Chapter 12: Happily Ever After

Disclaimer: We donut own Harry Potter (I had donuts for breakfast! So good!)

Note: This is in Lily's POV

Another Note: Padma wrote this chapter.

Another Note: This is the last chapter :(

Happily Ever After by Jordan Fisher & Angie Keilhau

The story comes alive, when we look inside

A new adventure there in your life

There in your eyes

It's just beginning

Feel your heart beat faster

Reach out and find your happily ever after

Find your happily ever after

Last chapter! *sobs* Here it is:

I woke up completely dazed, without a clue of where. Then I recognized the white hangings around my bed and the usual scent of medicines and potions. I was in the Hospital Wing.

Madam Pomfrey noticed me and bustled over. "Oh, you're awake! How do you feel?" she asked briskly.

"I feel fine! What happened?" I sat up and groaned at the pain in my stomach

"Stunning spell and you passed out. That Chang girl did it. Here, have this." She hands me a vial of potion.

"What potion is this?"

"Just drink it! I didn't poison it."

"But-"

"It's a numbing potion. You got one nasty punch in the stomach. This'll numb the pain while I fix it. Now, drink!"

"Okay, okay!" I obey and drink the potion, which takes like socks that are slightly smoking. Bleh. After a while, Madam Pomfrey straightens.

"There you go, I fixed it up."

"Where are my friends?" I ask, thinking particularly about James. His girlfriend, did this to me after all. I don't even know if they're still dating. The thought cheers me up a bit.

"They are in their last classes."

"How long have I been Stunned?"

"Three days."

"Merlin's beard! How am I going to catch up on my work?!"

"You'll be fine, I have all your work here."

"Who brought it?"

"Potter brought it for you." She huffs and bumbles around, then sets a stack of books in my lap.

"He really visits a lot, you know. He even snuck in to 'talk to you'."

I smiled at the thought. I was hopelessly in love with him.

"When is last class going to end?"

She checks her watch.

"Two minutes, dear."

I sit patiently in my bed trying to finish my work but I can't concentrate. James is all I can think of.

The bell rings and I gasp and look myself in the mirror. I let out an even bigger gasp. I look like a toad! I straighten my hair…well I try to. Soon James, Sirius, Remus, Marlene, Alice, and Emmeline come in.

"Lily! You're awake!" James exclaims with a huge grin on his face.

I sit there with my mouth open for a while, marveling at how cute his grin is, before clearing my throat, and smiling back, all the while swatting at Sirius because of his sniggering.

"I brought all the work from our classes, because I knew you would go wild to find out you had been sleeping for three days."

"Sleeping? James, I passed out!"

He blushes and starts to shuffle his feet from side to side.

"I didn't want to look at you in that way. It broke my heart," he mumbles. I reach forward and pull his hand towards me. He looks surprised for a bit, then holds my hand back.

"So, Lily, how are you?" Sirius asks.

"I'm fine, Sirius."

"Told you she's alive." Sirius says with a wink.

I motion for all them to come. Once they do, I give all of them a big hug. I kiss James's cheek as well, grinning at how it turns pink.

"Well, I'm off. See you later, Lily. You coming, Prongs?" Sirius says with a smirk.

"Sure. Au revoir, Lily !" James says, I guess flirting with me. The butterflies strike again!

Peter follows them silently.

"I should go to." Remus says, getting up.

"Remus, stay! We have a few things to ask you." Alice says with puppy eyes.

"Ok…" he sits with a frown on his face.

"We have to talk about James and you." Marlene blurts out.

"What?!" Remus asks.

"Not you, silly! James and Lily." Emmeline explains.

"Oh, yeah, what about that?"

"Well, let's just say that Lily likes James." Alice reveals.

"Say what?!" Remus exclaims.

"Yep." Emmeline says.

"But, we need to ask you if James likes her back?" Marlene says. I start to protest but Remus looks at me with a glint in his eyes and interrupts me.

"Are you kidding? Of course he likes you! He's liked you for ages! Just always going on about how perfect you are and your eyes and hair are so beautiful and stuff like that. That's why he's been trying to ask you out!"

"But he always teased me and made fun of me and dated Jiang."

"Because of me."

"What?"

"He dated Jiang because of me. I told him to stop asking you out because it annoys but he never gave up on you."

"Since-" I start.

"And, being the git he is, he might've taken my advice a little differently than I meant it. He asked Jiang out because he wanted to make you jealous, even if he didn't know it himself!"

I glare at him for a moment, and he shrugs.

"Moony, come on! I need help with my homework!" Sirius shouts from the door.

"Okay, I have to go. See you later, Lily." Remus says.

"Wait!" I grab his hand. "Can you tell James I. . .er. . .fancy him?"

"I'm sorry, Lily,but it would be best for you to tell him personally," And he with that he leaves.

I whirl around to face Emmeline. "How am I supposed to tell him?"

"I dunno," Emmeline says.

"Just tell James," Marlene says.

"Tell me what?" James's voice asks. All four of us jump.

"Nothing!" Emmeline says, getting up to leave, with Marls and Alice following.

Madam Pomfrey comes up behind me. She shoves my books in my hands and says, "Miss Evans, you seem in perfect health, so I've discharged you. Just stay out of trouble please." Then she leans down and whispers, " For your sake and his."

Then she straightens with a hint of a smile on her face, and walks away. I am left staring after her, before James places a hand on my shoulder. I start, which sends him laughing. When his snickers fade away, he asks me to accompany him outside.

"Okay." I say, following him down to the lake where we had talked a few days earlier. My heart's beating so fast and I have a feeling that I know where this conversation is gonna go.

We sit down under the tree.

"Do you know that Jiang and I broke up?"

"Oh. I thought so." Why wouldn't they?

"So, what happened?" I shift a little and wince at the pain in my torso. James slides a hand behind my waist and pulls me closer to him. My blush is now deeper than my hair, but I snuggle into him and hide it.

"Well, she went a bit wacko, and decided to punish you for getting too close to me. It was just a mental state of jealousy. Under all that crazy, she was just human."

He looks a little sad while saying this.

"I thought we really had this, you know?" He stares into the sky. "But I guess it wasn't meant to be."

I scoot a little closer.

"Well, it doesn't have to be like that with me," I say softly.

"I know." he says.

And before I can respond, one hand is on my face, one there on my waist, and he leans in and places his lips on mine, a soft kiss. My hands jump to his hair, and tousle it. It's softer than I expected. He tilts his head and deepens the kiss, while I wrap my arms around his neck. We sit there and snog for a few minutes, hands in hair, and when we break apart, I find myself on his lap. I melt into him, resting my head on his chest and we sit there for a few minutes before his speaks.

"Lily?"

"Yes, James?"

"Will you go out with me?"

And there is no hesitation, just pure happiness in my heart when I say, "Absolutely."

Then, of course, he ruins the moment.

"How long were you dreaming about this moment? Probably since the time you laid your eyes on me," he says, puffing out his chest.

I whack him,"Oh, shut up!"

As we walk back towards the castle,I admit about witnessing his Patronus.

He just smiles and runs a hand through his hair. Suddenly, he picks me up and spins me around, while I shriek and laugh wildly. "Doesn't surprise me."

I ask one more question that has been on my mind.

"Is Remus a werewolf?" He stops mid-spin, his mouth open in horror. I laugh at his expression, which is all the confirmation I need.

"How did you know?"

"Moony, James? Really? And the four of you mysteriously disappearing every full moon?"

He chuckles. "You are a clever girl, Lily Evans."

"And you are complete idiot, James Potter."

"Well, this idiot is the one you chose. Besides, turning into Animagus isn't exactly an idiot's job, is it?

I gape at him, as he pops into a magnificent stag and back, grinning at my face.

"Shut up! No way!"

"And my girlfriend just told me to shut up!" James says, pretending to make a sad face.

"Come on, let's go for dinner! I'm starving!" I tell him and he slips his hand in mine, I give him a look.

"What?! I just got the girl of my dreams to be with me and I can't even hold her hand?"

Marlene and Alice nearly scream when they see James and I holding hands.

"Great going, Lily!" Emmeline says, hugging me.

"You know it's thanks to me that you two lovebirds are together." Sirius says.

"Sirius, you know Lily would've still told James either way." Marlene says.

"Okay, well, Marls and I have something to tell you." Alice giggles.

"What?" I ask.

"Well…James, don't get mad but we cast a Trip Jinx on you when you were carrying Butterbeer that day causing it to spill on Lily." Alice reveals.

"Ah, well. I don't really care at this point." James says.

We all start laughing again.

And then it was happily ever after.

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