In the Days of Lily Evans and James Potter

Disclaimer: Come on! It's the last chapter! Do you honestly still think it's mine?

A/N: LAST CHAPTER! So sad :( Three key points in this chapter:

-OWL MYSTERY WILL BE SOLVED (and its nothing like you thought)

-WEREWOLF (epic)

-ALICE/FRANK (finally settled)

not much more to say, except...

Chapter 15

(Rated T-16+)

"You did what?!" Alice and Lily said in unison.

"Wow, girls really do think alike," James said, standing with Frank. Only James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, Alice, Frank, and Lily had stayed over for Easter. Well, that and Snape, but Lily refused to pay attention to him.

"You wait this long to tell me you... you... you..." Alice started.

"You waited a month to tell me you 'used' the closet? My closet?" Lily shot back.

"That's not as major as what you did with... with..."

"Spit it out already." Lily tried to ignore the five boys watching them go back and forth.

"I just can't believe that you did--"

"I can't believe you," Lily said, pointing at Alice, "and you," she snapped, turning on Frank, watching the other four split, "didn't tell me! I hinted for both of you all year, and this is the thanks I get."

"Well, you wait forever to tell me about one of the BIGGEST events of your life," Alice muttered. Lily turned back to her, suddenly sitting on the floor, laughing. Alice took one look at her and just as quickly they were both in hysterics.

"What the hell?" Sirius commented, studying them both like they were a Potions experiment.

"Are we honestly fighting over this?" Lily laughed, wiping tears from her eyes.

"Not anymore," Alice giggled, linking arms with Lily.

"I will honestly never understand it," Frank mumbled. Lily steered Alice over to Frank.

"Teach him our ways," Lily said, releasing her friend. Remus clapped Frank on the back.

"Never learn their ways," he warned. "Or you'll end up like James in Hogsmeade. 'Oh, that necklace would go great with Lily's eyes. Hmmm.' Run while you still have a brain." James shoved Remus and grabbed Lily, picking her up.

"James! Put me down!" She slapped at his shoulder, uselessly.

"Save it for the bedroom," Sirius commented, gesturing toward the clock. "You don't have long to wait."

"They don't?" Remus said, suddenly very loud and nervous. He looked at his friends... and ran out of the room. James almost dropped Lily.

"It's not time for Moony, is it?" Peter asked. Lily pretended to be puzzled with her friends. She was counting backwards slowly. Oh, no!

"Damn it!" James shouted, looking out the window. "He's not going to make it!"

"What in Merlin's sake--"

"Can't explain right now, Frank," Sirius interrupted, heading towards the door with James.

"I'm coming, too," Lily said, gripping James's shoulder.

"No, you don't understand," Peter warned.

"Wormy, you stay here, okay?" Lily snapped. "I can handle myself."

"But can you--"

"Shut up and go!" James raised his eyebrows, pushing Sirius into the corridor.

"She knows," Sirius said, not asking.

"She's smart. I didn't tell her anything."

"So she knows about the stag?" The three were running now.

"And the dog, and the rat," Lily shouted, skidding around a corner. "And the wolf!" She had almost crashed into a suit of armor.

"Where is he?" James called to Sirius.

"Don't know." Sirius was looking in all directions now as they ran, looking for any sign of Remus. The boys turned left at a fork, but Lily had heard a groan to the right and turned that way.

"Remus!" she called, slowing down. The same groan. "Remus, are you here?" She walked farther and found Remus hiding in a shadow, out of the moonlight.

"Lily," he whispered. "Go, I'm starting to change." He twisted and groaned again, and Lily saw hair on his face she'd never seen before.

"Remus, I'll get you outside," she said, kneeling next to him. "Just trust me."

"Lily, I'm a--"

"I know, now come on," she urged, taking off her black robes that usually covered her school uniform. She created a transition shadow so that he could scuttle to the next one. She noticed his changes each time they used the method, and in front of the big entrance doors, she stopped and crouched next to him.

"Thanks," he said, almost barking.

"Remus, you can't help it," she told him, hugging his shoulders.

"Back up after you open the door," he growled.

"Okay." She whipped the door open and hid behind it, watching Remus become a full werewolf. He sniffed around, looking directly at her, and then ran out into the moonlight.

"You got him?" Sirus asked, as the boys came around the corner. Lily slammed the door shut.

"Yes," she replied. James stared at her.

"How did you find him?" he asked.

"I listened."

"Funny," Sirius said. "James and I have problems with that." Lily laughed lightly, realizing they were breaking a rule.

"Sirius, we have to go, before McGonagall finds us," she warned. The boys looked at each other.

"I'll give you 'till midnight, mate?" Sirius asked.

"I don't think I'll be going tonight," James said, stepping closer to Lily. "Go get Wormtail. We'll catch up with you guys tomorrow."

"Alright, man." Sirius was now up the stairs and gone.

"How in the hell do you do that?"James asked, escorting her to Head Tower.

"Do what?" Lily asked.

"You're so perfect and you drive me insane," he said, now walking behind her, catching her around the waist and nuzzling her neck.

"Saving the entire school from your best friend?" She said the password, and they both sat in the Head Tower commonroom.

"Yes," he told her, pulling her onto his lap. She wrapped herself around his torso.

"So that's how it's going to be," she whispered into his ear.

"Maybe," he replied, kissing her jawline. Outside, they heard a howl.

"Lily," Severus Snape called down the hall. It was the last day of Easter break, and the other students would be back. "Lily, wait up!"

"What do you want?" Lily turned around. Snape was rushing toward her, looking pale and disheveled.

"I need to talk to you."

"I'm listening," she said.

"The owl I sent you in--"

"You sent me the owl?"

"It was a gift from him. He wanted me to talk you into joining him. The owl was supposed to explain it all. I couldn't do it. But now he says it's due time. Lily, it's not a bad thing to join." Snape showed her his Mark.

"Goodbye, Severus," Lily scoffed, turning. The owl belonged to You-Know-Who? She needed to find James, right now.

"Lily, you don't understand," Snape said, grabbing her arm. She tried to pull away. "If you don't have his protection, he'll kill you. You're a mudbl-- a muggle born." Lily heard footsteps.

"Snape, no!" she shouted. "Let me go! Now!" She struggled to get him off. Remus came around the corner.

"Lily?" he said, looking at them. Lily mouthed 'Help me.'

"Get out of here, Lupin," Snape snapped.

"Levicorpus!" Remus had sent Snape up in the air, freeing Lily.

"Shit!" Snape spat. Lily ran behind Remus, and Remus sent Snape flying back. He skulked off, muttering something incomprehensible.

"Thank you, Remus," Lily breathed, hugging him.

"I was returning the favor," he said.

"Can we not tell James?"

"It'd be best," Remus said. "We don't need Prongs killing anyone."

"Speaking of which, where is he?"

"Where he usually is when he's thinking. Up in the sky."

"Thanks Moontail!" Lily said, starting to run to the broom closet.

"It's Moony," Remus told her.

"Moontail fits you better," she called from the end of the corridor.

She found James's practice broom, and ran outside with it, mounting as soon as she hit the solid ground. She kicked off, just as James had taught her. She had usually hated flying, but it was easy now and she enjoyed it.

Lily found James zooming in and out of the Quidditch hoops, trying special tricks involving turns and flips. She flew over and placed herself in the middle of the left hoop when James had dived low.

"Evans!" James called, almost letting go of his broom. "What are you doing?"

"Flying," she said, as if he was insane.

"Yeah, but, why?"

"Why not?" Lily zoomed past him, consentrating. She turned the broom sharply, sticking her tongue out at him.

"So that's how it's going to be." Suddenly, he was flying only a few feet above the ground. Lily joined him, but before long he reached out and grabbed her, and they both rolled onto the grass laughing.

"I got an owl today," James said. "It was about my parents. It said...I've inherited everything."

"Oh, James," Lily whispered.
"It's going to be lonely this summer."

"I know. I'm not even sure if I'm going back to my parents." Lily sat up, running her fingertips over her thigh in small circles.

"You should."

"I don't know if they want me back."

"How could anyone not want you?" James sat up next to her, kissing her lightly.

"James," she whispered.

"Lily, will you come live with me?"

"What?" she asked.

"Come live with me," he said. "I don't think I could live without you, let alone live with knowing you're alone."

"James, I couldn't intrude," Lily muttered.

"You wouldn't be," he said. "I'm the only one living there. I'll be alone, and so will you."

"James, do you love me?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you love me?"

"With all my heart."

"I'll live with you." James crushed her lips with his, and for a minute they both thought they were going to shag right there.

"Lily," he groaned as she rolled on top of him. She could feel him against her leg.

"To the tower?"
"To the tower."

A/N: So, there you have it. A bit of fluff, a bit of drama. I hop you liked. Stay tuned for my next story. R&R, Concrit, Stay Tuned!