Life Beyond the Veil

-A Sequel to The 7th Year-

By

JaZzy

&

Kayna

Tera gasped and she leaned against the veil, her jail bars. Despite how she'd modified his memory and made him hate her she desperately loved him and she couldn't change that fact. Now she could see him beyond the veil, yet he didn't see her. Couldn't see her. The veil was all that kept them apart, that was all. But it was a long distance to be any distance away from him.

"Sirius!" she cried out in pain and joy over and over again.

But it was all to no use. The veil seperated them like a meter-thick cement wall. But, despite her deepest desire, she wanted him to live. To continue protecting Harry, James and Lily's son. Even if it meant keeping them apart... She continued to watch him duel Bellatrix.

Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of Dumbledore's arrival. Tera saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her.

"Come on, you can do better than that!" he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.

The second jet of light hit him squarely on the chest.

The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch. ((page 710 from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, I just changed a few things to include Tera, sorry about that.))

Tera caught him when he fell back-first into the Domain of the Dead. He hadn't changed much from when she had last looked at him, back when she was alive. The only changes were that he was older, gaunt and laughterless, and looked livid to see her. He scrambled out of her arms and stared at her without the love they used to share. Then his face broke into a smile.

"James!" he cried, joyously.

"Sirius!" came the eager reply. Although it was un-like them they paused breifly then hugged.

"Lily," Sirius said, smiling even wider to see her. She laughed.

"Sirius!" Lexi shouted and jumped on him.

"Nice to see you Lexi," he grinned. "You too Kal," he added as Kal also came up.

Tera awkwardly, yet fully understanding why, stood outside of their reunion.

"Why's it that you all don't look the same as when I last saw you?" he asked, realizing that something was very different, yet the same, about their appearances.

"Time still affects us here," Kal replied. They all looked as old as Sirius was.

"H- how's Harry doing?" Lily choked as she looked wistfully at the veil.

"All right... He's all right," Sirius replied and his smile faded as he remembered his Godson, still out there. "But who behind here was whispering?" Sirius asked, quickly changing the subject.

"No one was whispering... But Tera was yelling, and crying, though," James replied, wondering if something was wrong in his friend's noggin. First off, he was hearing things, and secondly, though he supposed he really couldn't blame him too much, there was a beautiful girl he was ignoring who had loved him dearly at one time and he her. He would be on Sirius's side if he hadn't seen Tera by the veil, every day, waiting, silently crying, and watching her life's moments with Sirius over and over...