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Wave from the shore under a golden moon by ani_wahstan
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Aug 2024
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Complete! <3 (Edits made Feb 2024, bonus story added August 2024)
The Black family and the Potter family grew-up spending their summers at neighboring lake houses a few hours off the East Coast. Then one summer, James Potter stopped coming. Regulus can admit he was a little disappointed when his first crush suddenly disappeared from his life. But it's been seven years. He's clearly over it.
That is until his last summer before starting college, when that same golden-skinned boy steps out of the car, grown and beautiful, and crashes back into Regulus' world.
Some works that inspired this fic:
-The entire Lover album by Taylor Swift (Specifically Cruel Summer and Daylight)
-The novel Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
-The Summer I Turned Pretty Series
-The song Lakehouse by Of Monsters and Men- Language:
- English
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- 15/15
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20 Jan 2026
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Accompanying Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4SvhIAIs98qykIKlb0qP6F?si=GrgOckPLRAOiSIBjUkP0ZwComplete <3
1999 - SF Bay Area
Regulus thought after what happened when Sirius came out, his mother would have reacted differently when it was his turn to make the confession. That she wouldn’t lose both sons. But he was wrong.
That’s how he finds himself waiting to be picked-up by the brother he hasn’t seen in 3 years. Ready to crash on his couch in the small city of Berkeley, California.
Sirius’ flatmates are a far cry from his London friends. There’s his boyfriend, Remus. A graduate student who plays albums that sound more like noise than melody. Peter, who’s quiet and kind and brings everyone coffee and bagels from his job. And James, who seems intent on ignoring Regulus’ presence completely, even when Regulus gets a job beside him at their local record shop.
Or, James Potter was doing his best not to defile his roommate's younger brother because Sirius told him to “keep his slutty hands off of Regulus or else," but finds himself unable to keep the promise.
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- English
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30 Jan 2026
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After Regulus spends a difficult year alone with their parents, Sirius convinces him to spend his last summer before college on a road trip with him and his closest friends. The very last thing he's expecting is for his feelings for Sirius' best friend to resurface with a vengeance (and he certainly isn't expecting them to be returned).
As it turns out, he and James aren't the only ones dealing with complicated emotions. Sirius has just returned from a year long trip abroad and Remus is having a difficult reconciling with just how much he's missed him.
Or, a coming of age road trip AU full of angst, fluff, healing family trauma and navigating old feelings.
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He doesn’t realize his heart is beating hard again until he has a hand pressed tight to his chest like he can reach right into his ribs and still it. “Wait-“ his door is closed, there are footsteps on the stairs (heavy ones, they belong to Sirius, uneven like he’s hauling something heavy on one of his shoulders).
“Wait,” he hisses again, one hand gripping his doorframe, standing like a deer in actual headlights in his pajamas, hair wild and eyes wide. “You’re sure there’s room?”
Series
- Part 1 of Young Blood
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- English
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- 71,029
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- 21/21
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25 Jan 2026
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In 1977, to protect the next generation of witches and wizards, Hogwarts sends all of its students into protection programs around the world. Students are to live with new families and exist as muggles until it's safe to return home.
James Potter refused to be split from his closest mates, and convinced Sirius, Remus and Peter to all accept transfer to America. In a small rural town in a state called Oregon.
When they show up to their first day of classes, James puts on the show of his life. Faking shock and surprise, as Regulus Black and his two troublemaker friends walk through their same corridors. Because Sirius had no idea - that James also convinced Sirius’ younger brother to come to this sleepy American town.
Hiding their magic, trying to blend in, all while a war wages across the world, will be the hardest challenge of their young lives.
Or, an AU where the Marauders don’t have to fight in a war, just the horrors of American high school in the 70s.
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- English
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- 59,842
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by reallyrather
05 Jan 2026
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Regulus must fulfill his duties as prince and lead the front lines of the battle, leaving the other half of his soul at the palace.
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- Part 5 of Love Story
Bookmarked by reallyrather
01 Jan 2026