Part 5:

The kitchen crew:

"We give them a sock?" Isabelle asked Luna confused. Knitting socks was much easier for wizards. They could just cast a spell. The rest had to actually learn knitting. It was awful. Most of them had given up in minutes. Dru was the only who had learned and Jules knew as he had to knit his siblings presents often.

"Just give them a sock," Cho agreed handing a female house elf a sock.

"Or any piece of clothing really," Luna added.

"What happens in the morning when Hogwarts has no house elves to cook or anything?" Seamus asked.

"They will have to pay the house elves for their work." Luna handed the rest of her socks to the remaining house elves. Some stayed, some left instantly. A house elf named Dobby was convincing a few to stay and see if they could be as paid as much as he apparently was by Dumbledore.

Harry and Penelope:

"We should get back," Penelope said tiredly. They had been walking most of the night. Harry was determined to find the antidote.

"To where we started?" Harry asked.

"Yep, then we will get out of here."

"We haven't found the antidote!" Harry exclaimed in shock.

"I think it's obvious Baz has it. Baz would never have let Simon go somewhere dangerous if he didn't have what he needed to save him."

"Then what was the point of us coming?" Harry looked angry.

"Ty wants to talk to Kit. Newt wants to hang out with his boyfriend and set Tina up. Baz wanted to ask Simon out. Magnus wants to talk to Alec about something. Albus and Scorpius are trying to help George with something. Queenie and Jacob are supposed to stay by the entrance. Jace is an idiot so it wasn't hard to convince him. I'm sure Hermione knows." Penelope shrugged as if this were normal. "Plus, now you know you have to tell Ron and I know I have to stay in Britain with Simon. We had a great conversation."

Jace and Clary:

"We should go," Jace said looking sadly at the centaurs who still seemed to hate him.

"What?" Clary asked confused. She had just finished her painting. It didn't capture the beauty of the hillside but it wasn't her worst work she thought. Jace and the centaurs applauded it. Clary had agreed to let the centaurs keep it as a gift.

"Jace Wayland, you were right. This was worth the dye you found in plants. You are welcome here." The centaur that had chased him said reaching out a hand. Jace shook it beaming. The centaur smiled at him momentarily before punching him.

"Fred paid me 5 gallons to do that," the centaur said and walked back to the now healed unicorn.

"Where are we going?" Clary asked.

"Back home. I'll explain on the way."

Queenie and Jacob:

"I can't believe you tied me up," Jacob said half amused and half angry. Queenie had found him in the forest, tied him up using magic, and carried him back to the entrance and explained everything. How she knew before they even entered Baz had the antidote because he was thinking about it and him and Magnus had discreetly told people.

"It is too dangerous for you to wonder about," Queenie explained, casting a spell for the fork in front of him to begin feeding him. Jacob wished Queenie would untie so he could feed himself but they both knew he would run into the forest.

"You have to let me do things. We are both part of this world. Maybe I can't wonder magical forests alone but I can't be expected to do nothing. I helped Newt in New York."

Queenie looked down at her plate for a moment. She had made ham and mashed potatoes and was upset she had to use a spell on Jacob.

"You're right. I just don't want what happened in New York to happen again. We should work as a team instead of me trying to protect you darling," Queenie admitted. "Now, we should get out of here." Queenie waved her wand and the ropes fell. She looked at him expecting him to go into the forest. Jacob met her eyes and opened the door out of the suitcase for her. They had better things to do than argue.

Hermione and Ron:

"Baz has the antidote? Bloody hell. What was the point of going in there then?" Ron asked gesturing wildly at the spider who stood in the water.

"I wanted you to face your fear." Hermione had explained that she figured Baz had the antidote and Magnus had sent her a fire message their first night here confirming it.

"If I go in there and swim past that spider will you agree to one, get us out of here and two, have dinner with me?"

"We have dinner together every night with Harry," Hermione responded confused.

"Just me and maybe not as friends." Ron was a deep red which made his ginger hair stick out.

"If you swim past the spider, yes." Hermione nodded causing her curly hair to bounce back and forth.

Ron took a deep breath and got in the water, facing the spider. Ron felt the water under his arms as he swam nearer and nearer, the spider wasn't even moving toward him. It was terrifying but not the monster he made it out to be. He passed it and heard Hermione cheering from the beach.

He swam back to her beaming. "Bloody hell get me out of here," he said as he ran back up the beach.

Fred and George:

"If you go back up, if you don't let Newt bring you to his city you will die. Bellatrix kills you in the Battle of Hogwarts," George repeated. George was pale and had black circles under his eyes and red eyes, he had been crying.

"If I don't go up there she could kill you. Someone else may die who wouldn't have. We don't know what will happen if we alter the timeline." Fred had refused to even consider staying here.

"Please. I'll stay here with you. We can't live without one another," George cried out.

"You wouldn't. We both know when the battle comes you won't let your family fight without you. Neither will I. Maybe by just telling me about Bellatrix you saved me. Maybe not. Either way you know we can't stay here. And you can live without me. There's a you in the future doing it. One of us will die one day. If it is me who dies first I want, no, I need you to be happy in the future not focusing on me in the past." Before George could stop him, Fred opened the door and sprinted back out into the real world.

Kit and Ty:

"The map is done," Ty said proudly. It was just after dark and the last of Ty's drawings completed a chart of stars that would help with navigation.

"Back to where we started?" Kit asked. He had grown to enjoy their little makeshift home in the rain forest.

"Yeah. I'll leave it for Newt to find there. We can go home after." Ty's cheek paled. He looked panicked. Kit was confused. He thought their next step would be to track the other teams.

"Shouldn't we make more than one copy of the map and give it the others?" Kit asked.

"Baz, he kind of has the antidote. I just hoped if we had some time together." Kit turned a deep red and reached for a rubber like toy in his pocket and began twisting it into shapes. Kit took a deep breath and walked closer to Ty, careful not to touch him though he desperately wanted too.

Kit waited for Ty to be ready to talk. He didn't want to push him or force him to say whatever he wanted to say.

"I know that I'm different. Mark and Julian told me in London. I know I have autism. I've always known but I didn't know the name. Now, I know the name." Ty was breathing hard, his thin chest rising and falling rapidly. Kit paled. Kit had known, everyone had, but he didn't know how to talk to Ty about it.

"Does the name make it harder?" Kit asked.

"No. I've always known. I know that I can be sensitive about being touched and other things. I like when we kiss though. I like being with you. I don't think I'm exactly the dream a lot of people think about but if you wanted we could be together, dating. If you want too." Ty's usual pale white face was the shade of a tomato now.

Kit closed the distance between them. "Ty, you're a dream. I already thought we were dating." Kit laughed. He realized he had never officially asked Ty out and had just assumed they were dating. "We are dating, officially. And, I like that you're different. You like that you're different. Being different is good." Kit reached out a hand for Ty and Ty took it, and rested his face against Kit's shoulder.

Tina and Newt:

"Aaron, are you staying here long?" Tina asked. Newt and Aaron walked in front of her and Ben hand in hand. Ben was leaving with Newt and Tina. Tina was less than thrilled when Newt explained Baz's plan but had come around when Ben had asked her on a double date.

"Nope, I'm following you all out today. Newt and I will be back here for a few weeks next month though." Aaron cast a patronus at the shape of a leopard in the distance. Aaron's patronus was in the shape a badger, Tina wondered if the memories behind them had to do with Newt.

"What is that?" Tina exclaimed.

"A Nundu. It is filled with diseases." Newt clapped, thrilled at its presence.

"They are fascinating. I've moved them to isolation for obvious reasons. They are the only ones by this door. We must be near the exit," Newt explained. The nundu ran into the distance. Behind it, a large red door stood. Newt opened it for the rest of them to follow through.

Magnus and Alec:

"So, Baz has the antidote?" Alec asked.

"Yeah," Magnus responded nervously.

"What did you want to ask me?" Alec had never known Magnus to be nervous. It was frightening him. Magnus took a deep breath and met Alec's blue eyes with his catlike eyes holding their gaze.

"It is terribly inefficient, you always having to carry so much clothes and belongings over every time you stay with me. You do stay with me for weeks at a time," Magnus explained his gaze holding Alec's.

"You don't want me to spend nights with you?" Alec look as if he had been shot. His mouth tight and eyes filled with water.

"No. No. That is not what I'm saying at all." Magnus reached into his pocket retrieving what he was looking for and grabbed Alec's hand, pressing the key into his palm. "I'm saying it is quite ridiculous when you could just bring all of your belongings to me. We could live together." Magnus grinned his elfish grin. It was a nervous grin this time. Magnus looked vulnerable. He rarely looked vulnerable. A vulnerable and nervous Magnus made Alec's heart stop, leap, and beat faster at the same time.

"I'd, erm. I'd, uh, like that." Alec grinned back before kissing the warlock. "Next time you ask me something can we talk about it somewhere trolls don't hurdle rocks at us?"

"That takes out all the best places to ask you anything," Magnus responded hitting his hips against Alec's as they walked back to where they started.

Albus and Scorpius:

Albus and Scorpius had made it back to Fred and George only to find a letter explaining they were taking their chances in the Battle of Hogwarts.

"What do we do now?" Scorpius asked looking heartbroken. No one dealt with death easily but Scorpius's mother had died. He knew death better than most. The pain was written all over his face. Albus wrapped his arm around his boyfriend's shoulder and squeezed it gently.

"Nothing. We warned them. Maybe that is enough to save Fred. If it's not than at least he and George had a moment to say goodbye here," Albus reassured Scorpius.

"I guess we have to go back home." Scorpius opened the door in front of them to the sound of Snape screaming at a room full of people about freeing house elves.

Albus threw his invisibility cloak over the two of them, taking a moment to see one of the men he was named after taking hundreds of points from Gryffindor. The house cup would go to Slytherin this year, Scorpius and Albus beamed as they took out the time-turner and headed home.

They stood in the kitchen in their time. They didn't need to say anything, they both knew where they wanted to go. They ran to the list of house cup winners. It was the only year in history where a house had negative points with a picture of a ransacked kitchen next to it and two banners hanging next to it. Slytherin and Hufflepuff tied that year.

"Should we check if Fred died?" Scorpius asked.

"No. Let's not even ask. We'll write our own ending."

Baz and Simon:

Simon stirred awake, his arms pressing harder into Baz. This was the 2nd night they'd slept like this. Yesterday, Simon had refused to leave the bed so they'd spent the day cuddling and occasionally argued playfully.

"What time is it?" Simon buried his head under a pillow.

"Just past noon." Baz reluctantly forced himself out of bed. It was past time to tell Snow the truth. "By the way, I have the antidote. I've had it the whole time." Baz tried to sound casual, but he waited, expecting Simon's explosion. Instead, Simon's thick curls, which spun every which way from his head looked up with his blue eyes and stared. Then, he laughed.

"This was all a plot? To get me alone with you?" Simon asked still laughing.

"You aren't mad?" Baz asked dumping the antidote outside. The green wave hit the ground and spread, turning the world a bright green before evaporating.

"You're always plotting. I guess I'll have to get used to it. Now that I'm dating a Slytherin." Simon stood beside him looking at the world they'd been living in the last few days fondly.

"Who said we were dating?" Baz asked.

Simon blushed, making his freckles stand out against his skin. "Aren't we?"

"I refuse to be asked out so casually. Romance is an art."

"You shoved me down a flight of stairs when we were twelve and tried to feed me to a chimera once," Simon replied grinning.

"Being an antagonist is an art…Fine, I promise not to try to kill or hurt you again." Baz smirked at Simon. Baz rarely smiled, smirks meant a great deal. Simon shrugged in response. This shrug meant "same."

"Have you ever been on a picnic?" Simon asked, walking away from their cottage. A lush forest stood near them, thickly blanketed by trees. The cloudy day blocked most of the sun, a slight drizzle of raining dripping down the tree branches.

"Everyone's been on a picnic Snow."

"You called me Simon before."

"No I didn't."

Simon sat under a tree looking up at the clouds, the droplets hit his face but he didn't lower his head. He rested his back against the tree trunk. "I haven't. Can we go on one?"

Baz knew he should say no. They were probably the last ones here and Newt had been kind to let them stay for as long as they did. But, it was Snow and Baz couldn't say no to Simon Snow. Baz conjured a blanket under Simon and sat next to him, pulling out his chicken alfredo. Snow set the last of his scones down on the blanket. Baz wondered if the entire backpack he brought with him was full of scones.

Snow nervously pointed his wand at the center of the blanket. A candle appeared, a rather large candle, but for Snow this was a success. His magic was unpredictable. Baz was always good at fire spells so he lit it.

"Can we date now?" Simon asked bluntly. Snow was always blunt. Baz looked at his freckles, the loose curls of his blonde hair, the fact he was somehow rather toned despite having a diet of almost exclusively scones.

"Yes Snow. We can date."

"You called me Simon before."

Baz took one of Simon's scones and took a bite. "Don't be ridiculous. I've always called you Snow. Anyways, we should leave after this."

The two finished their picnic, Simon jumping up grabbing Baz and dragging him up with him. Baz led him back to Hogwarts where a battle of words was waging between the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors who had lost hundreds of points for freeing the house elves and jumping into Newt's world. This was ironic as the Hufflepuff house had long freed house elves and had a stash of thousands of pieces of clothing they used to free house elves around the globe.

"Baz and Simon were in there! They're in Hufflepuff and Slytherin!" Harry and Cho yelled pointing at them as they returned to the kitchen. Baz stared amused, the room was filled with shadowhunters, fairies, wizards, witches, and vampires.

"Baz and Simon, how were you two involved?" Snape asked furiously.

"It was Baz's idea!" Harry yelled.

"Don't be ridiculous. Slytherin's would never do such a warm, fuzzy thing and Hufflepuffs are too busy hufflepuffing around to do anything like this." Baz grabbed Simon and led him through the thick group of people, ignoring the rest of the questions and accusations. Simon waved to everyone as he left, smiling apologetically and admitted Hufflepuff did help, Baz didn't look back.

"If you take points from Hufflepuff…" Baz warned, unsure of what threat to make. Snape scowled but didn't punish either of them.

The two arrived back in their dorm. It looked the same as it did when they left it days ago, but everything was different.

"I end up with you. At the end of the book you're the one I end up." Simon glowed at this, his eyes bright. He grinned and kissed Baz.

"Obviously." Baz kissed him back.