Chapter Three

Back in Time

Francesca awoke and looked up. She saw a boy looking down at her. He was about her age, and had long, dark brown hair, and blue eyes. He was very nicely built. She recognized him. He held out his hand to her, and pulled her up.

"What are you doing in my cupboard?" He asked.

"Huh?"

"This is the Sirius Black cupboard stupid! Where did you think you were?"

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"Francesca?!" He looked stunned. "What are you doing in the 'Sirius Black Cupboard?' I mean- you of all people!!! And your not even making out! You're abusing your privileges!" He pauses for a minute. "So. are you in here for a reason, or do you want me to give you one?" he grinned sheepishly.

"I'll let you decide." She decided to play along.

"OK then." He pushed her down into the cupboard, and crawled in himself, closing the door behind him. He pushed his mouth up to hers and slid his tongue in. He decided to explore her mouth with his tongue.

After about an hour, they decided that they have had enough.

"I thought that you and Natasha left school!" Sirius said to Francesca as they walked down the hall.

"Well. we did. but. I. I. I missed you." She said, thinking quickly.

He gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Come on, let's go up to the common room." He said to her.

The two of them made their way through the castle, and up to the common room. When they got there, they found James, Peter, Remus and Peter's girlfriend, Bianca sitting by the fire chatting. Lupin is reading a big textbook, and Bianca is sitting on Peter's lap, while he and James are talking. Sirius signals Francesca to be quiet, and then sneaks up behind them

"BORK!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Francesca and Sirius start laughing hysterically.

"What did you do that for?"

Francesca kisses Sirius. "Because he's Padfoot!" She kisses him again.

"Francesca?" They all look up at her in astonishment, and Peter drops Bianca on the floor.

"OW!" No one seems to notice her.

They all question Francesca on why she's back. She ends up telling them all about their mission, and the mistake with the time turner.

The night goes by, and Francesca grows rather tired.

"Where am I gonna sleep tonight guys?" She asked.

"You can share my bed," Sirius offered.

"Don't trust him," Lupin warns her.

"What's not to trust?" asked Sirius.

"Everything"

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"What were we fighting about again?

"Never mind."

Francesca finally thought about the sequence of events that was happening just then and began, for the first time in her life, to really panic. She buried her face in her hands, and thought to herself 'what am I gonna do? The mission is gonna be a failure and all thanks to me! This is horrible! What have I done?!'

"Well, I think I'm going to hit the sac," said Remus.

"Nite."

Remus headed up to the boys dormitory to go to sleep.

Bianca looked at Francesca and said, "What's wrong Fanny? Are you OK?"

"Its just that," she began. "I just completely ruined the entire mission! I've let everyone down! The ministry will ban me from the wizarding world, and snap mine and Natasha's wands, and everything will be ruined! The world as we know it will come to a horrible fait and hundreds of innocent people will be killed!" She started to cry.

"Well. Maybe."

"Maybe what Bianca?" Sirius asked. "What stupidness are you gonna suggest this time?"

"Shut up Padfoot!" Spat Peter. Bianca smiled at him. "Go on Bianca."

"Well maybe if you spun the time turner forward like that."

"Huh?"

"Well maybe, instead of having the time turner spin backwards, you spin it forwards."

It wasn't a bad idea.

"OK," Francesca said. "I'll try it!"

She got down on the floor, right by Sirius's knees. "I'll miss you Sirius. I love you."

Bianca, Peter, and James all circled around her, and got ready to be of ssistance in cace of emergency.

Francesca took a deep breath, and got ready to spin the time turner.

"One," said Bianca.

She put her hand on the time turner.

"Two."

She put her finger in place

"Three!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

James let out a humongous sneeze, and all of them flying on top of Francesca.

Sirius was lying on her head with his foot caught to the chain around her neck, Bianca was sprawled across her stomach with her hair caught in the time turner, James was on top of Bianca with his hand grabbing the chain for support, and Peter was on the other side of Bianca, trying to get up with the support of Francesca's neck, the time turner toppling over and over and over and over and over again. They all felt the room around them disparate into thin air, and before they knew it, they were all lying on top of each other in a small little broom cupboard with hardly any room to move.