ok... so I'm REALLY sorry for the long update...But there will be hermione action PLUS hary's coming in the next chappie! so sorry but here we go...
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Turning Back Time:Chapter 8:
Hermione stared acroos the great hall, observing all the daft students chating laughing and screaming giddilly about the party that evening. She gave a deep sigh to herself. She took a glimpse around the hall to make sure that no one was around her. She hesitantly pulled out a picture which had been tucked safely in her robe. She looked at the picture and then gave a small smile to herself. There in the photograph was Ron, Harry and Hermione. Ron and Harry were up to their usual stunts and Hermione was trying to keep them in line. She looked at Ron. The boy who she had fallen for. So typical of her. To fall for her best friend. She gave a deep sigh. She just wished she cold be with them again...
Severous looked over at where Hermione sat. She looked so lonely gazing at the peice of parchment in her hands. Severous wished he could go and talk to her but he just couldn't find the courage to do it in himself...
Luna rested her head in her hands and smiled. Luna had never been happier in her life. She still had to conjur up a costume for the following night, but that wasn't the thing Luna was thinking about tonight. It was being with James. She sighed lovingly and got caught in her fantasies of what she wished to occur that following night. She slightly smiled just thinking about the thought...
Ginny was starting to find Sirius very tiresome. Always gazing at her and going all wonky whenever she would try to speak to him. But there were times when he was clever, homourous and sincere, so Ginny didn't really mind, she just found him a bit tiresome. Only a bit...
"I can't believe that I'm really going to do this..." were the words which was filling Arabella's mind. She acted very impatient and testy the whole day. Every once in a while she would give Remus guilty looks. Remus, however was too caught up in his own thoughts to even notice this.
Everyone sat at the far end of the gryffindoor table, as they usually did. Lily was chatting with Ginny and Remus and even James. As James let the great hall for a moment, Lily faced Luna. " Thank you very much." she smiled. Luna gave her a look of confusion. What on earth coul she be reffering to?
" Whatever for?" the blue-eyed girl asked Lily.
" Before you came, he was wretched."
"Who?"
" James, of course!" Lily laughed
" What do you mean?"
" Well, he was very cruel to other people, but now he is kind and helps them out." Lily watched James helping a 1st year who had tumbled onto the floor. " See, the boy he's helping is in Slytherin; he never would of helped him before you came."
" But, why would I change him?"
" Well... love can make you do stange things. Strange, but lovely things." She slightly looked over at Remus, who was now chatting with Peter and Sirius. She gave Luna one last slight smile and got up from her seat.
" Arrabella," she motioned to her friend who had been quite quiet that evening " We should go get ready for the party now, shan't we?" Arrabella looked up at Lily and as it seemed, forced a smile onto her face and nodded. She got out of her seat and followed Lily out of the hall. Before they exited out of the hall Lily turned around to give Remus a big bright smile and a wave, Arabella however gave him a dirty look and a look of sadness which had "poor me" written all over it. Remus smiled with a shrug and waved slightly at the two girls as they left the hall.
Hermione sat in the Gryffindoor common room, clutching the picture in her hands. Her eyes were caught gaze of the flames, hich danced in the reflection of her eyes. She heard eveyone starting to come down the stairs to the common room. She quickly wied away the tears which had been flooding her eyes.
Lily came down the stairs, with Arabella clutching her arm. As Hermione saw Lily more closely, she saw what she was wearing. Lily was wearing a purple coral top peice swimsuit and belowher waist was a green tail. A mermaid's tail. Lily could barely walk in the tail since it was one peice wrapped around both of her legs. As Arabella, who was dressed as a cat, helped Lily down the steps couldn't hep but laugh.
"What are you wearing?" Hermione asked Lily as she reached the common room.
" My Hallowe'en costume, of course!" She smiled, trying to keep stable on her two feet.
Before Lily knew it, she lost her balance and tumbled to- Remus's arms.
" Are you alright?" Lily's cheeks flushed a deep red and slightly nodded. " You look lovely." He laughed and looked her into her eyes. Lily laughed with him.
" I like your costume, too." She winked at Remus. Remus' costume was a werewolf " Very... original..." Remus looked at her in a way which made her laugh.
" I couldn't think of anything else, alright?" she smiled at him " At least I can walk in it..."
Soon, James and Sirius approached the room.Sirius was wearing an eyepatch, patchy clothes and what appeared to be a pirate's hat and- a gold tooth. In his right belt pocket, there was a sword. A real sword. James, however was wearing a more pecliar costume. He wore a mask over one side of his face and the rest of his body was coatd in black material, cape included.
" What are you two, exactly?" asked Lily.
" Well, I'm a pirate! The man of the-" started Sirius, who was cut off by Remus
"That's a pretty sad attempt , you know..."
"I see that your costume is very original!" said Sirius, rather loudly.
" shh..." motioned Remus " keep it down..."
" What are you exactly?" Lily asked James with a confsed look on her face.
" He's a phantom!" piped up Sirius
" Of the Opera?" Asked Hermione with a little chuckle.
" What?" asked James, confused
" Never mind..."
" I'm the phantom of..." James stroked his chin, caught deeply in his thoughts" I'm the phantom of the night!"
The others looked at James for a moment and then burst ou laughing. Thay had all come to an agreement that tonight would be a very good night indeed.
A few minutes later, Sirius turned to Arabella and looked her up and down. Arabella tried hard not to blush as he did this.
" You look nice." Sirius smiled at her. Arabella couldn;t hold it this time. Her faced flushed a light pink, which illuminated her face.
" Thank-you.." Remus and Lily smiled, watching Arabella and Sirius talking and looking down at their feet. " You look nice, too-" Arabella stopped talking when her eyes met the stairs. There on the stairway, was Ginny. Wearing a costume. The same costume Arabella was wearing. She was wearing cat ears, whiskers and a tail. She wore her hair down and looked more spunky and gingery than ever. She smiled mischeviously at Sirius, who raised his eyebrows as he saw her.
" You look incredible..." He smiled and whispered this into her ear. He said it loud enough that Arabella could hear his words perfectly. She looked "incredible" not "nice" like arabella had been told that she was, but "incredible". Arabella it her lip, but then remembered something. As she thought of it, she slightly smiled.
They all talked for a few moments and the commonroom soon got more full and more full. It was soon filled with Gryffindor students with a wide variety of Halowe'en costumes on.
" I wonder where Luna-" James then looked at the top of the stairway. He was speechless as he gazed at what was at the top of the stairway. A young woman, wearig a silky moonlit dress began to walk gracefully down the stairs. She had long blonde hair that fell down to the bottom of her waiste. She held a silvery cream mask which was in the shape of cresent moon. As she came down to the bottom of the stiars and stood window, James could see that behind the cresent mask were two silvery blue orbs which shone by the moonlight.
" Hello, James..." She said dreamily, with a slight smile on her face.
" Bonjour, Claire du la Lune..." He whispred into her ear. Luma smiled " You speak horrible french..." James laughed and placd his hand in hers.
They headed down to the Great Hall and Remus carried Lily in his arms due to her tail.
" Aren'y you being escorted by anyone, Hermione?" asked Arabella.
Hermione shook her head " Are you?"
" Well... You'll see..." Arabella said wearily, glancing at Sirius.
The bunch was one of the first people to enter the great hall. There were a few others, including Severous Snape. As they headed towards Snape, James smirked. He tried to hold himself back and jst pass by him, when- Arabella stopped in front of him. Snape held out his arm meekishly to her and Arabella took it, slightly grudgingly. She blushed slightly and looked down at the floor. Everyone but Remus and Lily stared, dumbstruck at the unusual couple walking to the dance floor.
" She's going to the party with him?" Sirius asked disgusted. Arabella smiled to herself, for she could hear what Sirius had just said.
Soon the hall filled up with students in silly costumes. Lily noticed Narcissa Black come into the hall with a large green dress on. Beside her was a young woman who seemed to be a little bit older than Narcissa. She had long straight black hair and she wore a silky slick black dress which clinged onto her curves. They looked around the room and scoffed at the young students in their daft outfits.
" I think I'm going to go change," Lily laughed, as she was still in Remus' arms.
"Why? I like your tail..." He looked at her playfully with his handsome face.
" You've been holding me in your arms twirling me around for almost half the night!" she smiled at him brightly and he agreed and set her down.
As Lily came out of the stall, dressed in her regular attire, she saw Arrabella brush passed her, her head burried in her arms. Lily turned around te corner and wlaked back into the rest room.
" Arrabella?" Lily asked cautiously. Arrabella ignored her best friend, and just continued to sob into her arms. Lily came up behind her and patted her on the back softly.
" He-He-" Arrabella cried, trying to keep her wprds straight in between tears.
" He doesn't love me." she managed to say without tears pouring down her face.
" What? how-"
" I went to the party with Severous to make Sirius jealous." she said " I thought that if there was a chance that he had a crush on me or there was some hope of being with him than that would prove it. Making him jealous for going to a party with someone he hates." Lily didn't say a word for a few moments.
" Who thought of this idea?" Lily asked quietly. Arrabella slightly frowned. " Remus, why?" Lily slighly smiled to herself.
" Boys are so simple minded sometimes..." she said, shaking her head.
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Hermione sat by the north tower, he legs intertwined with one another. She cltched the picture in her hand, but wouldn't look at it. If she looked at it anymore the picture would blead colours of being wet from her tears. Insted, she gazed up at the moon. It wasn't full but only a little under a half moon. It was bright abd beautiful. Like the days her life used to be like.Before she came here. When she was with Harry and Ron.
Severous stood by the opening of the north tower, his back against the wall opposite Hermione. Hermione could sense he was there. She swiftly turned her head, her bushy hair gliding along with the movement of her head. " Severous? Is that you?" she asked tiredly, facing his direction. Severous peered out of the corner and waved at Hermione meekly to say hello.
Hermione slightly smiled and motioned for severous to sit next to her. She had to admit, Severous was really a lovely person. Nothing like she expected.
"Why aren't you with Arrabellla?" She asked him as he sat himself down comfortably
" I-" He began not sure how to respond to the question. " She- I think she well used-" Severous sighed heavily and looked at Hermione, vunurably.
" Used you to Sirius?" Hermione asked, trying to help Severous.
"Yes.That." Severous responded. The two didn't say anything for a moment. They just looked into the stars.
"You don't seem to mind very much." Hermione observed, the words coming out her mouth before she knew it. " Yeah, well I didn't reallly feel anything with her..." Severous said meekly, looking down below him.
"Why did you go with her?" Hermione asked tentitovely looking him in the eye " You surley knew what she as playing at...You're smart." Severous looked up a little, glancing at Hermione's chocolate brown eyes.
" I did." He confessed after looking at her for a few moments. He paused and then looked away from her " I thought that if I went with her then I could be around someone else. Someone that I need to forgive. Someone that I want to accept. I thought that if I went with Arrabella maybe that person may have thought of me better. But I was wrong. She was too wrappped up in someone else to even pay the slightest attention to me. So that's why I went with Arrabella." He looked at the sky, not saying anything more. Hermione looked at Severous as his eyes met the night's hue. Her lip slightly trembled as she watched him.
" I know how you feel." she said simply. " When someone is taken away from you. And then, you never see them again, or you don't think you'll ever see them again. It just taers your soul up into shreds."
Severous nodded. He looked down at her palm, in her hand she clutched the paper. " What's that?" He asked politely. Hermione wouldn't usually of shown or told anyone about the future, but now it didn't seem to matter. What mattered was what was happening now. And now, the only person that Hermione seemed to have trusted was Severous Snape.
After some more chat, Severous got up and looked at his pocket watch. " I have to be somewhere now." He said, hesitantly. He did something to Hermione that she thought of something he would never do. He slightly smiled- not slightly smiled, but beamed at her. It made Heermione feel so much better after he did that. Just as Severous was about to turn the corner, Hermione abruptly got up from her seat.
" Wait! Severous?" he turned his head " Would you- wold you care to dance with me?" She didn't know why she was asking such a silly question, but she was.
" I- I'm sorry. I- I really have to be somewhere." he stammered, leaving the tower and a very lonely Hermione.
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" Why am I even here?" drauled Narcissa Black to her older Sister, Bellatrix.
" I already told you." Bella replied briskly " You're going to meet Lucious Malfoy and we have other things to attend to..." Narcissa sighed miserably "But what if I don't like this Malfoy fellow? I was with this young man earlier a few days ago, he means something-" Narcissa was inturrupted by Bella " Mairrage is not about love." she said coldly. She looked at Severous as he walked towards them " If anyone should know that, it should be me."
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James's hand was set securely on Luna's waist. Her head rested on his shoulder " This is the first time I've ever danced with someone." she whispered " Am I any good?" They smiled to each other " You're brilliant." he answered, simply. Luna shut her eyes and kept on dancing, feeling the warmth of his body against hers.
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Lily stood beside Remus, swaying back and forth as she spoke. She found that as the night went on the worse she got. She wasn't quite sure what it was, but whenever he gave her that wolvish grin, she would have a slight fluttery feeling go through her. She had a warm feeling whenever his hoarse voice spoke to her. She just knew that it was something that she never felt before and she loved it.
The night continued casually and peacefully. Dancing students waltzed and pranced around the halll where others just spoke toeah other wjile others did things, well thigs that were quite a bit more than talking. This group consisted of Sirius and Ginny.
As music played and students danced and talked and cried and so on, the lights suddenly turned out. The hall was completely black. At first it seemed as a joke from the students. But then they realized it wasn't. In the corner of the hall the sign of the Dark Lord shone onto their faces. The deadly skull, with an image of a sepent slithering out of it's mouth. Every student knew what this meant. Some panicked and screamed while others stood silent, only their lips trembleing. Voices illuminated the room speaking about the dark lord and blood of filth ( meaning the mudbloods) Lily stodd still in her tracks. She dropped her glass which broke into peices onto the ground. She collapsed down to the floor and onto her knees.
" What makes you think you can do this?" she yelled furiously " This a school. What- What did we do to you!" she hollared furiously, glaring at the mark above her " Just because we have a heart, just because we have love... AND YOU'RE GOING TO TRY AND THAT AWAY FROM US!" she yelled, furiously, tears streaming down her face. Her blood hair hung over her face.
She heard but nothing but horrible evil laughter coming from the voices. " Love?" they would laugh at her " THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOVE!" one of the voices hollared " We'll teach you..." their voices hummed viciously throughout the room. A curse sprung throung someone's wand, a green whisp heading right towards her. She didn't move. She couldn't move. By her own free will.
" Don't you dare hurt her!" Hollared Remus, flinging his body infront of Lily as a sheild. The curse hit Remus instead of Lily. It didn't take an immidiate response at first, it only caused Remus to fall down to the floor. Lily knelt over him, tears streaming like a river down her face and onto his wounds. As he hit the ground an immense amount of blood came pouring out from Remus' body. After this happened, the lights flickered back on. No reavelence of who committed the crime. Everyone gathered around Remus and Lily once they saw his wounds. Lily grasped his hand tightly " Why did you do it?" she whispered desperately " Why did you risk your own life to save me?" she bit her bottom lip as it trembled " " Why Remus?" she tried best noy to sob in his shoulder, but couldn't restain herself " Because..." He began weakly " Because I love you, Lily. Amd I could never see you get hurt. Because that pain to see you get hurt would be so much worse than what I feel now." he said, tears spilling down his painful face. Lily just looked at him in awe. She grugdingly tore apart from Remus' grasp as Madame Pomphrey came to cure him.
Lily stood in the corner of the hall, waiting, Waiting... He said he loved her. She knew what the feeling was now. Love. Real Love.
Then a few moments, but which seemed like an etirnity, Remus' wounds were taken care of. He was pale. More pale than usual. It must have been due to the loss of blood. Loss of blood tht flowed through his veins was lost because of her.
She looked at him sadly. She couldn't smile. She could just cry. She grasped his collar and broud his ear up to her lips "I feel the same. And this pain insie is burning to see you get hurt like that-... because of me..." She looked him in the eyes and then rested her head in his shoulder, tears spillin onto his coat. They stayed like this for a few momwnts and then Remus tilted her chin up so her eyes were looking into his. He leaned in closer until their lips softly touched.
Everyone in the hall applauded. They were relieved to see Remus healthy again and more the fact that they got together. James was clapping too. He looked over at Luna and had a look of longing on his face.
" I think our plan worked." Ginny said happily to Luna as she watched Remus and Lily. Luna slightly nodded. It was working. So that meant it wouldn't last long. What was happening between her and James wouldn't last very long...
Though everyone was clapping and cheering, there was one who wasn't. A bushy Brown haired girl sat in the corner of the hall, her knees tucked up to her chest. Her mind whizzing in thoughts. It was Severous who set the spell. Harry spoke about it: Septumsempra. He must have used a non-verbal hex. The Half- Blood Prince used it... That's why he had to be somewhere... to fufill the need of Lord Voldemort. She didn't have anyone to turn to now. As she clutched the picture in her hand she wished for Harry and Ron to be with her once more so much. She looked at the face of the freckled red- headed young man once more and began to sob unconrolably through the due of the night, no one noticing Hermione's pain...
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crawls away from computer, dies this took forever! grr... but Wow... I LOVE THIS ONE! I reallly do apolagize for taking so long... so in return i get to make my long- living rviewers something! So i'll make you a music video, fanart or fan fic to repay... anyways hope you liked and I'm really sorry for the wait...please reviw i luv reviews...