The Fabric of Time

by Dark Sarcasm 503

The fabric of time is never constant. A single event can change not only the future, but the past as well. In the trio's sevent year, Ron stumbles upon Hermione's timeturner...a bad idea. Hermione sends herself back to find him, and finds him with someone

7. Realisations and Confrontations

Chapter 7" Realisations and Confrontations

Over the next few days Lily refused to talk to any of the marauders, and instead she spent all of her time accompanied by Ron; the only person who she felt she could truly trust.

Lily and Ron became close friends and they both felt dependant on the each other's company.

One night Ron snuck up to Lily's room to surprise her, only to find her missing. After checking all of Lily's usual spots, he found her in the astronomy tower again, crying.

"What's wrong?" asked Ron, kneeling beside her.

"I just can't believe he would do that to me! I thought he loved me!" cried Lily, burying her face in Ron's chest. Ron put his arms around her and pulled her close.

"Look at me Lily" said Ron. Lily looked up at him, her tearstained face shining in the moonlight. "Lily, if I was James, I would never do anything like that to you. You are the most beautiful, smart, vivacious and perfect girl I have ever met."

He lent forwards and they looked deep into each other's eyes. Slowly their lips met in a chaste kiss.

At that exact moment James entered, and stared at them in shock. He gasped and they turned around to see him running down the stairs.

Later that night, Ron returned to the dorm room to find his roommates, the Marauders, all glaring at him with loathing.

"What?' asked Ron

"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT? HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THAT??" screamed James, striding forward to confront Ron.

"The only person doing any betraying around here is you, Potter" Ron replied quietly.

"It was only a prank. How was I supposed to know she'd take it like that?

"You should have known, idiot! She's your girlfriend after all. She's not the kind of person to take something like that lightly, especially not from you."

"What would you know?" Sirius added angrily, "You don't even know her; you've only just met her. WHERE DID YOU COME FROM, ANYWAY?"

" I don't have to tell you anything." Ron said, glaring at both Sirius and James as he stormed out of the room. He slammed the door behind him and lent with his back against the door. He wished that he could go back to his rightful time; he missed Hermione, but most of all he missed Harry. James reminded so much of Harry that fighting with James made him feel as if he was losing his best friend.