Chapter 3

She stopped speaking and abruptly reached down and picked up a small, gold object.

"Is this a time turner?"

It all hit Hermione at once, "This is what he wants me to do" she thought

"Who? Wants you to do what?" Ginny said

Hermione hadn't realized she was thinking out loud, "It might be a trap…" Then she though back to the café, the way that man—Sirius Black looked at her, as if he had known her all his life.

By now Ginny was alarmed, she sat down next to Hermione, "'Mione what is going on? Answer me!"

Hermione chuckled from shock, "Oh nothing, somebody named Sirius Black just gave me a time turner and wants me to go back in time to fall in love with the other Sirius Black" She looked up at Ginny, she noticed that Hermione didn't look as happy as she had sounded, her eyes looked panicked.

Hermione reached behind the couch pillow, she retrieved the letter from its hiding place and thrust it into Ginny's hand, "Never tell a soul"

Ginny looked at the letter and asked, "Sirius Black gave this to you?"

"No," Hermione replied "a man who called himself Sirius Black did" she made herself get up from the couch, she couldn't just watch as her friend read about her past—or future, "Ginny, I am going to make dinner…how does pasta sound?"

There was no reply, Ginny was reading the letter once, twice, three times over.

Ginny looked up at Hermione as she was cooking dinner and wondered if this really was a trap, and if it was who would want to give it to her? "Hermione" she called, using her first name, "I'm not hungry and neither are you so let's talk about this letter."

Hermione knew the conversation that was about to occur, "Look, Gin, I'm really tired; the pasta is on the stove, just cook the sauce. 'Night."

Ginny saw the pained look on Hermione's face as she made her way up the stairs. Ginny was going to force her to talk about this in the morning.

As Hermione made her way up the stairs to her bedroom, she thought about the letter: "Is that man's name really Sirius Black? Did the real Sirius Black actually write me that letter? Should I go? She knew this was going to be a restless night and didn't try to force herself to go to sleep.

She started to think about if it was true and how the timing would work out. She knew that time turners added another time path whenever used in addition to the one that the user is on when they use it. If she went back in time she knew that her life her would go on as if she never left and she would go back to wherever Sirius wanted her to go to... wherever three turns took her. She wondered how Sirius knew to write the letter, or how he remembered their 'love' and she didn't. Unless…unless he wrote the letter while they were in 'love' just in case she missed her friends, or didn't want to miss the war and came back. But wouldn't she remember? She did in third year, why not now? Well now he wanted her to come back, but why wouldn't she go back to her life with him as it would be if she had stayed? Maybe he wanted to start over? Wanted to convince her to stay this time? She didn't understand…what had she left behind?

Hermione noticed the rays of pink in the sky, she had never gone to sleep. She decided to get up early so she could leave before Ginny would force her to talk about the letter.

She came downstairs to find Ginny asleep on the couch clutching the letter. She wanted to talk about it but she didn't want to talk about it right now, maybe after work.

She made some tea and dry toast and walked to work.

On the way there she enjoyed the bareness of the streets and roads, not many people were out at 5 in the morning she thought happily to herself. Then she noticed that somebody was following her. She decided to see if it was just a coincidence, she made a sharp turn to the left, taking a detour to work. She looked back, sighing in relief—nobody was there. She turned back around and collided with a large object.

"Oh, sorry…I just wanted to see if you were going back"

Hermione looked up from the ground and found she was staring into the eyes of Sirius Black, the man she met at the café.

Hermione jumped up quickly, "Why don't you just tell me what's going on? Instead of playing this stupid game with me?! Who are you? Don't say Sirius Black!" She threatened.

"But that's the name you gave me" He looked down at her, his hazel eyes staring down at hers, both had noticed the startling similarity "Go back, this isn't a trap, why don't you give yourself a chance to be loved?"

Hermione scoffed, "By whom? You? You don't look a day over 18"

He replied with the same tone of voice, "Well your only 22, but you don't look a day over 17"

He gave her a mischievous smile, "No not by me, by someone much better than me. Why don't you just trust me? If it's a trap just come back, you'll find me at the café" He winked at her and turned away, walking towards that café.

He called to her, with a wide smile, "Oh, and make sure you focus on Hogwarts when you use the time turner! You'll find me at the Café! I hope I don't see you there!" he laughed as he walked away.

He was laughing because he knew as well as she that she was going back.

Hermione had made up her mind.

She hurried back to her flat. She found Ginny awake making breakfast. Ginny looked up, "'Mione! Oh, I was worried that you had decided to go!"

Hermione laughed, she was shocked about what she was going to say, "I am going Gin! Sirius from the café talked to me this morning, I trust him! I do, and if it's a trap I'll find a way to come back and he'll be waiting for me to kill him at the café"

Ginny stared at her, "Have you gone bloody mad!" she screamed. "Haven't you learned anything from the war?"

Hermione looked at her with a smile, "Of course, I learned how to tell if a man is telling the truth by looking the man in the eyes." With that she sprinted upstairs to pack.

Ginny ran after her, "'Mione! Think for a second! What wrong with you?"

Hermione called downstairs, "I don't know Gin, but I am going to find out! What if the real Sirius really did love me? I can't just ignore something like that, and besides what evil murderer would think of writing me a love letter!"

Ginny was in her bedroom by now, "If you trust him so much, I'm going with you." She said with the kind of voice that on does not refute or question, but Hermione didn't want her to come—Harry would be worried to death if the both of them up and left.

"Ginny what would Harry do if both of us were gone, you know as well as I do that you need to stay so you can tell them I took a sudden vacation so they wont worry, or worse come looking for me."

Ginny wasn't going to give up, "I don't care, I'll leave a letter saying we both went on vacation."

Hermione knew it was a lost cause, "Okay but tell Harry that we're going on vacation, I'll pack your bags."

Hermione heard Ginny apparate with a pop as a response; she couldn't believe that she was actually going to do this. But, what was wrong with looking for love? Even if it was a few decades back…maybe her love really was timeless.

After she was done packing her bags and Ginny's she decided to make lunch before they left. While she was eating her sandwich she saw Ginny apparate in the kitchen with a smile on her face.

Hermione got up quickly grabbed their bags, the letter and the time turner. "I can't believe you convinced him!" Ginny laughed, "Me either, but he seems to think that you need a vacation more than anyone in the whole world"

"Let's go then"

The two girls turned to each other with nervous smiles, Hermione asked, "you ready?" Ginny replied, "as I'll ever be".

"Okay so Sirius form the café told me to think about Hogwarts so think about that an nothing else, and hold on to me, okay?"

Ginny took a deep breath, "It is now or never right?"

Hermione looked down at the time turner; she quickly turned it three times while thinking about Hogwarts. She closed her eyes.

She felt at if she was being sucked backwards, the air was knocked out of lungs. She was sure she had never felt this way when using the time turner third year, but that had been hours of time and for all she knew this could be decades.

When she was sure she was going to pass out, the feeling stopped. She opened her eyes to find herself in front of Dumbledore's office. Everything was the same as it was when she left seventh year.

Ginny turned to her, "Maybe we only apparated back to our seventh year?" Hermione knew that couldn't be possible, "Let's go speak to Dumbledore" They turned to the gargoyle in front them and began calling random sweets. Hermione thought that she knew all the candies, but the door wouldn't budge. They hadn't noticed that students were laughing at them as they were yelling every candy they could think of.

After a half hour with no luck a girl with brilliant green eyes approached them, "What are you two doing?" she said coldly. Ginny was the first to reply, "Well who are you?"

The girl huffed and stared at them as if they should have known, then her eyes widened with surprise when she didn't hear any embarrassed "Oh's"

"You really don't know who I am? I am head girl!"

Hermione was beginning to recognize her, "Umm, I am sorry for asking this but what year is this?"

The girl looked at the both of them, there messy hair, their bags, "1967."

A/N: sorry this took so long to update, I don't really like this chapter but the next should be exciting!