The Afterlife

The last things he saw before he closed his eyes one last time were those eyes. Green bright and perfect. His –her- eyes, whose ever they were, they put him into a state of bliss.

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When he opened his eyes he saw he was in an elevator. Looking though the dark he saw he wasn't alone. He could make out the shapes of three people lying down, unconscious and their faces. The one laying against the wall to the left of him was one of those Weasley twins, but for the life of him he couldn't tell which one it was. Across from him was hat shape-shifter form the Order. What was her name, Tink? No Tonks that was it. And on his right was Remus.

Where the hell am I? I thought I died. And what are they doing there? I mean only one of the twins? They were inseparable. I guess I will just have to wait until they wake up. Hopefully they will know…

The first to wake was Lupin. Snape watched as Lupin looked around.

"Severus?"

"Yes Remus?"

"How did you die?"

"What?"

"This is the elevator to the afterlife. I read about it a few years ago. So how did you die?"

"The Dark Lord sent Nangini after me. You?"

"I am not sure. There was a fight at Hogwarts, I am assuming I died there."

"Oh…"

There was an awkward silence. Snape didn't know what to say, this man had been in the group of kids who had made his teen years hell. But now that he thought about it, Lupin didn't partake in teasing him that much. He had always been reading.

When Tonks and the twin [turned out to be Fred woke Lupin filled them in. Snape was lost in thought. He realized he might be able to see her, the only love he had ever had, again.

It was common knowledge that the way you died decided your afterlife-fate. If you died naturally it was decided by the way you lived. But if you were killed it was your state of mind and action that decided it. Die for something good you go straight afterlife, but if you died for something "bad" you have to wait for all those affected by your actions to die and then they have a council in the afterlife to decide what to do with you. Normally they were punished for some number of 100 years working in the afterlife. Kind of like community service in the Muggle world.

"Well what are you doing here?" Fred said in an accusatory voice aimed at Snape.

"You will find upon closer inspection that he was always on our side. And until you know the whole story I don't think you have any right to judge him" Lupin replied fairly. Snape looked at Lupin and gave him a wordless "thank you".

"ARG!! Can someone PLEASE turn off the music?" screamed Tonks. And now that it was pointed out, it started to annoy all of them. But they all sat there in silence listening to the elevator music. And just when they thought if they heard it for one more minute they would die all over again, There was a ding, an the doors opened….