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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.
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Lily oftentimes thinks of lab work as conducting a symphony. Every instrument has its time and place, coalescing into something cohesive and beautiful. In this lovely metaphor, Pandora Lovegood is one of those cymbal monkey toys, smashing the plates together with no rhythm or reason.
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Lily and Pandora as lab partners.
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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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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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James pulls Regulus back toward him like he wants to make sure he’s safe now. Regulus tenses, briefly, then sags against his chest. The gust of James’s breath tickles his ear. “I told you from the beginning, Potter, you can’t save everyone.”
With tightening arms, James says, “Watch me.”
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While his friend group struggles to heal from a misguided prank, James Potter finds solace in a grumpy Slytherin. Falling in love is an unexpected side effect. (Not that he is complaining.)
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Regulus Black goes to the Astronomy Tower for some peace, but what he gets is an annoying Gryffindor who won't leave him alone. Falling in love is unavoidable. (Trust him, he tried to avoid it.)
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Lily watches the lake stretching before her, and longing curls tight in her chest.
She spent so many summers wading through the shallows and braving through the depths. Lily misses how the cold water used to cradle her like an embrace, making her weightless. It’s been years since she last dared. She is a woman now, and women do not take off their dresses to splash about like wild creatures — not unless they wish to invite ridicule and ruin upon their family’s reputation.
Instead, Lily sits on the shore, leans back on her hands, and lets the sun warm her skin, darkening her freckles. She convinces herself to be content with this.
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The life of Lily Evans told in three acts.
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bright hopes and pure delights by w1tch3 for quati_quati, la_fleur_odette
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Jan 2025
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“We just wanted to tell you that we’re dating now.” To emphasize his point, James raises their intertwined hands and presses a devout kiss to the back of Regulus’s hand, a faint smile on his lips.
Marlene raises her eyebrows, unimpressed. “Haven’t you been dating for, like, six months?”
“I thought it was a year,” Peter pipes in.
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Snippets of James and Regulus’s developing relationship.
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- Part 2 of starchaser roommates au
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nothing to retentive feelings by w1tch3 for quati_quati
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2024
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Regulus bursts into laughter. The sound is lovely. So, so lovely. It sends a pang through James’s chest, and it takes him a few moments to recognize it.
I’m jealous, James realizes, I’m fucking jealous.
This is no longer simple attraction. It’s not about how mesmerizing Regulus is on stage or how objectively stunning he looks in tight clothes. That can be chalked up to neglected physical needs, but this… James wants to be the one to make Regulus laugh like that. He wants to share those intimate, conspiratory glances with him.
James Potter has a crush on Regulus Black.
A crush like he’s a bloody teenager.
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James Potter has never seen Regulus Black as anything other than his best friend’s little brother. When Regulus returns to England after five years abroad, that changes.
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Regulus isn’t blind. He knows he’s attractive. He just never learned how to handle compliments. Potter realized that from the very first time he whispered some innuendo in his ear, when Regulus grew into a stuttering, flustered mess, so unlike his usual self. Potter must be quite the sadist because Regulus has become his favorite target since then — all his charm laser-focused on him, extracting the most embarrassing of reactions.
That stops tonight.
With some help from the devil on his shoulder — namely Barty Crouch Jr. — Regulus has devised a plan to put Potter back in his place. If he plays his cards right, he won’t be the one squirming this time.
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James is a relentless flirt. Regulus retaliates.
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“Maybe I just enjoy getting under your skin,” James says, his tone playful but laced with something deeper. “You’re all… moody and stuff. I like a challenge.”
Regulus’s expression softens, though his voice remains cold. “Of course, you do,” he sighs, turning a page. “Though I didn’t realize your idea of a challenge was pestering me.”
James grins, leaning in as if it’s the most natural thing in the world to invade Regulus’s space. “Well, you’re the most interesting person I know.”
“Because I’m a vampire?” Regulus asks dryly.
“No, because you’re you.”
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Two brothers move into the house across the street and upend James’s life. While being introduced to this secret world of vampires, James just might fall in love with one of them.
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a home where heart and soul may rest by w1tch3 for quati_quati, la_fleur_odette
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Jul 2024
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“I’ve never had a problem sharing my friends!” James argues.
Remus’s lips twitch, but he maintains his neutral expression. “Is that what Regulus is to you? A friend?”
“Of course, he’s my friend! I adore him, you know that.”
“We do,” Remus agrees patiently. He has his teacher’s voice on, and James fears he’s being led into some Socratic thought experiment. “It’s just… Don’t you think you might adore him a little too much?”
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James and Regulus are the perfect roommates, but everything changes when Regulus brings a guy home. Truths are unveiled and feelings are confronted.
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- Part 1 of starchaser roommates au
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Barty’s love has always felt a whole lot like hunger. An overwhelming urge to consume. With Evan, it was the first time he had ever felt the need to be consumed in turn, to make a home for himself between Evan’s teeth, to be the very thing that provides his body’s sustenance.
This hasn’t changed at all since the last time he embraced Evan. Barty digs his fingers into his back, hating the fabric of his robes for standing between them. His nerve endings ignite when Evan does the same, clinging to Barty as if no force of man or nature could ever break his hold.
“You’re alive.” Barty drowns in the words, chokes on the syllables. “You’re alive.”
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Evan is alive and breaks Barty out of Azkaban. Wounds of the body and soul are tended.
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leave it all behind (and there is happiness) by hoerror (w1tch3)
Fandoms: Ready or Not (2019)
31 Oct 2022
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“I won’t give them this,” Grace said through her teeth. “I spent that night fighting to survive, and I won’t give them the satisfaction of killing myself now. I won. I get to live, and they don’t.” Never mind that her existence did not feel like living at all.
“Spite is not a good reason to stay alive, nor is it consistent,” her therapist insisted.
“It’s all I have right now, it’ll have to do.”
“Is it all you have?”
No, she thought, and the image that came to her mind wasn’t the job she could never have back after becoming a morbid celebrity; nor the apartment that housed both her memories of Alex and the future she would share with him; not even the friendships that she had neglected to a breaking point while enraptured in the whirlwind of her new relationship.
It was Daniel.
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Grace and Daniel navigate life in the aftermath of the wedding night.