James, Sirius and Remus cocked their heads, trying to listen.

"Hear what?" Sirius asked curiously.

"Shh!" James and Remus responded, trying to hear for themselves. Sirius frowned and crossed his arms over his chest, looking put-out.

"It sounds like…someone's arguing." Lily responded slowly, straining to listen. "Heatedly."

"Ooo! Let's go see!" Sirius exclaimed, gleefully, always the gossipmonger.

"See what?" Miranda asked, waking up with a yawn, raising her head from Remus' shoulder.

"See the fight!" Sirius responded eagerly.

Miranda yawned again. "What fight?" She asked groggily.

"Some fight."

"Wow, real specific." She grumbled, cracking her back to get out the kinks.

"I don't really know what fight they're talking about either." James told her, to which she smiled.

"As long as I'm not the only one."

Remus raised his hand to get attention. "Er, can someone clarify this supposed fight for the rest of us?"

"So Lily, let's go see what's going on." Sirius said over him.

"I don't know…" Lily vacillated, biting her lip.

"Come on," Sirius prodded. "It'll be fun."

"But it's not right to intrude on other people's privacy—"

"Why? We do it all the time. That's how I heard last year about how you and that Ravenclaw Prefect got cau—"

"SIRIUS!" She cried out, aghast. "Shut up!"

"Hey, what's this about you and a Ravenclaw Perfect?" James thundered. "I didn't hear anything about this? Which one? Is it Fabian—"

"James, it was 6th year, it's really not any of your business."

"If it is him I'll kick his ass when we get back to our time—"

"James!" Lily snapped. "Cut it out. It was 6th year."

"But—"

Whatever James was about to say, however, was drowned out by a loud shout of: "YOU'RE WRONG! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!"

"That sounded like Harry!" Sirius exclaimed. "C'mon Lily, now we have to go."

"Well, the charm is on us, after all." Remus added.

"Fine." Lily assented. "Let's see what all this fuss is about."

Lily, James, Remus, and Miranda silently followed Sirius up a staircase leading to the dormitories. They stopped just outside of one of the dormitories, from which could be overheard a heated argument going on inside of the room. Sirius risked a look inside the dorm, for the door was ajar, and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione, deep in arguement.

"I'm going to tell them!" Harry practically shouted.

"NO!" Hermione cried out. "Harry, you can't!"

"YES, I CAN!"

"No, it would be ridiculous too!"

"So you think that just by telling them will fix things?" Ron exclaimed. "Harry, things could get worse!"

"You can't mess around with time!" Hermione added. "You know that better than anyone!"

"Really? Well it looked like changing time was a good idea with Sirius, wasn't it? We got him out of the Dementor's Kiss!"

"Dementor's Kiss?"Sirius echoed to James. "Why was I getting the Kiss?"

"That was a unique situation!" Hermione protested, waspishly. "Professor Dumbledore told us to! He gave us strict instructions!"

"How do we know this isn't another 'unique situation'?" Harry demanded. "Maybe it will fix things! It couldn't possibly get any worse! What could be worse than having to live with people who hate you? What could be worse than never knowing if your parents ever loved you? I've never had a family! Ever! What could be worse than not having any memory of your parents except hearing them plead for their life and be murdered?" Harry snarled. "But I wouldn't expect you to understand because you're not orphans!"

There was a heavy silence following this statement. Sirius, Remus, and Miranda all stared at James and Lily, eyes-wide. James felt sick, lightheaded, as if he was about to faint. Lily was shaking. She felt as if her legs had given out from under her. Sirius clutched her arm, holding her up. Sirius looked at two of his best friends, all color draining from his face.

"Prongs…Lily…" Sirius started, his voice wavering, but words failed him.

"I—it can't be possible." James said softly, shaking his head in disbelief. "It doesn't make sense."

"You sure about that?" Lily disagreed. "It sounds like your earlier theories were close to the mark…"

"Harry, I'm so sorry about your parents, you know I am." Ron began, though much more subdued by the gravity of Harry's statement moments before. "And I know I'm not an orphan so I don't really know how you feel. But what can you really say to your mum and dad? 'Sorry James, but one of your best friends is going to sell you and Lily out to save his own skin?'"

James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, and Miranda were further thunderstruck. Lily collapsed, as if the floor had dropped out from under her, but Sirius caught her before she could touch the ground. She looked up at him with a mixture despair and disbelief in her eyes. James stumbled, and had to grab onto Remus for support.

"Well, no, not like that…" Harry stammered. "Obviously not."

"And what if they die anyway? Or a few days later? What if you die, too? Everything could be even worse!" Ron snapped.

"Voldemort could end up being in control of the wizarding world! More people could die!" Hermione exclaimed.

"You don't know that would happen, either!" Harry retorted. "You don't know that that exactly is going to happen! Plus it's not just about my mum and dad! It's about everything that happened to Sirius, too! We could change that! We could make it so that he never was imprisoned in Azkaban all those years!"

James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, and Miranda had thought there wasn't anything worse that could have happened, but now there was this new, horrible piece of information about their future. Sirius looked too stunned to speak or think. He looked down at Lily, still in his arms, who looked back at him with horror. James glanced over at Sirius with disbelief etched on his features. Sirius' eyes widened even more and he felt bile rise in his throat.

"Azkaban?" Miranda breathed, eyes wide in shock. "You were in Azkaban?"

"And that whole thing at the Ministry never would have happened! He wouldn't have been anywhere near the veil…" Harry's ploughed on before his voice broke.

"Veil?" Sirius whispered, looking utterly confused. "What veil?"

Lily gasped and pressed her hands to her mouth. She had an idea what this mysterious 'veil' was, and it definitely was not a good thing.

"You can't guarantee that!" Hermione disagreed. "You need to calm down and look at this objectively…"

"Harry, I know that all of that is horrible," Ron spoke up. "Worse than that even. We understand that, really. But what if you did tell them and You-Know-Who was never defeated—"

"Ron, he was never defeated!" Harry bellowed.

"But we did still have nearly fifteen years of peace because of your mum and dad. Think of how many more people could have died; any of us really! You, me, Hermione, or my brothers, or my parents, and probably many more! You actually want that to happen?"

"Of course not! But, Ron, my mum and dad are here, now! I can't just tell them nothing!"

"Yeah, well, you better try." Ron retorted bitterly.

"I can't believe you!"

"I can't believe you! You're being selfish!"

"Me? You're the one who's being selfish!"

"You two sound like children!" Hermione cut in, trying to call them back to their senses, but to no avail.

"You know what? I'm just going to leave now." Ron threw his hands up and stormed over to the door.

"Where are you going?" Harry demanded.

"Breakfast." Ron replied, opening the door. "And I…" He trailed off as he wrenched open the door and looked outside the dorm.

There, standing just outside of the dormitory were James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, and Miranda, all with expressions ranging from shock and disbelief to anger and fear. Ron did not know what to say for several seconds.

"What's is it?" Hermione queried.

"Uh oh." Ron managed to eke out.

"What?" Harry demanded.

"Ron, what's wrong?" Hermione asked, concernedly, hurrying forward.

"Er, I think they know now..." Ron responded, his voice strained.

A/N: So now they know...quite a lot. What will they do with the information? Well that is fodder for another chapter...

In case anyone does not agree with how they found out about most (but not all, just yet) about their futures, I figured this would be an only natural way for them to discover the truth. Harry has a history of getting too emotional (Occlumency lessons, anyone?) and blurting things out a little too loudly when angry or upset, even when he's not supposed to. So I figured that the Marauders overhearing because of a row between Harry (wanting to tell everyone outright) and Ron and Hermione (wanting to maintain the status quo) seemed quite likely. However, there are still more surprises to uncover...and don't worry, the next chapters will have more humor...

Chris-Crossed: So yep, to answer your question, they will find out about their fates. ;)
BeCkY6, sugur-huny-bun, shantelle, radical-rebel, -ShIvErInG sMiLe-: Yes, I know, another cliffhanger...I feel so evil, but it had to be done. Also, radical-rebel, Dumbledore will come into this soon, don't worry. It'll set up for the sequel.
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