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Chapter 6: Sneaking
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"Blake, Blake, are you ok?"
"No, I'm not, Lils. I'm disappearing. The future has been messed up all because you assured me that Mum and Dad would get together, without our help. Now it's too late."
"I'm sorry, Blake, I didn't know."
"I know you didn't. After I'm gone, you'll be next. We're only two minutes apart, you'll be next." He gasped, and slowly started to disappear.
"No, Blake, you can't die."
"I can't stop it, Lils. The future is messed up already. Mum and Dad will never get together. Bye little sister." Lily tried to hold onto her brother, but it was hopeless. He slowly faded away. After he was gone, Lily felt a pain in her stomach that knocked her off her knees. She coughed and it was then that she woke up. Lily sat straight up in bed, trying to catch her breath. The pain her stomach had been real, she felt like she would throw up. She turned on her light and threw back the covers around her four-poster. Her mother's bed was still empty. She hadn't come back from her midnight stroll with Ron. The thought of her mother out with another guy made Lily make a face of disgust. She laid back down and stared at the ceiling, contemplating the dream she just had. It was then she realized her brother had been right. Lily and Blake would've known that their mother went out with Ron, and their father went out with Ginny. Lily and Blake always wanted to know everything about their mum and dad growing up, sometime this would've come up. But why would they be going out with these people? It wasn't like going into the past changed everything. This all happened before they arrived. It didn't make sense to her. But like Blake said, not everything has to be logical, some things just don't make sense. Maybe he was right; maybe they came back in time to fix the future. She knew what she had to do. Lily threw back her blankets went across the room to Julia's bed. She shook her awake, and quick placed a silencing charm on her because she was so loud and cross when someone woke her up. When Julia saw who it was, she calmed down though rather annoyed that her friend woke her up at three o'clock in the morning. Lily took the silencing charm off, and Julia said,
"What the hell do you want?"
"Come on, we need to talk with Blake."
"Can't it wait till morning?"
"No, come on." Julia groaned and covered her head with her pillow. Lily snatched the pillow from Julia's grasp and smacked her hard with it. Julia grabbed the pillow and tossed it at her friend. Then she slowly got up and followed Lily as she ran out of the dormitory and down the stairs. Once in the empty common room, Julia sat down in one of the chairs to wait for Lily go wake her brother. Lily was glad no one was in the common room as she ran up the boys' staircase, so she didn't have to answer any questions. Lily opened the door to her brother's dorm room slowly, so not to disturb anyone else's slumber. She crept quietly across the floor, stepping over objects strung out all over the floor. It was so dark in the room she didn't know which bed to find Blake in. So she took out her wand and muttered,
"Lumos." A light appeared at the tip of her wand, giving her enough light to see where she was going. She walked over to the first bed. It was Neville Longbottom, friend of her dad's, who was a possibility for the Boy Who Lived. She crept over to the next bed. Seamus Finnigan. Another friend of her dad's, who she always thought was handsome, even though he was nineteen years older than her. Lily smiled as she remembered asking Seamus for a kiss when she was three, and he kissed her on the cheek. The next bed was Dean Thomas. Another friend. Lily didn't really know him all that well; she'd only seen him once or twice. The next bed she assumed was Ron's, as it was empty. She silently prayed that Ron wouldn't come up soon to find Lily in his dorm wandering around in the dark. She knew that the next bed was either her brother's or her dad's. She went over to it and pulled back the blanket slowly and saw it was her dad. She tried to put it back the way she found it, but Harry woke up. He strained his eyes to see who it was. He reached for his glasses and put them on.
"Beth? What are you doing here?" He whispered.
"I need to talk to my brother, and I see I got the wrong bed, sorry. Go back to sleep." Harry pointed to Blake's bed, of course the last one left in the room.
"That's his over there."
"Thank you, sorry I woke you up."
"It's alright." Harry took his glasses off and put them back on his bedside table as the glow from Lily's wand faded away and to the other side of the room to her brother's bed. She gently shook him to wake him, but he mumbled something incoherent and rolled on to his side.
"Blake, Blake, wake up," she whispered. He mumbled again, this time Lily heard what he said.
"Go away."
"Damnit, Blake, wake up!" she said, raising her voice a little above a whisper. Lily took Blake's pillow from under his head and smacked him with it. Blake woke up and glared at his sister.
"What the hell are you doing? Why are you up here?" he said angrily.
"Shh! Will you shut up, do you want to wake your whole dormitory?"
"What do you want?" Blake said, dropping his voice to a whisper.
"I need to talk to you. Come on, Julia's waiting in the common room." Blake sighed and got out of bed. Brother and sister left the room, but didn't know that they were followed by the last person in the world they wanted to hear their conversation. Lily and Blake went down the stairs and sat with Julia, who was now wide-awake. Blake ran a hand through his hair as he plopped down on one of the couches and put his feet up.
"What is it, Lily?" he said sleepily. Julia put her hand up to stop Lily from answering. She sat up from her laying down position on the couch. Lily and Blake looked at her, wondering what she was doing.
"What is it?" Lily said.
"We'll talk about this later." Blake and Lily looked at her.
"What?"
"We'll talk about this later. I have a feeling we're being watched. We need to talk about this somewhere where no one can hear us."
"Ok. Tomorrow's Sunday. We'll go somewhere and talk about this. But not now." They all agreed, and Blake went back up the boys' staircase, and Lily and Julia went back up the girls'. Blake collapsed back into his bed and shut his eyes; unaware that the person who heard them was lying in the next bed, and that because of his future daughter's lack of sneakiness had already been awake.
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"Hermione, you'll never guess what I heard last night."
"What?"
"I heard Blake, Julia and Beth talking in the common room. Or rather I heard Blake, Julia and Lily talking."
"Beth's real name is Lily?" Harry nodded.
"What else did you hear?"
"I didn't, they could tell they were being watched, and they decided to talk about it later."
"Do you know where they're going today?"
"No."
"We'll look around, maybe we can find them."
"There's Quidditch tryouts today, though."
"In the evening. Remember though, Ron challenged Blake to a test to see who's the better Seeker yesterday, you or him. So Blake has to be back for that."
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Julia took a deep breath and sighed as she and Blake and Lily were walking out on the grounds towards the forbidden forest.
"Ah, such beautiful weather today, nice, clean, autumn air." Lily smiled and breathed in the deep air, but pretended to breathe too deeply and started coughing. She disappeared out of sight behind a rock, and emerged once she was done making her show. Julia laughed.
"You're such a faker, Lily Potter." Lily grinned, wrinkling her nose.
"I know, I'm not good for the theatrics, unlike my twin here." Blake glanced at his sister, who went into mock performances of Blake's attempts to get out of class or do homework. Lily pretended to faint, falling to the ground and twitching. Julia laughed, but Blake wasn't amused.
"Can't…do my…homework…fainted…dying…" Lily said over dramatically as she clutched her chest. She conjured up a flower and held it to her chest and became perfectly still like she was dead. Blake rolled his eyes.
"I've never done that." Julia took up the acting next.
"Oh yes, it's more like," Julia stopped walking and clasped her hands together in front of her body and pretended to look ashamed and sad. "`I couldn't do my homework, the Whomping Willow ate it.'" Lily came out of her state of dead and laughed, rolling on the ground. Again, Blake was not amused.
"Oh come on, you remember in first year when you used that excuse." Blake rolled his eyes again and started walking away. Julia pulled Lily to her feet and they followed him.
"Oh come on, Blake, you know we're just giving you crap." Blake sighed.
"I know." The three of them reached the Forbidden Forest. They went in only a little bit, just so they were out of sight of the castle. Blake, who had stolen the Marauder's Map from his father's trunk, pulled it out and said,
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." The secrets of the Marauder's Map appeared and Lily and Julia went through the checklist.
"Ok, Filch?"
"Patrolling the corridors."
"Mrs. Norris?"
"With Filch."
"Snape?"
"In his office."
"Um, McGonagall?"
"Giving detention to a fifth year student in the second floor corridor."
"Mum and Dad?"
"They and Ron are in the Common room, preparing to go look for us. Dad is going up to his dorm right now, to grab the Marauder's Map to find us. He'll be finding out pretty soon that we stole it."
"We didn't steal it, just borrowed it," said Julia.
"They wouldn't find us anyway even if they did have the map. It stops at the Forbidden Forest."
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"The Map is gone."
"What? What did you do with it?"
"I put it in my trunk, where I always keep it."
"Is your invisibility cloak still there?" Harry nodded.
"Ok, who has access to your dorm and knows the Marauder's Map is in your trunk?"
"Nobody but you, Ron and I know it's there. Nobody but us three knows that I have it."
"Somebody has to know. Otherwise they wouldn't have taken it…" Hermione gasped.
"I bet it was Blake, Lily and Julia."
"Why would they take it?" Ron asked.
"Because they're up to something, they have to talk about something privately and wouldn't want anyone following them. So they probably took the Map to see if they were being followed."
"How would they know it's in Harry's trunk though?"
"There's something strange about those three. I wouldn't put it past them to know that the Map was there."
"What do you mean?"
"I get the feeling that they don't belong here geographically, I'm talking time wise."
"The only way they'd be able to go back or forward in time is if they used a Time Turner, and I thought you could only go back hours with it," Ron said.
"You can. But there's another way of time travel. It's in a book I read about, called Illegal Time Travel for the Rebellious. It's in the restricted section of the library. They could've used it and ended up here," Hermione said.
"Ok, so then are they from the future or the past?"
"I don't know."
"I have an idea. Summon the Marauder's Map, Harry. Let's see where they're at," Hermione said with a mischievous grin. Harry mirrored it, and took out his wand.
"Accio Marauder's Map!"
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All of a sudden, the map went flying out of Blake's hands and zipping away.
"What the hell?" Julia said as she watched it fly away. Blake scowled.
"Damnit. Dad's probably summoning it."
"They won't find us, don't worry." Julia shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Ok, anyways, what were you saying last night? What revelation did your dream give you?"
"You remember how Blake said that there is a reason why we came back in time, that we had to repair the past? I'm beginning to think he's right. I think we need to be matchmakers here and get our parents together before we all regret it."
"How?"
"I don't know, we'll think of something. But we have to do all this without being discovered."
"I hope this works out, Lils."
"It will."
"It'd better, because if we're all right, all of our futures depend on this."
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"Where are they?"
"They're not on the Marauder's Map. They must be outside the grounds. In the forest or something."
"Let's go." The three of them left the common room and made their way to the Forbidden Forest. Halfway there, the Map soared out of Harry's hand and went flying away in the direction of the Forbidden Forest.
"Son of a…" But Hermione clamped a hand over Harry's mouth before he could finish.
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Blake caught the Map, and Lily placed a charm on it so it couldn't be summoned.
"Where are they?"
"On their way down to find us. I think they know we're in the forest. We've got to get going."
A/N: Here's chapter 6 for all of you. Hope you enjoy and please review!!!
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