"MUM AND DAD!" James and I ran towards our parents with Sirius right behind us.

"My children!" Mum and Dad hugged the three of us smiling.

"Hi Euphemia and Fleamont." Remus and Peter smiled hugging them.

"I can't believe our five troublemakers graduate today." Mum said tearing up. "It seems as if just yesterday the twins were boarding the train for the first time."

"Mum don't cry or else I'll start crying too." I smiled hugging her again. James suddenly grabbed my hand and showed our parents the engagement ring.

"The wedding is next week. You both received our letter right?" James asked and our parents nodded. "Good, because everyone is staying with us until the night of the wedding."

"Congratulations, you two." Dad said and gave Sirius a hug. "You still remember our talk, right son?"

"Yes sir." Sirius nodded fearfully.

"Good." Dad said and gave me a hug. "My little Princess is getting married. Now I feel old."

"Well." James and I looked at each other and laughed.

"JADE, MARLENE IS CRYING AGAIN!" Lily yelled walking towards us. "Hi Mr. and Mrs. Potter!"

"Hello Lily, how are you?" Mum smiled and gave her a hug.

"I'm doing great, thank you. Still can't believe that I survived seven years of being in the same house as James." Lily laughed and looked at me. "Marlene is crying again."

"Slap her and tell her that I'm not singing with her if she doesn't shut up." Lily nodded and walked away.

"So it's 'James' now? No more 'your son'. Care to explain?" Dad smirked at James who turned red in the face.

"So we're kinda a thing now." He mumbled.

"WHAT!?" We all yelled and I hit James in the chest.

"And you didn't tell me!? I'm taking offense to that. I thought we told each other everything, James!"

"It happened this morning before you walked in the common room with the boys." James rolled his eyes. "I was going to tell you tonight."

"I'm still taking offense to that."

...

"Regulus! I'm so glad you haven't left yet." I ran towards him.

"Not yet, but I'm late for the train." Regulus said sadly. "I can't believe you graduate today and I can't stay to watch you."

I teared up and hugged him. Regulus wrapped his arms around me tight and started to cry.

"Don't cry, Reg. Please." I started crying too.

"Can't you stay for another year? Can't you tell Dumbledore to fail you or something? I don't want to be alone in the snake pit." I broke from the hug and wiped his tears.

"Listen to me, Regulus Arcturus Black. You will not let the snake pit eat you alive. Do you know why? Because I have taught you everything that I know in how to survive this place. Promise me that you won't let them eat you alive."

"It's a little too late for that." Regulus showed me his arm and I fell to my knees in a sobbing mess. "Mum forced me to come home over break as you know and this happened. I never had the courage to show you. I'm so sorry, Jade. I let you down."

I wrapped my arms around him as his body shook with sobs.

"You didn't let me down, Regulus. You're just a kid, dammit. This wasn't supposed to happen. Things were supposed to be different. None of this should've happened." I said as Regulus tightened his grip on me and sobbed harder.

"I didn't have a choice, Jade. I was forced into this. I'm so sorry." Regulus sobbed and I rubbed his back trying to calm him down.

"Promise me this, Regulus."

"Anything."

"Promise me that you'll try your best to not be forced into his inner circle. Promise me that you'll keep your nose out of it and that you'll survive this. Promise me this, please. Promise me that you'll kill me if it means that you'll walk out of this alive." I cried to him.

"Jade-"

"Promise me dammit!" I sobbed. He nodded softly and I sighed in relief. "I love you Regulus. Write to me as much as you can. You're not alone in this, okay? I promise."

"You're on the other side, right?" I nodded and he sighed sadly. "I apologize in advance for everything that might happen."

"Whatever happens, I know that it's not your fault."

...

"Did you say goodbye to Regulus?" Sirius asked once he noticed my tears.

"Yeah. Did you?" He nodded and kissed my forehead.

"He'll be okay, sunshine. You taught him well." I closed my eyes to prevent myself from tearing up again.

"I hope so."

...

"I'm sure gonna miss this common room." I said looking at the Slytherin common room with the boys. "Even though I didn't spend a lot of time here, it sure was fun to watch the squid."

"It's cold." James whined. "But oddly soothing."

"It's underwater dumbass, that's why it's cold. And nights here alone were therapeutic for me believe it or not." I shrugged and took one last look of the common room. "I'm gonna miss it."

...

"HOME!" James yelled and fell to his knees. "THE HEADQUARTERS!"

"Prongs calm down." Remus laughed and made him stand up. "We really did do everything in here, huh?"

"We really did. This was my second home. Thanks for not leaving me alone, Bam Bam." I smiled and hugged my brother.

"Like I told you in our first year, you may be a Snake but you're still my Didi."

"Guys, we have to get to the ceremony. I think it's starting." Peter pointed out.

"SHIT!"

...

"Where were you five? The ceremony starts any moment!" Lily scolded us and grabbed James' arm. "Head Boy and Girl walk first and then we're seated by our houses in alphabetical order."

"So I'm sitting next to Parkinson? Great." I rolled my eyes.

"It'll be over before you know it, you'll see." Sirius kissed me. "I'll see you out there."

"See you out there."

...

"Sirius Black!"

The Marauders and I stood up and started to cheer as Sirius walked up and grabbed his certificate and gave Minnie a hug.

"FINALLY!" The entire Hall laughed at this.

"THAT'S MY BOY!" James yelled.

"I LOVE YOU, SIRIUS!" I yelled making him smile.

"DON'T STEAL HIM FROM ME, JADE!"

"SHUT UP JAMES!"

...

"Lily Evans!" James and I were the first ones to stand up and started yelling at Lily.

"THAT'S MY GIRL!" I yelled at her and Lily blew me a kiss. She walked up to McGonagall and hugged her tight before sitting back down.

"DON'T STEAL HER, JADE!"

"SHUT UP, JAMES!"

...

"Remus Lupin!"

"THAT'S MY BOY!" James and I yelled to Remus as he gave Minnie a hug.

"Do you have to do that all the time?" Parkinson mumbled. I smirked and started to scream louder just to piss her off.

"WAY TO GO, REMUS!"

"JAMES SIT DOWN!"

...

"Peter Pettigrew!"

"THAT'S OUR BOY!" The Marauders, Lily and I yelled and Peter smiled big giving Minnie a hug.

"I DID IT!" Peter yelled

"YES YOU DID AND WE'RE PROUD!" We yelled at him.

...

"Jade Potter!" I stood up and walked to the head table as the boys, Lily and the girls started to scream.

"THAT'S MY GIRL!" I heard the boys yell as I shook Dumbledore's hand and he handed me my certificate.

"I LOVE YOU, JADE!" I heard Sirius yell and I smiled hugging Slughorn.

"Thank you." I whispered to him. He nodded and I walked towards Minnie.

"THE QUEEN!" The girls yelled and I laughed.

"Congratulations, Miss Potter." McGonagall smiled at me. I teared up and hugged her making the boys cheer louder.

"Thank you, Minnie. Thank you so, so much." I cried and felt her hug me back.

"Thank you for being my student." I nodded and handed her a piece of paper.

"Next Saturday. The address to Potter Manor is right there. Please tell Hagrid and Dumbledore." She nodded smiling and put the paper away.

I turned around and blew a kiss to my boys who immediately went wild.

"THAT'S OUR GIRL!" I laughed and walked down the steps but James gestured for me to stay by the sidelines.

"James Potter!"

"THAT'S MY BOY!" Sirius yelled and James ran up the steps to grab his certificate.

"WAY TO GO, JAMES!" Lily and I yelled and looked at each other. I smirked and she blushed.

James walked towards Minnie and gave her a hug and I swear she was crying at this point. James then walked down the steps and engulfed me in a hug.

"We did it." We said in unison.

...

"I'm so proud of all of you!" Mum yelled once the ceremony was finished. "We should go celebrate."

"In a minute, Mum. We still have one last Marauding to do before we board that train one last time." James smirked.

"Wait, I thought that we didn't take the train?" I asked him.

"We do. It just came back. We board the boats one last time and then we get on the train." James said grabbing my hand and running up the castle with the boys behind us. "What are we going to do with the map?"

"Take it with us, duh." Peter said but I shook my head.

"We should leave it somewhere where only the next generation of the Marauders will find it if they do solemnly swear it." I smirked and grabbed the map form Remus' hand. "I'm gonna miss saying this, but I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

The map opened up and I sat on the floor.

"What are you doing?" Sirius asked.

"Charming it. Only the best troublemakers of them all should be able to open it, but with a little help from the Marauders. What do you boys say?"

"I like where this is going. Continue." James said sitting down next to me.

"Well, we charm it to help the natural born troublemakers like us but it'll insult everybody else who try to open it and fail miserably." The boys nodded at this and immediately pulled out their wands casting one last charm to the map. "It's done. Shall we?"

"Mischief managed." We all said in unison and saw the map close up.

"But where should we hide it?" Remus asked. James, Sirius and I looked at each other and nodded.

"Filch's office. Where else?"

...

"One last train ride. You ready?" Lily asked holding James' hand. We nodded and stepped in the train immediately walking to our usual compartment. "So this is the Marauder compartment?"

"Nobody is allow to go in here, only us. And now Lily since she's a Marauder now." Sirius said and sat down next to me. "I'm gonna miss it."

"We had a lot of fun here, didn't we?" I laughed and leaned closer to him. "We started as five and we ended as six. Who would've thought?"

The train started to move and we all sighed.

"So what now?" Peter asked sadly.

"We stick together. Just like we've always done."

...

"Padfoot, what are you doing? I thought we were going out with everybody." I said as Sirius apparated us somewhere and immediately covered my eyes.

"We are, but I want to show you something before we go. I've been working on this all summer." Sirius said and I heard him open a door. "Don't move and don't take off the tie. I'll be right back."

"This is ridiculous." I said and crossed my arms. I heard Sirius running around and cursing at everything and anything. Suddenly I felt his lips on mine and I smiled. "Well that's a nice surprise."

"Wait until you see this. You can remove the tie now." I removed the tie from my eyes and looked around to find a furnished house. "You know my favorite uncle right?"

"Yes?" I asked.

"Well when he passed away, I was the one inherited everything. So with that money, I bought us this." He said gesturing to the house. "I know that you may have wanted to go house shopping together and I could sell it if you don't want-"

I cut him off by hugging and kissing him.

"This is amazing, Padfoot! How did you even manage to do all this?" I smiled.

"Well when break started, I knew that I wasn't going to be living with your parents forever and neither would you. So Prongs and I took a trip down to Godric's Hollow and saw this house for sale and it was just like everything we talked about so I talked it over with him and your parents and I bought it. Then me and Prongs would escape in the dead of night to clean and your Mum would help us buy the furniture and everything we needed." Sirius said making me tear up.

"I still can't believe you managed to do this without me knowing." I laughed and kissed him again.

"Well it does kinda help when you take a lot of naps and sleep until noon everyday." Sirius shrugged. "Wanna take a look around or do you wanna do it later?"

I grabbed his hand nudging him to show me the house and he laughed giving me a tour.

...

"Last but not least, this is the master bedroom." Sirius opened the door and we walk inside.

"A snake carpet? Really?" I laughed.

"Yeah. The snake kinda grew on me." Sirius shrugged.

"I wonder why." I smirked and looked around. "I love the bouquets in every single room, you know? Especially this red and black one."

"This one's my favorite too. I know how much you love roses and I just thought I would be a nice touch." Sirius said wrapping his arms around me and kissing my head. "Do you like it?"

"I love it." I smiled and kissed him. "Our new home."

This made Sirius smile big as he picked me up and started to spin me.

"I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you, sunshine."

"Neither can I, Pads. I love you."

"I love you more."