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Regulus did not believe in good people.
He had considered the concept often enough to know it bored him. Goodness, as most people meant it, was a lazy category. A place to put someone once you had decided not to look too closely at them. Badness was the same, although people tended to apply it with more righteousness. Both were tidy, both were useless.
James Potter tripped the system because Regulus, to his endless frustration, could not figure him out. Other people had seams, and with enough attention, Regulus could usually find the line where the performance frayed. He did not need to expose it. Often, he did not want to. It was enough to know it existed.
James gave him less to work with.
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Regulus wants to know what lives underneath James Potter’s goodness and James wants Regulus badly enough to let him find out. What follows is secretive, obsessive, and much harder to keep harmless than anticipated.
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The world ends on a Thursday with a broken window, a scream and a bloodied fire poker. It ends with two brothers running in different directions, and two boys who never got to finish what they started.
Years later, the ones who made it out alive have new names for safety, new rules to stay alive, and a flicker of hope left between them.
But the rules are changing.
And the past has a way of showing up when you stop looking over your shoulder.
Or,
They survived the end, but that was just the beginning.