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The room that we entered was completely made of stone, and looked like it had come from a different century or something.

Oh wait. That could be it.

We all filed in through the snake-doors and looked around. Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were looking around in amazement, probably because of how they'd already seen it. Uncle Harry had been spectacular at describing the place; it was exactly out of the story I had first heard when I was seven years old.

"Okay then. Well, were in here. Now, where's Slytherin?" Lily asked, breaking the lull in conversation.

"That's a good question…" Albus trailed off, his eyes seeking for some sign of the insane-oh wizard we were searching for.

"How about we keep moving for starters," Avarice suggested, and started walking down the stone path confidently, if not a little daftly.

No one seemed to have any other ideas. We followed Avarice.

The group of us came to stop at the huge stone carving of the "Majestic" Slytherin himself. Ego anyone? Though I can admit, it was a good likeness of him. From the slight crinkles in his forehead to the last curl of hair on his beard.

That was when I noticed something strange.

Right under that curl of hair, I could swear I saw a small crack in stone, almost as if it were-

"An opening!" Mom shouted triumphantly, pointing the crack I had just been contemplating. Well, obviously. I'm sure I would have figured that out eventually.

I think.

Either way, mom shouting that out prompted James and Sirius to go running to the door.

"What are you doing?" Scorpius questioned. James and Sirius shared a smug look.

"I think that we've had the most experience with sneaking around, don't you Padfoot?" James said.

"Very much so Prongs," Sirius agreed. Well, I suppose that it true. From what I've gathered through Uncle Harry's stories about what assorted people told him, they were always painted as the trouble-makers.

"Be careful James!"

Who was that?

I looked around to try to figure out who could have shouted that out, though it was pretty obvious. Lily had a hand clamped over her mouth, and her whole face was bright pink. James smiled at her slightly, seemingly at the most content I've ever seen him.

Not that I actually see him a lot, now that I think about it.

"I will," James promised. Then he and Sirius pushed on the door.

…

It was locked.

"Great! Now what do we do?" Sirius exclaimed. Mom gave him a look of utter distaste.

"You're and idiot," She informed him, then pointed her wand at the door. "Alohamora." The door swung open with a slight fwoosh.

"Oh…" Sirius exhaled softly.

"We would have thought of that eventually," James said confidently. Before anyone could disagree with him, both he and Sirius disappeared through the door.

The remaining of us crowded around the door, trying to see and be as quiet as possible at the same time. For a group of teenagers, we did a good job.

Thank God Slytherin was a deep sleeper.

You see, when we peeked in, we could see Slytherin asleep at his desk, the time turner firmly grasped in his hand, with a pen in the other. There were a few parchments of scribbling beneath his head that was probably making his face all inky.

James and Sirius were carefully creeping toward him. James glanced around the room, and plucked a piece of tassel from the cloth covering the desk. He then produced a galleon from his pocket. I could only assume that it was to mimic the time turner.

We all watched as ever so gently Sirius lifted Slytherin's hand. Ever so gently James slid the string and galleon into Slytherin's hand.

Ever so gently Slytherin woke up.

Looks like he didn't sleep quite as deeply as I had originally thought.

He immediately reached for his wand, but by then James had already snatched the time turner and dashed towards the door, Sirius right on his heels.

We all ran. Slytherin started roaring curses and other horrible things, but mom had already started putting up complicated blocking spells over her shoulder.

We all managed to skid through the snake-door things unharmed, and Slytherin reached them just as Uncle Harry shouted something in parseltounge, presumably "close". Through the door there could be heard loud shouts of distress and anger, all directed at us.

We allowed ourselves a moment of relief as we listened to Slytherin rant.

Then suddenly, the swearing and curses stopped.

They were replaced by laughter. The type of laughter that you hear right through your bones, that seems to echo through everything, exposing it all.

It was not a good laughter.

The snake-doors opened to a hissing sound that Slytherin made.

Well duh Rose! How could I be so stupid? Of course he could work those doors! Though honestly, the sight of him just standing there casually was even freakier. His wand was held loose, and he looked…almost smug? His eyes were closed.

Um… What?

I turned around to see what he was looking at, and felt all of the blood rush out of my face. One by one, everyone turned around, and had essentially the same reaction that I did.

For there, where the toad and egg used to be, was a Basilisk.

Sure, it wasn't as big as Uncle Harry had described it, but I suppose that was only to be expected considering it had just been born. And with that said, it was still a good seven feet long, with pointy, poison-filled fangs. It had its head turned away from us, but even so I closed my eyes just as everybody else must have. You never knew when it would turn around.

Shit.

"RUN!" Lupin shouted just as Slytherin said something in Parseltounge. The Basilisk started slithering towards us baring its fangs. We all scrambled in different directions, trying to get around it. Momentarily it must have been confused, trying to figure out which one of us to eat first. Either way it didn't come after us immediately. This gave us all just enough time to run around it, and start on the tunnel.

Scorpius was right next to me as we ran, and kept on looking at me in an oddly protective way.

Oh please don't let him do anything stupid.

Ahead of us were Harry and Dad, and ahead of them was Ginny. They were all deftly moving around the uneven-ness of the tunnels. Lily had just passed me on my left, which meant that James, Sirius, Lupin, and Mom must be behind us. No doubt Mom was trying to ward off the Basilisk with curses, and The other three were either slow or trying to help Mom.

I should be helping Mom too.

I skid to stop so quickly that it took Scorpius a moment to realize that I had, and spun around to face the oncoming Basilisk, closing my eyes as I did so. James sprinted past me, calling Lily's name. Sirius and Lupin were next to Mom as they all ran backwards, putting up as many distracting barriers as possible.

I joined right in.

Mom spared me a wild glance and kept firing off spells.

The four of us only lasted a second or two for before Scorpius had lifted us into the air with a levicorpus spell, and was dragging us as we ran.

"PUT US DOWN!" Mom screeched. Scorpius looked at her despairingly.

"That was doing you no good," he informed her. "It was just putting yourselves in more danger."

Damn him for being the voice of reason.

"FINE. YOU'RE RIGHT. JUST PUT ME DOWN!" Mom screamed again. Scorpius let us hover in the air for a few more sparing seconds before letting us drop. All of us scrambled to our feet, not even thinking about looking back. No doubt the Basilisk was gaining.

There was no other choice. We ran.

A/N: (shuffles) Heh heh. Well, it's up. That totally didn't take me forever to update upon. Good news! This story shall be finished within a week! I'm going off to camp and if I don't finish this before then nothing will be right EVER AGAIN. So it'll be done by Sunday morning. On a completely different note... Anyone care to review?