"Did you expect otherwise?" Tera asked. Her eyes turned into slits, as if daring Lexi to oppose her creation.

"No, matey! It's just hard to believe since there really isn't anything to make wands of here... For example, the wand polish. Come off of it! Where can you find polish here?"

Tera looked down at her hands, clenching them. "Some things we sacrifice for the greater good."

"You didn't," Lexi gasped.

Tera just nodded indifferently.

"Why would you use your own blood, or used to be blood- or- or... Dangit! Your ghost-blood to make them!"

Tera just shrugged as if it were meaningless to her. "Can you not feel the difference in the air? Can you not see that everyone is feeling it? A war is coming, mark my words. Suspicions are rank in the air, wafting off of you people."

"You people? You're talking as if you're from a different race."

"I was led to believe that I was."

"Ooh... The, uh, elf thing... How DID that work again? It doesn't make ANY sense."

Tera sighed as if it were not the first time she'd explained it. Nor the second. Part of the problem was though that she did not fully understand it either but she just had faith that whomever had told her knew what they spoke of. "My mother died giving birth to Tom. But there would have to be someone to counter Tom because later on he would be evil. Who better than another with the same flesh and blood? But my mother was dead. A dead body cannot give birth. There was an elf-friend of hers that thought he could help. He appealed to his gods and my mother's. After a long discussion- it took up a few years- a decision was reached. My mother's god would NOT give her another life so they took a different approach. Although I was still her child as well as my father's I was brought into the world by those gods. That way I obtained my elf-heritage."

Lexi gaped for a short bit. "Yeah-huh. That does NOT help at all."

Tera shook her head. "I didn't think that it would."

"Then why'd you tell me?"

"You wouldn't have left me otherwise. Sirius, stop that," Tera added as Sirius came up to her with a protective air around him. Sirius looked hurt and Lexi slinked away grinning slyly

"MS.LILY!" called a harsh voice. Tera jumped as she saw a wrinkled old man—I mean ghost staring at her.

"Sorry, my name is not Ms.Lily." Tera said politely

"Well..you'll have to do." He muttered and pulled her away. Tera mouthed help to Sirius who smirked and shrugged. Lily walked in 2 minutes later

"Where's Tera? Don't tell me you and her fought again!"

"We didn't an old man dragged her away."

"Oh great! I leave Perkins away for 2, just 2, "said Lily holding up two fingers, "seconds and off he goes."

"What's he doing to her?" asked Sirius starting to get alarmed

"Nothing..just a bit of..uh..well..he doesn't like his medecine so he try's to unload it on people. It sorta puts them to sleep." Stammered Lily, "And he knows I'll make him eat it so..he's got Tera to do it for him.."

"Great!" muttered Sirius as Lily speed-walked away. He waited a second and followed.

"Look, old man—er, ghost! I don't know what you're doing but can I please go now? The fate of my friends and the majority of the dead lies in my left hand." Tera jerked her arm away from the creepy guy.

"All the more reason for you to help me," he mumbled to himself.

"No," Tera firmly stated, turning around to leave.

"Tera?" Lily asked as they bumped into each other.

"Hey, Lils. This creepy man is being, well, creepy. You might want to give him something for it. He's a little—" she did the crazy sign.

Lily just sighed in relief that Perkins hadn't had a chance to give Tera the pills. The pills if given to someone who didn't need them tended to make them overly drowsy.

"Tera?" Sirius asked as they bumped into each other.

"Yes, I'm fine. That man back there was just being creepy. Do you know where Kal or James is? I still have to give them their wands." Her tone changed to a business like air.

"Uuhh…"

"Great. I've got a budding genius to help me find them. Come on," Tera laughed.

"Mr.Perkins! That wasn't very nice!" said Lily sternly

"Sorry Ms.Lily but can't you not give me medicine."

"I'm just doing my job. I don't do it I get fired." Said Lily and gave Mr.Perkins water with crushed medicine in it. He drank it and immediately fell asleep snoring.

"Finally..now to find James." Muttered Lily shedding her nursing uniform. She walked around and banged into Gideon Prewett.

"Hey Lils!" he said.

"Oh Gideon! Nice seeing you..where you going?"

"To Auror of the Dead office."

"How come?" prompted Lily

"I 'abused' my position." He laughed

"What'd you do now?"

"Well...I scared Narcissa Malfoy out of her wits and..put her in jail." He said

"GIDEON!"

"Sorry..but she was a deatheater!"

"Her husband was...Lucius Malfoy..not her."

"So thats why they were so mad when they found out." He pondered

"Did you ever think that you could be obsessing just a tiny bit over this theory of yours that those who die can die again and that there will be a great war, the likes of which non have ever seen?" Sirius asked Tera.

She glared at him. "There will be a war. A war of the ghosts. Thousands will fight, thousands more will die again this time for eternity."

"Do you want to know what I think?"

"What?"

"I think that you just want it to be like that so that you can see Voldemort or Tom again."

"Well if this was just a stupid theory that I was obsessing over and the dead cannot die again then why do the dead age? Why am I not still seventeen? Why are there ghosts whose skin is in folds over their bones that show?" She snapped.

Sirius stopped walking and he held up his hands. "I didn't mean any offence!"

"Oh yeah? Well you offended me!" She snarled, turning away on her heel from him and quickly walking away.

He sighed before proving yet again to her that he was faster. "Don't you know who you sound like?" he asked her.

"Move out of my way."

"No."

Tera gave him a glare that ought to have killed him but it didn't.

He became fed up. "You sound just like a-" he managed to stop himself before saying some fatal words.

"A Slytherin?" she finished the sentance for him, closing her eyes. Her face was a mask of fury when she opened them again.

"Well, yeah," he managed to say, retaining anger.

"Well I AM a Slytherin!" she screamed at him. She stomped away, top speed, in the other direction.

"Tom was in Slytherin too! Just look what happened to him!" He called out to her. He knew that it would REALLY make her angry. Her tangled shriek of anguish painfully satisfied him.

Sirius stood there. How was this relationship going to work?

"It won't...that's why. We're too different." he mumbled

"What won't work." asked a concerned Lily coming up behind him. "I just finished work."

"Um, nothing." said Sirius faking a smile. Lily saw right through it

"You and Tera aren't having problems again are you?"

"Of course not." said Sirius trying his best to look offended.

"Good, because I'm so happy. If you guys break up I will forever shun you." said Lily grinning and she walked or floated away

"Then you should be shunning me right now." said Sirius into the growing darkness. Both outside and inside of himself

Tera was so angry. At Sirius. At Tom—Voldemort. But she knew deep down that it was herself that she blamed. It was herself that she was furious with. It was the decisions that she'd made. But there was no going back. Ever. She leaned against a ghostly brick wall and she slumped down, tears springing to her eyes. Voices in her head whispered repeatedly, your fault. Your fault. Everything's your fault. She closed her eyes and she sat against the wall of an alley, crying.

"I'm going to lose him again," she whispered to herself. Shock flooded through her at what that would mean. But should she continue on like this she could, nay, would lose Sirius again.