The blue around the morning moon

The colour of your eyes

I remember holding you

Fall through summer skies

You're everything that I've become, every word I say

I need a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

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White horses on a troubled sea

Your smile will flash through time

Up ahead a blackbird's wing

Your hair will come to mind

Every night I see your face when I have to pray

I need a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

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Keep your ghost away, keep your ghost away

I need a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

~~~~~

Sirius looked up to see a very familiar looking young woman walking towards him. Her long black hair moved back and worth in front of her face with the gentle wind. She sat down next to him and he watched at her cautiously.

"Are you a ghost?" he asked.

She shook her head slowly. "No."

"Are you still dead?"

She laughed lightly at this. "Yes."

"Are you real?"

Her expressioned saddend slightly. "No."

"Where are you?" he asked tiredly.

She gave him an annoyed look. "We go over this every time."

He smirked at her. "Indulge me. You're my manifestation, go over it one more time."

~~~~~

Just before the thunder roars

I sense you next to me

And as I move through nature

I know where you will be

So I must keep myself apart, here is where I'll stay

With a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

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Keep your ghost away, keep your ghost away

I need a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

~~~~~

She looked just as beautiful as she had that last day he'd spoken with her. The day she walked away. It was the way he always thought of her when he wasn't trying to recreate their time together. He couldn't think of her the way she had looked at the end, frail and insane, an empty shell of the powerful witch she had once been.

She was the more painful of the reasons he was still sane after so many years surrounded by the Dementors she had feared so much.

He'd kill Peter for James and Lily.

He'd slaughter every death eater he could get his hands on for her. Because they hadn't just killed her. They had destroyed her.

~~~~~

The blue around the morning moonThe colour of your eyes

I remember holding you

Fall through summer skies

You're everything that I've become, every word I say

I need a bell, book, and candle to keep your ghost away

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Author's Note: I don't own any of this but the yet unnamed woman is mine. Sirius is my very favourite character, and I love this song by Eddie Reader. It's called "Bell, Book and Candle". I'm using it to sort of illustrate the angst and saddness involved in seemingly all of Sirius's relationships. All of the chapters are going to have song titles that I think sort of fit with the theme of the chapter. What do you think?