Author's Note: I don't own any of this. If you have any questions on how I figured this – just email me, and I'll respond in my next post. Teddy ends up coming back a bit early. I hope you enjoy this chapter and please review

Ministry of Magic, 6:30 am

It was early in the morning and Teddy was already at work, after Victorie died, about a year ago, he had done nothing but work at his post in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office, only Teddy was surprised to find that the department's head, Arthur had left it lock, he usually left the office unlocked because of how early Teddy would come in. This time it was strangely enough, locked, and there was a note stuck to the door.

"You've been in here too much,

Have some time out; get a date or something,

You could use it, I'm staying home with Molly today"

Arthur

Great, he needed to be doing something, or else he would start thinking again. The past year had been very stressful, not only had is pregnant wife been murdered by the same man that killed his father, is grandmother, who was his only family left died of heart attack a couple months ago. He had no family, although the Weasley's and Potters treated him as such. In fact Victorie's little sister, Ana that just graduated had seemed interested in him lately but, he didn't really want her attention. So, he decided to do a bit of exploring, there was nothing else to do, he didn't want to go home yet.

He kept walking around looking in all of the offices' hardly anyone was here yet. There was one hall with an unmarked door at the end, but everyone knew what it was, The Department of Mysteries, forbidden zone, the people who worked there were called Unspeakables and no-one knew exactly what was going on. Curiosity overcame him and he opened the door. It wasn't what he had expected it was just a bunch of papers on a desk some desks, but there were doors in the back of the room which probably led to the actual Department where the work went on.

Teddy couldn't help himself again – why did he have to get his mother's curiosity, well he came across a file on one of the desks that was labeled "Time Travel" and picked it up, and started to flip through the pages when he heard a noise like the door opening. He instantly panicked, and the only thing he thought of, he appararated away, directly to where he would be hidden, the attic of his house, and when he got there he realized that he still had the forbidden file in his hand. They probably knew it was missing already, but he definitely should return it. He could come back tomorrow morning and put it back.

Teddy thought he was going to read a book or something again, but curse his curiosity, these files were forbidden to all but the Unspeakables, but here he was reading them and then he started to copy them when he got an idea – Maybe he could save Victorie with this? So he continued to copy down the file onto his own parchment well into the night, he wasn't finished until 6:30 – the next morning. He just couldn't stop and keep copying down, barley stopping to eat, and barley to sleep, he simply ignored the letter that was sent by Ana, she wanted to go out that night when she heard he was off. Couldn't she tell he was busy? Besides, he didn't want to date someone who happened to be the sister of his late-wife.

The next day at work he was tired, but came early anyways and put back the file, apparently no-one had noticed yet because the person working on that project was on vacation for that week, lucky break for him. He got through work that day and was so tired by the end of the day that he crashed right when he got home and woke up at 7 pm when he heard a knocking on the door, who could be looking for him? He went to get it anyways, it was Harry Potter, his godfather. "Hey Teddy, you haven't been around much lately I've been kind of worried, and So has Ana, maybe you should go out with her for a night sometime. Oh, and Ginny and I want you over for dinner tomorrow night" The Ana thing he could probably get out of, but not going over to the Potter's place tomorrow night.

Once Harry left Teddy went back to sleep and woke up at 3 am, when he started look through the files that he copied more, and he was starting to get ideas, maybe there was something he could do with them? He would need a lot of spells that he hadn't heard of, and some strange items that he just might need to go into the Department of Mysteries for, namely a time-turner. What his idea was to amplify and modify the magic of the time-turner. It would allow him to go back at least a year, long enough back to save Victorie, since the 1-year anniversary of her death was in just a few weeks, he would have to hurry seeing as it would probably take him back a year max.

Over the next few weeks Teddy continued to work and pretended that he was relaxing a bit like they wanted him to but he was really up working in his attic on a magical device that would allow him to do as he wanted to. Working on the device did however make him relax and be happy, he was thinking of seeing Victorie again. It would be so glorious. Teddy was thankful he was clever, and the device was done in just 2 weeks, save one last thing – the time-turner which he could never get through the application for in time, he would have to steal it, which would mean a trip to the Department of Mysteries again.

He went in early the next morning, with a picture of Victorie and one of his Parent's wedding in is pocket for luck along with a few rings – His parent's wedding rings, and the wedding rings of himself and Victorie. He knew these things wouldn't give him luck, but it made him more comfortable with what he was going to do. Fortunately for him although it was probably a bad thing, the Department of Mysteries was way less well guarded than it should be and it was far too easy to take the time-turner.

He went home right then. It was 6:47 am and he was due at work at 8 am, long enough to activate the machine, and go. He ran up to the attic, and snatched up the small device carefully, it looked like a large orb inside of a box, he opened the box, and the opened the orb and placed the time-turner inside, the closed it up again. If he had it right, one turn clockwise would take him back one year, and one turn the other way would return him to his original time. He then needed to get away from people, seeing as he didn't know exactly where everyone was at the moment he was going back too.

He apparated to the cave Harry had shown him outside of Hogsmeade. There he took out his pictures for a quick look and then gave the orb one turn clockwise and the whole world started to spin. When it came to a stop the floor of the cave was much different, there was evidence of something or someone living here recently, and there were newspapers, and chicken bones on the floor, and there was a noise coming from the back, some kind of animal. He was about to get a look at it when he heard a dog's barking – it was a large black shaggy dog that looked more like a bear. Could have he gotten his calculations wrong? He looked at the floor and confirmed it, the newspaper that looked the newest headline was "HOGWARTS WINS TRIWIZARD TORNAMENT" Harry's picture was on the page although he looked about around 15, and the paper was dated from 1995 – he hadn't gone back one year, he had gone back about 23 or so years! And the dog was staring at him in a very un-dog like way.

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