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A/N: OVER 31 REVIEWS!! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!! Eh, I'm good. Here's the last chapter as promised! Day one hundred and ninety four!

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TIME LOOP.

The slamming of the dorm room door woke Lily. She opened her eyes and sat up. Her clock read 12.30 and her calendar read 21st October. She groaned and sighed. Ok, so that hadn't worked. She sat for a bit before pushing her covers aside. Well, she better find a new plan. She pulled back the curtains around her bed, wincing in anticipation for the sunlight…

….

…. and her eyes met with darkness. She blinked in surprise, swinging back to her clock. It now read 12.38. Lily stared at it until it read 12.42. The only thing that stopped her from watching it the rest of the night was the opening of the bathroom door, then she watched as a shadow crept along the side of the room.

"Hello?" She whispered

"Lily? I'm sorry; I didn't mean to wake you." Lucy Green smiled sheepishly from the middle of the room.

"I just got in and…I'm sorry."

"No no, no problem." Lily looked at her clock once more. It read 12.46. she grinned

"No problem at all." She pulled the curtains back around her bed, finally seeing the note of apology propped up next to the clock. The writer didn't own up as to whom it was who had taken the batteries, but the writer apologised for her bad day and had returned them. Lily couldn't stop the idiotic grin spreading over her face. She jumped up and raced out of the dorm and down the stairs. She couldn't wait to tell James!

She almost flew up the stairs to his dorm only to find it empty. That was right…Remus was visiting his sick mum again and obviously the important thing James had to do the others had to do too. She'd just have to wait for them.

She sat at the foot of a bed on a chest and noted it was a rather tidy dorm for males. It was almost impossible for Lily to tell which bed was which. Bored she sighed and got up to pace. She glanced out the window and paused, seeing something decidedly odd. A large mousy-brown wolf and a huge black dog seemed to be paying with a jet black stag and…was that a rat? Then they disappeared into the forest and Lily shrugged.

She eyed the bed closest to her and grinned. It had to be Peters bed. There was a basket full of chocolate wrappers half hidden under it and books containing simplifying transfiguration and various other subjects down to their bare bones. And….was that a toy rat? She moved on, giggling.

The next bed had to belong to Remus. And it wasn't only the prefects badge on the night stand that gave it away, there were Ancient Runes textbooks and he was the only Marauder to take Ancient Runes. There was also a poster of the moon phases on the wall next to his bed. Remus was very into astrology.

The next bed was that of Sirius. It was slightly more rumpled than the other two but otherwise it was neat. What gave it away as his bed was the fact that the bed coverings said SIRIUS over them in gold. Lily grinned and moved to the last bed.

James' bed was neatly made and everything was in a place which surprised her. She had been sure he was a messy individual. He had some shelves near his bed and on them were photographs and books. Lily took her time studying them. The top shelf was where the photos were, the first photo was of a couple and a young boy. The parents were waving and the boy was trying not to smile. The woman had red hair and the man's hair was as dark as James'. Lily realised it must be a photo of James and his parents. The next few were of him and his friends. There was one at the back that Lily couldn't see so she reached up and pulled it down.

She nearly dropped it.

It was of her and James. She was shouting at him and he was staring at her adoringly. Every now and then he'd sigh and smile at her cutely, but she didn't stop shouting. Across the top in Sirius' untidy scrawl was written the words

'Sure this is what you want from life Prongs? Love Pad.' Underneath that James has simply written

'yes' Lily blushed hotly and quickly replaced the photo.

The books were on advanced transfiguration and various other things including Auror training guides. This was a surprise, Lily had been sure James was going to go into Quidditch. She had never realised how little she knew about James. She was glad to have realised this while she still had the time to change it.

She sat on James' bed to wait and was woken by a gentle shake.

"Lily?" James asked, worried. She blinked at him for a second, her sleep muddled mind

"JAMES!" Lily yelled jumping at him and gripping him in a tight hug.

"James! It's past 12.30!" Lily exclaimed, excited

"Yeah, it's 4.15. So what?" Peter demanded

"Wha' wi' 'er?" yawned Sirius as James winced. Then Lily noticed the gash in his shoulder.

"OH my god James! What happened?!" Lily demanded.

"She's been stuck living the 21st of October for the past six months." James told Sirius and then he turned to Lily.

"And it's nothing Lily, it's ok." He assured her.

"Whatever. I'm going to bed." Sirius limped over to his bed and Lily saw his trousers were ripped and possibly bloody. What had they been up to?!

"Were…were you in a fight?" She asked softly

"No, we….we were helping out a friend, it's ok."

"No it isn't! That could get an infection!" Lily dragged James over to the immaculate bathroom she'd found earlier. She got James to remove his shirt and tried not to blush as she cleaned his gash. She bandaged it and stood back, admiring her handiwork. James smiled at her.

"Thanks Lily." He said softly and she was hugging him again, cheek against his bare chest. She could hear his heart beat and it was doing strange things to her own.

"No, thank YOU James. You solved my problem. I'd still be on the 21st of October if it wasn't for you. I don't know how I can ever thank you."

"You don't have-"

"But I WANT too. I realised earlier that I don't really know anything about you, it's my own fault and I want to change that. You're an amazing guy James and I can't understand why I never saw it before, except that maybe some of those things I shouted at you for, I should have been shouting at myself for too." She smiled up at him. He looked rather shell shocked at this revelation. But then, as far as he was concerned she'd gone from hating him to this in two days. Her smile turned into a grin.

"Now would be an amazingly good time to kiss me." She told him, blushing slightly

"If you were of a mind to…" Their teeth clinked as he brought his suddenly grinning mouth down to hers. And then both of them were too busy kissing to manage anything more than a slight smile.

Lily had never been so glad to have a bad day.

She couldn't wait for the next one.

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A/N: It is complete! And yes, I changed the end. James was gonna stay with lily at the end of the 21st and she was gonna wake up with him. But I figured no self respecting Marauder would leave his friends hanging on a full moon for a girl so yeah. Also, it made 10 chapters instead of 9. 10 is better.

The ending is kinda drawn out and sudden at the same time, but yeah.

Thanks for all the reviews, don't forget to review this one too! I'd love to write more of this fic for you, but I just cant take this idea further, it's complete.

But if you liked it enough, watch this space. I've got tons of ideas for L/J fics, and I've posted a few already

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