It's June, 1981, and Regulus Black certainly hadn't expected to survive betraying Voldemort. He knew he should avoid his former life, but he'd never been very wise, especially considering family.

Companion fic to Seirios Aster's "Some Nights" Sirius Black did not take his brother's passing well; it happened a few months ago, and he's barely holding it together. And then, he sees something he thought he'd never see again ... But Regulus is dead, right..? Set three years after the Marauders graduate, roughly follows the timeline of Seirios Aster's fic, Light of a Fading Star.

AU OotP. Exonerated, Sirius Black finds himself trying to put his life back together while the war rages on. New alliances are formed, and old are renewed, in the name of defeating Voldemort.