BOOK 3: MARAUDERS. (Mattheo Riddle).

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MARAUDERS.
Chapter 54.
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Mattheo just blinks, confused, as he takes in the sight before him. From the Hospital Wing they made their way down to the wooden bridge, and staked out a position where they could remain hidden with a view of the entrance.

Mattheo spots himself, Lorenzo and Frey walking along the wooden bridge earlier this evening.

"This is so fucked up" Mattheo gasps when he sees himself. He smiles a little bit, noticing how handsome that he is, a mirror doesn't do him justice. "Are you saying that I was stood here watching me walk across that bridge?" Mattheo asks of Tom and Artemis.

Neither of them want to have to explain it again to Mattheo.

"When you were walking across that bridge earlier this evening, another version of you that was from three hours into your future was watching you" Tom tells Mattheo. "I hope that explains it to you. I will not be explaining it again!" Tom barks at Mattheo.

"Then, if this is all one big circle, someone must have started it right?" Mattheo wonders.

"Can we not get into the deeper mysteries of temporal magic?!" Artemis demands of Mattheo. The situation is already shit since Mattheo came along.

Mattheo watches Lorenzo, he's pretending his hand is a race car as he runs it along the wooden railing of the bridge.

"Are we sure that boy is 17?" Because to Tom he looks like the world's tallest 5 year old.

Lorenzo snags his hand against a large splinter that is sticking up. "Ow, fucking hell".

"Wait. I remember this happening" Mattheo mentions. "He cuts his hand open" Mattheo remembers.

Sure enough, Lorenzo moves his hand away from the railing, the splinter having torn open the skin on the side of his palm. Blood trickles out of the wound.

Frey looks at the boy, and she laughs. "How'd you do that?" Frey asks of him.

Lorenzo, acting like it's the worst injury in the world by flailing his arm about, whimpers back. "God likes to punish the people who enjoy the world too much. Gone are the days when a person can hold onto a fucking railing!" followed by a scowl of sworn vengeance from Lorenzo.

Mattheo sees himself stop, an unimpressed look on his face. "Lorenzo!" Past Mattheo barks at the boy.

"This is so fucking weird" Mattheo mutters, hearing himself speak.

"Artemis has to be down there, or I'm out of fucking options" Past Mattheo screams at the Frey and Lorenzo.

Artemis stiffens when she hears how concerned that Past Mattheo was for her. Of course he wanted to find her and justify every lie that he's told her.

"Odd how you are so concerned for Artemis after you lied to her for a whole year" Tom mutters.

"Do you want another right hook?!" Mattheo snarls back at his brother.

"Both of you shut up!" Artemis hisses to them. "If they hear us then we're fucked" Artemis tells them. If Past Mattheo sees them, then he won't go to Hagrid's, he won't be lured into the Shrieking Shack, and their past will change.