A/N: Well, if most of you didn't see the whole thing coming in the last chapter, I'll be surprised. This chapter will explain why Hermione was in human form rather than in her wolf form when she was attacked.

Heather apparated Remus to St. Mungos, as he wasn't strong enough to apparate at the moment. Making sure he would be okay, she apparated again to her house. The loud crack was enough to let Sirius know she was home.

"Heather, is that you?" He called, he was upstairs, she could hear Nathan upstairs as well.

"Sirius, something went wrong last night, Hermione was attacked while in human form, I managed to get her to St. Mungos, but . . ." Almost immediately her husband was down the stairs.

"Hermione . . . attacked by Moony?"

"Yeah, I think she went to get a drink, and forgot to change back, I was keeping watch over him, and he took off. I heard her scream and I changed forms and ran the rest of the way there." She said.

"Listen, Heather, go to Potter Manor, tell Lily and James, and then go to Hogwarts, and ask Albus to let the Lupin twins go to St. Mungos, tell him what happened."

"Okay."

"I'll go make sure Remus is okay." Sirius said, "I had to deal with this after he almost attacked Snape, but mostly the anger was at me, this time I think his life depends on her survival." Heather nodded, and went upstairs, to grab Nathan. He was in his room, reading again.

"Nate, something happened last night, and you need to come with me, so we can go tell your Aunt and Uncle, they need to know, and then I'll want you to go with them, while I get the rest of the kids." When she said that, he looked up and seeing the look on her face knew the news wasn't good.

"What's up Mum?"

"Hermione was attacked last night by Remus when she was her human self. She's in St. Mungo's right now." Nathan quickly put on some shoes.

"Let's go Mum, we'll have to go Floo Powder, so I'll go first." He raced down the stairs, and threw some Floo Powder into the fireplace. "Potter Manor!" She heard him yell that seconds later, she decided since he was already there, she would apparate there. She appeared inside the Potter ancestral home, where Nathan was dusting his pants off.

"Heather? What's the matter, is it Sirius?" her brother's voice said when he saw her. She looked up into his eyes, and opened her mouth to speak.

"I'll kill him!"

"James, wait, its not Sirius, its Hermione." At those words he stopped dead in his tracks.

"What's wrong with Hermione?"

"Remus bit her last night before she could change back into her Animagus form." Heather said. "I don't know how she is doing right now; Sirius went to go help Remus. Could you take Nate with you, while I go get their kids?" James looked surprised at this, and a little upset. He took a deep breath, and then nodded.

"Lily, we've got to get to St. Mungo's now!" He shouted. Lily came running through the doorway on the right.

"What's wrong?"

"You'll know when we get there, Sirius is going to need all the help he can get, and we have to take Nate with us. Heather needs to go to Hogwarts." He told her, she nodded, and Nate went over to the two of them.

"See you when you get there sis." James said. She walked over to the fireplace.

"Hogwarts, Headmaster's office." The fire turned bright green, and Albus Dumbledore's face appeared inside of it.

"Heather Black, how are you doing this fine day?"

"Fine Albus, I need to come through can I?"

"Sure, why not?" She stepped through the fire after his head disappeared, and was whisked away to the Headmaster's office. As soon as she was through, she went up to the old Headmaster.

"Albus, I need the Lupin twins now, their mother is in St. Mungos, Remus attacked her last night while she was in human form." She said.

"Very well, Fawkes, can you go get the Lupin twins." He said. The bird disappeared with a flash of fire.

"That can be quite useful sometimes, that's how I got Hermione to St. Mungo's after she was attacked." Heather said.

"You can actually achieve that?" Dumbledore said, "You show better mastery over this since Merlin himself. It might interest you to know, that young Elizabeth was sorted into Gryffindor, one of the Lupins into Raven claw and the other into Gryffindor, and young Harry is in Gryffindor as well."

"Very nice sorting this year it seems."

"Yes, it was, your daughter seems to be making some good friends however. A young girl named Blaise Zabini was sorted into Slytherin, and the two have put aside House rivalries, and made a friendship."

'That's odd in my old time Blaise was a boy, not a girl, guess more than my family's history was changed.' Heather thought.

"A Knut for your thoughts?" Dumbledore said.

"I was just thinking how the Zabini girl, in my original time, she was actually a boy."

"Blaise is a name for both boys and girls now isn't it."

"Yeah." Just then the conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Fawkes with both Lupin twins.

"What's the matter Aunt Heather?" Both Lupins had taken to calling Heather and Sirius their Aunt and Uncle.

"Your mother was attacked last night when she went to get a drink of water, by your father, and I felt that you should know and possibly should be there. If it is alright with the headmaster."

"Family emergencies happen, just make sure they make it back before Monday, so that they are here for classes." Dumbledore said, Heather felt he was a bit too lenient towards the situation, but took the two over to the fireplace.

"Okay, everyone's waiting for us at St. Mungos, I'll come get my kids later, but as you are her children, I felt you needed to know. Sirius is there probably trying to keep your dad from committing suicide. He thinks it's his fault, your dad does, but it was just a slip of the mind, and bad things happened." The twins went through first, followed by Heather, who said good-bye to Dumbledore, even if she didn't fully trust the man, after what he did in her previous life.

A/N: For those that don't know what I mean by that, I'm talking about the whole Dumbledore setting Harry up to die early on, which was revealed in Deathly Hallows. If you haven't read that, then you won't understand that comment.

The group of three arrived in St. Mungos lobby, and since there was no one there at the time, they walked up to the Welcome Witch.

"Hello, can you tell me which room Hermione Lupin is in?" she asked.

"Ah, let me see, she will be in the Dai Llewellyn ward, it's on the first floor, second door on your right as you enter the hallway." Heather grabbed the two, and soon saw the Healers bringing Hermione into the room. It appeared they had donned the muggle technique of an IV with a blood-replenishing potion in it. It looked to be okay, so Heather continued down to the room, and looked inside. Seeing the rest of their group gathered around Hermione's bedside while the Healers were checking on other patients, they walked up to them. Matthew and Emily rushed over to their dad.

"Matthew, Emily, when did you two get here?" Remus asked, presumably trying to keep his mind off his wife for the moment.

"Just barely, when Aunt Heather came and brought us here." Remus looked up at Heather.

"Thanks, Heather, I . . . don't know what would have happened, if Sirius hadn't gotten here in time, I might have tried to commit suicide, when they wouldn't let me see her." She walked over to him and gave him a friendly hug.

"Your welcome Remus, you forget Hermione is my friend, my sister in all but blood, and marriage, same as you three Marauders, if I recall correctly." She said.

"Well, except for me and Jamsie over here . . ."

"Call me that again and I swear I'll hex you till the end of time." James said to Sirius, "And don't tempt me either, my sister may have saved our lives that night, but that doesn't mean you are exempt from being pranked."

"Hate to interrupt this, but she's awake you know." Lily said.

Hermione Lupin slowly woke up. The last thing she remembered, was her husband, she thought, attacking, her, that didn't explain why she was in so much pain, not even after her normal fights with him during the full moon, did she even get hurt by a werewolf. She racked her brain for why she was in so much pain, just as she began to hear voices.

" . . . Heather, I . . . don't know what would have happened, if Sirius hadn't gotten here in time, I might have tried to commit suicide, when they wouldn't let me see her."

"Your welcome Remus, you forget, Hermione is my friend, my sister in all but blood, and marriage, same as you three Marauders, if I recall correctly."

"Well, except for me and Jamsie over here . . ."

"Call me that again, and I swear I'll hex you till the end of time. And don't tempt me either, my sister may have saved our lives that night, but that doesn't mean you are exempt form pranking." She opened her eyes, to see everyone crowded around her. She briefly looked around, noticing the look of the room.

"Hate to interrupt this, but she's awake you know." A female voice said. Hermione looked towards it and saw Lily. She then turned her head the other way, and saw her husband, and her two kids.

"Hermione, I'm so glad you're okay." Remus said, grabbing her wrist.

"What happened last night?"

"Honey, I got away from Heather, and well, you were human at the time, and well, I . . ."

"You bit me." She said, "Don't worry Remus; I always knew something like this would happen, where I would end up a werewolf." He relaxed at her words. "That doesn't mean you're getting off lightly, I heard what you said to Heather a few moments ago." He tensed up again.

"You know, you can't have any more kids, right?"

"The strain of the change would be too much for a fetus, and therefore it would kill them." Hermione said, "I'm still tired you know, can you leave me alone for a bit." Hermione made contact with Heather's eyes, and Heather understood the message. The rest left, leaving Remus and Heather with Hermione, Remus had seen the look in his wife's eye, and sent the kids with James.

"What is it Hermione?"

"You know how we're from the future right?" Heather nodded, "My memories came back last night." Remus looked at her in some form of a new light. "It was fogging my head up so I went back to the house to clear my head, and then when I was on my way back, I forgot to change back apparently."

"So you didn't get a drink of water?"

"I did, thinking that would help, but it didn't. My mind was on the memories so much, that I didn't notice where I was until I was there." Hermione said, wincing a little bit, she still had a good size gash on her stomach, which was why she had blood-replenishing potion running through the IV.

"I could have told you from experience, you could have signaled to me to meet you at the house, and to guide Moony into the shed." Heather told her.

"It doesn't matter now; I'll be joining Remus no matter what now, though like I said, I've known that this might happen for quite a while now." Hermione said. She tried to sit up, but couldn't even move.

"You know, I didn't think that St. Mungos used these." Heather said, indicating the IV, "But apparently, since they couldn't get you awake, they needed an alternate method of getting the blood-replenishing potions into your system."

"That's one thing about those potions, a werewolf's immune system doesn't counteract with them." Remus said. "It's a good thing too, after the full moon is when the potions work the best."

"That explains why you're on your feet so quick." Hermione weakly said. "I remember the potion I'm working on with Damocles though, I need some firewhiskey, and silver, you were right, Remus, silver does need to go into the potion."

"Firewhiskey?"

"Gets the blood flowing so that the immune system doesn't have time to counter-act it; the silver just gives it more time."

"So you want us to get drunk every full moon?"

"No, it's small enough that you don't even notice its there, it won't cause a hangover too."

"I see, but you have to relax, and don't worry about anything, I'll fire call Damocles, and let him know that you won't be able to make it to the session today. If he asks, I'll tell him why." Remus said. He leaned over to Hermione and gave her a small kiss on the lips, before letting Heather hug her, and then walking out, Remus only temporarily to talk to Damocles Belby, Heather to head home to Sirius and Nathan.

Heather arrived home, worn out from the previous night; all she wanted to do was go up to bed and crash in it. So she was surprised to see Sirius in the kitchen, actually fixing a meal correctly. Never mind that it was breakfast. The last time he had tried that, he'd ended up with flour all over him. Heather had to laugh at the memory; it was shortly before they had gotten married.

"Hi honey." She said, walking up behind him. She wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Good morning sweetie, I never did get a chance to say that to you with the days events. How's Hermione holding up?"

"Okay, her memories finally came back though, that's why she'd gone back to their house." Heather said. She walked around to his front, and snuggled into his chest. "All I want to do right now is go to sleep. I'll be upstairs, if you need me."

"It's alright, you need your rest, and after what happened last night I would too." She sniggered into his chest.

"All right, I'll be waiting for you to join me Sirius. Just bring some of that upstairs when you finish it will ya?"

"Sure." Heather pecked him on the lips before heading up the stairs, and into their room. She walked over to the bed, pulled off her shoes, and her skirt, and blouse. She pulled out a nightdress, and pulled it on, just as Sirius entered the room.

"Ready for bed, Mi'lady?"

"As ready as ever, let me eat something." She sat down in bed, and he handed a tray of food over to her. Feeling as hungry as she was, she nearly scarfed the whole thing down. After about ten minutes of Sirius massaging her back, she laid down in bed, and fell asleep almost instantly.

It was late afternoon when Heather woke again feeling refreshed. She sat up and looked around for a minute, then seeing nothing wrong, slowly made her way downstairs.

'Sirius is up to something" she thought. As she entered the kitchen, she saw a small table, with two chairs around it.

"Alright Sirius, what's up with the way the dinner table is set up?" she asked, hearing him enter the room.

"I have no idea." He said. She whirled around to look at him.

"What do you mean, you have no idea?"

"I really don't. I wonder if Nate is trying get us to sit down so he can prank us again."

"I am not falling for that again." She said thinking of the time that Sirius, James, and Remus had pranked her, Lily, and Hermione. She had to laugh at the memory.

"I have to admit," she said, "this does look a little like a certain prank you boys pulled on us girls just before we got married."

"Hey, I was not part of that, I tried telling you that, I just had bad timing, I was trying to get downstairs to warn you not to sit down or eat any of the food, but James had me tied up and took my wand away."

"I see, so it was all James and Remus eh?"

"Yeah, it was not funny when you made the food chase after me too." He smiled, and she smacked him on the arm.

"Homenum Revelio" Heather said to indicate if there was anyone else nearby. No one was, so she nodded to Sirius to check the table, chairs and plates for spells. The only spells he could find were heating charms to keep the plates warm.

"It seems Nathan wanted to do something nice for a change. Where is that rascal anyway?"

"Right here, Mum, and yes I did set the table for only you and dad because one of my friends invited me over, and I felt that you two would want your privacy, as you haven't had any for the past 12 years, since Maria was born." Nathan said, with an annoyed look on his face, "What you thought I would prank you two, come on, the only wands in this house are yours and you currently have them with you." They had to admit that he had them there.

"Still not trusting you, as you very easily could have used my wand to do something while I was asleep." Heather told her son. He turned pink from being scolded at by his mother.

"Mum, you didn't answer me truthfully when I asked if you knew someone who had been cursed by that gender-changing spell did you?"

"Actually I did, I'm just not going to tell you the whole truth until I think you are all ready to understand it." By looking at his face, she knew that he knew that meant all three of the siblings.

"Can't you just . . ."

"Nathan, listen to your mother, now go." Sirius said. Nathan seemed to sulk for a moment before the doorbell rang.

"I bet that's them." He said. He ran to get the door, but was thrown back instantly by a stunner.

"Nathan!" Heather screamed. Sirius un-pocketed his wand, and peeked around at the door. Two figures were at the door.

"Come out; come out where ever you are cousin." A female voice said.

"Do you really have to announce that it's you Bella?" A harsh male voice said.

"Oh, come on Rudy. We're here to find out what they know about our master, my cousin's wife knows more than she lets on."

'Oh no, they're going to do to us what they originally did to Frank and Alice." Heather thought.

"Be as that may, we had our last orders that Heather Black was not to be harmed until he found a way back to us." Rudolphus Lestrange said.

"And we are helping him on his way back." Bellatrix said. Heather felt a rush of anger at the woman for what she had done to Sirius in the other timeline. Heather flamed outside without turning into her phoenix form.

"You looking for me?" she asked the two Death Eaters.

"So, Heather Black, we meet again."

"Funny, I was under the impression that we hadn't met before."

"Crucio!" Bellatrix yelled. Heather dodged the curse and sent a Paralyzing Hex at both Lestranges. She took a quick peek inside the house and saw Sirius dragging Nathan away from the table. Seeing them out of danger, she turned only to be met with a Cruiciatus Curse from Bellatrix.

"You know, Bellatrix, you are a bitch." Heather said fighting back the pain from the curse. 'Hopefully Sirius alerted Dumbledore and got Nathan to safety.' The pain from the curse intensified.

"Bella, knock it off, the Dark Lord needs her sane, you'll make her insane if you don't knock it off." The man Heather knew to be Rudolphus Lestrange said. The pain lessened, and the man walked over to her.

"Tell us what you know about the Dark Lord, or I'll let Bella continue what she started." He growled in her ear.

"I don't know anything other than the fact he was alive when the house fell in on itself. I saw him leave the wreckage." Heather said. It was in a way true; she had no idea if Voldemort was still in Albania or if he had possessed Quirell already. Though her bet was on the latter. Rudolphus stood up and dusted his hands off.

"Filthy blood-traitors, all of you, come Bella; she's told us what she knows." The woman he spoke to didn't seem to think so.

"Crucio!" she screamed. Heather bit back screams as she heard several pops, and then saw a flash of red and the pain on her lessened.

"Heather!" her husbands voice sounded.

"S . . . Si . . ." was all she could manage to stutter out before falling unconscious.

Sirius had dragged Nathan away from the fight and then flooed to Dumbledore's office, where he had alerted the order that they were being attacked. They had appeared, seeing Bellatrix torture his wife. He, himself, stunned his cousin, and ran to his wife, who tried to stutter his name.

"S . . . Si . . ."

"Shush, its okay Heather, please don't die on me." He listened for her steady breathing, and then picked her up. Walking into the house he activated the floo and after a spiraling ride ended up in St. Mungos.

"What the . . ." one of the off-duty Healers who had yet to leave said when he saw the condition Heather was in.

"Please, help," Sirius said, "My bloody cousin, who is a Death Eater, attacked us, my wife . . . unconscious from Cruciatus Curse." The Healer picked up on this immediately. Levitating Heather, he motioned for Sirius to sit down, and collect himself.

"I'm going to get your wife a room, Mr. . . ."

"Black, Sirius Black." There was a noise at the end of the hall and Sirius looked up to see James trying to get to them, but the Aurors who were stationed at St. Mungos, wouldn't let him through.

". . . please, that's my sister and brother –in-law. Please, I need to be there for them . . ."

"I'm sorry you'll have to wait, damn bloody war, its over and yet it isn't. Makes me wonder if the Ministry is actually doing their job, or just having us sit around." The Auror said.

"It's okay, he's good." Sirius said amongst his tears. The Auror heard this and let James through.

"Sirius, are you okay?" James asked.

"Yeah, physically anyway, but mentally, this hurts James, why can't this bloody war be over with?"

"Tell your wife that, or Hermione, both of them have information that we could use to end this war sooner than it did last time, and neither of them are willing to give it up. Well Hermione I don't know, as I don't know if her memories came back yet."

"They did, Heather told me earlier today before she went to bed." Sirius said, tears on his face.

"It's alright Sirius, please, you need to hold on."

"I left her to deal with my bloody cousin and her husband while I dragged my son off to safety."

"I think she meant to hold them off that long. . ."

"You don't get it James; they weren't even inside the house, why did I have to leave her?"

"Sirius, would you rather be insane than having alerted the Order to the attack. As it is Bellatrix and her husband have been apprehended. As an Auror I can take your statement, but we need Heather to tell us what happened as well." James had tears in his eyes. They heard footsteps behind them and looked to see one of the Healers who had taken Heather in approaching.

"Well Mr. Black, it seems you got your wife here just in time. She's a little shaken up, but she should recover over the next few days." The Healer said. Sirius nodded, not caring about the details, he just wanted to be by her side. "She can see visitors now, so if you are willing I can take you in to see her." Sirius stood up and followed the Healer down a few hallways, and into a private room. Heather was in the room, conscious and seemingly bored.

"You don't know how many times I've been to hospitals do you?" she asked. Sirius shook his head.

"Heather, I thought I'd lost you earlier, if I hadn't been so stupid . . ."

"Sirius, you did the right thing, I meant to hold them off while you got the Order, I didn't know if anyone else was involved or not."

"No, when the Aurors arrived there were no other Death Eaters at the scene." James said. He'd followed the Healer and Sirius into the room.

"You know, it just took a little shock to get used to the Cruciatus again, I'd been put under it so many times in my past life, you'd think I was unhinged, most were from good old Moldywarts." Heather said, laughing slightly at her joke.

"Heather, you do realize that you will have to register your second form when it gets out that you used it to get behind them. The general public only knows about your dog form, not your phoenix form." James said. Heather looked frightened, but yet not scared at all.

"James, I didn't use my phoenix form, I was going to, but somehow I used its abilities as a human." Heather said. James looked very shocked at this.

"But that's impossible, for a human to do what a phoenix does, would be damn near impossible."

"Well, I like to prove stuff isn't impossible now don't I. Like changing time, and having a magical Animagus form, and using its abilities as a human." She couldn't think of anything else to add onto the list.

"Well, you're still my sister, no matter how much you like to prove stuff like that." James said. He gave her a kiss on the cheek, and then left the couple on their own.

"I hope Bellatrix gets what she deserves. I'm still mad at her for what she did in my other life to you." Heather said. Sirius nodded his head. "That's what I was thinking of when I flamed outside. I lost control of my magic at that point, I guess." Sirius shuddered to think of what would have happened if either he or Nathan had been killed.

"Are they keeping you overnight for observation, or . . ."

"I don't know, didn't ask maybe when they come in next we'll have to." Heather said, "You better make sure Nathan is with James and Lily for the night at least."

"Okay, I'll bring him by in a little. Keep out of trouble for once."

"I don't go looking for trouble, it usually finds me." Heather said. Sirius gave her a kiss on the forehead, and walked out of the room, he was still shaking really bad as he walked out. As soon as the door was shut, Heather immediately tried to get out of the bed. She fell over as soon as she did.

"Bad mistake." She said. She was still lying on the floor when Sirius walked back in.

"Heather!" He exclaimed.

"Not my fault I don't like hospitals, never have, never will." She told her husband. He helped her to her feet, and then back into the bed.

"Heather as much as you remember that curse, this body isn't used to being hit with it, you can't just jump up and get out of bed." Sirius told her. She nodded, and laid back in the bed. "You have got to quit causing trouble now."

"Has that ever worked before?"

"No, but . . ." "Then don't say it. How is Nathan?"

"He's a little shook up, but he should be okay, I was more worried for you, because just before I left, I heard you being tortured."

"It takes more than Bellatrix to hurt me, you need some sleep, you lazy mutt, so I'd suggest you go get some, I'll be fine."

"I'm not leaving here without you, again, tomorrow we can go see Hermione, she's still being treated, and then we can go home."

As it turned out, Hermione was released that night, neither her nor Remus had heard about the attack, so when they turned up at the Black's house, they were surprised to find the house empty. Neither of them having any idea at what was going on, firecalled Lily.

"Ah, hello Hermione." Lily said with her head in the fireplace, "Why are you at Heather and Sirius' place?"

"We came by to see them and they're not here, do you . . ."

"Ah, Heather's in St. Mungos, they were attacked by Death Eaters earlier tonight, namely the Lestranges."

Hermione's face paled at hearing that, and she looked at Remus.

"Don't worry, she's fine, the Healers just wanted her to stay overnight as a precaution, that's why James is currently running around the house, we have Nathan right now." Lily laughed, but concern showed on her face. "You probably need more sleep Hermione, so I'd suggest you go home."

Heather slept restlessly that night, not because of the constant jerking from her nerves, but because of her memories. She thought constantly of revenge on Bellatrix and the Death Eaters, for what they did to Sirius in the old timeline, and what they had just done to her son, and herself. She tossed and turned in the hospital bed, and laid awake for most of the night.

The next morning, she looked over to her husband, who was snoring, laying inside the chair at the side of her bed. She sat up, before thoughts of getting even ran threw her mind.