Hey guys, listen, if it were me, I would cut this chapter into 2 sections, since this is rather long.
The reason is at the bottom, but I won't be able to post next week, it will be explained more at the
bottom. THIS IS NOW BETA'D! A big thank you to Nita! She really had to work hard this week, because I was unable to type in Word, but I was in Appleworks...you all know how that is, if you've ever typed in it, it's a pain...but she did a great job, as usual.

Disclaimer: Still don't own HP!

"So, let me get this straight," James said after listening to Lily and Remus' explanation. "You found out about Remus being a werewolf, found a potion to help him, and now you want to give it to him without trying it out first?" he asked Lily.

"Well, it's not like I don't know if it will work, James. I did my research, I know what I'm doing," she told him.

"But what if-"

"James," Remus interrupted. "I appreciate it, I really do, but this is Lily we're talking about. It's not like it's Malfoy making the potion. I trust Lily," he told his friend.

James still didn't look convinced, so Lily decided to take the situation into her own hands. She walked up to James who started to back up, thinking that she was going to hit him. She walked up, took his face in her hands and kissed him. All his thoughts left him as his lips met hers.

Lily hoped that her idea would work. James didn't want anything to happen to his best friend, she understood that, but she knew the potion would work. She just wanted to help her friend; he had been a great friend throughout the years. She knew from the moment they met, that they would be great friends.

Flashback:

Lily and Sarah were desperately trying to find their class. On the way to Transfiguration, they had gotten hopelessly lost. They met dead ends everywhere. Sarah looked close to tears, but then they heard someone call their names, "Lily, Sarah!

They turned around and saw Remus Lupin running their way. "Class is this way," he told them."We saw you walk by, so I decided to come get you," he told them.

Lily smiled, "Thanks, we couldn't have found the room if someone offered us a million galleons."

Remus smiled, "Well, it's back here a little ways," he said, pointing behind him.

"Thanks," said Sarah, smiling.

Lily looked from Remus to Sarah several times before Remus finally broke eye contact, then told them to follow him and started walking toward the classroom. Many thoughts were running through Lily's head. What happened between Remus and Sarah? Why did Remus come
back for them and not that idiot showoff Potter? It took her until she was seated next to Sarah to
realized, 'She likes him.' The Transfiguration Professor, McGonagall, came in and brought Lily out of her thoughts.

Lily quickly realized that she was very good at Transfiguration, and when she looked around to see if anyone else had converted their match sticks to needles, she saw many having difficulty. But Remus, she discovered, was done as well. Sarah, on the other hand, had scorched her match stick because she was too preoccupied with watching Remus.

After class had been dismissed, Lily told Sarah she would see her later, and walked over to Remus. "Hey, could I talk to you for a second?" she asked, hoping Remus would take the hint and lead them away from his friends.

"Sure," Remus said. "You guys go on ahead to dinner, I'll be there in a minute." And before his friends could argue, Lily and Remus walked away.

"Thanks for helping us find the room, Remus. We would have been late for sure," she told him.

Remus waved his hand. "It was nothing. I'm just glad I could help," he told her. "Can you believe that we have to write a foot of parchment for this essay for McGonagall?" Remus asked after a few minutes of walking.

"I didn't think that we would have to write a lot, but it should be fun. I want to learn all I can about magic," she told him. "You see, I come from a muggle family, so I didn't know about magic until I got my letter."

"I'm half and half. My dad's a wizard but my mom's a muggle. I've been reading magical books since I first learned to read. I love reading, although my friends think I'm crazy."

"Well, I don't think you're crazy," she told him.

"Hey, I've got an idea, why don't we do the essay together? We'll get double the work done in half the time," Lily offered.

Remus smiled and replied enthusiastically, "Sure, why not?"

They stopped at the doors of the Great Hall. "You know," Remus began, "I think we'll be really good friends, Lily."

Lily smiled and replied, "I think so too, Remus." They both walked thought the doors.

End Flashback

Lily was brought out of her thoughts by a cough. Lily and James broke apart and saw Remus smiling at them. "I'm glad that you're happy and all, but I don't need to watch this," he said smirking.

Lily smiled and apologized, "Sorry, Remus." She turned to James and asked, "So, what do you think now?"

"Let's go get that potion," he replied with gusto. Lily and Remus laughed. "What?" James asked,

looking bewildered.

"Nothing, James," Remus said, laughing at his friend's confusion.

Lily watched James and Remus walking towards the door, making up her mind she asked, "Hey, Remus, can I talk to you really quick?"

"Sure. James, go wait outside, please?"

Grumbling the whole way, James walked out.

"What is it?" he asked, after the door had closed.

"Well, I have something to tell you," she told him. Then taking a deep breath she said, "Sarah likes you,"

Remus, true to his nature, again stayed passive. "Really?" he asked.

"Yes, really." Lily told him. She saw a flicker of hope in his eyes, but all of a sudden it was gone.

"Well, that's great and all but-" he stopped.
"But what? You like her, I know you do. I see you two trading looks when you think the other isn't watching. Why don't you want to get together?" she asked reasonably.

"Because, she doesn't know who I am," he said with a
haunted look in his eyes.

"What? Of course she does. We hang out all the time and..."

"That's not what I meant, and you know it," he told her.

Lily sighed and thought, so that's what he meant, she thought. Just because he's a werewolf, he doesn't think she would want him. Well, we'll just have to fix that, won't we? she thought to herself. She looked into Remus' eyes and now knew what was wrong: he was afraid that if he fell in love with Sarah, and she found out, she would leave him in disgust and fear. He had been dumped by all his other friends at home because of his lycanthropy, so he thought Sarah would too. "Well, if that's what you truly believe, then all right. But, I know that she wouldn't care that you're a werewolf, Remus," she told her hopelessly lost friend.

"Yes she would," Remus replied dejectedly, looking down at the floor.

Lily sighed. "Well, there's only one way to find out," she told him.

Remus' head snapped up, and he cried out, "No! You can't...you can't tell her. You wouldn't."

"Remus, she won't care! Listen to me, we talked and we asked each other questions. She would ask me if the person I had a crush on at the time was a follower of Voldemort, would I still like him? I told her yes, because, back then, I thought I loved him. I in turn asked her, 'What if Remus was a werewolf, would you still want him? She said..."

"What! You did what?" he asked angrily. "Why would you do that?"

"I never said that I told her. Besides, we asked each other those things before I found out." she told him, trying to placate her friend.

"Oh," Remus said, visibly deflating. "What, what did she say?" he asked nervously.

Lily smiled, "She said 'Remus isn't a monster, even if he transform into one once a month, but so what? I love him, and nothing would stop me from loving him, not even if he turned evil and went over to You-Know-Who!'"

Remus stood dumbstruck, hardly daring to believe it. "She really said that?"

"Yes."

Remus started to smile, but then it fell into a frown.
"What now?" Lily asked.

"She was just saying that. She doesn't know that I really am a werewolf, she said that not knowing it was true."

"Remus! Would you..." Lily stopped. She had gotten an idea. Remus wouldn't like it, but this was going nowhere. "I'm sorry, Remus." she said turning around.

"For what?" Remus asked.

"Stupefy!" she said, turning around. Remus was thrown across the room and onto the couch. "That," she said sadly. "I'm so sorry Remus."

She ran over to her friend and made him more comfortable. Then she walked toward the door and
looking back at Remus she said again, "I'm sorry," and turned and walked out. "Watch him, James, and if you enervate him, you will regret it." She walked away without another word, leaving a confused James behind her.

Walking down the corridor to the Great Hall, Lily thought about what she was doing. Remus wouldn't like it, but if everything went to plan, then it wouldn't matter. She just hoped that Sarah would taker her hints, at which she was very good at doing. As she saw the Great Hall doors, she took a second to think her plan over and see if she really should be doing this.
It took her less than five seconds to know that this was what she was suppose to do, Remus would never ask Sarah on his own. She opened the door and looked around the Great Hall, she saw Sarah and locking eyes with her, she waved her hand, telling her to come with her. Sarah got up, confused, but followed Lily out the door nonetheless.

They walked together not talking, Lily knew Sarah was confused but she didn't say anything. When they got to the Room of Requirement, Lily walked back and forth. When the door appeared, she opened it and they walked in. When Sarah saw Remus she stopped dead in her tracks.

"What did you do to him, James!" Sarah yelled as she ran over to Remus, and pulled him into her lap.

"I didn't..."

"I did," Lily said, moving toward Remus and Sarah.

"You? You did this?" she asked.

"You'll see why in a minute. Enervate," she said, pointing her wand at the unconscious Remus in Sarah's lap.

Remus groaned, "Oh, my head."
"I'm so sorry, Remus," Lily said again.

He looked at her in confusion "So that's why you said you were sorry?" he asked Lily.

"Yes, for that and this," she said, pointing to Sarah.

Remus looked at Sarah for the first time since he work up. He jumped up and paid for it.

"AH! Ow, that hurt," he said, wincing.

"Don't move then," Sarah told him. Remus complied, though rather reluctantly. He finally relaxed and
closed his eyes. Sarah looked up at Lily smiling excitedly. Lily winked at her friend and turned back
to Remus, wondering how to approach this. Then another idea came to her. "Remus?"

"Hmm?" he asked almost asleep.

"Would you like me to tell her? Or would you?" she asked.

Remus' eyes jumped open, but this time he didn't move. "No Lily!"

"She's your friend too, Remus, and she deserves to know."

"No! It's my choice, not yours. If I don't want her to know, then you don't have the right to tell her!"

"Tell me what?" Sarah asked.

"Nothing." Remus said. "Lily..."

"I have a plan, OK. Just trust me," she said.

"Fine," Remus said. She took that to mean that he wanted her to tell Sarah.

"Sarah, do you remember a little over a year ago when we asked each other about the other's, for lack of a better word, crush?"

"Yeah," she said, still clearly confused.

"Well, you remember when I asked you about Remus and if he was a werewolf?" she asked.

"Yes?" Sarah asked, but as she said that she felt Remus go tense under her.

"Well, Remus is a werewolf," she said rather bluntly.

Sarah looked down at Remus and then back up at Lily. "OK, so what?" she asked.
Lily gave her a look, and Sarah finally understood what she was trying to tell her. Sarah looked down at Remus, who still had his eyes closed, and after years of fantasizing, she lowered her head and gently kissed him.

Remus stiffened when he felt those soft lips against his. That wasn't what he expected, but after he got
over the shock, he deepened the kiss. All the pain suddenly gone, Remus was only able to think one
thought, I love her.

Lily looked on with joy and satisfaction. James was just sitting there with his eyes wide and his mouth
open. Lily looked over at him and pushed his lower jaw to meet his upper.

Starting to feel left out, James decided to engage this interesting activity with Lily.

Needless to say, neither couple made it to dinner that night.

Waking up, Lily looked at her watch to find it was 7:30. She sat up, stretching and looking around,

then last night's memories come back to her, and she smiled. Sarah and Remus were sneaking kisses every few minutes, and she and James were as well. Sarah was delighted that she and James had finally gotten together. The two couples sat talking into the wee hours of the morning.

Now it was time to get everyone up.

Lily smirked, "James?" she said, shaking her boyfriend, who decided he didn't want to get up and
smacked her. Lily narrowed her eyes, took out her wand and whispered "Aguamenti!"

"AH!" James screamed as he was drenched with water.

Lily smirked as she turned around to her other friends, though it seemed that James' screams were
enough to wake them up. Giving each other a good morning kiss, they got up.

"What time is it?" Sarah asked.

"7:35 now. We should get ready, then go to breakfast. We all have some business to take care of," Lily said, smiling.

Everyone smiled at that statement. They all went up to their dormitories, even thought they were still in the Room of Requirement, which would have provided them with fresh clothing, but they didn't think of it.

Once clothed and ready, they went down in pairs. Lily and Sarah first, and then James and Remus. Everyone knew what they were suppose to do.

Lily and Sarah were nervous, and had butterflies in their stomachs, but were very excited. Remus and James were very cool, not worried at all. They would look at each other and smiled every once in a while.

Lily and Sarah walked into the Great Hall and sitting down, they began to talk about nonsensical things, hardly touching the minimum amount of food they had served themselves.

James and Remus were starting to get a little nervous, but were still cool. They walked to the Hall doors, took a deep breath, and walked in.

Lily and Sarah looked at the doors the moment they opened. James and Remus walked in, and just as
planned, walked over to the two girls.

"What do you want, Potter?" Lily asked, trying to put hatred back into her voice.

"What do you need, Remus?" Sarah asked.

James and Remus looked at each other, then back at Lily and Sarah. They both said, "This!" The two girls were pulled off the bench and quickly enveloped into deep kisses.

Hey guys! I hope that you liked the extra long chapter
this week! I'm sorry to say, but there won't be
another chapter next Sunday. I am now at my
grandparent's house, so I'm not going to do any
writing, just spend some time with them. I'm very
sorry, but I won't even have access to a computer
after Thursday, so I wouldn't be able to post it. But
I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter! They are
both officially together! I bet you didn't see the
part about Remus and Sarah, did you? lol. Well, you'll
find out about what happened to Lucius later, don't
worry. I'm sad to say that this story is about to come
to a close. It appears that this story will wrap up in the next 2

chapter. One more chapter and an epilogue.I will try and
post either Monday or Tuesday, but I'm not sure if I
will be able to. But anyways, I hope that you guys
enjoyed it, and if you did, PLEASE REVEIW! I have
almost 80 reviews! I want to try and get at least 100
before my story's completion, but I won't say no to
more, lol.