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Time After Time
Chapter One: Because He's An Idiot
September 1, 2003
"If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time…"
"Ugh," Hermione said – or grunted – as she rolled over to turn off her alarm. She sat up in bed and yawned. It was then when she realized what day it was and she jumped out of bed. 'The first day of school!' she thought. Hermione grabbed her towel off her chair and ran off to her bathroom to take a shower.
Fifteen minutes later Hermione walked back into her bedroom in her towel with her pajamas in hand. She dropped her pajamas in the hamper and walked over to her closet.
"Hmmm, what to wear, what to wear?" she muttered to herself. Finally she decided on a red tank top and dark blue jeans that had a flare on the end. Then she pulled on some red ballet flats and put her time turner on over her clothes and walked back into the bathroom.
As Hermione looked in the mirror she realized how much she changed over the summer. She had curves in all the right places now, her dark brown hair hung in long curls down her back, and without the stress of the war her chocolate brown eyes had gained a sparkle in them. Hermione's face also had a natural beauty now, or so her mother said. She decided to leave her hair down today and she put minimal make up on.
When she was done in the bathroom she walked over to her trunk and lugged it out the door and down the stairs. Hermione had packed it last night and it was full of books, luckily magic trunks could expand. She set it down and walked in to the kitchen.
"Mmmm, smells good in here, Mum," she stated.
"Thank you, I made your favorite; eggs, bacon, and toast, for your first day," her mum replied.
"Oooo, yum," Hermione responded and with that she sat down and ate her breakfast.
~*~
After breakfast they packed up the car and drove to the train station. Hermione's dad struggled to get her trunk out of the car.
"How many books do you have in here?" asked her dad.
"Err, just a few," Hermione replied innocently.
"Right, I don't believe that!" her dad uttered, laughing.
"Okay, its more than a few, and let me help you, dad!" she remarked as she took her wand out and levitated her trunk. As she was now 17, she could do magic whenever she wanted to. Hermione set her trunk down and turned to her parents.
"I'll just say goodbye to you now," Hermione said, "Goodbye Mum, Goodbye Dad!" she hugged both of them. Then she grabbed her trunk and Crookshanks and walked away
~*~
She walked to the entrance of Platform 9 ¾ and walked through. She spotted some red hair and walked towards it.
"Ginny!" Hermione called, waving.
"Hermione?" she responded, looking around. When Ginny spotted Hermione, she started waving, "Hermione!" Hermione walked faster and caught up to her, " I was just wondering where you were!" Ginny told her.
Hermione laughed, "Well, here I am!" she replied, "Lets go find the boys!"
"Oh, they're on the train already, but before we go, you look different," Ginny stated.
"Erm, do I look bad?" Hermione asked, suddenly unconfident.
"NO! You look good! I bet Harry and Ron won't even recognize you!" Ginny replied excitedly.
"Oh, okay. Lets go, then." They gathered their luggage and boarded the train.
~*~
"I think they said that they would save a compartment towards the end of the train," Ginny stated unsurely.
"Well lets start looking," Hermione replied looking in a compartment window.
~*~
5 minutes later…
"I found them!" called Ginny.
"Okay, I'm coming!" Hermione called back. Ginny walked into the compartment.
"Hey Ginny!" Harry and Ron chorused.
"Hi!" Ginny replied. She sat down next to Harry and kissed him on on the cheek.
"Where's Hermione?" Harry asked, Ginny opened her mouth to reply.
"I'm right here!" Hermione answered as she walked in. Ron's mouth fell open, and Ginny giggled. Harry was the first to speak.
"Wow, Hermione! You look gooood!" Harry said. Hermione blushed, "Thanks?"
"No problem!" said Harry smiling.
"I-Is t-that r-really y-you?" Ron stuttered still in shock. Hermione smiled, "Of course it is, silly!"
Ron gaped at her again, and Harry leaned across to Ron. "You really need to close your mouth before a bug flies in, Ron," he said pushing Ron's mouth closed. Hermione and Ginny giggled. Hermione put up her stuff and sat next to Ron. "So how was everyone's holidays?" she asked.
"Well, mine was good AFTER I left the Dursle-" Harry started, but then he caught sight of Hermione's time turner, pointed at it, and said, "Hermione, what's that around your neck?"
Hermione looked down and realized she had forgotten to hide her time turner.
"Its shiny!" Ron said moving closer. He reached out and spun it, "RON, NO!" Hermione shouted trying to take it off, but it was to late and she disappeared. Everybody in the compartment scrambled to the door to see if she was in the corridor.
"Where did Hermione go?" Ginny asked from behind Harry. "I don't know, I don't know," replied Harry quietly when he turned to face them.
~*~
Hermione woke up on the floor of an empty train compartment. The first thing she thought was, 'What in Merlin's name happened?' her second thought, 'Where am I?' was and her third thought was, 'Where is my bloody time turner?'
She stood up and brushed off her jeans. There was voices coming closer to the compartment.
"Hey, I found an empty compartment!" called a voice from outside. The compartment door slide open, Hermione looked down at the floor.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't know this compartment was taken already," said the same voice from before.
"Er, it isn't. I was just on my way out," said Hermione looking up. She found herself staring into those stormy grey eyes that she knew so well, and promptly fainted.
A/N: Well, that was the first chapter in my time turner fic. I hope you liked it! I hope you keep reading, and please review! Also, thank you to my beta Inoto_Kinomoto and my partial beta minikimii(only minikimii is on fanfiction).
Lotsa Luv,
~Herutsu Oshii~