She's an artist's dream- literally and figuratively.
He drinks up the soft curve of her throat, her dark eyes as they glow, reds and golds from the fire where her gaze is at.
(She's perfect. He thinks, soaking up every curve and color on her. A goddess among mortals.)
"Andromeda..." he murmurs, lowly in the near silent, near empty house. Narcissa, Bellatrix, and both their sets of parents are asleep. They're the only ones awake, and the fire's smooth crackle and his low, deep murmurings are all they can hear.
"Hmmm?" She asks, quietly, innocently. Her mind is away at the moment, and she doesn't notice as he walks over and sits on the arm of her seat. "Is there something you need?" she asks him, eyes on the fire's silent twisting and curling, (Like his insides right now, not that she needed to know) and her fingers are clasped around the hot chocolate mug in her dainty hands.
The mug falls and shatters as he grasps her chin and presses his lips to hers. Her lips are warm and taste like hot chocolate, he notices. She pulls away. "Regulus..." Not Reg, he notes morosely.
"I love you, Andromeda..." He tells her, clasping her hand in his two,
"Reg," she starts, and his heart leaps, just for a moment, like the gold & red fire does from the coals. "I don't love you." She pulls her hand out of his two, and sends him a sad glance. His heart drops and shatters.
The fire rumbles on.
She slips into her room, as he call out to her, "There's someone else, isn't there?"
She emerges with a sad look and her trunk.
"I'm sorry, Reg." She doesn't say it, but the answer rings out, loud and clear to both of them.
Yes.
"Where are you going?" He asks sharply, eying the trunk.
"Goodbye, Reg." She tells him, setting the note down on the table.
"Andromeda?" He asks, grabbing her right wrist as the left grabs Floo Powder to throw in the still rumbling fire.
"I'm leaving, Reg." she tells him, throwing in the Floo Powder, steping in and calling, "Tonks' Residence!"
He doesn't follow.
She's an artist's dream, alright, but Regulus' canvas is red and dark.