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regulus is all alone in a dull world, full of sick, cannibalistic, and dead-walking people. london gets bombed before he could find james or sirius, or anyone. they are probably all ashes by now. no one answers his calls or messages, and the bomb left him deaf in both ears. all he wants is to stop the next day from rising and see james’s face one last time.
then, a man named barty comes out of a house, soaked in blood.
meanwhile, james is on his fifth missed call to regulus, trapped in infinite car traffic, when he witnesses London explode before his eyes. his lover’s voice echoes in his ear— sharp, yet so charming: “i’m not going to listen to this. good luck trying to call me”—while the world falls apart. following circumstances beyond their control, James and a small group set up an improvised camp at burnham beechess, in slough.
but he still thinks of regulus every single night, even with almost certain knowledge that he is dead.
both are so terribly wrong. and everything, especially themselves, is going to shatter in this deceased world.
in the end, it’s all burning beaches.
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02 Jun 2026
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Sirius Black flees his wedding, still in his tuxedo, minutes before walking down the aisle. He doesn't think. He just drives. Until he sees a hitchhiker limping down the road with frayed bell bottom blue jeans, a graffitied wooden cane, and a sarcastic goddam mouth. He's heading west to seek his fortune in California and needs a ride. Sirius has a car and lots to run from. When you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose.
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23 Mar 2026
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“Wh– well– why–” James stammered, attempting to get his bearings, because if he didn’t, and he let Regulus tell him ‘kiss me’ one more time, his heart would probably give out. “Why don’t you get Sirius to help?”
Regulus narrowed his eyes. “Because Sirius would just knock his teeth out,” he said as though it were obvious.
“Yes,” James hissed, “and he’ll knock my teeth out if I kiss his little brother.”
“You can take a hit, Potter, I’ve seen you on the quidditch pitch,” Regulus waved him off, and James groaned, leaning away from him.
“Oh, yeah, great, so I’m the sacrifice,” he sighed.
“Precisely,” Regulus stepped right into his space, and James felt his chest go a little hot.
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Or, Regulus asks James for a favor to get his ex off of his back, and James makes bad choices.
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12 Feb 2026
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"That's why I was here. I was going to stand right here, and I was going to try to convince myself to do it, or not to do it, and– and that night, the whole walk up those stairs, I couldn't– I couldn’t think of a single thing. I couldn’t find a reason not to. It was like my mind was empty, and I was thinking that– that if I got up here and my head was still empty, then I'd do it. That's why I came up here. And then you–” James took a long, shuddering breath. “You were in my spot.” He couldn’t help but laugh. It was a terrible sound.
“That’s why you said that,” Regulus breathed, and it was like it was punched out of him. “You… you were… I thought that was a joke.” His voice was thready. James still didn’t have the heart to look up at him. He felt like he wasn’t really there.
“Everyone did,” he shook his head. “It was always a joke.”
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or, Regulus learns he and James have more in common than he thought
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11 Feb 2026
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Regulus Black died at seventeen, or so everybody believed.
Five years later, he’s dragged back into the world and dropped into the corpse of Hogsmeade.
The war is over. Voldemort won. What remains is something worse than war: a regime fed by fear where magic is rationed, and former students are trapped in a nightmare that never ends.
Some are enemies. Some are almost friends. Some are lovers. But all of them are prisoners of the same brutal, blood-greased system.
This is not a story of war, but a study of its aftermath—of old grief buried beneath years of lies, of truths traded like coin, of love growing like weeds through the cracks of a fractured world.
In this new world, loyalties are tested, sanity is threadbare, but the rules are cruelly simple: kill, obey, or disappear.
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08 Jan 2026