July 25th- 4 Privet Drive

Harry Potter was having the worst summer of his life. He had just lost his godfather and it was his fault. If he had just stayed at school and let the Order deal with it... Or he could have tried harder at occlumency.

Harry sighed. He had been laying in his bed since he got back from Hogwarts. He rarely responded to letters from his friends and when he did, the responses were short and clipped. They pushed him to say more at the start of the summer but as the days went on, they backed off.

Harry got up and looked out the window. He grumbled to himself when he saw that Dumbledore had once again assigned Order members to guard Privet Drive.

Luckily it was just two of them this time and not ten like when he first came back. He identified them as Tonks (The purple hair and heart-shaped face gave it away) and Kingsley Shacklebolt. Tonks gave him a sad wave and Harry tried to smile back but, it came out as more of a grimace. With a sigh, Harry walked back to his bed. His last thought before he fell asleep was Sirius' shocked face as he fell through the veil.

Sirius slowly opened his eyes expecting to see the battle but instead saw a large wide grass field. His eyes snapped open and he scrambled into a sitting position.

He stood up and quietly asked, "Where am I?"

Then the battle came back to him. He remembered going to the department of mysteries, fighting death eaters and finally being pushed into the veil by his very own cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange.

The very last thing he remembered was Harry running toward him with tears in his eyes and his mouth open in a scream.

"Harry," Sirius murmured. He turned in circles looking for a glimpse of anything familiar; Or alive for that matter. "Hello? Is anyone there?"

When no one responded, Sirius thought about his options. He could start walking and see where he went or he could wait around here and see if someone happened to walk by.

And so with one final glance around, Sirius took off.

Sirius had been walking for hours. Of course, he didn't actually know how long he had been walking because there was no way to tell time. No sun, no clocks, actually there was nothing except for grass as far as the eye can see.

Sirius was getting extraordinarily angry now.

He had left his godson and now he couldn't even find anyone to tell him where he was.

Just as Sirius was about to voice his thoughts, he saw a small house in the distance.

"YES!" Sirius screamed.

He ran towards the house using all the energy that he had left and finally, after what seemed like forever, Sirius was in front of the house. Well, more of a mansion. The house was red with white trimming and it was big enough to leave Sirius stunned. He cautiously knocked on the door and was thrilled when he heard the pounding of footsteps running down the stairs. As they got closer he could hear a woman's voice muttering something about how no one ever comes around these days. When she opened the door Sirius was surprised, to say the least. In fact, he was so surprised that he collapsed right on the welcome mat.

The woman that answered the door was someone he knew very well. She had beautiful, waist length red hair that seemed to glow in the sunlight and perfect pink lips that were just the right shade. Although, those were not the things he remembered most.

What Sirius remembered the most were her eyes. The woman's eyes were an emerald green that no one could ever forget.

They were the eyes of Lily Evans.

When Sirius woke up he found that he was no longer on the doorstep, but in a rather comfy bed. He slowly sat up and took in his surroundings.

He was in a large bedroom that had two doors which Sirius assumed lead to a closet and a bathroom. There was a chest at the foot of his bed and a dresser in front of that. The walls were red with white trim just like the outside of the house. He looked up and realized that he was in a canopy bed.

As he was examining the room Lily came in with a bowl of soup.

"Hello Sirius," She said softly setting the bowl of soup on the bedside table.

"Hey," He replied propping himself up with the pillows.

After a moment of silence, Lily spoke up again.

"You died," She said softly, looking at his face to gauge his reaction.

"Yeah, I figured," Sirius joked, playing with one of a loose thread on the comforter. "It was Bella you know. She stunned me and sent me right through the veil."

"I'm sorry."

"It was my fault," He said to the redhead, looking up from where his fingers were nimbly spinning the thread. "I rushed in without thinking and I underestimated her."

"She's a bitch," Lily said, smiling at the man whom she considered a brother.

"Have I finally corrupted you, Lily Flower?"

"Shut up you mutt!" Lily said, playfully swatting at his shoulder.

Sirius turned towards her to defend himself but was surprised to see tears in Lily's eyes.

"Hey, Lily. What's wrong?"

"I'm fine, Sirius. It's just so, so good to see you," She whispered.

Sirius wrapped his arms around her and gently rubbed circles into her back, just as he had done years before whenever James wasn't around to comfort her.

"I knew you would miss me," Sirius mumbled into her hair.

"Of course I missed you, Sirius. You're a part of our family. Whether you like it or not."

Lily stayed with Sirius while he ate the soup and they talked about various things that had been going on since they had last seen each other. Lily told him about her adventures in the afterlife while Sirius reluctantly told her about his time n Azkaban.

"That's unjust!" Lily exclaimed when he explained to her what had happened.

"Yeah. You're telling me," Sirius muttered. "But I got to spend two years with Harry before I fell into the stupid curtain so I think it was worth it. By the way, does this place have time? Or is it just infinite... thingys?"

"It's 4:30, Sirius," Lily said with a giggle. "Oh! And that means James should be home in half an hour,"

"Well, we have to greet him now don't we?" Sirius said, his eyes suddenly sparkling brighter than the stars that he was named after.

"Sirius," Lily said in a warning tone.

"Come on Lily! You can help me," Sirius said getting out of the bed.

"Just this once Sirius. And I'm only letting you do this because you died."

"Do you realize how terrible that sounds?" Sirius asked.

"Shut it mutt."

After the pair dug out James' pranking supplies, they carefully set up the elaborate trick. Sirius served as the creative energy while Lily made sure everything would work exactly the way he wanted to. Once the prank was set up, Sirius retreated to a hiding spot where he would stay until James got home.

Seconds later, the faint rustle of keys could be heard and the creak o a door soon followed.

"Lily? I'm home!" James called.

"Hey babe," Lily replied walking over and giving him a quick peck on the lips. "How was everyone?"

"Pretty good. Prewitt's are still arguing over who's barbeque was better but you know how that goes."

"Of course. I made dinner if you're hungry?"

"When am I not hungry?" James laughed making his way towards the dinner table as Lily disappeared back into the kitchen.

He made his way over to a chair and sat down, gently scooting his chair in. As soon as he did that, a trip wire went off sending a cascade of confetti and an unknown sticky substance onto him. While James was momentarily blinded, Sirius popped out of his hiding place and struck a pose on the table.

James sputtered and wiped at his eyes while showing off his impressive vocabulary of swear words. Then, as he cleared his eyes, he looked up to the figure standing on the table.

"Sirius" murmured James then, "Sirius!"

James stood up and looked at his brother in all but blood. He probably looked ridiculous, staring like a moron while he was covered in sparkles and colored paper but he couldn't bring himself to care.

"Hey James," Sirius said, stepping down from the table and nervously smiling at his friend.

James stepped forward and embraced Sirius tightly.

"I missed you, Pads," He said gruffly.

"I missed you too, Prongs."

Lily walked in holding a pan of chicken and smiling at the two.

"Awwww the two weirdos are together again."

"Love you too, Lily!" James said moving towards her to help with the food when suddenly a blinding light struck the room.

James and Sirius went to stand by Lily and shielded their eyes. As sudden as the light had come it was gone, but in its wake, it left a beautiful young lady.

The young lady had glossy black hair that fell all the way to her waist and sparkling violet eyes that shimmered in the light. Her skin was so pale it was almost translucent and her lips were a delicate pink.

All three witches and wizards automatically pulled out their wands.

Before any of them could cast spells, the woman spoke softly, "I mean no harm. In fact, I have come to offer a gift."

"We can't trust you until we know who you are," said James

"Ah, how rude of me. My name is Raven but most people know me as Fate. As I said, I mean no harm and I am unarmed."

Lily, James, and Sirius glanced at each other with uncertainty. They couldn't see any weapons on her but, they also knew nothing about her. After some consideration, they decided that it couldn't hurt to hear her out. After sharing a glance at each other Lily spoke.

"We have decided that we can trust you for now. We do have a question, though. Why are you here?"

"I have come to offer you a gift."

"And what would that gift be?" asked Sirius

"It concerns the young Harry Potter."

"Our son?" James asked.

"No the other Harry Potter from America," Fate said, rolling her eyes at the man. "Of course I'm talking about your son! I've made a mistake. I took too many people from him."

"Well, we're already dead in case you haven't noticed."

Fate had the decency to look ashamed. Her violet eyes never left the ground as she spoke. "I have a proposition for you. I made a mistake many years ago that, excuse my language, had a lot of shitty consequences. I'm here to offer you something that will not only correct my error, but it could change the course of the war."

She lifted her head and looked at each of the others in the eyes.

"I want to bring you back to life."

"That's impossible," Lily breathed. "No spell can reawaken the dead."

"I'm Fate," the woman said, sending a dazzling smile towards Lily. "I can do whatever I please."

"This is messing with the laws of life and death," James said. "Are you sure that you can do this?"

"It's just a simple rewrite of your life story. Easy peasy."

"No, it's not or else you would do it for everyone."

"Fine, I've never done it before but, I'm willing to try."

The wizards and witch looked at each other and nodded their heads.

James slowly said, "We'll return for Harry."

Fate smiled softly and said, "I hope I won't see you for quite some time. Oh! one last thing be careful. I can only let you return to the mortal world once. If you die again you're stuck here."

With that, Fate snapped her fingers and a blinding light filled the room. Within seconds it disappeared, taking the occupants of the room along with it.

A/N as of 3-1-18 - Hi guys! Wow, I first published this story over two years ago can you believe it? I certainly can't! First thing I want to address is that I'm not going to be majorly changing the story in any way. So if this is your second time reading this, welcome back! You won't need to worry about any of your favorite plotlines being taken away. I am just revising everything to fit my current style and skill level of writing.

If this is your first time reading my story, then I hope you'll stick around! The sequel to this will be coming out sometime during the summer months so you have that to get excited about! In the meantime, you can enjoy this.

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Thank you guys again for sticking around and I hope you enjoy these revisions.

Love you all,

-Marauderette24

A/N as of 7/8/18- Hola! So I'm doing a second round of rewrites now (I'm insane I know) so enjoy this chapter! I'm basically condensing everything and just going back to fix older chapters. Alright, that's it! Thank you so much for reading and I'll see you later!

-Marauderette24