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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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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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15 Jan 2026
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Stiles groans and drops his face into his hands. “I’m seventeen, I can kind of use mountain ash and I can explode houses when I’m mad enough. How am I gonna win any kind of magic fight?”
“We’ll work on it,” Deaton says, as infuriatingly calm as ever. “The important thing to remember, Stiles, is that when everything else is chaos, you’re the port in the storm.”
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Laura Hale never died, and Stiles is magic.
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03 Jan 2026
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Regulus knows James Potter. The kind of music he likes, what he does in his free time, every single detail he can absorb.
James does not know him.
Sirius has made sure of that, keeping his mentally unwell brother far away from the object of his obsession. Funnily enough, it's James who comes to Regulus. Well-meaning, curious with no idea what he's getting into.
The lines between love and obsession are blurry and hard to read.
“No, we’re friends now, remember? I know it hasn’t been long, but I think I’m learning you, aren’t I?”
Are you?
James had Regulus, but he didn’t know him. Regulus knew James but didn’t have him.
“Maybe you could,” was all Regulus could say in response. That was a truth. James could probably learn Regulus inside and out. Regulus would offer that if it didn’t mean breaking down the fixation—the rotting truth behind their growing relationship.
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