James laughed, and now it was Sirius's time to look hurt. "No not heaven or hell. This place we're in it's a waiting area. A place for people with unfinished business."

Sirius was not suddenly cured of self-hatred, but it had lessened slightly. "What do you do here then?"

"We learn about what we're doing here and we watch the world continue without us." Lily said as she pulled him up to his feet. Sirius was a little disorientated, "Everything is a lot sharper here." Lily explained to Sirius, because she saw him squint his eyes.

"How do you watch the world?" Sirius asked quietly, not sure if he wanted to watch it going on with out him.

"On a mirror."

"Oh."

They walked inside a house, "Is this yours?" Sirius asked them.

Lily nodded as James said, "You'll be staying with us." Sirius nodded silently. James and Lily led him into a room with a large mirror on the wall. Sirius couldn't detect anything very special about the mirror, because at the moment the only thing that was being reflected was them.

"How does it work?"

Lily grinned at him and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall," she turned to glare at a moaning Sirius. "Show us the outside in the name of St. Paul."

"That was some horrible rhyming."

"Just watch Sirius," she said slightly exasperated and a little pleased that he was feeling well enough to make fun of her.

The mirror suddenly became very cloudy, but when it cleared up Sirius gasped. Looking in the mirror you could see the Hogwart school grounds. He could see the Whomping Willow and Hagrid's hut.

"That should be enough," Lily said with a wave of her hand. The mirror became cloudy again, but this time when it cleared up it only showed their reflections again.

"Why did you stop it?" Sirius asked he had wanted to see Harry or at least some other human being. "I don't think you're really ready to see what people are doing yet," Lily explained. Sirius glared at her, but she just shrugged. She knew how angry Harry was at that moment and Sirius didn't need another bout of self- pity.

"Who else is here?" Sirius asked after an awkward silence. You'd think that they would have more to talk about but things were awkward between the three friends. James and Lily didn't want to say anything that Sirius would think they were blaming him for and Sirius didn't want to say anything that would make them blame him.

"Your cousin, Andromeda, she's here. So's her husband. Marlene McKinnon and company are here. Little Benjy's here. Umm... who else," Lilly thought about the people Sirius would have known who had ended up in this place. Sirius looked at her sadly as he realized this list is actually quite long and she was only telling him a small amount of people who had died at Voldemort's hand. Lily continued, "Eddy Bones, Caradoc, but you never liked him very much. Gideon and Fabian are here. Dorcas Meadowes is here too."

"That's a lot of people."

"Lilly you forgot Yoshi, she's here too," James said not quite understanding the shake of the head Lily was giving him. She groaned as Sirius looked questioningly at her.

"James, honey you are an idiot," turning to Sirius she tried to explain, "After we were killed, Yoshi joined the order," she vainly attempted to leave it at that.

"Lily," Sirius started suspiciously, "Why didn't you tell me this earlier. You did tell her that I wasn't the traitor didn't you. I'm assuming that was why she joined the order. Not because you died but because I was sent to Azkaban."

Lily shifted uncomfortably under Sirius's gaze as she said, "She wouldn't listen to us, she had been betrayed. She wouldn't give that up. If she blamed you then she wouldn't have to blame herself." Lily looked cautiously at Sirius to see how he was taking this.

"I see."

"I don't think you do. See my idiot of a husband over here," James looked at Lily with a very hurt expression on his face, "Remember how he blew up at you about your self-pity?" Sirius nodded. "Well he did the same to Yoshi, she got quite angry and wouldn't listen to us. I don't think she wanted to see if you were the traitor, because if you were she couldn't take it. She never really believed you were it's just all the facts pointed that way."

Sirius's expression remained closed and Lily glared at James. "I didn't do anything wrong. She was blaming Sirius and wouldn't listen to me unless I yelled." James protested, as Lily rolled her eyes.

She tried to explain, "Remember how you felt when you found out Peter had betrayed you." Sirius noted with interest that James's face grew cold at the mention of Peter's name. "Well take that and multiply it by three and you get what she feels. One Sirius never told her he was in the order so she felt that he had suspected her. Two everyone herself included thinks that Sirius was the betrayer. Thirdly she loved him and he hadn't bothered to tell her his secrets when she told all of hers to him."

Sirius looked shocked, he hadn't realized that he had betrayed yet another person. Lily and James groaned when they saw his expression. "Don't start again, Padfoot," James cautioned his friend.

"Can we go see her?" Sirius asked in a quiet voice.

Lily nodded and said, "Of course, I will take you and James can stay here and watch shop."

James looked at her and asked, "Why can't I go?"

"Because you will say something stupid."

James gave her an injured look as he muttered under his breath about ungrateful wives.