A/N: It has been an extraordinarily long time since I updated this story, but my reason was that nobody reviewed to appear interested, and because I had school at the time, I only had so much time to update and I wanted to work on my other stories at the time. Now of course I figured I'd update this, but until there's more interest, updates will be a bit slow until I complete some of my stories, so expect that. R&R, I love hearing what you think. Constructive criticism welcome, but no direct flames without saying what I -could- do to improve. Thanks.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me.

Time Turner

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Chapter Ten: Eavesdropping and Blackouts

After Halloween was over, Lily still hadn't seen Remus. He hadn't come to dinner, and he had been missing classes. None of the teachers would tell her anything, and none of the other students knew where he was. I hope nothing happened to his mother... Lily thought, as she gathered her books after a particularly uneventful Potions class— Professor Slughorn had given them a surprise test, where they were asked to brew a potion they had never learned how to brew before. Lily had of course received full marks, but for once, that didn't even cheer her.

"Well done, Miss Evans, excellent potion indeed— I'll see you at Saturday's meeting then," Slughorn replied. Lily forced a smile.

"Oh, of course. Unless I have a lot of homework, then I can't be sure. I'll... let you know if my plans change, professor." Lily told him. Slughorn walked out of the classroom, on his way to the Great Hall for lunch. Lily quickly cleaned her cauldron, and had just shoved her books into her book bag and started to walk out of the dungeons when her bag split. Groaning, Lily knelt down and began gathering her books. When she saw a shadow come over her, she glanced up, startled. When she saw it was only James, she glared at him and resumed picking up her books. James knelt down next to her and passed her some of them, muttering a spell to fix her bag.

"Thanks." Lily replied reluctantly. She stood up and started walking, and was frustrated when James followed her. "Need something?" she asked him, stopping in her tracks. James grinned at her.

"In case you didn't realize, Evans, this is the only way out of the dungeons. As much as I'm sure you'd like me to stay in the dungeons forever, I have plans." James retorted, although he was amused. Lily rolled her eyes and continued walking out of the dungeons. Just as they emerged from the dungeons, James dragged Lily into the shadows and pushed her up against the wall.

"James!" Lily exclaimed. "What are you...?" she stopped speaking when she heard the footsteps nearing them, and realized that James had a bad feeling. He went to peer out from the shadows, but Lily pulled him back. James flinched at the feeling of her holding on to his arm, but he said nothing. "Maybe this is wrong," Lily whispered finally. They both knelt down to the ground and listened.

The footsteps belonged to Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey. They looked around to see if any students were nearby, and when they seemed satisfied that there weren't, they began speaking so quietly that Lily and James had to strain to hear.

"Mr. Lupin's friends have been asking around about his whereabouts, is he well enough to leave the Hospital Wing yet?" Dumbledore asked. Lily's eyes widened, and James had to cover her mouth to keep her from gasping out loud. The Hospital Wing? But what happened? Is he... ill? Lily asked herself. She knew that it was wrong to eavesdrop, but she had to know. Clearly none of the teachers wanted them to know what was going on with Remus, and that didn't seem right. Something bad has to be wrong with him for the teachers to hide the fact that he's in the Hospital Wing. I wonder if this has anything to do with what he said... about there being something about him, that would make us not want to be friends with him anymore.

"I don't think he'll be well enough for the rest of this week." Madame Pomfrey told him. "Perhaps you could just tell them that his mother was ill and the stress of it all got to him and he fell ill?" she suggested.

"Stress, at eleven?" Dumbledore replied tiredly. "Well... I suppose if given enough reason, it's possible. And we must keep Mr. Lupin's secret at all costs— if the other parents learned of his condition, he wouldn't be allowed to attend school here." Dumbledore added. "We'll try to keep his friends at bay, but for how long, I can't say." Sighing, Dumbledore walked up the grand staircase, and Madame Pomfrey continued on her way to the Hospital Wing. Once they were sure that Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey were gone, James and Lily came out of the shadows.

"Did you hear that?" James whispered. Lily stared back at him blankly.

"James, they're gone now, you don't have to whisper." she informed him. James grinned sheepishly.

"R-right... I knew that. Tell me, Lily, what happened to referring to me as Potter?" James asked her. Lily threw her hands up in the air in frustration.

"Forget it, Potter." she retorted. She ran up the grand staircase, making it just before the staircase started to move. James was left behind to wait for the staircases return, and by then, Lily would be long gone. Surprisingly enough, when James entered the common room, he was startled to see Lily run towards him.

"What do you want now, Lily?" he asked. Although she had gone back to calling him Potter, he rather liked calling her by her first name— but that's just because it bothers her so much. James told himself— but an evil voice in the back of his head told him there was another reason for that. Lily grabbed James' arm, much to his surprise as well as everyone else in the Common Room, and dragged him over to the window and she let go of him, sitting in an arm chair.

"We can't just go see Remus in the hospital wing, because then the teachers would be suspicious of how we could know he was there. And there's no one else there that we can pretend to be seeing. So, the only solution is for someone to get hexed and fake an injury, and get taken to the hospital wing. The only problem is, there's no one that we both care about enough that we'd visit—"

"You." James blurted. Lily turned her gaze to him, confused. James flushed. "I mean, we can say that we had told Remus that we'd let him know if anything happened to you, because your both close friends— if they asked, anyways. Remus would be suspicious, but he wouldn't mention it to the teachers." Lily still seemed to not buy his answer, but she decided to ignore his instant remark and get past it.

"So, we'll wait until we're in some abandoned hallway, and you hex me— something that would require me to stay in the Hospital Wing over night, preferably. Then you and the others would be allowed to visit, otherwise she'd just send us on our merry way after reversing the affects. But what could we do?" Lily asked.

"Maybe, we don't have to hex you. That sounds a little drastic. Can you act?" James asked. Sirius and Peter at that moment walked over.

"Oh, didn't know you and Evans were friends, Jamesie." Sirius replied teasingly.

"Yeah, friends," Peter piped up, laughing.

"For your information, Black, we're figuring out a way to see Remus— in the hospital wing." Lily told him.

"Is that where he is? Well what's he doing in there? He said his mum was sick and he was going to see her," Sirius added.

"Wait, you knew where he was?" James asked. Sirius nodded, grabbing a seat. "Well, why didn't you tell us? Tell ME?" James demanded. Sirius shrugged.

"I thought you knew. And Evans here never asked me, always you. I think she's a tad sweet on you," Sirius added.

"Bullocks!" Lily exclaimed. "I'm far from sweet on anyone, ESPECIALLY James." she shouted. Sirius turned to Peter and pretended to wipe a tear from his eye.

"You hear that, Pete? They're on first name terms now... our little Jamesie's growing up!" Sirius added, pretending to choke up. Lily stood up and stormed off.

"Whatever!" she shouted. She walked out the common room entrance and stormed off angrily, but bumped into someone.

—

"Wait to go, Sirius. Come on, let's go after he." James replied, standing up. Sirius sighed.

"Can I hex you into oblivion?" Sirius asked, pulling his wand out of his back pocket. James looked back at him in confusion.

"What are you talking about?" he asked. Sirius placed an arm around James' shoulder, and sighed, leading him out of the common room.

"You. Evans. You LIKE— Evans. You told me the other day that if you ever liked Lily Evans, I was allowed to hex you into oblivion." Sirius told him. James laughed.

"For the last time, I don't like Lily, alright? Now can we just forget about this, and—" James was cut off by a loud scream coming from around the corner. That sounded like Lily...

"Get off me, you toad!" Lily shouted.

"Lily!" James exclaimed. He ran around the corner to see what was going on, and Sirius shook his head.

"Told you so," he muttered, walking after James.

—

Lily had been storming off to gather her thoughts when suddenly a gang of Slytherins had approached her. They all sneered down at her, particularly one girl who would have been beautiful, had she not ruined her appearance with the permanent look of disgust etched across her face. It was this girl that shoved her up to the wall, cornering her and pointing her wand at Lily. Looks like I'll get in the hospital wing... that toad has my wand. I knew that I was being followed, why didn't I trust my instinct and go back to the common room? Lily thought.

"Get off me, you toad!" Lily shouted when Bellatrix approached her. Bellatrix' last name is Black... so she's related to... "Sirius." Lily muttered quietly. Bellatrix turned to her Slytherin friends, all of them third years like herself.

"You hear that? She said my dear old cousins name. What about the fool, Evans?" Bellatrix asked. Lily glared at her.

"Just making an observation that you both look so much alike," Lily told her, knowing it would bother her. It did. Bellatrix hated her cousin, and had ever since he was sorted into Gryffindor and was happy about it. Even before, she had found him rather annoying and different than the other relatives.

"Filthy... mudblood." Bellatrix hissed. Lily opened her mouth to speak, but Bellatrix muttered a spell, and soon, everything went black.

A/N: A bit short, but meh, I felt like ending it there. And like in AMT (my other Harry Potter story) Bellatrix is going to be a real... excuse the language... "bitch"... to Lily. So expect that. Bellatrix is also two years older in this story. Anyways, R&R, let me know what you think. WEE!