before he fell, he flew
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“Hold on,” Peter interjects, waving his arms around. “If I’m hearing this right, by fake dating him, you’re gonna make him fall in love with you? You know you could just ask him out, right?” Peter asks incredulously, a look of both amusement and disbelief warring in his features. James seems not to notice, spread-eagled on his bed as he stares up at the ceiling cheerily.
“It’s a foolproof plan! Blame Moony, he’s the one that showed me the movie.”
“For the last time, James, they’re actors. They get paid to pretend.”
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In which Remus shows James a Muggle movie over the summer, and James becomes convinced he can fake date his way into making Regulus fall in love with him.
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- Part 1 of before he fell, he flew
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There is poison staining James’s lips when he speaks. Perhaps Regulus has been swallowing that same poison every time they kissed, and now he wonders why he feels so sick.
“I can’t give you that,” James finally says, and Regulus can feel his heart splinter. The words are like shrapnel driving through his rib cage, the same ones he’d pried apart to give James his beating heart to guard like a treasure. But he’d dropped it. And Regulus doesn’t know if it will fit back in the place it’s supposed to go, because was that place not in James’s hands?
“So go,” Regulus whispers. He feels tears welling up in his eyes and he grits his teeth, blinking rapidly to dispel them. Pathetic. He can’t cry won’t cry and keep everything locked up and don’t let them see you like this and never tell anyone anything!
“Reg…” James is frowning but he makes no move to cross the space between them. It's a gaping chasm. “Don’t do this.”
Say no.
Say you don’t want to go.alternatively;
how do you get over someone who was never yours? who do you blame when you’ve broken your own heart?
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- Part 2 of before he fell, he flew