Besides the fact it was limbo… it seemed pretty nice.

Severus Snape looked around at his new surroundings and remembered he had died and remembered that the last thing he saw was Lily's eyes looking at him and giving away his memories. As for his surroundings, he appeared to be at Hogwarts. Where exactly he did not know but he was pretty sure it was Hogwarts.

He wandered for a bit, not really hoping to accomplish anything, but he wandered none the less. The limbo school was completely empty. There were no other dead residents to be seen, however there was a resident to be heard.

There were several distinct giggles, which Severus found himself turning on his heels a lot just to find nothing.

"Who's there?!" He yelled after several heel turns, "Show yourself!"

"Who's there? Show yourself!" The voice mocked. It was a girl's voice he could tell that much.

"What do you want with me?" Severus asked and he was desperately getting tired of the game. However to his question only came more of the distinct giggles.

The once professor cradled his head in his hands and the next moment he looked up and there was the apparent form of the rather annoying voice.

It was definitely a she. The voice's body had long blue hair piled on top of her head and was wearing sparkling pink robes. If this was a spirit, it certainly was an extravagant one.

"Will you answer my question?" Snape said annoyed.

"Yes, but first, Do you know where you are?" she replied.

"Limbo."

"What tipped you off?"

"If this were either heaven, hell, or some other afterlife then there would have to be more people."

The spirit smirked, "It doesn't always work like that, but you are correct. Now, do you know why you are in limbo?"

Severus hesitated for a moment, "Unfinished business?"

"No, if that were the case you'd be a ghost, but good guess anyway. Care to guess again?"

"Look," Snape started, "I'm not really into playing whatever game you are playing so just answer my question, 'What do you want with me?'"

She looked disappointed for a moment, "Fine! I am, as you have no doubt guessed, a spirit. It happens to be my turn to run the limbo circuit and might I say it gets real boring real fast. That is until you came along. Now you see what happens if you hit limbo after you die is because you have had a pretty miserable life but you did the right thing anyway even though you could have become evil or you were self sacrificing: giving your life or giving up what people thought of you to do the right thing. Now the interesting bit about you is, well, you did both. Now I know what you're thinking, everybody thinks this, if I did good, why didn't I just move on?"

She paused a moment hoping to get some kind of input from her new guest but found that he had none and moved right along, "Anyway! Being in limbo means you get a chance to go back and relive a part of your life you wish to do over."

"You're joking!" Severus exclaimed as an actual smile crept across his face.

"No, I'm not joking. If I were I woulda just said, 'Ha ha! Guess what you're just dreaming! You are actually alive!' Or something like that."

Snape's smile faded fast as his brain began to think over it, "Wait, if the person had a miserable life then why would they want to relive something?"

"Well," the spirit began, "They can move on if the absolutely want to, or the can go back and fix a moment in time or just revisit one happy memory. For instance, I actually met your mother here."

Severus jerked, "My mother?"

"Yes. She got the chance to go back and relive something. She wanted to visit one of the few happiest moments of her life."

"And that was?"

"Watching you around the age of five on a day your father wasn't there to ruin it."

Severus smirked and remembered his mother for a moment.

"Now you," she began again, "Would probably like to go and relive a moment to try and fix it."

"What gave it away?" He said almost sarcastically.

"I had to review your file."

"I have a file?"

"Yeah, anyway! It just holds all your life information: childhood, friends, …lost loves…," She giggled again and the last remark made Severus nervous.

"I am going to allow you to relive most of your years at Hogwarts, and possibly try and fix things with a certain red haired 'friend' of yours. Because," She flipped open a magical file that wasn't there a moment ago, "According to this… your last conversation with Lily did not go so well."

Something swelled up in his chest as he remembered it… "Mudblood…" he said, and then an argument that did not end well, and then never speaking to her again.

"Now, you cannot stop Lily from dying… that was inevitable… but you can make her final memories of you fonder than they are," The spirit concluded, "So, are you willing."

Snape looked up, "Yes…"

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More to come and yes I promise it will get more interesting as it progresses.