A/N: This is the second chapter of Moony, Mini, Padfoot and Prongs. Thank you to my three reviewers: InuyahsaApprentice, vampire*chic, and last but CERTAINLY not least, cinderella200! Oh-no! The Marauders have actually been caught!!!! What WILL they do?! Find out! Lolz. I won't continue if you don't review so PLEASE review!!!! Thanx! (Also the descriptions of the Marauders are how I always pictured them when they were in school. Like Sirius' hair. That's just how I pictured it. You can picture whatever you want. And if the descriptions are incorrect, like hair and eye color, please let me know. Thanx!)
Chapter 2: What the-?
" Ah, shit!"
" AAAAHHHH!!!!"
' Mini' screamed and jumped up onto her dresser in a sitting position. First off, a boy had just fallen onto her floor out of thin air. He was very cute, she had to admit, but he had simply appeared nonetheless. Secondly, she was now hearing bodiless voices.
That's the last time Hayden ever talks ME into seeing a horror movie! She thought.
She looked from the boy to where the voice had come from and back again. Maybe she was dreaming. That was possible right? I mean, she had just seen a rather terrifying movie, this could just be the after affect. Oh, who was she kidding? She had quite enjoyed the movie, along with many other horror films, and this young man was definitely real.
Her attention was caught by what seemed to be two bodiless voices bickering. She was able to catch: " Idiot!" " …ankle…" " …no use…" "…take it off…" " …funny…" " Shut-up."
Then, two more boys suddenly appeared out of thin air. They were quite good-looking as well. Maybe this is a dream… she thought mischievously. She couldn't help it. Three extremely hot young men had just appeared in her room. Then again, if she wasn't dreaming, this was definitely weird.
She found her voice. " K, who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing in my room?!" She asked quickly. Besides their good looks, she was still frightened beyond belief.
One of the dark haired boys who had just appeared smiled broadly and looked at his companion who had just arrived as well. " I like her."
The other dark haired boy elbowed him in the ribs.
" Ow!" Exclaimed the second boy as he smacked the third boy's shoulder. The third boy punched him in the arm. The second boy cuffed him in the back of the head, sending his glasses askew. The third boy then kicked the second boy in the back of the leg.
She watched all this in great confusion. What the hell was going on? She slid her legs silently back onto the aqua colored carpet and leaned against the dresser with her arms folded across her chest. Why the hell were they fighting?
The second boy grabbed the third boy by the shoulders and pushed him onto the ground. The third boy grabbed the second boy's shoulders as well and attempted to push him off. The second boy grabbed the collar of the third boy's shirt and proceeded in banging him on the floor like a dummy. The third boy grabbed the second boy's shirt collar as well and started pulling him left and right.
She chanced a glance at the first boy. He was sitting cross-legged now, his chin resting on his left hand and he was tugging at the frays in her carpet with his right hand. He looked quite bored. She assumed the two dark-haired hotties did this on a regular basis. She cleared her throat.
Remus looked up at ' Mini.' She nodded towards Sirius and James. He looked at them. Sirius was on his back on James with his arms wrapped around James' left leg, and James had his arms wrapped around Sirius' neck. Remus rolled his eyes. He pulled off his right shoe and winged it at the other two Marauders. It hit them and they both looked up at Remus. He nodded at ' Mini.' They looked at her and Sirius quickly jumped off of James and both boys stood up. Remus retrieved his shoe and stood as well.
" About time." She said, annoyed. " Now answer me: who the fuck are you and what the fuck are you doing in my room?"
The same dark-haired boy snickered again, and the other dark-haired boy with the glasses looked as if he would have elbowed him again, if not for the stern warning glance from the first boy.
She stood waiting impatiently for their answer. She looked at each of them. The first boy as she'd thought before was very cute. He had short brown hair and blue eyes. The second boy had black hair that was parted in the middle and framed his face well, just brushing the tops of his ears. He was gorgeous, as she was quick to point out to herself. The third boy had black hair as well, but his was shorter and extremely messy. He had hazel eyes and black wire-frame glasses. He too was very good-looking. They were all wearing long black robes with white dress shirts and loose red and yellow striped ties. They seemed safe enough, but there was no way in hell she was trusting them. What do you do when a hot guy tells you to get in his car? Unless he's got a gun, say, ' Sorry, babe,' and walk away quickly, she thought.
She was pulled from her thoughts as the second boy stepped forward. It seemed as though he had been chosen as spokes-person. He looked like he knew what he wanted to say, but he just couldn't find the words. Finally he sighed. " Look, Mini (The other two snickered at the name.), this is sort of hard to explain and won't make any sense whatsoever."
Did he just call me ' Mini'? She thought, confused.
" Wait!" The voice of the first boy broke her thoughts. " What if we just leave and on the way out do a Memory Charm?" He suggested. He was obviously talking to the two other boys because she didn't have a clue what he was talking about.
Memory Charm?
" Hello, dingus! Ma-gic! We'll be expelled you ninny-wit!" Exclaimed the second boy.
Remus hadn't thought of that. Sirius did have a point. " Then what do you suggest, Prongs?" He asked James.
Prongs? Wuthafuck?
" I dunno, Moony. I'm out of ideas."
Moony?!
" Whoa! Dudes! This is getting really weird! Magic? Memory Charms? Prongs? Moony?" She finally voiced her confusion. " And who the hell is ' Mini?'"
The three boys exchanged nervous glances. Finally the first boy spoke. " Alright, I know I'm going to regret this," he sighed, " but we're not from your world."
She just looked at them. Their faces were perfectly straight without a trace of amusement or joke. That is, until the second boy burst out in uncontrollable laughter, causing everyone to jump.
" Did you see… the look… on her face… when… when he said… when he said that!" He gasped between howls of laughter.
" Shut-up, Padfoot!" Said the third boy, exasperated. " This is serious! We have to find our way back to Hogwarts before Dumbledore catches us. Or worse…"
" Snape." The first boy finished his sentence.
Dumbledore…? She was lost. Plain and simple. She didn't have a bloody clue what they were talking about. " Prove it." She said suddenly. She marveled at her own courage.
They all stared at her in surprise. " What?" asked the third boy.
" Prove that you're from another world." She said firmly. " I don't know where you come from or who you are, but here boys appearing out of thin air is considered slightly odd. Your explanation of being from another world just makes you sound nuts, which isn't helping you much. Now prove to me that you're from another world, or get the hell out of my apartment."
The boys didn't know what to say. The second boy suddenly waved and turned on his heal to leave. " See ya!" He said brightly. The third boy grabbed the back of his robes and stopped him.
" Where do you think you're going?" He asked. He sounded as if he really didn't want to know the answer.
" I'm getting the hell out of her apartment." He said with mock enthusiasm. " She said prove it or get the hell out. We can't prove it without using magic, and if we use magic, we'll be expelled." He explained.
The other boys sighed as if this was obvious. " No shit," said the third boy, " we know that, but what else are we gonna do? We haven't got a clue where we are."
" Point taken, Prongs, but I'd rather get lost than expelled."
" Point taken, Padfoot, but I'd rather have a home to go back to than none at all." Replied the third boy through clenched teeth.
" How about your names?" She interrupted.
They looked at her again.
" I'm Remus." Answered the first boy reluctantly.
The second boy stuck out his hand and grinned. " Sirius." She didn't take his hand.
" James." Said the third boy quietly.
" We really do come from another world, we swear. It's just that we can't prove it to you. It's too risky." Explained Remus.
" Wait a minute…" mumbled James as though thinking out loud.
" What?" asked Sirius.
James looked at him and Remus. " If we flip the Time-Turner we're supposed to go back in time, right?" He asked.
" I think they established that about a thousand years ago, but go on." Said Sirius.
James ignored him and continued. " Then that would mean that if we went back none of this ever happened, right?"
" Right…" answered Remus, following what his friend was saying.
Glad one of us can, she thought, annoyed.
" Then if we did magic now, when we get back, it technically would never have happened, right?"
" Right!" Exclaimed Remus happily. " You're absolutely right, Prongs! None of this would have happened, including any magic we do!"
" I never thought of that…" Said Sirius, more to himself.
" I think we established that." Smiled Remus. James smiled as well.
" Okay, now that that's settled, we can prove ourselves!" He said happily. He sounded quite proud of himself. He walked past ' Mini' and switched off the lamp.
" What are you doing?!" ' Mini' demanded, sounding almost panicked.
" Just watch." Was all he said. She heard him whisper, " Lumos!" And there was suddenly a small beam of light protruding from the end of a fancy piece of wood he was holding. He saw the look on her face and said quickly, " Wand," and indicated the thing in his hand.
She didn't seem impressed. She simply folded her arms again. " You can do that with light bulbs." She said dully.
James frowned and turned on the lamp again. " Finite Incantatum!" He said, and the light on the tip of his wand went out. He was quiet for a moment. He seemed to be having an inner battle with himself, like he was deciding whether or not to do something. Finally he took a deep breath. " Okay," he sighed, " how about this." He raised his wand again and said loud and clearly: " Serpensortia!" A long black snake slipped from the tip of his wand and landed with a soft thud on the carpet.
' Mini' screamed.
She jumped up onto her dresser with her knees up. Her big pale blue eyes shot from the teeny-tiny closed point of James' wand and then to the black snake hissing and coiling itself about on her bedroom floor. There was no way that snake had actually been inside that wand. It was too big to ever squeeze itself in. This is real… she thought, terrified.
Sirius saw the wide-eyed look of realization spread across her pale face and stepped forward, pulling out his own wand. " Finite Incantatum!" He said loudly, and the snake disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
James looked at him.
" It was freaking her out." He explained.
James nodded.
" You believe us now?" asked Remus.
After checking every inch of her room that was in sight she slipped her feet reluctantly off of the dresser again. She looked at Remus and nodded slowly. The boys all sighed with relief.
" Th-there's no way th-that that s-snake came out of th-that wand tip on it's o-own." She stammered.
James nodded. " It was magic."
' Mini' quietly sat on the end of her bed cross-legged. " Well then," she said quietly, " how did you get here?" She asked looking up at James.
He quickly explained how they were going to use the Time-Turner and showed it to her.
" So this little hourglass thing was supposed to make you go back in time to cheat on your exams, but somehow you ended up switching worlds instead. Does that mean that this happens to be a malfunctioning Time-thingy?" She asked when he had finished.
" Seems that way." Answered Remus.
' Mini' nodded her head, a somewhat satisfied look on her face. " Cool."
She had been talking with the boys for about a half an hour since the snake incident and was starting to feel more comfortable around them now that she knew they were telling her the truth.
" Anyways, we have to get back to our own world. I think the only real way of doing that is to risk flipping the Time-Turner again." Said Remus.
" Your right," said James. " There's really no other way."
" I guess we should just go then." Said Sirius heavily. The other two nodded and James grabbed the invisibility cloak ('Mini' had found this very cool). Remus pulled out the Time-Turner again. He placed the long thin golden chain around all three of their necks and James threw the invisibility cloak over them, making them all disappear. Just as Remus was about to flip the little golden hourglass, they heard 'Mini' cry:
" Wait!"
Remus stopped. James tugged on the cloak so that they're heads were only visible.
" What is it?" He asked.
What am I DOING?! She thought angrily to herself. She looked up at the boys' heads that were all looking at her confused. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened them again, her brown eyeliner making them look almost magical themselves and found her voice. " I-I wanna come with you." She couldn't believe what she'd just said any more than they could.
" What?" Asked Sirius, just above a whisper.
" I want to come with you." She said again. What AM I doing?!
" B-but you can't. You just…can't." Said Remus, obviously confused.
" Why would you want to?" Asked James.
" Hello!" She said, as though the answer was obvious. " You come from another world! And a magical one at that! I wanna come with you and see your world! Do you have any idea how awesome that would be?"
Sirius looked stunned. " She's insane." He said quietly.
" I beg your pardon?" She demanded.
" Nothing." Said Sirius quickly, looking away.
" But where would you go? What would you do?" Asked James.
" I dunno. Never mind. It was a stupid idea." She said, looking at the floor.
" Maybe she could come." Said Sirius suddenly.
" What?" Asked James and Remus in unison.
" Maybe sh-"
" We heard you!" Said James, annoyed. " But what the hell would we say? ' Oh, Professor Dumbledore, we had no idea! She must've followed us home!'" He said with mock innocence.
" He might believe us if we say she followed Sirius home." Smiled Remus. James shot him a warning glance that only made him grin broader.
" Wait a minute!" Said Sirius, causing everyone to jump.
" What?"
" I know where she could stay!" Said Sirius excitedly.
" Where?" Asked Remus and James together, their voices full of what could have been angry confusion, though they didn't seem angry at all.
" That secret room! The one that appears when you need it most and its always got exactly what you need in it!"
" Hey, he's right!" Smiled Remus.
" Moony!" Said James.
" Well he is! She could certainly stay there! She'd never go hungry or anything, because it always fills itself with everything you need at the time!"
" I can't believe you're actually considering this!" Said James, his voice becoming unnaturally high.
" Why not?"
They all looked up as 'Mini' suddenly spoke.
" Are you crazy?! What if you're caught?!" demanded James.
" Who says I will be?" She asked.
James spluttered at this and Sirius smiled.
" See? She'll be fine."
" Okay, how about this," said 'Mini', " I'll go with you and hang out for one night and then you guys can flip that little Time-thingy again and bring me back home."
They seemed to actually consider this. Even James, to her surprise.
" Think about it," she went on, " you guys said you were like the major pranksters at your school, Frogwarts-"
" Hogwarts." They said together.
" Whatever, but then wouldn't this be something huge for you? You snuck a girl from another world into your school and kept her there for one night!" She said. She knew she was getting somewhere just by the twinkle in their eyes.
" That would be a hell of a graduation story." Said Sirius. Remus nodded.
'Mini', Remus, and Sirius all looked at James in silence.
" Fine!" He said, exasperated and rolling his eyes. He had also shown his exasperation by throwing up his arms, because the invisibility cloak fell off of them fully and crumpled in a pile of silver on the floor at their feet. 'Mini' was quite relieved to see them in one piece again. She smiled and jumped up once, clapping her hands.
" Yes!"
" But you have to stay hidden!" Said James sternly.
She nodded eagerly.
" And you can't tell anyone what you've seen already, or what you're about to see!"
She nodded eagerly again.
" And you can't-"
" I think she gets the point, Prongs." Smiled Sirius.
James closed his eyes, as though praying for patience. " Alright," he sighed, " let's go."
'Mini' ran to the closet and grabbed a pair of black runners. She quickly pulled on a pair of socks and slipped on the shoes. She ran back to the closet and came back with a long hooded black cloak. The boys looked confused and she smiled.
" I was a witch at a Hallowe'en party last year. I thought maybe this would help me blend in a bit more."
Remus nodded and smiled. " Good thinking."
She smiled at him and pulled on the cloak. She stepped beside Remus and he placed what little length was left of the golden chain around her neck and James threw the invisibility cloak back over them. Because there were four of them under it now, they had to crouch a bit more than usual, but not much as 'Mini' was quite small. Remus grasped the Time-Turner in his hand. Sirius smiled and said, " Ready, Mini?"
She smiled back.
As Remus flipped the Time-Turner a certain number of times and they all felt themselves being sucked into a vortex of swirling colors, 'Mini' said, " Hey, Padfoot!"
Sirius looked up.
She smiled. " It's Ally."
A/N: And there you have it! So what did you think? How about clicking that small little blue button and telling me in a review? I absolutely adore reviews and the story cannot continue without them!