The whole 'stay calm, act normal' thing that the Doctor and his previous companions had adopted didn't quite dawn on Amy during that time, standing in front of the beautiful girl with bright, ginger hair and almond shaped green eyes. Amy's mouth opened and closed, as if she was trying to find the right words to say, words that wouldn't make her sound strange. Or insane. Or a stalker. Or all of those options.

"So - so you're telling me ... this is ... this ..." Amy looked up to the castle in the distance, her dark hazel eyes widening. "That's ..."

" ... Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?" Lily finished, raising one eyebrow in confusion. "I thought you already knew. And judging by your accent, you aren't as far from home as you seem."

"She's just amazed, s'all," the Doctor interjected. "We both are, in fact. It's an amazing place, we didn't realise the full extent of it."

Lily made an 'O' shape with her mouth and nodded. Her tears had been reduced to nothing by now, just small streaks on her pale pink cheeks, and the breeze had grown slightly stronger, hitting their face like a tender kiss. Before either three people could contribute anything else to their conversation, they spotted a girl, bounding up the hill. She was skinny, very lanky and tall, with light skin and blonde hair. Her robes billowed behind her as she ran, which made her oddly resemble a bat. Within a short amount of seconds she had reached them all, hunched over with her hands on her knees, panting and puffing and gasping for breath.

"Lily - there - you - are -" her breath was fast, punctuating her words. "Been - lookin' - for - you -"

Amy and the Doctor both began to think who this girl was. Both racked through their memories, what they had read in the stories. Blonde hair, light skin, friend of Lily Evans -

"Marlene!" Lily sighed with relief, standing up and brushing dirt and grass from her robes. "What's been happening down there? I was about to go myself, but -"

"He's pissed, Lily," Marlene fearfully told her, nodding. "He's bloody pissed off. Straight down to his twisted little mates, he's gone. Planning t' get them back."

In a split second, Lily's eyes widened with horror, before shrinking back down in anger. "He wouldn't dare! That vile, stupid, greasy idiot! I hate him and his little Death eater friends as much as Potter's lot!"

"Easy, Lily, I think they can handle themselves. I mean, what's Severus really gonna do? All they'd have t' do is throw shampoo at the creep and he'd be cowerin' like a vampire who'd just faced garlic ..." Marlene, who had only just noticed Amy and the Doctor, expanded her gaze and raised an eyebrow in confusion, just like Lily before. "Who are they?"

"Oh, forgot to mention, that's Amy ..." She pointed to Amy, "and that's the Doctor ..." She pointed to the Doctor and he saluted, grinning.

Marlene smiled unsurely at them both, before turning back to Lily. "Right ... Well, I - I best be off, then. I told Alice ... I ... I told her I'd meet her in the common room ... Homework n'stuff ..."

The girl hastily made her way back down the hill, her small, black shoes creating tiny, unnoticeable footprints in the grass. When she had disappeared out their sights, Lily sighed exasperatedly.

"Marlene bloody McKinnon ..." She laughed to herself, not particularly addressing the Doctor, nor Amy. "One minute she comes, then she leaves ... She's a bit odd, but a brilliant mate when she wants to be ... Anyway," Lily shook her head, almost as if she was emptying her head of her ramble. "Where exactly are you guys from? I'm guessing you haven't been here before. But then again, I guessed Severus was a good person at heart, and that's proved to be wrong ... And I'm rambling again ..."

"You're not the only one that rambles a lot, then," Amy laughed coyly, looking upon the Doctor, who rolled his eyes. "And to answer your question ... Yes, in a way, we aren't quite from around here - I mean, I've heard of Hogwarts, but I thought it was fictio-"

The Doctor, yet again, quickly interjected, saving Amy from making herself a fool. "What she means is, we only imagined such a place would exist in fiction, a metaphor of how amazing it is." He turned to Amy, who offered him a small smile as thanks, a smile that melted his hearts into lovesick pools. He smiled back at her and took her right hand in his left, weaving their fingers together as he held it.

Lily laughed quietly, turning to look down at the clusters of people down by the lake. "Well, Hogwarts itself is quite a great place. That doesn't apply to most of the people, unfortunately. One or two people, yeah, maybe ..." She her words drifted in the air as she daydreamed, a small smile playing on her thin, pink lips. "Well, I best be off myself ... I promised McGonagall I'd visit her this afternoon for help in Transfiguration. I'm useless at it. See you soon, I suppose." She hugged both Amy and the Doctor quite forwardly, turning around an following in the direction Marlene had ran. "And thanks!"

They watched as she made her way down the hill, noticing how a group of boys stirred when she did.

"Those boys ... Are they ..."

"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. The Marauders. Yep," he grinned, raising one eyebrow at her.

"So, this is real? It's really, really real?"

He faked an eye roll, making Amy suppress a giggle. "Do you doubt what you're seeing with those beautiful eyes of yours? Ah, come on, back to the TARDIS it is."

Amy's cheeks tingled with a slight pink when he commented that her eyes were beautiful, but she brushed off the nice remark, ignoring the butterflies that danced in her stomach as he looked at her. Everyday, she found herself subtly admiring him more and more every day. Like he was a drug, a drug she had became dependent on, each day aching for another fix. He was the fisher and she was the fish, he had her on his hook, reeling her in. Suddenly it seemed okay to be out of water, this time.

Hand in hand they walked back to the TARDIS, both smiling as if the troubles that plague their minds didn't exist. The Doctor opened the door, allowing Amy to step inside, but both their faces dropped when the stepped inside.

Nothing.

No lights, no sounds, just darkness. As if the TARDIS herself had just flicked a switch, off in an instant.

"Please tell me you know what's happened, Doctor," Amy said.

He just kept shaking his head, not paying attention to anything she said. "This cannot have happened! You have got to be joshing me ..."

"Doctor?"

"We barely even talked with her for two minutes! How could we have done this?!"

"Do you mind explaining what has happened?!" Amy shouted, not meaning to get angry.

"Amy ..." The Doctor began gravely. "When we arrived ... Lily was supposed to be on that hill, upset. We changed that by meeting her and cheering her mood a bit. That wasn't supposed to happen ..." He rested his hand against the cold metal railing on one of the staircases. "Long story, short, we can't leave. We are literally a part of the story now, completely at the will of the fantastic J.K Rowling. Unless we find away get what is supposed to happen, the real story, back on track, the TARDIS will be stuck in this - this - this limbo! We need to find Lily!"

(*GASP* I wonder what will happen next ...
I genuinely do wonder.
I haven't planned the next chapters.
WELP.
Sorry for not updating in over a week, I've had plans - pfft, who am I kidding? I have no social life. I'm just really lazy, okay.
Please let me know what you think of this really baaaadddddd story by commenting! Love you all x

-A)