Disclaimer: All characters and things associated with Harry Potter belong to J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers. This writing is for pure entertainment only.

Summary: Set in the distant future, happily ever after would not last, and Hermione is no longer safe in a dangerous world. Will her children find a way to save her before everything in their world is destroyed?

Chapter 7

The morning sunlight awoke all of the teenagers from the future that were bundled tightly together, sleeping in any chair or any space of floor they could find in McGonagall's office.

"You'd think she'd own some curtains…" Brian said, his Irish accent strong as he rubbed his eyes and ran a hair through his crew cut of dark hair.

"I don't think Professor McGonagall spends much time sleeping in here." Albus joked.

As if on cue, Professor McGonagall swung her office door open, giving a small smile to the teenagers still sprawled about. "All of you get up and get dressed. I need you ready…"

"Ready for what?" Rose grumbled, flopping her head back down on McGonagall's carpet.

"I am going to round your parents up shortly…I need you all to stay put until I send for you." McGonagall began explaining.

"All of them?" Scorpius popped his head up. He had been sleeping next to Rose, though the pair had not said much to each other. "Even my dad?"

"I am not so sure that is such a good idea…" McGonagall said after a moment.

"No, it's a bloody awful idea." Scorpius agreed.

"Yeah, keep him as far away from my mom as possible." Hugo stood to stretch, brushing his red hair out of his eyes.

"Wait a minute. No. It might not be a bad idea to involve Draco." Rose spoke up.

"Are you mad?" Albus raised an eyebrow at his favorite cousin. "If we involve him we've got to tell him he is goin' to turn into the craziest son of a bitch who ever existed in our future…"

"And about Voldemort." James added. "Though I am sure he already knows that, since he already has the horcrux."

"Exactly. The horcrux we can't find." Rose rolled her eyes at her cousin and glanced at McGonagall. "I am not saying we tell Draco the truth…I'm not even sure we should tell our own parents the truth. It would just make everyone worry more."

"So what do you suggest we do, Miss Weasley?" McGonagall asked.

"Tell them who we are…and that its some class project…or we are here for safety measures because our world is currently at war. They don't need to know the details or that Draco is the cause of it, or any of it." Rose said. "We all know we've got to keep the baby safe…so as long as we do that, why upset everyone?"

"And what will that accomplish?" Dan asked, holding his arms over his tall, slender frame. He was exactly like James when it came to Rose. He found her to be intolerable most of the time because she could never follow a set of rules, though cared for her like a sister because he had grown up with her.

"Maybe, if Draco sees Scorpius as his son he will be inclined to let Scorpius in on secrets we will otherwise not get outta him…" Rose explained.

"Not bloody likely." Scorpius shook his head. "He hates me."

"How can he hate you? He doesn't even know you yet." Rose smirked at Scorpius.

"That's brilliant!" Lily suddenly shrieked, a smile on her face.

"Why is that brilliant?" Hugo looked at his cousin like she was nuts.

"Because it could work." Lily stated. "It has more potential then anything else. Malfoy could open up to Scorpius."

"Or he could not." Owen spoke up, though his eyes were on the floor as his dark brown hair fell over his round face. He clearly needed a haircut.

"And if it doesn't then we cut Draco off and tell everyone the damn truth. Or the complete truth." Rose said. "But there is no need to alarm them all now…as long as we keep that baby safe...whenever my parents…you know…make the baby…" She eyed McGonagall now as she fumbled to pull her brown locks into a ponytail.

McGonagall thought for a moment and then nodded slowly. "It seems, Rose, that plan may be smart. It will give us the opportunity to track Draco." Her eyes moved to Scorpius. "Though we will rely heavily on you for that."

Scorpius nodded, his eyes darting to Rose. It was the least he could do, after what his father had done to Hermione in the future.

"Then that is settled." Sage spoke up, glancing at McGonagall. "How much time do we have to ready ourselves for our parents?"

"Few hours or so, I'd expect." McGonagall said.

"Good." Sage eyed the room, and then glanced at her best friend, Lily. "We have a lot of work to do." Her brown eyes moved over the crowd of boys, most needing hair cuts and care to fix wounds. "We want to look presentable for our parents."

"Good idea, Sage." Hugo smiled at the girl, watching her flick her long black hair over her slender shoulder.

"Right then, stay put and be ready when I call." McGonagall repeated herself from earlier, then moved out of the office quickly.

"Well, come on, boys." Lily smiled at them. "Some of you certainly need haircuts."

As Lily and Sage moved around the room, tiding everyone who needed tiding, the children had the first time to seriously relax in weeks. They did not have to be worried about being murdered by a death eater in the time period they were now in.

"So what happened to you guys the past few months?" Brian asked, glancing at Rose and Albus.

"We were looking for our aunt…" Albus glanced at Rose and Hugo as he referred to their mother.

"We were in London." James said. "Got separated from our parents a few nights ago."

Brian nodded.

"What about you guys?" Albus asked.

"We were together." Dan motioned to himself and Brian. "Haven't a clue where our parents were. We ran into the Longbottoms two days ago."

"Lucky." Hugo sighed.

While the group continued to talk, Rose moved to glance out one of McGonagall's windows, to the sunny world outside. She felt like she hadn't seen the sun in weeks. She was not listening to the conversation in the office anymore, but rather lost in her own thoughts. She hoped they would be able to keep whatever older sibling she was meant to have safe. She hoped they would be able to save her mom.

A second later, Rose felt someone walk up next to her. She jumped a little and turned to see Scorpius smiling slightly at her. She felt herself blush. The last time she had seen him had been two years ago, shortly after they had both been expelled from Hogwarts for sleeping with each other in the Great Hall.

"Can I help you?" Rose smirked at her ex-boyfriend. The two had dated for a little over a year, much to the distain of both of their parents. They had kept it a secret for the first few months of their third year, but Albus eventually found out and all hell had broke loose.

"It's good to see you, Rose." Scorpius told her, his grey eyes meeting her blue ones. "I was worried about you. I thought you were dead…"

"Believe me…sometimes I wish I was…" Rose sighed.

"I know the feeling." Scorpius nodded in return.

Silence feel between the two for a moment.

"I saw your mum…" Scorpius finally said, causing Rose's to look at him in shock. "I…I was home…maybe three weeks ago…and I heard her in the dungeon of the mansion. I tried to…I don't even bloody know…" Scorpius shook his head at himself. "I tried to help her, but my dad caught me…beat the shit outta me."

Rose nodded slowly. She felt bad for Scorpius, but that was not where her thoughts were. "Is my mom…is she…you know…okay?"

"She is alive…and better then could be expected I would say, given the circumstances. He won't kill her…my father…I know that much." Scorpius said.

Rose nodded in agreement. "I wish I could see her…just to know…you know, that she is okay…"

Scorpius watched Rose for a moment and then sighed to himself, rummaging in his pocket for something, and finally finding it, pulling it out and showing it to Rose.

"What is that?" Rose asked of the object in Scorpius' hand.

"It's a time turner." Scorpius explained.

Rose shook her head. She had no idea what good that would do them.

Scorpius just sighed, clearly a little frustrated and pulled Rose to a small room in the back of McGonagall's office, so that no one could see the pair.


McGonagall made her way into the Gryffindor common room to find Ron sitting on the couch near the fireplace, half asleep, and Hermione sprawled on it, her head in his lap, reading a book. Hermione immediately sat up when she saw McGonagall enter.

"Professor…" Hermione smiled, nervously. She was embarrassed she had been caught so close to Ron. She wasn't sure if there were rules against that.

"Miss Granger…please wake Weasley." McGonagall motioned to Ron.

With a quick tug, Hermione woke Ron up, practically tossing him off the couch.

"Geez, Hermione…" Ron gathered himself up off the floor and then also noticed McGonagall there. "Professor?"

"I need you to go get Potter, Thomas, Longbottom, and Finnigan for me…" McGonagall asked of Ron.

"Uh…sure…" Ron nodded.

"Professor, is there something wrong?" Hermione asked, shutting her book as Ginny entered the common room.

"No, nothing wrong…I just need you all to come down to my classroom for a moment. You too, Ginny." McGonagall requested.

"Sure…" Ginny said slowly, eyeing Hermione. It was a Saturday, what would Professor McGonagall want with them all on a Saturday?

"Thanks. See you in my room shortly." McGonagall turned and left the common room, just as the requested boys descended the stairs.

"What's this all about?" Harry asked, trying to flatten his bedhead.

"Yeah. She got us up at the crack of are arse…" Seamus seemed less then pleased.

"Don't know. McGonagall said she wants us to meet her in her classroom." Hermione stood, looking over all the boys. Ron was the only one dressed and it was only because she had asked him to take her on a walk down to the lake and he had tiredly obliged. She liked spending time with him outside the Gryffindor tower, because it made her less nervous with him, and he clearly felt the same, just not at seven in the morning on a Saturday.

"You all need to get dressed." Hermione decided after a moment of staring at the boys.

They all grumbled, but turned on their heel, knowing it was easier to listen to Hermione then fight with her.


Albus, James, Lily, Hugo, Brian, Dan, Owen, and Sage all moved swiftly around McGonagall's office trying to gather the best clothing they could. They had no idea how she knew they would be there, but McGonagall had a trunk of their own clothing for each of them.

"We need to look presentable..." Sage spoke.

"Better speak to Rose about that one..." Albus joked, remembering the outfit his cousin had worn to get Draco' attention the day before.

"Speaking of her, has anyone seen her?" Hugo looked around for his sister as he pulled a blue v-neck sweater over his head.

Everyone glanced around and realized Rose was clearly not in the room.

"Scorpius is missing as well..." Dan realized.

"Great...bet they're off shaggin'..." Brian snickered. He was a good friend with Rose and Scorpius from their time at Hogwarts. He clearly knew and remembered the reason Rose and Draco had been expelled from Hogwarts.

"They don't do that anymore!" Hugo snapped. He hated thinking about his sister like that but he hated it even more when other people spoke of his sister like that.

"Really, Brian...grow up, will you?" Lily made a face at Brian and put a comforting hand on Hugo's shoulder.

"Besides it's not important right now...we should find Rose and Scorpius." Albus said.

"McGonagall told us not to leave..." Owen Longbottom spoke, his voice trembling and his eyes meeting no one else's. He was not that confident, and above all, he was always worried about getting in trouble.

"So?" Brian and Albus spoke at the same time.

"So Owen is right. We should stay put." James said.

Albus rolled his eyes at his older brother. "You can do what you want...I'm going to find them." He moved swiftly to the door.

It took everyone else a split second to realize Albus was right and they were all out the door, forcing James and Owen to reluctantly follow.


Rose felt like her insides were being ripped out and put back together a million times over before it all ended and she hit the ground with a thump, smashing her chin on a rock. A second later, she heard a thump next to her and glanced up to see Scorpius Malfoy a few feet from her.

Rose slowly rose to her feet, wiping dirt from her jeans and glancing around. The sky was dark, as if it had been raining for months, and the trees around her were rather thick. Where were they?

"What the hell happened?" Rose asked as she watched Scorpius get to his feet, brushing dirt from his palms.

"Back in our time." Scorpius told her.

"Yeah, but how?" Rose looked around.

Scorpius held up the time-turner he had showed her before. "I told you, a time-turner."

"That only brings you back to the past…not the future." Rose told him.

"But this future…it is our past. Remember? We were here before we went back in time…" Scorpius explained, it made perfect sense to him.

Rose thought for a moment and realized it made sense to her as well. She glanced around, her hand feeling the cut on her chin. She knew it was bleeding instantly. She was always bleeding from her face lately. "How did you get that thing?"

"I…I found it at your house, actually." Scorpius looked at the time-turner in his hand.

"My house?" Rose raised an eyebrow. "In America?"

Scorpius nodded. "I went to look for you 'bout a month ago. Your house was completely destroyed…rubble really…but I did find this…"

"It was my mother's." Rose knew instantly, not bothering to ask why Scorpius had been looking for her in the first place a month ago. She tried to push her real feelings for him aside; this was no time to be dealing with such things. "She used it at Hogwarts, back in the day…"

"Well, that's why we are here." Scorpius said.

Rose raised an eyebrow again. "What do you mean?"

"You want to see your mum, right?" Scorpius asked, putting the time-turner in his pocket.

"Yeah…" Rose said slowly.

"Well, we are a few miles from my families mansion. I bet I can even get us in…" Scorpius moved forward, gently wiping the blood from Rose's chin. "So you can see she is safe…"

Rose nodded, catching her breath at the close proximity of Scorpius to herself.

"Good. Then lets go." Scorpius moved past her and began making his way through the forest.

After a moment, Rose caught up with him, struggling to pull her brown hair into a ponytail. "After we do this…are we gonna be able to get back?"

"To the past?" Scorpius raised an eyebrow and watched Rose nod. "Yeah. I know the spell…Longbottom told me it…"

Rose nodded and the pair walked in silence for a bit, until Rose suddenly stopped, her expression becoming alarmed.

"What is it?" Scorpius asked, looking at her, confused.

"Shhh!" Rose spat. She could hear something, or someone, moving close to them. Branches were breaking to the west of them.

Scorpius had heard it to, because he slowly pulled his wand from his coat.

"There!" Rose pulled her own wand out and pointed at a snatcher a few feet to the right of them. "Reducto!"

A blast hit the tree next to the snatcher, causing six more snatchers to lift there heads and grin at the pair.

"Run!" Scorpius yelled, sprinting straight down the hill in front of them, dodging chains being tossed at them.

"If I get snatched now, I am gonna fucking kill you! Rose screamed at Draco as she made her way around a tree, barely missing chains.

"Just move!" Draco called out, casting spells back against the snatchers as he watched Rose do the same.

Rose moved swiftly, athleticism always being her strong point, she dodged two more chains before tripping and rolling down the rest of the hill. She couldn't believe her luck; she never fell. She knew she was screwed.

But a second later, Rose was up again, moving. Scorpius had yanked her to her feet.

"Get your ass in gear!" Scorpius told her. "We are almost there!"

Up ahead stood the Malfoy Mansion, and behind them chased the snatchers. Rose didn't know which was worse, but she trusted Scorpius and followed after him.

The pair ran full speed until they hit the property of the Malfoy Mansion. Rose whipped around to see the snatchers had stopped chasing them now and were even backing off.

"What's that about?" Rose pointed back to the snatchers as she and Scorpius stopped running.

"They can't come on our property." Scorpius said, out of breath. "Unless they have caught someone…to them us running here made their job easier."

"They didn't recognize you?" Rose asked, surprised the snatchers had chased Draco's own son.

"They did…" Scorpius said, panting. "They just don't care. My father has given them orders, if they find me, to bring me back here…"

"Bring you back?" Rose raised an eyebrow.

"I told you…I left…went looking for you…" Scorpius reminded her.

Rose nodded, glancing up at the huge Malfoy Mansion under the dark sky. She wasn't certain, but she had a feeling it was close to sunset, although it was impossible to be positive because the clouds were always covering up the sun.

"We can't go in the front door…" Scorpius said, quickening their pace and lowering his voice.. "If my father sees you…"

"I'm as good as dead." Rose nodded, she already knew that much.

"So am I." Scorpius admitted, ducking around a side window so they could make it to the dungeon without being seen.

"What do you mean?" Rose asked, her voice hardly above a whisper as she stealthy moved with Scorpius.

"He knows I went to look for you…to keep you safe." Scorpius said, his words a little shaky. "Needless to say, he wasn't too pleased."

Rose nodded, she understood, Scorpius didn't need to say anything else. Draco Malfoy hated the Weasley family, and she knew Scorpius' attempt to help her or her family in anyway would have been very dangerous for him.

"Come on…" Scorpius moved to the dungeon door and said a spell under his breath, knocking the door with his wand. A second later it opened. He motioned for Rose to go in.

Rose moved into the dungeon, and Scorpius shut he door behind him. Immediately, they could hear Draco Malfoy's voice from upstairs.

"Over here…" Scorpius whispered to the corner of the dungeon, to a section behind a large pillar.

Rose followed, but was confused. "What?"

Scorpius pointed up to show that they were directly under the fireplace and could barely see out in the room above them, the room that Draco was pacing in.

"Where is my mom?" Rose tried her best to look out from the fireplace, noticing that her mother clearly wasn't in the dungeon.

"In the chair…" Scorpius whispered and pointed to a chair in the middle of the room, that Hermione's arms were tied to.

Seeing her mother in such a compromising position, with a meniscal baby bump protruding under a pink shirt that was far to small for Hermione's changing figure, made Rose see red. She wanted to kill Draco, right there and then.

"Listen…" Scorpius put a hand on Rose's shoulder, seeing her visibly shake with anger. He then tilted his head toward his father on the floor above.

"I'd like to personally thank you, Hermione, for being so patient while we dealt with my…former wife." Draco's voice was calm. "We know the cellar can be painfully uncomfortable…"

Hermione lifted her gaze to Draco but said nothing, her expression blank, though Rose could tell her mother had been crying.

"But with my wife out of the picture…we will be able to make these last few months easy for you…" Draco moved around Hermione, moving a strand of hair from her face.

"What is he talking about?" Scorpius was confused about his father's words about his mother.

Rose shrugged, her own mother's voice causing her not to speak.

"Why?" Hermione's voice was soft.

"Why what? Why you?" Draco laughed a little. "We picked you because your dreadful first born was to be the end of the Dark Lord. It only makes it so much sweater that you bring him back into this world after the first gift of life you attempted to bring into this world was to be his end…"

"You…you…" Hermione shook her head, shock filling her voice now.

"I killed your first born." Draco sneered at her as he watched the tears fall from Hermione's face. "And I would do it again…"

Hermione tired to kick him, but she couldn't. Her attempt instead angered Draco and he grabbed her by the hair, still tied to the chair and dragged her a few feet before hearing her scream. He then jerked her chair down and was in her face. "I need you to stay alive for seven more months so don't make me do anything stupid…"

Rose flinched at the treatment her mother was getting, her hands balled into tiny fists. She regretted every time she had ever made Hermione cry now, every time she had disappointed her mother. If she could take it all back she would.

"We need to go…" Scorpius whispered in Rose's ear. "You're mother is safe until that child is born."

"Safe?" Rose was in shock at Scorpius' word choice. "How is she safe?"

"He won't do anything to her until she has the baby. Trust me, he needs her to bring Voldemort back…" Scorpius reasoned. "But we need to go…if we are caught here…"

Rose nodded, she understood. She quietly followed Scorpius out of house. She wasn't sure if she should be thanking the tall blonde boy in front of her for letting her see her mother, or angry with him for letting her see her mother in such an awful position.

The pair walked silently away from the house neither worried if anyone would see them. It was growing far too dark out, and the back of the mansion hardly had any windows.

After a few minutes, Rose spoke.

"Thanks…for letting me see she is okay…" Rose said softly.

"Sure." Scorpius nodded.

The pair walked silently for a little longer, and then Scorpius wrapped an arm around Rose, pulling her in close to him and causing her too look up with a raised eyebrow.

"We will fix this all, you know." Scorpius told her. "All of it—" He suddenly stumped forward into a ditch, pulling Rose down with him.

The pair hit the bottom of the ditch with a thud, though when Rose opened her eyes she realized they had not landed on dirt and immediately screamed jumping out of the ditch, unable to control the awful blood-curdling shouts coming from her own throat.

Scorpius too, realizing what they landed on, bolted out of the ditch, moving frantically toward Rose. "Rose! Sh! Sh! Stop yelling! Stop! If they hear you, they will kill us!"

Rose stopped immediately, but her eyes did not shift from the ditch as her shoulders began to heave and she fell to her knees sobbing.

Scorpius knelt down next to her, pulling her close to him and kissing the top of her head, moving her brown side-bangs from her face. "Sh…"

"Its…its…" Rose pointed a trembling finger at the ditch.

"I know…" Scorpius kissed Rose's head again, trying to hold back tears as he gazed at the ditch as well.

The ditch was full of bodies; cold, dead, bodies. And they weren't just any bodies; on the top of the ditch lay familiar faces. On the top of the pile of bodies lay Ron Weasley, Harry Potter, Seamus Finnigan, Dean Thomas, and Astoria Malfoy.

Scorpius held back his own tears as he continued to stare at his mother's dead body. That was what his dad had meant about dealing with her. He had killed her.

The pair sat there for another few seconds neither able to move, both lost in their own thoughts. So lost, in fact, that neither heard the person approach them from behind, and the next thing they knew they were being pulled by their necks into the nearby forest. The two said nothing, not being able to see who had them, but being soft of thankful. Whoeever grabbed them was taking them away from some dementors that were flying toward them.

A second later, the pair where thrown to the ground.

"What 're yeh doin' out there? Tryin' get yehselfs killed?" Hagrid's familiar voice filled their ear.

Rose looked up, swallowing hard, before throwing her into Hagrid's large arms. She had never felt safer. "Hagrid…" She sobbed. "They are…dead…"

Hagrid nodded, patting Rose on the back. "Shh…I know…"

"She saw them?" Neville Longbottom's voice rang out next.

"Found 'em by the ditch." Hagrid motioned to Rose and Scorpius, who was still on the ground, in shock.

"What are you even doing back here?" Neville shook Scorpius shoulder. "I told you to go and stay safe…"

Scorpius looked up at Neville, then Rose. "She…wanted to see her mom was okay…"

Rose pulled herself away from Hagrid for the first time to see Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood standing near a small tent. She pulled away from Hagrid, her brows furrowed.

"We need to get you back." Neville told Rose and Scorpius. "You're wasting time here…"

"My…my dad's dead…" Rose told them.

"We know…" Luna's voice was light and airy, as if she did not have a care in the world. "Tragic."

"How…when…" Rose stammered.

"Few weeks ago…" Neville said gravely.

"You knew?" Scorpius accused Neville. "When I saw you…"

"Yes. I knew." Neville said.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Scorpius was furious now.

"How did you know?" Rose spoke loudly. "McGonagall didn't know…"

"McGonagall knew." Neville said.

"She…she didn't say…" Rose started.

"Oh, and what good be comin' for yeh knowin'?" Hagrid asked Rose. "He did it with the best intentions, yeh dad did…"

"What?" Rose raised an eyebrow, confused. "My dad did what?"

"Why, killed himself, of course…" Luna seemed to sing. "They all did…all those bodies…"

"What?" Rose was furious. "Why?"

"We needed the blood." Neville said. "Their blood. The blood that moves through your veins and your brothers…and your cousins…all of those parents took their lives so that you could all go back and fix things."

"What?" Rose was outraged.

"Part of the spell to get you back to the past. We needed a blood sacrifice to stabilize the two time periods. Once the blood of someone who shares yours is spilled here…then you can go back and be stabilized there. That way, you can be seen." Neville explained.

"Otherwise its against all Wizard Laws to be seen while time traveling…" Luna finished.

"So our parents killed themselves?" Scorpius asked.

"Not all your parents…just one of them." Luna said, her voice almost pleasant.

"And yeh mother didn't kill herself." Hagrid told Scorpius. "Someone else did..."

"But her blood spilled, so you could travel." Neville added. "None of it matters anyway, we have to get you all back."

"Doesn't matter?" Rose was outraged, moving forward poking Neville in the chest. "My dad is dead!"

"My wife is dead!" Neville shot back at her. "They did it to protect you all…and to protect themselves. If you can fix the past they will never be dead, because none of this would have happened!" He motioned around.

Rose was left speechless. She had never heard Neville raise his voice, not even when he had taught her at Hogwarts.

"Look…you need to go back to fix this. Whatever needs to be changed…" Neville started.

"It's the baby." Scorpius said, his eyes on the ground. "We heard my father talking today…and you were right…Rose's older sibling…whoever it is…we need to make sure it's kept alive. It will make sure Voldemort doesn't come back."

Neville nodded, almost relieved that they had figured out what they had to change.

"Then yeh best get goin' back. Fix things…" Hagrid placed a hand on Rose's shoulder. "Otherwise…won't matter that they dead…'cause there won't be nothin' to come back to here anyway."

Rose nodded after a minute, still trying to get herself under control, but realizing that Hagrid was right. If they didn't fix the past it didn't matter if her dad was dead because they would all died once Voldemort came back.