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He sags against the side of the bed and runs his fingers delicately over his temples in an attempt to soothe the splitting ache. The hangings in the room look different then he remembers. He kicks a book across the floor and watches it land in a puff of dust.
Sirius walked out of this room for the last time with a single backpack of clothes.
Regulus knows because he’d been there. He’d watched as Sirius stepped past him out of the hallway, his face carefully blank. That’s when the feeling had taken root, twisting in his gut and putting out tendrils. Regulus thinks some might call it jealousy but, couldn’t he also call it faith? To believe that there was a better ending out there for him somewhere?
“I did it,” Regulus says softly. There’s something blooming in his chest that he hasn’t felt in years. “I did it,” Regulus repeats louder. He can feel tears welling up in the corners of his eyes. He blinks them back and straightens up. If he knows anything it’s that this isn’t where it ends.
from my wip: when you go (leave your shadow behind)
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