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    By the third week of school, Regulus’ crush is out of control.

    He’s always been a top student. Not to mention, law is his thing. He excels at it, but he can’t focus in class. Not when his professor looks this good in his suit, fabric hugging all the right places. Not when he runs his fingers through already messy hair and makes it messier. Tanned skin and broad shoulders, a brilliant smile paired with infallible kindness.

    Regulus has never wanted anyone more.

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    Or, Regulus offers to take care of a houseplant and ends up sleeping with his professor. Oops?

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    31 Mar 2025

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    James Potter loved Lily Evans from the moment he knew what it truly was to love anybody. But, in the end, it didn’t matter that James had declared that he would never love anyone else but Lily. Because he still lost her.

    One year on from Halloween 1981, James is struggling to raise Harry alone whilst drowning in an impenetrable dark sea of grief, determined to never love again. Because, in his experience, to love, is to lose.

    Luckily, Regulus Black knows quite a lot about loving and losing. And drowning, too, considering the fact that he survived the cave in 1979 and faked his death for two years, popping in to give Sirius the fright of his life on Halloween.

    And, consequently, showing up just in time for the events that followed. The shattered remnants of people that the war left behind.

    Maybe Regulus will be able to show James that it’s okay to extinguish the first love flame, whilst simultaneously giving him the parenting help he is too ashamed to ask for. And, in return, maybe James will manage to convince Regulus that love isn’t something you earn, something that always has a catch.

    Maybe they just needed one another all along, to take that step into the daylight.

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    20 Mar 2025

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    After a decade of being everything to each other, Regulus and Evan have their loyalty tested as tensions rise in their final year of Hogwarts.

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    18 Mar 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    Regulus Black tried. He really, really did.

    But in the end, what could he do against the voices and the urges and the perpetually present hole inside of his chest, how could he fight it? He wasn't that strong.

    So he was eight, then twelve, then seventeen and then he gave up. That's what he always did, according to his mother and father. Sirius could tell them differently, but he wasn't there. He hasn't been for a long time.

    And Regulus was tired.

    (Or, Regulus Black goes to a mental institution broken, unloved and as a result of actions he only remembers bits and pieces of.)

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    “With my luck today, even this absent printer, Mr.–” Eloise tilts her head back to read the sign above her – “Mr. Hallam will want six pence a page for the opportunity to condescend to women.”

    “Not at all,” the young man says, straight-faced. “Hallam will condescend to you for free.”

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