Lisa: Back for another installment of this amazing story.

Heather: And I'm back for pointless two worded comments.

Lisa: That was way more then two words.

Heather: How do you now?

Lisa: Because I can count... can you?

Heather: ... LOOK OUT! IT'S THE DARK LORD MOLDYBUTT!!

Lisa: (gets out wand) you kick him in the shins!

Heather: (kick)

Awakening

"Hey, guys." Andy's voice said and then footsteps were heard walking into the room.

"Andy... what are you doing here?" Sirius asked and it sounded like he sat down right next to the head of the bed.

James heard someone sit down on the other side of the bed. "But lingering, Dumbledore was here he left about ten minutes ago. I guess I'm just sticking around hoping..." She trailed off.

"Yeah... me too... ya know, Andromeda, go home." Sirius said using her full name for a change. "I'll watch him for a while. Full moon's coming up in a few days anyway right? You should go home and rest."

James would have furrowed his brow if he could, the full moon? When the battle was going on it was still two weeks until full moon.

"Yeah, it is." Andy said and he heard a chair squeak as she stood up. "I think Remus is going to come by in a couple hours, he got a job interview, and it's not the sort of job you can just reschedule an interview because of a bad time, if you know what I mean." She said.

"That's good, what about you? How have you been doing?"

"Eh, not great they never called me back. Damn bastards, I was perfect for the job and they knew it."

"Don't beat yourself up."

"Yeah, I'll see you back at the building, then?" She asked and Sirius heard a murmur he assumed was yes before the sound of her heavy boots was gone.

"Okay James." Sirius said in a voice that was incredibly flat and serious, he had only heard it a couple times before. "I'm gonna be straight with you... you have got to wake up, mate! We're all bloody falling apart! Lily, my God poor Lily she can't take much more of this. C'mon Jamie, I hate to say it but if you're gonna die then please just do and spare us from much more of this! But if you're gonna live then... hell Jamie, just wake up! Please..." James heard Sirius's voice break as he spoke. "You're killing us... you're killing me... just, please, wake up."

James tried to use all his strength to move but still, he couldn't. All around him his friends were in anguish because of him, no matter what was real and what wasn't where ever he went he could not escape the guilt.

It seemed that Sirius had stopped talking but James felt weight on the side of the bed where he sat, along with this, there wee slight tremors in the bed. James knew what he was doing, Sirius, was crying.

The world faded again and he was once again lying in his hospital bed staring up at the ceiling. He looked over and saw Sirius was gone again, for a man who lost his legs he sure got around a lot. He expected Sirius to walk in when the door opened but a healer did instead with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Potter, good news, you van get released today." He said and handed James some papers. "Just sign these and you can leave, we have some robes for you in the closet you can wear to leave."

"What about my friends?" James asked.

"Who are they?" The healer asked not looking up from his clipboard as if he didn't acre for the conversation at all.

"Sirius Black, Lily Evans, Laura Avalon and Peter Pettigrew."

"Well, Mr. Pettigrew was released earlier today, Ms. Avalon will be released later, Mr. Black will be staying with us just a few more days for some therapy and we have to keep Ms. Evans for further testing."

James looked horrified. "What? Why? What happened is she okay?"

"We're not sure, a curse hit her, just over night for more observation. No need to worry." He gave James a smile.

The smile didn't help though, James's mind flashed back to Remus lying in the bed, dying. And the healer that had been assigned to him, he didn't care about Remus, just because of something that he couldn't help. James pushed the thoughts out of his mind as the man started talking about something else. James didn't listen he just signed the papers and made the healer go away.

When he left James walked over to the closet and picked out a set of robes, he tried not to think where they came from. He tried to go by and visit the girls but Laura wasn't in her room and Lily was fast asleep, there was a goblet next to her bed. They must have wanted her too.

He left leaving a note for Sirius on the bed, promising that he would come back and stay with him. He was sure Sirius would be mad at his release but James's knew he'd get over it.

He walked over to the floo network near the entrance and stood in line for about a minute before he was next to go in the floo. He grabbed a handful of the green powder and threw it in and called out the address to his home. He may have lived in a mostly muggle complex but there were wizards there and they all had temporary floo connections while they lived there.

He stepped out of the flames in his own flat dusting the soot off of him. He looked around, it seemed to empty, only he and Peter were back and last time he saw Peter he said something about going and visiting his family before he returned home for good. So, James was the only one here. It was strange, it was like more should be more there, and by rights more should have been.

He walked out into the empty hall once filled with laughter and screams but now it looked like a different place all together. He walked past once door and looked at it, Andy and Remus's flat. What would happen to their things, did the landlord know what happened yet? He reached the door knob and tried to open it.

Locked.

He took out his wand and whispered Alohomora and the door clicked. James opened the now unlocked door and stepped into the flat. He kept thinking that Andy would come storming out yelling at him to get out and knock first like she always did. Or he would see Remus walking out looking grim but happy, ready for another full moon night with them. There would be no more of those.

He walked around and spotted the unfinished things lying around that could never be finished. There was a muggle news paper and the Daily Prophet, a quill was next to it and it was circling certain jobs. He looked at them, they weren't particularly good jobs, there was an AD for a Boggart to be removed; James knew Remus must have been the one to circle that. Another on the same paper was for a Grindylow to be removed, that one could have been either of them.

He left the papers and in the sink, unwashed dishes, and a couple wash cloths and brushes leaving James to believe they were once charmed to wash them but stopped. There were pictures on the walls, supporting Gryffindor colors, Quidditch teams, pictures of their friends.

"Boy, what the hell you doin' in my apartment, go knock first."

A small smile crept across James's face and he turned around to see Andy sitting at the kitchen table with Remus and Heather on the counter. He walked over to them and sat opposite of Remus and Andy.

They still wore their Gryffindor robes but they looked older, more like they did in seventh year. They no longer held their Quidditch supplies but now they had bags next to them, the girls filled with necessary books, Remus's was had several tears and it was over stuffed with books. James noticed that on Remus's back a thin silvery cloak was sitting.

"Is that my invisibility cloak?" James asked pointing to it.

"Yup, thinking about the full moon?" Remus asked, James, Sirius and Peter always used the cloak when sneaking out to meet Remus at the shrieking shack. Also James noticed he looked pale and dark circle were under his eyes, often how he looked the day of or before the full, Andy however looked perfectly normal.

"Yeah... why aren't you..." he pointed to Andy.

"Well apparently when ya think of the full moon ya think of Remus more then me, that's why he got affected and not me." She explained real quickly.

"But when you were thinking of Quidditch," Heather continued. "We all got applied since Andy was beater, Remus was keeper and I was always in the locker room." She grinned.

"Oh," James said and shot Remus and apologetic look. "Sorry, mate."

"Nothing to be sorry for, I can't feel it," he said giving James a smile and then laughed. "Let's just hope you don't think of the night of the full moon next time, I don't fancy showing up like that."

"Don't worry I won't." James returned the smile. "So, what are you guys gonna do with everything?"

"Why? Are you gonna loot it?" Andy asked deadpan.

"No, it's just... ya know... what's gonna happen to it all?"

"Since we didn't make our wills yet, some of my stuff goes to my mum and my sister, and all of you, of course." Remus said. "You can all decide; I daresay it's not much to split up."

"Well, my stuff will go to my brother, sister and my mama. You guys too of course," Andy said.

"Same here," Heather said. "You get the honor of splitting it up amongst yourselves." She said cheerfully. "Good luck with that."

James nodded and looked down at the table fore making a retching sound sand clutching his stomach. Remus looked over with a voice look and heather hopped off the counter. "Prongs... are you okay?" Remus asked and walked over.

"I think Wormy's home... should we get him?" Andy asked using the name the girls have started calling Peter several weeks before.

"How would you get him? He can't see you." Heather said hitting Andy's arm.

"But I can move stuff that he can see." Andy said hitting her back much harder.

"No... no I'm fi – oooh!" James said and clutched his stomach again.

Remus was now leaning right in front of James, their faces but a few inches away from one another. "James, tell me what's wrong. You're in no deathly harm, we would know. Do you know what's happening?" Remus asked.

James looked up at him, he had never been this close to any of them before, and they always just floated at least four feet away. James could feel the cooler air radiating off Remus and when he spoke his breath felt like ice. "I dunno..." He managed. "It's weird... like I'm taking a portkey... only it hurts."

At that moment he saw Remus back up away from his. His expression completely changed as though he had just realized something and gave his friend a smile. "See you later." He said and rather then watching them fad away in front of his eyes he looked down at his body began to fad away before them.

He looked back up at them and saw Andy and heather waving him goodbye and Remus giving him a knowing smile he no doubt picked up from Dumbledore.

"Wh... Wha..." James said as the world in front of him faded completely away.

Before he knew it he as in the familiar bed he was always in, in his dreams. He didn't try to move this time, he knew he couldn't. So he just listened, he heard a page ruffle next to his bed and a sigh that was defiantly Remus. He remembered hearing Andy say last time he would be coming when Sirius left.

James suddenly realized the position he was in wasn't all that comfortable and out of habit he attempted to move. It worked, he tried it again and let out a quiet moan as he did so.

Remus looked up dropping his book to the ground and bent over the bed. "James? Jamie? Are you awake?" He asked desperately and James felt the pressure on the bed.

He tried to open his eyes but only managed to squint. "R – Rem..." he moaned.

"D – Don't try and talk... Oh God I, uh, I have to go get the healer..." James felt the bed spring up a little from Remus getting off. "I'll uh, I'll be back, right back." Remus said and James heard him rushing out of the room.

James was alone in the room for a few moments, during this time he succeeded in moving a little more and opening his eyes wider letting them adjust to the light. Everything seemed stiff and sore, like he hadn't moved in weeks. But what was happening? He was just released, why was Remus here? Why was he... alive?

He tried to answer these questions but there was no answer, he had no idea what was happening. It was his dream, but he was awake... what was real?

He heard the door open and two people rush in, one more excited then the other.

"Mr. Potter?" The healer asked and James gave a small moan. He cracked his eyes open just in time to see the healer waving his wand over his body saying various spells. This lasted for several minutes before the healer took the wand away with a smile.

"Mr... Lupin." The healer said as though disgusted to say the name. "Your friend is fine for the moment, he shows no signs of falling back, I believe that if he continues to improve over the next day he should be fit to go home." The healer said and walked out of the room. "I shall tell the woman at the desk to alert his family."

"And Lily Evans, tell them to contact her as well." Remus said knowing full well that if Lily knew they all knew.

The man nodded and left leaving Remus alone with James.

"James?" Remus asked walking back over to the bed.

"Yeah, Moony..." James breathed.

"Oh Merlin, you're awake."

"Moony... wha' 'appened...?" He asked slurring slightly. "How are you alive?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're dead... you're supposed to be dead... cutting curse..." He moaned.

Remus stood up and James turned his head slightly to look at him now that he was regaining a bit of his strength. "You mean this?" Remus asked and lifted his shirt to expose a nasty scar. "They said the scar will heal in time, but I really wouldn't mind if it didn't, just go to the collection." He said looking at the various other scars littering his body.

"Wha' abou' Heather... Andy."

"They're fine... Heather's arms got pretty beat up, we're not sure from what, and Andy got a good knock on the head, not as good you though. But they're fine... James why are you asking all this?"

"You were all dead..." James moaned. "You, Andy, Heather, you died, Sirius lost both his legs... Lily was cursed, Laura and Peter seemed fine though." He said closing his eyes.

"No, James we're all fine, it's you we've been worried about. You were the one worst off. You went into a coma. You wouldn't wake up. But we never left, we made sure that someone was always here standing beside you." Remus said and reached over picking up James's glasses and handing them to him as he blinked a few times.

"So, you're all fine?" James asked confused.

"Every one of us." Remus said with a smile. "We'll never leave."

A second later the door opened and six teenagers walked in. James looked over, he saw Lily a lingering bandage here or there, but she was fine. She walked over and gave him a long hug. She never said a word though. James used this opportunity to look around. There was Andy and Heather, in their normal clothes Heather had bandages around both arms and hands, Andy had one on her head, Sirius stood next to them leaning heavily on a cane, Laura was next to him looking fine, James remembered she had found Dumbledore at some point, and Peter next to him with no visible injuries but his one arm was clutched to his stomach, perhaps that was where his injury was.

"My God, James, you're safe." Lily cried into his shoulder. "You're okay, I was so worried you prat!" She said letting go of him and hitting him in the chest. "Don't ever do that to me again!"

"Sorry." He said and looked around the room. "So... what happened exactly...?" he decided not to tell them about what he was apparently dreaming, he only told Remus that they were all dead and he knew Remus wouldn't push for details.

"Well, when I ran off to go fight those guys a death eater curses you and you went out cold. I ran back to you and while they were attacking me I don't know when they burned my arms, Andy ran over almost got hit with the killing curse and helped me take your body away, we thought you were dead. It turned out we were almost nearing the end. We won, Sirius found us, along with Remus, Laura and everyone, we made sure you weren't dead and then we were all taken to St. Mungos." Heather said.

"Okay... so I've been unconscious for how long now?" James asked still taking all the information in.

"Almost two weeks, only one in the Order still recovering, other then Sirius of course." Laura said motioning to Sirius on the cane. "The rest of us are nearly healed."

"Yeah, I didn't exactly get the better end of the deal." Sirius said and limped heavily over to the side of the bed to a vacant chair. "Hope I don't become as loony as Mad-Eye now that I got a bum leg." He said and sat down.

"You do not have a bum leg." Lily said. "The healer said they expect a full recovery from you."

"What do they know?" Sirius mumbled.

"Did anyone die in the battle?" James asked.

"One..." Peter said and looked down. "David, The killing curse." He explained.

James looked down, they hadn't know David long, he was older then them. In his early forties they assumed. He was a good man, a graduate of Durmstrang, moved to Britain after he graduated. "Have they had the funeral yet?" He asked quietly.

"No, they're having it in his home. It's tomorrow, we were going to go but we weren't sure if you'd be up yet." Lily said.

"I want to go." James said quickly and sitting up in the bed.

"Are you sure you'll be up to it tomorrow?" Remus said.

"I'll be fine, I am fine." James said.

They all exchanged doubtful looks; he had after all just woken up after being in a coma for almost two weeks. They knew very well he wasn't fine, but they also knew better then to argue with James Potter about such things. "Alright then, mate; we'll see how you feel tomorrow." Sirius said.

Heather: Lisa is... not doing well... she read the 7th book and I'm not sure the problem since I didn't finish it yet.

Lisa: Mmmhmmm I finished it at 4:45 this morning, after almost 17 hours of straight reading (with small food and bathroom breaks). Mmmmmmmmm

Heather: I'm going to assume that if you read it you understand...

Lisa: Yeah... I'll need much fic writing to get over it but I won't say anything. Now I have a couple things to say on my profile page my avatar shows a picture of the marauderetts I drew if you're interested and congrats to Untamed Loner who figured out my master plot of what I was doing. I had to practically tell my beta.

Heather: (glare)

Lisa: Now if you don't mind I'm going to drown my sorrows in fics and some sort of soda.