Traveling Through Time
Chapter 3
Ginny was just sitting up in bed wondering why James and Sirius would've come into the Hospital Wing, when she heard a groan and looked to Hermione's room and saw Hermione standing up. Throwing herself out of bed, Ginny rushed to Hermione's side.
"Hermione!" Ginny yelled as she got to the girls' room.
"Shhh. Not so loud. I have a pounding headache." Hermione said with a finger to her lips. "Where are we, Ginny?" Hermione asked as she looked around the room she was in.
"The Hospital Wing." Ginny replied as she stood next to Hermione holding onto her arm.
"Wait, what? We were just fighting though. Oh my gosh! The war! Ginny, we have to go!" Hermione yelled as she went to rush forward. She didn't get as far as she would've liked though. She ran two steps and fell on wobbly legs.
"Hermione!" Ginny gasped as she ran to help her friend up. "Hermione we aren't...well...you see we..." Ginny stammered over her words as she tried to find the right way to tell her friend that they weren't in their time anymore.
"What is it, Ginny? Spit it out." Hermione said as she looked at her stammering friend.
"Hermione, we aren't exactly in our time anymore." Ginny said as she breathed a sigh of relief.
"What are you talking about Ginny?" Hermione asked skeptically as she looked at her friend.
"You remember when you jumped in front of me to shield me from a curse right?" Ginny asked as she started their story from the beginning.
"Yes of course." Hermione said with a slight tilt to her head.
"Well, there were a lot of curses thrown at us and they all came together and threw us through time into the Marauders' Hogwarts time." Ginny explained. Hermione didn't say anything. She just stood there hanging onto her bed railing looking at the floor with her mouth partially open and eyebrows knitted together. "Hermione?" Ginny asked as she watched her friend.
"How long was I out?" Hermione asked as she looked up at her friend.
"I would say at most a full night and two hours this morning. So not very long." Ginny said.
"Did you touch me last night when I was still in my coma?" Hermione asked.
"No. It was James Potter." Ginny said as she recalled watching James touch Hermione's hand.
"Oh no. Ginny I was reliving the war over and over again. James saw everything and he now knows about us and our names. This isn't good." Hermione said as she started an attempt to pace the room.
"Hermione relax. James isn't a bitchy girl so he won't go spreading rumors or stories. I don't know about Sirius, but I can tell you that James isn't that kind of person." Ginny said, trying to comfort her friend. "And you really need to stop walking. Pomfrey said you broke your femur and a lot of other medical stuff I can't keep up with." Ginny truthfully rambled to her friend
"What was that?" Hermione asked as her head shot up and she looked towards the opening from her room to the main wing.
"I didn't hear anything." Ginny said as she looked around.
"Someone's here." Hermione said as she staggered towards the doorway. Her walking was already improving, but she was really slow
"Hermione, I don't think that it's such a good idea to be up and walking around. You just woke up from your coma. Hermione, where are you going?" Ginny asked sternly as her friend continued to the doorway.
"Where is she?" They heard a voice ask. It was definitely male.
"I don't know, Pads she isn't my responsibility." Another male voice answered. The two girls recognized them as James and Sirius.
"Well I know that." Sirius said as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"Stop pouting. She has to still be here. The doors just opened so she wouldn't have been able to leave." James reasoned.
"Look." Sirius said as he pointed over to a wall. "I bet she's in there."
"Well come on we don't have all day." James said as they walked towards the room. When they reached the room the brunette was still in bed and the redhead was standing beside her bed.
"What do you want?" Ginny asked after a while of them standing there quietly.
"We have some questions and we would like some answers." James said as they walked into the room. Sirius stood next to her and put a hand on her shoulder. Ginny whipped around and smacked his hand off which caused him to trip.
"Okay, so no touchy." Sirius said as he stood up and rubbed his arm where she hit him.
"You should've known that already, Pads." James said as he looked at Sirius from the other side of the brunette's bed laughing.
"Oh shut up Prongs!" Sirius said as he lifted up his shirt sleeve and saw a bruise forming.
"I'm not sorry. It's a reflex and you deserved it. You don't touch a grieving person when you don't know them." Ginny said, trying to hide a smile and succeeding.
"Lesson is learned." Sirius said as he lowered his sleeve and walked over to James.
"Do we have any new information on her condition?" James asked. As he looked at Hermione's face and then down to her hand.
"I don't know Potter. Do we? I mean after all, you were here checking on her last night." Ginny said. She almost laughed at the expression on their faces but managed to contain it.
"How do you..ow!" Sirius said as he was kicked in the shin by James.
"What he means to say is… what do you mean? Sorry, Ginger, but we don't know what you're talking about." James said as he calmed down and tried to play it off.
"Oh really? So you weren't the one that was under an invisibility cloak and came in here at midnight? You weren't the one who opened her door? And you also weren't the one who touched her hand and was thrown into her coma vision? That wasn't you?" Ginny asked sarcastically.
"How would you know?" Sirius asked as he poked his head up over the bed so he could see Ginny while he rubbed his shin.
"I've had plenty practice and i'm pretty good at pretending to be asleep. I saw you come out from under the cloak and saw you touch her hand and then you went rigid. You came back when Black touched your shoulder and I heard your whole story. You saw the battle and the pain that I, we went through. You know our names and part of our story. You can't lie to me." Ginny said as she looked up from Hermione's "sleeping" face and looked at them.
"Ginny Weasley. Red hair, blue eyes, two brothers-" James started.
"Wrong." Ginny said. James looked surprised.
"What?" James asked with a shocked look on his face.
"I have six brothers." Ginny said. Ginny slightly pinched Hermione when she felt the other girl's arm shake from laughter.
"You have six brothers?!" Sirius asked surprised.
"Had six brothers." Ginny said. "I now have none." Ginny was slowly getting used to the fact that she would never see her family again. But at least she had Hermione.