I'm back again, my fellow fic-obsessed homies! Here's another chapter, as promised by Monday. This will contain sirius/hermione stuff in it, but some other couplings as well. I know I keep saying this, but it's true—thank you all for nothing but positive reviews! Smooch smooch smooch!

p.s. to daydreamrose thanks for the suggestion, and I will definitely implicate it!

After James and Remus had left, Sirius and Hermione moved again into furiously and passionately making out (with some 'necessary' Frenching along the way), neither one of them in the least embarrassed. Well, maybe a little. Hermione's previous worries of her extreme infatuations with Sirius were gone now, though occasionally when they would come up for air, the smallest nag at the back of her brain would alert her, but not very much so.

Hermione vaguely noticed it was starting to turn an impossibly vivid pink and purple outside, and for some reason got worried. She slowly pulled away from Sirius's still extraordinarily enticing lips, and looked at him, though with her arms still coiled around his neck. He looked at her questioningly. Hermione found her voice after a while and looked back at him, smiling.

"Sirius! It's already sunset!" she exclaimed.

He kissed her on her neck again, with her laughing. "So?"

She pushed him away a little further, playfully. "So…we should start doing something constructive."

"You mean this isn't?" he replied, planting a fervent kiss on her lips.

"Sirius, come on." She said, now getting more serious.

He looked at her, feigning hurt. Hermione wasn't sure whether he was actually faking it, or if part of it was real. "Yeah." He said sulkily. "I suppose so."

She got up and held his hand. "I'm going to go to the Library, okay? I have to go check out something."

Sirius gazed at her, intensity and caution both raging in his eyes. "Just don't fall for Moony down there, okay?"

She kissed him passionately again. "I promise, Sirius."

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"Harry! HARRY!" Ron yelled across the library.

"Yeah?" Harry answered. Ron could barely hear him.

"HAVING ANY LUCK!" he screamed again.

"NO!" Harry responded.

Ron walked over to where Harry was. "HOW ABOUT YOU?" Harry yelled again.

"AHH! Damn, Harry! I'm right here!" Ron said angrily.

"Sorry." Harry whispered.

"I didn't find anything. You'd think with Hogwarts being this big they would have put in more doors to this thing." Ron said.

"So true." Harry agreed.

Ron suddenly had a look on his face like he came up with a brilliant idea. "What is it, Ron?" Harry asked.

"Do you think there's a spell in here that'll create a door so we can get out of this damned place?" Ron suggested eagerly.

Harry caught on quickly. "Well, Hermione's found something for just about every subject in here, so I suppose we have to get something out of here!"

"Let's get on it then!" Ron replied, still beaming; he was still surprised at his own genius.

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Hermione was still smiling like a stupid idiot as she walked down the stairs immediately after the portrait hole. A few of the girl paintings had asked her what was so funny or why she was grinning so much in their unusually high-pitched voices. She either hadn't answered, or said something vague like, 'Oh, nothing ladies.'. Hermione was still thinking about Sirius (obviously), and the attractions they had shared. She hardly felt superficial anymore, but wondered if Sirius had still been alive, if he would feel that way about her. And would her being here change the future? She suddenly had a thought.

"Will Sirius be alive now!" she thought, now getting excited. Then she rationalized. "Oh, get a grip, Hermione. Just by you going into the past and having a momentary fling with a 17-year-old Sirius will not bring him back from the dead. He's dead!" she deflated as she realized that her conscience was right.

She didn't even notice where her feet were taking her, but she assumed that even her sub-conscious mind could lead her to the Library even if her conscious mind wasn't quite all there. However, she was surprised when she came out of her little argument with herself. She looked around, confused. Unless in this time period the Library had changed places, she wasn't anywhere near there! She frantically searched for signs, but couldn't find any. She immediately got a feeling of dread. Then she found out where she was.

Sorry guys for the short chapter, but I finished like a page before school starts, and I have to leave. I'll write more next one, I promise! It should be out later this week, m'kay? And thanks for the great reviews! Remember, you can praise, flame, or suggest. I will take them into account. Till then!