A/N: well here's the rewrite of Meeting The future. Hope that you like it; I worked on it months before hand. Please review!

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Lily Evans was watching a corridor, trying to avoid James Potter. He had been popping up in the most unexpected places, nearly scaring her to death.

As she started to walk down the empty corridor, the person she most wanted to avoid exited a tapestry corridor. His eyes lit up, but for once he didn't say anything.

Odd; that's something he never does, she thought, tugging on her book-bag. As she pulled the strap up, the bag ripped. She closed her eyes and knelt down to pick everything up.

Her ink bottles had smashed after coming into contact with the concrete, soaking her parchment.

James made a sound between surprise and a sigh. He held up a gold chain in his hands. Lily looked over her shoulder, because she felt someone watching her, but no one was there.

Then she heard a snicker and saw James throw a glare in the direction she was looking. That told her everything she needed to know. "Sirius, Remus and Peter, you guys can come out, I know you're there," she said in a sweet voice she only used when she was annoyed.

"I told you we should have been quiet," Remus's voice floated out, followed by a whine that could only have been Sirius. Then, suddenly, the forms of the three adolescents appeared.

Lily was so shocked that she dropped the scales in her hands with a loud clatter. The four boys put a finger to their lips. James looked around to make sure they were alone, and whispered, "Are you trying to get us into trouble?"

Lily had been staring open-mouthed at the cloak in Sirius's hands. At James's voice, she snapped back to reality and caught the words as they slipped by. "No, I wasn't trying to get you into trouble; I was shocked. And where did you get that cloak?" she hissed, placing her hands on her hips.

James shook his head to signal that the conversation could continue in the Gryffindor Common Room; where Lily could yell at him without worry, because all the students were home for Christmas.

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"So how long have you had that invisibility cloak?" she asked, her brows furrowed in a slight frown.

James rubbed his neck, thinking how best to tell Lily. "Um, well…" he said, but he started stuttering.

Lily stood with her arms crossed over her breasts, and she took several breaths to calm her nerves. "It's difficult to understand what you're saying. Please stop stuttering," she hissed.

"I – uh, I inherited it from my dad," he said trying to calm his nerves and his heart, which was racing a mile a second with her in the vicinity. His eyes started following her body movement.

She started feeling heat rise up in her face and on her neck. Which was the oddest thing because she had thought his gaze could never bother her. What was going on with her?

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Meanwhile: behind the scenes…

Sirius leapt on his bed with all exuberance of a dog. Oh wait, he was a dog…

Remus shook his head. "You know, things would probably have gone loads easier if you hadn't let out that we were there," he said, starting to get impatient with his hair, and pushing it behind his ears.

"Oh, lighten up, Moony, Prongs probably won't get more than a telling off anyway," Sirius said, falling dramatically on his bed.

Remus shook his head. Padfoot was so weird sometimes. Maybe that was one of the reasons he hung out with them, Remus thought, rolling his eyes in a friendly way.

He looked around the dormitory in a considering way. "Hey, Padfoot, where'd Wormtail go? Didn't he come back with us?"

"Yeah, he did, but he disappeared just before we entered the dormitory," Sirius said thoughtfully, rolling onto his stomach, and gazing at Remus with puppy dog eyes.

"Did you see the gold chain that Prongs was holding up?" Remus asked, picking up a book sitting on his trunk.

"No, I wasn't paying much attention," Sirius said while placing a pillow on his head.

"Well, I was doing some research earlier this week, and found out what a Time Turner is," Remus said, flipping through Quidditch Through The Ages. "And it's something you can use to go back in time. Or the future," he said thoughtfully, his mind vaguely on the book he was reading.

Sirius sat upright at that. "Are you serious?" he asked, his pillow landing with a soft thump on the floor. "You can really go into the future?"

"Yeah, but there can be consequences. The only way you can get back is through a potion. But the Headmaster would have to know how far back to send you."

"We have to tell Prongs," Sirius said, and jumped from his bed. He rushed to his desk and pulled out a spare piece of parchment. He quickly wrote out a letter to James, rolled it up tightly and was just heading to the exit when he remembered the Map. And the Invisibility cloak might be good, he thought.

Finally he was back, standing in the middle of the room, his eyes wide in shock. The Map had been confiscated.

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The threats were still ringing in James's ears as he headed toward his dorm room. Threats that James didn't want to think about.

When he entered the dorm, the first thing he noticed was the worried look on both Padfoot and Moony's faces. The next thing he noticed was that Wormtail wasn't there.

"Why are there school books all over the floor and beds?" he asked, curiously.

Sirius and Remus exchanged looks, and then Remus answered, "We were wondering whether it was possible to go to the future with a Time Turner. So we looked in all of our school books to see if they mentioned it."

James nodded, and then came up with an idea. "I'll be right back," he promised and disappeared down the stairs.

As he knew he would, he ran into Lily. She was sitting on the girls' staircase, staring into space.

When James turned up, she didn't know he was there until he touched her gently on the shoulder.

"Lily, do you have that Time turner with you?" he asked quietly. Lily nodded, and he took her hand, pulling her to her feet.

She followed him curiously up the guys staircase, where he asked her to pull out her Time Turner, because, as he said, "I'm not about to ruin your modesty."

Lily pulled the gold chain out from under her robes. James looked at Remus, to see if he had figured out how to go to the future.

Remus pulled a book from the pile on his bed and flipped through it. When he found what he was looking for, he handed it to Lily.

When she saw what the page was about, Lily's eyes widened. She beckoned all the guys toward her so that she could explain what needed to be done.

"The powder in the Time Turner has to be spilt, and in order to do that, I need to break the Turner," she said, and paused.

James grabbed for the Time Turner and as he yanked it from her hands, the Time Turner fell right in the middle of their circle.

There was a blinding light and the four teens disappeared.

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A/N: I tried to keep the end of the chapter as close to the old version as possible. I hope you like the new version. I think I'll use the last chapter for all my favorite quotes and things from the original story.

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