Halfway Gone

Chapter 3: Fate?

It had been two long weeks since the day that the girls' plan revealed much more than expected to them. Sally and Becky fit right in, as if they had been there the whole time. Though the questions still remained, the girls had barely any time to talk about them, being that they were all in different houses.

"Sally, meet me in the kitchen tonight after dinner!" Samantha whispered hurriedly on her way out from Potions, receiving some bad looks from other Slytherin's. "Tell Becky!" Sally nodded, and turned the opposite direction down the corridor.

Samantha heaved a sigh as she made her way to fourth hour, trying to figure out time travel was like trying to talk to a troll. Impossible.

"Hey Becca." Samantha said, slamming her books down next to her in Transfigurations.

"Hey Sam. You look tired, what's wrong?" She asked with concern.

"It's just, I still can't figure out this whole thing." Sam said, pursing her lips. Becca rolled her eyes at the disturbed red head.

"It's really not that difficult to understand. They traveled through time. To two different places, causing a ripple effect that changed everything in this world as well as any other time. So the future they came from is now no-existent, and the present now will determine the rest of not only their lives, but ours as well." Becca said, taking out her quill and ink.

"Wow, when you say it that way, it makes a lot of sense. So it really is fate, at least I think it is." Sam said, raising her eyebrows at her genius friend. "You know, sometimes I wonder why you weren't sorted into Ravenclaw." She smirked.

"I wonder that myself from time to time." Becca commented.

"Hey guys!" Sally said, tripping in through the door to the kitchen. Samantha laughed at her clumsy friend.

"Sally you're such a klutz!" Sam said as she helped her up off the ground.

"Uhh…I know…" Sally groaned, rubbing her knee. "Where's everyone?" Sally asked, seeing that it was only her and Sam.

"They should be here any minute." Sam said, sitting down on a stool by the fire.

"Ah, okay." Sally said, taking a seat on the stool next to Sam's.

"Sally…I have a question." Sam said, suddenly becoming serious. Sally raised an eyebrow at her friend.

"What is it Sam?" She asked, slightly confused.

"I was just wondering…what was the future like? I mean, was it the same as now?" Sam asked, biting her lower lip. Sally smiled.

"Well, a little. Things were slightly different. You see, I lived at Hogwarts with my dad. And Becky, well she lived with me. Lupin was like my dad, he was always there for me when Snape was being a meanie." Sally looked at the ground.

"Now that I think about it, I really miss him." She said.

"Maybe Becca was right…" Sam trailed off, speaking out loud.

"Right about what?" Sally asked.

"Well she said when you guys came here it caused a ripple effect that changed not only your future, but ours as well. I was thinking, what if, just what if, time kept going in circles. Like your future was a product of you two time traveling, and the choices you make now could lead back to that future or change it completely." Sam said, starting to confuse Sally.

"You know Sam, I think your right!" Sally said, finally understanding what Sam had explained.

"Sam, you're a genius! That explains everything!" Came Anikki's voice from behind them. Sam and Sally turned to see Becca, Anikki, and Becky standing in the door way.

"Oh, hey guys." Sally said, conjuring up three more stools. They all sat, and started discussing Sally and Becky's current dilemma.

"So, what are you guys going to do?" Samantha asked in a serious tone.

"Yeah, are you guys going to stay?" Anikki asked.

"Well, we have no other choice do we?" Becky said in a slightly negative tone.

"Well, seeing as you guys have come BACK in time, the time turner should still be in Snape's room." Becca said smartly.

There was silence for a long while; Sally was the first to break it.

"I want to stay." She said quietly. "I don't know why, but it feels like…like…I belong here." She said, chills running up her arms. Becky nodded, becoming overwhelmed with emotion.

"Really?" Sam asked, as an excited smile spread across her face.

"Yeah…I mean, everyone remembers us right? So basically, it's the same old life, just three new friends!" Sally said, causing the other girls to smile.

A few months went by, and it took only that short amount of time for the girls to forget all about the time turner and how Sally and Becky had gotten there, the only thing they were focused on now was pulling pranks, and summer fun.

"Sally Snape!" Professor Snape's voice could be heard echoing through the castle as yet another dung bomb went off in his office. Sally and Sam jogged down the hallway as Snape's footsteps sounded behind them.

"In here!" Sally shoved open a random door and launched herself inside it, followed by Sam. "When I find you you've got two months of detention!" They both dropped to the ground in a fight of laughter when they heard Snape's last line as he stomped past them.

"So, are we hanging at your place this summer then?" Becky asked Anikki as they sat in the corridor, scarfing down sweets. Anikki shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't care, if you want to." She said before shoving half a candy apple in her mouth.

"Okay, sounds good." Becky said.

"Hey, have you seen Becca anywhere?" Anikki asked, looking around the hall.

"Now that I think about it, I haven't seen her since this morning. Wonder where she got off to." Becky pondered it for a moment then shrugged. "She'll turn up some time."

Little did they know that Becca was seated in the library feeling very left out. She poured over books, trying to study and keep her mind off the fact that her friends weren't even concerned where she was.

"Becca! What are you doing in here? It's the last day of school! Come have some fun with us!" Sam called across the library.

"Samantha Granger!" The librarian gave her a hard look.

"Oops, sorry." Sam said as she led Sally over to the table that Becca was seated at.

"W-what?" Becca asked.

"C'mon, Sally and I were just going to go hide Professor Trelawney's crystal ball." Sam laughed. Sally nodded her head with a devious smile.

"That'll teach her to give me detention for pantsing that stupid Slytherin kid who shot a spit ball at me…" Sally said darkly. Becca sighed.

"Alright then." She said, closing her books.

"Yes!" Sam yelled, receiving another bad look from the librarian. Sam and Sally skipped out of the library arm in arm, mischievous smirks on their faces. Becca followed them, a small smile upon her lips.

If only the two girls knew the secret Becca was hiding, and why she could never be their true friend, it was just too dangerous. She could never explain to them why she couldn't hang out this summer, or why she was so distant with them…Or could she?

Chapter four: Secrets revealed…for better or worse?