So, a short summary (I hate the word. My teacher just loved summary assignments and I were never good at it). Lily Evans Potter dies and goes straight to the Beyond. After meeting up with her closest ones she begins her painful watch involving dramatic situations and crises over her beloved son, Harry.

Disclaimer: I do not own HP, Joanne K. Rowling does.

The light was blinding. Lily Evans was sure she was killed, but somehow she slowly felt her body being divided into two beings. It wasn't painful, rather unpleasant impression of having one's body stretched at such strength that her soul was now an independant being. The flesh one laid there on the floor in front of a cot, where a slightly over one year old little boy stood wailing at his long gone mother. She tried to scoot her son but somehow she couldn't touch him. Her hands just went through him and she was – still not aware of it – floating higher and higher.

Lily felt her heart shatter into pieces. She was dead. Her son was crying and calling for his mummy and... She could no longer help him now that she was killed and... and where is Voldemort? She looked around not seeing anything. Her magic must have worked! Did he vanish? Why wasn't he here? Never mind, her attention was again turned to her little, darling son who seemed to be so scared that there wasn't anybody there to answer his call and his mother just laid there on the floor, no life in her. Lily now noticed she was already few feet over her house but strangely, could see through roofs, walls, floor, she could see basically everything. So she kept looking at her beloved son, Harry. Lord Voldemort was gone. And Harry survived. Her mission was done. She let out a breath she did not she was holding.

Breathe? Why the hell should she breathe? She must be something of a ghost or spirit now so she should not need air. However, before she could answer anything she saw Sirius Black arriving at her house and muttering out few inappropriate curses. She could even hear everything said a good feet down there!

'James! Lily! Harry!' Sirius cried in a voice Lily has never heard before. It was a desperare sound that did not fit usually cheerful Sirius Black. When he saw the body of James, her James, he breathed in so heavily Lily actually was worried he would choke. His eyes began watering. 'Oh, Merlin. Fuck, fuck! Lily! Are you there?' Sirius looked around and stopped in order to catch some noise. He suddenly caught a child's wailing. 'Oh, please, no, please, no, no, no...' he kept repeating until he rushed to the baby room. He found her body and she saw a tear flowing down his cheek. Sirius Black never cried. But Harry stopped crying when he saw his godfather.

'Seee!' Harry exclaimed. Finally someone found him! Lily saw Sirius rush to her son and scoop him in his arms.

'Merlin, Harry! Oh my, thank you, thank you, you're alive, oh, Merlin, oh...' She could hear Sirius sob into Harry's romper. And then she heard a loud crack. She saw Hagrid arriving in front of her house and heard him cry as well. Sirius came out of the house and gave Harry to him.

'Take my motor, Hagrid. I have some business to attend,' Sirius said firmly with a steely, but somehow blank look on face. What was so important that he decide to leave Harry's side, Lily wondered.

'How long do you plan to stand here?' Lily snapped out and saw the owner of the voice. It was a young wizard – he had robes – with a hat sitting by a strange desk (it wasn't wooden, Lily noticed) and scribbling something into a big register.

'Ah... where, where am I?' Lily felt stupid asking this question, but this wasn't her image of heaven. She was standing (there was no ground so how could she stand at all?), or rather floating in some open space. But the desk somehow did not exactly seem to be floating. Strange.

'This is The Main Gate of The Beyond,' he answered not stopping even to glance at her. Lily felt a little bit offended with this ignorant attitude, but then realised the poor man has been there for ever and had to meet loads of loads of loads souls, so she decided not to start a fight now.

'Oh,' Lily answered feeling even more stupid. Could not she find another word to say than „oh"? Right now she again turned her attention to the Earth. It occurred to her that whatever she wanted to see, she could actually see. She saw Hagrid giving her baby to Dumbledore while wiping his tears off and sniffing.

'We don't have whole day,' the wizard said impatiently, catching her attention. She knew they didn't, for Merlin's sake! But, mind him, she has just died and had the right to feel dizzy and worried for her little boy!

'Oh, sorry. What should I do?' She asked turning her eyes to him, managing her best offended look.

'Come and sign,' he said. Lily went over and looked for a quill but there was none. She glanced at the wizard expectantly. 'With your wand,' he said as if he was dealing with a retard.

'I don't have mine,' she said quietly feeling more stupid with each minute.

'You do. You just have to summon it.' How the hell was she supposed to summon without her wand? 'You need to think of it and then it will appear,' the wizard said impatiently. Lily closed her eyes and focused on her wand and it suddenly appeared in her hand.

'Now, say Finito Vivit,' he instructed her. She followed and suddenly in the book appeared a small frame and her life played in a incredible speed, like a movie. 'Poor thing,' the wizard sighed. 'Did not have a long life, did you?' She shook her head. 'Well, at least you lived well. You are going to the better part, to Elysium,' he smiled for the first time at her.

'Oh, do I?' She'd better go there, she thought grimly. Just a little time before she learned her boy was a target of world's most dangerous wizard, who indulged himself in Dark Arts and had died, leaving him, her little baby, all alone.

'Yes. There is also another possibility, but I don't personally think you would want to know,' he said in such a tone that only made Lily curious.

'Why?'

'It is where evil people go. Just had to deal with few of them, before you came. You're the first good one actually I dealt with since Earth week.'

'How? So many good people have died before me,' she whispered feeling sick. Have the Prewetts gone there?

'Well, it is not only me who receive souls,' he said while rubbing his temples. 'I have lots of co-workers. We get souls by chance.'

'So.. where do I go now?' Lily aske feeling anxious.

'To the Elysium.' He repeated kindly. Suddenly, a big portal appeared. Massive, white with gold doorknob. 'Go on. There are a lot of people you know there,' he encouraged her.

'Yeah.' She smiled and motioned to the portal. 'Thank you,' she said before she opened them.

'What for?' The wizard was caught off guard. No one has ever thanked him ever before.

'Being patient with me,' she smiled sadly.

'Oh, don't worry. And forgive my harshness. I've had to deal with so many bad people and they always try to convince me they feared for their families when they did wrong. As if I did not know what did they do. Honestly, who do they think they are?' He ranted on angrily. 'But you are different. And I know your son will do great things.'

'What is your name, anyway?' She asked before going in.

'I am Udriel. I am an angel,' he smiled at her. An angel? Where are his wings then? And the halo? But then, supposedly, he appeared differently in front of each person. Perhaps, muggles had encountered a young individual with wings and halo, while wizards and witches met a person clad in robes.

'It was nice meeting you,' she smiled again. And turned in the direction of the portal. She took a deep breath, hoping she would see James there and pushed the door.