Chapter 1

A plight of Fate?

"But Lupin! Just tell me! PLZZZZZZZZZ!" I yelled out almost at the top of my lungs, at least as loud as I could, I was all outta breath from running all over the place chasing the tall man before me.

"Sally, I'd love to inform you of whatever it is that you think I know, but I havn't the slightest idea what you are talking about.." The man spoke in a strong tone, but the way his eyes diverted nervously away from me around to everything else made me blissfully aware of just how much he "didn't" know.

Lupin had always been a kind man, along with that he was brilliant, gentle, and an all around good man. He stood about 6'4'' with sandy brown hair and honey golden eyes, a slinder figure and kind features.

Me, I was a 5'2'' girl with perfectly straight shoulder length black hair and similarly dark eyes, my figure also small, with pretty kind features as well, who knew how to get her way with guys like that.. or at least, I did with Him.

The man was at a loss for words, he couldn't lie to me, even if he wanted to.

"Hey, did you hear? James and Lilly had their baby today! It was a boy, they named him Harry." Lupin started spur of the moment.

"Yeah I heard the news, and that's a pretty lame atempt at changing the topic.." She coontinued feeling proud of herself for not falling for it his tactic.

"I.. I'm very buisy, honestly Sally.. I have absolutely no idea what you are going on and on about."

I could tell that he was obviously stalling, saying anything and everything he could to get me to give up.

But little did he know, I was determined!

"Oh come on, you.. not knowing something? We both know that's a lie!" I started, knowing that if I pushed just the right buttons, the man wouldn't be able to contain himself any longer.

"Besides, if that wasn't obvious enough, then the way your eyes happen to be diverting away from me and all over the room would be a dead giveaway.." With that statement out, I leaned against the side of the doorway, crossing my arms and eagerly bearing the brightest smirk I'd ever been able to manage.

"Well yes Sally, but you see.." as his sentence paused for a second, I knew I had him right where I wanted him, but just as I started to feel 100% confident in my amazing tactics, his expression slowly started to change from the defeated look of a man about to cave, to the smug little smirk of a man with a plan.

Then Lupin started using a technique that he knew was 100% out of my grasp, something so devious and cruel that even to this day it still works! He used...

LOGIC!

"Sally," he started off pulling up both hands in front of him and touching all his fingers to their counterparts. He then turned to face me and stare directly into my eyes.

This.. was a bad sign.

"You are wrong. I was not in fact stating that I did not know of something, or even when, where, what, or why this thing was. But rather that I have no information about said thing in the fact that it does not, nor has it, nor will it ever be, in existance. It is not probable, nor plausable for it to be true, and thus it is not. Just merely a fathoment of a mind uncontained by anything else on life and thus, dare I say the term 'Bored out of it's mind'."

I still stood in the doorway, but not as composed as before. This time my mouth was agape and my eyes were huge, i also hadn't taken any notice to the fact that my head was now slipping from the possition it had been resting on my hand and i was soon plumating side ways down to the cold, hard floor of defeat.

"Yeah... well I..."

Sigh, I started shaking my finger at him.

"You...! grrr..." I glared and continued pointing in front of me as I turned on my heel and started to stomp away, a mad expression planted upon my face.

Suddenly a thought came to me, there was no holding back now, desperate times called for desperate measures and this... this was Definately one of those times!

I had been beaten at my own game! That was it, now we had to go into crunch time.

"Oh... ok..." I started, making my eyes just watery enough to almost spill over, but then not quite reach that point.

"I just... you know... was wondering..." I continued, slowly turning my gaze to meet the floor.

I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and glanced up at him for only a milisecond.

The man had thrown his hand apon his face and was now slowly sliding it off as if wiping away some kind of disgusting substance.

It was working!

I moved my lips around a bit and made my eyes wide before slowly turning back around to stair up into his warm golden ones with my sad, dark brown ones.

His eyebwrows were tilted down in sadness and he looked like he'd just broke my heart and the guilt seemed to be eating him alive.

It was a flawless plan this time! Now I was sure of it!

"Well.. I guess I'll just.. I don't know, leave, or something.." I started in my saddest nonchalant voice I could muster, turning and slowly walking towards the door.

In my head I slowly started counting, one... two.. three. Four, fi...

"Sally wait!" Lupin started, interupting my mind counting.

"Yeah?" I started, still sad, slowly turning around to face him, keeping my head nice and low and wiping my face across my sleeve with a sniffle.

The man threw his hands up in the air momentarily as if to signify defeat before letting them drop, once again, back to his sides.

**About 5 mins. later**

"5 mississippi, 6 mississippi.." I started counting the seconds.

"Done," came Becky's voice from in front of me, she then put her bobby pin back in her hair and stood to face me.

"Wow that beat your old record by 6 seconds!" I started remembering the last time we'd actualy had to use an alterior method instead of our wands.

"Haha yeah that'll teach Snape not to try and keep us out!"

"Hekk ya!"

We high-fived before entering Snapes office to carry out our mission.

It only took us a few minutes to turn it completely upside down.

"Accio-Time turner. Sally, over here!" Becky motioned me over to where she stood beside the desk.

"What? Did you find it?" I asked excitedly.

"No I did what we should have done in the first place accio-ed it!" She continued looking at me as my apsent-mindedness once again shown through all else.

"OH, ya.. right!" I started rubbing the back of my neck and trying to cover-up my stupidity... like it could ever be covered up.

Becky simply rolled her eyes before getting back to the task at hand.

"Wow, I know Lupin spilled the beans and all.. but honestly I didn't believe it really existed." Becky stated.

"Yeah, I know what you mean, after all, they were all suppose to be destroyed!" I continued, smirking proudly for actualy knowing something for once!

"So..." started Becky, all the awe in her voice and face gone. "...What should we do with it?"

Suddenly I felt drained of awe as well.

"Um... i don't really know, I didn't really think we'd actualy get this far." I continued smiling like a complete idiot. "Hum... let me see it," Becky offered it over to me.

"K, now lets see.. I think you just put the string around both of us.." I started putting the string around my own neck before motioning Becky to join me. Once we were both inside the string, we looked down at the object before us. I held it in one hand and ran a finger from my other hand over it.

"So don't you just spin that thingy?" Becky asked pointing to the little knob.

"I think so.." I continued looking up to meet her eyes.

"So what are we waiting for?" She continued motioning to me. "You can have the honors." She finished smiling brightly.

I had no idea what I was doing, nor did I think about it, it was like some force was proppelling me forward, leading me to a future for Becky and myself that I couldn't name yet. I wanted, no, Needed to twist it.. and twist it I did.

One, it started to move. Two, so did time. Three.. we stopping looking at the time turner and looked around ourselves, the world started spinning and spinning, until nothing was even visible anymore.

I grabbed onto Becky for fear of falling on my face. Becky took my arm as well, and together we wooshed through time.