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Chapter 6: Guess who's back?

"Hermione?" Lily asked shock set in her face. There were in the common room and Hermione was lying on the floor in the same position she had just been in with Remus.

"I'm back? Oh, Lily, I love you, and you, James, Sirius! Oh my God, I can't lose you!" Hermione rushed out, looking as if the dead were alive. Just then, Remus and Peter walked in.

"Remus! You are the best friend I could ever have. And you," Hermione turned to Peter. "You murdering traitor. You killed them! You killed them and he's alone! You should see him! I'm gonna kill you!"

"Hermione, what are you talking about? And where did you go?" Sirius asked, looking terrified of his girlfriend.

"Peter is going to kill you!" Hermione turned to James and Lily. "O.K. I was in the future. I met Harry and Ron and you, Remus," she looked at him, her face turned from anger to sadness in an instant. "You looked terrible."

"F-f-future?" Peter asked. "Harry and Ron, who?

"Harry Potter, James' and Lily's son. And I don't know who Ron is. But that's beside the point! Peter, are you or are you not planning to turn to Voldemort?"

"No, I'm not," Peter answered, uneasily. Hermione gave him a doubtful look. "O.K. Snivellus approached me and told me to consider it 'due to the fact that I'm a tag along' if you must know. And I was going to say no. I thought you guys trusted me!" And with that Peter stormed out of the room.

"Hermione, you said my, sorry, our son? What was he like?" Lily asked.

"He looked exactly like James," Hermione started. "Except the eyes, he has your eyes."

"You said that we're dead. When?" Sirius asked. "81 and 95," Hermione answered slowly. "Yea, that sounds right."

"Oh my God!" James ran into his dorm room.


Albus Dumbledore was pacing his study. Earlier that morning Sirius Black, Lily Evans, James Potter and Remus Lupin had informed him of the disappearance of Hermione Granger.

There was a flash of purple light and Dumbledore pulled out his wand.

Remus was in deep thought. He was sitting in bed with an open book in front of him. The wind from a window he had opened blew the pages across. A smile broke over his face as he read the page in front of him.

"Rms uig adey ufins, eulp non seorred!" Remus cried waving his wand around himself. In an instant, he was pulled out of the Room of Requirement by an invisible hand, and into Albus Dumbledore's office.


"James?" Lily called through the door that separated them. "Sirius, can't you talk to him?"

"Prongs, it's me, Padfoot. Can I come in?" The door opened briefly and Sirius was pulled into the room.

"Are you O.K?" Hermione asked the quiet redhead.

"Well, considering the fact that I've been told I'm going to die in four years, yea, kinda fine," Lily said, looking Hermione in the eye.

"You don't understand I'm going to kill that rat!" the girls and Remus heard from behind the door they were leaning on.

"There's a rat in there? I didn't know that James was scared of rats," Hermione commented, uselessly.

"He isn't…" Lily's voice trailed off. An idea hit her. "Wait, they haven't told you?" She asked suddenly.

"Told me what?" Hermione asked curiously, looking at Remus.

"It's nothing. In theory, Lily's not supposed to know either, but James must have told her," Remus answered.

"No, I worked out half of it, confronted James and he told me the rest. I'm guessing that he was scared of what I'd do if he didn't tell me," Lily corrected Remus.

"Tell me," Hermione said calmly.

"Another time," Remus replied in the same tone of voice.

"Remus, you can't keep secrets from me, I'm your friend." Hermione reasoned.

"Mi, this is neither the time nor the place. I'll tell you later," Remus told her.

"Tell me now, Remus!" Hermione shouted.

"Fine, Mi," Remus looked around the now empty corridor. "I'm a …a werewolf. Sirius, Peter and James are animagi, dog, rat and stag. They became animagi to help me at the full moon. Happy?" Remus blurted out.

"Oh my…Remus, why didn't you tell me?" Remus mumbled something inaudible. "I'm sorry?"

"I thought you'd hate me? He muttered a little louder.

"I don't hate you for being what you are, but you lied to me for seven years. I thought you were my friend!" and with that Hermione ran out of Gryffindor Tower.

She ran and ran but took a wrong turn somewhere along the way. She had meant to find an empty classroom but had ended up on the seventh floor, outside the currently unoccupied Room of Requirement. She strode past the stretch of wall three times. I need somewhere to calm down before I kill Remus, she thought. The large door appeared, yet again, in front of her. She entered and sat down on the couch. She sat there quietly for three minutes, when the door opened.

"Go away," Hermione called out to the stranger, but when she turned around there was no one there. Her arm was lying on the back of the couch, when an invisible hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her to her feet. A man pulled off a cloak and Hermione gasped. It was Remus.

"Rem, I'm …" Hermione was cut off by the feeling of Remus' lips on hers. Her mouth opened slightly in surprise and a small moan escaped her. Her arms made their way round Remus' neck and his arms slipped around her waist. He deepened the kiss. After a couple of minutes Hermione pulled away from Remus gently.

"Wow," whispered Remus.

"…sorry for yelling at you and running out of the room on you," Hermione finished her earlier sentence. She giggled slightly under Remus' disbelieving stare.

"It's O.K. I'm used to it," Remus told her, his arms still around her waist. His hands, which had moved under her T-shirt, were warm against her skin. Her hands, still around his neck, were playing with his hair, feeling its softness.

"We should get back," Hermione stated calmly. However, she was anything but. She had just had the most amazing kiss ever, but it wasn't with her boyfriend.

"What's up?" Remus asked, brushing a strand of hair off Hermione's face.

"Nothing," Hermione replied convincingly.

"Mi, you can lie to anyone else in the castle like that, but I know you better. I've been watching you for years," Remus told her, staring her in the eye.

"O.K. I was thinking about Sirius…"

"Wait, we share the most amazing kiss ever, and you think about Sirius!" Remus' voice rose.

"Rem, it's not like that. Technically, we're still going out. How's it going to look when I end it with him and then start being seen with you, one of his best friends, ten minutes later?" Hermione told him, calmly at first but her voice gained a hint of worry towards the end.

"Well, first of all, we won't be together ten minutes later," Hermione's face fell and her arms tensed up. "O.K. we won't be seen together ten minutes later. We give it a couple of weeks and then tell everyone about us. Until then, it's our little, well big, secret. That make you feel better?" Hermione nodded. "I'm sorry, Mi," Remus apologised. "It's just that I really like you and…" Hermione cut the end of Remus' sentence off by gently placing her lips on his. The kiss became more passionate and Hermione's knees weakened. Remus' arms tightened protectively around her and Hermione felt herself melt into him.


Albus Dumbledore raised his wand even higher defensively.

"Who are you?" He asked the newcomer.

"Professor, I'm Remus Lupin, well, me from Hermione's true time," he added seeing the old man's sceptical face.

"Prove it," Albus told Remus.

"O.K. I'm a werewolf, every full moon I go to the Shrieking Shack with Madame Pomfrey. You let me into school; quote "As long as we take certain precautions," unquote. My best friends are James Potter and Sirius Black. Are you happy?" Remus said.

"What about Peter Pettigrew?" Dumbledore asked.

"Stupid, tag-along," Remus answered simply.

"I believe you," Dumbledore stated quietly and lowered his wand.

"Thank you, but I need your help," Remus replied.

"Why? What's the problem?" Albus asked looking worried.

"I need to find Hermione before it's too late," Remus replied.


A/N What do you think? If it isn't too flowing, I kinda wrote it in lessons and had to stop every couple of seconds. Please review, I need major help deciding what's going to happen next, I've strayed too far from my original play! Lul, J