Time Turners and Hippogriffs

AU Drabble Series. Yes, drabble. Hermione gets dusted with the Sands of Time and is sent back fifty-something years into the past. This is a TMRxHG fic.

Apologies to Hermione. I know you're shipped with everything with a pulse...

26)

She smiled as if sensing his inner turmoil. "Go."

"What?"

"Go to the school. I'm only a year behind you, so if I am a witch-"

"You ARE a witch, just like I'm a wizard!" Tom steadfastly interrupted. Hermione's smile widened.

"When I go, we'll still be together. It's only for the school year."

"But I don't want to leave you here by yourself," he mumbled his reply. The girl looked at him fondly.

"Don't worry. I won't be too lonely. Guess who I found in the bushes when the library closed?"

27)

She reached into the bag by her side and withdrew a kitten. It looked like it was starving. "Tom, meet Sica the Dagger. Sica, meet my best friend in the world, Tom." The boy smiled at her as the cat mewed pitifully in her hands. "So go. I'll still be here when you get back."

"Will Mrs. Cole let you keep him?"

"Her," she corrected. "And the hag better! Because otherwise she'll find a horse's head in her bed!" Tom gave her a confused look. "I don't know. It seemed horrible to me!"

28)

She put Sica back into her bag, and then picked up the books that were dropped on the steps. Hermione held out her hand for Tom to take. Once he did, they walked back to the orphanage, slowly.

"It'll be wonderful, won't it?" she asked him absently as she mused on a magical school, and getting away from Wool's Orphanage. Tom nodded.

"Definitely. I bet there won't be anything we couldn't do there. I bet we don't even have to wash our own clothes! Or try to find food for a meal other than dinner!

29)

Hermione frowned, her gaze intent upon a little boy shivering in an alleyway as they passed, his thin frame barely hidden beneath the rags that barely covered him. She turned her gaze back to Tom. "We don't have it bad off, though," she mumbled, mostly to herself. Tom turned his gaze toward her, both of them navigating the streets with familiarity. "We could be going hungry. We could have nothing to wear. Mrs. Cole does much for us." She paused. "She's still a vile woman, though!" Hermione added, as if trying to reaffirm her hatred for the matron.

30)

"But we could be worse off." Tom hummed in agreement.

"We could be dead." He paused. Hermione ended up taking a few steps before she stopped as well.

"Tom?"

"Hermione, we'll all die one day, won't we?" he asked her. Her eyes grew sad.

"Yes." He knew her thoughts had immediately turned to her mother and her premature death. His thoughts then turned to his own mother, who had died to give him life.

"What if we could never die?" he asked her. She looked at him curiously. "I bet magic can help."

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