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That's Just Wasteland, Baby! by lovefromsunlight for suckerforstars
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2024
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They say every villain is the hero of their own story.
Regulus Black believes this to be false. He is an anomaly to this rule, he is an outlier, because not only is he a villain to everyone around him, he’s also a villain to himself. When Regulus finds a bright, burning reminder of his past in his estranged brother, Sirius Black, he decides to chase this star from within the shadows. There's only one way to do this, however. He shamelessly uses his replacement, James Potter.
But what starts as a means to an end, turns into an entanglement of romance between the most unlikely of matches; the boy who seeks refuge in shadow, and the boy who glitters in the sunlight. It's no surprise that Regulus can’t help but root himself further into tragedy, corroding everything his touch meets.
Why?
Because his life is a wasteland. And, "That's just wasteland, baby."
Or: Barista Regulus meets Florist James.
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- English
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- 158,661
- Chapters:
- 32/32
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Bookmarked by Darklim
20 Feb 2025
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“Sirius?”
It takes a second for him to realize he’s wrong. It’s not Sirius’ voice, familiar as it is.
“No, though I’m not surprised you’d think so. I’m the overlooked sibling.”
The overlooked sibling, as it is, has backed away—James is sure his head was resting on his thighs a second ago. Regulus stands a few feet away now, his posture overly casual. One leg is stretched out gracefully before him while the other curls up to his chest. He’s calculated nonchalance, with an arm draped effortlessly over his raised knee. Playing a great game of pretend. He looks bored, almost. Almost, because there is no mistaking how sharp those gray eyes look, catching and dissecting every movement in the room. Resting on James with something like confusion.
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- English
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- 54,388
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 193
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17 Feb 2025
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It’s Actually Our Duty by Lartistrys
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marauders - Fandom, Me Before You (2016)
11 Aug 2024
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“𝚃𝚠𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚝, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚍, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚠𝚘 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛”
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After losing his job, James is unexpectedly hired as a companion for S. Black’s younger brother and is set against the clock to show him that his life is worth living, even when times are at their toughest.Series
- Part 1 of You Only Get One Life.
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- English
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- 110,402
- Chapters:
- 36/36
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Bookmarked by Darklim
14 Jan 2025
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At the beginning of the Hogwarts 1977-1978 school year, James Potter finds a cat and Regulus Black finds a Horcrux.
These events are not unrelated.
What follows is a deal to their mutual benefit: James helps Regulus hone the finer details of advanced transfiguration, and in return, Regulus teaches James what he knows of occlumency and legilimency. James is pleasantly surprised by how much he enjoys their lessons, certainly more than he thought he would considering what (admittedly little) he knows of Sirius’s younger brother. Regulus, for his part, thought he was smart enough to know that anyone with as many secrets as him has no business teaching fucking mind reading to another person. Especially when that person is James Potter.
There is affection—the kind that only comes from meeting someone you never expected to understand you. And there is war—a looming thunderhead that neither of them wants to see consume the other.
The rest is a matter of secrets, family, and letting go.
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- English
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- 557,325
- Chapters:
- 56/56
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- 1,740
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Bookmarked by Darklim
06 Dec 2024
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What is he to choose? Between the life he had fought tooth and nail to have, and what he deserves to get because of who he is and what he has done?
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- Part 2 of His Brightest Tragedy
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And oh.
Oh.
Oh he was kind of beautiful wasn’t he? Had Regulus always been?
To anyone else, he was all sharp edges and scathing remarks, but not to James. He could never be just that to James.
He could never just…be, to James.
And oh no.
That was new.
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Gryffindor! Regulus gets the happy ending he should’ve gotten in the first place. And maybe they all learn a little about love and bravery along the way.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 200,022
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 315
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- 3,210
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Bookmarked by Darklim
14 Nov 2024
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Regulus Black is a qualified neurology doctor and training to become a neurosurgeon at only 23. Having moved back to London to escape his parents after they moved to France when he was 15, Regulus is doing fine. He’s qualified, he’s already progressing his career, has a great set of friends, and is building a solid reputation as one of London’s best young doctors. He hasn’t spoken to Sirius since his older brother ran away over seven years ago and he doesn’t care, because he doesn’t speak to any of his family anymore and after all, Sirius was the one who left him behind.
And then James Potter walks in to the ward one day to give his mother some lunch, claiming that all hospital food is an abomination, and everything comfortable in Regulus’ life comes crashing down.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 372,060
- Chapters:
- 32/35
- Collections:
- 3
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- 1,420
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Bookmarked by Darklim
02 Nov 2024
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Regulus decides he's had enough of people making decision for him. By people, he means mostly his parents. He finds out that life can be quite enjoyable if he does what he wants to. Consequences are to be expected.
(This work is going through editing. Chapters edited: 4/23)
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- Part 2 of Per aspera ad astra
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A potion a day from The Black Apothecary by ani_wahstan
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Aug 2023
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Complete <3
The Black Apothecary lies just on the border of Hogsmeade. Wizards and witches near and far come to stock their potions from Regulus’ shop. And business is good.
At the start of a new term, professors stop in for their needs, his brother and Remus included. But it’s an almost forgotten familiar face made new that makes today special, when a grown James Potter comes into the shop requesting something rather unusual. A potion to calm his heart and head. A request James would very much like to keep between the two of them. A business proposal. A secret.
As Regulus tries different iterations of the potion James requested, the two start to grow close through session after session of failed potions with strange effects. Regulus starts to fear the potion James needs is an impossible task, and that he will fail his new friend in his promise to help him.
Or, Regulus and James try a bunch of weird potions and fall in love in the process.
- Language:
- English
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- 36,978
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 304
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Bookmarked by Darklim
01 Aug 2024
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A sweet work, no heavy angst, interesting to read
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🍉
Climbing into his head was easy. When pleasure reached its peak, all walls crumbled down, allowing him a glimpse inside. Another trinket, another location.
It was worth the pain. The blood. The numbness.
War was made for sacrifices, and Regulus Black had given his own body, his sense of sanity, his life, up for the Greater Good. It was okay. It was fine. Everything was fine.
But when a certain green-eyed boy gets thrusted into Regulus’s arms, and he’s given the responsibility to care for him until it’s time for the butcher to come out, Regulus is forced to decide whether the end of this war is worth setting aside his morals, his soul, and possibly his life.
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Or; the one where Regulus gets forced out of hiding to face the world, make the right but painful decisions, and fights with more than just one Dark Lord.
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- Language:
- English
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- 238,799
- Chapters:
- 37/37
- Collections:
- 6
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- 1,083
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Bookmarked by Darklim
22 Jul 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
It broke my soul. I don't think I will ever have power to read it again but I felt like I needed to remember this work
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Harry learned that some things ended slowly. War, for one, love, for another.
It started with a picture of James Potter taken by an unknown person, it ended with a series of tragic love letters shut safely in Regulus Black's dusty bedroom.
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“Did Regulus know my dad?”
That got a reaction out of Narcissa, a subtle flinch, and suddenly Harry knew with absolute surety that the picture must have been Regulus’s.
“He did, didn’t he?”
“They were only a year apart at Hogwarts, of course, they knew each other—”
“Aside from that,” Harry interrupted.
Narcissa’s mouth formed a thin line, and Andromeda nudged her. “You should tell him; dead people don’t need their secrets protected,” she said softly.
- Language:
- English
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- 6,958
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 3
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- 184
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Bookmarked by Darklim
20 Jul 2024
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Regulus Black dies on a Tuesday.
Somewhere in the countryside of Italy, another man lives.
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- Part 1 of anti-hero verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 237,816
- Chapters:
- 41/41
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 1,420
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- 9,440
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- 3,404
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- 400,077
Bookmarked by Darklim
20 Jul 2024
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I doubt I will reread it but it's a touching heartbreaking beautiful work. Thank you
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step into the daylight and let it go by serendipitysirius
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Aug 2023
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James Potter loved Lily Evans from the moment he knew what it truly was to love anybody. But, in the end, it didn’t matter that James had declared that he would never love anyone else but Lily. Because he still lost her.
One year on from Halloween 1981, James is struggling to raise Harry alone whilst drowning in an impenetrable dark sea of grief, determined to never love again. Because, in his experience, to love, is to lose.
Luckily, Regulus Black knows quite a lot about loving and losing. And drowning, too, considering the fact that he survived the cave in 1979 and faked his death for two years, popping in to give Sirius the fright of his life on Halloween.
And, consequently, showing up just in time for the events that followed. The shattered remnants of people that the war left behind.
Maybe Regulus will be able to show James that it’s okay to extinguish the first love flame, whilst simultaneously giving him the parenting help he is too ashamed to ask for. And, in return, maybe James will manage to convince Regulus that love isn’t something you earn, something that always has a catch.
Maybe they just needed one another all along, to take that step into the daylight.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 144,543
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 5
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- 1,081
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- 8,484
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Bookmarked by Darklim
16 Jul 2024
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“I failed to take Voldemort down and it cost them their lives. - No Remus no. I have this unwarranted, unwanted second chance at life. I am going to destroy the horcruxes. I’m going to make it so the next time he comes he can be killed. No more death, no more loss. Harry deserves more. Better.”
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Regulus had a plan, he was doing his best. He might have lost the plan along the way. He might have lost everyone along the way. This is him trying to make it right,Series
- Part 5 of The Potter-Black Family Tales
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 122,909
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Collections:
- 6
- Comments:
- 1,363
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- 13,471
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- 4,714
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- 502,465
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16 Jul 2024
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chew me up, but don’t spit me out by damagecontrol (microdamage)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2024
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Regulus has it all figured out. He keeps men on a rotating roster so none can get too close, works nights as a dancer to make the most of his chronic insomnia, and pushes everything he doesn’t want to remember about the past ten years into the recesses of his mind. It’s easier to pretend none of it ever happened.
But when James Potter crashes into Regulus’ life with his fancy sports car, wealth beyond measure, and devil’s smile, it marks a switch in the natural order of things. James is a client; Regulus isn’t allowed to fall in love with him. Except James is the first man in a long time who can see past Regulus’ carefully constructed façade, and who could ever resist the temptation of being known?
Or, this is a story about identity, addiction, self-expression, and love in all of the varying shapes they can take.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 275,220
- Chapters:
- 26/26
- Collections:
- 18
- Comments:
- 5,035
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- 16,711
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- 4,983
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- 937,600
Bookmarked by Darklim
11 Jul 2024
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While Tom waits for Harry to be born, he has a lot of time to kill and minding their little Apothecary just doesn't cut it anymore. In a bid to stave boredom and fulfill a promise to his Rose, Tom leaves on adventures with a new companion.
First stop: Brazil!
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- Part 2 of Little Prince and the Rose
Bookmarked by Darklim
21 Apr 2023
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Harry is betrayed. Harry gets a second chance to do it all over again.
There is just one catch. If Harry gets to keep his memories from his previous life, so does Voldemort.
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- Part 1 of The Darkening of Your Soul
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 260,498
- Chapters:
- 56/?
- Collections:
- 94
- Comments:
- 9,881
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- 47,908
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- 13,627
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14 Jul 2021
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Last year was uneventful. Dumbledore elected to postpone the Triwizard Tournament a year. Giving the school a break after Quirrel, the Chamber, and Sirius Black.
A week after leaving Hogwarts for the summer, Harry is pulled from the Dursleys, only to be trudged into a hearing at the Ministry. Turns out they were given a tip that Harry was not being cared for.
Now Harry is back at school dealing with a new guardian, the triwizard tasks, a more-manipulative-than-ever Headmaster, and his ever growing lovelust for the Dark Arts.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 100,939
- Chapters:
- 40/?
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- 2
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- 725
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- 4,878
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Bookmarked by Darklim
13 Jul 2021