Time enough for…

A massive flash of light and a tremendous boom sent all the local wildlife fleeing and scouring the forest floor bare in a fifty-foot radius.

A dark haired wizard and a pair of witches blinked the spots from their eyes and scanned the area for dangers from the exact center of the disturbance.

"I- I think we may have overshot," Hermione guessed as they all three took in the primordial forest around them.

"What do we do now?" Harry asked, at a loss, as it looked like they were far enough back in time that the invention of fire would still be a recent thing.

"I have no idea," Hermione admitted.

"Cast insect and animal repelling charms," Luna said, putting her words into action. "Now we have to find a large tree."

"Take your pick," Hermione said, "we are spoiled for choice."

Luna set off in the direction of the largest tree nearby, a giant that seemed endless, the other two following. Tapping the trunk with her wand, she transfigured a doorway sized section of trunk and a room sized section of interior into water, that flooded the ground and almost knocked the three down. "Forgot it would do that," Luna said apologetically, casting drying charms on the three.

"What are you doing?" Hermione asked curiously.

"I'm making a room," Luna explained, casting another spell that turned the dripping sap into lacquer and smoothed and dried it instantly. "We don't know what the weather is going to be like or what kind of magical creatures are about, so I'm making us a room to set up our tent in so we'll be safe."

"And what then?" Hermione asked as she opened the moke skin bag and took out the magical tent.

Luna set the tent in the center of the room and tapped it with her wand before turning back to the doorway into the tree and carefully inscribing runes into the bark. "Ok, into the tent," she ordered.

Still numb, the two entered the tent followed by Luna. The enormity of jumping back before human history dulling their wits.

"You two are in shock," Luna said, "fortunately I know what to do. Both of you strip, we'll climb in a bed and huddle together for warmth.

"I'm not sure that's right," Hermione said, as they took off their clothes.

"And yet you're still taking off your clothes," Harry noted.

"I'm not sure she's wrong either," Hermione admitted, the shock of being the only three humans in existence still scrambling her brain or so she told herself.

"Into bed everyone," Luna said, pulling back the covers on the king size bed in the master suite.

"Now what?" Harry asked once they were all cuddled together under the blankets.

"Now we hold each other until we recover," Luna said.

"That may take a while," Harry admitted. "I'm worried about what's going on in England while we're here.

"Nothing's going on," Luna replied. "It's a lot of animals and forest right now. We have, Merlin only know how many thousands of years before we need to worry about it."

"Pardon?" Hermione said.

"We moved in time, not space," Luna explained, "that means none of the stuff you are worrying about has happened yet or has to happen. We could stay in this bed for a decade and nothing bad would happen."

"Is that why you're so calm?" Harry asked.

"I'm not calm at all," Luna disagreed, "I'm excited beyond belief by the possibilities."

"Of us dying before our ancestors are born?" Hermione asked doubtfully.

"Moving against the flow of time is hard," Luna explained to her, "moving with it is easy."

"So we can get back home?!" Harry asked anxiously.

"Better, we can get to where we were hoping to go or even earlier," Luna assured him.

Harry sighed and the tension seemed to drain out of him and Hermione both. After a few seconds they tensed up again.

"We're naked," Harry noted.

"We certainly are," Hermione agreed.

"Pleasantly so," Luna agreed, "and bits of both of you are hard."

"What do we do now?" Harry asked after a few minutes of silence, since no one seemed willing to move.

"I was planning on a threesome following by telling you both how much you mean to me," Luna said. "It's going to be at least twenty years before we get home and I'd like those years to be happy ones."

"I... think that is a wise course of action," Hermione admitted, her heart pounding as she forced the words out. "Harry?" she asked hopefully.

"I-I'd like that," he admitted, "but I was raised by the Dursleys, so I'm probably going to need my hand held every step of the way and a lot of things explained to me."

"I've brought porn," Luna promised.

"Porn?" Hermione asked in shock. "We are back before the dawn of man and you have porn?"

"Lots of it," Luna promised. "I used a moke skin bag to collect all books and useful items from the come-and-go room. There were a number of student trunks in there, so naturally I've gotten a large amount of porn as well."

"You have a moke skin bag?" Hermione asked.

"Of course," Luna replied. "They are too useful not to have one. In fact I have nearly a hundred of them."

"I'm not going to ask," Hermione decided. "But, back to the subject, yes Harry I'll hold your hand every step of the way and explain everything."

"And I'll provide illustration and diagrams," Luna promised.

"How do we start?" Harry asked.

"Kissing," Hermione said firmly.

"Oh good, I think I know that one," Harry said, leaning in.

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"We have food for at least three months," Harry said as they ate. "Not sure what we'll do after that."

"Hunt," Luna replied. "There is plenty of wild game."

"So what are our long term and short term goals?" Hermione asked. "We have all this time so we aren't in a rush, but I always feel better when I'm making progress towards a goal."

"I would suggest finding the tallest mountain possible and building a huge palace deep inside it," Luna said. "We're going to need some place safe from flooding, fire, and history."

"That is a very good point," Hermione said.

"But... isn't the landscape going to change?" Harry asked.

"Forgot that," Luna admitted. "We can build underwater or in the clouds until Mt Everest shows up."

"Those spells are... oh yeah, no ministry," Hermione said.

"Which one is safer?" Harry asked.

"Clouds," Luna replied. "We only have to worry about meteors at the moment."

"No planes," Hermione agreed.

"Do you guys know how to build a castle in the clouds?" Harry asked. "Cause I don't."

"I brought all my school books and..." Hermione trailed off, embarrassed.

"And?" Harry asked.

"I kinda, sorta, packed the Black library as well," she admitted.

"All of it?" Harry asked.

"And... every book in Grimauld place," she admitted.

"Works for me," he said cheerfully.

"Harry, I stole your library," she pointed out.

"Before they could burn it down," he agreed.

"A bit before... yes," she said evasively.

"First we need to sort through all the books, we have to find ones on building sky castles," Luna decided. "Once we have that built we can unpack our bags and see what we have to work with."

"How hard is magical construction?" Harry asked.

"It depends on what you're doing," Luna replied. "If you have a lot of power and the right material even novices can accomplish amazing things. The problem is most people aren't all that powerful and the right material is expensive. Fortunately for us you are quite powerful and we pretty much own the world as there are no other people, so I expect it to be relatively easy."

"And we're far enough back in time that plundering the world for resources wouldn't affect history," Hermione said with a grin.

"That is exactly why I was so excited earlier," Luna said. "We have access to more riches than anyone has ever dreamed of!"

"How will that not affect the future?" Harry asked. "I mean, if we take gold and gems out of the ground, they won't be there for whomever would have found them in the future."

"Either nothing we do can change the future or everything we do has already altered it," Hermione said.

"Plus between ice ages and shifting landmasses, volcanoes, meteors, and tidal waves," Luna listed off, "it's likely that nothing we take would be on the surface for others to find in the future anyway."

"I see," Harry said slowly. "Would it be wrong for me to collect enough wealth to make Draco die of envy?"

"Of course not," Luna said. "I was personally planning on collecting enough that I could buy multiple copies of all the rare tomes in history before they become rare, and get a copy of all the scrolls in all three of the Libraries of Alexandria before they burned down."

B... but that's what I was going to do!" Hermione complained.

"It's much more than even a two person job," Luna pointed out. "My plan was to create a fourth Library of Alexandria that would hold copies of the works of the other three with spells to fake its destruction when the time was right."

"How long have you been planning this?" Harry asked.

"Since I was six," Luna replied.

"Since I was eight," Hermione added.

"Which was before you knew about magic," Luna said, "thus my plans are better than yours."

"So the both of you had plans for if you went back in time?" Harry asked.

"Bookworms have always mourned the destruction of the Library of Alexandria," Hermione explained, "muggle and magical both!"

"Didn't you have any 'if I could go anywhere or anywhen' thoughts when you were a kid?" Luna asked.

"Yeah, but they were all either 'rescue my parents from their car accident' or 'escape the Dursleys'," Harry replied. "I never really got to be a kid."

"I'm pretty sure we can rescue your parents," Luna said. "I mean, we have nothing but time to figure it out. Of course your childhood will still suck, unless we rescue baby Harry as well, but then that would mean you weren't actually Harry Potter and instead were a Horcrux of Voldemort in a golem body that became a real boy somehow."

"I object morally to becoming Voldemort," Harry said. "Couldn't we just split me in two, so one half is raised with my parents while I live my life to become... me?"

"Do they even have spells like that?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, but they all required the heart of a dodo, so they went away with them," Luna said.

"So we simply hide a herd or two of dodos," Harry said. "We can prevent any number of extinctions, now that I think of it."

"Ohhh!" The two girls chorused as they considered that.

"All we really need is a big plot of land to ward with the fidelious and we can raise tons of animals that we know become extinct," Harry said.

"There are a number of islands and even a continent that vanished from history," Luna said slowly as she and Hermione exchanged glances.

"What are you thinking?" Harry asked.

"I believe what we are thinking is that if places like Atlantis, Camelot, and Pangea are fated to disappear from history anyway..." Hermione said her voice trailing off.

"...then who are we to argue?" Luna said with a grin.

Typing by: Abyssal Angel