10

And I'll Never Let You Fall!

"What... the shit?" Draco gasped, breaking the silence.

"Confused?"

The group turned, en masse to see Andromeda standing a not three feet away, arms crossed over her chest and a triumphant look on her face.

"Uh..." Sirius began, looking at his companions for help.

"Look, can you keep a secret?" Hermione asked, turning fully to Andromeda. Andromeda shrugged.

"Sure. But I want to know everything."

"First you tell us how you knew something was wrong."

Andromeda took a seat, "I've lived with Draco all my life. I think I know when something's wrong."

"So why didn't my other sisters notice?" Draco asked.

"Good question. Narcissa's too busy being Head Girl and Bella's too busy pretending she doesn't like Snape while secretly writing his name in the back of all her textbooks."

"I totally didn't need to know that." Draco muttered, looking sick.

"So, what's really going on?" Andromeda said, leaning forward.

"You wouldn't believe it," Hermione muttered.

"I'm a witch in a castle that no humans can see and I have a pegasus for a friend. Try me."

"You have a Pegasus for a friend?" Ginny gasped.

"Yeah, so?"

Hermione shook her head once. "Alright. Let's see. We're from an alternate reality that formed when Ginny's ring" (here Ginny produced said ring) "Interacted with my time turner" (Hermione brandished the time turner for inspection) "We, Ginny, Draco and I were thrown back twenty odd years in time where we met up with them. We then travelled through a portal to this time and place."

Andromeda blinked once. Then she cocked her head. "Alright then. You three are from the future and you three are from an alternative reality. Correct?"

Hermione nodded.

"Does being here effect your realities?"

"No, in our times and places it is as if we never left. The moment we entered a portal our doubles came into exsistence back home and we will live out our lives."

"So can you tell me what's going to happen in the future?"

Ginny shook her head, answering, "We only have vague ideas. We don't know yet how we'll figure in to this world and this future. There are some things we can be pretty sure will happen, like Voldemort's rise to power and things more Muggle oriented but as for who you'll marry, that remains to be seen."

"Who did I marry?" Andromeda asked slightly wistfully.

"A Muggle named Ted Tonks. Your family disowned you and you had one daughter with him, a one Nymphadora Tonks who went on to Hogwarts and in our reality any way, is making a great effort in the war," Draco replied automatically.

Ginny and Hermione looked at him.

"What? I keep track of this stuff." Draco muttered sullenly.

"So you have no idea what's going on then do you?" Andromeda asked.

"Not a clue," Remus replied. "Back home, we're best friends with James and Peter Petigrew."

"Peter Petigrew transfered to Durmstrangs a few years ago. Nothing to do with you guys. James on the other hand..."

"What happened?" Sirius asked eagerly.

"Are you ready?" She asked. When they all nodded she took a deep breath and launched into it. "Well about a year ago, Sirius and Draco here started hanging out a lot more. Remus, you were pretty into the chess club at the time and a Prefect as well so it was no big deal for you. James took it almost personally. Forget the fact that he was captain of the Quidditch team, he didn't think that Sirius and Draco should be spending so much time together. Well, James let it go for a bit. Then something happened and somehow during one of the Quidditch games, Draco managed to get the snitch while Sirius was supposed to be watching him. Gryffindor still won the game but James was furious. Draco and Ginny weren't dating yet but it was pretty obvious to almost anyone that it was only a matter of time." (Here Ginny and Draco looked at each other in amusement.)

"Well, James confronted Sirius and well, he doesn't like to be accused of cheating. There was quite a bit of yelling before Sirius hit James. James hit back of course, but Sirius... well you're a lot stronger than he is."

Sirius smirked and shot a look at Lily. Inside he felt slightly offended at the accusation James had put against him. He was beginning to see a pattern.

"Sirius stopped hanging with James. That might have been the end of it, if it weren't for you two, the Evans twins."

Lily and Ginny looked at each other. Lily could see the writing on the wall. James had always liked her and she had always shot him down. She could only imagine how it would be with the two of them.

"James always liked the both of you, as I'm sure you know. About a month or so after the whole Quidditch fiasco, James decided to ask Ginny out. Ginny, you were by then seriously considering dating Draco. James asked actually asked Lily out by mistake. Lily, you were pretty vindictive, I mean who wouldn't be? He wanted to ask your sister out but can't even tell the two of you apart."

Lily smiled, appreciating the younger girl's honesty.

"Any way, you blurted out that you were already dating Draco, who had, by this time asked Ginny out so technically you weren't lying. James went apeshit. He decided to hunt Draco down and kill him. Remus you tried to get in the way of it but James started yelling at you that you like Lily and ended up trading a few punches with you. He got past you and started after Draco again. He found Draco and challenged him to a duel. Draco was having none of it, so he just ignored him. James tried to beat you up, but by this time both Remus and Sirius were down there so nothing really happened. Sirius did turn James into a canary but it wore off so none of you got in any serious trouble."

Andromeda stopped, finished with the story. The six teenagers looked at each other, thinking about how this had come to be.

(A/N: Sorry for such a sucky ending for this chapter. Still, hope you all liked the