had completely forgotten the exams were taking place and rushed around madly selling Wiccapot to the stressed seventh years.

When the last exam had finished, James, Sirius, Lily and Kim took a walk outside to the birch tree by the lake and watched the giant squid scare the nearby first years. Ebony and Remus had last been seen running towards the Quidditch supply room.

"Your last exam Kim." Sirius commented as they sat down.

"Yeah. It's over, it's all over. The end is near." She lay with her head in Sirius's lap and fell asleep.


The last two weeks of term were fun ones. James decided that he would play his last pranks before becoming Head Boy and terrorised the Ravenclaw third years by bewitching a suit of armour to stick up it's middle finger and swear. It was soon removed after it told Professor Kumar to get a haircut (amongst other things).

Sirius was glad that Kim was returning to the fun loving Kim that he loved so dearly. They spent the morning before the party on the beach in the room of requirement, talking about their future together and…reliving memories, Ris-Ris prowling contentedly in the sun and chasing seagulls with enthusiasm.

At sunset, Sirius walked Kim back to her dorm.

"I'll miss you next year."

"We'll have fun tonight." She replied lovingly. "Our last night together at school. We'll be fine next year, though."

Sirius smiled. He loved her confidence, but could see a glint in her eye that told him that she was holding something back.

"Remember to wait for me." Sirius said, changing the mood suddenly.

"If I do, promise me something."

"What?"

"Never wait for me."

Sirius didn't understand exactly what she meant by this, but smiled at her. "I won't."

"Because I will always be with you." Kim kissed Sirius. "See you tonight." She said as she slipped into the Slytherin Dungeon and out of sight.


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