5. No Turning Back

Regulus looked up and saw Damien hovering over him.

"It's time to start packing."

"Why the bloody hell did you wake me up? I know when and when not to leave and I'll thank a dirty half-blood like yourself not to touch me again." Regulus snarled.

"What's gotten into you lately? You've been acting like a real git to me and everyone around yo-"

"I know very well what I've been acting like, and it's all because my eyes have been opened to the truth. I know what I have to do."

"What are you talking about?" asked Damien cautiously.

"You wouldn't understand."

And with that, Regulus got up, dressed quickly, and pulled on his cloak and went out the door. He went down to breakfast yelling at anyone who got in his way, ate as quickly as he could, and ran back down to the common room.

"Draconic"

As the entrance swung open, he strode into the common room. Amelia came rushing up to him.

"Hey, Regulus, I'm sorry for before, I was acting like a real git, me and Aaron are over and-"

"Save it. I have no time for you and I know now how you really feel. Besides, what do I care what a pitiful half-blood thinks of me?" said Regulus coldly. He turned around and made his way up to his room.

He grabbed his trunk and all his belonging and left without a backwards glance at his room. The room he had spent all seven years at Hogwarts in.

He walked through the common room once more and went towards the exit when he saw Amelia crying in a chair near the girls dormitory entrance. At this, Regulus smiled. Serves her right. Now she understands what it's like to be ignored and pushed away. Regulus thought for a moment about what he was leaving. He would never again see the inside of the Slytherin common room or make jokes with Damien by the fire. He squashed the one last gleam of doubt inside himself and he made his way out of the common room .

He walked straight through the school, ignoring all the people saying goodbye and trying to talk to him. When he started to leave the school entrance, he heard a commanding voice behind him.

"Regulus Black, not even staying to say goodbye to your friends?"

It was Dumbledore. How bothersome this man could be. Didn't he see that Regulus had somewhere to be?

"I already have."

They both stood and stared each other in the eye for a minute or two and then Dumbledore said.

"You should reconsider, Mr. Black, what you are doing. You can not possibly understand how rash of a decision this is."

Regulus was taken aback by this. Was it a lucky guess or did Dumbledore somehow find out what he was going to do?

"What I do is my own business and I'll thank you not to poke your nose into it." said Regulus more bravely than he felt.

"Once you make the choice to follow him, there is no turning back. You are with him forever, no matter what. It is either a lifetime of servitude towards him, or a most unpleasant end."

Did Dumbledore mean what Regulus thinks he means? If he follows Voldemort, he can never turn back?

Of course not. He was just trying to scare Regulus away from his decision. Dumbledore was such a muggle lover, it would seem something he would do. Protecting the muggles was like second nature to Dumbledore. Regulus decided that Dumbledore was just trying to intimidate him into not going through with his plans.

At this last exchange of words, Regulus turned his back on Dumbledore and walked out the door. Essentially, turning his back on the world and on his last chance.

Where he was going to go now, he was not sure, but one thing was sure. No matter how long or what it took, Regulus Black was going to meet Voldemort.