A/N: Okay so here is the second, and last part, of the first ending. It's really just wrapping stuff up and pure fluff. But then that's what endings tend to be :) Thank you to everyone that reviewed; MadPoet08, Padfootzluvr, KuramaForever. I'm glad you all liked the story, even more pleased that you LOVED it. I feel all warm and snuggly. Hopefully you'll like the second ending as much.

Ending 1 Part 2

The two went down to the Great Hall, but Serena hissed softly, when she saw Peter sitting with the group.

"We decided it was best to use him like he did us." Sirius whispered in her ear. "So just keep pretending like you did before."

They walked over to the table and sat down, immediately being greeted by everyone there. Remus, James and Lily all looked concerned, and looked like they desperately wanted to ask what had happened.

Serena soon told them what had happened, the considerably edited version though. Instead of the truth, she told them her parents had died, and that she had no family left. It was a suitable explanation for her crying and not being able to return home. Just as Sirius had said, immediately everyone, except for Peter, offered their own homes for her to stay in.

"She'll stay with me of course." James said confidently. At everyone's look he grinned, and jerked his thumb in Sirius' direction. "He lives at my home. Did you think he was going to let her stay anywhere other then where he is?"

Sirius grinned rather bashfully at this. "Well, do you really blame me?"

"Thank you James." Serena said quietly. "But maybe you should ask your parents before offering...?" He just laughed her off, saying that his parents wouldn't let her say no when they found out what had happened to her own parents.

"They really are wonderful people." Lily said smiling at James. She turned to Serena though, serious. "But I expect you to come and spend some time with me as well. I don't know what we're all going to be doing when we graduate, but we all have to stay in touch."

Everyone started to plan their lives after graduation, and Serena slowly began to feel more at ease with her new life.

Of course with all the excitement, they had forgotten one very important hurdle they had to get over before graduating. They had to pass all their exams...

Serena didn't really find herself worried about any of her classes, nor did Lily or Remus. After all the three of them were the ones who actually had studied, and paid attention in class. James, Sirius and Peter were the ones who were feeling the burden of the extra studying. Serena went to extra efforts to help Sirius and James. When it came to Peter though... well she didn't feel too guilty to say that she didn't go out of her way to help him, though he sat in on some of their study sessions.

"I don't see the point in actually passing exams." Sirius said in a huff one night, after not being able to spend time alone with Serena for over a week. "I mean what is the point?"

"The point... is to show that you've actually learnt something over the past seven years. Instead of wasting money on tuition." Serena smiled slightly at him, pushing the charms book back under his nose. "Now I would hate to have to see you fail... I mean I'm sure I could get a job to support the two of us but..." She smirked at him as she left that statement hanging.

Her confident statement had the desired effect on Sirius, who growled that he wasn't about to let her take care of him completely. And his desire to pass the exams increased. Serena just smiled calmly at him, helping quiz him on his subjects.

Once the exams came everyone was almost happy. The studying had been the worst part, so taking the actual exams was almost a relief. James and Sirius came out of their last one, looking exhausted, but immediately they went off together, their heads together planning something.

Serena and Lily sat outside in the garden, and watched as Sirius, James and Remus walked away talking, planning again. The two girls had finished all their exams, and weren't even slightly worried how they did on any of their NEWT classes. Though each had a small worry for their boyfriends.

"They don't look that stressed. So they couldn't have done that badly?" Serena said hopefully. Lily snorted.

"Or they just don't care enough to realize it..." She eyed them suspiciously. "They are certainly up to something."

"The marauder's up to something?" Serena's eyes were wide in pretend innocence. "Those innocent lads? Never!" Both girls broke into fits of giggles, which caused the boys to pause in the walk, and glance back. Both girls immediately calmed down, and waved at them, smiling like nothing had happened. Their waves only got confused looks, and the boys continued on.

"I don't care what they do, as long as I'm not involved in it." Lily shook her head. "My fourth year they enchanted the library books to attack the students, without harm of course, but I was seriously put out."

The next day would show the fruit of their effort, when everyone came down to the Great Hall for dinner. Each Slytherin that walked in had the head of a different animal. Elephant, cat, moose, weasel, snake... It was like a veritable zoo. The students erupted into laughter, the zoo looking around, what could only be confused expressions crossing their animal faces.

Serena covered her grin, and had to admire the talent that had gone into this prank. Not to mention it must have been done in a way that made it so the Slytherins couldn't see what had been done to them. Serena coughed into her hand though, when Peter walked into the hall with a rat for a head. She looked at Sirius in confusion, but he just grinned.

"Peter! Did you eat one of those chocolates I left out last night?" Sirius sounded genuinely contrite, except Serena saw the tug of a grin on his lips. "I'm sorry. You seemed to have gotten caught in the middle of our prank."

Peter looked mortified when he was told he had a rat's head, but he accepted that it had been an accident.

"So this is what you have been working on all year?" Serena leaned into Sirius to ask. Sirius just grinned at her. She groaned, realizing there was something more to come. Across the hall, it seemed that the Slytherins were starting to figure out what had happened to him, and it also appeared that it wasn't just their heads which became animals, but also their voices. A cacophony of animal roars, squeaks, hisses and mutters erupted around the hall.

The teacher's on the dais were looking rather amused, Professor Slughorn got down and went to help the student's from his house, but if Serena wasn't mistaken even he looked half impressed by the charms that had gone into this prank. The amusement was quickly gone from the teacher's faces though when, soon enough the teacher's burst into song, and from the expressions none of them wanted to be doing that.

The students stared at their teachers in shock, before they all started to laugh anew.

"Double part prank then?" Serena chuckled softly. "How come McGonagall and Dumbledore aren't singing?" She looked over at Slughorn who was tap dancing, as well as singing, and at all the other teachers and staff who were now doing the same. The hall though really erupted into laughter when Filch burst into the hall, his baritone voice breaking over the hall, even while his face had a deep angry scowl. Serena couldn't help but feel that Sirius and the others were lucky to be going home in a day's time, or else Filch would have had their hides.

"Well I didn't really feel right doing a prank on Dumbledore... He did help you out after all. And as for McGonagall, well she's our head of house. And my favourite teacher."

Serena rose an eyebrow at her boyfriend. "Are you trying to tell me you're secretly in love with McGonagall?"

Sirius' laughter erupted over the hall, even louder then the still growing current of laughter from the rest of the students. This laughter though threw a chill down her spine.

"Sirius has been hitting on McGonagall since he got here." James smirked from the other side of the table. Sirius threw him an evil look.

"I like to tease her since she's always so unflappable." Sirius wrapped his arms around Serena and gave her a rather wet kiss on the cheek. "If Serena here decides she doesn't want me, I'll just cease to exist!"

The last comment caused Serena's eyes to widen, and she took a sharp breath. Sirius saw this and realized his mistake immediately, looking contrite. "I meant... I... I'm sorry."

Serena shook her head, though the laughter had died on her lips. "Nothing wrong with a joke Padfoot." He nodded, but still looked at her worried through the rest of the meal.

It was amazing that anyone could eat anything anyway, since with the Slytherins, and the teachers, it was hard to stop laughing for anyone. But somehow everyone seemed to calm down long enough to get enough in their belly. Serena had to avoid looking at Peter, since seeing a rat eat wasn't a very pleasant sight.

Once the meal ended, the Marauder's dispersed quickly enough, since they knew it was only a matter of time before one of the teacher's came to ask them about the pranks. The were the most likely candidate to have pulled it off, and of course they were the ones.

Sirius took Serena's hand, and as no surprise to her led her to the room of requirement. It was their last night in the school, and while they were both going to James' when they left, it was still sad to be leaving the school. When Sirius opened the room of requirement it was to see the atrium that they had been in on Christmas night.

"Hmm..." Serena eyed the large pond, and then grinned at Sirius. "You know... I think that pond would be perfect for a swim." Sirius looked at her in alarm, but then a sneaking grin slid onto his face.

"Darling if you want to swim, be my guest. But I don't think you have a swimsuit." His eyes traveled down her body, and back up as quickly. He tried to look innocent, but it was a look he never really had mastered.

For once though Serena matched his lecherous look as she looked at him. "Well darling, I really don't think I need a swimsuit." She patted his cheek, and walked toward the pond, and once there she quickly stripped out of her clothes, and dove into the lake.

Sirius watched wide eyed, though feeling a slight bit of disappointment since all he saw was her back as she went in. She broke above the surface and grinned at him, completely wet.

"The temperature is perfect. Did you want to come in as well...?" Serena looked at him coyly, fluttering her eyelashes at him.

"Like I had to be asked twice..." Sirius laughed softly, and pulled off his shirt. Serena blushed a deep red, and despite her intentions to appear in control, she turned away quickly as he started to pull his pants off.

"Wimp..." Sirius called out behind her, but she didn't turn around, though she was sure the memory of him standing there shirtless would stay with her forever. She heard the splash behind her and turned around to see Sirius, standing, the water above his waist, shaking his now wet hair out of his face. "Should have done this last time we were here."

"I wasn't that easy after a few days of dating." Serena chuckled. She looked a little surprised though when he started to swim toward her. "Don't come any closer!"

"You suggested this and backing out already?" Sirius grinned, but stopped about two feet from her. "Do you really think I'd stay this far away from you? Even if you weren't naked and wet?" Sirius' grin got even wider, and the distance between them closed. He pulled her into his arms, and Serena was sure that her entire body was bright red.

"I'm sorry for the comment earlier." Sirius had abruptly changed the topic, and Serena forgot her embarassment to look up at Sirius in shock.

"Sometimes I wonder if I met my parents now, if I could get them together again, then maybe I would exist again. And then I could go home..." The room had gone quiet, only the sound of the water falling off their bodies made any noise.

His arms tightened around her without even meaning to, and Sirius took a deep breath. "I don't think that would work. For one you can't make people fall in love... And second even if they did get married again, there is no way to say that the baby they would have would BE you. A different day, different circumstances, and it could be a child who looks similar to you, but isn't you." He left it unsaid that he would miss her, that he didn't want her to go. It didn't seem fair to burden her with his wishes.

Serena laughed, and Sirius looked surprised, expecting her to be depressed, even crying at what he had said. She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him soundly.

"I said sometimes I wondered. I realized all that as well. I'm not going anywhere."

Sirius couldn't help himself from kissing her back, and with no clothes between them, he found it hard to stop at just the one kiss. Things went from there...

When the two Gryffindors came back to the common room, in the early morning, they were met with rather amused expressions from their friends. All looking like they knew exactly what the pair had been up to.

"We weren't sure when you were going to get back, so we took the liberty of packing your things and sending them down to the train with the rest of the school's things. Have a nice night Padfoot?" James asked, a sly expression on his face. Sirius though only had a large goofy grin on his face at the question, Serena elbowed him in the side and muttered under her breath about men being as transparent as glass. Lily though took Serena aside and looked ready to burst with something she wanted to say.

"James proposed to me last night!" She said in an excited whisper, looking to the side Serena could see Sirius slapping James on the back. Apparently she wasn't the only one getting the news.

"And here I thought my night was good. Congratulations! You aren't going to be getting married already though?"

"No. We'll get jobs first I think... but I can't believe it. I didn't think he had it in him to be that romantic." At Serena's questioning glance Lily explained. "He took me outside by the lake, and did it there. It was really beautiful."

"Well I am more happy for you both then you could possibly know." Serena enthusiastically hugged Lily. Now the future of her friend as assured. Even if she had to be in the past, at least she knew at some point Harry would be born, and she would be able to watch over them, make sure he had a happier life this time round.

"Now you said you had a good night...?" Serena blushed in response to this question, and explained in as little detail as possible what her night had been like. Lily whistled, and looked at Sirius and then back at Serena. "And how was our Padfoot?"

Serena snorted, and shook her head. "I think that is definitely private." She grinned then though. "He was perfect as always."

They left the school, everyone a little depressed. Even though they had complained about the workload, or their treatment, they had all really loved the place. Before they got onto the train though, Serena spotted Dumbledore by the tracks and hurried over to him to say thank you.

"Miss Strangeblood. Good luck. Make sure you watch over your friends. You do realize that what you knew of the future isn't much good to you anymore. So you'll certainly have to keep a sharp watch. Whether you changed things for the better, I don't know. But things are as they are. So good luck. I am quite certain I'll see you again." He smiled benignly at her and gave her a pat on the back, before turning back to the school. She waved goodbye to him and then rushed back onto the train, and to the compartment where her friends were.

"What did Dumbledore say?" Sirius asked concerned to Serena.

"Just wishing us all good luck." Serena smiled brilliantly at the raven haired boy next to her, giving him a quick kiss on the lips. "I have an uncertain future in front of me, but I think I'm actually looking forward to it."

"Well with you here, I'm certainly looking forward to it." Sirius trademark grin was firmly in place.

"Has anyone told you two that you're becoming completely sappy?" James said sickened.

"Anyone tell you the same thing?" Serena grinned at James and Lily who were curled up together on the seat across from them.

"You're all absolutely sickening." Remus rolled his eyes. He sat next to the window, smiling slightly at the antics of his friends. "You're all going to be very happy I'm sure."

"You know... I think we need to set Moony up with someone." James said in a stage whisper to Sirius, who nodded solemnly.

"Oh please, not that..." Remus covered his face in his hands. "I've had your set ups in the past. I always spend a week dying from embarassment after. So no thank you."

Serena laughed softly. She was certainly going to enjoy spending time with these people. And who knows maybe she could set up a certain Werewolf friend of hers with a witch in the future...

"Hey... Look out the window!" Serena pointed out the window, and everyone crowded round, watching as the Castle disappeared into the distance.

A/N: That was the first ending I wrote. It was the one I thought about doing a sequel with, about the alternate future with Voldemort yadda yadda blah blah. But as for personal preferences though... the next ending is my favourite :)