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Remus did not know what to do. He looked miserably at Hermione before he decided to answer.

"You never told me how you were sent back into the past. We all questioned you many times but you held your ground against us." Remus shook his head, "All you ever said was that it happened around the end of July. You firmly kept your belief that if you had told someone about how it happened we would try to stop it."

Hermione looked up from her feet and smiled slightly at Remus. "That sounds exactly like something I would say. And it sounds exactly like something Harry or Ron would try to do."

Remus got lost in his memories again and blindly answered, "Padfoot and Prongs would have as well."

He quickly looked at Hermione as the fog immediately lifted from his head. Hermione had a questioning expression on her face, but said nothing. She had finally begun to accept that this was real. She marveled at the memories she would shortly acquire and soon understand.

"Remus?" Hermione asked quietly. "What about the others? What about Harry, Ron and Ginny?"

Hermione could not catch Remus' eye as she finished this question. Remus looked desperate and completely beside himself. Hermione knew he did not want to answer.

"I'm not entirely sure what happens to them. You talked about the three of them all the time. You loved them and they were hard people to live up to." Remus smirked a little after this comment. His face contorted as Remus remembered the tears and the scars that Amelia avoided talking about. "But I think something is going to happen to them."

Hermione stared blankly at Remus. She wanted him to say that they were just upset about her leaving, not that they might be hurt even before she left.

"Please Remus, I need you to tell me that everything is going to be ok when I leave."

Remus shook his head at her comment. "Come now Hermione. You're cleverer than that. I cannot tell you about anything that happens after you left. Who could have told me?"

After that comment, Hermione felt foolish. How could she forget that she had been the one to tell him everything? Who could have told him about after she disappeared if she had already left! She laughed harshly at herself as she stated, "what a thoughtless question."

Remus felt terrible about how Hermione was acting. "You can't be too hard on yourself Hermione. I'm sure this time travel thing is a bit complicated, even for you."

She laughed lightly this time and smiled at Remus as he flashed her a grin. Hermione smiled even broader as she asked, "so, this is how we acted back then?"

"Yes. Be became fast friends. We challenged each other, and bickered like siblings; but you were always there to support and help me. I tried to do the same for you, but I doubt I was as helpful as you were to me."

Hermione sighed and placed her head on Remus' shoulder. Remus automatically tilted his head so that he would be leaning on Hermione. Remus' mind went back again to old times.

Remus sat on the sofa in Sirius' house as he listened to Amelia's request. He sat hunched over with his head in his hands, feeling the pressure of the weight her request carried.

"But why are you only telling me all of this. You should be telling everyone. Sirius and Lily and James deserve to know all of this too!"

Amelia had tears streaming down her cheeks as she violently shook her head. "They can't know everything Remus. They know about me coming here, that's enough of the future for them. I can't tell James and Lily that they are going to die! I can't tell Sirius that he's going to go to prison accused of murder!"

"But why do I have to know all of this by myself then?" Remus was standing now. He was yelling. But it didn't faze Mia in the least. She had expected this reaction.

"Because I'm not going to be around forever! Someone is going to find out about me and come after me unless I disappear. I've helped all that I can this time around. You, you need to help me. You need to make sure that the world is saved. Please make sure that I come back to the past without the others being killed. You're all I have in the future. Everyone else is gone. We're all alone Remus…"

Amelia's pleading look in her eyes made Remus weak. How could someone so strong be so scared? Remus walked over and wrapped his arms around is almost sister.

"Mia please tell me what I'm supposed to do. I don't understand why you can't tell everyone. Why can't you tell Sirius. He would be devastated if he knew that he was excluded from this."

Melanie shook her head again. "You need to know so you can understand. Sirius wouldn't understand what has to be done, he's too stubborn. Everything needs to play out for right now. I wasn't as prepared as I needed to be when I came back here. You can help me with that."

Remus pulled back his arms. "You want me to watch as James and Lily are killed? You want me to stand by as Sirius is dragged off to Askaban?"

"Yes."

Her sad eye's never wavered.

"You have to Remus. It's the only way to ensure that I will have someone in the future. I've done all the research. This is how it has to be for now."

"For now?" Remus was confused enough. He thought it was time to have Amelia's scattered thoughts explained in detail.

"Yes, for now. Life is ever changing Remus. Past, present, future, everything can be changed or altered or even diminished. I didn't have enough information the first time. I need you to help me to be ready next time I come back."

Remus was dumbfounded. "Next time?"

Amelia smiled at Remus. "Yes Remus, next time. Let the time line go as it should for right now. That is the only way you will be there to help little Hermione save everyone you love."

Remus shook his head as if to wake up from a dream or nightmare. He looked around hoping that it was over.

"No Remus, this isn't a dream." She frowned slightly as her confidence faltered. "You need to understand Remus. What can I do to make you understand?"

Remus shook his head again, but this time as a form of "no".

"I understand what I have to do, but I don't understand why I have to face it by myself."

Amelia was the one to shake her head this time. "Remus please don't make me tell you everything. It's too much already that I have to relive everything when I sleep."

She was almost in tears again when Sirius walked into the room.

He looked at the scene around him and frowned as he walked up to his friends. He nodded to Remus and wrapped an arm around Amelia.

"So I take it that she's told you about leaving us."

Remus stared at Amelia and nodded.

"Well, I've already tried everything I can Moony so you trying to reason with her won't help the matter." Sirius said this in an encouraging tone; he wanted Moony to continue with his conversation with Amelia anyway.

"I can't stay Remus. I have to go back to my time. I've done too much already." Amelia stressed the last sentence, and Remus caught on rather quickly.

"But how are you even returning to your time? You don't know what you're going back to. Have you thought of that at all?"

Amelia heaved a sigh and wiped a stray tear away as he mouthed thank you to Remus. The cover conversation continued for a while longer. It only ended when James and a very pregnant Lily had arrived for that evenings "family dinner".

Remus remembered sadly that he and Mia had never finished their conversation about why he had to know so much alone. But he understood now. When Amelia had said that they were all alone, she had meant that they were the only one's alive.

Remus sat next to Hermione until she decided to sit up straight again. She looked at him sadly and asked if she needed to prepare for anything else before she "left".

"No. You're prepared enough. That's one of the reasons why I helped so much when you, Harry and Ron were researching the Dark Arts and Voldemort. I did everything I could to get you three to study and learn everything together so that you would get all the information you needed for when you went back."

Hermione nodded and a small smile crossed her lips, "that's why you asked me to reread some of the books we had. You basically quizzed me over The Rise and Fall of Dark Magic after I had read it three times."

They both chuckled a bit at this comment.

It seemed to have been forever since Remus had begun his last awful task of preparing Hermione. But it had only really been an hour.

Ginny had tried to wake the boys up, but had received two pillows flying in her direction as a response. She had quickly stormed out with the threats, "see if I ever kiss you again" and "I'm going to eat all your breakfast now" lingering behind her as she exited.

Ginny planned on going down stair and convincing Hermione to go for a walk with her down to the muggle village for some fresh air, but this plan had been interrupted by her mother telling Ginny that Hermione was in an important "meeting" with Lupin. Molly had also grabbed Ginny's arm and guided her into the study to help with cleaning so that Remus and Hermione could take their time.

As Ginny "cleaned" the study with her mum, she thought up plans for escape. If the boys had been awake, I could have gone flying with them. That would have been the simplest excuse.

Her mind wondered from her numerous escape plans and back to Hermione. What were Lupin and Hermione talking about? Was Hermione alright?

"Ginny!"

Ginny jumped almost a foot into the air as she was ripped from her thoughts.

"Why on earth have you been dusting the same spot for fifteen minutes?"

Molly walked over and showed her daughter yet again how to dust with and without her wand. But unfortunately, Ginny was not paying attention. Her thoughts were on her friend in the kitchen. Ginny would have sworn that she had heard yelling and screaming a few minutes ago, but she hoped she was imagining things and returned to finding a suitable escape plan.

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