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Regulus had gotten out, he had gotten out but they were still after him. The Death Eaters and Voldemort were still after him after all these years for abandoning the cause.
It had been twenty years since that fateful day when he had seen what the Dark Lord’s plans were and how he treated poor Kreacher.
He had been working with the Order in the background and had been getting closer to the girl but now that they were coming for him again he had to let her go, he had to. He couldn’t let her be found. They wouldn’t just kill her. They would torture her to get to him.
So he had called her to the library of his family’s old home and was going to act as if she was nothing.
He almost broke when she walked in, but that just cemented his need to save her more. Breathing deeply— he took some of her courage and gave his best performance.
Regulus looked down at her with disdain and turned away and said before walking away from her, “You’re just a girl.”
Hermione chases after him and pulls on his shoulder— turning him to face her, “I am not a girl, I’m not. I’m a storm with skin.”
Regulus growled before leaning down to her and kissing her as if he was dying and she was the only one that could save him.
“Don’t you get it, I know. I know you aren’t just a girl, but I need to save you. They are coming for me and if they know about you they will come for you. And I need to save you,” Regulus told her.
“I can protect myself,” Hermione told him, “I have been since I was eleven. So you don’t get to turn me away. You don’t get to save me.”
“What do you…” Regulus shouted.
“Can you two keep it down? I get it Regulus. You’re right. They will come after her, but we will protect her. That’s why we’ve got the Order. We protect our own,” Sirius interrupted.
“I can’t lose her, Sirius. I can’t. She’s my saving grace,” Regulus cried.
“You won’t lose me, if it comes to it we will run. We will run and never look back. We will go to France or something. But we will be together and that is all that matters,” Hermione said as she pulled him into her arms.
Regulus nodded and let her hug him. They would get through this together.