Soon the dreaded NEWT's were upon them, and anyone even coughing in the common room was cursed to oblivion by Lily. She had already given a two third years horns, and one sixth year a rather long green beard. She was now receiving daily calming draughts from Madame Pomfry as she kept getting so anxious.

Since their fight Remus and Laura hadn't uttered one word to each other, Remus didn't want to see, let alone talk to Laura anymore, and Laura couldn't bring her self to talk to him she was so ashamed.

"I just feel so bad, I want to say something to him, but I don't know what." Laura said to Jess who was trying to read through her potions notes for the exam the next morning.

"hmm." She said trying to block out the sound of her voice.

"But I get the feeling that even if I did try and say something to her he wouldn't want to hear it." Laura said not noticing that Jess was listening.

"Yeah." Jess said.

"sssshhhhhhh." Lily hissed who was sitting next to Laura, but she ignored her.

"But maybe if I explained myself he would still want to be friends." Laura said.

"yep," jess said having no idea what Laura was saying.

"SSSSSHHHHH!" Lily said again but Laura ignored her as she had done so before.

"But what if he doesn't want to know, it could get really awkward." Laura said.

"hmm." Jess said again wishing Laura would just shut up and leave her in peace.

"What if he thinks I want to get back together, which I don't and he says he loves me again and we have another fight. Then I'll go through all this again." Laura fretted.

"Would you shut up!" Lily almost shouted and she put a silencing charm on Laura.

Laura open and closed her mouth like a gold fish but no sound came out.

"Thank you." Jess said relieved that she didn't have to listen to Laura rambling on at her about how bad she felt. Jess really didn't care how Laura felt, it was her who had broken Remus heart by saying she had a problem with him being and werewolf, although secretly she was happy that they had broken up, now there was at least a chance of her and Remus getting together.

"It's fine," she said to Jess. "Now do some revision." She said this time to Laura who tried to protest, but as she couldn't speak nothing happened.

Their first exam, potions, was tomorrow morning and everyone had their potions notes out and were studying them furiously making sure they hadn't left anything out. Lily had to separate herself from James because he was so much of a distraction, and she knew that if James was near her she would never get any revision done!

The next day dawned and all the seventh years looked like something terrible was going to happen, which in one way was true.

They were about to face their Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests, and everyone was petrified of failing. Their whole futures rested on the exams that they were about to take.

They hardly ate their breakfast, Peter's food kept falling off his fork as he was concentrating on reading,

Lily had abandoned eating and was testing Emma on the ingredients of Veritaserum, Laura who had finally stopped talking about Remus was helping Jess remember the alternate names of wolfs bane.

"Monkshood, or…………or." Jess racked her brain for the other one.

"Aconite." Laura said.

"Yes that's it, aconite, aconite." Jess said trying to makes sure that it stuck in her head.

After breakfast the great hall was cleared and all the tables disappeared to make way for rows and rows of smaller tables.

"Good luck." James said to Lily kissing her on the cheek as the doors opened and they walked in and sat at their desks.

"You have an hour and a half to complete this exam." Professor Flitwick squeaked from the front of the hall, "start now." He said turning over a giant hourglass.

"Everyone turned over their papers and begun.

One of the first questions was "what is wolfs bane also known as?"

Lily remembered Laura asking Jess that question and she quickly wrote down the answer.

"What is Bezoar, and where is it found?" Lily smiled again, this didn't seen that hard after all.

"Your time is up, please stop writing." Professor Flitwick said from the front an hour and a half later, and he summoned all the exam papers to his desk. "You may now leave."

They left the hall and went up to the common room.

"That wasn't too bad," James said.

"I know I thought it would be harder." Lily agreed.

"What are you talking about, I couldn't remember what a bezoar is let alone where you find it." Peter squeaked. "I thought it was a charms exam, I've been revising that."

"Wormtail, you plank!" James said, "thanks I needed a good laugh!" He said and he pulled out his potions notes and revised for the practical later that day.

The next day was the muggle studies exam which hardly anyone was taking so they used their free time to revise for Care of Magical Creatures the next day.

One of the questions was about Blast Ended Skrewts.

"Describe how you would be able to distinguish between a male and female skrewt." James read. He Remembered reading about them in his text book, and he made note to find one and set it loose in the Slytherin Common room.

Later that day they had their practical exam, and James and Peter were called in at the same time. One of their tasks was to correctly extract the puss from a black slug like creature called a Bubotuber. James was able to do this perfectly, but Peter's went wrong and he had to be escorted to the hospital wing when he popped one of it's swellings and broke out in sores and boils.

On Thursday it was Charms, and Lily was actually confident that she would do well as it had always been her best subject. Everyone else wasn't so calm.

"God, I'm always having too much fun in charms to pay attention to what Flitwick is saying." Moaned Jess looking through her notes and finding she made very little.

"You can borrow mine." Lily said, passing Jess a stack of notes about half the size of herself.

"Thanks." Jess said pulling the top piece of parchment off and starting to read.

After breakfast they waited outside the great hall while it was being re-arranged.

"Wormtail if you need the loo, just go." Sirius said a Peter dancing up and down on the spot doing a weird sort of Irish jig.

"I can't go now, I'll miss the start of the exam." He whined.

Sirius just shrugged, "suit yourself." He said and the door opened and they took up their usual desks.

Their time started and everyone turned over their papers. The exam was quite easy nothing too taxing, well not for most people. Wormtail was having trouble concentrating on the parchment in front of him.

He saw the teachers strolling up and down the rows of students all of whom were scribbling furiously on their papers. He turned over the page and tried to read the first question, but he was giggling about so much it was hard to concentrate.

"Would you keep still." Professor McGonagall hissed at him as she passed.

Wormtail took a deep breath and tried to put his urges out of his mind until he finished the exam. It was working, he didn't feel the urge to pee anymore, but them he felt something wet trickling down his leg.

He looked down and saw a wet patch forming on the crotch of his trousers.

Oh crap! He thought, Bugger, bugger, bugger! He looked around to see if anyone else had noticed that he was wetting his self. He tried to stop the flow, but he couldn't.

What the hell am I gong to do? He thought as at last it stopped and he felt relieved. He looked down and saw a small wet patch on the floor, and felt some liquid on his chair.

He could wait for the exam to end, then quickly dry up the mess he had made and change his robes before anyone noticed. But that would be too difficult and someone was bound to notice.

What could he do? He couldn't tell a teacher it was too embarrassing, there was only one other thing for it.

He looked around, all the teachers were busy and everyone else was working. He got up and ran as fast as he could to the doors leaving his wet chair behind.

Everyone one stopped working and watched as he ran, he could hear muttering and pointing.

"He's wet himself." Someone called across the room, and everyone erupted into laughter.

He was nearly at the doors when someone stuck their foot out and before he could stop he tripped over it landing with a thud on the floor.

He wished the ground would swallow him up now, as he felt severe pain in his nose and saw blood trickle onto the floor.

A pair of hands grabbed his hands and pulled him up.

"Come on get out." Came Professor McGonagall's voice, she pushed him out into the deserted hall. "What in the name of Merlin is going on?"

Peter stayed silent.

"Explain your self now or your punishment will be even worse." She said shaking with anger.

"I………… I……….. Um……………. Had an accident." He squeaked.

"What kind of……" She started but she soon realised what he was saying. "I see, well get your self off to the hospital wing and get your nose sorted out, it is probably broken, I will deal with you later." She said her voice softening ever so slightly.

Soon the rest of the exam was let out and everyone was talking about the boy that hangs around with the Marauders that wet himself.

"Where the hell is Wormtail?" James asked when they reached the common room and expected him to be there.

"I can't believe he did that." Sirius said shaking his head.

"He just wanted to do well on his exam." Lily said, "you should go and find him, you'll be allowed out on your own, James' is head boy after all."

"But where is he?" James asked again.

"On the toilet." Sirius suggested.

"Hey leave him alone." Emma said hitting him in the chest.

"What?" he said innocently, "he obviously needed to go."

James and Remus left for the hospital wing to find Peter sitting by Madame Pomfry's office drinking a potion, presumably for his nose.

"Hey Wormtail." James said pulling up a chair by his bed.

Peter just looked at them.

"You alright?" Remus asked.

"Broke my nose." He said in barley a whisper.

"Ouch. Is it painful?" James asked, he didn't really know what to say, he wasn't very good at the sensitive stuff.

"A bit."

"Look." Remus said getting impatient, he really needed to revise for his practical. "I'm not being insensitive or anything, but lets just get straight to the point. We know what happened just now, and we don't care, so we still want to be your friend and you don't need to avoid us because you think we don't like you anymore."

Peter just started at Remus for a second. "Thanks." He finally squeaked.

"Right, now the awkward but s over can we please go back to the common room I need to practise summoning spells.

The weekend came, and this was the perfect time for more revision. Jess and Remus sat at a table in the corner of the common room testing each other on Defence Against the Dark Arts.

"God, I've done enough revision to last a life time." Remus said throwing his book down when he could do no more.

"I know what you mean, I can't wait until these exams are over." Jess said taking her hair out of a pony tail and letting it hang loose.

"You hair looks nice down." Remus said as he fingered a lock of it.

"Thanks." Jess said smiling and shaking her head so her hair tickled Remus' face.

"Hey!" He said playfully.

"You know if Lily were down here we would probably be dung beetles by now." Jess said.

"Well it's a good job she's not." Remus said, "She almost gave me whiskers the other day."

"You would look good as a cat." Jess said, and Remus hit her playfully on the arm.

"Are you sure that Laura would want us to be getting along so well?" Remus asked as she came down from the dormitories and onto the sofa where Emma was sitting.

"Why not?" Jess asked, feeling a little disappointed that he was talking about Laura when things were getting so close.

"Well she's against half breeds like me, she might not like her best friend associating with one." He said bitterly.

"That's not true." Jess said although she disagreed. "She just didn't want to go out with you any more, it has nothing to do with you being a werewolf."

"If you say so, I just get the feeling that if she didn't want to be with me then no one will." Remus said depressed.

"Well I know that's not true." Jess said blushing slightly, what she wouldn't give to tell Remus how she felt about him.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't worry , forget I said anything." Jess said shyly.

"Come on." Remus pleaded.

"Well lets just say I know someone who likes you for who you are." Jess said looking straight at Remus and seeing if he would take the hint.

"Who?" He asked, he obviously hadn't realised the person was sitting right next to him. "Do I know them?"

"Yes, rather well." Jess said.

"Oh, I wonder who." he said, "but I don't think I'm ready for another relationship right now. I'm still in love with Laura no matter how much I try not to be."

"Right I see." Jess said sinking feeling in her stomach, "well I have to go, bye." She said and she left Remus on his own, a little surprised at her abrupt departure.

For heavens sake, Jess thought, why can't he see what is right in front of his face?

Soon it was Monday, and it was time for their next exam.

Peter his behind his friends as not to attract unwanted attention from the other students. H had been given detention by McGonagall for a week, she probably would have given it to him for a month but there wasn't a month left of term.

The doors opened and everyone filed into the hall.

"Got your nappy on today?" A Slytherin hissed at Peter.

"Do you need to sit on a potty instead of a chair?"

"Hey, shut it!" Sirius said in such a menacing tone that they boy backed away.

"Thanks." Wormtail squeaked and he got into the hall as fast as he could.

The week drew on, and soon it was Friday, their last exam, Transfiguration.

James finished the written paper early and lay back in his chair. He saw Sirius doing the same and he smiled. It was just like when he was doing his OWL's, except hopefully this time Lily wouldn't go mad at him for threatening to pull down Snape's underpants. Hopefully he wouldn't even have to see Snape's underpants again.

"Time's up." Professor Flitwick. Said from the front of the hall, he collected in the papers and everyone left.

"Only the practical to do then we are free for the rest of our lives." Sirius said.

"I can't wait until I never have to do another exam." Remus said joining them.

"I agree with you on that one." Sirius said

The afternoon came, the practical took ages as one person accidentally turned one of the examiners into an eagle and it took an hour to tempt it down from the ceiling so they could turn him back.

After it was finally over Dumbledore had allowed all the Seventh years to go out onto the grounds. He said that seeing as they were of age now and they had effectively finished their magical education they could look after them selves.

Everyone was out on the grounds, Lily was sitting with her best friends sun bathing by the lake when the boy's came out to join them.

"I can't believe it's all over." Emma said, "I don't want to leave."

"I know, I can't imagine not getting on the Hogwarts Express in September." Lily said.

"I'm going to miss here so much when we leave." Jess said.

"At least we still have a week left." Emma said.

The boys sat down.

"You all sad about leaving?" James asked.

"Yep." Lily said, "I love it here. Maybe I should have failed my exams on purpose so I could repeat the year."

"You could, but I'd miss you too much." James said.

"Please don't start kissing." Laura pleaded.

"Why shouldn't they?" Remus asked, it was the first time he'd spoken to Laura. "Just because you don't have a boyfriend anymore, which is all your fault."

"I……" Laura started saying but what did she say to the man she had dumped because of what he was. "Look I'm so sorry."

"Whatever, I don't want to hear anything from you." Remus said bitterly.

"Could you please not start fighting now, it's our last day of exams we should be celebrating." Jess pleaded.

"I'm sorry," Remus said

"Sorry." Laura said.

There was a small silence, "So what's everyone doing after we leave?" Emma asked putting her head on Sirius' lap and he stroked her hair.

"Auror training for me." Lily said.

"Same." James said.

"Yep me too." Sirius said.

"Teacher training." Remus said.

"Healer training." Laura said.

"Yeah I'm doing that too." Emma said.

"I don't know what I want to do." Jess said. "I'll probably get a job at the Ministry."

"Looks like we're all sorted." Lily said "but I still don't want to leave."

"No one does," James said, "but as long as we're all together it will be fun where ever we are."

"That was really deep." Sirius said pretending to wipe a tear from his eye.

"Hey!" James said and he got up, made sure no one was looking, and turned into a stag and charged for Sirius.

Sirius jumped out of the way, turned into a dog, and jumped on James' back.

"I think they should stay like that, they are so much more attractive." Lily said, and James charged at her instead.

God, I've already got them leaving Hogwarts, and this is only chapter 11! It's too soon, they have to leave Hogwarts soon and grow up! I've been thinking of the sequel, you know about their adult lives, and I have no idea what to call it, any ideas?

Anyway please review!