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There is something both thrilling and intimate about watching someone when they think no one is around, seeing how they behave in the vacuum of other people’s perception.
Regulus momentarily sheds his poise when he wrestles with the ancient lock, tote bags precariously balanced on his shoulders and neat curls just beginning to frizz and frazzle in the humidity. He mutters something James is too far away to hear, but it is most certainly a curse.
It’s oddly endearing.
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James Potter offers to check on his best friend’s long-missing brother and gets a little too invested.
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In December 1977, Regulus Black did something brave. He ran.
With nothing but a wand he couldn’t use, a bag of money, and a desperate hope for survival, Regulus escaped into the muggle world mere days before his Death Eater initiation.
Against all odds, he’s taken in by three muggle artists who live loudly and love fiercely. Through them, Regulus discovers acting. And he’s good at it. Too good.
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Six years later, Sirius and James walk into a London cinema and see Regulus’s face, six feet tall, staring back at them from the screen.
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- Part 1 of The Regulus Star + extras
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“Everything will be different now.” She continues. “Starting today...more will be expected of you than ever before. And you can not fail me–fail your family. Do you understand?”
“Yes, mother.” Because of course he does. Regulus understands what today means. He knows that he will never get a moment to be truly and completely alone again. That is why he had slipped away to the music room instead of attending breakfast. It was his last moment of peace. His goodbye to his old life in which he could enjoy his solitude. Because after today, all eyes would be on him and his family. After today, he would never be allowed to wander anywhere without supervision. Not even in his own home. Because today is the day he becomes a prince.
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King Riddle has declared the Noble House of Black as his heirs to the Pureblood Throne among a viper pit of power hungry, envious nobles. Regulus and Sirius struggle to navigate life as royals where everyone they meet could want them dead, even those closest to them.
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Let me tell you a ghost story.
It begins when James moves into a new apartment inhabited by the ghost of a sarcastic and French-speaking man with the grayest eyes he’s ever seen. The more time they spend together, the more James finds that he doesn’t mind being haunted that much.
Okay, maybe it's a love story, after all.
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you know that my train can take you home by rsbarelle
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Aug 2023
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“I’m sorry, I didn’t catch your name.”
“James,” he says.
“James.” Regulus repeats his name like he’s rolling a sweet on his tongue until he reaches the sour core and grimaces. “Why would you think it’s okay to strike up a conversation with a stranger on the Metro? That’s, like, really weird.”
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James takes the train into D.C. for school everyday, but three times a week he has the privilege of sitting across from the prettiest boy he’s ever seen, and getting his number is much more important than any unwritten rule of public transportation.
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"We don’t drown. We float. That’s how Muggles used to tell, isn’t it?"
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When Regulus is five, he nearly drowns in the sea off Blackpool.
When Regulus is eleven, his brother befriends a ghost.
It’s not until Regulus is eighteen and ready to die that the Black family’s darkest secret finally unravels. It might, perhaps, change everything.
(A coming-of-age story with mind magic, star charting, pink petit-fours, two diaries, and a ghost.)
[Edit: SPOILERS in the comments.]
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We can be heroes, just for one day by idontlikebroccoli
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Nov 2025
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Which was why the phone ringing at 1:23 a.m. nearly made him fall out of his chair.
The landline sat there like a relic, dusty and half-forgotten, and the sharp rrring! carved through the booth louder than any guitar riff. Evan’s heart lurched. Nobody called anymore. Nobody.
He fumbled the receiver up to his ear. “Uh—WZLY, you’re on the air,” he said, hoping he didn’t sound as startled as he felt.
“Finally,” said a voice. A boy’s voice, quick and alive, like it didn’t belong anywhere near 1:23 in the morning. “Do you know how long I’ve been trying to get through?”
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Evan is a small town, radio broadcaster, and Barty is a frequent caller
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In the summer of 1979, Regulus Black learns what home is (with the help of a Vegas wedding, a betrayal, a few confessions, and approximately 8,000 miles of American road-tripping.)
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- Part 3 of bookends universe!
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“I don’t know what I believe anymore,” Regulus admits, voice barely audible. “I used to, and it was so much easier. There was one right path, one set of rules. Given to me by my mother, my church, my God. They all told me what to do, how to act, what to want.” He exhales, shaky. “Then my brother left and everything got muddled and… lonely.”
“That’s just life, love,” James says gently. “It gets quite muddled and lonely at times.”
“And how do I fix it?”
James chuckles. “If you find out, do let me know, yeah?”
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Regulus Black wants to have a normal university experience, which seems impossible as the son of controversial far-right politician Walburga Black, and only gets more complicated when James Potter enters his life.
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He was crying. “You can do that?” He repeated, feeling like he was in some sort of dream.
And then, Sirius seemed to realize. Because for a twelve-year-old, he was decently smart, and knew him better than anyone. “D’you…d’you want to do that, Reggie? I thought…I thought it was just a game?”
But he could only shake his head. Because it wasn't a game. He was a boy. And he could tell from Sirius's nervously resigned expression that Sirius knew it, too.
"It's...not a game."
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There's not enough Trans Regulus Black, so here's a fic to help fix the problem. Rated mature for lots of references to transphobia and Walburga Black being a piece of shit.
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- Part 1 of Clandestine Universe
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12th Grimmauld Place is just a house, but to its inhabitants, it’s more of a prison. It tore apart their lives like an old curse forged from twisted affection, trapping anyone who didn’t hold disdain for the house. Sirius escaped, but Regulus has always been bound to that place, one way or another.
When a ghost from Regulus’s past returns to haunt him, he steels himself for the inevitable choices he must make to protect those whom he loves.
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A story about the ghosts who haunt and their love that transcends time and reality.
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The Mirror of Regulus Black by MiriamMT
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marauders - Fandom
03 Dec 2022
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Walburga Black has mistreated and tortured her sons their entire lives. Regulus has always been complacent, always been careful and quiet.
James has asked him to leave the house so many times - but Regulus just can't. He cannot go, who knows what she will do to him then.
Just one evening, Regulus is incautious. Walburga catches him and James and locks James away in a cupboard.Two days later, the morning of his father's funeral, Regulus snaps.
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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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On the train back home, Regulus meets a stranger who keeps talking to him about nonsense things.
Regulus should have known better than to let himself be lured into the warmth of his eyes, and the kind smile that makes Regulus’ soul ache. Before he knows it, he already steps out of the train, little did he know his life would change forever.
Or; Regulus and James spent one night together in Venice.
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in exchange for your pain by illuminatedbythelightofmylaptop
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Nov 2025
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Regulus Black fell in love. He lived in bliss, finally free from his overbearing family and the pressures of the mainland, on a small island off the coast. But his relationship ended with angry words in the middle of one of the worst storms of the century.
He's moved on from that now, made a career for himself as a writer. He's reconnected with his brother, adopted a few cats, and is finally settling into life without his lover — beyond the betrayal.
When he receives an email asking for his help, he decides to go back to the island where his heart got broken. Instead of finding closure, he discovers that James Potter never actually left… and there less than normal reason behind his harsh words.
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When Sirius leaves to go on a trip for the christmas holidays with his boyfriend, it leaves James, for once in his life, left completely alone. During the break, he supposed there were a lot of things he could be doing- but instead he was rotting inside of his apartment, alone with his thoughts and the recent bubbling, deprecative feelings within him left after a recent break up.
His days are slow, his mind slower, and it's what has him taking one of his late night runs much later than he's planned, setting out beneath the stars.
What he does not expect- is to find a man on the bridge, overlooking the ways down below.
Or; James thinks it's fate that has him running late on his daily run and finding Regulus Black before he can jump, and Regulus does not think he has it in him to find a will to live until he is staying in a random man's apartment, hiding out from his parents.
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“Well, this isn’t the first time that we’ve met, actually. Not for me anyway.”
For some reason, this is the thing that has shocked Regulus the most about this strange meeting. How could this not be the first time that they’ve met? Regulus has never seen this man before, it doesn’t make any sense.
At Regulus’ obvious confusion, the man continues, “When I time travel, I travel to the same places a lot. This is one of those places. I’ve travelled here many, many times. You and I, we’re something like friends.”
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James squeezed his eyes shut.
He didn’t want to see the disappointment on his face. He didn’t want him to worry. He didn’t want him to be sad. He didn’t want people to be sad because of him.
That’s all he could do. Make people sad. Make things worse. Why couldn’t he make one thing right?
Just one.
Just once.
or: James is tired, he overwhelmes himself and well, he doesn't handle it well at all. Enjoy then angst!
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In Regulus’s defense, he doesn’t mean to turn James Potter into a vampire.
His plans are much simpler than that. He only intends to abduct the boy who has led his brother astray, have some fun torturing him for a week or two, kill him, then dump the body on Sirius’s doorstep. Maybe carve ‘from RAB, with love’ on his chest for dramatic effect.
See? A nice, straightforward plan.
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Regulus Black’s immortal life is derailed by one James Potter.