DISCLAIMER : I don't own anything. Everything you may recognize is from J.K. Rowling.

Mistakes are my own.

In this chapter no Lina, just Sirius and Regulus.

Enjoy !

Please tell me you'll fight this fight

I can't see without your light

I need you to breathe into my life

Don't tell me this is goodbye

I won't grieve - it's not yet time

Each breath breathed is keeping hope alive

So keep breathing

Go on breathe in

Keep on breathing

Go on breathe in

Just breathe

Superchick - Breathe

Sirius leaves home

He just wanted the yelling to stop. To only hear deafening silence, nothing else. He had his fingers propped into his ears, trying to block out the shouting match between his mother and Sirius.

They had been going at it for half an hour and from what Regulus had already heard, they both had no intention of stopping anytime soon. The house had already quivered due to slamming doors; the stairs had creaked from the stomping on them. Suddenly he heard the front door slamming shut and everything went quiet.

A soft knock on his door made Regulus look up from the book he was trying to read.

"Reggie? Can I come in?" he heard his big brother ask.

"Come in Sirius."

The door opened and in stepped his brother. His hair was all over the place and his cloths were wrinkled. But it were Sirius eyes, the exact same ones like his own, that drew all the attention. They looked haunted, death, completely different from the sparkling eyes he saw so much at school.

Sirius closed the door behind his back but kept on lingering at it. His eyes swept across the room, looking at the Slytherin banners and all the Dark Arts books filling up the space.

Regulus knew what his brother was thinking, he saw him literally holding back something he desperately wanted to say, but he turned his gaze back towards Regulus. "I am leaving."

Regulus only nodded his head in response. *I am surprised he has stayed for this long.*

"I can't stay here for another minute," Sirius said.

"I know Siri, you have never belonged here anyway," Regulus said softly.

Apparently, it was not something his brother had wanted to hear, because Sirius stormed towards his side and his eyes were blazing with fury.

"I knew you would be happy. I just knew it. You have always been the perfect son, the one who takes all of this $hit without a single thought and agrees with everything. The perfect little king... You…" Sirius raged, but Regulus got off his bed and stood in front of him.

"Siri! Siri! Sirius! Shut the hell up and listen will you!" Regulus yelled.

Maybe it was the fact that his little brother had yelled or had sworn * Reggie never swears* but Sirius did calm down.

"I am not like you Sirius. I am not brave enough to stand up against our parents. I heard mom write all of the howlers, she was so fond of sending you the first year. I hear our parents disgracing you every single time. I see and I know what they do to you each summer holiday you come home."

Something flickered in Sirius eyes but he kept quiet.

"I am not an idiot. I know this place is like living in hell for you. I see you at school with your friends and the very first time I was shocked when I saw and heard you laugh. I hadn't heard that since we were little children."

Regulus grey eyes looked his brother up and down.

"Do you really think I believe every single thing of this pureblood nonsense? That I really agree with everything our parents or our lovely aunts tell us?" Regulus shook his head.

"Because, I don't believe in everything they say. I do admit that some things they say make sense for me but not everything. I agree because I am not brave. I am not like you. I can't stand up against them. I just can't do it. I'm not strong enough."

Feeling tears coming into his eyes, he quickly turned around away from his older brother. Sirius stood still, staring at Regulus' back for a moment and then wrapped his arms around his baby brother.

He felt Regulus stiffen for a moment and then relaxing. "I am sorry Reggie. I didn't know you felt like that. You are a very good actor." Regulus couldn't help but chuckle.

"You know Siri… The Sorting Hat wanted to place me in Ravenclaw but I begged it for Slytherin. I was scared for what they would think and would do when they found out."

Regulus turned and looked his brother in the eyes.

"Now, I wish almost daily that I had gone into Ravenclaw instead."

Sirius let go off his brother and looked him square in the eyes.

"I am so proud of you Reggie and I love you no matter what happens."

Regulus nodded and then pushed against Sirius shoulders.

"Go! Leave now and live your life Sirius. Don't turn back."

Sirius nodded and hugged him one last time before turning towards the door.

"See you at school?" he asked.

"Yes Siri," Regulus answered, while he watched his brother walk away.

"I love you too," he whispered into the empty room.