AN: IIIIIIIIII'MMMMMMM BAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKK! After an unacceptable wait I have finally put up another chapter. Yes, I know I'm a horrible person for uploading an author's note. But I'm really happy no one killed me, some people were even really nice. Soooo for the past three months you can blame middle school girl drama (8th grade woooooh) and Honors Algebra (bbbbllllllllaaaaaahhhhhh) for the complete stop of writing and for the other months….beautiful New Hampshire summer weather! Hope you all enjoy!

James Potter was bored.

Really really really bored.

For the past three hours he had watched Teddy and Al fiddling with the stupid machine that had gotten them into all of this trouble.

Over the past few days James had begun to form a grudge against this machine and it wasn't about to go away any time soon. Not until his sister was back.

Cause nobody messes with James Potter's baby sister.

Not even a hunk of metal.

"Screwdriver." Al's hand shot out from under the time machine returning after the screwdriver had been set in it.

"Okay," Teddy flipped the page in the book he was reading the directions on how to fix the stupid machine from. This book had been deemed the best out of what seemed, to James anyways, the thousands of How-To books pertaining to time travel. "It says to loosen that purple screw we saw earlier two turns."

"Are you sure it said loosen?" Al's sounded skeptical.

Teddy reread the sentence. "Yeah that's what it says to do."

James heard Albus's sigh from underneath the machine. A few minutes later his younger brother slid out from under the time machine. He wiped his hands on his jeans.

"That should be it, right?" He asked tiredly.

Teddy scanned the book. "Yep, that's all we have to do right now. There's some other stuff here about how to turn it on but we don't need to get into that yet."

James's head jerked up. "Why not?" He asked irritably. "Aren't we going now?"

"No," Teddy shook his head, "we need a plan before we go back in time again."

"We already have a plan!" James exasperated.

"Oh yeah, right now all we have is: go back in time, grab Lily, and come back before anyone sees us. We need a way to do this without messing up the time stream!" Al had finished cleaning off his hands and decided to put his two cents in.

James turned on him. "We already have a plan for that." He said through barred teeth. "Teddy will obliviate them."

Teddy sighed. "I don't think it will be that easy…" he tried to keep his patience, "they'll want an explanation and-"

"And we won't give them one! They won't know the difference! They won't know anything!"

"But don't you think they deserve an explanation?" Albus asked.

"Not if they're not going to remember it!" James shouted at him.

"But how will you feel if we just obliviate Dad and come back? Won't that make you guilty in any way?"

"It would make me feel a heck of a lot better than I would if he comes back home and Lily's still gone, which, by the way we're moving along, is how I'm going to end up feeling anyway!" James roared pushing on his younger brother's shoulders.

"James!" Teddy caught Albus before he could fall. "There's no need to-"

But Albus had wriggled out of his grip and gone after the older boy.

"Well if you hadn't sent her in the first place!"

"If you hadn't fallen on me, you mean!"

"Only because you set up that stupid trip wire in the shed!"

"To get back at you for stealing my chocolate frog card!"

"How was I supposed to know it was yours?"

"It was one of Merlin! Do you know how long it took me to find one of those? And you go and drop it in the pond!"

"Well maybe if you were more-"

"ENOUGH!" Teddy, who had slowly felt his calm slip away during the shouting stint, finally found his voice. "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS ALL STARTED OVER A STUPID CHOCOLATE FROG CARD! WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO LILY DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS? NOW, BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP RIGHT NOW OR SOME ONE'S GOING TO GET IT!"

James and Albus where both frozen in their places staring at their God brother (who never ever lost his cool or shouted at them). Teddy was still trying to calm himself down, with deep breathes and closed eyes. How had everything fallen apart so quickly? Could this really work out or would he have to face his Godfather, the man who had raised him and given him a home, and tell him that he had lost his daughter sometime in the past? Teddy didn't want it to come to that. He didn't want to have to see the disappointment, hurt, and fear mingle on Harry's face. He didn't want to see the panic that would control Ginny until her daughter was safe in her arms again. He was going to get Lily back, one way or another.

"Okay, I think we all need a break. Let's go inside for lunch."

The boys nodded and started to walk out behind Teddy. James glared at Albus and pushed him sharply. Teddy had been keeping watch on them out of the corner of his eye and saw how Albus caught onto James's shirt and dragged him down with him. He saw how they landed on the time machine. He saw how the buttons lit up, just like the manual said they would when the time machine was preparing to travel. He saw his hand grab the manual and felt his arms latch around James and Albus. He thanked all the gods he knew that he had programmed the right date and time into the settings that morning.

And then he saw nothing.

Well thought out plan or not, the three of them were going back.

And, hopefully, when they returned they would be four.

AN: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN! Yah, I know a lot of wait for not a lot of chapter…sorry…but the next one shouldn't take nearly as long *the girl said as she crossed her fingers* hope everyone liked it.

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