A/N: Neville is technically sleeping, but not quite.. you'll see soon enough...

Turning Your Time Around
By: Cheelalaucha
Chapter dedicated to: Mrs. Frascatore, my wonderful math teacher who made me understand math for the first time in three years! Thank you so much!

Chapter 4: "The First Meeting"

Lily had just left Neville sleeping in the hospital wing.

Neville. NEVILLE."

There was black all around him, he couldn't even see himself. A voice kept saying his name, but he couldn't tell which way it was coming from. Suddenly, a scene was playing before him, as if he were watching a movie.

He saw his mother. She was clearly different, because she was talking to someone. She never had much to say when he would visit her in St. Mungo's.

He wasn't sure what he was watching, until the man she was talking to held out a small box. He opened it to show her.. It was a ring.. A wedding ring.

Neville couldn't hear the words, but he could see the surprise in his sane mother's eyes. And then, happiness.

Just then, the black returned. And before Neville could feel sad about it, a new image appeared. But this one was totally different.

This time, he saw Professor Severus Snape holding his wand out. He was pointing it at Dumbledore. Snape was talking to him, looking very angry. Neville noticed McGonagall beside Snape, holding out her wand too. A bright white light shot out of both their wands and formed a dome over Dumbledore.

What in the world was he watching!

He didn't have time to find out. There was black again.

Neville stood very still, hardly even breathing.

"Neville. NEVILLE!" The voice boomed.

Neville jumped in surprise and looked all around, desperate to see something.

At that moment, the ground seemed to break beneath him. He fell in the darkness. His heart was pounding fast in his chest.

'What's happening!' (he thought)

In seconds, he found himself on his back, a cold surface under him.

"Neville!" One voice said. "Mr. Longbottom." Another voice said.

Neville's eyes snapped open. Two blue, see-through figures were looking down at him. It was Ron and Professor Snape.

"Wha-wha-" Neville sputtered in a whisper.

"Are you all right?" Ron asked him.

"I g-guess," Neville spoke quietly.

"What is this place?" Ron asked, looking around.

Neville glanced around, too.

They were outside. The sun was up, but clouds were blocking it's rays.

Neville lifted his head up to see a castle standing before them. It wasn't Hogwarts, but it looked old.

Ron put a hand down to help him up, but Neville shook his head. Neville turned over on his stomach, and got on his hands and knees. He then lifted himself up, carefully. He was sure if he'd gotten up any other way, he'd hurt his back again.

"Why are you blue?" Ron asked Neville.

"What?" Neville said, holding up his arm to see if it was true.

"Woa. You're blue too," Neville stated, pointing at Ron.

"Bloody hell! We're all blue!" Ron yelled.

"Contain yourself, Mr. Weasley," Snape scolded.

"We're all blue and see-through, what am I supposed to act like!" Ron shouted back.

Snape scowled at him. "Detention, Mr. Weasley."

Ron glared at him with pure hatred, but before he could reply, someone apparated before them.

Snape took out his wand and pointed it at the person.

The old man was dressed entirely in light dark purple.

"Lower your wand," the man spoke with no real feeling.

Snape didn't move a bit. He looked over the man, trying to figure out his motives.

"Who are you?" Snape asked the man slowly.

"Merlin. Now, lower your wand Snape," The man replied nastily.

"You're who?" Ron asked in surprise.

"Merlin," he said, looking quite tiered of being asked.

"THE Merlin?" Ron asked.

"Yes, now you-" he turned his head to Professor Snape "-lower that wand or I'll lower it for you."

Snape hesitated for a moment, then let his arm with the wand go to his side.

"Thank you," the man Merlin said, showing his first sign of politeness. He turned to Neville and spoke. "Now, would you care to tell them where you are?"

Merlin waved his hand to where Snape and Ron stood.

"What? Oh, um, I'm in.. I mean, I was in 1974. Still at Hogwarts." Neville looked glum as he spoke.

Even though Snape Ron gave him odd looks, Merlin didn't seem to have cared. It was as if he knew it already.

"You still are in 1974. None of you are really here. You're in the Vision Realm. It is only, one might say, your photo-frame and mind that are here. Neville, you are sleeping. You two are talking to Subla. The headmaster." Merlin added the last bit when he saw the confusion from them all.

'Subla...subla.. Albus... albus- backwards!' Neville put it together in his head quickly, seeing as Esor had done the same thing with her name, Rose.

"Why did you call him that?" Ron asked before Neville could.

Merlin gave a huff and his face turned hateful. "That is what we do with wizard names, turn them backwards. Though, in this case, we are speaking of a dark wizard."

"What?" came from all three of them, though Snape seemed to be annoyed at the fact that he had thought to say the same thing as a little 6th year student.

"Right," Merlin began, "We are brought to the point of your visit. I must ask you to set that back at your side, Snape."

Professor Snape had raised his wand at Merlin and was now holding it steady before him. Snape didn't move a bit when asked to set down his wand again.

Now, though, Merlin shifted with his staff. He managed a glare, one never given so harshly, even from from Professor Snape's dark eyes.

"Put it down!" Merlin yelled, picking up his staff and slamming it into the ground hard.

Rumbles of thunder came rolling from everywhere, and the sky was tinted with purple.

Snape did so after a moment's consideration. Ron and Neville though, looked terrified by the anger Merlin had.

This time, Merlin didn't thank him, but just continued on with the reason for them being there.

"You have been brought to put the rightful people back in charge of Hogwarts. And, in doing so, you will expose Subla for what he is," Merlin said, more clam than moments before.

"What are you talking about?" Snape asked, still stung from being forced to lower his wand

"He, Subla, has been managing power that is not his. The originals, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor and the rest, are his power source. You've been wondering why he is so powerful - all three of you. The safe place that Hogwarts is would be even safer if you had the four and not Subla. And right now, we can use a safe place."

Merlin continued, looking at each of them in turn. "Now, we don't have a whole lot of time. Snape, research a way for Longbottom number two to return to the present. Ronald, go find the Ravenclaw you encountered earlier. Tell him he's in the future and that you're working on getting him back. Make sure he doesn't talk to the... headmaster. And you.. Longbottom number two.. wait here while I send the others back. You two, do NOT speak of this to anyone but each other. If you do, you shall regret it." Merlin ended with the same penetrating glare as before, directed at Snape.

Before Snape could reply, Merlin waved his staff and they were gone. Neville couldn't turn away from the spots they had just disappeared, even when Merlin first spoke again.

"You are most unfortunate, Longbottom number two. When Ocard, um, Draco, threw that time-turner at you, it sent you into the past. But, another has been brought into the future. That is the Ravenclaw of whom I spoke of. As it is, this one boy was the reason for a series of events.. The events that led to the birth of who they, in your time, call The Boy Who Lived."

Neville turned to Merlin after hearing this, stunned. He waited for Merlin to explain more, which he did after looking Neville over.

"That Ravenclaw boy brought young Semaj and Snave together. They got married and then had The Boy Who Lived, or in our place known as The Bivorio. He is now in your time, and you in his real one. It has been made your task, should we not get you back quick enough, to get Semaj Snave together. The rest will fall into place. If you do not..." Merlin looked at him sternly.

'Wondered when he'd get there,' Neville thought.

"..You shall take Harry's place as The Bivorio. That would not end well.. for anyone."

Merlin was stern, but he felt sorry for Neville because what Ocard (Malfoy) did was not his fault. It wasn't right for him to have to perform this task. Though, all would be dead if Voldemort had chosen Neville, which would happen if he didn't perform the task.

With one last wave, Merlin said: "Don't you dare warn them. If you do, we're all dust."

Neville was back in the dark.

An image came before him again. This one was of something he hated.

His Gran opened the doors. Neville walked in first, slowly. A screen was pulled before the beds. Step by step he walked, not knowing what to think..

'No, not this,' Neville thought.

The dark reappeared and Neville sighed with relief. He didn't want to see that again. It had been too bad the first time around.

But, just then a worse picture was shown before him..

Two figures.. bodies.. face-down on the stone floor. They twitched as they lay.

'NO!' Neville thought again.

A man's voice came from around him, the same one that had been calling his name on the way to the Vision Realm. "Make it go away. Don't let it show power against you."

Neville couldn't take his eyes off the image, nor could he see how he could get it to stop. He was just frozen, as if he'd been hit with Petrificus Totalus curse.

The voice again spoke. "Make it go away. MAKE IT GO AWAY!"

Neville started to fall again, through the floor.

"Neville? Wake up, please?" Lily's voice overpowered the one he'd heard seconds before.

Neville snapped open his eyes and tried to calm himself, but his heart kept beating harder and faster in his chest.

Breath, just breath.

One long breath. Then another, and another.

"Ha," Lily giggled. "The Great Lily Evans does it again!"

Snave...snave...Evans...evans... Lily! Oh geez...

A/N: The next chapter shows us what is going on in the presant.It starts from the dule that Ron and Malfoy were having when Neville got sent back.
By the way, if you think this is just 'freak accident', I'm lettng you know that it's not. It's part of the Bunny's Plan, gone wrong... Oh, and you don't know who the Bunny is, so keep reading!