James shook his head as he heard his friend's stubborn reply.

Lily shook her head at Tera's antics. When will she learn? Even though it's barely been a day... in our old world's time that is... their precious little dispute is affecting all of us! Sheesh... can't they just grow up?

Sirius was sitting there replaying happy moments with Tera. He got mad at himself. She was his weakness along with his friends. His family? Ha..he had none anymore. For what seemed an eternity he sat there. Lexi walked up behind him.

"Lily told me about your little fight." She said, sitting beside him.

"So?" he said bitterly

"Remember...she is and always be in love with you" Lexi said and gave Sirius a kiss on the cheek as old friends.

"Thanks." Muttered Sirius

"Remember that us, you're friends are always here too." And she walked away. Sirius pondered her words. He wasn't going to say sorry, he knew that but...he was going to talk to her. Not as a person who wanted to get back together but as an old friend. Lets see how she likes that Oh she'll be relieved you're gone

Tera was startled that James came up to her.

"Uh, is there something in particular that you wanted?" she asked, uncertainly.

"You had another fight with Sirius," he bluntly stated.

"Yeah, yeah... But I'm not going to say sorry."

"I know that. And I'm not telling you to. I was just going to say that your friends are always here for you. You know that right?"

No. You can't be here for me after life just like you couldn't before. You have no idea of everything I've been through.

"Yeah, I know."

"I don't think you do," James said, as if reading her thoughts.

Well, how can anyone ever be there for me? If I remember correctly the last time people were there for me I had to either modify their memories or shout at them to go away."

"Sirius knows the truth of everything that happened and still loves you, you know."

"Good for him."

"All right, I can see you don't really feel like talking. But, then again, you haven't really seemed like talking for twenty years."

"If I remember correctly then you never used to feel like talking before twenty years."

"If you're refering to Divination and our Seventh year you can forget it. I've changed since then. But, if you do feel like Sirius doesn't love you back I know just how you feel."

"What, are you gay?" Tera said teasingly, deliberately misunderstanding him.

"No," James said patiently all though his face was turning a bright red, "I mean I loved Lily for so long and she never seemed to love me back. I've been in your boat before and I know it is deffinetely not fun. So if you'd like you can get out of that boat and enjoy death, it's just the next adventure," and with that he walked away.

Sirius thought about Lexi's words. They were always there for him. He stood up and went to find Tera. He still wasn't going to apologize but he was going to be civil. He ran into her.

"Hey Tera."

"Black.." said Tera nodding but then remembered James words, "I mean Sirius."

"Remember how we kicked all those deatheaters butts?" he said laughing at the memory.

"We sure did..." said Tera smiling while she remembered

"And you stayed behind just so you could make a fancy entrance." Teased Sirius

"I did not! Malfoy had my feet!" smiled Tera

"Sure...how did he have them? He cut them off?" Sirius started howling at his own joke. Tera grinned and chuckled. Sirius was thinking This is good! We're not fighting.

"Oh and remember that time Lily turned the desk into a turtle and set it on James?" said Tera getting into the mood.

"Oh yeah...Jamesy is still afraid of turtles...wanna know why?"

"Sure.."

"When he was small he went to a beach and saw a turtle under a rock and he thought it was hurt, so he picked it up and it turned out to be a snapping turtle...it bit his fingers! And...then chased him...I don't know how...turtles are really slow."

"Thats it?" said Tera

"Yeah...thats all!"

"Wow...he must of been a sissy"

"Don't say that to his face." Said Sirius and at that they both burst out laughing. Tera couldn't help thinking He looks good when he laughs.

"It was fun when we had that eating contest," Tera said, laughing at the memory.

"Yeah, and to think you called me a pig!" he teased.

"Well, I learned from the best!"

"Harr, harr. Very funny."

"I'm sorry about the dance," Tera said, on a more serious note.

"Oh, that. Ah, it's all right," Sirius said. Man, just when I was barely able to forget.

"And I'm sorry about a lot of things."

"Are you sorry that you modified my memory?" he asked, slightly more quiet.

"Yes... No. I mean, I don't know! Voldemort would have killed you first if you'd stayed!" Tera said, a few tears coming to her eyes as the memory washed over her. "And he just might have kept me alive instead. I could not let that happen."

"Is that the real reason why that happened, or did you just hate me?"

"Sirius, I have never hated you. I would have had to watch you die painfully and slowly if you'd stayed. That would have been it for you and you would never have seen James and other of your friends again. If I hadn't have done that you never would have met Harry."

"Wait a moment," he sharply asked, "What do you mean by I wouldn't have met Harry? Back then you didn't know that he'd be alive!"

"I had one last vision before I woke up to find myself in chains," she answered slowly.

"... Did you tell anyone about it?"

"No."

"Could you tell me about it?"

"... Yes. I saw Lily and James in a house with a beautiful child that looked exactly like James except for his eyes. They were a sparkling emerald green, like Lily's. Then I saw Voldemort with a rat-like man. I saw the flash of green light of the most unforgivable curse coursing out of Voldemort's wand. Then lastly I saw the child in perfect contentment with you, only he was much older.

"I knew that I had to prevent Lily and James's deaths if I could, but I knew if I didn't their child would at least live and so would you. I made you all go away and I modified your memory of me because there was no other way you would have left. I tried to kill him but in the end I couldn't. As I died I remembered the child and you."

"So...you saved me to save Harry?"

"Somewhat..."

"Oh..well then I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For being a complete jerk."

"Apology accepted."

"Do you think there's a chance...?"

"I'm not ready Sirius." Said Tera quietly. Sirius nodded and looked past her.

"Hey remember...when we almost died so many times?" he asked with fake cheeriness

"I think we had more lives than a cat!"

"Yeah...and oh we soooo hated Malfoy and Snape and you used the innate magic."

"That was sort of freaky...but funny."

"I know..Snape was like 'It burns ahh!'"

"Yeah.."

"Hey...can we use magic here?"

"I don't think so...we don't have wands.." replied Tera. Sirius nodded and they soon got absorbed in memories. Their friends watched from a distance and smiled.

"You think they'll get back together?" asked Kal who was a sucker for happy endings

"Maybe..." replied James

"Can we get married here?" asked Kal

"Maybe...all we need is a priest." Said Lily. She subconsciously started planning one of her best friends wedding.

Tera silently regretted the words she'd said but she was happy nonetheless to be with Sirius.

"Hm," Tera was thinking hard. "What doest this surface we're walking on feel like to you?"

"Wood, I s'pose, why?"

"Did you ever get the chocolate frog card Della Yorkac?"

"No, why?"

"I did and I spent a long time researching her because she wasn't in the book of chocolate frog cards. She worked in the Department of Mysteries and she worked with this veil there. I'd even go as far as to say she created it. At any rate, she was one of the most powerful Witches ever because of her wand. Olivander himself would not have been able to say what it was made of; she made it herself and she would not tell anyone what it was made of."

"This is all very interesting but-"

"It was made from wood blacker than night and inside of it was a silver hair but it wasn't unicorn. It was human."

"So she used some old lady's hair to make her wand? Yes, I can see just why she was so powerful," Sirius said sarcastically.

"But no human had hair like that. It was ghostly. In fact I'm willing to bet that she made the veil so that she could make an all-powerful wand. That wood was from what we walk upon now and the hair was from someone dead that she stumbled upon here."

"So you're saying that we could make wands?" Sirius asked, slowly getting the idea. "But what if that wand isn't yours? I mean, each witch and wizard has their own wand that works best for them."

"No need for worry, I assume that if you used your own hair it would work for you."

"So, we might be able to do magic after all?"

"Yes."

"We should tell the others." Just then a faint bell sound rang.

"We will...but now its resting time!"

"Oh..ok." he said and walked towards James.

2 Hours of Whatever Later

"Wake up.." yawned Tera

"Already?"

"Yep..."

"Now what?"

"Lets just spend some time with us." Said Kal

"Sure...like old times." Said Lily.

"Just one thing...we have no--," but then James burst in.

"WE FOUND SOMETHING!"

"What?"

"A crack...big enough for somebody to fit through."

"Like..a portal?"

"Yes!"

"Take us there." Commanded Lily and James led them there. They looked through the crack and gasped. For right there in front of their eyes was...a city?

"Its a city!" exclaimed Lexi

"A city? In the land of dead?"

"Wow...this is big." Just then a ghostly figure walked past and they jumped. It stopped and peered through.

"FABIAN!" yelled Lexi and the ghost looked at her

"Lexi?"

"Fabbi! How do we get there?" she asked

"Why you just walk into the crack."

Lexi took a step forward and disappeared. Kal followed with Tera and Sirius on her heels. James and Lily went last.

"Fabian Prewett?" asked Kal amazed

"Its me! Gideon is somewhere around here..."

"Where are we?" asked Sirius

"How do yout know Fabian Prewett?" asked Tera at the same time.

"Me and Fabian...we were supposed to get married...but we broke it off after we saw that we were only good friends."

"As for where you are, you're in...Muno Carth."

"Muo Cawa whata?" Tera asked, confused.

"That's the name for the City of the Dead. It is decreed that someone shall find a way through Muno Carth to the Land of the Living and live on as a ghost."

"Is that the only way to become a ghost?"

"No. Before you die if you're a witch or wizard and you fear death you may pass on this life and be a ghost and travel upon where you once trod," Kal said matter-of-factly as if she'd spent her whole life researching it. But then again, Kal knew everything.

"Is there a way back to where we just were?" Tera asked, looking at the ground which was not made out of the same black wood.

"If you could fly I'm sure that you could go back up there. But who would want to? It's dull and black and down here it's..." he pointed to Muno Carth to illustrate his point.

Tera concentrated and she slowly levitated off of the ground and little by little she ascended towards the crack they'd come through.

"Where are you going?" Sirius called up to her.

"I have to do some stuff," was her reply. With that she scrambled through the crack. Lily and James watched with wide eyes. Kal and Lexi just looked on looking only midly amused

"She'll be fine!"

"I hope.." muttered Lily. Sirius just turned away and asked

"So..this is a main ghost city? What's money? Can we get jobs? What are the--,"

"One at a time. No this is not the main city. We're actually quite small compared to Città Di Spirito. Money here is Cientos centavos. Which means 100 cents..Jobs are pretty scarce but I'm sure I could get jobs for you here. Give me some time." He said and winked. Lexi blushed a bit which Kal found amusing and Sirius found it hard to hold back his laughter

"Guess that 'just friends' isn't what you want." Mumbled Kal to Lexi who flushed brighter and elbowed Kal.

"What kind of jobs?" asked James.

"Well...you could be like me and look for people who don't know where to go or you could be a babysitter...pretty much anything...an auror too! We need to get those guys who were death eaters and cause trouble."

"Now thats like me!" said Sirius enthusiastically.

"All of the jobs I named...I could get you...and some other too."

Tera excitedly groped around for the materials to make wands. She ended up settling for carving the floor with her finger-nails. Painstakingly she took her time, perfecting everything. She didn't want to make any mistakes for fear that the wands would fail. She had fairly easily cut out with her nails a chunk of wood. Good. Now to make it slender, smooth, and hollow to permeat the strand of ghost hair.

By the time she was fairly satisfied with the current stage of her first wand a silvery pink-tinged ooze was leaking from beneath her finger-nails and three earth-days had passed. (Or seven and a half yurthai as time was counted in Muno Carth and the ghost world. One yurthai is roughly the equivilant of half an Earth day.) She shrugged indifferently and began the next stage of the wand. She began polishing it slowly and carefullly with her blood.

"Humph. Is it just me or has Tera been gone for a long time?" Sirius asked, though they all knew he cared he tried to ask it as if he were just a concerned friend.

"It's probably just because you're also anticipating the job you have to wait to get," Lily said, staring off into space.

"It's already been three days! Er, seven and a half yurthai as you guys call em... But you're probably right, Lily."

It was another two and a half days before Tera's first wand was complete and she laid a single strand of her ghostly hair in the center of her wand. She grimly smiled and although she knew her friends would be eager to meet her soon she was driven on by something to make her friends wands, too.