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    The first time O’Malley saw the kid was in a low-level underground gambling ring, walls crawling with asbestos and next to every bastard inside armed with something sharp if not something packed with warped metal and gunpowder.

    He couldn’t have been more than thirteen, but he surveyed the crowd of the room with years more experience than he should have. There were scars cutting across exposed bits of skin, sick looking in the light of the place and stretching hotel-bible-page-thin over crooked bones.

    He was a wispy thing. Nothing more than a scrap of a boy stitched together. O’Malley was half-convinced a strong wind might blow him over, but the kid turned, those quick and clever eyes burning across the room and O’Malley could recognize that sort of fight instinct.

    He saw him again half a year later in Northern Florida.

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    On the run with his mother, Neil (before he took the name) put his talents to use in underground gambling rings to make some quick cash. It's a past not half-so-easy to walk away from as Nathan's death was.

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    05 Dec 2023

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    “Regulus,” Sirius finally said, once he trusted he had his own voice under control, “has never once let me help him, even before I was a filthy blood-traitor. Why the fuck do you think I’d be able to save him now?”

    Tomorrow night. Kreacher’s words throbbed inside his head. Regulus will die tomorrow night.

    Sirius definitely wasn’t going to be getting any sleep at all this week.

    Sirius thought he had cut all ties with his family, but when Kreacher shows up in his bedroom with a dire warning, he's hardly able to let his idiot little brother die. And when he learns about the Horcrux his brother was chasing, he's hardly about to let him take on Voldemort alone.

    But getting tangled up in the House of Black again is not the best way to prove his innocence among an already-suspicious Order. Sirius has to walk a fine line if he wants to keep everyone he loves alive.

    (This series is in chronological order but does not need to be read in that order. NO other stories in this series are required reading, but all are suggested to flesh out the backstory.)

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    06 Feb 2023

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    What if Sirius and Regulus were twins, instead?

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    “He does it to protect you,” Remus whispers, accidentally spilling his thoughts in the darkness.

    “Wish he didn’t,” Sirius whispers back, so quiet that Remus probably wouldn’t have heard him if he wasn’t a werewolf. “It’s unfair.”

    “How so?” Remus murmurs in return, his brows furrowed; something Sirius, of course, can’t see.

    “I want to protect him too,” Sirius replies and his voice is hollow. “We were supposed to protect each other. Or I, mostly, since I’m older.”

    “By minutes Sirius.” It slips out of his mouth before he even registers the thought.

    “Still,” Sirius mutters brokenly. “He wants to protect me, which I suppose he does but he’s also leaving me in absolute misery. It’s hell Remus, not knowing where he is. My magic still searches for his, you know?”

    Remus doesn't, but nods anyway.

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    18 Apr 2022

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    When Wymack, Kevin and Andrew came to recruit Neil Josten in Millport, Neil decided to say 'no' instead of 'yes' to joining the Foxes and does what he does best, which is run. Unfortunately, that brings him to the attention of the Moriyamas, who return him to his 'rightful' place.

    Now Neil has to learn how to survive at the Nest with his only ally another 'asset' long kept under Riko's heel.

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    27 Jun 2021

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    Alex always knew his curiosity and impulsiveness would get him into trouble. It got him tangled up with MI6, after all. He hadn't expected it to land him in the middle of SCORPIA as Yassen Gregorovich's apprentice. No pairings, AU after Skeleton Key.

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    23 Dec 2020