Dislaimer: I didn't own any rights to Harry Potter a couple of hours ago and I don't own any rights now. They belong to the beautiful, the talented, the kind J.K. Rowling.

A/N Ok, first off let me thank all ofmy reviewers. You guys rock! Thank you so much for the compliments and I'm glad you guys are enjoying my story so far. Ok, I know I only uploaded Chapter 3 a couple of hours ago but I was just on a roll with this one. I was just in my room listening to music (Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Hawthorne Heights) when ideas just started coming to me. This chapter was, by far, the most fun to write so I hope you all enjoy it. I tried to make it slightly funny, but I'm notsure I succeeded. Enjoy nonetheless!

"That should do it." Hermione murmured happily to herself, scribbling on the piece of parchment she had had out earlier.

She had been sitting in the library researching since she had left Lily at the end of the Quidditch match. It was nightfall. She stretched and yawned and folded the piece of parchment up and slipped it into the inside of her robes. She felt really pleased with herself. She smiled widely and stood up, gathering some books and left the library. The castle was eerily quiet; it must be nearly 11:00, the curfew for sixth and seventh years. She stopped at the portrait of the fat lady and gave the password. Hermoine's eardrums were met with enormous noise and laughter. The Gryffindors were obviously still celebrating their victory over the Slytherins in the match. Hermione weaved in and out of students as she attempted to get across the common room to get to the girls' staircases. She was stopped, however, by Sirius.

"Hey Hermione!" He said, causing Hermione to stop dead and look at him. He was holding a butterbeer in his hand and had about 10 girls swooning over him. Hermione chuckled at the sight, wondering what Harry would think if he saw his Godfather here right now, acting like Hugh Heifner. "Hey, hang on!" Sirius called after Hermione, who had continued on her way. She turned around. Sirius was coming towards her with the girls crowding around him. "Sorry ladies. I've got to talk to Hermione." Sirius said. Some of the girls gave moans in protest while others shot Hermione jealous, angry looks. "Don't worry, don't worry. I've got all your numbers ladies." He said, shooing them away. They all gave Sirius ad Hermione one last seething look before scattering about.

"I see you got your hands full." Hermoine observed, a smile creeping up on her face.

"Yea, they're great aren't they?" Sirius said, winking at a pretty blonde who had blushed and turned away.

"Well, I can see you're busy so…good night Sirius." Hermione said, looking at the blonde, forcing back a giggle that had tried to release itself.

"Wait. I wanted to talk to you." He said, grabbing Hermione's upper arm and steering her to a corner of the common room where two pairs of couples had their own hands full.

Hermione recognized one of the couples as the two Gryffindor Chasers, Billie Armstrong and Adrienne Nesser. They apparently were hot and heavy. Hermione tore her eyes away from them to the other couple. The guy had very untidy jet-black hair and was getting untidier by the women's hand running through it. She had long red hair. It was…

"Lily!" Hermione gasped. She never thought of Lily as the type to participate in intimate PDA like that.

"Yep. That's Prongs and Lily for ya." Sirius said, following Hermione's gaze.

The two couples had apparently not even noticed the two intruders or even cared for that matter.

"Anyway…" Sirius said, turning back towards Hermione who also turned her eyes to face Sirius. "I wanted to talk to you about Remus."

"Oh! Where is he?" Hermione asked before Sirius could go on.

"He's…in the dormitory." Sirius asked in a surprised tone, confusion on his handsome face. "Why?" He asked slowly.

"Because I have a lot of explaining to do. And I need to talk to him." Hermione explained.

"You're not going to blow him off again like you did today at the match are you?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No." Hermione said bluntly. "In fact, I wanted to apologize and explain everything to him." She finished.

"I don't know Hermione," Sirius said slowly, "he's pretty bummed out. He feels horrible about your guys' row and-"

"I know. I know Sirius. I want to make up with him." Hermione said, a sly smile appearing on her lips.

"Really?" Sirius asked, a grin also appearing on his own lips. "So…I take it that you've thought about my advice?" He asked hopefully.

Hermione laughed, "Yes I have. In fact, I was hoping that you, James and Peter could help me break more than one rule." She asked, hoping the three Marauders were up to it.

"Of course! Have you forgotten who you're talking to?" He asked.

"Ok, here." She said, reaching inside her robes and taking out the piece of parchment she had been writing on.

Sirius looked at it and frowned, "Why do you need this stuff?" He asked, clearly confused.

"If I tell you, you've got to promise that you won't tell anyone other than James and Peter." She said, seriously.

"What about Moony?"

"No! Especially not Remus." She said forcefully.

"Hermione, what is this about?" He asked, narrowing his eyes a little and looking at her suspiciously.

Hermione grinned. She stood on tiptoe and whispered her plan to Sirius whose smile and eyes widened with each sentence.

"You're kidding!" He said, after she had divulged her plan to him. Hermione shook her head, smiling all the while. "Hermione, this is unbelievable!" He said, dropping his butterbeer on the floor and hugging Hermione so tight, she thought she'd suffocate.

"Ok, Sirius, ok!" She said, coughing.

"Oh, sorry." He said, putting her down.

After she had caught her breath, she told Sirius not to let anyone in their dormitory while she went in and talked to Remus.

"Ah, got it." He said, winking as she ascended the boys' staircase.

She rolled her eyes. "Get your mind out of the bloody gutter." She said, shaking her head and chuckling.

"Hey, I just call it as I see it!" He called back.

"That doesn't even make sense!" She called back to him. She doubt he had heard her though. About a dozen girls had attached themselves to Sirius again.

Hermione took a deep breath before knocking gently twice and opening the door without waiting for a response. The dormitory was dark. It looked like the one Harry shared with Ron, Neville, Seamus and Dean. Hermione frowned as she saw how untidy the room was. Clothes were tossed carelessly around, wrappers and books lay askew on the floor and none of the beds had been kept tidy, say for one. Hermione guessed that one was Remus'.

She looked around and found Remus sitting by the window, looking out onto the grounds. Remus had either ignored her presence or hadn't known she was there because he continued to stare out the window. She cleared her throat, making her presence known. Remus had apparently not known that someone was in the room for he jumped.

"Oh, Hermione." He said, surprised. He rose from his sitting place and walked to where she was standing, in the middle of the room. "What are you-" Remus had never got to finish his sentence for Hermione's lips had met his own and blocked him from speaking.

She pulled away and opened her eyes to look at the now shocked Remus. His mouth was open very slightly and his eyes had a glazed faraway look in them. Hermione giggled to herself at the effect her kiss had had.

"Remus?" She began, forcing him to snap out of his daze.

He shook his head slightly and looked at her. "Hermione I-"

Hermione cut him off again, this time by her index finger, which she pressed lightly on his lips. "Remus, please allow me to talk." She requested lightly. He nodded and she removed her finger. "Ok, now first let me just say that the only reason I had been avoiding you is because I didn't want to risk altering the timeline in any way shape or form.

"But Hermione I-"

"Remus, please, I need to tell you." She interrupted, pleading in her tone. "Now, I've been thinking a lot and I've concluded that my mere presence here has probably altered the timeline somewhat so, I thought, what the hell? I like you and you like me and I don't care about anything else. And…well, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm sorry. I was wrong and well…if you want to…I want to make a fresh start with you." She finished, looking at Remus who had a look on his face that Hermione could not read.

"Wow." Was all he said. He gave a loud sigh and looked at her. Did he forgive her? Did he still want to be with her? Did he want nothing to do with her even after she had apologized? "Hermoine," he began, briefly pulling Hermione away from her angst. "I do like you and I do want us to be together but…" He furrowed his brow in concern and looked at her.

"But?" She prodded when he had said nothing.

"But what if us being together alters the future a great deal and it puts you in danger? I just don't think I could ever live with myself if I knew that I caused you any harm."

Hermione shook her head, "I don't think it will. I've studied a great deal on time travel and wizards who go back in time. All my research leads me to believe that by just us being together, there's no way we could risk changing anything." She held her breath. Would he buy it? Would he believe her?

To Hermione's relief, Remus smiled.

"That's all the convincing I need." He said.

"Oh, I'm so glad!" She said, leaning into Remus' open arms and giving him a tight hug.

They broke apart and Hermione, surprising even herself, put a hand on each side of Remus' face and pulled him into a tight, passionate kiss, not unlike the one the two pairs of couples were giving each other downstairs in the common room. Remus, shocked at first, kissed back with intense passion. He ran his hand through her hair and behind her neck.

"I've been wanting to do that for the past week." Hermione said breathlessly, coming up for some much needed oxygen.

"Same here." Remus replied, sounding just as breathless.

They laughed and Remus led her onto his bed, which was the only tidy one. They sat on the edge of the bed, Remus wrapping his arms around Hermione the minute she had sat down.

"I'm the only clean one." Remus said, noticing Hermione's eyes inspect the room.

"I can see that." She said, looking back at Remus, a smile on her face.

He leaned in and kissed her again, neither coming up for air this time.

Remus and Hermione had probably been in the dormitory together for little more than an hour when Sirius, James and Peter came barging through the door. The couple, startled at this interruption, broke apart but not before the three guys had seen what they had been doing.

"Wait to go Moony!" Sirius said, raising his hand for Remus to high five, which he did half-heartedly.

"Sirius, I thought I told you not to let anyone in?" Hermione asked, surprised Sirius would be this childish.

He laughed, "Sorry, we had no choice. McGonagall came and shut the party down."

"I knew you two would kiss and make-up but I didn't realize how much making up you had planned on." James said, grinning.

Peter blushed, "S-Sorry to interrupt." He said sheepishly, turning to his trunk and pulling out his pajamas.

"We weren't doing anything." Remus said, clearly embarrassed. His face turning that all too familiar crimson color. Hermione's face matched.

"Sure, whatever you say Moony." Sirius said skeptically, looking at them with a raised eyebrow.

Hermione looked down at herself and realized why Sirius had looked at them the way he did. Her blouse was unbuttoned half way to expose her bra, her skirt had been pushed up and her hair was messier than usual. Remus didn't look much better. His hair was ruffled a great deal (even more than James'), his pants had been half unbuttoned and Hermione saw more than one hickey start to appear on his neck. They both realized their appearance and Hermione began hastily buttoning up her blouse while Remus did the same with his pants. James and Sirius found all this amusing. They were on the floor laughing while Peter stifled his laughter with his hands.

"C'mon, I'll walk you to your staircase." Remus said quietly, clearly embarrassed.

"Ok." Hermione said. She was just as embarrassed.

For the first time since she arrived, she was thankful that Harry and Ron were not here. She would've never had heard the end of it. Heck, she still wasn't living down snogging Viktor Krum! And that happened in fourth year! Although with Sirius, James and Peter she wasn't sure she was much better off.

"Do try not to shag in the common room. There are other people who use that furniture after all." Sirius said.

At this statement, James and Sirius erupted into more fits of laughter, along with Peter who hadn't been able to contain his laughter anymore. Remus blushed brighter as he walked Hermione out of the room.

"Sorry about that." He said, once he and Hermione were outside of the dormitory, walking down the staircase.

"It's ok." She giggled. Remus was so cute when he was embarrassed.

He smiled back at her and wrapped his arm around her waist. She put her head on his shoulder and wrapped her own arms around Remus' waist. The common room was littered with effects left after the party. There were butterbeer bottles, singed cards from Exploding Snap, candy wrappers, napkins, food and various party favors. Normally, Hermione would've frowned at the untidiness of the common room, knowing the house elves would have to clean it all up. But not tonight. Tonight, all that mattered was that Remus had forgiven her and they were back on more than friendly terms.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow morning." He said, when they had reached the foot of the girls' staircase.

"Sweet dreams." She replied, allowing Remus to wrap his arms a little below her waist and pulling her closer to him.

He smiled and gave her one last, long passionate kiss. The kiss would've gone on much longer if snickers and stifled laughter hadn't intruded. They both pulled out of the kiss and looked at the balcony of the boys' staircase where they could make out three people.

"Now really! When are you three going to grow up?" Remus asked sharply, Hermione still wrapped in his arms.

The three boys burst into more laughter. Remus looked at Hermione and both rolled their eyes.

"S-Sorry Moony…It's just…now S-Sirius has someone else to pick-pick on besides me and Lily." James said through his laughter.

"Well, goodnight Hermione. I have to go have a talk with my three chaps." Remus said through gritted teeth looking annoyed. Hermione swore she saw a small smile tug at his lips though.

"Night Remus." Hermione said. Before Remus could let go of her, however, she pulled his head toward her own and embraced Remus in a overly-affectionate passionate kiss knowing full well that the other three Marauders were looking. She pulled back and smiled at the gazed, dreaming expression that had once again appeared on Remus' face. "Night." She added slyly, pulling out of Remus' embrace.

He seemed reluctant to let her go. She stole a glance at the boys and was pleased to see that they were all wide-eyed with shock. Remus still had the glazed look in his eye. She climbed the stairs slowly, feeling all their eyes follow her. Oh, yeah, she was good. She reached her dormitory and was surprised to see Lily awake in bed, reading. She looked up when Hermione came in and smiled widely, showing her white teeth.

"What are you doing up?" Hermione asked friendly as she pulled on her pajamas and got ready for bed.

Lily just continued to stare.

"What?" Hermione asked as she crawled into bed.

Lily just continued to stare.

"What?" Hermione asked again, feeling a little annoyed.

"So…" Lily prompted, still smiling, excitement flashing in her brilliant green eyes.

"So…what?"

"So…what happened with you and Remus!" She asked as if it were obvious.

"Oh, it went well." Hermione said slowly, a sly smile making an appearance on her face yet again.

"That's it? It went well? C'mon Hermione, where's the details?" Lily acted as though she could explode with curiosity.

"Well…" Hermione began. She wasn't the type of girl to kiss and tell. But then again, she had never had a girlfriend to talk to before, except for maybe Ginny. But she could never talk to Ginny about romance. It had felt strange telling her about Viktor Krum. "Ok, I'll tell you everything." Hermione gushed.

Lily practically ran over and plopped down on Hermione's bed, eager and ready. Hermione told Lily everything (making sure to whisper the parts about the timeline and such). She even told Lily about her plan that she had told to Sirius. By the time Hermione was finished, Lily was gushing with excitement. She couldn't have been happier for Hermione and Remus. Lily was the perfect girlfriend. She gasped and "aww"ed in the right places and she listened intently.

"Oh, I'm so happy for you both!" She said, putting her hand to her heart. "You guys look so cute together too."

Hermione blushed lightly at this. "Well, you and James are cute yourselves." Now it was Lily's turn to slightly blush. "Speaking of you and James…I saw you two tonight." Hermione said, folding her arms and raising an eyebrow, smiling.

"Oh…that." Lily said, blushing redder. "I was just telling James off for slipping frog spawn in Snape's pants after the match." She finished, looking at her fingernails.

"Mmhmm…" Hermione said skeptically, clicking her tongue. "Yea, I could tell. You were really giving it to him."

Lily gasped and summoned a pillow with her wand and smacked Hermione with it. Hermione let out a shriek, which woke the other three girls.

"What's going on?" Adrienne Nesser asked sleepily, sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

"What?" Journey Pollock had awakened too and so had the blonde girl who Sirius had winked to earlier.

"Lily has decided to start a pillow fight." Hermione informed the three girls.

"Really?" Adrienne asked, now fully awake.

"Really." Hermione said.

"In that case." Journey said, grabbing her pillow.

In a matter of minutes the five girls had erupted into fits of shrieks and giggles as they all had a massive pillow fight. It was almost dawn when the girls had finally retired to bed. They had stayed up all night pillow fighting, talking, gossiping and gushing about guys. The last thought Hermione had before drifting off to sleep was how glad she was that she had wondered through the unknown door a week ago.

A/N Ok, just so there's no confusion, yes Hermione DID lie to Remus about reasearching the timeline and finding that them being together would do nothing to harm it. But don't judge her too harshly people, wouldn't you lie to get Remus? That's what I thought. Please review. I really want to know what you all thought about this chapter. Rock on!