Ch.5- Eavesdropping

Sirius blinked. Had he heard his friend correctly?

"Remus that's ridiculous! That's impossible!"

Remus waved the remark aside with an air of impatience.

"If there is one thing that I've learned since coming to this school it is that nothing is impossible."

"But-but how? And why?"

"Like I already said, I don't know how and I definitely don't know why. I just know that it's the only possible answer."

"Well, whether she's from the future or bloody freakin' outer space, I don't care. I just want to go see her. We've already wasted time. Let's go."

He sped up the stairs towards the Hospital Wing, Remus rushing to catch up.

When they reached the door, Sirius reached out for the handle, but Remus grabbed his shoulder and shook his head, pointing at the door. Voices sounded from the room. A girl's voice reached their ears.

"I don't know how I came here, sir. This is the past? How far into the past? Madame Pomphrey mentioned Sirius Black."

Sirius blinked. That was the girl, but how did she know him?

"Sirius saved you yesterday. He is a part of your future?" Dumbledore's voice asked.

Of course, Dumbledore would know that the girl was from the future. Remus's theory had been correct.

The girl had said something but he missed what it was she had said.

"So you know of Mister Black in your future. You understand then that he cannot know of anything about his future. Now, is there anything you can recall of yesterdays events?"

Sirius listened intently as she told about waking up to the black phoenix, then of the field with a robed man that claimed to be Voldemort, a wizard that Sirius knew to be growing at large in power. He looked at Remus, who was listening as intently as he, and narrowed his eyes when the girl mentioned a boy by the name of Harry Potter. Could he be related to James?

He blushed as she told of the man that she had met at Hogsmede and growled as she said that the man and the man from the field were one and the same, and that he was Voldemort and also an unregistered animagus, being the black phoenix from her windowsill. His eyes widened as she mentioned him and the fact that he was an unregistered animagus.

If she knew that in her future, she should have kept that to herself here, he thought, but then his attitude softened as she heard her gasp. She hadn't meant to disclose that information. He heard Dumbledore tell her to continue.

When she mentioned Remus, he blinked and looked at his friend. Remus's eyes were wide and he listened as someone asked if she knew him too. She assented and continued to speak of Voldemort, who said she would marry him and when she said she would never love him, he had decided she needed time to think and sent her running of a cliff.

Sirius clenched his fists and bit his lip. If he ever met this Voldemort he would rip him to shreds and leave him for some vile creature to sort through. It was at that thought that Sirius realized he was getting feelings for this girl.

I hardly know her, Sirius thought, but I'm already falling for her.

But you do know her, another part of him thought, in your future, her present. But that means you're older than her.

But how much?

Sirius tuned back into the conversation in time to hear Dumbledore speak.

"I had figured as much. The truth is you were never in that field and you never ran off that cliff. In fact, you never left your dormitory. You still haven't. You are in a state of comatose there and somehow you have found your way here. We must find a way to send you back or you will fade from your time and be stuck in this past."

Sirius's jaw dropped. No! She couldn't be sent back, not when he had just found her.

Remus seemed to sense that Sirius was about to do something rash.

"Sirius, don't-" but too late. Sirius's hand was on the doorknob and before Remus could draw his friend back from the door, Sirius stormed in, the door closing with a click.

Seconds later, Sirius's voice sounded.

"No!"

Remus wondered for a second what to do, and biting his lip, entered the Hospital Wing.

The girl and the three adults, whose eyes were on Sirius, turned their attention to him. The girl's eyes filled with recognition and the moment her gaze met his he regretted ever setting foot in the room.

He know knew everything of her present, the future.