Time Rules Us

A/N: I've been writing and reading fanfics for a while, but I had never done a time-turner fic, though I've had millions of ideas for it. I know it's been done before, but honestly, I love them . Enjoy and please review.

Warnings: Quite a bit of cursing in this chapter as Severus gets angry.

Enjoy!

Chapter One: Tears

So James Bloody Potter and Lily Evans were officially a couple, Severus noticed from the back of the Charms classroom. Double charms with the damn Gryffindors was a pain, but watching Lily's fingers as they intertwined around Potter's made his stomach weak. The students were scattered about the room practicing for the practical part of the Charms N.E.W.T.S or rather, pretending to be practicing or "discussing their assignment" while in fact talking about the latest gossip and who had snogged who. That mutt Sirius Black kept levitating the hem of Patty Puckerton's skirt. He would duck whenever she turned around and swung a hand at him while whining a playful "stooooop." Merlin, he hated them. Lily's musical laughter brought his attention back to the couple standing by the front of the room. Their backs were towards him so he didn't miss when James' sneaky seeker fingers snaked over the back of Lily's skirt. Severus was angry, more than that; he was fuming. How could she let Potter do that without so much as modest disapproval? He was squeezing the quill in his hand so tightly, that it cut into his skin, sending a sharp pain through his arms. Of course, it was no match to what he felt when he looked at Lily. His eyes were involuntarily watering as his teeth grinded against each other. He barely heard the ringing of the bell signaling the end of the lesson. Only when he saw Lily running across the room to fetch her bag, did he realize class was over. But he wasn't looking at Lily, his eyes were on James. Sirius was walking towards Potter, they bumped-knuckles in a congratulatory way before laughing. Morons. Empty- headed morons. Snape's dark thoughts followed him as he packed his books hurriedly. He had a lesson right after this one. Or, to put it more precisely, he had a lesson at the same time as his current lesson, and was now to travel back in time in order to attend it. Oh how his father's muggle head would spin at the thought of time-travel. There was another grim thought; his father, his good- for- nothing, idiotic, drunken father. Severus grabbed the time-turner from the little sack in his bag and placed it around his neck. James and Sirius and a few other students were still in the room, but he had managed to do this before without anyone noticing. He was about to give the little gold artifact a precise turn when Sirius' large hand slapped the desk besides him.

"Hey, Snivellus, what cha got there?" Severus rolled his eyes, anger immediately flooding his being, and tears of uncontrollable anger reaching his eyes. Fuck.

"Give it here" said Sirius extending his hand towards Severus. Severus rolled his eyes at him in anger and swung his bag over his shoulders as he made to walk out the classroom. He didn't trust his voice to tell Sirius off. He only hoped the bloody mongrel hadn't noticed his eyes water.

"Hey Snivellus, are you crying?" Fuck. Severus saw Lily glance his way with concern as Sirius called over to James across the room "Hey Prongs, come see this. I made Snivelly here cry." Severus made his mind to run as quickly as he could from the classroom, but Sirius had his hand on his bag and pulled him back roughly. Severus swallowed back his tears, and turned back to Sirius with as much venom in his voice as he could muster.

"Don't you touch me, you fucking mutt." Severus spat out.

Sirius and James made a mocking "oooh" sound before James came around and knocked Severus' bag from his shoulders.

"Did you just offend my friend, Snivellus?" James said and Severus could hear Lily's little pleads of "James, don't" from somewhere in the classroom. Severus made a quick grab for his wand and pointed it at James' face. The messy-haired teen stepped back a bit and it was now Snape's turn to receive Lily's soft pleads. No one wanted to be on the wrong side of Snape's wand. However, Sirius, who was a hot-headed fool, paid no mind to his wand and ran at Severus, pushing him up against the wall. Severus had only a chance to shoot a quick jinx in Potter's direction, missing the boy by a hair. Sirius pushed Snape into the wall face first. He held his arms behind him as James ran towards them and unhooked the chain of the time-turner.

"What's this, Snivellus?" Sirius said, still pressing him against the wall. "You're wearing necklaces now?"

James laughed and turned the time-turner in his hand, then with a finger began fidgeting around with the small engravings that lined the inside of the rings.

"Don't touch that, you idiot!" Severus shouted at James, but Sirius pushed his face against the wall, breaking his lip.

"James, stop!" Lily was screaming frantically. "You don't know what it is, stop!"

James looked at Lily suddenly concerned "You think it's something dark?" Before Lily had a chance to say she didn't know, James pressed the time-turner to Severus' face. "Is this one of your dark little toys?"

"No, you moron- ugh!" Sirius had pushed his head against the wall again.

"Fuck, Sirius, take it easy." James screamed. This was just like Bloody Potter, though Snape. He'd be the first one to follow along Sirius' stupid games, but as soon as he smelled trouble, he became serious. Bloody Fucking Hero, he is.

James spoke to Severus again. "Where did you get this?"

"A jewelry shop?" Joked Sirius, but James sent him a dark look.

"du munustree guff it to mm." Severus slurred against the wall.

"What? Sirius quit shoving him against the wall." Sirius released his grip and Severus was able to talk, though he had blood running down his lip. He turned his head slightly to see Lily's concerned face, but he wasn't sure if it was due to him being abused by her two favorite goons or the fact that she thought James was holding some kind of cursed object. Severus felt anger rush through him but surprisingly, not tears. He brought his voice down to a low hiss.

"The ministry gave it to me. You can go ask Dumbledore if you'd like."

James looked at the object intrigued. Severus saw relief flood Lily's expression and he closed his eyes, but again, the pain was less. It seemed to him that he was seeing Lily for the first time in a long time. Though he saw her almost daily in classes, it had been a while since her attention was directed at him. Yet, suddenly, he didn't care. The anger from mere minutes ago had vanished. The pain became a light sting, and then simply a memory of a nasty cut. Severus thought there was something wrong with him; some terrible psychological condition that was making him forget his feelings for Lily in a matter of moments. But as he saw James put his arm around Lily, he realized the spell she had over him was broken by the realization that this was no longer his Lily. She had changed from the girl that was his best friend and the love of his life.

He fell suddenly to the ground as the pressure of Sirius's body was removed from his back. His bag was thrown hard against him as he made to get up. James stepped in front of him and pushed the time-turner into Severus chest, pushing him back as he did so. When they left the classroom, Severus gathered his wand from the ground. He glanced over at the time-turner. Everything looked to be in order. He hoped the idiot hadn't messed with it. Severus really didn't know what exactly the strange engravings inside the rings meant, but he had a basic idea of how a time-turner worked. After wiping the blood from his lip with the sleeve of his shirt, Severus hoisted his bag over his shoulder again, and swung the chain of the time-turner over his neck. He gave it two turns to make up for lost time he'd spent with those two idiots. The class around him filled with students and then emptied out again, for a brief seconds he saw himself walking in and then the classroom was empty again. This was his stop.

The class remained empty and for a second and he thought the time-turner has stopped, but he could hear the furious ticking of the small object in his palm. Suddenly, it was dark. But the ticking remained. So the idiot had messed with time turner. He could kill him! At least he was only back a few hours it seemed. Light began to appear on the classroom windows and the time-turner ticked faster. Before he could realize what was going on, he saw the events of the day play in front of him again in seconds. Night fell on the windows and then, a pull like apparition, send him through a dark tunnel. He saw days and nights flash by like scenes on the window of a moving car. Severus had only seconds to realize what was happening before his knees hit the floor of a familiar classroom. If he was correct, he had just traveled forward through time. Only question was, how far?

A/N: I already have the whole story planned out. Please review with what you think. Thanks for reading.