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    No one, it turns out, really knows one another.

     

    (OR: all it takes is a summer-long holiday in Italy, James Potter's teetering mental stability, a secret relationship, friends with benefits, Marlene’s secret, and enough stupidity and insecurity to go around for everything to come crashing down around them.)

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    19 Feb 2026

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    "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..."

    George wanders into a bar. Nothing is ever the same.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    Remus wasn't supposed to be found out.
    Sirius wasn't supposed to see.
    But sometimes survival is noting more than the act of being held - through the aftermath, the quiet, the things endured.
    It isn't easy, but it's real.

    A companion piece to "The Things Kept Hidden (Sirius's POV)"

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    A few weeks ago, Regulus Black jumped off a bridge. It's not that he really wanted to die, but he didn't really want to live either. He didn't think anyone would care one way or another, if he's honest. Now he's stuck learning how to live.

    James Potter was used to seeing Reg every day at the cafe he worked in, until one day he stopped coming in. When he finally sees the guy he's been crushing on come back into the cafe, he knew he had to take his chance at asking him out on a date.

    ***This fic deals with heavy themes of depression, lack of a will to live, and suicide, but will have a happy ending***

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    27 Jan 2026

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    Grief, James finds, is circular.

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    “Does it get better?” He whispered once he had cried himself out and the tears had dried tightly on his face.

     

    “Better?” She repeated, and there was something anguished in her voice, a new and old grief twisted up together. “No.” Effie said, and Sirius’s heart dropped, but she quickly continued. “Though, it gets easier. Eventually, you’ll wake up and it won’t be your first thought every morning. It won’t shock you every time you remember that he's gone. There’s nothing better about losing somebody you love that much, but time will take the sharpness, and get you used to his absence. You’ll live the good parts of your life. You’ll get married, and have a family if that’s what you want. Whatever you desire, you’ll build it. And you’ll miss him for the rest of your life Sirius, but one day you’ll wake up and realize you lived through it.”

     

    “What if I don’t want to live through it?” Sirius asked, his voice small.

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    27 Dec 2025