~During the time of transfer Harry from 4 Privet Drive to the borrow everyone is stressed out, especially you, losing Mad eye,everything spirals, but a new curse strikes you and changes your life.
“Master Regulus is in this room?” Kreature asked as I finished explaining to him what was going on. “Master Regulus,” Kreature looked around the room.
“Please tell him we will be together soon,” Regulus said standing behind me. “Tell him that I miss him,”
“Regulus misses you Kreature, terribly, he wants me to tell you that you’ll be together soon,” I paused looking at Regulus then back at Kreature. “Will you help us?”
Kreature didn’t say anything but look at me, then he nodded his head. “Kreature will help, he’d do anything for Master Regulus,”
“We leave in the morning,” Regulus said walking away, he watched him walk to the table and knock down a book, causing Kreature so humm.
“He’s really a ghost now,” Kreature whispered then turned himself, walking out of the room and shutting the door.
“Regulus,” I stood up and looked at Regulus who sat on the table looking at me. “In twenty four hours you’ll be alive,” I smiled walking towards the boy.
“I will be,” We were inches away from each other once again, his hands found their way to mine. “And my hands won’t be cold to touch, they’ll be warm, and free and,” Regulus stopped as I placed my hand on his face.
“What is it about you,” I whispered looking up at the boy. “You’re face will be warm, your eyes will be bright and your smile,” I stopped with a smile, watching Regulus curl his lips.
“You’re really willing to risk your life to save me?” Regulus asked jumping off the table, I backed up a bit, his hands left mine and arched my back, pulling me closer to him.
“I am, because something about you drags me in, and I get to save a life,” My mouth seems dry and I couldn’t look away from Regulus.
“Lia, Kreatures back,” I spun around and looked at Hermione who had a curious look on her face.
“Okay, yeah i’m coming, one second,” Hermione shut the door and I turned back to Regulus who had a frown on his face. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, come on, i’m interested to see who had stolen my locket,” Regulus grabbed my hand and we walked downstairs and saw Kreature standing with Dobby and Mundungus Fletcher who quivered in fear.
“Master Lia,” Dobby said catching my attention. “It’s nice to see you again,”
“It’s nice to see you again too Dobby,” I smiled grabbing his hands, I caught the eye of Mundungus who was being cornered in the room by Ron, Hermione and Harry.
“Where is the real locket Mundungus!” Harry asked pushing the fake locket in his face, I smirked looking at the fake locket, remembering Regulus telling me that he had thought of putting a fake locket and was proud of it.
“Why is it worth something?” Mundungus asked making everything feel disgusted.
“He still has it,” Hermione said.
“No, he just thinks that he hadn’t sold it for enough,” Ron mumbled walking towards Mundungus angry.
I looked down at the newspaper on the table, confused. “Hey guys,” I whispered picking up the paper and looked at Umbridge who had a big grin on her face. “Is this the locket you're looking for?” I asked pointing to Unbridged neck, that swung the locket around.
“Snachers, they took it off of me a couple weeks ago, I didn’t know how valued it was, or,” Mundungus said making me gaw.
“This is just great!” Regulus cried out sitting down on the table, moving plates, Hermione was the only one to notice.
“Did you see that?” She whispered to me looking at where Regulus was sitting.
“What?” I asked playing dumb, I looked at Regulus who wasn't listening to us but his hands where on his face.
“I thought I saw something move, maybe i’m crazy,” Hermione said looking away, Regulus had his attention on me now.
“Maybe, maybe nothing works out in the end,” Regulus whispered shaking his head. “It’s just not meant to happen,”
“Regulus,” I whispered a bit to loud but no one noticed, I walked over to him and grabbed his hand. “Follow me,” I grabbed his hand and walked out of the room, looking back at everyone who was looking at Mundungus but Hermione, I gave her a sly smile then walked out of the room with Regulus.
“We can’t do it, the locket is with that creature, and I just, don’t know,” Regulus cried out in my room, I shut my door and looked at the boy.
“We can do it Regulus, that's the point, they go find the locket well Kreature and I save your life, do you want it?” I asked leaning against my door.
“I don’t want you dying for something like me when you don’t even know anything about me!” Regulus screamed clenching his fists.
“Regulus calm down!” I yelled back walking towards him. “If you don’t wanna be saved then fine, I won’t waste a breath on someone who doesn’t wanna be saved!” I turned around facing the door and taking a breath.
“Lia,” Regulus placed his cold hand on my shoulder. “You don’t mean that,”
“No I don’t” I whispered not turning around, fixating my eyes on the door. I walked forward, tossing the door open and slamming it shut, the hallways were quiet but I knew where I was going.
“Hey,” Harry said standing at the bottom of the stairs. “Have you been crying?” He asked as I walked down and stopped before him.
“Just some personal stuff, what are you guys going to do about the locket?” I asked leaning against the wall, Regulus left my mind.
“Hermione thought about a polyjuice potion, we’re going to leave in the morning, what are you going to be doing?” Harry asked leaning against the wall opposite of me.
“I’m not sure, I might stay here, might go out, everything is complicated right now,” I frowned looking down at my feet.
“Wherever you’ll be going you stay safe alright, I don’t wanna hear on the radio that you died, promise,” Harry said making me look up at him.
“I promise I won’t die Harry,” I smiled, my eye caught Regulus who stood at the top of the stairs, with a frown. “I’ll see you later okay, there's some things I have to do,” I planted a kiss on Harry's cheek then walked up the stairs, before I could get a word out to Regulus he grabbed my hand and pushed me into a room.
“What are you doing?” I asked him as I watched as he rummaged around in the room, looking for something. “Regulus,”
“This, you’ll need this,” I watched as Regulus pulled out a wand and walked over towards me. “It’s my wand, and i’ll need it if you save me, if you still want to,”
I looked at Regulus for a second, unsure of what to say, I just looked at him. “I will,” I whispered leaning against the wall, I placed my hand on my forehead and just closed my eyes.
“Whats wrong? Is it the thing?” Regulus asked, I could feel the cold arm coming off of him and hitting me. “Lia,” his hand was placed on top of mine, taking my hands off my face.
“Nothing Regulus, I just needed to think,” I whispered keeping my eyes closed. “I’m gonna go to bed,” I opened my eyes, we were only inches away from each other.
“In twenty four hours i’ll be alive,” Regulus said with a smile. “And I don’t know how to repay you Lia, cause you could die,”
“I’m going to bed Regulus, we can talk about it in the morning when we leave,” I whispered moving away from Regulus and walking out of his room, I shut the door behind me and apparated to my room, shutting and locking the door. “Locking doors is ussless,” I smiled looking at Regulus who stood infront of me.
“What did I do?” He asked placing his hand in mine again. “Tell me what I did please? He asked leaning his head forward, hitting mine.
“Nothing Regulus, nothing,” His head was cold against mine, actually freezing. “Just, I really think I should go to bed, we have a long day tomorrow, and i’m just not up to the chit chat,”
“Okay, I think you might be right,” Regulus moved his head off mine and moved to lean against my vanity. “We leave in the morning, I guess you’ll need all the sleep you can get,” He placed himself on my dresser, looking over at me.
“Yeah,” I lowly said crawling into my bed and turning to face Regulus. “Twenty four hours,” I whispered causing him to smile.
“And what if you die?” Regulus asked jumping off my dresser, moving himself to the end of my bed.
“I won’t die, Remus needs me and I promised him that I would come back, so, I can’t die for him,” I hummed a rhythm on my fingers. “Tell me about yourself?” I asked moving against the wall and leaving room for Regulus to lay down beside me.
“Well,” Regulus grinned turning his body so we were facing each other, holding his head up with his elbow. “I’m dead if you didn’t know, bit of a nasty shock when I found out,” He joked making me let out a small giggle.
“No Regulus,” I smiled looking at his face. “What were you like alive, in Hogwarts, what did you do for fun?”
“I was in the slug club I guess,” I fell back with a giggle. “Yeah the slug club, cool old me,” Regulus let out a giggle too. “My life wasn’t so interesting, my parents were horrible people, my brother hated me, probably still hates me to this day,” Regulus paused smirking. “Then I died, and now i’m here, with you,”
“Well,” I started saying but yawned. “We have a long and very hard day tomorrow, get some sleep,” I rested my head just inches away from Regulus, we both faced each other, his arms now under the blanket.
“Goodnight Lia,” Regulus yawn as I closed my eyes, I felt his hand fall lightly on my face, moving my hair that tickled my nose. His hand now lightly rested on my face, I knew to enjoy the moment, not knowing how much it would last for.
Soon after Regulus breath became shallow and he had been sleeping, unsure that ghosts could sleep I opened my eyes slowly, my room was completely dark, the only thing lighting the room was the moonlight.
“Can’t sleep?” I turned and looked at Regulus who was laying on his back looking at the roof. “I haven’t slept in nineteen years, tomorrow night i’ll have the best sleep of my life,” He let out a little laugh.
“I can stay up with you, I can’t sleep either,” I let out a low breath falling onto my back and looking up at the roof. “Do you think that everything will ever go back to normal after all this?”
Regulus stayed silent for a moment, so did I, just looking up at the roof doing the same. “I don’t think anything will ever be normal, different, very different for sure but never normal,” He paused keeping me quiet. “All the people going into this war, they’ll never be the same, we’ll never be the same, not a year or ten in the future, this moment will always stay with us,”
I frowned, knowing he was right, everything he had just said was completely right. “I know,” I whispered closing my eyes, feeling myself drift slowly off. “But it’s wise, to do what we’re doing, just,” I paused keeping my eyes closed. “I’ll fight for the people I love,”
I felt Regulus shift, his curly hair and cold face laying on my shoulder. My hands wrapped around his body and my face turning into his chest, the perfect temperature to sleep in.
~(One Long and Almost Sleepless Night Later)
“We’re leaving,” My head shot up from the pillow and I looked at Harry who stood at the door. “I just want to tell you to be safe, and I hope we see eachother again,”
Still half asleep, I stayed silent for a moment, looking at Regulus, who had fallen surprisingly to sleep beside me. “I hope we see eachother again soon, be safe, tell Hermione and Ron that too,”
Harry gave me a slight smile, something in his smile told me his was nervous but confident. “I will,” Harry walked out shutting the door, as the door shut Regulus wrapped his arms around me with a smile.
“Are you ready for today?” He asked looking over me, he had fallen asleep cause he’s eyes were half shut flinching at the light, and he had lines under his eyes from the way he ha been sleeping.
“I though ghosts couldn’t fall asleep?” I asked smiling at the slight of his face my hands went to my eyes rubbing them away.
“I didn’t think so either, you should get ready, the sooner we leave the sooner it’ll all be over,” Regulus flipping out of the bed, running his hands through his hair.
“You’re right,” I followed his tracks standing up, my hair fell from the mess it was in, almost to the middle of my back. “I’m gonna go find kreature let him know we’re leaving soon,”
Regulus nodded and I walked out of the room, it was silent, Harry, Hermione and Ron were gone and KReature was alone somewhere in the huge house we were in.
“Kreature we’re leaving soon, where are you!” I shouted walking along the rooms, finally getting to the end of the hall, the junk room. “Kreature,” I whispered opening the door.
The room was full of Walburgas things, all stacked in here since Sirius hadn’t wanted to get ride of it or felt bad since it was his mom.
“Blood traitor in my house,” I jumped at the voice, looking at the painting of Walburga hung up on the wall. “What do you think your doing,”
“I’ve lived here for seventeen years, don’t act surprised,” I rolled my eyes looking at the disquest on Walburgas face as she looked back at me.
“Yeah seventeen years living with the disappointment of my son, get out of here, get out of here!” She sqreeched, I shut the door in angry turning around to Kreature. “We’re leaving, are you ready?” I asked crossing my arms.
“Kreature is ready, but Master Regulus must be saved,” Kreature grumbled. “I will take you there,” He turned around, walking down the hallway and disappearing down the stairs.
I walked back into my room annoyed, watching Reglus pack things into a bag he had found. “What you doing there?” I asked walking fully into my room and grabbing a sweater from my closet and tossing it on.
“Just packing the bear essentials, just you know, incase anything happens, which i’m sure things will go fine, but you know,” Reglus mumbled on, tossing his wand in the bag.
“Regulus put the bag down and look at me,” I crossed my arms, watching Regulus close up the bag and drop it to the ground, slowly turning to me. “What’s wrong?”
Regulus hand rubbing the back of his head, looking around the room, not making eye contact at all with me. “I don’t want you to die, so you have to promise, if anything goes wrong, you’ll leave and won’t die for me,” He hands met mine, now looking into my eyes.
I stayed silent for a moment, leaning my head forward, letting myself fall on Reglus chest. “I promise,” I whispered closing my eyes.
“Come on then, we should get this over and done with,” Regulus voice went cheerful, picking up my bag from the floor and grabbing my hand. “Where did you say Kreature was?” He asked as we walked out of the room.
“Kreature is ready,” The little house elf walked out of the room that Walburga was in and looked at me, Regulus let go of my hand with a smile, turning to me. “Grab my hand,”
“I’ll follow you there, don’t worry about me,” Regulus planted a kiss on my cheek as I took Kreatures hand. My stomach twisted as were disaperated out of the Black house, for a couple seconds, everything was chaos around me, my feet felt like floating but then landed on the hard ground.
“How was that?” Regulus asked standing infront of me with a smile, I smiled back then faded, looking around the dark place we were in.
“Where are we?” I whispered turning all the way around then making my way back to Regulus and Kreature, still unable to see Regulus.
“In a cave in the middle of Vast lake, come now,” Kreature growed walking forward, I felt nervous but followed him down, Regulus stayed beside me looking around.
“This place makes me sick just being here,” Regulus whispered, I slipped my hand in his as we got to the bottom.
“What now?” I asked looking at Kreature who took a knife out of his pocket.
“Give me your hand, trust me,” I growled, I looked at Regulus who nodded, I placed my left hand out. Kreature gripping my hand, slicing the knife across and smearing my blood, I flinched a bit in pain but trusted Kreature and Regulus.
The entrance opened and we continued walking down, I gripped my hand tight, walking down a chrysalis walkway, mesmerised by the shinning.
Kreature flicking his wrist, causing a light to admit out, lighting up the cave, it was huge, there was a tiny island in the middle of the cave. I watched as Kreature grabbed a rope, handing it to me, I pulled heavily, backing up, Reglus joined, pulling with me, a boat came up the surface.
“So the plan, you distract well I go diving for his body, that is under the lake, is probably guarded by tons of inferies,” I whispered looking into the water as I got into the boat.
“Kreature will charm you with fire, you won’t burn, but they won’t be able to touch you, it won’t last so long so you’ll have to be quick,” Kreature had already thought about the plan in his head.
“Quick,” I whispered looking into the water, not a sight of anything. “Are you guys sure that there are things in this lake, it looks abandoned,” I was about to stick my hand in the water but Regulus grabbed it.
“They come out once you touch the water, so don’t touch it unless you’d like to join me,” He let go of my wrist as we hit shore.
Kreature got off first, followed by me, then Regulus.
“I promise you won’t stink horribly after this,” Kreature cackled touching my skin, the colors of fire admitted all over me, not burning me. “You don’t have much time, we can disapparated as soon as your up,”
I nodded my head, jumping right into the water, Kreature had placed the bubble headed charm over me, I hadn’t even thought of that which I was grateful. Inferies gathered all over, screeching at the touch of me.
I swam around, looking at all the bodies, then seeing the faint black haired boy, I smiled swimming down to him and grabbing his arm, the inferies screeched more but I ignored it, swimming up with Regulus’ body dragging behind me.
The color of red slowly started to wear off, concerning me but I didn’t stop, almost at the top, I took a breath of air as I got up looking around, Regulus was nowhere in sight but Kreature put his hand out, and I grabbed out, disappearing out of here.
