Turn of events

Chapter 45

Charlotte POV:

It had been a week and three days since summer had started and Sirius would be here tomorrow. I had decided to ask him to come one day early so that I could explain it to him first and then the next day Remus, Lily and James. I was wandering around my home and just admiring everything when I stopped at my favourite place of the house it was a large bay window that I could sit on and had a view of the garden. It had big drapes across it so if I sat against the wall no one would see me if they walked past. I sat down and just thought about how hard it would be to explain and that they would all feel betrayed I hadn't told them sooner. I don't long I had been there when a house-elf popped to my side.

"Mistress Charlotte, it is dinner time," Rose my personal house-elf said happily. I just nodded and followed her to the kitchen. I had been taking all my meals in here with my elves while I was alone. I had also ordered them never to punish themselves and to eat when I did and if it was urgent I would call them. It took some time but I got them to agree to do so and that if they had to say, mistress, it would be Charlotte. After dinner, I did some homework before going to bed. The next morning I woke up and got ready. Before I had breakfast I sent a note to Sirius saying I would come for him at eleven. After breakfast, I went with Rose to go look at Sirius' room, which I set up near mine so he wouldn't be too far away, to make sure everything was set up and that the living room was okay before flooing over to the Black household. When I flooed into the living room Kreacher popped in.

"Welcome, Lady Peverell. The family isn't together I will go get them," he said bowing.

"Thank you, Kreacher," I reply. I sit down and wait for them to come in.

"Charlotte!" Reg says coming in smiling. I smile back and hug him tightly.

"Hi, Reg," I reply.

"So, you are here to free me from my brother's presence," he jokes. I just laugh.

"Charlotte, lovely to see you again," Walburga greets me. I smile and once I have exchanged conversation with them Sirius and I leave. We go by floo at the same time. I flooed us to the living room. When we get there I introduce Sirius to Rose after she dusts us off she takes Sirius' bag to his room and leaves.

"Okay, so I lied. James, Remus and Lily are coming tomorrow. I needed to talk to you first. I need to tell you all the same thing but I think you deserve to know first," I said hesitantly.

"Okay," he said confused.

"I know this is hard to believe but I need you to do your best not to interrupt please," I said watching him before sitting down opposite him. He nodded so I continued. "I am from the future. I was fifteen years old when a spell hit a time-turner and sent me back in time by twenty years. I was born in 1980 on the 31st July to my parents who were very much in love. But a prophecy was made and it declared me or another child my age was to destined to be the one to kill a dark lord at the time. The dark lord heard this and chose me. He came to my house on Halloween after finding out my parents location from their secret keeper who they thought to be a friend. He came to the house and killed my father after he tried to fight him off to protect me and my mother. When he told my mother to move aside she didn't and he killed her to but in sacrificing herself she activated ancient magic that saved me from the killing curse and gave me that scar on my forehead. The dark Lord when people came to my house was gone and all that was left was a pile of robes. Some people say he died but no one knew what happened. I was then given to my aunt after my Godfather was put in Azkaban but I will get to that later. As you know my childhood was awful so I will skip it as I will be telling the others tomorrow. So my aunt hated magic and me because I reminded her so much of her dead sister and she was jealous I had magic. Dumbledore had to send a teacher to me as they kept burning my Hogwarts letters. I went to Hogwarts and met the nicest people who became family to me. I am going to summarise the years as it will take to long. The first year saved my friend from a troll, made Quidditch team, got detention in forbidden forest for being out of bed after curfew luckily they didn't find out it was to smuggle an illegal dragon to Romania, got past a Cerberus, devils snare and a movie chess piece so I could save the philosopher stone. My defence teacher that year had the dark lord on the back of his head and was trying to give it to him but I stopped him by killing my professor. Second-year flew a car to school, brewed polyjuice potion in moaning myrtle toilets. People were being petrified which was later found out by a basilisk. The chamber of secrets was opened. In a duelling lesson, I was exposed as a parselmouth and everyone thought I was the one opening the chamber and petrifying muggle-borns. After my friend was taken into the chamber me and my friend figured out where the chamber was and went down there. We basically caused a cave-in and got separated and I went on alone. Turns out dark lord had been possessing my friends younger sister through a diary and making her do it. He was going to take her life force. He set the basilisk on me. I luckily escaped a shoved a sword up its mouth into its brain and I got stabbed by a tooth but dumbles phoenix cried into it so it was fine. Third-year dementors were around the school ground due to an escaped Azkaban prisoner my godfather. Which I didn't know at the time. A dementor came on the train and I passed out. When I came to the defence teacher who was in our cabin gave me chocolate. That year I fainted due to the dementors in Quidditch game and fell off my broom. I got my defence teacher to teach me how to protect myself. The prisoner broke in on Halloween trying to get into the Gryffindor tower. I found out when I snuck into Hogsmeade that the prisoner was my godfather and people thought he was the secret keeper. In the meantime time, I got better at defence. At the end of the year, I found out that my defence teacher was a werewolf and knew my godfather. My friend's pet was the actual secret keeper and when this happened we tried to capture them to make my Godfather go free but he transformed and my godfather had to go on the run. My teacher was fired and I went back home for the summer. Summer before the fourth year was the quidditch world cup. It was great but afterwards, some followers of the dark lord attacked. At school, the Triwizard cup occurred. I was underage as they put a restriction but somehow ended up in the tournament unable to not participate as I would lose my magic. The first task was dragons and I got past it flying. The second task was getting the thing I treasured most from the water and the last was a maze where we had to find the cup. The other Hogwarts champion and I, as I was the fourth champion, got to the trophy at the same time so took it like that. When we touched it we were portkeyed to a graveyard where he was killed and I got used in a sacrifice to raise the dark lord. I fought my way to the cup and was portkeyed back. Where I told everyone that he had risen. The minister played chicken and made me look mad. That summer I was sent to my godfather's childhood house where he was hiding. I spent the summer with him and my friend who were also there. I figured out what the order that believed me and fighting the dark lord were talking about. I got told about the prophecy and my godfather taught me how to act like a pureblood queen and occlumency. In the fifth year, we had a defence teacher that was part of the ministry. She was made high inquisitor and could fire any teachers she saw fit. I kept out of her way as much as possible. Unfortunately, I shared a bond with Voldemort and I kept seeing into his mind. At Christmas, I saw my friend's dad being attacked by a snake and he was saved. That holiday I went to Gringotts and found out about my inheritance and that I had part of the dark lords soul in my head. It was removed and I didn't see in his head. I spent the rest of the holiday with my Godfather who told me we had to talk in the summer about something important. Unfortunately, the dark lord needed me at the ministry to collect his weapon. So he got the message to me that my Godfather was being tortured at the ministry. So my friends and I snuck into the department of ministries when I couldn't get a hold of my godfather. When we got there it was a trap. The order showed up as well as my Godfather and he was killed as he fell into the veil. When I ran after his killer that is when the time Turner got hit and I was sent back in time," I explained my story. He was silent and processing it and I allowed him to.

"Charlotte. Who are your parents?" he asked after a few minutes looking at me. I swallowed and looked down before meeting his eye.

"James Potter and Lily Evans. My real name is Charlotte Potter, though I am the descendant of the Peverell line. You're my Godfather because in my timeline you never told anyone your soulmates name as it had the same last name as your best friend. And you are my soul mate," I answer shakily. "You were my Godfather and Peter was the secret keeper and gave them up to the dark lord. You and I weren't close like a godfather and goddaughter. So when I found out I wasn't disgusted but surprised that you in my world hadn't told me before this," I continued,

"Are you telling me the truth?" he asked after a moment not looking away from my eyes. I nodded. "Swear it on your magic," he stated.

"I, Charlotte Potter do swear on my magic everything I told Sirius Black was the truth to the best of my knowledge," I said and then uttered a Lumos spell. He turned his head to look at the light, before standing up and walking towards me. He then bent down and took my face in his hands and crushed his lips to mine. I stood up not breaking the kiss and put my hands in his hair while he wrapped his arms around my waist.

"So, we are soulmates," he whispered against my lips. I just nodded. "So, you don't mind I did that right?" he asked still whispering but smirking.

"Not at all. I am just glad you aren't angry," I replied smiling.

"Well, it isn't the easy thing to tell someone. I'm guessing we need to tell the others tomorrow?" he replied just hugging me. I nodded putting my head on his chest. We stayed like that for a while.

"So, if you knew we were soul mates why did you lean away at the ball when I was going to kiss you?" he asked looking down at me.

"Because I didn't want to explain why I was kissing you when we were both supposed to have other people. Also, you had been flirting with people the whole time since not knowing who your person was and I wanted to be sure that you weren't doing it because we were in the moment," I explained looking at him.

"It wasn't just the moment. James explained something to me as we walked in," he said kissing me on the forehead.

"What?" I asked in confusion with my brows furrowed.

"I will tell you someday," he replied. I just nodded. We stayed like that for the rest of the day. I would explain some more of my life while cuddled up on the couch or walking around the house. Sirius being so accepting made me feel less nervous about tomorrow.