Lily Evans: A Twist In Time

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A/N: Here's the next chapter! PS: If you don't like the Lily/Sev pairing, don't read;)

When it was time for dinner in the Great Hall, I could tell that Sev didn't want to let me go.

But I convinced him that it would look strange if I didn't go to dinner, being as people knew that I was here. He reluctantly agreed that I was right, and walked me to the Great Hall. He went to the Front Table, in the seat next to Remus, and I went to sit next to Hermione at the Gryffendor Table.

"Lily, thank goodness! Where were you?" Hermione asked as soon as I sat down.

"I-I had to speak with Dumbledore." I lied quickly.

"Why? What did Snape say to you?" Ron asked.

"What? Oh...nothing important, really, he just wanted me to see Dumbledore since...since I'm new." I said.

I noticed quickly that Harry was being unusually quiet, and not really saying anything.

"Harry? Are you okay?" I asked.

He looked up from his plate, and met my eyes. I could tell that he was noticing the similarities between us. He was catching on to the fact that I was his mother, and I couldn't decide if that was a good or bad thing.

"Fine." he mumbled, messing around with the peas on his plate.

"I want to talk to you later." I whispered.

He looked confused and said, "Okay. Where?"

"Gryffendor Common Room; Twelve o'clock." I said.

"I'll be there." Harry said.

He didn't say another word the rest of dinner.

I did risk a few glances at Severus, and every time that I looked at him, I found his eyes on me. I couldn't imagine what he had gone through over the last twelve years - I knew how sad I'd feel if he was dead, but it was a whole other thing to actually experience the loss of such a close friend, and then to have them just thrust back into your life, only to have them have to depart once more...it had to have been hard.

"Is everyone in your dorm asleep?" I whispered.

"Yeah. You?" Harry asked.

"Yeah." I said.

Harry and I were in the Gryffendor Common Room. We both sat on chairs by the fireplace. It seemed like forever before one of us started talking.

"You're name is Lily Evans, right?" Harry asked.

"Yes." I said quietly.

"Then I know who you are." Harry said, not meeting my eyes.

"Who told you?" I wondered.

"Doesn't take a genius." Harry laughed. "My Aunt Petunia's Maiden name is 'Evans', and I already knew that your name was Lily."

"You're living with Petunia?" I asked incredulously, shocked that Dumbledore would ever do that to my son.

"Yeah. And her husband, Vernon, and their son, Dudley."

"Ugh. I'm sorry, Harry." I said compassionately.

"S'ok." he said. "How...how did you get here?"

"I don't know." I admitted, trying not to get emotional. I could tell that he was trying to do the same.

"What...time are you from?" he asked carefully.

"I'm in my third year at Hogwarts. Start of term." I said.

"I can't believe I'm actually meeting my mom." Harry said incredulously, giving me a smirk that was exactly the same as James's.

"I can't believe that I'm actually meeting my son." I said, laughing. How many other thirteen year olds could say that?

Harry and I stayed up talking almost all night. We laughed and we cried and we simply enjoyed each other's company. It felt so...so familiar in a way, even though it was so foreign...it was unreal. I couldn't believe any of this was happening to me, and-

And that's when it hit me.

If I change this time, I thought. And I don't marry James Potter and end up with Sev...Harry won't ever exist.

I didn't know what I was going to do; I didn't know what my future would hold. But I did know that I would not be giving up my son. That was for sure.

I'm so sorry that it's so short! I just wanted her to reunite with Harry;) Kind of a setup for the rest of the story...next chapter will be much longer, I promise:) Review, please! Tell me what you think of the way the story is progressing...again, SORRY for the short chapter...I'm thinking that the next chapter will be Lily's first FULL day at Hogwarts with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and she'll get to speak with all the teachers who knew her and the children of the friends from HER time (e.g...Neville). Thanks for sticking with me!

~PeachyKeen13