Blast to the Past

Chapter Three: Teacher Comforts

By Kitty Malfoy (KM)

KM: Hey Everyone! Guess what?! I've got a new story for all of you! It is entirely H.P. based. Just a note: I used the name and description of the main character on Sailor Moon. Don't hurt me, but she is not used as a SM char in this story. I just like the name, and I think the description fits the name perfectly. NO NASTY REVIEWS ABOUT THIS!!

P.S. Peter Pettigrew is not in here because I don't want him in mah story. He'll stink it all up with his foul stench! Icky-Icky-ICKY!!! He's so…so…so…DIRTY!

Please read on…….

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Dumbledore and Serenity sat down and began to eat the food that magically appeared on their golden plates. Serenity grinned down at her friends at the Gryffindor table, and they waved back. She tried to tell them to meet her in the hall but they didn't understand her hand gestures.

Suddenly Lily felt a tingling sensation on the back of her neck, and she felt that she was not alone.

.::Lils? Can you hear me?::.

Lily almost choked on her potato.

.::It's me…Serenity. If you can hear me, wave at me…::.

Lily tentatively raised her hand waved up at Serenity.

.::Ok cool! This is so awesome. Not many people are able to hear mindspeech. Now just pretend I'm right in front of you and THINK your words at me, really hard::.

.::LIKE THIS?!::. She asked looking up at the High Table. Serenity visibly cringed.

.::Not so loud! You're a better mindspeaker that I thought::.

.::Sorry, Sere::.

.::S'ok. Anyways, I want you guys to meet me in the hall after supper, ok?::.

.:: Ok::.

.::Hey, Lily::.

.::What?::

.::I think the guys think you're dead….::. Lily actually 'looked' around her and found the boys leaning right in front of her and waving their hands in front her.

"What were you doing?" James asked.

"Did you go into a Seer's trance?" Sirius asked, jokingly. Lily hesitated.

.::Go on, tell 'em. 5 chocolate frogs, Sirius screams::.

"Oh, I was talking with Serenity." Remus looked confused, "How?"

"Telepathically."

"WHAT?!" Sirius jumped up and screamed. "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

Sirius saw all the stares he was getting, and sat back down. The boys looked up at the High Table, and Serenity winked and nodded.

"She wants us to meet her in the hall."

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"You're a teacher?!" Sirius exclaimed.

"You can talk in people's heads?!" James asked, wide-eyed.

"You're a TEACHER!"

"Yeah I think we've figured that out already, Sirius."

"Lily, you owe me five chocolate frogs." Serenity said, with a grin. Lily grinned back, "I never said I'd take that bet…" Serenity opened her mouth to say something, but then shut it. She tried again, "I……….damn!" She muttered.

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Soon they were at the portrait of the Fat Lady. "Oh, hello. Dumbledore told me you were the new Charms professor. New password?"

Serenity thought for a minute.

.::How 'bout, 'James is hot'?::.

.::GASP You wouldn't dare!::.

Serenity laughed at her friend's horrified expression, and raised an eyebrow.

.::Wouldn't I?::.

.::How 'bout 'Sirius is sexy' ?::.

Serenity turned pink.

.::Or maybe you'd prefer 'Remus is fine' ?::.

By now Serenity was a dark crimson.

.::Shut up, Lily! How do you know I wouldn't prefer 'James is hot' ?::..

Lily's eyes bugged out of her head.

.::Just kidding - put your eyes back in their sockets.::.

"Umm, how 'bout 'Fizzing Whizzbees."

"Ok, in you go dears. I will inform the prefects of the new password."



"Ooo, Lily you are so gonna get it!" Lily squeaked and hid behind a chair.

"What for?" James asked.

"Your little girlfriend made an inappropriate assumption…"

"Both?!" Lily squeaked out.

Serenity paused and put a finger to her chin. "Hmm, no, I guess just the one….."

"Which one?" Lily asked leaning over the edge of the chair eagerly.

"LILY!"

Lily ran away screaming as Serenity leapt over the chair and started chasing after her. Serenity managed to grab the hem of Lily's robe, and pull her down to the ground. Before she could do anything else James came to Lily's rescue, and pried her off, and Sirius tackled her.

"Okay, you can let me up now."

Sirius just gave her a wicked look and flexed his fingers. "Uh - Sir?"

Serenity burst into giggles as Sirius tickled her sides.

"Not - giggle - fair! Lily - giggle, giggle - get them off me - giggle - or I'll - giggle - tell everyone - giggle, giggle - what you said - giggle - about James!"

It took less than a nano-second for Lily to realize what Serenity had said, and then drew her wand.

[Expelliarmus!]

Sirius went flying through the room to land rather lightly on the couch.

"Thank Lils…..Hey! Let's go check out my room." Lily's eyes brightened at this and she nodded eagerly.

The two girls were up in the stairs in 2-sec. Flat, leaving behind a stunned James, a surprised Remus, and a moaning Sirius.

At the very end of the students' dormitories there was Serenity's room. They opened it to reveal a huge room. Her king-sized bed was decorated in fold with trims of red. Lily pushed aside the golden, gauzy curtains and flopped down on the bed.

"Oh, it's so soft!"

Continuing to look around the room they saw a large walk-in closet, a vanity, and one whole side of the room was a mirror. Serenity began to admire herself in the mirror-wall when Lily yelled her name.

"Sere! Oh my God! Your bathroom is awesome!"

Serenity ran over, and stood gaping with Lily in the doorway.

It was softly lit by a candle filled chandelier, and everything was made of white marble, including what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming pool sunk into the middle of the room. (Ok you have 2 tries to guess were I got this description, and the first two don't count, ^_~) About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pool's edges, each with a differently colored jewel set into its handle. Long, golden lined curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy maroon towels sat in a corner.

The girls got over their shock and ran to the pool's edge. Kneeling down they turned on a few of the taps. They could tell at once, that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water, though it wasn't bubble bath as the girls had experienced it. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Serenity thought it would have supported her weight if she'd care to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. The girls amused themselves for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose light green jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

Soon the deep pool was full of hot water, foam, and bubbles, which took a very short time considering its size. Serenity looked questioningly at Lily, who shrugged. Then Serenity got a wicked grin on her face, and said oh-too-innocently, "Well it's a shame to waste all this water…LET'S GO SWIMMING! I'll get the boys."

Before Lily, could protest, Serenity was on her feet and out of her dorm; leaning over the stairs' balcony she called down to the boys who had started a game of Wizard's Chess.

"Hey you guys! Wanna go swimming?"

All three jumped up - knocking over the chessboard - and drew their wands.

"Are you serious?" Remus asked timidly.

"No he's Sirius, duh!" She said pointing to the taller boy, "Of course I'm serious, now are you coming or what?"

In a flash, they were all wearing swimming trunks. Sirius - black, Remus - blue, and James - green. Serenity tried not to stare at Sirius' well-toned muscles and motioned 'em up. Running back into her room she saw Lily looking through her suitcases - which had been brought up earlier - looking for a swimsuit.

"Oh! I've got the perfect thing for you, Lily! James'll flip."

Rummaging through her bags she pulled out a green halter bikini. The green matched her eyes perfectly and accented her flaming red hair, and now bright red cheeks. Lily looked at the revealing swimsuit in terror and minutely shook her head.

"PUT IT ON!" Serenity screamed, pointing at her closet. Lily's mouth snapped shut and she snatched the swimsuit - running into the closet.

Serenity pointed her wand at herself just as the boys ran in. Her clothes melted away and were replaced by a silvery metallic string-bikini. Serenity pulled a blushing, Lily out of her closet, and posed for the boys while Lily crossed her arms over her chest, and became fascinated with her bare feet.

Serenity grabbed Remus and Sirius and pulled them into the bathroom, while the stood gaping. Behind her she spied James taking Lily's hand in his. They all slid into the bath/pool, and James conjured a white, marble diving board.

"Nice touch, James."

"Why thank you, Professor Serenity." He replied, stressing her newly acquired title. She rolled her eyes, and punched him playfully on the arm.

James and Remus moved out into the deep end and started talking to the girls as they treaded water. Taking her hair, Sere fastened it above her head with a conjured chopstick so that it wouldn't get wet. Lily noticed that Serenity hadn't answered Remus' question, and kicked her gently.

"Oh, sorry, Remy. What were you saying?"

"I asked if you played Quidditch."

"Oh, yeah I do - I'm a Keeper…..uh do you guys know where Sirius is--"

"CANNONBALL!" Sirius hurtled off the diving board to land right in front of Serenity - drenching her.

"MY HAIR! SIRIUS BLACK YOU ARE GONNA BE SO SORRY!"

Leaping on top of him she head his head down under the water. Pushing off the bottom Sirius pooped back above the surface - sending Serenity flying through the air only to land in Remus' arms. Serenity turned to Sirius, stuck her tongue out at him, and growled.

Serenity cocked her head to the side as Remus whispered something in her ear. Sirius felt an unknown feeling bubble up inside of him at the sight of Serenity in his best friend's arms while he whispered things in her ear. Sirius considerably calmed down as Remus relaxed his grip and she wiggled out of his arms. Serenity was staring at a space just above his left shoulder , and he guessed she was mind speaking with Lily. His suspicion was confirmed when Lily started whispering to James - relaying the message. Turning to study Serenity's expression he was slightly surprised to find her no where in sight.

Suddenly the loud THWANG! of the diving board, startled him, and barely had time to turn his head as the invisible weight crashed down on his back. Serenity's large sapphire eyes, and small coral lips hovered, floating beside his head.

"You're it!"

The eyes and lips disappeared and he felt the weight push off his shoulder - accompanied by a large splash and spraying bubbles.

With a wicked grin Sirius swam at Remus - churning water flying behind him. Sirius reached for him, but Remus dodged out of the way and turned on one of the 'bubble jets' in Sirius' face. A strong turquoise wave of bubbles shot at him - pushing him backward several feet. Holding up his hands for a time out, he hiccuped a few times before asking, "Ren, how DO you turn invisible?!"

Serenity gave a lop-sided grin at his nickname for her and reappeared - sitting on the pool's edge and resting her elbows on the diving board. She waggled her finger at her friends. Which was decorated with a silver ring in the shape of a dragon eating it's tail. The dragon's small ruby eyes seemed to suck in all the light around it, and trap it inside its cold depths.

"You don't think I'd waste my awesome talent on just you guys do you?" She said jokingly, tossing her hair, airily over her shoulder.

Lily finally managed to pull herself away from James and swam over to examine Serenity's craftsmanship.

"This is beautiful Serenity," She said holding it up to the candlelight.

"--yeah, I can't believe YOU made it!" Sirius teased, looking down over her shoulder from his lounging perch on the diving board.

Serenity was torn between giddiness, as his warm breath tickled the hairs on the back of her neck, and annoyance. Unfortunately her short temper got the better of her, and she chose the latter. Turning to Remus, she called out.

'Remus?!"

"Yes, Serenity." He said, and pushed Sirius backwards off the board.

"You're mean, Sirius, " Serenity accused as he re-surfaced, sputtering. "Do that again and I'll turn you into a nice fluffy, pink teddy bear!"

Sirius looked up at Remus with a mixed expression of fake hurt and indignation - and was that a flash of jealousy? Serenity pushed the thought to the back of her mind, as Sirius began his tirade.

"You chose this---this---this WOMAN, over ME - your best friend - Sirius Black?!"

Remus put on an innocent face - which reminded her very much of someone…..

"Well yeah! First of all - she's WAY nicer than you are. See? She even gave me this cool ring, see? SECOND, she's a whole lot prettier than you."

Serenity noticed the look that flashed through Sirius' eyes, and she began to speak - cutting whatever retort Sirius had planned to make.

"Ok, you guys! I need to get SOME sleep. I have a feeling that the other students--"

James' coughing interrupted her. "COUGH*COUGH*Slytherin*COUGH*COUGH"

Everyone laughed, breaking the tension, and Serenity continued, "--might not be as accepting of a teacher who is practically their age."

She stood up and took several moments to wring out her wet, golden hair then handed her friends towels. They moved into Serenity's room and finished drying off.

Lily sighed, "You are SO lucky, Sere. I wish I could have a room like this! Instead, I'm all alone in the 6th years dormitory!" She crossed her arms over her chest and sat down on a transfigured bean bag chair with a sigh. Serenity conjured herself a huge, man-sized, periwinkle pillow with silver tassels, and plopped down onto it.

"Well I wouldn't mind sharing this room with you…I mean it's really big…and I don't need all this space…"

Lily's eyes sparkled and she pulled the startled girl in a warm sisterly embrace. "Oh, thank you, Sere!"

"Aww! Come on we don't get to sleep here too?" Sirius asked, poutingly, sitting down in her lap, and looking up at her - blinking his blue, puppy dog eyes at her. Serenity couldn't decide whether to blush at his touch, or scream for the same reason. After quickly reviewing the facts she chose the first one, and looked at James and Remus' sad faces, and sighed in defeat.

"Oh, all right -- but only for tonight. I can't imagine what McGonagall would say if she caught three boys sleeping in the same room as two girls…."



"I love you, Ren. Thank you!" Sirius leaned in and pecked her cheek. Her face was immediately consumed in fire, and the scorching flames surged outward from that spot on her cheek - soon her body was engulfed in the fire, and she felt light headed and giddy. Her blood pounded in her ears, and her senses became sharpened ten fold. Then as quickly as it had come it was gone, leaving her cold and wanting for more.

Serenity muttered something along the lines of 'no problem' and stood up quickly - knocking Sirius to his butt unceremoniously. She drew her wand and pointed to the wall space next to her bed, and across the room from the mirrors.

[Dormir parque!]

An exact mirror image of Serenity's bed appeared except it was all in maroon; rather than gold. Thinking a moment she pointed to the floor.

[Dormir pecuena!]

Several humongus, fluffy, white mattresses appeared on the floor, in between the girls' beds. They were wide enough for three - with plenty of elbowroom, and four feet longer than Sirius was tall.

"Sorry guys, but there's not enough room for me to magic you all beds."

The boys shrugged, and the girls retreated to the walk-in-closet to change while the boys changed by their bed.

Lily came back in shortly wearing a white, flannel nightgown - followed closely by Serenity who was wearing baggy, pink silk pajamas with a matching top and bottom. All three of the boys were in T-shirts and boxers and sitting on their bed.

Serenity crawled into her bed; the others following her example. The bed was soft and warm, and she had to fight off sleep tooth 'n nail. She magicked off the lights and muttered "G'night….."

Pulling her curtains around her bed, she whispered [Lumos!]. I dim light appeared on the end of her wand, and moved so that it was floating a few inches above her.

Sirius raised his head as he noticed a faint light coming from behind Serenity's curtain. Though half-asleep he distinctly heard her muttering dozens of protection charms.

Why would she need Protection Charms for? he thought sleepily, What place is safer than Hogwarts….

His last thought before sleep claimed him was one more of concern than curiosity. What does she have to be afraid of…….?



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Hope you liked it Sharmalade!

Kitty Malfoy

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