Disclaimer: You know the drill, but I'm putting it anyways since this is the Last Chapter. It has It's own title. Oh, I don't own any characters except Chloe Teofila and Miranda Grisham and that girl that James was making out with earlier…she is important, but I don't remember her name. Also, I'm too lazy to look it up. Ah, well, it'll be in the next book. Yeah, and the plot is mine. That's all!
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"Lily." James whispered into her ear. Her green eyes fluttered open and she smiled brilliantly at him, feeling quite warm and cozy. She snuggled closer and sighed.
"Hi, sweetie." She kissed his cheek and rested her hand on his neck. "I love you. No matter how bad your morning breath is."
"Haha, very witty, Evans." James murmured sarcastically in her ear. His warm breath sent shivers up her spine. Thinking she was cold, James pulled her closer and rubbed her arm. Which Lily didn't really mind. "Time to get up. We've got school."
"I never thought I would wake up in James Potter's arms. Though, I never thought I would hate my sister, either." Lily sighed happily. James gave a small laugh, making Lily sky-high happy.
"I am so glad you were wrong. About us, anyways." He rested his palm on her bare stomach underneath the pink t-shirt she wore with yellow PJ bottoms.
"Oh, me, too. Otherwise, I never would have known that Hogwarts' Quidditch Star wore heart-patterned boxers. Speaking of boxers, do you think we could be just a few minutes late for class today?" She started teasing him about his choice of boxers and ended up asking him suggestively if he felt like snogging. She felt him grin against her neck and giggled, something only he could make her do. "I'll take that as a 'yes'."
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Sirius gazed around at his group of friends. Never before had he met people like Chloe, James, Lily, Remus, and, er, Peter. They were about the only people who truly knew who he was. Just looking at them made his eyes water. But only a little. Men don't cry. No way.
"Honey, are you crying?" Chloe asked in an undertone so no one could here. Too bad James had that stinking bat hearing. Sirius really hated bats about now.
"Padfoot's crying, Padfoot's crying, Padfoot's crying, Padfoot's crying!" He chanted, finally unlocking himself from Lily. Sirius glared evilly at the Bat Boy.
"Die now, Prongsie." He suggested cheerfully. "And I was not crying. Real men don't cry. No way."
"Well, it's a good thing you aren't a real man then, isn't it?" Remus joked idly as he flipped the page of Moste Potent Potions. Sirius promptly threw Flying with Puddlemere at his head. "That hurt, you know."
"Oh, well, you'll get over it." Sirius told him not-so-sympathetically. This earned him a glare from his friend with a now-sore head. Chloe was looking at Sirius as if half horrified, half wanting to believe something was a joke. "What?"
"You're not a … a, well, you know…" She asked tentatively, bright red all the way from hair to collar. Sirius burst out laughing along with everyone else except Chloe, who looked rather confused at how this was funny and hurt that the,er, person she loved would do this to her.
"Of course I'm a man! Remus seems to think it's funny to say I've not yet hit puberty. Or that I'm a 'female'. It's not very considerate, but he doesn't care." Sirius assured her. Chloe let out a sigh if relief at the knowledge that her boyfriend really was her boyfriend.
"That's good, I suppose." She told him, grinning up at his absolutely swoon-worthy face.
"And why is that? You'd love me anyways." He smirked cockily. She wrapped her fingers around his tie lovingly.
"Oh, that's not likely. I don't swing that way, Miss Black." She smirked back at him a smirk that would put Lucius Malfoy to shame. "And if I don't swing that way, I wouldn't do this."
She pulled his tie roughly, jerking his face down to hers and kissing him full on the mouth. He responded enthusiastically until Lily's voice rang out loudly.
"So, Sirius, what were you not crying about?" Sirius pulled away and smiled softly at everyone.
"I have a family." He said simply. James, Remus and Peter all gave sad, half-smiles.
"Yeah, you do." James said quietly, slapping Sirius' shoulder and gripping it briefly.
"We could make our own someday, if you want." Chloe suggested softly, sensing that Sirius didn't have a great home life.
Everyone held their breath. They all knew that Sirius wasn't one to have a family. Or even a wife, for that matter. Chloe was his first real girlfriend. He'd only had snogging buddies before. Was he going to blow off Chloe just like every other girl who suggested something long-term?
"I'd like that." Sirius smiled at her. An audible sigh issued from the group as he leaned in to kiss her softly. "I love you."
"I love you more." She teased kissing him back.
"Good, 'cause you're stuck with me forever and ever." He told her in a mock threatening voice. He laughed with his friends as Chloe pretended to be horrified.
"Oh, look! The dog has an owner." James shouted in hysterical laughter. Of course, only Remus, James, Sirius and Peter understood this. To everyone else, this simply sounded dirty. Sirius smiled all the same. Yes, he thought, he does.
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For the first time ever, Remus Lupin was excited for the full moon. Sure, he had run with the Marauders plenty of times, but this time his friends had a plan for their future. They had goals now. James would marry Lily and be an Auror. Sirius would marry Chloe and be an Auror alongside James. Peter would become a Healer and … well, be a Healer. Remus would … take it one day at a time. That's all he could ask for, but it suited him just fine.
"Ready?" James asked in the Quidditch Captain voice he always got when they entered the Shrieking Shack on the night of a full moon.
"Yep." Sirus replied grimly.
"Yeah." Peter squeaked. Remus felt a lump grow in his throat at the care his friends had for him. The pain he inflicted on them must be unbearable, but they had yet to miss a full moon. They were always there for him.
"Guys … thanks." He told them simply. Sirius and James were big on simple thank you's. Peter was big on anything that took little or no effort.
"No prob, Moony." Sirius smiled lightly.
"None at all." James agreed, shaking his hands to loosen up for transformation.
"Yeah…" Peter went along with the conversation, but Remus could tell that his mind was elsewhere. Like he had an important meeting soon and was nervous about it. Remus brushed it off a nerves about tonight and waited for the pain.
Suddenly, a cloud drifted a few inches, exposing a bright white orb hanging ominously in the sky. His body went rigid and his pupils began to grow. It was time.
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"It is time." Lord Voldemort ordered in a hiss. "Bring me our newest acquaintance."
A wave of harsh laughter washed over the crowd of blacked hooded followers of their Dark Lord. The christening of a new servant always sent a buzz of excitement through the Death Eaters. It meant they were getting stronger. Growing eer closer to their goal.
A pair of masked men walked in on either side of a terrified looking plump young man. Voldemort surveyed him with the same superior look he gave everyone except Albus Dumbledore once this prospect was kneeling before him, whimpering in fear.
"Be silent." Voldemort ordered coldly. The terrified squeaks ceased immediately and Voldemort continued with his initiation. "Do you promise to be faithful?"
"Yes, my Lord." Came the quivering reply. Voldemort nodded approvingly – enough nerve to address him properly, but not enough to question him with. Wonderful.
"Do you vow to complete every task I give you without fail?" Voldemort inquired, feeling slightly more optimistic about this boy than before.
"Yes, my Lord." The prospect replied again. Good, good, Voldemort thought, consistency.
"Are you wiling to accept the consequences should you fail?" Voldemort asked in a tone that told the kneeling human that the consequences would not be writing lines or scrubbing bedpans. Cringing with dread, the man nodded.
"Yes, my Lord." He repeated a third time. Voldemort tested him with one last question of loyalty.
"Are you prepared to kill and torture your friends if asked by me, your Dark Lord? Will your loyalty never waver when you have your so-called loved ones under wand-point?" Tom Riddle leaned down as he asked this, as if daring the boy to refuse him.
"Yes, m-my Lord." The boy allied. Smiling malevolently, Voldemort pulled out his wand.
"Hold out your arm." He ordered with vicious pleasure. The boy did so with a small whimper of fear. Pressing his wand tip to the boy's arm, Tom hissed in Parseltongue, "Morsmordre."
The boy screamed in pain as a black skull with a snake tongue burned itself onto his forearm like a glistening black diamond. Voldemort laughed in pleasure at the boy's pain.
"Welcome aboard, Peter Pettigrew."
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