Lily had seen Tera's wistful looks and cleared her throat.

"Hey.." Tera whispered

"Hello." Said Sirius coolly and turned away. Tera felt tears pricking at her eyelids and she walked away. Sirius felt a momentary moment of regret but he brushed it away.

"So where I am I?"

"You're in the place after death..."

"Which is?"

"We're still not sure..." replied Lily

"Sirius..why are you not talking to Tera?" asked James reproachfully, surprising everyone.

"You remember her! You remember what she did to me!" he exclaimed

"We do...but she ddi it for your OWN good!"

"My own good!"

"YES! She loved you so much...she rathered her to die than you!" burst out Lily, "She loved you! Do you know how much she watched for you? No you don't because you never talked to her!"

"Oh.." said Sirius quietly

"We're sorry Sirius, we don't want to make your first day a living hell...so.." started Lexi

"We'll stop." Finished Kal

"Thank you." Said Sirius, "But do you think Tera will talk to me?"

"She might...she's more forgiving here..." said Lily

Tera blinked angrily. She should know better than to be crying at the moment. She deserved everything bad that came her way. When she made Sirius forget everything they'd been through together and when she made him hate her she'd thrown away everything. Except for his life.

"Tera?" came Sirius's voice, uncertain.

No. It was another memory, it had to be. Still, illusion or no, an illusion was better to talk to than nothing.

"Yes?" she asked, slowly turning around. Her heart- although stopped for years now- nearly started beating again as furiously as it had in the old days of life. In front of her was no illusion but Sirius Black in the ghostly flesh and no blood.

"Um..hi" said Sirius nervously

"Hello." Said Tera quietly and without emotion.

"Well um..this is awkward."

"Sort of." said Tera smiling just a little

"I'm sorry!" they both burst out at the same time

"I'm sorry for acting..like I did..listening to James helped me reliese...that we.."

"I know...he said the same things to me." Said Tera grinning. She found it surprising she could forgive him so easily. It seemed as if they were still together.

"Well...just wanted to say I'm sorry." Sirius and he walked away. Why couldn't i have said it? Because you're a coward! No i'm not How much you wanna bet? Sirius groaned as his inner voices battled.

Why didn't he say something esle? He wanted to...I could tell Maybe he hates you and just felt guilty Maybe...but.. but what? How long has it been? More than 10 years?

It's actually been 20 years... Exactly. He's probably hated you for all of them and only came up and apologized because of what James said. Well... He might not... What makes you think that!

Tera sighed wearily as her mind continued to wage it's war. After awhile--humph. A while. Time didn't seem to pass here, it was like a black void, the only other thing was the curtain--Lily came towards Tera.

"Lily..." Tera began. She wanted to tell someone how she felt; it hurt so much. "I'm confused..."

"Yes. Sirius kind-of confuses me too because he's hesitant to be around you--but then again, he wasn't there to watch you for 15 years."

"It's not that."

"Oh? Uhm, what is it, then?"

"It's that I know I deserve every bit of rejection that he shows me. Even though I chose to have him hate me and I should die and he could live there's still an affection for him that makes me not want to let go..." she trailed off, not sure of how to put it into words.

"Don't worry...he'll come around." Said Lily.

"I suppose..." said Tera wistfully."

"Do not worry! With us...nothing can go wrong." Said Lily throwing up her arms.

"Don't..don't help. I want this to be his own desicsion."

"It will be...we'll just push him in the right direction."

"Don't!"

"Fine..." sighed Lily, "Come on..its resting time." ((resting time is the time of day..or night or whatever when they actually can sleep...for 2 hours...))

Tera allowed herself to be steered to the area.

2 Hours Later--

"Wake up!" said Kal yawning

"Already?"

"Yeah.."

Tera blinked her eyes and she looked around, then abruptly left the room.

"What was that all about?" Kal asked.

"Dunno," Lexi replied.

Lily turned to Sirius, who was still in the room.

"What?" he asked, noticing her gaze.

"Nothing, nothing..."

"Lily! You've been with James since 7th year! How could you be checking Sirius out now!" Lexi said teasingly. Lily just rolled her eyes.

Tera had gone to a different area of the endless black and she laid down on her back and she thought about school. School... It had always given her something to think about, school. She always had to worry about her work. But now there was nothing to do. Nothing... She never thought that she'd think this but she missed school dreadfully. Having nothing to do for 20 years could make oneself go mad... Lily looked around for Tera. Then she snapped her fingers. Tera always went to one place to think. Then she stopped herself. Tera needed time to think. Plus she needed to pump Sirius for details about her son. She went to find him. She found him sitting by himself thinking

"Hey..."

"Hey" replied Sirius

"Sirius...I was wondering if you would-,"

"Tell you all about Harry's life." Finished Sirius

"Yes please." Said Lily smiling

"Well he has two best friends...Ron Weasley and—,"

"Weasley? You mean Arthur Weasley's son!"

"Yes...him and Hermione Granger.."

"Granger...never heard of them."

"She's muggle-born now will you stop interrupting me?" asked Sirius impatiently

"Sorry." Said Lily grinning lopsidly as James walked over

"Are you pumping him for information? I thought we said we'd leave it till tomorrow or until next resting time is over!" teased James

"You know you're curious too." Lily shot back.

"You're right. Now buddy we want more." He said turning to Sirius

"In his first year he saw Voldemort sharing a body with his DADA teacher, and his deepest desire was to see his family. And in his second..."

Kal sighed slightly and she found her feet leading her to the veil. When she got there she could see no evidence that hours before people had been fighting there. Including Remus. She shook her head sadly and went off to find Lexi because out of all of her friends she didn't have anyone here either.

"Hey Lexi," Kal said as she came across her friend.

"Kal," Lexi said, as if she'd been in deep thought for a long time, "why is it that we're dead and we've seen no one else but our friends? People die every day... Why aren't they all swarming this place by the hundreds?"

"I never thought about it, really."

"I think," said Tera, who had come up behind them, "that it's because they've either come in by other entry-ways a far ways away from here, or there's a different realm for certain people. Maybe because we're such close friends fate didn't seperate us."

They all spent more time pondering it, together.

"So does that mean that," Kal began to say shakily, afraid even, "Remus might not come into the same realm or through the same entry-way?"

"Come on. Seperate him from you? The fates will have too many troubles if they did that... They'd be answering to all of us!"

Kal nodded, feeling reassured by her friends. Lily and James were listening avidly as Sirius told them about their son's life. Once he had finished there were tears in Lily's eyes and James was smiling sadly

"He went through so much...without his parents!" cried Lily

"You died to save him...and you did! You died to protect him and that gave him a sheild!"

"My little boy...he's a Quidditch player...like his dad!" said James fondly

"And a damn good one at that." Muttered Sirius, "He could kick your butt any day."

"HEY! I may not be in as good shape as I used to be, but with some fine tuning...some new limbs.. I should be as good as new."

"James...admit it. Our boy has grown up." Said Lily smiling at James' comment, "And you have grown too."

"Does my little boy have an eye on anyone?" asked James

"He's not little anymore Prongs." Sighed Sirius, "But I do hope he ends up with somebody nice...like Hermione or Ginny."

"Ginny?"

"Ginny Weasley...possessed by Voldemort in Harry's second year."

"Oh...Ron's sister. You know..it seems like us. Except our eyes are changed...you have hazel and Ginny has hazel while Harry has green...like mine."

"They'll look like us...and be as happy as us hopefully."

"But won't die as young as us." Said Sirius

Tera sighed and looked around her. All the black... The infinite space... It depressed her and it made her regret that she had not lived life to the fullest, enjoying all of the experiances it had to offer. But even though she'd already spent twenty years here... She hadn't even begun to scratch upon the surface of just how long she'd be there.

"Is it possible for us to die here, forcing us into another plane but one where we do not exist as we do now and in our former lives?" Tera asked.

"Hey, if time affects us why wouldn't war? That is," Kal snorted mirthlessly, "if there ever was a war down here."

"Do you mean that if Voldemort and his followers died and they came down here, we would have another bloody battle?" Lexi asked, sick and tired of the aspect of war.

"That's exactly what I mean..."

"So, the fun isn't over yet," Tera said, feigning cheeriness.

"What fun?"

"Why, the fun of vengeance and war."

Lily, James and Sirius walked back slowly. Talks of old times were driven from their minds. James and Lily were deep in thought about Harry. Sirius however was thinking about Tera.

Would she forgive me? Probably not! Why? She's a woman! Women are weird! Not Tera...she's down to earth. Down to earth? She can't be! We're all dead! Leave me..

Sirius sighed. Chances were Tera was still mad...so why would he make an effort? She was never going to forgive him...he didn't know Tera was thinking these exact thoughts.

Tera wandered off away from Kal and Lexi after a bit; the talk of their even further possible deaths was depressing. She was just gone when Sirius, James, and Lily came back.

"How's Remus doing?" Kal asked Sirius suddenly, as if she'd been deeply thinking about it for some time. Which she had, nearly twenty years...

"Oh, he's doing fine," Sirius said. "He taught Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts for Harry's third year, helped save my life from the dementors," he shuddered as he remembered his near fate. "He asked Harry to listen to the truth of what happened," he nodded towards James and Lily to indicate their deaths.

"I see..." Kal said, clearly imagining him doing all that Sirius had just mentioned.

"Yeah, do you know where Tera is?" Sirius asked, even though he knew she would not speak to him.

"Not a clue. Just before you came she was walking that-a-way, though," Lexi said.

"Ah. Thanks," he decided not to pursue her. How the hell was he supposed to find her down here without the Marauder's Map that only showed Hogwarts anyways?

Tera sighed and she didn't know what to do. She thought grimly about what another war when they were already dead could mean. Then another thought struck her.

If Kal's idea of being able to kill and die here are true then maybe that's what happened to everyone... Are you kidding me? Your former idea is more likely than what you're thinking now. But think about it. A war could have just happened and wait a moment before you get too carried away. What about the people that have died since then, huh? Where are they? Well, uh... Exactly.

Tera sighed again. She closed her eyes and she slowly remembered every moment of her Seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She also added in a few imaginations and fillers as to what happened after she left. She could clearly see no one even wondering where she was and Dumbledore not acknowledging her. Just like old times, only then she hadn't been a literal walking dead. Sirius walked aimlessly around trying to sort out his thoughts. When by fate he stumbled upon Tera.

"Oh sorry!" siad Sirius hurriedly

"Its ok...I was just thinking."

"About?"

"Our last year...I was such a nobody.."

"You were never a nobody to me." Tera chose to ignore his last words

"I was...until I made up with Lily." Sirius felt a pang as she didn't mention him but shrugged it off.

"Yeah...too bad you were in Slytherin." Said Sirius. His voice was a bit too scathing and Tera jumped up.

"You know what? Why are we talking? We clearly HATE each other!"

"You know what? I think you're right! I shouldn't have even bothered!" yelled Sirius

"Bothered to do what!" yelled back Tera

"I wanted a truce...a chance at--, never mind...you're not worth my time!" shouted Sirius and stalked away.

"FINE!" yelled a bitter Tera.

"I wish I had stayed in bloody Slytherin," Tera muttered to herself. "And I wish I had gone out with Malfoy instead. And been a Death Eater. And have my life a lot better and working for the dark side," she dismally thought a-loud. "Anything would be better than this fate... exile."

But what about all of the good times you had being in Gryffindor, going out with Sirius, NOT being a Death Eater and rebelling against Voldemort? What good times? Whenever I would have had a good time good ol' Tom, or Voldemort whoever you prefer, stepped in. And I never officially went out with Sirius, did I? And I had one or two REAL battles with the Death Eaters. Are you kidding me? What about the dance? You went out with Sirius then! And I ran away from it to take care of unfinished business. What about when... I don't want to think about Sirius right now, so bug off.

"Tera," Lily said, coming up to her friend, "is there any special reason as to why Sirius is fuming and you're wishing you had been evil?"

"Yes. It was due to all of my twenty years here, my life alive, and my most recent conversation with Sirius. Why do you ask?" she used a dangerous tone in her voice.

"Tera. I won't leave you alone. I thought that you missed him? He wanted to make a truce?"

"Well I don't care. I did miss him, I DO miss him. He did want to make a truce."

"Why don't you care?"

"I just don't. And I don't want to talk about it." Tera clearly cut off the topic of conversation there. Lily sighed and thought When will she relieze that Sirius..is the best thing... Lily watched Tera walk away. She felt tears prick at her eyes but ignored them.

James walked over to Sirius who was muttering to himself and cursing.

"What up Pad?"

"She is being a total b!"

"Tera?"

"Who do you think?"

"Are you ok?"

"DO I look ok? DO I look as if this is the best day ever." Said Sirius sarcastically

"Can you just talk to her?"

"Talk? Talk? Do you think she WILL talk to me?"

"Give her a chance!"

"A chance for what? For a reconciliation?"

"YES! You know that you and her do...but of course you are being too stubborn!" said James standing up looking disgusted.

"Stubborn?" Sirius muttered as James walked away, "Me? She's the one.."