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Chapter 15: Changing the Future
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Lily landed back in the hospital wing with a 'thump' as she fell to the ground. She looked around and saw no one was there, so she quietly tiptoed out of the hospital wing, and to the Gryffindor Common room, where she was almost knocked off her feet by her best friend coming and hugging her. Julia let go and said,
"How was everyone when you left?"
"Sad, depressed."
"When did you leave?"
"After the battle, from the hospital wing. Where's Blake?"
"Upstairs. Sleeping." Lily looked out the window and saw it was dark and noticed that no one else was in the common room.
"Oh my gosh, what time is it?"
"Three o'clock in the morning. Blake wanted to wait for you, but he couldn't stay awake any longer." Lily nodded.
"What is today?"
"It's the week before Christmas break."
"Oh, so my Mum and Dad and your Mum and Dad and the rest of your family don't know about you and Blake."
"Or you and Will." Lily nodded.
"Good. Because I need to talk to Will tomorrow morning."
"Why?"
"Going into the future made me realize what kind of person he'll turn out to be."
"You're going to break up with him?"
"Yeah."
"If you're sure."
"Yes. I am. What about you and Blake?"
"I plan to stay with him. I think he would change some stuff too."
"Like not quitting the Auror business?"
"Yeah, for one. We should probably head off to bed. We've had long days."
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"Hey, Lily!"
"Will, there you are, I was looking for you."
"What do you know, I was looking for you too."
"We need to talk."
"Ok, what do you need to say?"
"I think…we should break up."
"Why?"
"Because, I just don't see a good future together."
"What brought this up?"
"It's a long story."
"You're sure about this?"
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Ok. I'm sorry you feel this way."
"Thanks for being good about this, Will." Will nodded sadly, and kissed Lily on the cheek. She smiled, and he left. Julia came from down the stairs and said,
"Feel better?" Lily took a deep breath and sighed.
"Yeah. I do, actually."
"Well, I don't know if you would want to know yet, but I was just talking with my cousin."
"Which one? You have like…forty."
"Not quite that many. Thirty-eight."
"Oh, sorry, thirty-eight. But anyways, which one?"
"Luke."
"Malfoy? Alright, what about him?"
"I was talking to him, and just happened to let slip that you were breaking it off with Will. And would you consider going out with my cousin?"
"I don' t know, he's your cousin."
"So? I'm going out with your brother. If you wanted to, you could go out with one of my brothers. I wouldn't suggest it, but you could." Lily laughed.
"I'll think about it."
"Awesome. Now if you'll excuse me, dear friend, I have a date with your brother on a broom." Lily smiled and nodded.
"Alright, see you later."
"Bye." Lily went over to the window and sat down on the window seat. She thought about what Julia was telling her, about Luke and everything. She had always thought it was weird yet cool that Harry and Hermione, Ron and Lavender, and Ginny and Draco all had their first born in the same year, and that all four of them were in the same year. As though summoned by Lily's thoughts, the portrait hole opened and Luke Malfoy walked in. Luke and his sister, Anna, were the only Malfoys in history to be in Gryffindor, their brother and sister were in Slytherin. Lily smiled as Luke saw her and joined her on the window seat. He said,
"Julia said you wanted to talk to me." Lily laughed.
"She doesn't let me think about things that long, does she?" Luke laughed too.
"I guess not."
"So she told you what she told me?"
"Yep. Actually, the whole thing was my idea."
"Really? You'd want to go out with me? A Potter?"
"Well, would you want to go out with a Malfoy?"
"Well, I'm strongly considering it. The only thing stopping me from saying yes is the fact that I just broke up with Will, and I don't want it to feel like I'm on the rebound."
"I see your point."
"How about this, I'll let you know tomorrow morning."
"Alright, I can live with that." Luke smiled once more, and then went up the boys' staircase. Lily slid off the window seat and left the common room and walked down to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Before she came in, she heard her mother's laughter in the hallway, with her father's following shortly after. Lily came into the office, and her parents didn't notice her right away. Hermione had her feet up on her desk, leaning back in her chair, while Harry was standing, sitting on his desk. Hermione said,
"Oh, did I tell you saw your cousin in London the other day when I was at the Ministry?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. Talked with him and everything."
"Why in God's name would you want to talk with him?"
"Well, he initiated the conversation." Harry laughed.
"He didn't know who I was, until he asked me my name and I think the name Potter scared him. Because he got all nervous and he asked if I knew a Harry Potter. I said, yes, he's my husband. Then he got even more nervous and asked if I was a witch. But of course, he couldn't get the word 'witch' out. After I said I was a witch, you know what he did?"
"What?"
"Turned and ran as fast as his fat legs couldcarry him." They both laughed, and then Hermione noticed her daughter standing in the doorway, laughing along with them.
"Oh, hey Lily. What're you up to today?"
"Nothing much."
"Staying out of trouble?" Lily grinned.
"Oh you know I am."
"Homework done?"
"Yep. Honestly, Mum, I'm not the one you have to ask if it's done, it's my twin that has the trouble."
"I know, but I'm just checking."
"I know." Hermione smiled, and Lily's thoughts were brought back to that time in the future in the forest, Lily saw in her mind's eye that look on her mother's face when she saw her son die, and that look of anger and hurt as she screamed, Avada Kedavra. It didn't fit Hermione very well; she was always the calm, quiet type, the kind that kept her husband in check, to make sure he didn't lose his temper too much. In all her seventeen years, aside from raising her voice every once in a while at her husband or her children, Lily had only seen her lose her temper twice. Harry was usually the one for the lost temper. Lily looked at her father and couldn't see how a man like him could have so much hate and anger to kill a person with those deadly two words. But then, Voldemort had taken almost everything away from him that he held dear in his life, and if he hadn't killed him, Voldemort would've taken Harry's wife and children. And the killing of Bellatrix Lestrange, well, that was revenge for her killing Sirius. Lily could understand why they were killed, just not how her parents could do it. 'That's what war does to people,' Lily thought. Lily said,
"I'd probably better be going, I need to study for some term finals."
"Was there anything you needed, Lils?"
"No, I was just going for a walk and ended up here." Her parents smiled and nodded, and Lily left.
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"Ok, I want to go out with you, but my dad can't know, at least not yet."
"Why?"
"Because he's…very protective. Especially since you're Draco's son. I know your dad's different, I know he's a great man, but it's that whole history thing of going to school with each other."
"I understand, and I agree with you. Both of our dads won't be all together pleased to hear about it."
"I know."
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A week later, the Potters were on their way to the Weasley's for dinner. Everyone would be there with their families, and the huge backyard would be filled with the fifty family members that would be there.
During the main course, Fred asked all his older nieces and nephews,
"Alright, what's the latest gossip at Hogwarts? Who's causing trouble and everything?" The new trio looked at each other and smiled, this was all so familiar.
"Honestly Fred, do you even have to ask that? You know your sons and George's sons are causing trouble again," Angelina said.
"No, I think lately they've been outdone," said Harry. Fred's eyes widened in surprise.
"By who? They'd better be Weasleys." Hermione sighed and said,
"Fred, you shouldn't condone mischief to your sons and daughters and nieces and nephews, it makes everything worse for us teachers."
"That's what's so good about it, Professor Potter. But no, who's gone and outdone my sons?" Julia said,
"Well, one of them is a Weasley, the other two aren't though."
"Which is kind of ironic and sad that the son and daughter of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers are the top mischief makers in school along with Julia," Percy's son Philip said with an air of one who thinks he is better than everyone else, being Head Boy gave him that aspect of personality. "I would have expected better from Uncle Ron's daughter." Bill snorted.
"Well, apparently you don't know your Uncle Ron very well, Phil." Just to spite Philip, Lily shook her brother's hand and said,
"Heck yes, we've surpassed Fred's sons in the mischief making! Wah hoo!" She finished, sticking her fist in the air, making everyone but Molly, Percy, Penelope, and Percy and Penelope's children laugh. After the laughter died down, George said,
"Ok, enough about the mischief making, who's going out with who now?" Questions went around the table to the Weasley offspring, and answered were given back. Lily mouthed to her friend,
"Want me to tell them?" Julia rolled her eyes.
"You have to, it's what happens."
"Ok, pretend to be shocked and mad."
"I will." Their mouthed conversation was cut off when George asked,
"So how about you three? Who are you all going out with?" Neither one answered right away.
"No one? I'm finding that hard to believe. Jules, nobody?" Lily grinned innocently and coughed. Through her cough you could hear,
"Blake." Julia and Blake's eyes widened in surprise. Fred grinned and said,
"What? Did I hear that right? Blake? As in Harry's son Blake?" Lily nodded as Julia fixed a glare on her. Fred laughed.
"Oh this is great." Ron cleared his throat and going into father-mode said,
"How long as this been going on?"
"A few days," Julia answered somewhat nervously, still glaring at Lily, playing the part. She pulled her gaze from Lily to her father, who looked at Harry. They looked at each other for a moment, while the entire table hung in silence. Ron said,
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"What do you think of this?" Harry shrugged.
"What about it?"
"Your son and my daughter are going out, and you have nothing to say about it?"
"What is there to say about it? So they're going out, so what? They're teenagers, what do you expect?" Ron turned to Lily,
"Please tell me Lils that you're going out with one of the Weasleys, cuz' I wanna see the look on your Dad's face when he finds that out."
"No, I'm not going out with one of the Weasley boys."
"No, she's going out with a Malfoy though. Haven't you wondered why they're sitting by each other?" Lily glared at Julia. Julia said,
"Hey, I promised, if you don't tell, I won't tell, and you told, so I told." Lily glanced over at her parents. Her mother had a hand over her mouth, trying to cover up her laughter at the look on her husband's face. Harry's jaw was open slightly and he was the say the least shocked. Lily looked over at Luke, who was avoiding Harry's gaze and staring at his plate. Draco's expression matched the one on Harry's face well. Ron laughed.
"Oh this is great. I love it. A Potter going out with a Malfoy, that's worse than a Weasley marrying a Malfoy." Hermione couldn't hold back her laughter anymore and slowly removed her hand from her mouth as the laughter overtook her. Harry looked at her.
"This is funny to you?" Hermione nodded.
"Yes, it's just…the looks on yours and Draco's faces, they're priceless." The rest of the people at the table laughed, except for Harry, Draco, Lily, and Luke. Hermione said to her husband,
"Harry, personally, I think it's great." Draco and Harry's eyes widened and they both looked at Hermione.
"What? I do. Luke is a good guy, and they're happy." Draco said,
"But Hermione, it's just unheard of, she's a Potter, he's a Malfoy." Hermione laughed again.
"So? It's not like you two are enemies anymore. You're completely different people than what you were growing up. If Draco was still evil and a total jerk like he used to be, then Ginny wouldn't have married him in the first place." Harry thought about what Hermione said and then hesighed andsaid,
"I guess you're right, Hermione, you normally are." Everyone looked at Draco, who gave in and said,
"I hate it when she's right." Lily said,
"So, then everybody's all right with this, then?" Julia said,
"I guess so." Ron laughed.
"I still think it's hilarious." Harry pointed at Luke across the table and said,
"Now, if you do anything to hurt my little girl, I might have to hunt you down." Luke nodded slowly while Lily rolled her eyes. Luke looked down at his dad and Draco put his hands up, shook his head and said,
"You're on your own with that, Luke." The mood lightened around the table and everyone started chattering again. Blake leaned over and kissed Julia on the cheek and she smiled. George saw it and said,
"Hey, no PDA at the dinner table." Blake leaned back and put his hands up in surrender.
"Sorry." Bill said,
"You've got some nerve, Blake; kissing Ron Weasley's only daughter in front of him." Blake grinned and said,
"What can I say? I'm a Potter; I take risks even if it's a danger to my life. Just like them Malfoys, right?" Everyone laughed in agreement. Ron said to Harry,
"If your son is anything like you romantically, I might have to hurt him."
"If you hurt him, I'll hurt you." Hermione said,
"And if you hurt him, Mr. Weasley, I'll hurt you too...worse." Fred laughed and said,
"Careful, Ron, you don't want to unleash the wrath of Hermione, people get hurt that way." Ginny said,
"Don't mess with her husband, Hermione'll do worse." Everyone laughed, while Hermione rolled her eyes and smiled, and leaned against her husband.
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"So, why did you break it off with Will and go for Luke?" Blake asked his sister that night when they were sitting out on the porch swing with Julia, and a heating charm placed around them.
"I don't…like the way things would turn out. My future self told me that I need to find someone who doesn't feel inferior to my Dad. Luke doesn't, he's known him all his life, and I can't imagine a Malfoy feeling inferior to a Potter. Yeah, Draco's changed, but he still has his pride." Julia said,
"And didn't you say that when you were going out with Will that he always wanted to keep it secret?"
"Yeah. He never wanted to tell anyone, Luke was ready to go public with it. So, basically, big brother, I broke up with Will because I'm changing the future." Blake said,
"You know, we get to change fate and destiny. And I think the way it's going, the future'll turn out so much better than it would originally." Julia smiled and snuggled against her boyfriend and said,
"I look forward to it."
A/n: Hey hey! Here's the final chapter of the sequel to Tricky Deals of Fate. I'm going to be posting an epilogue soon, so look for it! And please review, it'd mean so much to me if ya did!
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