Thank you for all the wonderful comments made so far! I can't believe that so many people liked the first chapter! I'm going to try and update at least three times a week, so as not to leave readers hanging. Chapters will be short but when it gets to important stuff the chapters will get longer.
Now onto Chapter 2!
From Time to Time
By Leela
Chapter 2
James was the first one to wake. He had a splitting headache that threatened to pull his head open. He dare not open his eyes for he feared the light would hurt him. What had happened? He struggled to recall what had transpired. Was it all a dream? Had he really been sleeping? Or had he been hurtling forwards in a haze of colours? He had blacked out when Professor Greenhelm had muttered: 'Portus'.
Reluctantly the head-boy of Hogwarts opened his eyes and stared around at his surroundings. He couldn't see properly because his glasses had been taken away. James pulled his messy hair out of his eyes and lay back on the pillow resting his head gently.
From what he could tell he was in the hospital wing, because, now that he realised it, he was covered in sheets, wrapped tightly round him, keeping him warm.
"Looking for these?" a woman asked, handing him his glasses.
James took them gratefully and slid them onto his nose, adjusting them so that he did not look over the top of them. Madam Pomfrey stood above him, but to his surprise, she looked older, with a bit more grey hair then James could remember.
"Everything will be explained in time, Mr Potter," she said, "now just content yourself to reading these books. I must see if the others are awake." Then she scuttled off leaving James to read the books she had left by his bedside.
He didn't feel like reading and because he was James Potter, he decided to get out of bed, even though his head was killing him. He swung his feet over the side and went to look around the room. Madam Pomfrey was no where to be seen.
Lily lay in the bed next to him, pieces of her hair falling onto her face. Her red lips gleamed, and James felt a sudden urge to kiss her. However he ignored the temptation. Next to her was Remus looking a bit worse for wear and frowning lightly in his unconsciousness. Peter was on James' other side with Sirius next to Peter on the other side.
All of them were still unconscious. Why was he awake and the others were not? They had all blacked out at the same time, so surely they'd wake up to. It was a mystery he couldn't fathom.
"Mr Potter, I told you to stay in bed. What gives you the right to walk around without my permission?" Madam Pomfrey was back.
"I'm head-boy! I have a right to especially if I want to see how my friends are doing."
"You are confused, Mr Potter. You are not head-boy here."
"Of course I am! I have been since September!" declared James. "And Lily is head-girl!"
"Dear boy, you are no longer in 1977. You are in 1996."
James stopped short. "What? This is a joke! You can't go into the future!"
"Haven't you wondered why I look different?"
James nodded, realising that yes he had thought that only moments ago. He felt silly. But it couldn't be true, could it? How could he be in the future? And what had brought him here, and why?
And then it struck him.
Professor Greenhelm, he thought, did this. He told us to hold the Gem. He said something and it's taken us to the future. What an idiot I am for not realising this!
However are we going to get back? He thought desperately, as fear gnawed inside him.
TBC
I know it was a bit blunt in James finding out that he's in the future this way but at least he hasn't run into his son yet. I wanted to take a different approach in how they were discovered, but that has yet to be revealed.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Next chapter will be longer...that's a promise.