A/N: Well here we are at the end... sort of. This is the first part of the first ending. I'll do each ending in two parts, so it's not dragged out too long. This one isn't my favourite, but I thought I'd do that one last :)
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Ending 1 Part 1
She ran out of the school completely, and on the lawn drew out the time turner, staring at it as teardrops fell onto it, unbidden from her eyes. She took a deep breath though and turned it forward, only to stare around her as nothing had changed.
"What..." She tried again, and again, and she stayed exactly where she was, in the same time as she was. Part of her triumphed over this, she could stay with Sirius. The other half though was crying out, that she could never see her parents, or Harry, or Hermione, or anyone else again, not until they were born...
"You changed too much."
She looked up in shock at Dumbledore standing infront of her, looking unsurprised to find her outside in the early hours of the morning.
"What...?" She looked confused at him.
"You've changed the future too much to be able to go back." He walked closer, and took the time turner out of her hands. "Did it never occur to you that perhaps your existence in the future might rely on certain things happening? You can't go back to the future, since you don't exist there."
"How can I not exist?" Her mind was numb, and she couldn't grasp what he was saying.
"I don't know exactly. But my guess was that your parents were married, and had you because of something that happened in relation to what you've changed. Perhaps they were going to marry someone else that was killed, but now is going to live. I don't know. But you can't go back to some place where you've never existed."
"But I don't exist here!" Serena cried out, tears coming to her eyes again.
"Now you do. I'd say if you go ask Mr. Black or Miss Evans, they'd readily say that you exist in this time, whether you were originally intended to or not." He smiled kindly at her, even as she buried her face in her hands and cried harder. She had lost her family in that minute.
"Why don't I take you back up to the Gryffindor common room...?" He gently placed his hand on her shoulder and guided her back into the castle, and back to the portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Oh dear. Is the poor girl all right?" The fat lady peered at the sobbing girl with alarm.
"Quite alright Madame. She just needs to get some sleep."
Nodding, the portrait hole opened up, and Dumbledore helped Serena into the room. Even at this late hour they walked into a room filled with people. Sirius had obviously woken up James and Remus, and somehow Lily to tell them everything that had happened. They were all in close conference as the portrait hole opened up and Dumbledore walked in.
"Professor!" James jumped up. "We've found out that Peter is plotting against..." He cut off as Dumbledore moved aside and Serena stumbled in behind him, her eyes red from so much crying. Sirius jumped up, and in an instant Serena had flown across the room into his arms, and started to cry again. He looked up at Dumbledore in alarm.
"She can't go home. Get her to bed and I'll talk to her in the morning. I'll trust you all will take care of her." He smiled and turned, walking out of the room, leaving the group to console the sobbing girl.
She didn't say anything, just continued to cry, until Lily managed to gently pull her out of Sirius' arms. At his angry look she just shook her head at him.
"She needs to get some sleep Sirius. She's not going anywhere." At this last statement, Serena made a soft sob, and Lily winced.
Remus put a hand on Sirius' arm. "Let her get some sleep. She's exhausted, physically and emotionally." Sirius, looked ready to argue more, but at James nod of agreement he backed down. He kissed Serena on the cheek, telling her he'd see her in the morning.
With that Lily led the quieted girl up the stairs to the girl's dormitory.
The boys dropped to their seats, emotionally wiped from what had happened.
"What are we supposed to do when Peter comes back...?" Remus threw the question out tentatively.
"Besides kill him?" James said annoyed. Sirius nodded his agreement, though for different reasons. While he had told his friends what he had seen tonight, he had left out everything else Serena told him. He saw no reason to shadow their lives with what might happen. He had only even told them that Serena was going home...
"We can't do that. You know we can't. Even if we'd love to." Remus said angrily. Even he wanted to kill his former friend.
"Why don't we turn the tables on him then? Use him like he used us?" James grinned at Remus and Sirius. "They think he's still on our good side, right? We let them think that, and feed false information to them, and through them their stupid dark lord. It's probably the best prank we could play on them."
Sirius rose an eyebrow at his best friend. He didn't know if he could pretend to be friends with Peter, but the idea certainly had its merits. But then if Serena could pretend to like Malfoy, he could do the same...
"It's as good an idea as we can come up with." Sirius sighed, standing up. "Other then killing him of course. I'm not overly fond of the idea of going to Azkaban though. I need to try and go to sleep though as well. We all do. Peter should find us all in our beds, don't you think?"
They all nodded, and quietly went up to bed. Each one trying to figure out the best way to deal with their former friend the next day.
Amazingly enough it turned out that the three boys were as good actors as any could hope. They treated Peter no differently then before, if perhaps picking on him more then they used to, and when he wasn't looking their looks would have killed the boy alone.
Lily came down to the common room, Peter having been gotten rid of with some stupid errand to another part of the castle, but Sirius didn't doubt that he would be going to tell Malfoy that Serena had come back.
"She fell asleep the second she touched the bed last night." Lily sighed. "I wish I could have slept as well. I couldn't stop thinking about what Peter did. Or why Serena couldn't go home..." She shook her head, and curled up next to James on the couch.
"Well I'm sure Dumbledore will explain the last bit... but Lily remember you can't treat Peter any differently."
She snorted at this, but nodded her head.
A moment later, a rather tired looking Serena came down the stairs, her eyes still puffy from a days worth of crying, a completely rejected look on her face. Sirius immediately flew out of his chair and went over to her, though he refrained from touching her at that moment, worried it would cause her to cry all over again.
"Are you okay...?" He asked instead, needing to hear for himself that she was fine. She looked up at him, and for a moment he was sure she was going to burst into tears again, but she just smiled slightly and nodded.
"I need to go see Dumbledore."
Sirius nodded, and took her hand, walking with her out the portrait hole. He only paused to wave off the others, all of whom had wanted to come as well.
"We'll tell you everything later." He smiled, and closed the door behind him.
They found the entrance to Dumbledore's office open for them, and went up immediately, gaining access to the office with no more then a knock.
"Sit down." Dumbledore said softly, nodding towards two chairs in front of his desk where he sat. "Now Mr. Black, this is what I told Miss Strangeblood last night. She can't go home. By changing your futures so completely, she's changed so much that she has ceased to exist in her time."
Sirius felt Serena's hand tighten on his own, but looking at her showed that she showed no signs of breaking down again.
"When you say ceased to exist...?"
"I mean her parents never had her, for whatever reasons those might be." Dumbeldore sighed softly. "But before you start to worry, her existence here is still solid and real. She's not going to disappear suddenly."
Sirius let out a relieved sigh, his hand releasing Serena's from the squeeze he had been giving it.
"The problem stems from this... Since she doesn't belong here, she doesn't have anywhere to go. She has nothing of her own except for the few clothes and books I gave to her. She is without a family now."
Giving his headmaster a firm look, Sirius' trademark grin fell into place on his face.
"No offense Professor... But that's bull."
Dumbledore smiled at him, and Serena looked at him in confusion. He smiled at her though before explaining.
"While it's true you don't have many possessions... You certainly have a family. James, Lily, Remus and I, we're all your family now. Just like we have always been for each other. And as for having no where to go, well that is all up to you of course, but you're certainly welcome to go wherever I go. I'm sure if not that... then any of the others would be happy to let you stay with them." Sirius looked at the Headmaster then, "She'll need some documents saying who she is. She can't just NOT exist."
"That's already been taken care of." Dumbledore, slipped a folder across the table, and Sirius took it for Serena, who was still too surprised to say anything.
"Well then everything is fine. You're a brilliant witch, so once you graduate you can get any job you want, and things will be fine." Sirius nodded, almost to himself, glad to have figured everything out.
"Aren't you lucky to have Mr. Black here with you." Dumbledore laughed quietly. "Now why don't the two of you go down to breakfast, and then of course classes." He dismissed the two, and Sirius practically dragged Serena out of there.
"For a meeting that was for you, you didn't say anything." Sirius said in conversation as they headed to the Great Hall. Serena stopped abruptly, making Sirius stop as well.
"You... You can't take care of everything like that." She kept her eyes on the ground.
"Of course I can. Don't forget I can do everything." He paused and looked her over, warmth in his eyes. "Or at least I can take care of you." Sirius shook his head, hair falling into this eyes. "Did you think I wasn't going to offer? Did you forget that I love you? Was there any other choice? Even without all this, I was going to ask you to stay with me. That has nothing to do with this."
"You're so egotistical." Serena laughed softly, taking Sirius' hand.
"Yes but you love that about me." Sirius grinned, grasping Serena's chin and lifting her head up, kissing her softly. "So you'll stay with me?"
She snorted softly, but smiled at him. "Don't YOU stay with James' family? And therefore shouldn't be offering me a place to stay?"
Sirius looked surprised and thoughtful at this but he just waved his hand. "James will offer the second he hears as well. I only offered what I knew would be offered."
"Sometimes you are a smug bastard." Serena grabbed his hand, squeezing it. "But thank you. Though I think I'll feel better hearing James offer it himself."
"I might be smug, but you adore that about me as well."
Rolling her eyes, Serena laughed, pulling Sirius down to the Great Hall.
A/N:
One half done.. I shall upload the second half sooner then normal, but
It was a little long to just lump together. The second half though is
wrap ups and fluff. :)
