Chapter 2

They all stumbled a bit when the swirling movement around them all came to a stop.

They looked around in a wonder of disappointment.
"It looks the same," Sirius whined unhappily.

"What did you think it would look like?" Remus chuckled eager to leave this place.

"I don't rightly know. I just thought it would be interesting or redone to look cool." Sirius told him feeling this place cheated them.
Lily laughed with the others, "Sorry the shack is still a shack."

They all headed to the door when they noticed some dried flaking blood near the entrance to head back into the school. "Moony you do some bleeding here we didn't know about?" James asked worried.

Remus gave him a duh look.

James gave a shrug back, "Who else would be in here bleeding." He asked looking back at the large amount of blood. "Who ever it was they most likely died," Lily shuddered at the thought of someone dying in this old shack.

"Yeah umm let's get going." Sirius told them heading for the door. The five walked out glad to leave the molding old shack behind them.

They walked down the street of Hogsmeade looking around at the shops and homes.

"This looks completely the same?" James said feeling disappointed.

"It sure does, lets see if London has changed that much?" Lily suggested.

"Apperate there then, maybe to the Leaky Cauldron?" Remus asked them.

"Sounds like a plan." James agreed. Two of the others also agreed but one spoke up softly.

"I haven't passed my test yet" Peter squeaked worried he would be left behind.

"Come on Wormy, you can go with me." Sirius held out his hand for Peter who eagerly went to him grabbing his arm tightly. The four apperated away, Sirius taking Peter with him.

They were soon inside the leaky cauldron smiling happily. They looked to see Tom but saw some young woman and a young man with her. They were happily talking and laughing.

"What happen to Tom?" Lily asked looking curiously at the young man.

"Hey stop checking him out," James grumped.

She gave him a dirty look. "I'm not checking him out he reminds me of someone." She walked over to see him closer. "Hi" She sat down on a bar stool

"Hey what will you have?" He asked politely.
"Oh umm a butterbeer, I guess." She really wasn't thirty but figured it'd be more polite to get something to drink then just take up space.

The other four walked over to the counter sitting down beside Lily. "Same for us." James indicated the four of them.

"Hmm you look vaguely familiar." The woman said walking over to them.

"Just got here, so you must be thinking of someone else!" James felt he wasn't lying to her since they had just gotten there from the past.

"Hmmm," She gave him an odd look before turning around to go get some drinks for other customers.

They down their drinks quickly leaving what they thought were appropriate amount of silver sickle. They had just reached the door when they heard a gruff voice behind them.

"Hey you didn't leave enough gold, no ripping me off or I'll hex ya." Neville told them looking and sounding very strict. Much more so then the friends he grew up with had ever seen from him.

"Oh were terribly sorry how much is it?" Lily asked feeling awful since they were not trying to rip these two off.

"One gold Galleon each." Neville informed them.

"One gold galleon each?" Sirius sputtered, "It was only three sickles before." He muttered to Wormtail who was also looking horrified.

"Sorry old fruit here," James handed him five gold galleons leaving the twenty silver sickles they had thought should be enough. Neville took the gold with a nod of his head. The five hurried from the Leaky Cauldron.

"Now what, that was bloody embarrassing?" Lily told them once they were out on the street of London.

"Let's wander around." Remus suggested. They started walking down the street. Sirius started to notice the styles of cars they passed. He stopped suddenly looking at one car in particular. He stepped one way then the other then back again. "Padfoot what's wrong?" James asked watching him curiously.

Sirius looked over at James. "This car was blue one moment then green then it was purple then back to blue."

James, Remus and Lily started to laugh walking over to the car. Peter suddenly realized he was alone on the Muggle side of London and hurried back to his friends.

"Man that car did look blue but now green." Lily moved around the car looking just as interested as the boys with her.

Before they could say more a middle age blonde woman walked up to them. "My alarm is set kiddies so don't even think of stealing it." She hissed at them.

"We weren't thinking of stealing it ma'am" James started to explain to her but was cut off by the woman. "Sure you little brats weren't that's why your skipping school." She jumped into the car and started it with a roar of life then sped off almost hitting another driver but she just blasted her horn and showed the other driver a rude hand gesture.

The five just stood there stunned by how rude the woman was to them and an unknown driver. They started to speak when a man came upon them talking.

"Seriously they can't expect that to happen and not get some kind of reaction from them."
"What reaction what are you talking about? Remus asked the man curiously.

They moved closer wondering what the man was talking to Remus about.

"Hey man it's rude to not answer the question when you started it." Sirius snapped at him.

The man suddenly turned to them with a sneer on his face. "What is with you bloody little snots can't you see I'm talking. Too blind to see my blue tooth." He pointed toward his head before muttering to himself. "Stupid little kids thinking its ok to interrupt private conversation."

The five all looked stunned by the man's reaction to them trying to find out what was going on with him.

"Ummm what blue tooth?" Lily finally asked looking at the other four. "His teeth all looked super white to me."

"Me too and I guess talking out loud to your self is very private thing to do now." James agreed with her taking her hand in his in case the man comes, running back at them with his imaginary blue tooth.

They shook their heads before all walking off again. They saw a car they did recognize a nineteen seventies firebird. "Now this car I recognize and at least the color isn't so funky." Sirius chuckled looking at it "Hey stay away from my car it's a classic." A very large beefy man came barreling at them.

"Classic?" James mumbled moving away from the car.
"Just looking man, no need to fly off the broom stick." Sirius told him. The man gave him a raised eyebrow look that clearly said what is wrong with you?

They backed away wondering what was going on with the people of this time.