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A/N: If this seems a little weird and perhaps hard to understand - don't worry. It's supposed to be like that. All will be revealed in the end and it will all make sense…
While you're waiting for the next chapter of 'The Space Between The Stars' go check out my other fics. I wouldn't bother with 'Bittersweet' as I don't think it's too great, but 'Fragile' and 'Tempest' are worth a read… and please, read 'Cheese' - it hasn't been reviewed very much, but I love it (in a very authorial, modest kind of way, of course!)
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"I cannot believe that you are here in this place with me."
Many moments later now, beside her once more as he had been beside her so long ago. Idly, he wondered how many moments had passed outside. He wished he had his violin. Long ago, outside, Regina had loved the music he could call forth from its strings.
"I never knew, Reggie," he whispered to her, glorying in her name, so long unspoken, on his lips. "I never knew this happened to you. None of us did. You disappeared… and it was like a piece of everyone's heart disappeared, from that day forth. James, Lily, Remus most of all… we all started to die a little that day."
"And you?" she asked him.
He smiled at her. "Of course, Reggie. Of course."
Tears were pouring down her cheeks, winking like little stars in the middle of a galaxy of night. "If I must endure this eternal night," she whispered, "at least I can endure it with you."
"No, Reggie," he told her gently. "You mustn't think like that."
She raised her eyebrow. "It's the truth, Sirius. You know that. There is no escape from beyond the veil."
"No, Reggie, you don't understand," he told her urgently. "It's different now." He pulled out his wand. "Every one of you here was stripped of your power when you passed through the veil. But I still have my wand."
Her eyes glittered with sudden understanding. "A new thread on Arachne's loom."
He nodded. "We are no longer outside the tapestry, Reggie. Where magic is, destiny follows. We are not outside of Fate any more, for we have magic, and with magic, anything can happen."
As if to prove his point, Sirius took a piece of blank parchment from his pocket, placed it on the blackness that passed as the ground in the Void, and pointed his wand at it. "Incendio!"
"So civilisation begins," Regina murmured. "With fire."
Sirius nodded. "Let there be light," he whispered.
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The Void, lit now by Sirius's Incendio charm, was exposed.
"How do you think it was constructed?" Sirius asked Regina, his arm around her, the weird unlight of his fire catching the gold in her hair.
Her brow furrowed. "I don't remember being taught about it -"
He sighed. "Neither do I."
"- but," she interrupted. "I think I know one or two things that might help. Or one or two people, more specifically." She leaned closer to Sirius, the weird unlight of his fire flickering in her hair. "Aberforth Dumbledore and Janus Snape."
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