"Ahhh! Shit!" Remus yelled lying on the bed as Hermione continued to chant the spell waving her wand over his legs. She had been doing this for on ten minutes now and the pain Remus was feeling was beginning to surpass the pain of a transformation.
"Just hang in there, Rem, it'll al be over soon." Alice said hovering over him with her hand to his head as his eyes were squeezed shut and his hand grasping Lucius's by the bedside.
"It will... right?" Ron asked not entirely loving the idea of seeing his former professor, in his world, in so much pain.
"Merlin I hope so." Harry said as he sat by feeling very helpless.
The chant continued as well did the screams Remus cried out, he wasn't able to pass out for it could have effected the turn out of the spell, Harry had to place a charm on him preventing him form entering the peacefulness of unconsciousness. Letting out one final cry Remus arched his back as Hermione chanted the final verse of the spell one last time letting a bright light swallow the room making everyone shield their eyes.
When the light was gone they found Remus on the bed with his eyes closed. In a panic Hermione reached over and felt his neck very fast fearing that she pronounced something wrong or misused the spell in any way.
"Oh God, Remus, I'd never forgive myself you prick." She swore as she continued to feel his neck and wrist before she let out a sigh and put her head down.
Not being able to see her expression or know what was going on Dan began to panic a little. "Well? Is he alright!?" He asked frantically.
"He's fine..." She breathed not bringing her head up. "He's just blacked out for now, but I have no doubt he should wake soon, and hopefully with his legs working fully once again."
"Hopefully?" Alice asked.
"These things are not positive, especially since I haven't even graduated from school yet! I'm not a qualified healer!" Hermione burst out. "Oh I'm sorry," she apologized. "I guess I'm just under some stress is all."
"Completely understandable." Lucius said looking at his younger friend with hopeful eyes. "We're all under a certain amount of stress at the moment."
"Hermione? Do you need to rest? You don't look well." Alice said touching Hermione's pale face.
"No, no, no, I'm fine, just a little dizzy from the spell. I have to find out how we're going to get home now."
"'Mione go rest, we can figure it out." Harry said stepping up to her. "You really should rest that spell took a lot out of you."
"No, I'm fine, I don't need any rest."
"Alright come on." Draco said taking her one arm and motioning for Harry to take the other. "We're taking you to your room where you will sleep for a few hours and then we will come and get you." He said as Ron picked up her wand before she could get a hold of it.
"No! Malfoy! Potter! Put me down!"
"Ooh last name basis." He laughed.
"She's getting angry." Harry remarked. "Listen we'll keep looking and if we find some useful information in the next few hours we'll come for you earlier buit as of now you're resting."
"Just relax, Hermione," Ron coaxed. "It's only a few hours, you could use the rest."
"What's that supposed to mean!" She cried as they drug her up the stairs.
"No, I just, I mean that... uh..."
"Quite when you're behind, Ron. Harry laughed walking down the hallway and allowing Ron to open the door for them.
"Alright, thrown her in." Draco said smiling and trying not to laugh too hard as he Harry and Ron pushed Hermione into her bedroom shutting and locking the door magically.
"She's going to kill us won't she?" Ron asked looking at the door with the angry young witch on the other side nagging on it and yelling at them.
"You maybe, with my luck you'll figure out how to get home in time and it'll save me from her wrath." Draco said.
"Oh no, trust us, if she wants revenge on you she's gonna get it." Harry said. "Be afraid be very afraid."
Back down in the main room the adults stood around Remus waiting for him to open his eyes and move his legs again... or waiting for him to wake up and realize he was paralyzed forever. They could only pray it wasn't the latter, they knew ho depressed he was getting just losing the mobility in his lower body how would he feel if he knew it was gone forever?
James and Lily were still there, they said they wouldn't leave until they knew that Remus was up and safe. James did it for his 'werewolf brother' or whatever he had called Remus. Lily stayed for James, she loved him and she always stayed beside him and since he was turned into a lycan she had become very supportive.
They heard the boys begin to come back down the stairs but they didn't enter the room, they all assumed that they would stay in the other one where the books were and continue the research. They were thankful for it too; the boys didn't need them around asking questions about magic or wands and what some things meant. In fact, that was probably least of what they needed.
"I hope he wakes up soon." Alice said putting her hand on his face and feeling his slightly wet cheek, tracing his sharp jaw line down to his chin. "I hate this, I really do."
"I know, it's weird... he's like my baby brother. I'm supposed to protect him." Lucius said. "I was there when it happened, he yelled out to me to help him but I had, like, five guys on me... I just couldn't."
"He's going to be okay," Lily said rubbing his back. "Now, I don't know exactly what happened, I wasn't there but I know you Lucius and I know you wouldn't let anything bad happen to him on purpose."
"She's right," Dan said. "You're the oldest, you're the biggest brother, you're the protector," Lucius put his head down. "But Remus is a hard headed, arrogant, mischievous, little brat. He's always been that way and as a group we can't control him any better then you can on your own. He goes off and does his own thing always has been his downfall, we always knew he'd get himself into something like this one day."
"I'm not a brat..." Said a quiet voice form the bed they were all talking over.
"Remus!" Alice said bending down and kissing his forehead and cheeks several times. "You're okay! You're okay!"
"Oh my God sod off!" Remus cried shielding his face with his arms from Alice's kisses.
"How are your legs?" Lucius asked.
"Dunno yet," Remus said and closed his eyes while furrowing his brow. He let out a small cry of pain but there was a shift in his legs. "They hurt... a lot, but I can move them."
"They would hurt; they've been nearly immobile for several days." Lily responded.
"But ya can move 'um?!" James said with a big smile. "Which means they're gonna get all betta!"
"Hopefully," Dan said. "Hermione did say before we started that this spell may not fully work, it may take a few hours to a day until we find out if they're going to be good or bad for sure."
"Don't tell me that!" Remus said.
"Sorry, Rem, but it's the truth, I'd rather tell you now then to have a few hours from now you lose it all." Dan replied sadly.
"I'd rather you just lie!" He said with a worried look on.
"Well I would rather I didn't."
"Come on, mates, quit fightin'." James said stepping between the two. "I 'ave no doubt in me mind that 'Mione did it roight, so c'mon lets celebrate!"
"James," Lucius said laughing. "Sometimes your optimism can get very annoying."
"But it's one o' the best parts about me!" James said grinning like a maniac.
"Here you are my good men, or shall I say wolves." Lily said walking out of the other room; they hadn't even realized she had left. In her hands she held a chilled bottle of wine. "I just bought this when we came in, was going to be used a romantic night for me and James but I figure it had more of a use now."
"I completely agree with you." Alice said walking over; she did always have a taste for wine.
"I'll go get some wine glasses; I think I have some in the back cabinets." Dan said walking out of the room and to the front store.
"I'll help." Alice offered and followed him to the front of the store.
Lucius was still looking a little worried as he continued to sit by Remus. Remus seemed to notice this and bent his head down to look at him in the eyes. "Hey, Lucius, come on, man, I'll be fine. Don't worry about me, I'm getting more mobility as we speak, by the end of the day I'll be up and walking."
"I know, just can't help but this about the if's and the maybe's..."
"Screw the damned if's and maybe's." Remus laughed. "If it wasn't for trusting those if's and maybe then none of us would be together right now. I'd still be in the woods somewhere in hiding, none of us would have gotten back together, or perhaps you and Dan would since you were here anyway but not all of us! Not the whole team! And now that Laura's dead the capture unit is no longer under her power, we can probably go out more."
"Not you, mate, look at you. You're Remus freakin' Lupin, you're at the top of the most dangerous werewolf list."
"I am not," Remus defended. "There's at least four ahead of me."
"'ow did ya get so 'igh up in the first place?" James asked. "T' 'ear Lucius talk about ya wankers ya didn't seem that bad."
"Not to us," Lucius laughed. "But to the capture unit, any ministry official, hell even humans he was a bastard."
"Well if they weren't bastards to me I wouldn't be bastards to them."
"But really some of the things you did were just uncalled for." Lucius said.
"What exactly did he do?" Lily asked with a smirk on her face.
"Well –" Remus folded his arms and gave a cocky grin but was disrupted before he could say anything.
"Got the glasses." Alice announced walking in holding three and Dan holding the other three behind her. "Had a bloody hell of a time getting them, he has them in this old armoire which is absolutely blocked by everything. It's lovely too it should be out in the open."
"That's the exact reason why it's not out in the open." Dan replied placing the glasses down on the table.
"Here we are." Alice smiled as she poured the bubbly liquid in the glasses and handed them out to everyone. "A toast, to Remus and getting his mobility back," she said.
"To that God awful dead bitch, let the devil have no mercy on her black soul." Remus said making them all laugh.
"If she even had a soul." They heard Dan say in a low voice.
"To the old gang being reassembled." Lucius said.
Dan joined in. "To our new friends from another world."
"To new life." Lily said quietly looking at James who smile faded into one of pure shock.
"Ya mean..." He started but couldn't quite finish.
"Yeah," She said as she started to bounce on her heals making her red curls dance around her face.
"I'm gonna be a daddy?"
"You are." She smiled and he hugged her almost dropping his glass and certainly spilling a little bit of the wine on the floor.
The room burst full of joy as congratulations were spread out among the people, they all drank to their reason, and Lily swore this was the last time she would drink in nine months. They all celebrated for several hours, Remus even managed to stand on his own after a few but fell soon afterwards, it was progress.
While their small partied continued on the other room was certainly not celebrated anything. The three boys just continued to read, Draco not understanding much of what he was reading but he knew exactly what he was looking for. Between all of them over the day they were all on their second book, with only a few more left to go through. They were beginning to have their doubts they would find anything until...
"Hey... guys... is this it?" Draco asked staring at a page in the book he seemed mesmerized at.
Harry walked over on his knees, all of them were on the floor they need no chairs, leaning over Draco he looked around the page. "Where?"
"Right here, it says, 'time and place is a fickle thing, one change can disrupt the whole balance of life, one change can make all the difference. If you wish to see a world where perhaps only the slightest detail is different, or where nothing is the same and all you hold dear and close to your heart is destroyed recite this incantation...'" Draco said not daring to recite the incantation, he doubted he would do it right anyway.
"Oh my God, oh my God, that's it! It has to be it! Ron we found it! We found it!" Harry exclaimed.
"We found it? Are you kidding me!? I found it!" Draco said smiling along with the two other boys.
"We need to get Hermione, we have to read into this thing, make sure were doing it right." Harry said and he and Ron rushed up to her room with their wands. "You get everyone Draco."
"Will do." He said and bolted into the next room. "Hey! We found it! We found the spell!" he yelled at them, quickly they all put down their glasses and came into the next room.
Just as they reentered Hermione was leading the way down the stairs mumbling to herself. "I knew I should have fought harder. If I didn't let you pricks lock me in that room we could have found it hours go!" She said.
"Hermione!" Harry said and grabbed both her arms. "Who cares? We found it, we're going home."
"We're going home," she repeated and smiled.
"We're going bloody freakin' home!" Ron yelled as he grabbed the book Draco was looking at earlier and plopped it on the table. "This is the incantation."
"Slow down, Ronald, I have to read into the spell, if we just say it then we could just get sent to another world, maybe worse maybe better, we don't know." She explained. "Now help me!"
AN: Yay! Homeward bound! And I regret to inform you all that the next chapter will be the last one. Yes, I know I'm sad too. But fear not it won't be my last Harry Potter themed fic. I have plenty more brewing in my mind. Not to mention my other one, 'Every End has a Beginning' I have some good stuff coming up in that one and guys don't forget to review!