I did expect to die at the end of a 50 storey fall but I cannot believe that this is the afterlife. For a start it is to dirty and also because there is a small girl next to me who appears to be Hermione when she started Hogwarts.

"Where am I?" I ask, not unreasonably.

"Where do you think?" Hermione asks back

"Heaven? Hell? Purgatory?" I ask

She just smiles and shakes her head.

"This place does not have a name and I am defiantly not God or the Devil" she says in Hermione's very best "so how did you come to that conclusion" voice.

"So who are you?" I ask, again not unreasonably.

"I think that best word to describe me would be Fate" she answers.

"So why am I here and not splattered over a pavement in south London?" I question trying to figure out what is going on.

"Well I was listening to your little monologue on top of the building and I have come to a decision" she responded.

"Which is?"

"I have decided to grant you your wish"

"Wish?"

"To have the time again"

This throws me for six. It was just an silly wish before I cast myself into the oblivion. I never expected to have Fate sitting next to me telling me she is going to make my wish happen.

"What do you get out of it?" I ask her the obvious question. She smiles and thinks for a minute before answering

"I do not know yet. I will be watching your progress and I will determine what the price will be later. Do you want it?"

I think that is one of the easiest questions ever.

"Yes" I say with complete conviction.

"Right, well here are the conditions. You will be reverted to your 14 year old self with only your memories from that age. You will be compelled to fulfil the purpose you have been sent back for. Agreed?" she reeled off as if she had been practising this speech. I just nod.

"Oh and one more thing. This is your only chance and I cannot help you if things go wrong or if things are different from what you remember them to be now. Ok?" She adds in an offhand voice. I nod again.

"In that case, let your new life begin"

I feel a huge force lifting me off the ground and it sends me shooting in to the air. The last thing I see is Hermione-Fate giving me a small smile and a wink before I lose all sense of space and time.