A/N OK guys, this is it, the end, the final chapter, now I really really really hope u like it, I struggled for AGES about who our mystery man shud b cos I kno so many ppl wanted it to be James but at the same time I didnt want it to b him cos it would be too predictable. I think ive found a way im happy with but I guess only u cn tell me whether its gd or nt.

Enjoy!

The man who stood before her was one she knew so well and yet it wasn't him at all. He was older, by at least 10 years. His hair was longer and his shoulders broader but she couldn't deny it, it was him.

'James?' she whispered.

He smiled and all of the uncertainty vanished with it. This was definately James Potter but a James Potter of the future. A James Potter she didn't know.

He moved and sat beside her. 'Yes,' he said, 'but I have to explain.'

She nodded, unable to make any words come from her mouth. 'I have an Aunt,' he started, 'who is a great seer.' He paused and looked into her eyes. 'Now this is going to sound very strange but years ago she made a prediction. About us.'

Lily's mouth dropped open, 'Us?'

'We have an immense part to play in things Lils, now I don't know exactly what it is but I do know that it is something to do with our son. There is some reason that he must be born. It is essential for the survival of wizarding kind. Do you understand?'

Lily nodded once again, then realised she had been doing that too much so she spoke, 'Yes, I think so.'

'Well, in the world I come from there was a problem. Something happened that stopped us getting together and so changing the future. Lils, where I come from you were raped at the start of your 6th year when you were walking home one night and after that it changed you and scarred you mentally so badly that you could not stand to even be near anybody of the opposite sex at all, let alone trust them. You never returned to to Hogwarts for your 6th year and so we never got the chance to get together...'

'Malfoy,' came her voice suddenly, in a croaky, harsh tone. 'That was him that night. I never thought that it could be someone I knew, I was just so focussed on that you'd saved me.'

'Yes,' replied James, 'I knew that he would try again after he had failed the first time so I told myself, the me you know, about the whole thing and told him to keep and eye on you, that is why he was trying to walk you to class that day but you refused and he took a momentary huff, until he heard you scream and came running.'

Lily sat in silence for a moment. It was all alot to take in. She was going to have an important baby with James, she was almost raped twice by Lucious Malfoy and there was a James from the future here to protect her.

'So you came back here to preserve the future?' she asked.

At her question she could have sworn that he blushed slightly, 'Well yes,' he replied, 'but also because I have been in love with you since the day we met before the Sorting in first year and couldn't bare to have anything bad to happen to you if I could help it.'

Now it was her turn to blush.

He smiled faded away suddenly and he hung his head, 'Lils, the world I come from is worse than you could ever imagine. We are ruled by a man so evil and so dark that not even Dumbledore could save him.' He let out a great sigh, and Lily then noticed the darkness that surrounded his eyes, a pain shot through her heart to see the man she loved look so worn. 'So many people have died, so many innocents. People we both know now, people we love, and I couldn't just leave that happening if I could stop it. I had to come back and make things right.'

Lily nodded and reached up to wipe a tear that had fallen onto his cheek and pulled him into a hug. She could feel his pain and his heartache though she couldn't even begin to imagine what this James had been through.

'And our son,' she asked in a voice barely above a whisper, 'he can stop all this?'

James nodded against her shoulder. 'I don't exactly know how, or why, but I know he can, someone has to.'

Neither of them said anything for several minutes until Lily couldn't hold in the question that she was burning to ask anymore. 'James?' she said timidly, 'who dies?'

He lifted his head off her shoulder and looked straight into her eyes, as if debating whether she would be able to handle the information or not.

He let out a deep breath, 'Well, what we don't actually know yet is that Remus and Sydney have actually been together for the last 6 months, since the start of the year.'

Lily smiled, she'd known there was something her friend hadn't been telling her but too many other things had happened for her to have the time to nag her about it sufficiently.

'Well three years after we left Hogwarts they got married, had a kid, little girl called Anna,' he paused again, 'I now have full custody of her because she was made an orphan when she was four.'

Lily let out a gasp and covered her mouth with her hand, 'But...but...no!' She let out a sob and buried her face in her hands. James put his arm around her and drew her to his chest. 'But it's not fair,' she cried, 'the didn't do anything.'

'I know, thats why I had to come back.'

Then she nodded and got the her feet, a look of determination in her eyes. 'We will stop it.'

They talked for a bit more but he refused to give her anymore details about the future even though she begged him insessantly.

When Lily looked down at her watch and realised it was almost 2am she said she must go. James nodded as they stood up.

'What are you going to do now?' she asked.

He smiled, 'Go home, hopefully to a better future.'

She stood up onto her tiptoes and kissed him lightly on the lips before turning and leaving the room, feeling a slight pang of sadness as she walked away from him.

The sadness however was quickly replaced by happiness when she entered the common room and saw her own James asleep in the chair in front of the fire.

She kissed him lightly on the forehead before going to her room.

She woke up late the next morning and pulled on her clothes quickly in a panic before realising it was Saturday and she didn't have any classes.

She walked down the steps into an almost empty common room except for a familiar figure sat staring into the fire.

She moved over to her boyfriend and sat beside him, kissing him on the cheek.

'Morning,' she smiled.

'Don't you mean afternoon?' he replied, 'You slept very late, what were you doing last night, I waited up for you but I think I fell asleep.'

She turned her face up to him and said, 'I was with you.'

He looked confused for a moment before realisation hit, 'You know?' she nodded. 'Oh, well...'

She lifted a finger up to his lips, 'Shhh, you don't have to explain anything.'

'You ok?' he asked, sounding concerned.

As an answer she smiled and kissed him on the lips, 'I love you, James.'

He grinned that smile she loved so much, 'I love you too, Lils.'

With that the pair sat back on the couch in each others arms, content that they would be contributing to a better future.

A/N Ok plz tel me wot u think but dnt b 2 harsh, I was wondering whether to write an epilogue or nt but I cudnt decide so I want yas 2 tell me whether to or whether to just leave it there

Also, I was considering writing another FF which is the world that James has come frm and what happened differently. If i did it probs wudnt b for a while yet cos I got exams cumin up etc, bt please tell me wot u'd think bout that

Also, seeing as Im finishing this 1 id just like to tell every1 about my other FF on this site called 'Two Worlds Clashed' plz give it a look

Anyway thanks for all of the support on this story, im really plzd so many ppl like it and thnx for everything

lots of love

Hayley