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Saying Goodbye


There are times when she wonders if she knows what she's doing. Of course, intellectually, she understands the concepts of infidelity, and she accepts that what she is doing is wrong, but morally? Who knows what would happen should she ever be found out. Not only is she betraying James, the man she is due to marry in a few short hours, but she is betraying Sirius, his best friend.

If she's honest with herself, she's betraying herself and Regulus too.

They both know that their 'relationship' is leading no where. She is to be married and he wears the dark mark on his arm. Yet, she cannot give him up, and she knows he feels the same. Why else would he keep turning up, taking her in his arms, proving to her that he loves her as he takes her to heaven again and again?

And she does love him.

It's a painful love, a scary love, a heartbreaking love, but it is love all the same. As he takes her, makes him hers, even if it's just for that moment, she clings to him tighter than usual. If he's a little bit rougher, a little bit louder, a little bit greedier, she understands.

They are saying goodbye.