Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, events and/or places that are recognized as being written and created by J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling owns all the characters and places from the Harry Potter books including the ones used in this story.

A/N: Thanks to you reviewers again! Larka Avilak- I just had to tell you that I totally agree with you, I wanna marry Lupin too!!!! and Bethje-sorry you were having a bad day...glad my story cheered you up, and Depp's Girl ForEver-thanks for the cookies!!! Thanks to everyone again.

Okay...so this was going to be the last chapter.....but I've decided to take the 'sequel' thing I was writing and add it this story, instead of starting a whole new one. So, here is the final chapter of this part...but, there is more to come for those that wish to keep reading! :D

Madam Pomfrey closed the doors to the infirmary with a slam, leaving Clea, Sirius and James standing outside. Peter couldn't stand one more moment awake, so he split from the group and went up to his room.

No one spoke for a few moments. Clea leaned against the wall and played with the lace around the sleeve of her dress robes. "Maybe I should go change," she said.

"Ok," James said, pulling at his hair. "Pomfrey's not going to let anyone go see Remus for awhile."

"Clea?" Sirius walked over to his sister. "Sorry I've kept so many secrets from you." Clea shook her head and smiled at Sirius. Just by the look in Clea's eyes, Sirius knew that there were no bad feelings towards him hidden in her head. Sirius gently punched Clea across the chin, making her roll her eyes. "Come up to our dorms before you come back here," he said.

Clea looked at him with furrowed eyebrows. "Fine," she sighed, disappointed that she couldn't come right back to see Remus.

"We'll see you later, Clea." James said over his shoulder, as the two boys made their way back to their dorms.

For the first time since the Graduate's Ball was announced, Clea descended the stairs down to the Slytherin dorms in a happier mood. Her thoughts rested with Remus in the infirmary, but she felt slightly relieved now that she knew the whole truth about everything.

Clea took a quick shower. She put on her only pair of muggle jeans and a gold colored long sweater with a big floppy turtleneck collar. She sighed, feeling refreshed. Even though she hadn't slept for almost 24 hours, just being clean and changed made all the difference.

She sprinted across the Slytherin common room. She wanted to get up to Sirius quickly. As she reached the door however, she was forced to stay where she was.

"Cleopatra?" Snape's icy voice froze Clea in place. She spun around quickly, but didn't move away from the door.

"Where are you going?" he asked, moving closer towards her.

"To see Remus," Clea said through gritted teeth. "Madam Pomfrey is taking care of him right now."

"I want you to know, Cleopatra," Snape began; he was standing dangerously close to Clea. "That I didn't blame what happened to me on Lupin, even though I still believe that he must have been in on it."

Clea shook her head, but didn't bother trying to convince Snape. She backed up slightly, smacking her back against the wall.

"I also believe Potter was in on it too, but I didn't tell Dumbledore that either. I despise the fact that he saved me. It makes me sick. But, because he did, I felt that I at least owed him enough not to include him in with your stupid brother."

Clea wanted more than anything to leave, but she was held in place by Snape's eyes, which were locked on hers.

"I know that you will have enough of a time explaining your half-blood, werewolf boyfriend to your family without having me point out the fact that you're destroying your famous bloodline too, so that will be all I'll say on that subject," Snape stopped and took a deep breath. Clea felt like punching him right then. She wasn't planning on saying anything to her family; Clea didn't believe that they deserved the right to know anything personal about her life.

"I really did like you Cleopatra," Snape continued to Clea's now shocked face. "You're different. And nice," he added, spiting out the word 'nice' like it was poison.

"Thank you Severus," Clea finally spoke. She wanted to smile, but she couldn't.

"We would have been good together," Snape said. Clea used everything she had to stop herself from shaking her head and making a face of disgust and disagreement; deep down she didn't want to make Snape hate her anymore.

"Maybe, we can still be friendly towards each other; if you want." Snape said.

Clea smiled at him. She didn't have to force her smile or fake it; she really felt like smiling at him. "I'll see you soon, Severus." Clea said, softly. Snape made his way back to his room, and Clea finally left the Slytherin dorms.

Clea felt happier after her conversation with Snape. She was feeling slightly scared at what he would say to her and she was delighted to know that he wasn't holding any grudges against her.

Clea ran up the numerous stairs that laid between the Slytherin and the Gryffindor dorms, as fast as her tired legs could carry her. When she got to the portrait entrance into Gryffindor, she saw Sirius and James waiting for her sitting against the wall.

"Hey," she said flopping down on the floor in front of them. Sirius looked at her, and a mischievous glint shone in his eyes. "What's going on?" Clea asked confused.

"Well, my dear sister, we've decided that you know too much," Sirius said smirking. Clea sighed, completely annoyed by this. She leaned back on her hands and stared at the two boys with impatient eyes.

"We've just been down to see Remus and was told by Madame Pomfrey that there will be no visitors today," James said, getting right to the point.

"What!?" Clea shouted, her voice echoing throughout the school.

"That's what I said," Sirius nodded his head. "So, Prongs and I have decided to help you go see Remus." Clea blinked her eyes slowly. Knowing them, she wasn't sure if she wanted their help.

"Here," James said, thrusting a lump of fabric towards Clea. "This is a secret though. No one is to know I have this!"

Clea took the bundle from James. It was a silvery material and it felt strangely liquid like to the touch. "Is this...an invisibility cloak?" Clea asked in an awed voiced.

"Yes. And it's mine, so don't lose it!" James said, pointing his finger at Clea. Clea looked at him and the same mischievous glint showed in her eye that she saw before in her brothers'. James went to grab his cloak back.

"James," Clea said, giggling and pulling the cloak away from him. "Don't worry. I'll be extra careful with it, I promise!"

Clea went to get up but then she remembered something. "Sirius?" she glared her eyes at her brother. "How did you know that I wouldn't be able to see Remus? Is that why you made me come see you first?"

"No," Sirius said, laughing. "That was because I wanted to make sure that you didn't have any nasty confrontations with Snivellus when you went down to your dorm."

Clea rolled her eyes at her brother and stood up. "For your information, Severus did speak to me, but everything is fine,"—Clea laughed—"between me and him."

"Are you sure?" Sirius asked standing up also.

"Do you need me to hex him, Clea?" James asked in a mock concerned voice. "Because I will, if you want me to."

Clea laughed. "Thanks for the cloak, James. See you at dinner Sirius." Clea draped the cloak around her and became instantly invisible. She slowly and carefully, made her way down to see Remus.

"I'm fine," Remus told Madam Pomfrey.

"Those scars are deep," she said, clicking her tongue. "But, there is nothing much I could do about them. Just get some rest. Good thing the holiday break is for another week and a half." Madam Pomfrey closed the drapes around Remus's bed, even though he was the only person in the infirmary.

Remus moaned softly from behind his drapes and ran his hand over his scarred face. He hardly noticed the corner of his drapes opening up and then closing a second later.

"Madam Pomfrey?" Remus asked, sitting up. He smiled and scanned the small area around his bed. "Prongs? Padfoot?"

"Nope," said a shaky, high voice from thin air. Remus's mouth began to twitch into a small smile. Clea opened up the slit in the invisibility cloak slightly and peaked out. Remus laughed at seeing one brown eye floating in mid air and propped himself up against his pillows. Clea pulled the rest of the cloak off and held it tightly in her hands.

"That was bloody good fun," Clea squealed as she sat on the corner of Remus's bed. "James lent it to me."

Remus gave Clea an approving nod and smile. Neither of them spoke for a moment. They longed to sit closer to each other, but they couldn't find the words.

Clea cleared her throat and stared into Remus's eyes from across the bed. His gray eyes were filled with apprehension; Clea knew that she must be the one to make the first move.

Clea crawled across the bed and sat down as close to Remus as she could possibly get, facing him directly. Remus grabbed Clea with both of his hands and ran them up and down her arms.

"Are you hungry? Do you want me to sneak you some food?" Clea asked.

"No, don't go anywhere." Remus said softly to her, griping her arms. He wasn't smiling, and Clea could see the sadness in his eyes.

"It's going to be all right, Remus." Clea spoke, knowing exactly what Remus was thinking. "Word is probably going to spread about what you really are, but that doesn't mean everyone will believe it."

Remus shrugged his shoulders. "I know you don't believe me," Clea continued. "And I can't promise that people won't be mean or scared of you. But, Remus, it'll be ok you'll see."

Remus smiled at Clea's optimism. "Clea, are you going to be ashamed of me? When people start calling me names or starts talking about why you would date...loopy Lupin with scars all over his face."

Clea sighed; she didn't think she could express her feelings for Remus in mere words. She swallowed her nerves down and climbed on top of Remus's legs, wrapping her arms around him. She pulled him into a deep hug. Remus laid his head on Clea's shoulders and wrapped his arms around her, in return; he held her so tightly Clea thought she was going to stop breathing.

"You're not loopy, Remus." Clea whispered into his ear, running her fingers through the hair on the back of his head. "You're very brave and smarter than anyone here at Hogwarts. I don't care what anyone says, I don't care about your transformations. I just care about you."

Remus pulled Clea away from his ear. He pressed his lips softly against Clea's, who guided him into a long, passionate kiss, their arms still wrapped tightly around each other. They became so lost in making their kiss last forever, that they almost got caught by Madam Pomfrey. Clea tumbled off Remus's bed and threw the invisibility cloak over her head just as Madam Pomfrey pulled open Remus's drapes to tell him he could go rest in the Gryffindor common room if he wanted to.

Once they were as far away from the infirmary as possible, Clea tore the invisibility cloak off and shook her flattened hair out. Remus and Clea looked at each other and broke out in nervous giggles.

"Um," Remus started.

"Are you tired?" Clea asked in a concerned voice. "I can go read in the library while you go rest?"

"No," Remus said, grabbing her hand and squeezing it hard. "I want to stay with you. We both can go to the library, if you want?"

"If you want to go, than sure."

Remus and Clea headed off towards the library. They held each other's hands gently as the walked, not talking to each other, but just enjoying being together. At the foot of the staircase that led to the library, they found James and Lily sitting closely and immersed in a deep conversation.

"Um, excuse us!" Clea shouted at them. Lily sprang up and hugged Clea. "I'm sorry Lily," Clea said apologetically, "that I didn't act all happy and excited for you last night when James kissed you." Clea whispered the last part with a huge smile on her face.

"Don't worry about it, Clea," Lily said, shaking her head. "I'm just happy that you're ok! I heard about what you did!"

Clea shrugged her shoulders, and smirked when she saw Lily grab James's hand in hers.

"Well, I see you've finally come to your senses, Lily Evans?" Clea smiled and winked at James. Lily rolled her eyes and wrapped her arms around James.

"Clea? Can we have James's invisibility cloak back?" said Lily, trying to hide her red face.

"Of course," Clea giggled, handing the cloak over to James. He tore it out of her hands and held it to his chest like it was a comfort blanket from his childhood. Remus started laughing at James's behavior, but he slowly stopped when he saw Lily scanning his face with her worried-filled eyes.

Clea looked at Remus, who had stated covering the side of his face with his hand. She reached and pulled his hand down and smiled at him. Remus slid his arm around Clea's waist and held on tightly to her.

Lily and Clea exchanged excited smiles, both knowing that the other one was in heaven.

"Well," James said, beginning to cover both him and Lily in the cloak. "We'll see you two soon." One last giggle was shared between the girls before Lily and James disappeared.

Remus and Clea stood there for a moment in silence, staring at the place where Lily and James just were. Remus bent down and kissed Clea on the forehead. She felt warmth trickle down from that spot throughout her entire body. She reached up on her tip-toes and kissed Remus on the cheek. He laughed and grabbed Clea's face in his hand. He raised his eyebrows, mentally asking Clea if he could kiss her. Clea nodded her head slightly and closed her eyes. Remus kissed Clea gently and sweetly on her lips. He pulled away, and rested his forehead against hers. Clea kept her eyes closed and breathed in deeply.

"I'll love you forever, Cleopatra Black," Remus whispered. Clea's eyes snapped open and melted into Remus's.

"I'll love you forever, Remus Lupin."