Chapter III

September 1977…

The Marauders had once again gotten into trouble with Filch as he chased the three boys down, yelling and threatening them for the prank they did just moments ago in the Slytherin Dungeon.

"When I get my hands on you, I'm going to have you hanging by your thumbs!"

"Fat chance Filch, you can't do that and beside you'll have to catch the Marauders in order to do that!" A brunette with messy hair and glasses yelled out to him as he and the other Marauders all laughed as they ran, pushing other students out of the way and into Filch's as they headed to the statue of Gregory the Smarmy, one of the many secret passageways they knew of, to escape him and Ms. Norris.

They tapped it with their wands and slipped underneath it and the statue slide back in place before Filch or Norris came in searching for the scoundrels seeing they weren't there went to see if they headed back down the Fourth Floor to try and maybe catch them. They snickered once he and his notorious, annoying cat went past their hiding place and back.

"Ha ha did you see the look on his face when he saw what happened to those Slimy Slytherins!" Sirius barked as he and the other recalled how they got them good before half the day was over. "Brilliant Prongs, absolutely brilliant, our best prank so far!"

"Yeah Padfoot, I bet Snivellusis going to have a hard time getting rid of that smell. Whew!" James AKA Prongs as he had been the one who came up with the idea laughed as he thought how Snape AKA Snivellus was going to smell of dung bombs along with some other nasty surprises from other said creatures that smelled even worse. "Can't wait to think of a new one to torture those damn slimy gits!" Peter, Wormtail snickered while before the statue slowly opened and in came their fourth and final member. "Knew I find you guys here."

"Moony old pal, you missed out on a good prank, where were you?" Sirius asked, pretending to be acting serious but had to laugh as Moony rolled his eyes. "Sorry but I had to go see Dumbledore with Lily and the other Heads and couldn't miss out on it, would have look suspicious if I didn't. Beside," An amuse glint appeared in his eyes, "I had to redirect Filch and Ms. Norris by telling them that someone had dropped some exploding snaps down the second floor bathrooms. You know how peeved he would get if Moaning Myrtle starts flooding the halls like she does if someone annoys her or whatever." The marauders laugh as two pranks had been so far played in one day.

"Good one Moony!" Well it wasn't anything new other than setting pranks and causing mischief to Hogwarts. Even at the age of seventeen and being as it was their last year at Hogwarts, they were going to give this school a bang to never forget the infamous Marauders!

James grabbed a blank parchment from out of his robes. "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good…" Then the Marauder's map reveal in thin ink lines, weaving and showing every room, corridor, passageway and people of Hogwarts as they check to see if the coast was clear, checking to see if Filch or Ms. Norris were down the halls. Luck was immensely on their side as they saw Filch and Ms. Norris's dots going to the second floor to Myrtle's bathroom.

"I think we strapping chaps best make our escape before Filch comes back once he realized that he was sent on a wild goose chase and that wasn't no exploding snap but a bunch of dung bombs instead."

"Chill would you? I want to go see Lily before we head back to the tower," James said, seeing Lily's dot heading to the fourth floor and up. Everyone seemed to have rolled their eyes at the mention of James's girlfriend. After almost six years of rejection, they had finally gone out and gotten together as boyfriend and girlfriend.

'Pretty soon you two will become Mr. And Mrs. Potter and have lots and lots of babies!' Padfoot had only joked as he watched his best friend go beet red and went after him to chase him almost everywhere to catch him and throw him in the lake for the Giant Squid.

The remembrance was broken when Wormtail's stomach growled and he said he wanted to head to the kitchen for a bit of a snack.

"Don't overload yourself; remember last time in fifth year." Sirius joked as nobody could forget what happened to poor Wormtail. Let's say he wished he never had to remember it and went his way. James turned to them and waved goodbye. "See ya Padfoot! Moony, meet you guys back at the common room."

"See ya Prongs, Wormtail!" Padfoot said as he and Moony went down the deserted hallway to ease through one of the many corridors as they past many painting and tried to see to it in avoiding Peeves.

Like any Mischief lover, he loved to cause mischief to anyone, whether foe or ally to the way of the mischief pranks and that didn't exclude the Marauders from one or two of his many jokes. Only the Bloody Baron could control that poltergeist.

They were both lost in thought as they walked down thinking of two different things. Remus was thinking of his future coming soon after he graduated and how that was going to be filled with hardships as to so many limitations and restrictions because of what he was.

It was so bloody unfair for him because of what he had to go through in life as a werewolf.

Sirius on the other hand was thinking of what the latest pranks were going to be for the Marauders to come up with. There were still so many pranks to do before their final year was up and how to make Snivellus' life really go down to Hell. Just as they heading to the stairs, Remus stopped in his track, causing Sirius to bump into him without paying attention.

"What's up Moony?" Just as the words left his mouth, something came falling from above them and Moony with quick reflex caught one of them while Sirius who hadn't taken any notice to look up felt something fall onto him, causing him to hit the floor.

"I had to ask." He said with his face plastered in the ground while Remus looked at the one he caught.

An attractive young girl around their age with long brown curls, light skin, pale as moonlight and soft rosy lips and wearing the strangest set of clothes he'd ever seen. He looked to where Sirius was and saw another girl was on top of him, only she had darker and straighter hair and black leather clothes on and wearing a satchel on her back. "Could you please help me up Moony!" Moony was disrupted of his thinking as he saw Sirius muttering darkly to himself.

"Oh right, one moment." He laid the girl carefully on the floor while he helped his friend with the other. "I'm surprised you couldn't get her off with all that Quidditch practice Padfoot."

"Yeah well something is hitting my back hard and it's sticking in. Dear Merlin, don't tell me it's a guy! I hate to think if it's a guy molesting me!" As Remus managed to retrieve the other girl off of Sirius and lay her down next to the other, he looked at the both of them.

Strange, he had never seen these two before in all his life and they had come out of nowhere. Sirius joined his side and was looking at the one that fell on top of him. He whistled wolfishly, staring at her strange yet interesting attire, looking from her knee high boots to her tight black shirt, revealing as little to the eyes of her clad figure she had but showing the alabaster skin that looked white compare to the other girl. "Whoa, if I knew that someone like her was falling onto me, I would have gladly caught her. Maybe swept her feet if she was awake."

Remus resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Yet again, Sirius had set his sight on another potential girl to have a go with. He had flirted, dated and snuggled with almost every female student in Hogwarts, with the exception with a few Slytherins, on a dare of course. Now maybe two new targets were going to be Sirius next goal besides pranking with Prongs of course. "I think we should take them to Madam Promfreyand then go to Dumbledore and tell him what happened."

"Yeah good idea. You carry one and I'll carry the other." Sirius went to the black clad girl and picked her up bridal style that many of the girls in Hogwarts would give to have Sirius do that for them. He could have done a simple locomotor spell but that was Sirius for you.

Ah well better get a move on then. Remus picked up the other girl, being extremely careful as he held her to him and followed after Sirius all the while staring and wondering about the girl in his arms.

Who was she exactly, how did she get here and why did he feel so comfortable with her this way? She moaned a little and moved closer to him, snuggling closer to his chest causing his cheeks to glow bright red and made his feet move faster to the infirmary.

"Hey Promfrey!" Sirius yelled as he got in first, startling the young med-witch who was about to scold him that this was a hospital and shouldn't yell when injured people were healing, not realizing she had no one injured today but when she caught sight of the young girl in his arm, she turned her attention to him and said, "What happened?" Knowing it had something to possibly do with him.

Sirius looked taken aback at the tone as if she thought he did this, "Don't look at me Promfrey, I didn't do anything to this girl, see Remus and me were walking along the way back to our dorms and these girls, oh yeah Remus has the other one by the way."

Remus appeared a moment later with the other girl in his arms. "They appeared out of nowhere. As if apparate in or something." He wasn't going to say from the sky cause that would sound crazy and how was he going to explain that he didn't see this one falling on top of him.

The med-witch rolled her eyes. "Don't be preposterous Mr. Black." She said as she conjured the curtain sheets to open with two beds, "Well best lie them down on those beds over here." She pointed to the two empty bed and Sirius and Remus did as they were told. Once they did, Sirius however got something caught in his robe and pulled it off. A crest-shaped pendant with a ruby was centered around and Sirius made to untangle it from him. Remus noticed it looked exactly like the one around the other girl's neck except hers was with a blue stone.

Remus tore his gaze from her as he told them he would be back soon after he told Dumbledore what happened.

"No need Mr. Lupin I was just on my way here to see how Ms. Poppy was faring and checked if we had anyone injured today." Sirius and Remus turned to see the headmaster moving towards them and stare at the two girls. "Well, here's something you don't see everyday."

"Um…professor, these girls, I don't know how to say it, they seem to apparate into Hogwarts, and everyone knows that's impossible, especially since it's written in Hogwarts: A History."

"Yes indeed it is true that no one can do that on Hogwarts grounds. I will question these two when they awake but I must ask you to keep this to yourselves for the time being."

Sirius scowled, he wasn't too keen on keeping secrets but Remus didn't care, all he wanted to know was who these two were, more likely the girl that fell into his arms and how they got here.

"I suggest that the both of you go to your dormitory this instant. Curfew is just around the corner you know and I don't think Filch is in a very good mood if you get my meaning."

They both nodded and said their goodnights to the headmaster and left. Dumbledore stared at them, not seeing the two pendants on them, giving a slight glow then faded. He turned around and smiled as he placed a hand on top of the brown haired girl's head and said, "Well seems like we'll have to figure out what happened to you two time travelers…"