CHAPTER: 10
Roxanne woke up into darkness.
Her breath was cold and too quick for normalcy's sake.
Something was wrong with her.
She was in pain, shaking, and her mind was fuzzy.
She slowly got up, as to not wake up the girls, and went to the bathroom.
The second the door closed she collapsed on the floor, feeling excessive pain.
Her body felt messed up, her eyesight was foggy and her body felt like it was tearing itself piece by piece, over and over again.
She laid there for a long time, and she might have lost concessions at some point, she wasn't sure. She felt agonized.
She forced herself to keep quiet, biting he tongue.
But the hours slowly, excruciatingly, passed, and she felt the pain leaving her. She felt twice as tired now.
Carefully, she got up and washed her face in the sink.
She went back to the dorm and was about to wake up Alex or Vic to accompany her to the hospital wing, but it was only then that she noticed what was odd about the room, her eyes having adjusted to the darkness.
There were strangely only five beds in the room, instead of eight.
And then she remembered, she went back in time.
How could she have been so stupid, believing it was a dream?
Something bright caught her eye, a small line of brightness was in the sky; it was already near dawn, the first signs of day.
This was getting out of line; this whole time travel thing, the attack, and now this horrific bloody pain that came out of nowhere. And worse of all- it was keeping her from her sleep. She felt morbid.
Roxanne had one rule in life-let me sleep or else…
Angry, she changed her clothes, summand her wand wandlessly, and left, heading with annoyed determination to the library.
The whole way there Roxanne fueled her nerves; if she ever found out somebody did this to her intentionally- sending her back in time- she will torture the crap out of them, and then (once they've begged her to) she will kill them.
'Stupid time travel, stupid pain, stupid sleepless night! I should be in my bed right now, 36(if her math was correct) years forward from now!'
Stumping foreword, she made it to the front doors of the library, and saw they were locked.
This didn't bother her too much, she was a seventh year and, let's say, excelled in the subjects and topics that interested her.
"Alohomora!" she tried.
Wandless magic is less affective, since it's not well concentrated, but it is untraceable. You can't do Prior Incantato on a person so it was better for such situations.
It worked.
The door opened with a click.
She entered and whispered 'Lumos' this time using her wand.
She walked quickly through the sections until she got to the place where they kept the books about time.
And she grabbed five books randomly and sat down in one of the chairs, getting ready for a long read. Like her dad tells them all the time, this is the time when you have to wake up that place in your head you usually keep dusty and dormant, your brain. And get to work.
"Oi! Wake up already!"
"Mmhpp."
CRASH.
"OWWWW! Padfoot I'm going to kill you!"
"Should've woken up when I gave you a chance."
Remus entered the room after taking a shower, saw James on the floor, his bed upside down, and Sirius smirking next to him.
He really didn't need an explanation.
He walked over to where they were and hit Sirius on the back of his head.
"Ouch what was that for?!"
"For being an idiot."
"For being an idiot."
"What is this, pick on Sirius The Smoken day?"
"Yes, it's pick on Sirius day."
"Smoken my arse. And speaking of my arse, I think you bruised it you bastard."
Sirius pouted. "Whatever, look we need to get ready and stalk that chick right? Come on, IT'S A HOWLE NEW DAY!"
Remus winced at the valium of his voice.
"Would you calm down Padfoot?!"
"NO! MY JOLLY SOUL WILL NEVER BEND DOWN TO THE LIMITATIONS OF THE LIKES OF YOU, HORRENDIOUS BEASTS!"
"James do something!" Remus begged, covering his sensitive ears with his hands, while Sirius was running around in their dorm room.
"Calm down you raging lunatic."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Sorry mate." James told Remus.
As Sirius went on yelling nonsense Remus muttered something about stupid Animagus and shenanigans, and bolted through the door.
James sighed; it was way too early for this crap.
"So…think we can trust that girl?"
James tuned around slowly; Sirius stopped yelling around and was standing next to him, looking worried.
"Sirius, did you make Remus mental just so you could talk to me alone?"
Sirius shrugged, looking a bit guilty. "Well?"
James thought about it. Then said "I think we can…for now. I mean, my –er- grandchildren are her cousins. So in her head we're family. I think.
And she seems to care about her family- I trust that."
Sirius considered what he said. "Then why for now?"
James shrugged, trying to look nonchalant while he went on ordering his bed.
"Because at some point we may be stabbed in the back by her loyalty to her actual family."
Sirius' eyebrows frowned. "What do you mean?"
"She's from the future remember? Why can't we chance the fact that me and Lily will die?"
Sirius looked pained at the reminder.
"Because it might hurt the future. And I don't think she really told us everything, so if push comes to shove where it's a choice between us or her future family, what do you think she'll do?"
Sirius' eyes widened. "Oh."
This was so confusing for James. "But if you think about it her family is my future family, which means I really have no idea what to feel at this point."
Sirius looked at his best friend and patted his shoulder. "Dark circles under the eyes are not sexy Prongs."
"Thanks Pad- wait what?! Gross get off me!" he angrily shook him off, as Sirius laughed.
"Sorry, trin' to lighten the mood mate."
James answered him with a "Go eat Nargeles."
"I'd rather have breakfast. Come on, let's wake up Pete."
They opened together his sheets, but they were empty.
Peter was still in the hospital wing.
"Right. Forgot about that." Sirius said quietly.
"come on let's go. James?"
James looked thoughtful. "She never told us why she hit Peter, did she? And remember when she yelled after him? She called him 'Rat'…"
Their eyes met, and they looked at each other fearfully.
"You don't think she knows.."
"It wouldn't be too weird actually; we'd brag to our kids about it for sure, so it's not surprising seeing as she's a part of my future family. I bet you or Remus or Pete told them, seeing as I… well, I didn't get a chance to."
Sirius winced. "Yeah. Maybe." After a few awkward seconds he went on. "Why hit Peter though? She never told us that."
"True. Very true. She also never said anything about you, Peter, and Remus either."
"I bet we're just really boring, normal, people in the future."
"Ha, Pads you couldn't be normal if you tried to."
"True, I'm too awesome. Let's go talk with Remus, he's smarter than us."
Agreeing, James ran after him, to Remus who was probably waiting for them in the common room.
-END CH.10-
A\N: here it is! sorry for the long wait :)