Fredasally: Thanks…Well here's the update =D
"I come bearing news brothers!" Abigail exclaimed as she met up with her brothers in a secret corridor. The room of requirement was occupied so they just had decided to meet up in the corridor and passed on the message to Abigail.
This corridor was discovered by her and her brothers in her second year and was newer than the other secret passages. That led them to believe that the castle started magically rearranging itself while it was being rebuilt after the war. It was one of two corridors that were not listed on the marauders map, so they found a way to update it while also including the room of requirement in it.
"So, I was standing outside Headmistress McGonagall's office when she was berating mom and dad about their childish behavior…what?! Don't look at me like that! She hasn't changed her password since we last went in and I used a cloaking spell…anyways, so looks like our little plan worked!"
"You know I just realized we could have seriously screwed up with the timeline! You know they would have eventually resolved their differences...I mean without us interfering," Terrance asked.
"Well yeah, sure, if you planned on never being born we could have left them to find their way on their own. But you see, if mom and dad can't even look at each other when they are in each others vicinity, how will they fall in love…they are supposed to start dating almost a few weeks before Christmas. Don't you remember all those 'magical-first-Christmas-together' stories that mom would tell and while dad sat on her side smiling and would kiss her at the end of?"
"That is at the end of every story, dinner, breakfast, basically any meal and any moment of day, so no you are not doing a great job of narrowing it down" Regis replied.
"Ugh, forget it! Anyways, it wasn't wrong what we did. Mom and dad have never had time to get to know each other up close in this time! All they know about each other is what they see on the outside. Last night, mom was thinking about today's match, you know, what could happen and all that, anyways she thinks dad trains his team to be unethical on field.
And we all know that's not true! Just today we saw AND heard dad berating his team during and after the match for what they were doing. But mom doesn't see that.
What this will do is make her see that, when she is around him she will see that he is not what she sees him to be rather he is what she didn't know he was, you know the person she never thought he could be but he already is!"
By this time they had stopped in the middle of the hallway with Abigail working up to a rant, both her brothers staring at her.
"Sis you need to take a deep breath and relax. And maybe try and explain your point with less confusing sentences, preferably shorter sentences but, you know…uhh sorry" Terrance trailed of noticing the glare his baby sister was giving him.
"Fine! Whatever! I have to go back now, I have homework to do!" With that Abigail walked off leaving her brothers to do their own bidding.
None of them heard the silent footsteps retreating from the corridor.
Abigail entered her dormitory to find the red angry face of her mother, the tightness of her shoulders indicating how angry she was. Lily was standing in the middle of the room glaring at the poor mahogany carpet.
"Umm…Lily! What has the poor carpet done to you?"
"He called me a midget! AGAIN! And not just THAT! Princess Potter to afraid to do this or to do that!" adding the last part in a high shrilly voice, possibly trying to imitate the Malfoy heir. "HOW DARE HE?"
'Uh-oh; I hope she didn't end up killing him.'
"It can't be that bad! I mean, look, I am a midget too! There's nothing so bad about it. See…," Abigail twirled around to shwhile ow off her height, feeling stupid doing so ' What we do for love…huff '
"No one calls me a midget and gets away with it!"
"Uhh…Lily, please tell me you didn't kill him?!"
"Ohh I wish! All I did was throw a bat bogey hex at him!" with that she laughed maniacally.
Abigail's eyes widened, 'Looks like she's lost her mind!'
"Uhh…ok! Oh would you look at the time! I had to go meet my brothers…see you later Lily"
With that she left her mother behind still staring at the carpet, only this time smiling wickedly at it.
She found her brothers in the kitchen, eating…again!
"I leave you two for two minutes and you two start eating!"
"Didn't you have homework to do?" Regis asked his sister.
"I think you both may have been right! She's lost her freaking mind! Oh no…no…the correct word would be maniac…yes maniac. She's a MANIAC or has been turned into one, by our stupid plan!" Abigail ranted, pacing in front of her brothers.
Both her brothers were now staring at her, dumbfounded, their pastries halfway into their mouth.
"Oh you idiots! Get that silly expression off your faces and either eat the pastry or keep it down!," sitting down opposite them she scolded her brothers.
"Alright why do you say that mom has gone mental?!" Regis asked chewing his pantry, having finally taken a bite.
"Ew….swallow before you talk!"
"Would you please just answer his question?"
'At least big brother has manners to not talk with his mouth full!'
"Ok…You see…" and so she related the incident to her brothers as calmly as she could.
"Oh you are just over reacting!" Terrance laughed, bits of his half chewed pastry flying everywhere while he did so.
'Huff…I stand corrected! Both my brothers are worse than cavemen!' She thought, cringing when a bit flew too near for her comfort.
"I am not over reacting! She hexed Dad! AGAIN!...At this rate they will never get together!"
"You see darling little sister that is the advantage of being from the future! We know they are going to get together…they just need time to understand and get to know each other. Today was just the first day, wait and watch!"
"Are you sure?!"
"Of course I am sure!"
"You know you should always carry some pastry around with you Terry, it makes you oddly optimistic."
"That is the miracle of sugar, baby sis, the miracle of sugar!"
The next day at breakfast:
"So Lily, what would you be helping Scorpius with?"
"Christmas, and other stuff….Why meeee?!" she whined.
"Uhh…well you did pounce on the guy and threw hexes at hiimm…." Abigail trailed of the rest of her thought for the sake of keeping all her limbs in one place, in light of the glare that her future mom was directing towards her.
"Umm…hey I have been meaning to ask you…I have heard that you are an ace at potions, do you mind tutoring me in the subject? I am so bad at it that a cauldron explodes just by me standing in front of it." Abigail asked trying to change the subject.
For the first time since yesterday afternoon Lily smiled and then good naturedly chuckled, "Sure, I would love to! Just one problem, I will have a lot on my plate now, what with this detention, my homework and everything. How about I help you during the weekends?"
"Oh that's not a problem. How about we start this Sunday, since Saturday is a Hogsmeade weekend."
Lily suddenly groaned. "Umm…is everything alright Lily?"
"Don't remind me about the Hogsmeade weekend?!"
"Why? What happened?"
"McGonagall increased our detention days and included Hogsmeade weekends in it too after my hexing incident. She told us that we would be working on those days and if we do want to go to Hogsmeade then we have to accompany each other or there is no way we will be allowed outside. Also, if we try to cheat and separate after entering the village, she will make our punishments worse and will literally force us to go everywhere together!"
"But how would she know when you both separate…oh wait...she has spies in Hogsmeade!"
"Seems so…"
"So whatever anyone does out there she gets a full report?!"
"How do I know?! She could be lying or could have put those people there recently….forget it. Why are we even thinking about this?"
"Yeah. Let's just finish breakfast go for classes."
Abigail was waiting inside the secret corridor for her brothers, waiting and thinking.
'What happens when we can't get back to our time? All our family…we have to find a way back ourselves, at least we have to try! Why couldn't they just make time turners that would turn both sides instead of one?! Huff…' before she could continue her thought, she heard her brothers' voices and footsteps approaching.
"Where HAVE you two BEEN?"
"Umm sorry sis, we were just having a very important conversation with Uncle Albus and lost track of time." Terrance replied seriously.
"Let me guess you were talking about…oh silly me...of course, you were talking about quidditch, which obviously is more important to you than your own sister!"
"Alright, alright! It will never happen again! Geez…"
So what happened with mom? How is she handling her extended detention?" Terrance asked, silencing his little brother before he could infuriate his twin any further.
"You know about that?"
"Uncle Albus told us," it was Regis who answered her this time.
"Ok...well, she's not taking it great but at least, she's not throwing things around! It's not like she has any choice in the matter…I didn't think the 2023 Lily Potter will give up so easily to tell you the truth…"
"Wait…Lily's your MOM?!..." The siblings turned wide eyed to face the new comer.
"WHAT THE HELL?! I knew something was suspicious about you three! And then you three were talking so mysteriously here in the corridor the other day! And…"
The siblings' eyes widened even more when they realized he knew about their conversation here. The three shared a look and without another word fled the corridor, leaving the intruder behind.
McGonagall had just put her quill down on her desk and while carefully placing the newly inked parchment in a drawer on her right side when the door suddenly burst open.
She looked up to see the three Malfoy siblings gasping for air, her brows scrunched up in confusion, 'What could have happened that has these three so distressed?'
"Is there a reason for such a rude intrusion my dears?" McGonagall questioned the teenagers, wiping away traces of her confusion and replacing it with a scowl.
It was the youngest Malfoy boy who replied, "He…he.."
Raising her eyebrows McGonagall waited.
Finally, catching his breath the boy replied, "James Potter knows…"
McGonagall, bewildered, closed the little drawer with a quick thud.