A New Timeline *COMPLETE* LAST CHAPTER A/N | By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Remus/Hermione Views: 26421 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2 |
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Hermione was seated by herself in the very back of the library that Sunday, she had an entire table to herself and it was covered in books, notebooks and charts and she was working feverishly over homework that had yet to be assigned. She had a modified see-me-not spell up along with an equally modified silencing charm, her friends could see and hear her when no one else could, and it was much needed as Lily, James, Sirius, and Remus walked in to her little “study-world”.
“Have you seen Severus?” Sirius asked nervously “He was gone when I woke up this morning and I haven’t seen him at all…I’ve checked the map and he is no-where on it however he is also not in the room of requirement”
“I haven’t seen him at all” Hermione told him.
“What’s more…” Lily bit her lip and looked around “The Diary and Ring are missing”
“WHAT?” Hermione jumped up and slammed her hands down on the table “Lily, you were supposed to be keeping an eye on that stuff…I was trusting you!”
“I didn’t know…” She sobbed “H-he asked where they were…it was common conversation…I never thought he’d take it!”
“Why wasn’t there any spells protecting it?!” Hermione hissed.
“There was…he broke through them” Lily ran away from them and James followed a minute later after shooting his sister an angry glare.
“Here’s what we do” Hermione looked at Remus and Sirius “We will keep an eye on the map and the minute he comes back we throw him in the room of requirement and interrogate him”
“How do you know we’ll need to interrogate him?” Sirius snapped.
“Don’t be stupid, Sirius” She growled “He is missing, the horcruxes are missing…do that math”
“It could be…”
“A coincidence?” She finished “No… it can’t be. This has nothing to do with his being in Slytherin, if Remus were to be the one doing this he would be interrogated as well”
“Fine” Sirius sighed “I’ll watch the map. Be good” With that he walked away.
“What about Lily?” Remus whispered moving closer to Hermione and slipping his arms around her “You were kind of cruel”
“She was stupid” Hermione hissed “She is playing with the future here”
“Hermione” He warned.
“What…if you take her side then leave!” She thought that he would tell her to stop being a bitch and hug her but he turned and walked away from her, leaving her alone with her thoughts.
Severus returned to the map of the school at about six that evening. Hermione, Lily, Sirius, James and Remus stood at the base of the staircase all with angered expressions lingering on their faces. They were all brought up short when they realized that the Slytherin was covered in soot, it looked as if he had been caught in a fire, cleaning many fireplaces or maybe traveling by floo powder all day. Hermione opened her mouth to ask where he had been but Severus shook his head and walked straight past them motioning for them to follow him as he led the way to the room of requirement. It was only safely in there with the door firmly closed did he put his hands in to the pockets of his robe and remove a small gold cup and hand it to Hermione. It thrummed with dark magic and made her arm tingle with the pure hatred that was hidden deep within the object.
“The cup” She whispered “How?” She bit her lip and then raised her brows “Where are the other ones?”
“Fiend Fyre” He answered, his voice was raspy and choked and he had to stop of cough to clear his lungs before he continued “I went to Borgin and Burkes to find a Basilisk fang so I could kill them and bring them back to you. There was none there but I felt this…thrumming of severely dark magic…it was like it was speaking to me or calling to me and that was when I found the cup”
“First off” Hermione said “Why did you get this sudden need to kill all the horcruxes yourself?”
“I got a letter last night” He answered taking a sip of water that Remus had conjured “I told Sirius it was from my parents but it wasn’t. It was from Voldemort and he is not giving me much of a choice in joining him if I don’t he said he would…would kill Sirius”
“But why not tell me or Sirius?” Hermione asked.
“I panicked okay?” He snapped “I go to Dumbledore and he makes me a spy you already told me that, I don’t join he kills the only person who I’m pretty sure cares about me, I had no choice!”
“Severus…” Remus tried in a soothing voice.
“No!” He snapped glaring at Hermione “You told us our futures and promised that you would help us get rid of HIM if we helped you with those horcruxes however that is not happening!”
“Snivellous…” James voice was all warning.
“We found two and couldn’t get rid of them while at school but did you find another way?” He sneered “NO you didn’t…instead you decide ‘oh well it can wait’ did it ever dawn on you that I am half-blood and I don’t want to work for him or that Lily is MUGGLE-BORN?!”
“That’s not…” Hermione tried.
“All you care about is fucking Lupin” Severus moved closer “But you know what…I am not as narrow-minded as you are. I can multi-task, I have killed two Horcruxes and have found another and you just confirmed that it was the one I’m looking for so next Saturday I will destroy it. That will leave the locket around LeStranges neck and Voldemort himself, sorry Hermione but I’ll have to kill your boyfriend”
“Severus that’s not what…” Hermione started.
“I agree with Severus” Lily’s voice called over Hermiones “I love you Hermione and I know that you are doing everything that you can but I feel that you have let your relationship get in the way and pull your attention away from the most important things”
“FINE!” Hermione shouted making everyone jump back away from her she started to shake and fought to control her voice “If this is how you all feel then I will not bother any of you anymore”
“Hermione…” Remus reached for her.
“Any of you” She hissed pulling her arm away from his grasp and storming away out of the ROR and to the front door.
~~~Gryffindor Common Room~~~
“I don’t know what came over me” Severus said sadly leaning in to Sirius’s side “She has been amazing to me and has helped me more than anyone in the world and I-I was so cruel”
“You were speaking truth” James groaned, hating himself for agreeing with the git “We all love and adore her but she has been pretty much ignoring the horcruxes since she was told she couldn’t destroy them at the school, she started out so fierce and driven and then she let herself drift lower and lower on the radar”
“Where is she though?” Lily whined “She’s been gone since Sunday night”
“I know” James whispered.
“It’s Monday, James!” She growled, tears filling her eyes “Her bed remains untouched, she’s not in class nor the library or hallways. Where is she?”
“If I knew then she would be here” James snapped at her.
Hermione was, in fact, hiding away in town with her lady-in-waiting Bellatrix. While she stayed with her she kept the necklace off, they made quite an interesting and tearful pair, it seemed that all Bellatrix did without the locket was cry and worry while Hermione listened and offered advice and promises. Hermione was shocked when after calming the older witch for almost an hour, she looked at her and told her it was her turn to cry and feel sorry for herself. So that was how it had been the past two days, crying, talking and occasionally laughing, she was surprised to learn that had a lot in common with Bella and that their sense of humor was almost the same. Bella’s was a bit darker than Hermione thought she would enjoy but after a few hours of spending time with her she realized that the woman didn’t have expectations of her, she didn’t mind if she laughed at the dark and sometimes downright prejudice jokes she just wanted her to laugh and laugh Hermione did.
“So…It’s Tuesday” Bella trailed looking at Hermione with her brows raised “Are you going to go back to the castle?”
“I don’t know” Hermione dropped on to the couch “I told the headmaster that I needed to be away from them and I have been sending in my school and homework…can’t I stay here forever?”
“Believe me” Bella laughed “I would love to have you stay here but you need to get back to the castle”
“I know” Hermione sighed and stood up as it was five in the evening “I can’t run from my problems forever”
~~~Hogwarts~~~
The great hall was packed when Hermione walked through the double doors and joined the Gryffindor table sitting at the very end and eating quickly so she could avoid her problems just a little bit longer. After all her food had been consumed she stood and fled the room jogging all the way to Gryffindor common room and the girls dorm room. Once she was alone in there she stopped and took a much needed deep breath and readied herself for the inevitable war that would happen and once she was sure that she was ready she made her way back down to the common room holding her quickly growing kitten for support.
James was pacing back and forth when she got down there, Remus was studying his potions book, Severus was no-where to be seen and Sirius was glaring down at his hands. The only person who even acknowledged that Hermione was standing in the common room was Lily who gave her a hurt and possibly mean look before storming up to the dorm room. She sighed and looked from person to person waiting for someone to say something to her but they were silent in fact they all acted as if she had attacked them and not one of them attacking her.
“Where is Severus” She asked in a neutral tone as if he hadn’t made her feel like shit two days ago.
“He is in the Slytherin common room” Sirius answered glaring at her.
“Couldn’t face me then?” She asked.
“We broke up” He muttered still giving her a nasty look.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” Hermione asked honestly curious.
“Because” James walked towards her “It’s your fault. Had you done or attempted to do half the shit you promised Snape wouldn’t have verbally attacked you, he and Sirius wouldn’t have fought and Snape wouldn’t have ended it yesterday. If it wasn’t for you then…Lily wouldn’t have broken up with me”
“How did I have anything to do with that?” She snapped “I wasn’t even here!”
“BECAUSE I WAS WORRIED ABOUT YOU!” He screamed “I WAS WORRIED AND I SNAPPED AT HER AND SHE…she broke up with me” He whispered the last part brokenly.
“I can talk to them” Hermione said “I can…”
“NO!” Sirius stood and stormed over to her making her back up so fast that she nearly fell on to the table that Remus had been working at “You little bitch…you leave them alone…leave Severus alone. Don’t for one SECOND think that I don’t know that it was you that told Voldemort about his talents in Potions!”
“Sirius…I didn’t mean to!” She gasped, there were tears filling her eyes “I can make it better!”
“NO!” He screamed “Don’t. Go. Near. Him. In fact stay away from Lily and Remus and James and sure as all stay the hell away from me!”
“Sirius” Hermiones eyes begged him to rethink his words but he stared coldly back “Remus…” She looked at the boy she thought she was in love with and though he wasn’t cold or hateful he merely stared back with hurt shining through.
“O-okay” She breathed deeply “I’m sorry for trusting you…”
“Don’t pull that” Sirius hissed “You know…I believe you are truly from the future but I think it’s time for you to go back there and face whatever fate awaits you!” And with that he stormed away and after a second James pulled Remus up the stairs and away from the sobbing girl.
~~~February. March. April and finally May~~~
May was near an end and with the end of the month came the O.W.L’s and that was all consuming for Hermione, as everything now-a-days were. The fateful fight that took place in January had done major damage to all those involved, Severus never joined Voldemort who stopped courting Hermione in anger, Sirius stopped talking to everyone except maybe Remus who in turn stopped talking to everyone and James was a ghost of the boy he used to be. To top off everything that was going wrong in her life it appeared that the entire school hated her (except maybe the Slytherins) because she had singlehandedly taken down the Marauders.
When she wasn’t sleeping she was living in the library or in her classes, she had tried to get back to her own time over the months that had passed but it was to no avail the timeturner that brought her here was broken and there would be no return for her. As she sat each and every one of her O.W.L’s she realized that without the help of the people she thought were friends she had no clue what kind of future she was making for herself and her future/past best friends. It was breakfast on the last day of term and a mail owl flew in to the great hall along with all the others and landed in front of Hermione, she smiled gratefully because she knew who had written her it was one of the only people that ever wrote to her anymore, Molly Weasley.
“Dear Hermione,
Well, the twins are a handful. I can’t wait for them to be older and then they will be less trouble” Hermione raised her eyebrows and muttered ‘just wait’ before continuing on with the letter “Arthur is working all the time and I worry about him constantly. I count the day’s until you are home from school (Friday is the last day right?) then you can come over and visit me, I need some human contact that isn’t just children. You know I love my children and would never wish for anything less than what the gods have given me but sometimes I think I should have gone against my parents wishes and joined that new all-woman’s Quidditch team, wouldn’t that have been crazy?
I’m not sure if I told you that, I used to play Quidditch at Hogwarts. I was the first ever female allow on the teams and it’s only because I caused such a fight about it not being fair that girls couldn’t play. I still laugh remembering all the shocked faces when they called my name and I flew out and won the whole game. I was a chaser and a damn good one at that, I think I was insist on all my children playing Quidditch and I won’t stop having kids until I get a girl! I have five boys as it is and now I’m starting to think that maybe Arthur can’t make girls, I hope he can and I hope that she is just like me.
Well, I do believe that answers those questions you sent over and now I need to know how things are going with you. I’ve been worried, losing all your friends at once, being in a school with no one on your side…even your own brother hating you. Please tell me at least Remus has come around, you told me last week that you two had detention together and managed to talk and joke around a little…please tell me that he is not still being a heartless git. When you get home you have to come over and we can be mature, adult women together…and occasionally we can be immature gossiping girls as well. Please write back soon and have good news for me.
Sincerely,
Molly Weasley
Hermione smiled at the letter it was amazing how different Molly was from the Mrs. Weasley she knew in her own time and in a way she was glad for the fight that made this new and insightful friendship possible. She wished that she was able to write back to tell her that she and Remus were okay but that would be a lie. The only time they had been able to talk was when they were locked in detention together and there was no one better for him to grace with his charm and attention. A few more owls flew down to her and she groaned knowing one was from her parents and possibly her grandmother and the other was Lucius.
Dear Hermione,
You may come spend as much of your summer holiday at Malfoy Manor with me and my wife as you can. Narcissa has been rather depressed lately, she wants a baby right away and we are having no luck and I really am just not sure how to deal with her unhappiness. I honestly think that she would benefit from having another woman around her, to listen to her fears and all the things I have no idea about. Write to me with the times and I will come to get you.
Sincerely,
Lucius Malfoy.
Hermione smiled, it would be nice to spend time at Malfoy manor she heard their library was something to write home about and she wanted her turn to spend days in there reading, and of course the time away from James, Remus (who was living with them) and Sirius (who just moved in) was a treat that she would spend money on. Sighing, Hermione lifted the last letter.
Hermione,
I miss you so much. I can’t wait for you to come home and spend the summer with me, I think we need some girl time. I miss Frenrir as I never get to see him long enough but we have been spending a lot of time talking about the past and the possible future we could have. Oh, Hermione I feel like a young girl again! Things can work out for you too this summer! You’ll see.
Grandmother.
Hermione shook her head in disbelief at her grandmothers written words, she loved the woman but since she had found Greyback again she acted like a teenager. It was more than a little annoying but she couldn’t make herself rain on the older womans parade, so she would smile and pretend to have fun even though she was dead on the inside.
~~~Train Ride Home~~~
Hermione was sitting by herself when the door opened and Lily walked in, she sat across from Hermione and pulled out a book. The train flew through the plush, green country side heading to London, the compartment shared by the two young women was completely silent as they studied whatever was holding their separate attentions. Finally, as they train was closing in on the train station Lily set her book down and fixed Hermione with her penetrating emerald gaze.
“I hope your priorities straighten out over the summer holiday” Lily told her.
“After almost four whole months of completely ignoring me you break your silence to tell me that?” Hermione glared “Well here you go. I took care of the cup two months ago” She saw surprise flash across the other girls face “Now, all I need to take care of is the locket and Voldemort. I would ask for help but you’ve already done so much…oh wait” She pretended to have just remembered something “You, Remus, James and Sirius didn’t do SHIT. Snape destroyed the other two objects, I have gone under cover, I’ve found and destroyed that one but whatever Lily go on with your greater-than-thou attitude!”
“Hermione…” She looked almost contrite.
“We’re here” Hermione sneered “I hope you have a wonderful summer…don’t overwork yourself!”
A/N: I know this jumped nearly four months but there’s a reason! Stay with me please! Summer is going to be a few chapters and there is going to be the last horcrux being destroyed and then...you can fill in the blanks. I will continue it a bit after the fighting but I am unsure of how much longer. Tell me your thoughts and feelings on this and anything you may want to see happen before the end.
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