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reaching for the truth (when it's no longer there) by olivehead
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Dec 2025
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One seemingly normal morning, Regulus had woken up to find Sirius’ room looted of its stuff – only a few pictures and horrid posters left up on the walls. His trunk was gone, as was all of the detritus that typically littered his older brother’s floor.
Regulus had wanted to pretend that he was shocked by this turn of events. But, really, Sirius had been warming up to leaving ever since he came back after his first year at Hogwarts. What he really found surprising was that Sirius hadn’t even said goodbye. Hadn’t even hinted that he was planning to leave.And as he watched the seven years of student begin streaming in, Regulus drifted off. Knees tucked up close to his chest and forehead stuck to the cool window, creating little puffs of fog with his slowing breath.
As Regulus finally lost consciousness, he could just feel the hair on the back of his neck raising in warning... of something...he thought. Perhaps.Regulus returns to Hogwarts after a seemingly normal summer. Except Sirius ran away, and he's not really sure why. He's just haunted by a shadow in the corner of his eye and gaps in his memory.
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ravenous rhapsody (my anodyne) by anagramxmaybe, jeguluses (temperates)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Nov 2025
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Fuck, Regulus thought, I need to ravish this man.
After a tragic accident that leaves him changed forever, incubus Regulus Black finally breaks ties with his parents and tries to make his own way in the world. While managing to reconnect with his estranged brother and only feeding when strictly necessary, Regulus’ path crosses with James Potter’s, a musical journalist that Sirius has hosted on his radio show a few times. Not that Regulus would ever admit to listening to that crap.
And James makes Regulus so hungry.
The scars from past wounds haven’t been stitched up yet, though, barely even scabbed over, and the guilt of that tragic accident is still slowly eating Regulus alive. How is he supposed to stay on his feet and find his way when the world is always threatening to rip his sanity from his cold hand through his own damned hunger?
What’s worse, Regulus is terrified that James might actually see him because the last person who truly understood Regulus ended up dead.
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12 Jun 2026
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Regulus has always known he's destined to drown. He feels it deep in his chest, past his rib cage, nestled somewhere behind his organs. He feels it in his arm when his mother squeezes it a little harder than a mother should. He felt it, the water rising in his throat, when his brother slipped out the window and into the night. He often wonders if it'd be easier to just let himself sink.
He often wonders if he has a choice.
Regulus gets sent back to school with a mission from the Dark Lord himself— find the “beast in the chamber” and claim its fangs without killing it. But when a certain curly-haired bespectacled boy asks for a rather large favor, everything suddenly gets a lot more complicated.
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19 Jan 2026
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Sirius runs away from home without so much as a backward glance and Regulus is left to deal with the consequences of a maddening mother and his parents' paranoia that he'll follow Sirius if given the opportunity. Regulus confronts Sirius about the consequences of his running away when he sees him the next year at Hogwarts.
This is not a fix it. Literally, nothing in this fic makes anything better than it is in canon, if anything it makes it worse.
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- Part 1 of One Heir and One Spare
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15 Jan 2026