Gosh it has been a long time hasn't it! The reason for that is because I completely and utterly forgot where I was going with this story. So I kind of left it, but now (I think) I remember where I'm going with it now so I'm gonna just carry on and see what happens! Suggestions would be nice! Thanks to everyone for the reviews, they mean so much to me. And to my friend Phil who may be reading this, yes I am obsessed with Sirius but I don't care 'coz heZ s0 $exY! Hehe. Ahem yes anyway, on with the story.

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She lay there on the floor completely drained of energy. She could feel her eyelids failing her, and the fact that the damp grass she was lying on suddenly became quite comfortable was not helping the situation. Being fully prepared to let sleep take her away, meaning she would never have to think or feel again seemed like a good idea. She lay there waiting for the comforting arms of sleep to enthrall her. Once they came she was taken away to a faraway place amongst the stars of the night, and she danced amongst the tall grasses by an endless moonlit river. Overhead she could hear a familiar bird-song, and she gazed happily into the night. Nothing mattered anymore, nothing except this moment, and nothing could take this feeling away…

"You alright down there?"

An all too familiar voice brought her back to her senses. She had dozed off temporarily, and she opened her eyes to discover a pair of dark brown eyes looking down at her from a distance, then she remembered she was lying on the floor, and Sirius was sitting on a rock protruding out of the ground. He seemed to be fumbling around with something metal, probably the chain he wore around his wrist. Hermione felt a dull aching pain in the side of her head. "Yes", came the short and quick answer, she was eager to close her eyes again, although knowing she probably wouldn't be able to, but Sirius seemed to be reading her thoughts.

"You just rest there, if you want to sleep then feel free, you need it. I'll wake you up when James gets here, if James ever gets here." he muttered silently to himself. "Here, take this. It may be a short while before he gets here, he'd have to go slowly with the cloak and the map to avoid being seen." He took off his cloak and laid it over her. She felt a rush of gratitude towards him, and deeply appreciated the comfort she felt. It was still warm. Snuggling into it like a blanket, she didn't care if there were spiders in here hair, all that mattered was that she was safe knowing that Sirius was watching over her, and nothing bad could happen, well, nothing worse than what had already happened to her.

"Thank you." She mouthed. Her rest was short-lived however, or at least it felt like it was. For no sooner than when she dozed off again Sirius had nudged her and awoken her, telling her something about James walking into him and giving him the fright of his life. Then she heard another voice, the voice of James.

"Oh aye Sirius what've you two been up to going all au naturel and getting comfy outdoors?" He glanced at Hermione lying under Sirius' cloak. Sirius however was in no mood for jokes, the expression on his face being one of impatience and worry.

"Shut it James. Something bad's happened to her, it's really important. I called for you because it'll be easier to get to our dorms under the invisibility cloak instead of sneaking our way round Hogwarts at night. Usually I'd be all for it but this time I don't want to take any risks." James looked slightly stunned at Sirius' sudden stroke of serious-ness. Sirius didn't usually act like this, James thought. Something awful must really have happened. He thought it best to start acting a bit more seriously himself.

"What's happened?" He asked, noticing now how pale Hermione looked.

"Where is Moony?" Sirius asked, avoiding his question.

"Erm, he's out isn't he? Full moon and that. I thought you were going with him so I stayed in 'coz I was going to meet Lily tonight."

"No I was with Hermione and-" He realised it may be best to not explain everything until they got back to their dorms. "Nothing, come on we need to get her back to our dorm, and I'll explain everything there." He took his cloak back and went to lift her up. "Come on Hermione let me lift you up." As he did so she obligingly lifted her back up so he could slide his arms under her, and she wrapped her arms around his neck, still saying nothing.

James threw the cloak around all three of them. They began to walk back up towards Hogwarts castle. "Hang on, we can't bring her back to our dorm, Sirius, she's a, girl!"

"Well spotted mate. Is that why it took so long for you and Lily to get it together? Coz you took so long to notice she was a girl?" He gave a dry laugh, then his expression returned to its grave state. "Look, I wouldn't take her back to our dorm if I thought it wasn't something really important, and if it wasn't necessary." He added.

"Fine then. For some mad reason I trust you."

"Good."

"What way are we talking her back? Can you carry her through the tunnel down past the dungeon? Or are we just going the normal way?"

"Normal way. We've got the cloak and the map, we should be alright, as long as we're quiet."

They eventually got to the castle, and began to ascend the stairs into the West Tower. After quietly passing the Great Hall, and then past the kitchens, after James briefly stopping to decide if he should go in, they safely made it back towards the Gryffindor common room, with the portrait of the Fat Lady in front of them loudly snoring away. James got out from under the cloak and cleared his throat. The Fat Lady awoke with a fright. "Oh! Who's there! Oh it's you. Honestly I'm surprised you haven't been caught yet you and your rabble-"

"We have. Ginger Snaps."

"Yes, yes alright. Just don't wake me up like that again." And the portrait moved to allow them to enter.

Once inside the Common Room they could safely take off the cloak, as it was empty except for a very large cat, lying fast asleep on an old shabby couch by the fireplace.

"Let's get up to our dorm."

They quietly yet swiftly made their way up the winding staircase towards their dormitory. Sirius was glad of this however; as his arms were beginning to ache from carrying Hermione all the way back to Hogwarts. James seemed to notice this.

"Can't she walk by herself?" Sirius didn't answer this. He was annoyed at his friend for not taking this seriously, then again, he doesn't know what's wrong with her yet, he thought, and it's even worse that it's happened to her, as she's not even supposed to be born yet.

"I hope she's alright." He said, forgetting about the ache in his arms. "I really do like her you know James, and that's not good because I can't, I always go for the ones I can't have."

"That's a lie, you can have anyone you want and you know it!"

"Yeah but the one person I want the most I can't have." He looked down at her, and left James to wonder what he could possibly mean by that.

Once inside their dorm they could see that it was empty. Sirius quickly checked why that was the case. "I'm here, you're here, and Remus is out. So where's Peter?"

"Who knows? Probably scurrying around with Remus."

"No he's not. Remus is on his own tonight."

"How do you know?" There was an uncomfortable silence in which Sirius once again avoided James' question. James was about to open his mouth to press the question further when another voice broke the silence.

"Tell him Sirius. He needs to know"

"Hermione! Are you alright, you passed out I think."

"No I didn't. I've been awake the whole time, just tired so I haven't said anything."

Sirius went a slight shade of pink, as he realised that this meant she must have heard everything he said about her to James.

"Oh well erm, are you sure?"

"Yes. He may as well know. It'll stop him from asking questions anyway."

"OK…." He looked at James. "The reason, why I know that Remus was on his own is because well, he attacked us."

"He attacked you!"

"Yeah. It's all my fault, I sort of forgot that it was a full moon tonight, I'd been with Hermione all day, and well my mind was elsewhere and-" He realised he was rambling, he took a deep breath and continued, "Anyway, like I said Remus attacked us. We ran, Hermione fell behind, he attacked Hermione, and I came back as a dog and attacked him back, he must've got startled by it 'coz he ran off after that."

"It wasn't your fault Sirius." He ignored her.

"I went to check on Hermione and I realised she was hurt, so I ran to her and she was pale and looked frightened, I noticed there was a lot of blood coming from her shoulder and well, I peeled back the material and noticed, that she'd, she had a bite mark on her skin."

"Sirius it wasn't your fault." She spoke louder this time. Sirius just hung his head and stared at the floor, again refusing to answer her. She looked at James; he was almost as pale as she was.

"So, you're saying, she's now a werewolf!" Sirius nodded. "But why've you brought her back here! She'll need to go to the hospital wing, or St. Mungos! We need to tell Dumbledore!"

Sirius stood up. "No you can't!" James couldn't believe that Sirius was keeping this a secret from everyone. "I said those exact same things to her, I almost rushed her back here, when she eventually stopped me and told me, well-" He looked at Hermione, "You tell him this bit."

She sat up on the bed and spoke, "James, I'm not from this time." She paused, allowing the look of confusion to spread across his face just like it did to Sirius a few moments before. "You see this?" She took out her time-turner. "It's called a time-turner." She handed it to him, "I'm from the future, when you are all in your thirties." She didn't want to mention that James would be dead by then and Sirius would be an escaped convict.

"But how? How did you get back here? I mean if I had a time-turner, I wouldn't have thought 1974 would be anything special."

"In my time, I sometimes use a time-turner to speed things up a little; it sometimes means I can do more than one lesson at once if you see what I mean. Dumbledore gave it to me in my third year. But, I think it's broken. I turned it to go back half an hour and I think I must've turned it back to far."

"But why didn't you go back once you realised you were in the wrong time?"

"Because I was stupid, I wanted to explore this place, no-one would notice me as I was in Hogwarts robes, the same ones as you lot had. Times don't change much do they?" She smiled dryly, and looked at Sirius. "And I guess I sort of, liked... it here." Sirius flashed her a smile, then they both turned to look at James, who looked a lot more relaxed now he'd been explained the full details.

"Ah, so this is a problem then isn't it? You can't get help here because you're not supposed to be born yet, and we can't just send you back to your time as a werewolf because you weren't one before."

"Precisely."

"So what do we do James, any ideas mate?"

"No idea. Maybe we should wait for Remus to get back? He might know what to do."

"But doesn't he stay in the hospital wing for 4 days after a transformation?"

"Oh yeah, damn that's not much help."

"Wait!" Hermione suddenly had a flash of an idea. "James, give me that time-turner back." He curiously handed it back to her. "Who needs to wait for 4 days when I've got this?" She said excitedly.

"Brilliant!" said Sirius, and before he knew what he was doing he kissed her on the cheek, causing her to go red and James to nervously make a small coughing noise. Sirius then blinked and said "Erm, what are you gonna do with this then?"

"Oh Sirius you idiot isn't it obvious?"

"Is it?"

"Oh come here you idiot." Hermione pulled Sirius to sit on the bed next to her, causing him to give an anticipated "Oh aye." James followed suit, much to Sirius' disappointment.

Hermione unfixed the chain on the time-turner, and wrapped it around all three of their necks. Sirius finally clicked on, "Oh."

This time she carefully fixed the dial, and made sure by checking it twice, to four days in the future from this moment. Once she'd set it in motion. The room felt like it was spinning; figures were moving all around them. James clutched at his stomach as though he was going to vomit. Sirius just stood in awe.

Then it stopped, and the three of them were still sat there on the same bed. James and Sirius, who obviously have never experienced time-traveling before, seemed a bit dazed.

"Now then. Everyone alright?" Hermione said. There were small nods of apprehension. "Good, now all we've got to do is sit here and wait for Lupin to get back."

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Yep this one's quite long, but I guess it makes up for my long absence from not writing anything. Hope you liked it. Please review!