A/N: Hey, loves! I didn't mean to take quite so long with this conclusion! I blame it on the computer issues. That's also why I didn't get a chance to respond to all of your lovely reviews personally. But thank you so much! My computer is all fixed and I promise I will respond this time.

Disclaimer: I still don't own it. Except the dirty magazine. I own that. ;)

Warning: -le gasp- It's slash!

Rating: T– for more fun innuendo, of course (though nothing quite as wonderful as the last part, I'm afraid).

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Part Two: "I think I've proven my point"

"So when, exactly, were you going to tell me?" Lily asked, flopping down on the couch in the Gryffindor common room beside one of her best friends, Remus Lupin.

Remus looked up from his book, giving her a mildly puzzled smile.

"Tell you what?" He returned.

"That you are completely in love with Sirius Black." She clarified with a bit of an exasperated sigh, as if there were nothing else she could have been talking about.

To say Remus looked surprised would be a bit of an understatement. His eyes opened wider than she would have ever thought possible as he scanned the room quickly to see if anyone had heard.

"Lily!" He hissed. "That is not funny!"

Lily laughed playfully at the discomfort she was causing her friend.

"You should have see your face." She said, still laughing.

Remus just scowled at her and attempted to return to the book he'd been reading.

"So, when were you going to tell me?" Lily repeated after a moment, but in a much softer voice.

Remus looked up from his book just long enough to glare at her.

"Lily, I don't know what gave you that idea, but I do not fancy Sirius Black!" He whispered fiercely.

Lily sighed deeply.

"You know, Remus, I'm just trying to help you." She informed him in a particularly long-suffering tone of voice.

"Well, don't." Remus snapped.

"Fine!" Lily replied shortly.

She made to stand up and storm off but she couldn't help remembering the look on Sirius's face – his desperate plea, "I can't lose him."

She sat back down.

"I'm sorry for joking earlier, I shouldn't have done that." She said softly. "It's just that I don't know exactly what to do here, okay?"

Remus sat his book down again, his expression softening rapidly.

"Look, you don't have to tell me anything if you don't want to. I just want you to know that you can." Lily finished, trying to convey her sincerity.

Remus considered her for a moment, his brow slightly furrowed.

"How did you find out?" He asked finally, his voice still barely above a whisper.

Lily squealed.

"Ha! I knew it!" She shouted triumphantly.

Several people turned to look at her and she blushed sheepishly.

"Erm, sorry." She muttered, noticing Remus's scowl had returned.

"Look," she continued, before he could hide behind his book again, "I can't tell you how I know this, but I can tell you for a fact that he feels the same way."

Remus eyed her suspiciously.

"Did he say something to you?" He asked.

"Well, not in so many words." Lily answered vaguely, remembering their awkward conversation. "But believe me, I know."

"No offense, Lils, but you don't exactly have me convinced." Remus informed her rather dryly. He was definitely still a bit upset with her.

Lily sighed deeply. This was turning out to be much more work than she'd expected.

"Oh, I know!" She exclaimed suddenly, jumping to her feet and dragging Remus up with her. "Come on!"

She grabbed his hand and pulled him up the stairs to the boys' dormitories. Remus might have tried to protest, but he was too intrigued by what she was going to show him.

"Which one is Sirius's?" She asked once they had entered the room.

Remus pointed to the four poster that lay in the messiest corner of the room. Not to say that that was much of an achievement, mind you. If Lily hadn't have been on a mission she probably would have hesitated even to step inside the door. She was actually quite certain from the first step that something had died in there at some point. Then again, that could just be the year's worth of unwashed socks.

"Ah ha!" She exclaimed, pulling something out from under the mattress.

Remus came and looked at her find. It was a battered and worn old copy of 'Motorcycle Magazine'.

"I hardly see what that proves." He said, shaking his head.

Lily rolled her eyes.

"It's charmed, you dolt." She told him, as if this should have been quite obvious.

"Finite Incantum." Remus muttered, pointing his wand at the magazine.

The cover instantly changed, making both Remus and Lily blush profusely. Lily quickly replaced it under the mattress.

"So," she said, still blushing, "I think I've proven my point."

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"Oh, wait." Sirius said, stopping suddenly and slapping a hand to his forehead. "I left my bag back in the divination tower."

"Alright, I'll catch up with you later." James replied with a shrug. "I've got something to take care of anyway."

"Another Evans rejection to attend, you mean?" Sirius asked, giving his friend a knowing smirk.

James blushed slightly, mainly because Sirius was right.

"She'll come around one of these days." He muttered, mostly to himself.

Sirius started back down the hallway in the direction they had just come.

"You just keep telling yourself that, mate." He called over his shoulder with a laugh.

He was still laughing slightly when he reached the landing. It caught in his throat however, when he noticed Remus was there. He was coming from the direction of the divination classroom, though Sirius couldn't imagine what he'd been doing there since he didn't take that class.

"Hey." He offered, noticing Remus looked slightly flushed. He remembered the full moon was only two days away and wondered vaguely if Remus was already feeling some of the effects.

"Hey." Remus replied, suddenly looking nervous for some reason. "I thought I'd missed you."

"You were looking for me?" Sirius asked unnecessarily, wishing his heart would stop racing.

Remus took a small step forward and Sirius involuntarily felt himself backing up into the wall.

"Yeah," Remus said. Sirius noticed his voice had become remarkably quiet and uneven. "I just… I wanted to see if… Well, that is, Lily said…"

Lily! Sirius cursed under his breath. He was going to kill her. She had promised not to say anything!

"Look, whatever she told you, it's not what you think." He said quickly, his voice shaky and not sounding very convincing even to his own ears.

Remus was closer now, only a step left between them. Sirius couldn't read the expression on his friend's face, and he desperately wanted to know what was going on in his mind.

He was just about to open his mouth to offer another feeble attempt at an excuse, when suddenly Remus had closed the distance between them and his mouth became otherwise occupied. Very pleasantly occupied, in fact.

"Oh," Sirius somehow managed to say, once they had finally pulled apart.

Remus grinned at his friend's lack of articulation. He knew exactly what he meant.

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Back in the dorms, Lily found herself once again being harassed by a lovesick James Potter.

"Come on, Lily. Just give me five minutes!" He begged, throwing himself at her feet in his usual melodramatic way.

She couldn't help the small smile that lit her features as she tugged her robes out of his grasp.

"Oh, shove off, Potter." She said, though with slightly less malice than usual. "I've already done my good deed for today."

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Well, there it is! Sorry again about the delay. Reviewers get shiny gold stars!