Hello everybody! Thanks for all the reviews on the last chapter, they made me smile like reviews usually do. I think the previous chapter had the most reviews out of all the chapters so THANK YOU (: haha
Anana53- I don't actually know which Disney movie is my favorite to be honest. I love all the princess ones…except Snow White because I never actually considered her a princess, and her voice was too high (: and 101 Dalmatians…AND the hunchback. Gah, no, I cannot choose, c'est impossible.
Aria657- Well, Hestia Jones is an actual character in the HP books, so I can't kill her off. I don't want to give anything away though…hehe
LastWhiteRose- Yes, I did make up Maria. I just needed a character that could be with Tonks so we'd know more about her (:
Disclaimer- Yeah, I still don't own Harry Potter
Previously:
Marauders are going to have a final party. James helps Lily complete her list. Tonks and Remus talk. Sirius takes Hestia on her dream date.
"Ready?" Hestia asked Lily, looking at herself in the full-length mirror in the dormitory. Lily nodded and walked over to the mirror, looking at herself.
"This okay?"
"You look fabulous!" Hestia squealed, putting her arm around Lily, "How do I look?"
"Hestia Jones, are you fishing for compliments?" Alice chuckled as she put her shoes on. Lily laughed and Hestia stuck her tongue out at Alice.
"Hestia you look great," Lily chuckled, and Hestia grinned at her friend.
"Are you ready for the last party?" Hestia said, and the three girls sighed. How had the seven years gone by so quickly?
"No," Alice grumbled, as Hestia threw her a pair of stilettos, not approving of her previous choice of flats.
"Alice, it's the last party, might as well look absolutely gorgeous,"
"How do shoes have an effect on how gorgeous I look?" Alice whined, and Hestia gasped, dropping her jaw.
"The overall effect," Lily said for Hestia, and Hestia grinned at her.
"I have taught you well Lily Evans," she said gleefully, and Lily rolled her eyes. Hestia looked down at Lily's feet and nodded her satisfaction, and Lily let out a relieved sigh. She had decided to wear strappy shoes with a small heel, so she could both impress Hestia and be comfortable, "Shall we?" Hestia asked, holding her arms out to her friends, who shook their heads fondly, and linked their elbows together, putting Hestia in the middle.
"Now how do we do this?" Lily giggled, as the girls got to the stairs, where they couldn't go down in a row due to the narrowness of the hallway. Lily began to untwine her elbow from Hestia's, but Hestia let out a shriek of indignation.
"No way Lily Evans, we are going to enter the last party together," Hestia said, with an air of finality, and Lily sighed. She pulled out her wand and extended the hallway, causing Hestia to grin, "What would I do without you?"
"Fail?" Alice suggested cheekily, and Hestia snorted. The girls walked down the stairs, narrowing the hallway, and found themselves in the crowded Gryffindor Common Room, "I'm going to miss this," Alice sighed, looking around happily.
"Shall we?" Frank said, coming out from nowhere, holding his hands out to Alice. Alice grinned at him and took his hands.
"Bye!" she squealed to her friends, who waved at her.
"Now Lily-petal," Hestia said, and Lily grinned, "Our boyfriends are most likely going to be together, shall we go find them?"
"Or we could wait for them to find us, it's a lot more gentlemanly," Lily said seriously, and Hestia nodded.
"That is true. Maybe we should be feminists tonight. No boys," Hestia declared, and Lily pouted, "You and your bloody love," Hestia grumbled, and Lily grinned.
"What about you and your bloody love?"
"Totally different," said Hestia, blushing cheekily, and Lily giggled.
"How may I ask?"
"I don't get irritated by it"
"Of course how silly of me," Lily laughed, leaning on her best friends shoulder. Hestia was only a couple inches taller than Lily, so Lily felt comfortable leaning on her.
"I thought you were the smart one," Hestia snorted, and Lily grinned.
"I'm going to miss you Hestia Jones," Lily said, feeling her eyes glaze, and Hestia looked at her, bewildered.
"We're living together though aren't we?" Hestia squealed, and Lily laughed.
"Yes"
"Then why in the name of Merlin would you say that?" she yelled, and Lily bit her cheek, trying not to laugh.
"I was just saying, I'm going to miss you. I'm not going to see you until we actually look for an apartment later," Lily sighed, and Hestia looked down at the floor, "And then we wont be together all the time, I'll have my crazy hours at Auror training and you'll be at The Prophet," Lily said, her voice starting to get choked, and Hestia clapped her hand delicately over Lily's mouth.
"Shut up," Hestia advised, and Lily laughed, "we will do all this emotional, let's make Hestia cry, stuff after graduation, agreed?" Hestia said, and Lily nodded obediently, "So, Auror?" Hestia grinned, and Lily nodded happily, "So you've finally chosen," Hestia chuckled, and Lily stuck her tongue out at her best friend, "Good girl, now, shall we dance?" Hestia offered, and Lily nodded happily. The girls walked onto the dance floor together and began to move to the music.
"There you are," Sirius said exasperatedly, as he and James found their girlfriends laughing and dancing together.
"We've been looking everywhere for you!" James said, looking at the two girls sternly, and the girls snorted.
"Isn't that how its supposed to be?" Hestia asked, turning to Lily, who grinned cheekily at the boys.
"Well it is very gentlemanly for a boy to come find the girl,"
"Were they complaining about it?"
"I believe so,"
"Shameful," said Hestia, making tutting noises, shaking her head at the amused boyfriends.
"My sincerest apologies," Sirius said, bowing down to the girls.
"Yes, deep apologies from the heart," James said, pretending to take a hat off to the girls, and the girls laughed.
"Do we forgive them?" Hestia asked, and Lily nodded, "Yay!" Hestia said happily, throwing herself into Sirius' arms, "See you later Lily-petal!"
"Lily-petal?" Sirius said, looking over at Lily, who groaned, "Maybe I should call you that now," he grinned, and Lily turned to look at James pleadingly, only to have him grin at her. Sirius twirled Hestia away and James took a few steps over to Lily, holding his hand out to her.
"Lily Evans, will you do me the honour of dancing with me?" James asked, and Lily grinned, taking his hand. James smiled and pulled Lily closer to him as, right on cue, a slow song started.
"Why, Mr. Potter, I think you planned this," she said, referring to the music, and James grinned.
"Mr. Potter?"
"Well, that is what you're called," she said, and James chortled, removing his hands from her hips and untwining her arms from around his neck, playing with her fingers. The couple stopped moving and Lily looked down at James' hands, watching as he played with her fingers.
"Lily," James said, and she looked up at him to see him looking vulnerable.
"Yes James?"
"We're going to be okay right? After Hogwarts?" he asked nervously, and Lily's eyes widened.
"Why wouldn't we be?"
"I was just asking," he chuckled, and Lily grinned.
"Yes," she said, and James grinned down at her jubilantly.
"Good," he said happily, "And may I please say that you look wonderful," he grinned, looking down at her outfit. Lily had decided to wear a black, strapless dress, that stopped at her mid thigh, with James' locket dangling on her neck.
"Because it's black?" she grinned
"Don't forget revealing," James chuckled, and Lily flushed, still looking up at him.
"So black and revealing then?" she asked cheekily.
"Yes, you should probably wear that on our wedding or something," he said in a mock serious tone, and Lily laughed.
"Or she could wear that," Sirius said, nodding towards the stairs of the girls dormitory. They turned to see a girl walking down the stairs nervously, dressed in hot pink, "I think we asked out the wrong girls mate," Sirius chuckled, nudging James, who grinned.
"Oh Merlin," Hestia said, walking over to Lily, "Lily I want that dress."
"Oh Merlin Hestia," Lily squealed, causing Hestia, James and Sirius to look at her, "That's Tonks!" Hestia grinned broadly and looked around.
"Sirius, where's Remus?" Hestia hissed, and the boys' eyebrows rose.
"He's over there," Sirius said, pointing towards the fireplaces, and Lily turned to look at him.
"Go get him!"
"Why?" James asked, bewildered.
"Just do it," the girls said together, and turned back to look at Tonks as the boys went to fetch Remus. Tonks looked around, and spotted Lily and Hestia. She smiled at them nervously, and the best friends gave her friendly encouraging smiles. Tonks took a deep breath and walked over to Remus' two best female friends.
"Hi," Tonks squeaked.
"You look amazing!" Hestia squealed, jumping up and down, and Lily turned to look at her best friend, "What?"
"Hestia, don't scare her!" Lily said, gesturing to Tonks, who laughed.
"I wasn't scaring her!"
"On purpose," Lily muttered, and turned back to Tonks, "You do look great though," Lily smiled, and Tonks grinned.
"Thanks. I can't breathe!" Tonks whispered, and Lily giggled. She pulled her wand out and pointed it at Tonks dress. Tonks took a deep breath and looked down, to see her dress looking exactly the same, "What did you do?"
"Undetectable Extension Charm," Lily shrugged, "Nobody knows it works on dresses. This way you don't have to suck in your stomach and you still look skinny," Lily laughed, and Hestia grinned.
"I have taught you well!" Hestia said gleefully, and Tonks giggled. Lily shook her head and put her wand back where it had been, tucking it down the neckline of her dress.
"Have you seen Remus?" Tonks asked, looking around, and the seventh years turned to grin at each other.
"He's on his way here," Hestia said, looking over and spotting James, Sirius and Remus making their way over to them. Tonks face drained and she looked at the girls frightfully.
"Take a deep breath Tonks. You look fantastic," Lily assured her, and Tonks smiled slightly, taking deeper breaths. The boys made it over and Lily saw Remus do a double take at Tonks, before turning slightly pink, and grinned, "Act normal," she muttered, to Tonks, who nodded obediently.
"Hey Remus," Hestia said in a carefree tone, and Lily wondered how her best friend managed to act as if nothing had happened.
"Er, hey," he said awkwardly, and Lily saw James and Sirius snicker. She glared at them pointedly and Sirius winked at her.
"So Tonks," Hestia said, turning to Tonks, and Lily had to restrain the urge to roll her eyes; stupid Hestia was so obvious. Luckilly, however, Remus didn't catch on.
"Yes," Tonks said, smiling at Hestia, and Hestia giggled, turning to Lily for help.
"How's second year?" Sirius said awkwardly, and Hestia sent her boyfriend a grateful grin.
"It's horrible," Tonks grumbled, reaching up to touch her hair, but thought better of it as Hestia and Lily narrowed their eyes at her, and covered up by itching her nose.
"Why?" Remus asked, finding himself genuinely curios.
"I hate bloody mandrakes," she said, and Remus grinned, "They're fat, and ugly, and noisy," she said, counting them off on her fingers, and Remus laughed.
Lily walked over to James conspicuously and wrapped her arms around his neck, getting on her tiptoes to whisper in his ear. James grinned and nodded, trying to hide his pounding heart, and suddenly, there was a slow song playing. James nudged Sirius, who jumped, and then, understanding dawning on his expression, turned to Hestia.
"Hestia my love will you dance with me?" he asked, offering her his hand, and Hestia giggled, taking it.
"Lils?" James asked, and Lily nodded, and with a swift wink to Tonks, allowed James to drag her away from the two. Remus and Tonks stood there, slightly awkwardly, looking at the floor.
"So, you want to dance?" Remus shrugged, and Tonks bit her lip to hide a grin.
"I don't know you're so much taller than me," she said, narrowing her eyes at him accusingly, and Remus beamed.
"Well I apologize for my genetics," he chuckled, and ran a hand through his hair.
"I'd love to," Tonks said, and Remus frowned down at her, "Dance with you," she added, and Remus flushed, but smiled all the same.
"Great," he said and Tonks smiled. Remus held his hand out to her and Tonks took it, trying to ignore the way jinxes seemed to be shooting up her arm, in a good way. Remus put his hands on her hips, and Tonks put her hands on his shoulders, the two of them standing an arms length away from each other. Tonks looked across the Gryffindor Common Room to see Maria jump up and down happily, and give her the thumbs up, before allowing a boy, who Tonks didn't know, to drag her onto the dance floor.
"So, how are you?" Tonks asked, breaking the silence, and Remus chuckled.
"Not much has changed since this afternoon," he said, and Tonks turned slightly pink.
"I'm sorry I was just triggering polite conversation," she snorted, and Remus guffawed.
"My deepest apologies for foiling your attempts,"
"What do you mean attempts? It started conversation now didn't it?"
"Yes, but it's not polite conversation"
"Well whose fault is that?"
"Why are you inflicting that it's my fault?"
"Because it is!"
"It is not!"
"Yes it is, the conversation would have been perfectly polite had you answered the question"
"I prefer this conversation though," Remus said, not realizing that he and Tonks had stopped dancing, and were standing only a couple inches away from each other
"That's besides the point"
"What is the point?"
"There's no point!"
"Then why did you say it's 'besides the point'?"
"It's a common phrase!" Tonks said, crossing her arms and jumping as she realized the action caused her arms to graze Remus' stomach. Remus, realizing the same thing, looked down at his stomach where Tonks had touched him, and looked back up at Tonks's face, and felt his stomach flip. Bloody Hell.
Tonks looked into Remus' eyes and watched as they slowly started coming closer to her and slowly rose towards them.
"James!" Lily whispered, nudging James, and pointing over to Remus and Tonks. James looked over and grinned before looking down at her.
"Good job," he winked, and Lily giggled, wrapping her arms around his neck, "Oh no," James muttered, and Lily turned quickly.
Remus stood up quickly and looked around, then looked down at Tonks, "I'm sorry," he said earnestly, before running up the stairs to the boys' dormitory. Tonks looked after him and then jumped as Sirius, James, Hestia and Lily appeared next to her.
"What happened?" James asked concernedly, looking at Tonks and then towards the staircase leading up to the boys' dormitory. Tonks shrugged, looking extremely hurt. Lily nudged Hestia, and nodded towards Tonks, before walking up the stairs, followed by James and Sirius.
"Be nice Lily-flower," Sirius said, and Lily gasped, turning around to gape at him.
"As opposed to what?"
"A redhead," Sirius shrugged cheekily, and Lily chuckled, before turning around and continuing up the stairs. Sirius grinned at James, who rolled his eyes and continued to walk up the stairs, amused, "MOONY!" Sirius sung, bursting into the dormitory, and Lily turned to glare at him, "What?" he asked innocently, and Lily turned to look at James, who was grinning at his best friends lack of tact.
"You need more tact mate," James said, clapping Sirius on the shoulder, and Sirius' jaw dropped.
"Bloody hippogriffs I need more tact!"
"Bloody hippogriffs?"
"Yes, bloody hippogriffs,"
Lily shook her head as the two boys begun to bicker and walked to Remus' bed where the curtains were drawn. She slowly drew the curtains aside and walked in, closing them behind her, sitting down next to Remus, who was hiding his face in his hands. She cautiously put her arm around his shoulder, and felt Remus jump, "You cant tell me you didn't know we were here!" she hissed, and Remus's eyebrows rose as he realized there was bickering.
"Prongsie!"
"No"
"But seriously!"
"You are Sirius."
Remus snorted as the two boys started to laugh uncontrollably and looked at Lily, "I didn't hear to be honest, how I missed it I will never know,"
"Must be all those years of ignoring them," she smiled, and Remus chuckled, nodding, "What's wrong?" she asked quietly, and Remus dropped his head into his hands again.
"I feel so bad!"
"Why?" Lily asked, shocked.
"Because I almost kissed her!"
"Why is that a bad thing?" Sirius yelled, attempting to make it through the curtains. Somehow, Sirius wound up tangled in them, resulting in what looked like a cocoon with legs, "PRONGS HELP!"
James walked over and took one look at his friend, before bursting into laughter, along with Lily and Remus.
"PRONGS THAT ISNT HELPING! I CANT BREATHE!" Sirius whined, and Lily sighed, pointing her wand at the maroon cocoon, which came undone, "Thank you Lily, my love. Only you care about me," he sniffed, glaring at his two best mates, and Lily shook her head.
"I don't want Hestia to kill me," she clarified, and Sirius' eyes widened as the other two continued laughing.
"At least she cares for me," he said proudly, sticking his tongue out at the three of them, before turning to Remus, "So why is that a bad thing?" Remus flushed slightly and started to play with his sock, which had balloons flying around them.
"Because, she's 12," he murmured, and Lily looked at him sympathetically, "And I'm 17. I don't want to do that to her."
"You realize, when she's 20, and you're 25, nobody will care right?" James said gently, looking at Remus, who shook his head.
"Yes I know I've heard that before. But that doesn't change the fact that there is a lot of difference between her being 12 and her being 20! And our age difference right now, has more effect on our maturity level distance. And…" Remus stopped, ruffling his hair, and Lily groaned.
"Do all you boys do that to your hair? No wonder I've picked it up," she muttered, and the boys laughed.
"Blame Prongs, we picked it up from him," Sirius said, glaring at James fondly, and James shrugged, grinning, "Anyway, and?" he said, turning back to Remus, who looked down nervously.
"I don't want her to have to get involved with a werewolf," he said, and the other three looked at each other, before looking at him.
"Remus…"
"No! Don't tell me it doesn't matter! Don't tell me its not dangerous! It is bloody dangerous! And it does matter! Nobody wants to hire me because of that bloody furry little problem, what makes you think someone will date me with it?" he said dejectedly.
"Maybe we should just kill the damn bunny," James said matter-of-factly, and Lily watched as the three boys cried with laughter. When they had calmed down considerably, Lily grinned at James, who winked at her.
"Anyway. Alright, if she wants to date me, that's great. It really is. But the thing is, I don't want her to date me"
"So you don't like her?"
"No! No that's not it, I do, I really do," Remus said quietly, grabbing his hair in frustration, "But,"
"It's alright," Lily said soothingly, taking Remus' hand in hers, ignoring James' eyes on that, and rubbing soothing circles on it, "Remus, it's your choice. But I just want to tell you, there's a girl down there, who would date you no matter what, and who really likes you, and you like her back. Maybe you're not making the right decision," Lily said, and Remus turned to look at her.
"What should I do?"
"Go talk to her mate," James said, grabbing Remus' hand and pulling him off the bed.
"THIS NEVER HAPPENED!" Sirius declared, clapping his hands, and the three of them turned to him with bewildered eyes.
"Why ever not?" Lily asked, and Sirius rolled his eyes at James, who looked just as confused.
"Because, firstly, Marauders do not do worry about girls," he said, and Lily snorted, ignoring the glares from the three boys in the room.
"What? So you're saying you never panic about Hestia, James never ever fretted about me, and Remus isn't worried about this?" she challenged, and the three boys looked at each other.
"Rephrase, nobody knows Marauders worry about girls," Sirius said, and Lily grinned, "AND, if this didn't happen, I didn't get tangled in the curtain," he declared, and the three of them snorted, "I DID NOT GET TANGLED IT WAS TRYING TO EAT ME!"
"I'm sure it was," Remus grinned, putting his arm around Sirius shoulder.
"It's jealous of my hair!"
"Yes, I know," Remus said, turning around to roll his eyes at the other giggling two, before leading Sirius out of the dorm. James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her to him, smiling down at her.
"Yes?" she said, smiling up at him, and James chuckled.
"Hello love,"
"Hello James,"
"I just wanted to tell you something," he said, and Lily smiled and nodded, "I don't want you to wear black and revealing at our wedding," he admitted, and Lily laughed, "that is, if we get married"
"Of course," Lily nodded, mock seriously, and James grinned, "And may I ask why not?"
"I don't want anyone to object," he winked, and Lily laughed. He held his hand out to her and Lily took it, "Shall we go spy on Moony?"
"We shall," Lily declared, walking down the stairs with James. They walked down to see Sirius and Hestia talking right at the bottom of the stairs, "Where are Remus and Tonks?"
"Remus and Tonks, that has such a nice ring to it," Hestia squealed, and Lily chuckled.
"It does," she nodded, and Hestia grinned, "Now where are they?"
"They went to talk," Hestia said, pointing towards the portrait hole, where Lily managed to catch a glimpse of Remus and Tonks leaving.
"Hey," Remus said awkwardly, standing just outside the portrait hole.
"Hello lovely," the fat lady said, batting her eyelashes at Remus, and Tonks narrowed her eyes at the portrait.
"Still not interested," Remus chuckled, looking at the portrait, who sighed.
"Skinny girls get all the luck," she mumbled, and Remus grinned, taking Tonks' hand and dragging her away from the portrait.
"Much better," he muttered, and Tonks giggled. He looked up and met her eyes, and felt his stomach flip. How had this happened?
"Can I ask what happened?" Tonks said nervously, and Remus bit his lip.
"Tonks you're 12"
"I know?" she said, and Remus laughed.
"I meant, you're only 12. I'm 17, it wouldn't have been right," he said earnestly, and Tonks laughed, "What?"
"I thought my nose was too big or something," she laughed, and Remus shook his head.
"I like your nose," he chuckled, and Tonks grinned.
"Thanks I worked really hard on it," she said, and Remus rolled his eyes.
"You girls," he sighed, shaking his head exasperatedly, and Tonks continued to grin.
"So its because of the age thing?"
"Yes," he said, and saw Tonks's shoulders droop slightly, "But I do like you," he said, and Tonks brightened.
"You do?"
"Yes," he said earnestly, nodding, and she grinned.
"Good, I like you too," she said, looking up into his eyes. Remus looked back into her eyes.
"There's something else too," he blurted out, and then clapped his hand over his mouth, and Tonks raised her eyebrows.
"What?"
"Well,"
"My nose is huge isn't it?" she asked, her eyes filling up with tears
"No you silly girl," Remus chuckled, wiping her eyes with his thumbs, and Tonks felt her heart thud at the contact.
"What is it?"
"I…I…I'm…" he said, looking down at her uncertainly, and Tonks shook her head.
"Don't tell me then," she teased, taking his hand and dragging him into the Common Room, and Remus laughed.
"I love you," he chuckled, and then froze as he realized what he had said, and as Tonks stopped walking, turning around to face him with large eyes.
Hey guys! Sorry there was a long break in updating. My deepest apologies. I'll try and be faster, but schools started now so it won't be as fast. But don't worry, I'm not going to forget about my story like lots of people do. HELLO to all the new readers! I woke up this morning after not checking my email since I updated and I found I had 103 emails from fanfic. I love you guys (: haha