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Sirius Black caught the girl as she fell. He lifted her up to take her to the hospital wing all the while thinking about the girl in his arms. 'Who the hell is this girl and how'd she get here,' he ended up asking himself over and over. He kept thinking of how she just appeared out of thin air.

'Maybe she apparated here...No. I didn't hear anything did I? Wait...I'm sitting here talking to myself.Great, just great, I am going crazy just as Prongsie had said. Great now I have to deal with even more taunting,' Sirius thought as he arrived at the doors of the Hospital Wing.

'What am I doing here again?Oh yeah...,' he remembered looking down at the girl.

"Mr. Black, may I ask what exactly happened to this poor girl," Madam Pomfrey asked while ushering them into the room. She transferred Hermione to a bed and examined her, giving her some medication.

"I dunno what happened. She just appeared out of nowhere and fainted"

"Now this is no time for jokes, Mr. Black. What really happened?" Pompfrey said with a dissapproving glance at the young man.

"I'm not kidding Madam Pompfrey. That's what really happened. You can ask anyone, I'm actually telling the truth right now"

"Yes well you can tell that sorry excuse to the headmaster."Pompfrey turned around and nodded to the old man with the crooked nose over by the door, having just come in.

"Tell me what Poppy?" asked Dumbledore with a curious expression.

"Well Mr. Black insists on telling me some sorry excuses for where this girl came from because I've never seen the likes of her around here before." said the plump witch pointing back to the unconscious Hermione behind her.

"But what I said was true, Professor. I've no idea what happened. All I know is that she appeared out of nowhere and fainted on me,"Sirius said with a desperate expression, not wanting to get in trouble the second day of term.

"Don't worry, I believe you. Don't fret Poppy, just take care of the girl, I'll handle this." With that he conjured up a chair and set it by Hermione's bed.

"Now Mr. Black, I think it'd be best for you to go back to your dormitory,"Dumbledore said sitting in his chair.
Sirius opened his mouth to protest but instead snapped it shut, coming up with a plan to get back up here unnoticed. He nodded his head in affirmation and exited the wing but not before taking one last look at the girl on the bed.

As soon as the door shut behind him, he took off running towards his dormitory in the Gryffindor tower. When he got there he ran to James's drawer and rummaged through them.

"Come on. Where is it?" he said angrily pulling back wih empty hands.

"Padfoot, what the hell are you doing to my stuff?"said an angry voice coming from behind him. Sirius whipped around to find James sprawled out on his bed.

"Hey Prongsie, sorry bout the stuff." Sirius said with a sheepish grin."Um you don't mind if I borrow the cloak for a little bit do you?Wait...what are you doing inside on a day like this"

James graoned,"Yeah I suppose you could use it. I asked Evans if she wanted to go to Hogsmeade this weekend"

"I told you before, stop asking her every weekend about Hogsmeade and she might actually say yes one time."Sirius started to continue but stopped, remebering the task at hand.

"Hold that thought. Where's the cloak, there's something important I need to do"

James nodded in undestanding and reached under his bed to pull back a large silvery cloak.He tossed it to Sirius who caught it muttering a thanks while running out the door.

He threw the invisibility cloak around his shoulders and rushed back to the Hospital wing. The door just so happened to be slightly opened so he poked his head around the corner to find the girl just beginning to tell her story to the old man next to her.

"Well...where do I even begin?"she asked herself more than anyone."Well I'm not exactly from here"

"I figured that much but where exactly are you from?"Dumbledore said, a slight smile playing om his lips.

"Well," Hermione continued."I was born on September 19, 1979. I'm from the future I guess you could say. You see the time I just left was 1996."

Sirius was stunned as he continued listening. From the future? He didn't think that was possible. Sure he'd heard the rumours that the Unspeakables were making some type of time traveling device but he never once actually believed them. He never thought the dolts at the ministry were capable of making something so complex. He had really gotten himself in too deep. All he wanted to do was find out who the girl really was, not all this.

Lost in thoughts of ('What was her name? Oh yes, Hermione.') Hermione and the future, the seventh year didn't notice the couple inside had finished their conversation and Dumbledore was now heading towards the door. Albus opened the door, which Sirius was currently leaning on, and he fell strait into the man. He quickly shot up, scared to discover that he was caught. 'This is not good'.

Ok I got the second chapter up. I know the chapters are really short but I'm tryin to work on that. I forgot to put the meaning of the title in the last chapter. It is a quote in latin by Cicero meaning 'As long as I breathe, I hope'. Thanks to everyone who reviewed before. I'll try to get the next chapter up tomorrow but I can't promise anything.