A/N: Whooo I'm onto Ch. Four! Yay! I think another writing spurt is starting, be happy if it stays. So… I forgot to ask last chapter, what do you think of the name Professor Fish :P ?

OH NO! I just realized I messed up last chapter… The second day in the chapter is a Monday, but other kids didn't go to any classes… Maybe it'll be early in the morning… yeah that works.

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Chapter Four – A Few Troublesome Absences

Monday, October 29, 1973

I'm slowly realizing... the Time-Turner is defective... and a defective but powerful magical tool is unpredictable... "Hey, guys? I think the Time-Turner took them all along."

"What? How?" Remus asks, shocked.

Sirius and James have slightly different reactions: "Whoa! Awesome! No one to ruin our pranks!"

Remus frowns at them. "It's not all that good. We should be trying to bring them back. What if they're gone forever?"

"Erm… Well I guess I'd miss seeing them get so mad after a joke…" Sirius admits.

Impatiently, I try to keep them on track. "Are you two going to help bring them back or not?"

"Who, us?" James grins wickedly.

"Yes! Now are you going to or not!" I ask, but it's more of an order than a question.

"Alright, fine, we'll help," Sirius quickly agrees. I'm guessing he could tell I'd blow up at them if they said no.

"We probably shouldn't tell any other kids, though. They might either panic or take advantage of it," points out Remus.

We agree not to tell anyone and head to the library. No one's there, so we can discuss what to do in peace. It takes a few hours, but in the end we decide to write to the Department of Mysteries and ask if they've started inventing Time-Turners yet.

"I'll write!" James offers excitedly.

I look questioningly at Remus, wondering if James should be trusted with something this serious. My answer is an alarmed look, and I quickly tell James, "I should probably write it, since I know Time-Turners."

He frowns, pretending to be hurt. "Are you saying I'm ignorant?"

"No, I wasn't saying that, but now that you mention it…" I leave it hanging and begin writing on the piece of parchment Remus lent me.

To the Department of Mysteries,

I've just arrived here by a broken Time-Turner, and I'd like to know if anyone has invented Time-Turners yet. Some teachers picked it up and are now in another time. We need to bring them back to this time, and I need to get to my own time again. I promise this isn't a prank. Please tell me if you've invented them yet, or working on them, or even planning to make them. Any information you have is helpful.

From,

Allison Black

"Good?" I ask, passing the letter around. Everyone's okay with it. "Okay, let's send it off. Who has an owl?"

We go up to the Owlery, and James sends the letter with his owl. Walking back down to the Gryffindor common room, we come across a short blond boy.

"Hey, Peter, where're you going?" James asks cheerfully.

"Oh, I need to ask Professor McGonagall about the Transfiguration homework," the boy replies.

We all exchange worried looks, and Remus offers, "I'll help you with it."

"That's okay, I'll—"

"No, really, I'll help," Remus says firmly. He drags Peter the rest of the way to the common room and helps him with the homework.

The rest of us head more slowly to the common room (no one else is there, since they all went back to bed after being woken up by us at four in the morning), where I ask what we're going to do the rest of the day while we wait for the reply letter.

"Quidditch!" Sirius and James say at the same time.

"But it's still only five!" I protest.

"Your point?"

I roll my eyes. "I'm going back to sleep."

"Spoilsport," accuses James.

I glare. "Fine, I'll come. But I'll need to borrow a broomstick."

"That's okay, we know where to get one," Sirius assures me.

Instantly I'm suspicious. "Do you mean 'borrowing without permission'?"

"Er, yeah, but it's not that bad, the broom is my older brother's," James promises. "He wouldn't mind anyway."

"Then ask him," I command.

"That takes all the fun out of it!"

"I don't care. I just got here and I don't want to steal from someone on the second day."

There's a pause, then James reluctantly agrees and goes to ask his brother. A few seconds later he comes back down with the broom, cutting me off to say, "Yes, I did ask. Here."

I take the broom, Sirius and James get theirs, and we head out to the Quidditch pitch. Once there, we scrimmage, James against Sirius and me. He's good since he's a Chaser on the Gryffindor team, but Sirius and I are close when we outnumber him. I have to admit though, I wouldn't want to play him one-on-one.

After an hour or so, I remind them that we need to figure out a way to keep kids from being suspicious. My idea is to say we were having an unexpected day off, but that won't work because we never have days off for no reason. James wants to see what everyone does when no teachers show up, but I argue back until he gives in. Sirius thinks up using Polyjuice Potion, but James grumpily reminds him that the potion takes at least a month to make.

"Let's go to the common room, and we can think of ideas on the way there," I suggest. We debate as we go, and by the time we get there we still have no ideas.

"James, Sirius, Allison!" Remus calls, running up to us. "Someone overheard us, and they told everyone else! They didn't hear why the teachers are gone, only that they're gone, so now I'm being pestered for the details. Today'll be insane," he moans.

I close my eyes and lean against the wall, thinking about how all the troublemakers are going to have a field day and worrying-type people will panic. Maybe we can think up a good excuse, saying that they're all in a meeting in the staff room or something…

I tell my idea to the Marauders, but before they can respond we hear a huge bang, followed by shrieks mixed with laughs. "What the heck was that?" I groan. We hurry down the hallways till we get to a place where a wall is blown out of a classroom into the hallway.

A/N: Wahoo, done with Chapter Four! I'm on a roll:D Next chapter should be fun… cackles…

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