A/N: Last chapter, I hope you all enjoyed this story, an new story will be written soon so look out for that. Thank you for your support.
Chapter Fourteen
Both girls stood up slowly scared of what they would be faced with once they were on their feet. It was then they realised they were stood in the storeroom they had found the watch in, everything was still an mess just like it had been when they had left it.
"Do you think it worked?" Mildred asked worried
"I don't know" Ethel replied as they heard footsteps. Both girls moved close to each other terrified it was Agatha or Gullet.
The footsteps got closer and the girls were getting more scared by the second. The door was then thrown open.
"Ahh there you two are, what on earth are you doing in here?" an familiar voice said
The two girls dared to look up and could not help smiling at the sight that met them. Hecate Hardbroom was stood there, dressed in black, with her hair in an bun. Their teacher existed again and was back to her strict self, she even had the locket around her neck. Ethel put her hands up to touch her neck and realised her locket was gone.
Despite the fact the two girls often complained about her they were so happy to see their strict potions teacher after everything that happened in the past. Mildred was so happy she found herself hugging her teacher before she could stop herself.
"Miss Hardbroom, we missed you!" Mildred told her.
"Girl what are you doing? Get off me!" The woman replied
"Sorry Miss Hardbroom" Mildred replied as she pulled away and turned red slightly.
"But we are so happy to see you, you didn't exist we went back in time" Ethel told her
"And we messed with everything, and Ada was in..." Mildred looked at Ethel and the two girls ran towards the headteachers office, their teacher was stood there confused for an second until she ran after them just as they threw open the door.
Sat behind the desk was none other than Ada Cackle. She looked up at them confused as they ran in.
"YES IT IS ADA, NOT AGATHA!" Ethel shouted
Ada looked up at the two pupils and then gave her deputy an confused look which was returned.
"What are you two talking about?" she asked them
"We went back in time we found this watch and..." Mildred started
The two girls told the whole story to their teachers. They knew they would probably get in an lot of trouble but they had to know.
"Where is this watch now?" Ada asked not giving any hints as to whether she believed them or not.
"Well it is here.." Mildred said as she reached into her pocket and was surprised to realise both her pockets were empty. The watch was gone as well as Agatha's locket.
"It seems it has gone" Mildred told them
"But we are glad we got things back to normal, we were only trying to make you happy Miss Hardbroom by getting you away from that Broomhead woman" Ethel replied.
Hecate had up to that point thought they were talking an lot of rubbish and it was more than likely an dream but in that moment she knew they were telling the truth after all how else could they find out about Broomhead?
Ada had only recently found out about the vile woman herself and was just about to open her mouth to speak when someone knocked on the door and one of the older pupils led in Pippa Pentangle.
"Sorry I am an bit early" she said with an smile as she looked at the crowd in the office
"Miss Pentangle what are you doing here?" Mildred asked confused. Ada cut in and spoke.
"You two are lucky you are only receiving detentions, hopefully nearly destroying the world has taught you enough of an lesson" she told them.
"Oh it has Miss" Ethel replied
"Good, you may go" she told them.
Mildred and Ethel quickly left still not understanding why Pentangle of all people was at the school. As they walked outside for their flying lesson they saw Ethel's sister and Ethel went and hugged her which only confused Esmeralda, as Esmeralda knew her sister was not an cuddly person.
"Are you alright Ethy?" she asked still using her nickname after all them years
"I am better than alright, I am so glad to see you" Ethel replied
"Thank you...I think" Esme said as she laughed
"I have to go, HB next" the girl said as she walked inside.
The other girls went and joined their group of classmates happily. Mildred hugged her friends so happy to be with them again. Ethel looked at Felicity Foxglove, an kind girl in their year.
"Is there any reason why Pentangle is here today? She asked
"Well why did you think?" she asked with an laugh
"To have another contest?" Mildred suggested as she looked around for any students from Pentangles Academy.
"No, have you hit your head Mil?" Enid asked
"I don't understand" Mildred replied
"Pentangle is here to see HB of course" Felicity replied
"Oh well that makes sense considering they are friends again" Ethel replied
"Yes and the rest" Maud replied
"What do you mean?" Mildred asked
"They are an couple, they haven't admitted it but it is dead obvious, why else would the woman visit an least once an month?" Enid asked
Mildred looked at Ethel confused and the girl replied by shrugging.
"But they only became friends again at the end of last year" Mildred said
"No they didn't, how can you of forgot the story?" Maud asked
"What story?" Ethel asked
"Pentangle, apparently when they were in college these two girls she had never met told her HB loved her or something, personally I think it is an dream because after that they just disappeared" Felicity said
"Oh yes, sorry I wasn't feeling very well my memory is an bit foggy" Mildred said with an smile. She knew she had to say something so the girls would not think she was acting weird.
"Me too, be careful an bug may be going around" Ethel replied.
"Though I do wonder, if it was real who were the girls and why did they just disappear?" Enid asked
"Maybe they were ghosts?" Drusilla suggested
"But the strangest thing was she said they were school age, why would two schoolgirls haunt an college they had never attended?" Maud asked
"Who knows?" Felicity said as Miss Drill appeared and everyone went to start their flying lesson. Mildred touched Ethel's arm and held her back.
"I don't understand, I asked it to reverse everything back to how it was before we started messing with time so why did it change Pentangles and Hardbroom's relationship?" Mildred asked
"Well, we did get them together but then we made it so HB didn't exist so nothing came from it so maybe it got confused, or it changed it on purpose, remember we wanted to make Hardbroom happy, maybe the locket knew that" Ethel replied.
Mildred nodded. It made so much sense, whichever one it was Mildred was happy her teacher was allowed an little but of happiness especially because they experienced first-hand what she went through everyday with wearing the locket.
"Do you think it has changed her at all?" Ethel asked.
Just then the woman appeared in front of them in an flash as she had used an transfer spell. She looked at the two girls her eyes blazing.
"You two are lucky you were let off lightly, don't make me give you another detention go to Miss Drill's lesson right now!" she told them as the two girls ran to join their group.
"Well she appears the same as always" Ethel said
"You know Ethel after what we experienced I wouldn't have her any other way" Mildred said with an smile at the girl.
From that day on Mildred and Ethel were an lot more civil with one another, they had their moments of course but they had found an new respect for each other and all it had taken was an journey through time.