Disclaimer: not mine, tho I Wish. If it was I'd be rich.
A/N:it'll be awhile between them, I'm sorry. I'm horrible at writing romance, so I apologize for that part.
MimiRosell3: Sorry, me neither. I had a hard time writing that. But it had to happen. So I had some lame excuse…tell me if you think of a better way…
The five entered the Gryffindor common room, to find only Remus and Peter there. Remus immediately stood, "James, Sirius, we were just wondering when you would get back! Hullo, Fred, George." He added.
"Anastasie, this is Remus and Peter." Said Sirius. "My other two best friends. She glanced at them, a slightly disdainful look when it came to the simpering Peter. She smiled wanly at Remus, wondering to herself why he looked so tired and worn.
"The girls' dorm is up that stair case. I'll explain to Lily who you are." James said. "She's Headgirl and pretty trustworthy. She'll handle it." He smiled at Lily's name. She nodded and practically ran to the staircase. "It'll say seventh year on it!" Sirius called after her. "At least, I think it will." He muttered, never having been up that staircase because of the alarm.
The six boys flopped back down. Remus was the first to speak. "So, who was she? She looked like she was a few years older than us."
"She's the daughter of the French minister of magic." Sirius said. Just then, Lily came in. She looked a little haggard around the edges.
"Lily! What's wrong?" James asked in concerned tone of voice.
"Nothing, it's just..It's just that these NEWTs are getting to me." She muttered, waving a hand.
"Are you sure? Because, I have a favor to ask of you." James said. Just then, a shriek came from the girl's stairway. Anastasie came running back down, followed by yells of "Who the bloody hell are you?"
"Apparently one of your roommates was already in there." James said dryly. "This is Anastasie. We met her at the ministry of magic."
"The ministry? But when did you go to the ministry?" Lily asked, looking from James to Anastasie, who was now standing in the door way of the girls' staircase.
"Today." James said. "We needed to get something, a bit, shall we say, scarce."
"You stole something?"
"Moody did, actually." Fred spoke up.
"Yeah, we just stood there." George added.
"Well. That changes everything." Lily said dryly. Everyone could hear the sarcasm in her voice.
"Lily, calm down. Anastasie doesn't want to hear us arguing when she's just arrived." James said, successfully diverting her anger.
"Fine. Tell me about Anastasie." She spat. Sitting down on the couch, her back straight, she waited for them to tell.
"She's the French Minister of Magic's daughter. We met her in the Minister of Magic's office." As Lily opened her mouth James shook his head. "Anyways, I realized just now that we should continue this conversation up in the seventh year's dormitory. Fred and I have something to tell you that we can not talk about with perhaps other's ears listening." George finished, looking furtively about the room. Standing, he grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her upright. The group quietly went up the stairs, with curious looks from the two girls.
"What I have to say can not, and I mean can not, be repeated outside of this room." George said seriously. "And I want you to have an open mind. It is something that you cannot understand, perhaps, at first." Lily nodded, looking confused.
"Fred and I, we're from the future." George said, simply.
"Future? Are you mental?" Lily asked incredulously as Anastasie gasped a bit.
"Probably, so we're mental identical twins from the future. We needed a device from the Ministry of Magic. So we went, but found Anastasie." George said.
"The minister figured out that we were there to take something from him, so we had to obliviate him. Unfortunately, that included all traces of Anastasie. She had to come with us because she could have testified against us." Said Sirius.
"I see." Lily looked suspiciously at the twins again and smiled encouragingly at Anastasie.
"Really, we're from the future. We kind of appeared in front of their eyes." George said. "We'd rather go back to torturing our younger brother and sister and their friends." He smiled rather hopefully at Lily.
"Sure. And I'm a pureblood." She snapped.
"Bloody hell, Lily! I saw them appear in the middle of the hallway! There's no reason to doubt them!" James exploded.
"No reason to doubt them? NO reason? Reason in that you can't turn time back like that. That's reason." She was red in the face, raising her voice to speak to James.
"It happened, Lily, I saw it." Remus said quietly.
"Oh. Well, fine then." Lily said, sitting back down.
"So you trust Remus when he tells you the truth and not me? Oh, thanks a lot. Really. I'm dating you, but you trust my best friend more. What a load of trust I should put in you in return." James said.
"No! I didn't mean it like that James." Lily said, eyes flashing. "But, Remus is the more logical of the two of you. Besides there's two of you who aren't bonkers saying it, I guess I could believe it."
"Fine then, go off and believe Remus and not me." James said bitterly, not looking at Lily.
"I will." She said, snidely, but you could see tears in her eyes. James was determinedly staring at a bed hanging, so he didn't see it. Remus patted her back.
"So what do we do now?" he asked.
"We wait." George said simply. He shrugged, leaning back against a bed post.
"Wait? But…" Lily trailed off.
"Well, Dumbledore's onto something, but I think it'll take time." George explained. The room lapsed into silence, broken only by Anastasie's slight sniffles. Sirius glanced at her. He could see tears coming down her cheeks, making them shine. Getting up, he sat behind her and started to give her a back massage. Leaning forward, he whispered into her ear "Everything will be alright, you'll see." She turned back to him with a questioning glance. "Really, I promise." He said, looking at her encouragingly. She smiled a wobbly smile.
Suddenly, Remus glanced at his watch. "Whoa! It's already dinner time!" he exclaimed. With a trampling of feet everyone but Sirius and Anastasie left the room. Sirius leaned forward.
"I really like you Anastasie. I just wanted you to know that." He said, quietly and then got up and followed the rest of them.
Anastasie called after him. "Wait! Sirius, you must know, I 'ave 24 years. I am seven years older zen you!"
"I know." Sirius said, thoughtfully. "But it doesn't matter. I mean, I'm estranged from my family, so do you really think age or blood would matter to me?" he asked.
"Well, it matterz to me." Anastasie said, sounding frustrated.
"Then nothing will happen." Sirius said, turning and jumping lightly down the stairs.
