Chapter Ten: Future Arrangements

Sirius looked up at the enchanted ceiling, scanning the blue sky, and said through a fierce grin, "How about....now?"

James immediately stood up and almost ran out of the Great Hall, his quidditch robes trailing behind him. He didn't care about them though, he wouldn't even have time to change out of them as soon as he and Sirius arrived up in the dormitory. They had to get the time turner, and maybe a few other things too.

James and Sirius arrived at Gryffindor Tower, out of breath and tired, but they still ran up the boys' staircase and down the hall toward the seventh years' dormitory.

Peter was there, reading a quidditch magazine. He looked up as James entered and fished under his bed for the time turner.

"What's happening?" Peter asked, sitting up on his own bed and watching James.

"We might need the map--" James said to Sirius, who went to his own bed and pulled the Marauder's Map from between his own mattresses.

"What about the invisibility cloak?" Sirius asked.

"Yeah." James said, "That too. We can't be seen--"

"Hey! Earth to Prongs!" Peter said, waving his arms around, "What are you two doing?"

"Going to see what really happened with Lily and me." James said, pulling his invisibility cloak from under his bed and pushing the time turner that was around his neck into his shirt.

"I want to come!" Peter said excitedly.

"Fine." James said distractedly. The clasp on his invisibility cloak wasn't hooking, and it kept sliding off his shoulders. Finally, he pulled his wand out of his pocket and magically replaced the clasp, making a mental note while he did to get the real one fixed as soon as possible. "Alright. We'll have to go somewhere where we know that we won't be seen when we arrive--"

"Wait." Sirius suddenly pitched in. "How do we know that a time turner will take us that far back in time anyway? Aren't they only supposed to take you hours forward and backward? Don't you need a time portal for--"

"No." James cut him off, "I was reading up on it yesterday during charms. Time turners can take you back hours and days, but not years. That's where you need a portal."

"Thanks for telling me." Sirius said sarcastically, then glued his mind on the other problem at hand. "What about a closet or something? We could go from there."

"I don't know." James said. They all left the dormitory and were now walking down the stairs to the common room. "What if someone's in a closet when we arrive? I really wouldn't want to end up on a couple who're snogging in a closet or something--"

"I don't think it would be such a hot idea if we went to the Shrieking Shack in the middle of the morning...or the Forest." Sirius said, "We might look for an empty classroom."

"We could go to that one we found Snape in the other day--" Peter piped up.

"No, he might want to go in there again." James said.

"Well, what about that room we found in the dungeons two years ago? The one right off of the potions classroom..."

James smiled. "Yeah. Besides. Who would want to go down there voluntarily?"

"So it's decided?" Peter asked happily, bouncing on his chubby little feet, "Is Remus coming?"

"Coming where?" Remus said from behind them.

(A/N I could be mean right now, and turn this bit into the end of this chapter, but I just remembered my promise that I would try not to make this chapter a cliffhanger *sighs* I guess I have to go on....)

James stopped in his tracks, and turned around.

(A/N Aaaaaaagh! I could stop it here too! Fine! I'll go on! But after this one cliffhanger-less chapter, I'm not going to work on doing this anymore....unless there's some great amount of people who start complaining or something, I mean more than now...^_^)

"What?" He said coldly.

Then he saw who was with Remus.

Ness, and Lily.

(A/N No more pointing out the places where I could stop it and make it a cliffhanger, happy?)

James' eyes widened, and he muttered, "What's going on?"

Remus immediately spoke, making sure that he immediately got James' attention, so that he wouldn't leave. At least not yet.

"I wanted to work this out, though I guess I needn't have. I've talked to Lily

and--"

Lily interrupted, "And I was there, Potter. Are you trying to fool yourself by using this stupid little time turner and going back in time? You know what happened, so accept it. Besides. If you get caught--"

James cut her off, with a look of disgust on his face, "I didn't kiss you, Evans, so stop thinking up these warped lies. Remus, maybe you should come with us, and I can prove that I'm not lying. Of course Ness isn't going to come, because she doesn't believe me and I doubt she would even if I showed her--" At this point Ness nearly spoke up, but James kept speaking, "And I don't think Evans should come either, because her pretty face might not be able to handle such a thing as time travel--"

"I could come if I wanted to, Potter!" Lily snapped, "But I don't particularly care about what's going to happen in the past. I already saw it."

"Fine." James said, and he went out through the portrait hole. Sirius followed him, along with an eager Peter. Remus looked at Ness and Lily, and gestured for them to come with him as he followed, too. Ness followed with him.

Lily was left alone for a minute, trying to keep herself from following the five, but her curiosity and confusion finally got the best of her, and she stumbled after the Marauders and Vanessa swiftly.

Alright, one note here. I know that that was a cliffhanger, but if I go on then I'm going to have to make this chapter much, much longer than it should be. So I'll just write another chapter right after this, and I'll post them both at the same time. Good?