Chapter 3: Not From Here

The meeting had gone well and the Lupins were more than please to bring another child into their home. They were especially happy that I was fine with Remus being a Werewolf. Of course it helped that I told them that my Father had been a Werewolf and I was perfectly comfortable around them. I also told them about my ability as an animagus and how Werewolves would not attack other animals; so long as I was able to transform Remus wouldn't harm me. Before we left the Lupins requested that I call them Mum and Dad because I was now part of their family.

I had stayed with the Lupins for a week before I was able to go shopping. I had of course brought my school trunk with me but none of the clothes fit me nor were they the proper style for this era in time. They were fine for a while but Remus had started to give me odd looks so I asked Mrs. Lupin to bring me shopping. She had gladly agreed to it and went one step farther and bought my things for me as well as buying me new bedroom things.

I decided on a black and white theme for my room. We were gone for a while and we bought Wizarding robes and Muggle clothes and all kinds of other things that teenage girls need. We had a really good time and we really got to know each other. I really liked that. She also set down some rules for me but she didn't tell them all to me; she said she would wait until dinner so everyone could explain them.

I had been staying in Remus' room while I had been there and he had been on the couch. This was solely due to the fact that the spare room was completely filled with boxes of stuff. Slowly but surely the four of us had been cleaning it up so that I could call it my home. While Mum and I had gone shopping, the guys finished up the room. There were only a few boxed left and then it would be ready for paint and new carpet.

By the time we returned to the two story three bedroom house I now lived in, my new room was done. The boys had painted the walls white and ceiling black with silver stars; they also made the carpet black. It was a fairly large room. I had a small walk-in closet and four windows. My room was on the corner of the house on the second story, which is why I had so many sodding windows. Remus, Dad and I finished up my room while Mum made us some dinner.

The curtains were black with a white design on them; they matched the new bedding. The furniture was all black but I made sure there were equal amounts of white in the room so that it wasn't overwhelmingly morbid. All in all, I was in love with my room and my new family.

Dinner was very nice; Mum had gone all out as usual. I was starting to wonder what she would make it there was a party of some sort. It was only after we had finished eating and I had gone up stairs to fetch my bathing things and my sleep ware that I realized I hadn't bought any new pajamas. All of my old things had been donated to a second hand store so I couldn't use my old ones either. I did the only thing I could do in this situation, I went to my brother. I knocked on his door softly and after a minute or two he poked his head out of the door.

"Hey Remus," I started slowly "um… I kind of forgot to buy PJ's today. Can I barrow some of yours please?" I asked timidly. Without saying a word he went over to his dresser and pulled out a pair of plaid PJ pants and handed them to me.

"Did you need a shirt too?" he asked me I just shook my head no and said thank you and went to shower.

After my shower I returned my things to my room and took a few calming. I was going to tell Remus my full story. I had to tell him and I was going to do it tonight. No more putting it off for another day. So I ventured to his door for the second time that night and knocked. The door opened for me the second time that night and Remus smirked at me when he saw who had knocked.

"Yea?" he asked me. I took a deep breath getting ready to tell him the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth but then I chickened out.

"Uh, igotsomethingreallyimportanttotellyou!" I said in one breath. He just looked at me.

"You want to try that one more time?" he asked giving me an amused look. I just took a deep breath and said it again.

"I have something really important to tell you." I told him, "but I can't tell you right now so I will tell you tomorrow, so goodnight." I turned around and walked quickly back to my room. That was a disaster; he looked at me like I had lost my mind. Oh man!

The next day after breakfast Remus and I went for a walk. He took me to The Stream. It's a small little river that leads into a swimming hole in the forest that is our back yard. We sat down in the shade next to the brook and I told him everything. I started out by telling him that if he could trust me with his biggest secret then I could trust him with mine. He just sat there and listened to me. I had brought with me my bag that had some of my things from the future in it.

"Do you believe me, Remus?" I asked after I had finished telling him everything. It was really hard telling him all of that just because I had to relive everything. I had to relive the day my grandpa died, the day I saw some of my friends get tortured by Death Eaters, and finally I had to relive Harry's deaths and along with that the crumbling good side. Remus just looked at me with raised eyebrows.

"I have some proof that what I say isn't a lie, do you want to see it?" I asked him he just nodded in response. So I pulled my bag in between us. I was sitting Indian style in front of him. And I pulled out a box that, at a glance, looked like an ordinary jewelry box. It wasn't one though. No this, this was my box of memories. I placed the box on my lap blinked back tears, took a deep breath and opened it. The first thing I pulled out was a small phial.

"Do you know what is in this phial?" I asked him. I held up the phial so he could see the clear liquid inside it. He looked at it then shook his head. "This is Veritaserum, or Truth Serum. It is very powerful and with only one drop of this a person would spill their deepest secrets. It was made by the best potions master Hogwarts will ever see, Severus Snape." Remus looked beyond shocked

"What?!" he asked/shouted at me. I calmly told him to calm down and that I would explain everything.

"Remus I am showing you this because if you don't believe me I will gladly have a drop and allow you to question me to your heart's content." I told him then I handed him the phial. Next, I pulled out a picture. I looked at it and a tear slipped down my face. I handed him the picture.

"Who are these people?" he asked me. I sighed and sat next to him so I could show him who I was talking about.

"Well this picture was taken right before Dumbledore died, that's why his hand is all black and dead looking see?" I said pointing to Dumbledore. He nodded. I continued, "This, Remus, is my adopted family." That girl in the center is me at age sixteen." The me in the picture was waving at us. She was a cross between the fifteen year old me and the seventeen year old me. Remus just looked at the picture and said nothing.

"The men behind me are Dumbledore" I said pointing to him again "and my uncle Sev, I believe you and your friends call him Snivellus." I said with just a little anger in my voice. He just gawked at the Snape in the picture.

I looked down at the picture and pointed to down at the Remus that I knew. "That, brother, is you." He paled at the sight of the picture and then he looked at me.

"How?" was what he asked. I looked at him with a little bit of pity.

"I already told you HOW. That stupid rat boy betrayed all of you and all of your friends died. I made sure Peter Pettigrew died a slow death. He indirectly caused many people to suffer and die." I said with venom. It was true I found the Rat and I tortured him and killed him. That was fun and I am ashamed to admit it. It took a long time to get over that, I felt that I was no better than a Death Eater. I did get over it though.

Remus just looked shocked and appalled about how that could happen, would happen and did happen. Then he looked down at the picture again and I snapped out of my daze and pointed to Mini, Poppy, Filius, Hagrid, Mad Eye, and Tonks. With each person I gave him their history with me and with his future self. He blushed a lot when I told him about Tonks. After I finished with that picture I pulled out another one. It was of me and Sirius. I told him about what happened to Sirius because of Peter. It took a while before I could continue. I pulled out my last picture; I looked down at the faces of Ron, Hermione, Fred, George, Harry, Ginny, Neville, Luna and myself.

"This is Harry, Lily and James' son. This is Harry's partner in crime, Ron, his two brothers, Fred and George, this is Hermione, and she is Harry and Ron's conscience." I told him. "This is Neville and Luna, that's me at seventeen and that, is Ginny, she is Harry's girlfriend."

I stopped not really wanting to finish what I had to say about them. I took a deep breath blinked back the tear and said,

"Before I left to come back in time, the only other person besides me alive was Hermione, and she was under the Cruciatus Curse," after saying that I put my pictures back and wept. I couldn't help it anymore I just cried for a really long time. I don't know how long exactly but long enough to make Remus feel guilty for not believing my every word.

"I believe you, Jacquelyn. I just don't really want to. Sorry," Remus said. "Will you be alright?" he asked me. I looked up at him with my tearstained face and gave him a small smile.

"In time," I responded.