Last Minutes
Last Minutes
Last Minutes
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Regulus Black hates the ocean. This is what he thinks as he stands at the mouth of an ocean
side cave, water splashing up onto the cliff’s edge. It’s wet, cold, and lonely.
He’s ready. He feels the fake locket weighing heavy in his pocket, feeling as though it may
burn right through any minute. He has already gotten everything in order, wrote all of the
letters he needed to. One to Dorcas. Another to Pandora.
Multiple unfinished, half written ones to his brother, Sirius. The dates on them range from the
night before all the way to the first day Sirius left for Hogwarts back in 1971. The one for the
Dark Lord. That one, he’ll admit, was a tad dramatic. But what is Regulus Black other than
an angsty man?
The most important letter is still sitting on his desk. He poured his heart into it. Confessed all
of his deepest secrets. Explained all of his actions and why he did them. He had broken 3
quills writing it, a few of the pages are stained with tears. This letter is addressed to James
Potter, His James, His sun.
Well. Not his James. He is Lily’s, officially and legally as of this summer. He was sent
pictures of their wedding by Dorcas. It was beautiful. He was beautiful. Regulus would give
anything to be in Lily’s place. He would have gladly destroyed the world for James, he thinks
as he dips the goblet into the potion filled basin for the first time, before he pours the liquid
past his lips. He winces as it slides down his throat. It tastes horrid.
That doesn’t stop him, as he drinks more and more of it. Finally, he grabs the locket and
hands it to Kreacher, his loyal house elf, before replacing it with the fake replica.
His throat is burning, desperate for water. He turns to the pitch black water beside him,
bending down, scooping water up. The first gulp isn't enough, but as he goes to grab more, a
hand reaches out and pulls him under.
Suddenly, he’s under water, being touched, pulled, and dragged. He screams. Screams for his
mother and his brother. He screams for James.
Regulus Black’s last thought is James Potter, the boy who shined as bright as the sun, and
how he’d do anything to go back in time and change everything.
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