Chapter 22: As the Days Go By
A few weeks went by with hard training. The teens were working very hard and early September blew in with cool wind. Harry and the others were in their common room in front of the fire reading their books on wandless magic or working on future homework.
"I think we have been working long enough. It's Saturday can we please go outside?" Tori said putting down her book. She was reading a muggle series book called A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
"That sounds like a good idea, but the mentors said to say inside today. I want to go flying and I can't. Also I don't want to just sit here anymore than you do." Harry said.
"Me too. Since when do we obey rules?" Ron asked.
"Since two of them are my family members and all of them very powerful wizards." Harry said.
"Harry has a point." Hermione said.
"Of course you would side with him because he's your boyfriend." Ron said.
"No I side with Harry because he has the best idea. Plus I don't ever really side with you anyway. Only about the D.A." Hermione said scooting closer to Harry. She and he were on the couch rapped in the same blanket while doing homework.
"Well I am bored too." Chris said.
"Kate are you-?" Tori began. Kate was asleep on in her armchair. "She's sleeping."
"Here let me get her." Harry said picking her up and putting her into the second bedroom. He then came back out and sat back next to Hermione picking up Godric and sticking him on his lap. Eventually they all fell asleep in front of the charming fire crackling into the mid-night hour. A faint voice could be heard asking for Harry Potter.
The next morning the teens woke up by the waft of cold air flowing through the common room. It made Harry pull Hermione closer. His eyes slowly opened when her hot breath tickled his neck. The room was filled with teens sleeping in front of the dead ashes of the fire. Harry waved his hand and a fire sprung to life. He instantly felt the warmth of the orange and yellow flames. It was early morning as the girl beside him began to stir.
"Harry?" She said in a whisper.
"Yeah. You cold?" Harry asked.
"A little." Hermione said snuggling into his chest more.
"That reminds me what happen to Crookshanks?" Harry asked.
"He is over my Grandmother's house. Don't tell Ron but he became a trouble maker." Hermione said.
"Oh, I was just wondering because you snuggle really close." Harry said.
"I'm sorry." Hermione said backing away.
"No I like it." Harry said pulling her closer. She smiled and snuggled into his chest. They sat and talked for a while until they fell back asleep.
The giggles that escaped the mouths of teens made the teen stir.
"Why do people always watch us sleep?" Harry asked.
"Sorry you look so cute together." Kate said.
"Why are you laughing?" Harry asked.
"Because you made a face." Tori said.
"Well go away and leave me alone." Harry said with a laugh.
"Here." Chris said. Harry felt himself lift off the couch and he opened his eyes. Chris was reading a book in an armchair and Tori and Kate were sitting in front of the fire. He and Hermione were levitated into his bedroom and dropped onto his bed. His door left open.
"Thanks." Harry said covering himself and Hermione with blankets. He felt her snuggle up to him as they fell back to sleep.
The next few weeks went by in a flash. It had been a month and two weeks since they had been to the past. In the future it had been about 17 hours since they left. Harry was curious to what his parents and Remus were up to…
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1996
Everyone stood shocked as Harry and the other five teens that were scheduled to leave in an hour just disappeared. James thought of one thing and flew over to Sirius.
"Where did he go?" Sirius asked with a look of panic on his face.
"I think…I'm not sure let me see the mirror." James said. Sirius gave him a weird look and then handed James the mirror carefully.
"Harry…Harry…" James said.
"Dad?" Harry asked on the other line.
"Yes…Harry pick-up the mirror." James said. Harry's face appeared in the mirror.
"Dad how did you-?" Harry began.
"I just tried and it got through. You just fell and disappeared. Then I ran upstairs to grab this." James said.
"Really because it has been hours here. It's still the first day." Harry said. "Then again three days and three months. For you a day and a month for us."
"True. So how is it there?" James asked.
"Amazing because it is the original castle before students came. Clean but empty of portraits and other paintings and tapestries. I'll take pictures and write in the journal. I promise. Oh and Godric Gryffindor told me to call him Uncle Godric. Oh and I got to get going we start training tomorrow and I want to finish giving the tour of the castle for the trio. So I will talk to you later." Harry said.
"Okay bye son." James said.
"Bye Dad." Harry said and James hung up. Sirius was smiling. James cast the spell to magnify his voice.
"EVERONE CALM DOWN. IT SEEMS THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINS TIME HAS MADE THEM DISAPPEAR AND THEY ARE IN THE PAST SAFE AND SOUND. IT HAS BEEN HOURS THERE WHILE IT HAS ONLY BEEN MOMENTS HERE. YOU MAY ALL STAY IF YOU LIKE OR YOU MAY RETURN HOME." James's voice rung through out the stadium. He flew down to Lily.
"How did you know?" Lily asked. James held up the mirror. "Oh for once I am glad you gave him something from your school days."
"Hey, Flower, not called for." Sirius said.
"Well all I care about is my son is safe." Lily said.
"If you two would stop arguing then maybe we can go inside and have some tea seeing that everyone has left." James said scratching the back of his head as Sirius smiled.
"What?" James asked. "I can't scratch my head without you smiling?"
"No, Harry must have gotten that from you though. He would always scratch his head when he was trying to persuade people to do something." Sirius said. James smiled.
"Does he get anything from me besides eyes?" Lily asked.
"Oh lots. Maybe since he is gone I can fill you in on things he was to modest to show." Sirius said as they started walking up to the house.
"I just hope they will be alright." Lily said.
"Lily I assure you if I know Harry, which I do, he will take care of everyone and himself. That is something he gets from you and James." Sirius said.
"I can vouch for that." Remus said joining the group.
"Hey were have you been?" James asked.
"I was helping Kate's family. They couldn't get him to stop crying." Remus said.
"Why's that?" Lily asked.
"Hermione's little sister became his little playmate." Remus said smiling.
"How cute." Lily said.
"Yeah, so what are we going to do? I mean our son who we just came back to not even a week ago left and now we have the whole house to ourselves." James said.
"I don't know. How about we arrange a surprise party for when they get back?" Lily asked.
"I think they've been partied out, or at least I am." Remus said.
"Come on they're teens. They love partying." James said.
"We may have Prongs, but they have grown up in and entirely different way. I think they will just want to be around family." Sirius said.
"Well Padfoot you may have a good point there. But won't Harry be a bit sad if Hermione has to go home?" James said.
"We have come to a dilemma. Possibly the Grangers would like to come and spend a few days here?" Remus said.
"I may be able to arrange that. See Jane and I have come to be friends and she said to come over for tea anytime and I've returned the invitation. I am sure she wouldn't mind staying here for a few days for the sake of Harry and Hermione. She was so happy to find Harry and Hermione together. I am sure she wouldn't mind coming." Lily said.
"Good we'll have them over and ask. Anyway we have to figure out what to do with our spare time. We can try to go to Diagon Alley and buy some new things for the house. I'll need some books for this year. Oh and we can start lesson plans. Remus do you think you can help? You've taught there before what did you do?" James asked.
"I just did a lot of practical stuff. They really like using their wands." Remus said.
"You should make Harry teach the class one day." Sirius said.
"That would be fun." James said.
"Yeah, argue with him in front of the class then make him teach it and sit down and be a student again." Remus said laughing with the others.
"That would be interesting to watch. I'll have to make sure I don't have a class that period to come and watch from the back of the class under James's cloak or Harry's." Lily said the others made a fake gasp.
"What?" Lily asked.
"Lily using a old marauding equipment?" Sirius said with fake shock.
"Yes and drop it now." Lily said.
"I am just joking Lils." Sirius said opening the door for everyone. The adults sat in front of the fire and talked into the night.
"Can you believe for us it's been hours but for them it has been days?" James said with an arm around Lily.
"Well let's see it's around 9 and they left at 11. So that is 10 hours and it's about 3 days an hour for us so it has been like a month for them." Remus calculated.
"Wow. This seems really unfair. My baby is working hard and we have sat here and talked while he has been training." Lily said snuggling into James's chest.
"Yeah. It does seem a bit unfair. Just think in the morning it will be almost 2 months. We will work on lesson schedules all day tomorrow then we can ask the Grangers to come and stay. They can arrive on the 3rd day and we wait for them to come home." James said.
"Sounds good to me." Sirius said.
"Me too. We can go and talk to the Grangers while you work on school stuff. Hermione said they were taking a small vacation time off from their work to spend home so it would work out perfectly." Remus concluded.
"Alright then lets get to bed." James said. The others nodded and they all began to climb the stairs but Remus fell to his knees.
"Lily go into your room." Sirius said changing grabbing Remus by the collar and pulling him outside.
"Oh no you didn't take your potion." James said helping Sirius with the transforming man. Lily had a look of fear on her face.
"No, I want to help." Lily said.
"But your not animagus." James said.
"Shows how much you know about your own wife." Lily said transforming into a beautiful snow-white owl. She almost looked like Hedwig but she had bright green eyes and not amber. James would have stood there shocked if it hadn't been for the fact what use to be a Remus let out a howl.
"Sound-proof the house." Sirius said right before changing into a large bear-like dog. Lily cast the silencing charm on the house after changing back to her natural state.
"James take Remus to a spare bedroom we can clean it up later if needed." Lily said as James had transformed. It seemed that Remus remembered his friends in his state he didn't start to go wild once a stag came there. James started to walk off to a spare bedroom and Remus followed him. Lily transformed and flew after them. Many hours went by until Remus fell asleep and the others left the room tired but they didn't go to bed. Instead they went into Harry's room.
"Jeeze it's five in the morning. I wonder what Harry is doing. It has probably been almost two months now." Sirius said.
"A month and two weeks is how long he has been through." Lily said sitting on the bed.
"Wow and for us it has only been hours. I wonder what they are doing…" James said off handedly and laid down on the bed next to Lily.
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Past…
"I am not sure Harry why don't you call him?" Hermione said out loud forgetting he thought it.
"Sounds good." Harry said pulling the mirror out of his pocket. "James Potter." Nothing happened so he tried again.
"Why isn't this thing working?" Harry muttered angrily.
"It's working you just have to call the right person." Sirius said from the other end.
"Oh…what happened?" Harry asked as he noticed Sirius's face had a cut across it.
"Remus didn't take his potion and he transformed." Sirius said.
"Is everyone alright…and why are you in my bedroom?" Harry asked.
"Yes, everyone is alive and well and I am not sure but we are all missing you lot like crazy we are bored out of our minds. See when we were younger we had stuff to do. But now we know you are there and we are here we can't help but wait here for your return. So you haven't talked to us in like a month and two weeks how are you?" Sirius said.
"Good we are doing better than expected in training. Lets see…has anything happened?" Harry asked the group.
"I really can't think of anything." Tori said.
"Is she starting to get the accent?" James asked in the back round.
"Yes I am." Tori said.
"So glad nothing BIG is happening." Sirius said.
"No nothing BIG has happened but we are missing you guys like crazy or well I am." Harry said.
"I do." Hermione said taking the mirror.
"Hello Hermione keeping everyone in line?" Lily asked she stole the mirror too.
"Yes Lily. Mind you no one has acted up." Hermione said.
"You make us sound like children." Ron said.
"Ron…never mind too easy." Hermione said as the adults on the other line laughed along with some sitting near Hermione.
"Can I talk to my mum please?" Harry asked.
"Sure." Hermione said handing him the mirror.
"How are you hunny?" Lily asked.
"Good how are you and Dad?" Harry asked.
"We're fine," Harry heard Sirius snicker in the back round. "I just can't wait for you to come home."
"Me too. Not that it is bad here but now that I have parents I would like to actually spend time with them." Harry said with a smile.
"Same here-" Lily said but was interrupted when the teen's common room door opened. It was Godric.
"Hey Uncle Godric what's up?" Harry said and Lily had a look of shock on her face.
"I just came for you. Merlin wanted you to come down for dinner he had an announcement. Is that your parents?" Godric said pointing to the mirror.
"Yes would you like to talk to them?" Harry asked.
"Sure." Godric said carefully holding the mirror. The face was Harry's but wait Harry had a lightning bolt scar.
"Hello, I am James Potter, Harry's father." James said.
"Oh, at first I thought you were Harry." Godric said.
"Many do make that mistake. How's my son doing?" James asked.
"He is fantastic. He was the first to complete his transformation." Godric said. James's face lit up at the news. "But I am not going to tell you too much. I know he wants to tell you." Harry and the others started to walk down to the Great Hall and Godric followed. He handed Harry back the mirror once in the Great Hall. James gasped as he saw Merlin and the rest of the founders. He passed the mirror to Sirius and Lily.
"Harry we are going to bed." James said.
"Night." Harry said. "Love you."
"Love you too son." James said hanging up. Harry put the mirror away and faced the group.
"Thank you for coming everyone I have a big announcement." Merlin said.
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1996
A man woke up in a room he had never seen before with torn robes and dried blood on his face. He groaned as he sat up his back hurt so much after his transformations. A knock came at the door and in walked Sirius.
"Hey your up. How are you feeling?" Sirius asked.
"Soar did I do that?" Remus asked gesturing to Sirius's face.
"Yeah but don't worry." Sirius said. "Breakfast is on the table and it's the kind Lily makes after your transformations." Sirius didn't have to say no more. Remus was up and ready to have breakfast.
"I'll change first." Remus said going to his room as Sirius started going down the stairs. Sirius walked downstairs into the kitchen. Lily and James were talking about Hogwarts.
"Is he up?" James asked.
"Yes, he is getting changed. Lily you may have to touch him up. He has a cut across his face." Sirius said grabbing some sausage and gravy.
"Will do. James do you think you can do me a favour and run to the store. Just don't buy too much junk food." Lily said handing him a list.
"What are you going to do if I have to go the store, usually you don't ever let me go to the store?" James asked.
"I have to clean, do laundry, and a lot of other little things." Lily said as Remus came downstairs and into the kitchen.
"Morning." Remus said rubbing his eye.
"That doesn't help coffee does." Sirius said holding up a cup of coffee.
"So I see you decided on a drink this morning." Remus said.
"Ha…Ha…Ha." Sirius said.
"Sirius be serious and don't act like a child." Lily said as Sirius was pulling out his wand.
"How does she always know? She wasn't even looking." Sirius said.
"She married a marauder." James said kissing Lily on the cheek.
"Sirius want to come to the market with me?" James said.
Sirius asked grabbing his cloak.
"Nah plus people will wonder what happened. I'll just stay and help Lily." Remus said grabbing a plate of food.
"Thanks Remus." Lily said. "Becareful James and Sirius."
"We will hunny. I promise we'll be good too." James said giving her a quick kiss then pulling Sirius outside.
"Harry's car?" Sirius asked.
"You know it." James said hopping into the mustang. Sirius followed and they drove to the market. Once there they remembered that they were in a muggle area so they fixed their clothes and went into the store. Sirius grabbed a cart and James got out the list.
Shopping List:
MilkBacon
BreadChicken
FlourHam
EggsOregano
JuiceHamburgers
SodaHotdogs
Tomato SauceCorn
ParsleyFries
GarlicPasta
CarrotsWatermelon
ApplesStrawberries
SaladGrapes
CheeseJelly
Detergent Peanut Butter
SoapSugar
ShampooOodles of Noodles
Toothpaste
Chips
Dip
"We better start we've got a lot to shop for." James said. They started to head down the first aisle. It was the produce aisle. James grabbed the carrots, salad, apples, corn, watermelon, strawberries, and grapes. Next he went down aisle two and grabbed the milk, eggs, cheese, bacon, chicken, ham, hamburgers, hotdogs, and frozen fries. Sirius stopped by the candy machine and James went over to see what he was looking at. There were massive jawbreakers awaiting to be bought. James put in some money and out came a blue jawbreaker. He popped it into his mouth and found it to be sour. Sirius bought one too and it was orange. They sucked onto those and started on aisle three they didn't have anything in that aisle so they went to aisle four. In that aisle they added to the cart juice, soda, chips, and dip. Next they went every aisle and after about two hours of shopping, and a few extra things added to the cart, they checked out.
"Feeding an army?" The clerk asked.
"No just about six people and some other passer-byers." James said.
"His wife made him do the shopping and he dragged me along." Sirius said still sucking on his jawbreaker. The clerk laughed.
"Those jawbreakers take days to disappear. I've bought one once and sucked on it all day and it took forever just for an inch to disappear." The clerk said.
"Really, then I'll just have to keep working at it." Sirius said. The three laughed as the reseat price went up with every beep made from the food.
"Your total is 200 pounds." The clerk said.
"Wow." James said handing the man the money. They left and drove home.
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Past…
"I can't believe it." Harry said sitting on the couch in the common room with Hermione laying down with her head in his lap.
"Me neither. Only one week left until we get to go home." Tori said quietly.
"I can't believe we are going home. I miss Luna a lot." Ron said.
"I am sorry that she couldn't be here Ron." Harry said.
"It's alright you can't help it." Ron said. They sat there for a while and only Hermione's soft even breaths could be heard. Harry tucked her hair behind her ear.
"Maybe we should all get some sleep." Harry said.
"Good idea." Ron said. "Chris, Kate, and Hermione all had a good ide-idea." Ron said through a yawn. Harry carried Hermione into her room and tucked her in. Then he went into his room and dressed into his sweatpants and t-shirt. He looked out into the September night and sighed. He climbed into bed and fell asleep before he could remove his glasses.
The next morning he felt someone crawl into his bed. He automatically put an arm around the person's waist and kissed her cheek.
"Morning I came to wake you up." Hermione said.
"We have training don't we?" Harry mumbled.
"No it's Saturday." Hermione said.
"Blissful Saturday mornings." Harry said quietly while Hermione gave a small laugh.
"Yep unfortunately we have to get up though." Hermione said throwing the covers off her boyfriend. Harry gave a groan of disagreement. "I'm sorry but the founders want to see us." Hermione said as Harry rolled over.
"I'm 'sick'." Harry said and felt a calming motion on his back. Hermione started to rub his back in circular motions. "Hmm. That feels good." Harry said with a smile.
"Well if you get up and get ready I'll rub your back more." Hermione said getting off the bed. "And a kiss." She added.
"Tempting." Harry said and with a wave of his hand he was dressed in midnight blue robes. He rolled over to face Hermione she was smiling at him. "I love that smile."
"What do you mean 'that' smile?" Hermione asked sitting on the side of the bed and turned to face Harry.
"You and everyone I know have different smiles. The smile you just had was what I just realized you only saved for me, which is one of love. Another is one when you want to be polite and smile. The other one is one that you reserve for your friends and family." Harry said.
"That was so sweet. Thank you." Hermione said leaning over and kissing Harry.
"Your welcome, now where is everyone?" Harry asked.
"They went down already and I came to wake you up." Hermione said lying down next to Harry.
"Thank you." Harry whispered he had closed his eyes.
"Harry don't fall asleep on me. We have to go to the meeting." Hermione said pulling Harry up from the bed.
"Fine, I'm up." Harry said getting up, which caused Hermione to fall backwards but Harry caught her and carried her out the door.
"Harry put me down this instant." Hermione said as they went out the door and into the corridor. She kept hitting his arm and telling him to put her down. He finally did outside the Great Hall. Now he grabbed her hand and they walked into the room but no one was there. Hermione was caught off guard when he pulled her in the Great Hall further and pulled her through a door off to the side. Inside in the gentle firelight stood the people they were looking for.
"Ah, Harry and Hermione. Thank you for waking him up. Now on to business you will stay here for almost another week than expected. We have some paperwork that needs to be sent back with you. Also on another note we have more time to hang out together and get to spend a bit of time together as promised before." Godric said smiling.
"Good I am glad we get to spend more time together but are you sure we are going to be back by two more weeks?" Harry asked.
"Yes, I am sure." Godric said.
"Alright because even though it is very nice here we are all anxious to get home and see our families." Harry said clapping his hands together. "Now are we aloud to just chill for the rest of the day?"
"Yes you may go and chill." Godric said. The teens left and headed to the common room to grab their cloaks and then headed out into the brisk September air. They sat under the tree by the lake and gazed upon the noon sky. Harry was sitting with his back against the tree with Hermione between his legs leaning back with his arms around her. Ron was skipping rocks on the bank. Chris was laying on the ground gazing up at the clouds. Kate was playing with a leaf she found that fell off the tree. Tori was next to Harry leaning against the tree curled up looking into the forest. Kate looked at Harry and he looked up at her.
"Can you believe that we are going home soon?" Kate said flashing her purple eyes.
"Yeah I can't-hey since when do you have purple eyes?" Harry asked.
"My eyes change colours depending on my mood. Now I am happy so my eyes are purple." Kate said going back to another leaf she found. A swift breeze came through the grounds then the teens shivered.
"Lets go up to the castle." Harry said as Hermione started to get up.
"Sounds good." Chris said clutching his cloak closer; he grabbed his regular cloak instead of his order cloak. Everyone started to make his or her way up to the castle. They were greeted by warm air hitting their pink cheeks. Even though it is September it was pretty cold. Neither of them were hungry so they went up to their dorms. As it started to turn to night each teen filtered out to bed except Harry and Hermione. They had talked most the time as the rain started to pound against the windows. Hermione jumped at the loud roar of thunder.
"Do you want to sleep in my room tonight?" Harry asked comfortingly.
"Yes please." Hermione said. She and Harry walked to her door and Harry let her go so she could change. Harry went into his room and fed Godric then he went to find some clothes. He undressed and while he was taking off his jeans his door opened and a roar of thunder startled him. Harry had tripped backwards tumbling over a chair and flipped onto the bed. He groaned as the figure approached him.
"Harry are you alright?" Hermione asked frantically while trying to conceal her giggles. She then looked at her boyfriend.
"Oh brilliant." Harry said sitting up and finished taking off his jeans and put his black sweat pants on then his t-shirt. Hermione climbed into her spot in which she usually slept in when there was a storm.
"Here's a kiss to make the pain go away." Hermione said kissing Harry and snuggling into his chest. The teens fell asleep as the thunder rolled into the night until daybreak of October 1st.
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1996...
A circular motion awaked a man with messy black hair on his back.
"Come on we need to talk to the Grangers." Lily said trying and winning to pull James out of bed. He gave a groan of reluctance.
"Like father like son." Sirius said leaning in the doorway with Remus. James gave a laugh while stretching out.
"Defiantly like father like son." Remus said and went downstairs to start breakfast. Sirius just ran and transformed in mid-jump and landed on James in dog form.
"OI that hurt Padfoot." James groaned. Sirius smiled and nudged James in the arm then his body ending in pushing him off the bed. He groaned again while he laid face down on the red carpet.
"Alright Sirius that's enough!" Lily said coming back into the room with a laundry basket. Sirius transformed back and his head still hung over the side of the bed looking at James. James flipped over and looked at Sirius and smiled. Both men transformed and they began to fight each other playfully. With a wave of her wand the two men were back to normal wrestling on the floor.
"Cut it out. You two act your age." Lily said throwing pillows at the two. They gave her identical pouts and James went into the bathroom to brush his teeth.
"Don't give me that look Lils. I've just missed goofing around with him." Sirius said.
"Yeah. I just am so worried that's all." Lily said sitting down on the bed. Sirius said putting a brotherly arm around her shoulder.
"We all do. Look he's practically a son to me. I miss him like crazy." Sirius said rubber her shoulder.
"Thanks Sirius now will you please go and get ready to leave?" Lily said.
"Alright." Sirius said leaving the room. James came out of the bathroom. He swiftly kissed his wife and proceeded to his wardrobe. He picked midnight blue robes and his order robe. Lily then came out of her wardrobe with the same robes. The two headed downstairs and grabbed some of Remus's breakfast and went over to the Granger's house, after calling of course.
"Hello." Jane said opening the door with a warm smile.
"Hi, Jane, how are you?" James said stepping into the foyer and stood next to the grandfather clock.
"I'm fine." Jane said.
"Hey how are you guys?" Charlie asked coming into the room with Faith in his arms.
"Dadda!" Faith yelled and held her arms out to James. James was shocked at first and James took Faith gently.
"Why'd she call me that?" James asked curiously.
"She calls everyone Momma or Dadda." Jane explained. The baby looked deeply into James's eyes, James noticed her smile faded and then returned. James smiled and everyone gave him a weird look as he laughed.
"What's so funny?" Sirius asked.
"This kid is really smart. She knows I'm not Harry." James said smiling at the baby as she gurgled happily. The phone rang and Jane went to answer it.
"They need us at work, I hate to ask but could-" Jane started.
"We'll be happy to." James said. "Oh by the way we were thinking if you wanted to stay at our house so Hermione and Harry could spend time together when they come back since they throw fits when they have to separated."
"I'm not sure. I don't think so, we have so much work to do and your house is pretty far away. How about Hermione comes home for a few days and they can keep contact." Charlie said.
"Yes I thought that you wouldn't be able to stay. Well pick Faith up whenever." James said as they said their goodbyes and left. The travel home was peaceful. James mostly played with Faith and she gurgled happily.
"Miss it Prongs?" Remus asked.
"Yeah." James said.
"Want another?" Sirius asked.
"I'm not sure." James said.
"Lils?" Sirius questioned.
"Same." Lily said keeping her eyes on the road. Faith smiled at the adults wondering and making some sense about their conversation. She became very interested with her feet and began to play with them. James smiled at this and Sirius gave a look of wanting, as did Remus. Lily smiled at the three men in the back through the rear view mirror. They were finally growing up she thought to herself. The men each took turns holding, playing, and talking to the baby. Once home it was around noon and they all settled themselves in the kitchen for lunch.
"Dadda!" Faith shouted.
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Past....
Harry woke up to soft even breaths against his neck. He pulled Hermione closer for warmth. The castle was colder than each morning today. Then his eyes shot open he remembered something. He was going home today. It had been yet another two weeks in the past since the storm and Hermione came in last night because of a bad dream. Each group member was every anxious to leave the night before. Harry, not yet awake, had to take a few minutes to calculate in his head about the time in the future it was around 11 a.m. in the future. Someone knocked at his door and he mumbled a 'come in' to the visitor. Godric came in and stopped.
"Sorry." Godric said turning to leave.
"No look." Harry said opening the covers to show them both fully clothed.
"Alright, then on to business, are you almost ready to get ready?" Godric asked.
"Hold on." Harry said and started to rub Hermione's back and whispering things into her ear.
"I don't wanna get up." Hermione muttered.
"Come on Hermione." Harry said to her smiling.
"No you can't make me." Hermione said as Harry laughed.
"Want to bet?" Harry asked.
"No." Hermione said laughing.
"I'll give you a kiss." Harry said.
"You'll give me a kiss anyway." Hermione said.
"So." Harry said giving her a heart-stopping grin.
"Not the grin." Hermione said burying her head into the pillow.
"Fine." Harry said. He got out of the bed and went to the other side and pick Hermione up bridal-style.
"Harry." Hermione moaned trying to curl up in a ball from the cold. Harry pulled her over to her room, with Godric following, and put her on her counter and started to brush her teeth. Godric got hysterical from this as Harry brushed her teeth because she was too tired. Then with a wave of his hand he and she were in midnight blue robes with their order robes. He brushed his teeth too with another toothbrush and summoned her trunk to follow his. Rosie and Godric followed riding on the trunks. Harry was still carrying Hermione. He lit a fire and gently plopped Hermione on the couch kissed her and went into Ron's room. Godric following him the whole time. Harry ran and jumped onto Ron's bed and started to jump up and down trying to wake up his best friend, but all his best friend did was let out a gigantic snore. Harry summoned a large bucket of ice-cold water.
"Get ready to duck." Harry said pouring the water and jumped off the bed and hid. Ron sat bolt up with a big AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (lol sry had to put it)
"Harry!" Ron yelled.
"We're going home come on." Harry said.
"Fine." Ron said going into his bathroom. Harry went into Chris's room and got Chris up the same way he did with Ron. Then he moved to Kate's room but she woke up easier and got up a little groggily but go to the bathroom alright. Last he went to Tori's room, but she needed no waking. She in fact was up but reading.
"Morning." Tori said putting down her book, her tiger was laying on her lap, and she was already dressed.
"Glad I don't have to get you up. Thank Merlin you were up already." Harry said.
"Why's that?" Tori asked.
"I am tired of getting people up." Harry said laughing with Godric and Tori.
Once everyone was ready they all waited in the Great Hall awaiting for Merlin. Harry sat looking around as he remembered the other night when he had shared his pensive with everyone. He found it that his mentors should know of his life. Every teen was bouncing on the balls of their feet in excitement of going home.
"Harry what if I have to go home?" Hermione asked as she and Harry were sitting on the steps by themselves.
"I never thought of that. I don't want you to leave, but I can't take you away from your parents. We have the phone and I think my parents have a computer. Dudley would talk to his friends on the computer." Harry said down heartedly.
"Instant messenger. When we get home we can set you up a screen name and I'm sure the other trio have computers." Hermione said.
"We can use our nicknames for our screen names." Harry said.
"But we all don't have nicknames. We'll have to make some up." Hermione said.
"Harry! Hermione!" Godric called. The couple walked over to one of the five mentors.
"I need you to take this and give it to Dumbledore. It will tell him about all your training." Godric said smiling.
"Thank you so much, it was great actually meeting you all." Harry said shaking everyone's hands.
"It was nice to meet you lot too." Rowena said with Salazar nodding. Everyone said their goodbyes and the teens were transported back to the future.
Harry and the rest fell onto the soft ground of his backyard's quidditch pitch. They didn't fall from too far but about twenty feet. Everyone had the same injuries as last time but they all made their way inside and as Harry walked through the door he heard a voice that he always smiled from.
"Dadda!" Faith shouted.
"Harry!" James shouted.
"What are you lot doing here?" Sirius asked.
"We finished early and we were allowed to come home early." Harry said taking his duffle off from his shoulder and letting Hermione sit down. Faith held out her arms to Harry. "Hey sweetie." Harry said cuddling the baby in his arms. The adults smiled at his fatherly actions towards the child.
"Not to be rude but can we go home?" Tori asked.
"Yes by all means. Safe trip are you leaving too Ron?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, I want to get home and then I am going over to Luna's." Ron said.
"Becareful." Harry said as everyone left. Faith giggled in his arms and he gave her a small kiss on the forehead. Lily couldn't help but smile at her son.
"How long have we've been gone?" Hermione asked.
"About two days." James answered smiling at his son. Harry sat down next to Hermione and gave her a quick kiss. He handed her Faith and put an arm around her shoulders.
"Don't think about it, until after Hogwarts." Remus said.
"Think about what?" Harry and Hermione asked.
"Having a kid." James said.
"We weren't think of having a kid now." Harry said.
"You two look so right with a baby in your arms. But not until you are out of Hogwarts." Lily said.
"Do you think we'd do that?" Harry asked.
"No, just saying." James said. Harry took the baby and started to play with her.
"Why don't we all go find something to do?" Lily said breaking her stare away from the couple.
"Sure lets go out side, by the way I like the way you two dress." Harry said standing up putting his free arm around Hermione's waist. Sirius got what Harry meant and laughed. James, Harry, Lily, and Hermione all were dressed in midnight blue robes. The two teens and baby made their way outside and sat on the grass in front of the lake. Harry laid down on his back and Faith sat down on his stomach as Hermione laid next to him on his right. The adults followed the loving couple with grins on their faces. The parents laid down next to the two other adults and talked about the other couple. Meanwhile the couple talked about being back and other things.
"Harry are you glad to be home. I am." Hermione said snuggling up near Harry. Faith giggling while laying down on Harry's chest sucking her thumb her eyes ever so gently closing.
"Yeah, I'm very glad to be home." Harry said while he assisted Faith to sleep by rubbing her back. A warm sun shining down on them.
"You know you may be going home." Harry said sadly.
"Yeah, but I'll call you." Hermione said.
"We'll run up the phone bill." Harry said with a grin.
"Yeah, but not by much once or twice a day probably a week. Not to mention we have out mind thing and our ear pieces." Hermione said.
Adults...
"Uncanny don't you think so Moony?" Sirius said aloud while he, Lily, James, and Remus laid about 15 feet away from the couple.
"Very uncanny." Remus said he had his eyes closed but knew what Sirius was going on about.
"What's uncanny Padfoot?" James asked he and Lily were in the same positions as Harry and Hermione without the baby.
"Except for the fact that Lily has red hair and hated James." Sirius continued ignoring James on purpose.
"True and she doesn't have green eyes." Remus said.
"Moony...Padfoot. Whom are you going on about besides Lily?" James asked in a fake whiny tone.
"Thought it'd be obvious Prongs. We're talking about Pronglet and his girl." Sirius said.
"Oh, are they that much like us?" Lily asked snuggling up to James. Remus and Sirius looked at each other for a second and smiled.
"They are a lot like you two." Remus said.
"It seems," Sirius said slowly." That the Potter boys have a thing for muggle-borns." Sirius said with a laugh.
"So it would seem." Harry said standing next to the adults.
"How or why do you or can you always do that?" Sirius asked. Harry shrugged and sat down next to his mother with Faith nestled in his arms.
"That's my boy." James said.
"What now?" Sirius asked in a bored tone.
"I don't know lets hear about your trip." James said as Harry pulled out a pensive from a pocket in his robes.
"That's not your pensive." Lily said.
"Merlin thought I needed another one." Harry said. The group spent the next few hours in the pensive looking back at the trip. Harry would leave sometimes so Faith wouldn't wake up when it was loud. When he came back James was beaming that his son beat Merlin at dueling. Lily kept smiling at Harry; her boy took so much loving care for that baby. The baby wasn't even his either she couldn't imagine the love his baby would get. Soon they were done with the trip review and were back at home around four in the afternoon standing in the kitchen. Faith had woken up now and was looking over Harry's shoulder as he rubbed her back. They were all talking about random things.
"Dadda." Faith said moving.
"What hunny?" Harry said moving the baby to face him.
"Dadda." Faith said since she couldn't talk about what she wanted.
"Do you want some num nums?" Harry asked.
"Dadda!" The baby said happily.
"Mum do we have any baby food?" Harry asked.
"No but she can have soup I'm sure." Lily said looking at Hermione who nodded.
"I could go for some too Harry." James said.
"Everyone want soup?" Harry asked.
"Sure you want us to watch Faith." Lily asked.
"Nah, plus I'm going to get her a bottle." Harry said getting up from the kitchen table and walking over to the cabinet and retrieved a bottle and filled it with milk. She drank happily watching Harry prepare Oodles of Noodles. (Mmm my favourite!!!!!!!!) After not even ten minutes the soup was cool enough for everyone to eat and he served it to everyone and sat down with two bowls, one for himself and a smaller one for Faith. He had found a baby spoon and began to feed her some soup and cut up noodles.
"Harry you want a break, you've been taking care of her all day." Hermione said.
"No, I'm fine. She's a sweetheart like you and no trouble what-so-ever." Harry said with a kiss.
"Awwwwwwwww." The marauders all mocked.
"Bugger off." Harry said kissing Hermione again.
"Just joking Pronglet like before." Sirius said with a wink.
"Why what happened before?" James asked. Harry went back to feeding the baby and eating himself as Sirius told the story of the I Love You incident.
"Congratulations that reminds me of the time..." James said.
"Of what time?" Hermione asked.
"We'll..."
"James Potter has caught the golden snitch!" The announcer yelled to the stadium. "He would like to say something." They added as James cast the spell on himself.
"Hi, I dedicate this game to a special someone. Lily Evans I dedicate this game to you and my heart. I LOVE YOU!" James said flying over to Lily and kissed her.
"JAMES POTTER!" Lily screamed she didn't need a spell. "I LOVE YOU TOO, BUT NEVER EVER DO THAT AGAIN!" Lily said running up to the castle James followed her on his broomstick.
"Flower, I'm sorry do you forgive me?" James asked with a sincere face.
"How can I refuse the man I love?" Lily said jumping onto his broom.
"I thought you didn't like heights?" James asked.
"I don't but with you I'm never scared." Lily said.
"I remember that." Remus said. "Lily wouldn't stop talking about it during our prefect rounds." Remus added.
"Speaking of love where are your two girlfriends?" Harry asked.
"Harry me and Julie broke up." Sirius said.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know." Harry said looking up at his godfather.
"It's alright you didn't know." Sirius said as the phone rang. James and Sirius jumped.
"It's just the phone guys chill." Harry said grabbing the phone. "Hello Potter residents." Harry said to the other line.
"Hi Harry how are you?" Jane asked.
"I'm good how are you?" Harry asked.
"Good we were wondering if you would like to have Hermione spend the night? We have a conference tonight and we figured she wouldn't want to be home alone." Jane said.
"That sounds great." Harry said still feeding Faith.
"How are my girls?" Charlie asked he had taken the phone.
"There both great I'm feeding Faith actually now." Harry said.
"Terrific can I speak to Hermione?" Charlie asked.
"Of course. Here Hermione it's your dad." Harry said handing her the phone.
"Hey dad...yeah...thank you thank you thank you...I will...see you." Hermione said hanging up the phone.
"Is it alright if I spend the night?" Hermione asked.
"Always." Lily said.
"Last bite Faith." Harry said bringing the spoon up to her mouth as she ate it happily. "Good girl." Harry said kissing her forehead.
"Wow Harry and no mess. How do you do it?" Hermione asked.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked.
"She always makes a mess when eating." Hermione said.
"Interesting." Harry said.