Title: A Second Chance
Chapter 1: Chapter 1
When Regulus Black sacrifices his life, in that lake full of inferi to destroy the locket, he invoked an old magic, a magic as ancient as that Lily Potter would use to save her child. A magic that turned time and gave another chance. Question is, will a second chance be enough?
Prologue
The last thing I remembered, as I awoke gasping and clutching at my throat was the pull of the inferi and the inky blackness of the lake, as they clawed at me, pulling me toward them. On instinct, I rolled away from the bony hand on my brow, falling off my bed in the process. Wait, bed? I thought as I massaged my back. Where was I? Was this afterlife? A bed?
"Young master! Young Master Regulus," Kreacher's voice as he neared me with a damp cloth, killed that notion. I had specifically told Kreacher to leave the cave, destroy the locket and to not return for me or ever tell a member of the family. He wouldn't disobey that, he couldn't disobey that, and so how was I still alive? And why did I feel well? My head was aching as if I had downed two bottles of firewhiskey, I had seen Potter do at times, but apart from that, I felt just impeccable. No bruises, no blood, no signs on inferi that I could feel. What was going on? Well, only one way to know.
"Kreacher, how am I…"
My question was cut short when my door opened soundlessly and I heard a voice, that I hadn't heard in a long time but would always recognize say my name.
"Reggie, Reggie, are you alright? I know you don't like me speaking to you anymore but I heard you scream, Reg, are you alright?"
Standing at the door, with moonlight falling on him, speaking to me in a tone he had never used again after my second year, calling me a nickname I had absolutely forbidden when I started Hogwarts, was my brother. My twelve-year-old brother. Sure, that I was dead and hallucinating or in hell for my sins, I did something utterly unfitting for the Heir of the Ancient and Noble House of Black. I fainted. Like a common muggle. Oh, Mother would be so ashamed.
