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Summary for this chapter: Sleeping in, rushing, and ghost summoning!

Ouija Board

Remus yawned and sat up in bed. He didn’t remember falling asleep, but he must have at some time. He stretched and looked over to the clock and froze. The numbers said 11:03. After his moment of petrificus totalis left him he jumped out of bed cursing and rushed to get ready.

Sirius yawned as he shuffled into the hall to see what was upsetting Remus so bad. He paused in shock as he saw the man running around the house pulling on his shirt and gathering books. Sirius stared in wonder for only a moment before he burst out into uncontrollable laughter.

Remus looked into the hall to see Sirius on the floor laughing at him. He sighed and rolled his eyes at his crazy friend. He then continued to get ready, but this time at a much more regular pace. Sirius eventually picked himself up off the floor and began to get ready too.

After they both were almost ready to go Remus decided to give Sirius a little serious talk about what they were going to be doing.

“It’ll be all right Moony, we know what we’re doing.” Sirius said and tried to push his friend out the door while rolling his eyes.

“Are we sure, though? What if we did something wrong? We should look over it one more time!” Remus began to dig in his heels and Sirius cursed his inhuman strength. He sighed deeply and flipped him around so they were facing each other and held onto his shoulders.

“Remus,” he said and looked down into the slightly shorter mans eyes, “It will be o.k. We looked over this a million and one times. There isn’t anything that we may have missed, even if we did miss something, by some small chance, I’m positive that it wasn’t anything harmful. You just need to calm down and it will be fine.”

Remus closed his eyes for a moment and when he looked back at Sirius his eyes showed his determination. “I know Sirius. The only thing wrong is my reluctance to face what I left behind. It will be ok, because we will make it that way.”

“That’s exactly what I’ve been saying the whole time. Now let’s go before James and Lily come and yell at us for being late.” Sirius said, glad that his friend seemed to be doing better.

Remus looked around Sirius to the clock on their wall and stifled a curse. It was almost time to be at Dumbledores house. He supposed that they would just have to go there and hope that James and Lily were already there.

They rushed out the door and ran to Dumbledores house. As they neared they saw people standing outside. They soon distinguished the shapes as everyone who was supposed to be there but them. Sirius cursed when he saw Severus standing there with a smug look on his face. They slowed to a walk to catch their breath and when they stopped by the gate Remus started to apologize.

“I’m sorry, we both slept in and so far I haven’t seen any alarm clocks in Dead Land,” he winced as he realized he had said that last part out loud.

“Dead Land?” questioned Severus, “Wait, I don’t want to know. Let us just be done with this,” he held out a vile of potion, “Here is my end of the payment. Be sure to keep yours.” He walked back toward Dumbledores house.

Remus looked from the vile of potion to Severus and back again. He shook his head and turned to the others. “See, you can be civil,” he said to James, then looked serious. “All right, let’s see if this works.”

The first thing they needed to do was find a place that resembled at least slightly the place that they were trying to contact. They had decided the bottom of Remus’ house, being a classroom would aptly describe Hogwarts. Remus himself was the second part of the spell, being someone who knew the now ghost. Lily had said that they should use both the potion and the Ouija board at the same time to double their chances of being successful, plus the book had said the Ouija board worked best when coupled with a potion, this being the reason it was so hard for Muggles to use.

Sirius and Remus both drank half of the potion, the reason for this being that they were the most recently departed of the group. All four of them sat around the board and linked hands except for the two who had drank the potion that both had two fingers on the planchette. They had opted out of the candles, as they were unnecessary and would just make it more difficult for them to see.

Lily and James said the incantation and there was a flash of light. They smiled at each other. It was exactly like the book had described. They then cleared their mind and thought of things that described the ghost they were looking for. The thing at the forefront of most of their minds was wild colored hair. There was another flash, dimmer this time. This also was described in the book. It meant that something had bumped them ahead and the only had to do the last step. They looked at each other nervously.

Lupin took a deep breath and looked at Sirius. He nodded and they began to spell out Nymphandora Tonks. They had been uncertain whether or not to use her married name or not, but they decided not to. If she had lost any memories, which may happen in some cases, it was best to go by the name they had been called for the majority of their life.

There was a moment of tense silence before there was a hissing sound like steam out of a teakettle and a small explosion of tye-dye smoke. Everyone released each other’s hands to cover their mouths and cough. As the smoke dissipated they stared in shock at the image before them.

A young woman was sitting on the Ouija board. She had a slightly torn plain blue t-shirt and scuffed looking jeans. Her hair was short and slightly spiky with a blinding neon-green color. She coughed and opened her eyes, only to start backwards with surprise.

“Nymphandora...?” Remus whispered, shock on his face.

“Remus?” Nymphandora said in shock, and fainted.
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End chapter 5

a/n for anyone who doesn't know a planchette is the little triangle thing that you use to spell out things on an ouija board.