A/N: Right. The last chapter. This is shorter than I'd thought it would be.

I have another L/J story called 'Civil War' that's practically finished and another one called 'All right, Evans?' that is a WIP. I also am going to post the long story I mentioned a few chapters ago.

Edit: I've edited this - don't you just love the export feature? - to add a few things.

Mr. and Mrs. David Evans were names as a homage to the wonderful book, The Grey King, from Susan Cooper's amazing 'The Dark is Rising' series. Read them - they're great!

Second, moi brought up the fact that it was a tad unrealistic for Dumbledore to tell James to break the news to Lily. I wasn't going to make it that way at first, but then I decided to, for the following reason. Dumbledore knows practically all that goes on in the castle, and Albus Dumbledore playing matchmaker is just too funny! He really is quite sneaky at times - turns my plots around all the time!

And about the Remus/Katie subplot, Remus isn't married in the books. So I am thinking about writing a companion piece about Katie and Remus, taking place during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Or I may write a sequel to DD - AMS. Or both. I'll have to see. Exams wait for no one!

Enjoy!

SIRIUS

November 2

Dear Diary,

I'm Sirius Black. I won't waste time telling you about me, I'll just say a few things: I'm an illegal Animagus, I'm a troublemaker, and I have a lousy family and now live with one of my best friends, James Potter. One more thing. I have three best friends. James, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Remus is a werewolf and me and Peter and James are Animagi. I'm a dog, Peter's a rat, and James's a stag. We call me Padfoot, James Prongs, Peter Wormtail, and Remus Moony, for obvious reasons.

James is the reason that I'm writing this. See, he got this crush on this girl named Lily Evans a few years ago, and it hasn't stopped. She hated him though. Now they're on good terms because James is Head Boy and Lily is Head Girl. All I knew is that they were friends.

Since Halloween night, they've been acting weird. Lily has this dreamy look on her face when she thinks no one's noticing, and James drifts into dreamland if you don't talk to him for more than a minute.

Hmm. I 'wonder' what it could be. Did something happen?

I talked about this with Moony and Wormtail and they think that they're an item now, I wonder…

I think I'll talk to him.

Sirius

REMUS

November 1

Dear Diary,

I think that James and Lily are an item now. My suspicion is that they got together last night. I've always been called observant. And now all the alarm bells are going off. I remember when it happened with me and Katie, my girlfriend. Same dreamy looks.

Sirius and Peter and I talked about it. I want to talk to James.

I'll do it with Sirius, tomorrow.

Remus

KATIE

November 1

Dear Diary,

Lily's been acting all dreamy since last night. I wonder what happened. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the connection between her and James Potter. James has the same expression. I hope to goodness she's happy. We all knew James was the right one for her. I really must talk to her. I heard the boys planning to talk to James. It's only fair that some conversations should be going on over on the girl side.

Katie

LILY

November 1

Dear Diary,

Hell has frozen over. I've fallen in love with James Potter.

He kissed me. And I let him.

Dear God. I don't know what to do. I can see Katie coming over. I just know that she'll ask me about James.

Well, what can I do. At least I know for a fact that he loves me back (he's not shy about showing it, and besides he's been showing it since fourth year).

Wish me luck with Katie.

Lily

CONFESSIONS

Katie strode over to Lily purposefully.

"Hello, Lily," she said, "I'd like to ask you a few questions, if you'd be so-"

"You don't even need to sit down, Katie," Lily sighed, "I'm surprised you haven't come to me before. Yes. Okay?"

"Yes what?" Katie had a knowing smirk on her face.

"Yes, for some odd reason I have fallen in love with James Potter and yes, he did kiss me. Now drop it."

Katie shrieked. "Lily! THAT'S GREAT!"

Lily winced and covered her ears. "That was my ear. I don't know what it is now but it used to be my ear. And I didn't even get to say goodbye to it."

"Lily, stop it." Katie threw her arms around her friend. "Oh, that's fantastic, Lily! I always knew that James was good for you…and now we can double date…oh, Lily…"

Lily let her friend ramble on for about a minute, then clapped her hand over Katie's mouth. "Katie, I don't want this advertised, alright? I have my pride."

"What's the matter with you?"

"Oh, forget it." Lily sighed. "I never dreamed that this would happen, you know. He's James Potter, for heaven's sake. I've hated his bloody guts for years."

"Well, you don't now, do you?"

"No," Lily admitted.

"There you go. Lily, this is so sweet!"

"Hey, Prongs. We need to talk to you. Pronto. As in, right now."

James looked up, sharply jerked out of his daydream. His three friends were standing in front of him. He was vaguely reminded of an army.

"What d'you want?"

"Come up to our dormitory?" Sirius, who had just spoken, said. It was an unspoken order.

James shrugged and followed his friends to their room. Once in, Sirius slammed the door behind them all and turned to face him.

"What's the deal with Evans?" he demanded.

"What about her?"

"Are you two an item or what?"

Remus gripped Sirius's arm, meaning that he'd take over.

"Listen, James," he began gently, "In the past day or two I have noticed certain – er – looks, between you and Lily. Besides for the fact that you two are all dreamy, and I recognized that from me and Katie, you're acting different around each other. What happened?"

"Did you kiss her?" Peter blurted out.

"Peter!"

James, unbelievably, blushed.

"Prongs, are you – blushing?" Sirius asked incredulously, "I've never seen you embarrassed about a bloody girl before!" He snickered. "Oh! This is PRICELESS! James Potter, ladies man, smooth, cool, is BLUSHING! Let us all take note of this auspicious moment in history!"

"Shut up, Padfoot," James said automatically.

"Well, did you kiss her?" Remus asked quietly.

"If I said yes, what would you say?"

"I'd say that hell has frozen over if she actually let you," Sirius answered promptly.

"Padfoot, you aren't helping." Remus glared at his friend. "Shut up."

"Moony, she's hated him for years. It's true, don't deny it."

"She didn't hate him this year, did she, Prongs? She liked you," Peter said quietly, "I heard her tell Katie that the only bright spot in her life after her parents died was you."

James gave him a wide-eyed glance. "Really, Wormtail?"

Peter nodded.

"Thanks." James buried his face in his hands. "I did kiss her," he mumbled.

The Marauders pounced like a manticore on its prey.

"Did she kiss you back?"

"What did she say?"

"Forget what she said, what did you say?"

James looked up. There was a curious light in his eyes. "I told her I loved her."

"You WHAT?" Sirius fell back onto his bed and clutched his chest in mock fear, "Prongs, you didn't just say that you told her you loved her, did you?"

"I did."

"James." Remus was extremely serious, James knew, because he was calling him by his given name. "Do you really love her?"

James met his friend's gray gaze without flinching. "Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"You're not going to break up with her? Because, seeing as she doesn't have an older brother to defend her, I swear I'll kill you."

"I am not going to break up with her."

Remus smiled, but James could detect tears gathering in his eyes. "You are so damn lucky, James Potter."

"Moony… Katie knows about you. She doesn't care. She would marry you if you asked her to," Peter said.

"She would." Remus shook his head. "But I won't ask her. I will NOT risk killing her, I'd never be able to live with myself if that happened."

"You'd never kill Katie," Sirius began, but Remus cut him off.

"You know as well as I do that when werewolves transform, they don't keep their minds. There's no cure for lycanthropy, Sirius. You know that too."

"Yes, but if someone-" Sirius began, but was quelled by Remus's Look.

"No, Sirius."

"Mad," Sirius muttered, but there was a strangely sober look in his eyes.

"Anyway," Remus said loudly, "we weren't discussing me and Katie. We were, I believe, thrashing out James and Lily. Or lack thereof."

"What do you mean, or lack thereof?" James asked indignantly, "I kissed her, didn't I?"

Sirius suddenly hooted as a thought occurred to him. "Wormtail, you owe me ten Galleons! Pay up! Pay up!"

Peter groaned and went to rummage in his trunk for the gold.

"Wormtail owes you – ten-" James glanced from Sirius to Peter in disbelief. "You bet-"

"Don't forget that you owe me thirty Galleons, Sirius," Remus reminded his friend.

"MOONY!" James was on his feet now. "I would've thought that you, of all people – you bet on us?"

His three friends finished exchanging their gold and looked at him guiltily.

James rolled his eyes. "I do not BELIEVE you blokes!"

February

Lily stood by the edge of the lake, looking thoughtfully at the roiling waves. It was freezing outside, and she tugged her cloak more tightly around her. The wind was blowing through her hair; she knew that she'd regret it later, but she didn't feel like moving.

She felt someone's presence behind her and turned to see James looking at her. He had a half-smile on his face and his hands were jammed in his pockets.

"I was wondering when you'd turn around."

"What are you doing out here?" Lily asked, "It's cold."

He raised an eyebrow and gave her that familiar smirk that had used to annoy her so much. "I could ask you that same question."

Lily held her gloved hand out to him, and he took it, tugging her closer to him and wrapping an arm around her, so she was leaning against his chest.

"I love you, Lily Evans, you know that?"

She twisted her head around to smile at him. "I quite love you as well, James Potter."

James turned her so she was facing him. "Stay with me?"

Lily squeezed his hand. "Love to."

James kissed her, and they stood by the edge of the lake, arms around each other, mulling over the strange twists and turns of life that had brought them together.

And so we come to an end. I'm in the middle of a huge revision of the new story I mentioned. Like I said, it'll have H/G, R/Hr, L/J, and Remus/Katie. Till next week, then!