A/N: I own nothing you can recognize!
Written for:
Writing Club: Book Club: Elara Merandus: (word) whisper, (word) sadistic, (word) mysterious
Writing Club: Headcanon Haven: Headcanon #4: Nobody ever said, "I love you." to Regulus. - Sam (MissingMommy)
October Event: Around The World in Thirty-One Days: Belize - Item: Book
Word count Without A/N: 308
I Love You(Only Ever In A Book)
Regulus Arcturus Black was a pure-blood wizard, born to Orion and Walburga Black, and the younger brother of Sirius Black. He lived for only 18 years but no one had ever said 'I love you' to him.
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Mother
Never whisper, be mysterious and sadistic.
He'd say when someone asked how his mother or who his mother was. It was never something else.
I-I
Always love, be courageous and kind.
Never that, no, never that. When asked Regulus would never delude himself or others and say that.
His mother had never said word love as far as he knew and that hurt him but he knew that his mother was like she was and that no one could change her.
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Father
'Being prepared is the most important thing in one's life.'
His father had said that to him and Regulus respected it though he would rather if he had heard that love was the most important but his father would never say that.
I-I
'Absence and being prepared are the most important things in one's life.'
Regulus had changed his father's sentence for he was never there to help. Oh, how he wished he was but he wasn't
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Brother
"Move aside little brother."
Sirius may have been light but he had never bothered to tell Regulus that he was worthy - he only ever said to move that he was bothering him.
I-I
"I am leaving you alone."
That was the sentence that had stayed with Regulus. It was never 'I am leaving but I love you.'. No, it was never that but Regulus wished it was.
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He lived for eighteen years and he had never heard word love directed towards him. He had only ever read it in books - the books that sometimes saved his sanity.
The End