hey guys! I just want to say a few words about this story- it didn't just write this for fanfiction, but i also wrote it because this is what i believed really did happen. I think that R.A.B was Regulus and i dont think he went to the lake alone. Not even Dumbledore would have managed that. I strongly believe that Lily was involved. And I think I also know how the two way miror was important. This is the story of how.
Dandaleith was a quiet village that late November night. The streets were empty; muggles were simply too afraid to walk about after nightfall nowadays, since the attack on Dufftown a few miles away. The church bells omitted silent screams- piecing the very hearts of the people hiding behind their old country doors. It was too quiet.
Lily Potter shivered and pulled her cloak closer to her body as she walked down the main street. Not due to the cold; she was used to it all by now, but because of the silent magic that swirled about her like the cold Scottish mists. "I'm closer" she thought to herself. She felt her heartbeat quicken and she smartened her pace, feeling the magic edging her onwards towards her goal. She crossed the street and down an alleyway into an old cobbled road. Her heart was now beating so fast, she felt sure the forces lurking in the alleyway would discover her. She heard a quiet sob from behind an archway.
"Caradoc?" she whispered fearfully. "It's me- are you there?"
She stopped in her tracks and strained her ears for further sounds. She gripped her wand more tightly and edged towards the archway. She watched as the shadow of a tall figure was reflected on the wall. She was about to advance on the figure, until she heard a low, angry voice.
"You are nothing but a silly little boy! Do as he commands, or start digging your own grave- there is no other way!"
Lily quickly stepped back from the archway as the man began to stride out of it. A smaller figure stumbled out after him.
"There must be another way! Please, you have to help me! I cannot- I don't want to!"
The taller figure turned on the spot and grabbed the young boy by the shoulders.
"I warned you!" he said menacingly. "But you were far more concerned with the glory you would receive- the hero's title, than the reality of becoming a death eater. I warned you did I not, that you would have to hurt, sometimes even kill innocent people? That if it were requested, you would have to dispose of your friends and family? And now, after all I tired to do to stop you, you come to me and ask for my help?"
"I'm not a murderer!" whimpered the boy. "Don't make me hurt them! Please don't make me! Hurt me instead!"
The taller man simply turned on his heel and began to make his way up the cobbled street, his tall shadow tailing him.
"Snape!" the boy cried. But the tall man had already disappeared. The boy sank to his knees and began to sob. Lily hesitantly took a step forward, raising a lit wand as she went. The boy seemed too despaired to notice her presence.
He was a young boy, eighteen at the most. She felt a strong mix of pity and curiosity as she looked at him- what had Snape wanted with such a young person, and what was this boy being asked to do?
"Can I help you?" she asked kindly, but held her wand at shoulder height in case he attacked- Snape had after all, called him a death eater. The boy looked up in surprise. His surprise however, was nothing compared to the surprise Lily felt.
"Sirius?" she gasped and sank to her knees beside him, putting an arm on his shoulder as she went. The boy mutely shook his head and gaped at her. She raised her wand and looked more closely at his face. He looked tired and ill, like someone who had, had no rest. The boy did look remarkably like Sirius Black, one of her closest friends, but there was no denying that this boy was not him. Lily recognised him as a Slytherin student one year below her. His name was Regulus Black, Sirius's brother.
Without warning Regulus leapt to his feet pulling out his wand as he went. "Sectumsempra!" he cried aiming his wand at Lily. The curse hit her side as she dodged the ray of light. With one hand on her bleeding torso she aimed a curse at Regulus which he avoided.
"Come on mudblood, I thought you were meant to be good at…" the taunt never left his mouth as Lily hit him squarely in the chest with a jinx. Regulus keeled over clutching his stomach- a second later he retched into the gutter.
"You b…" he tried to yell but was forced off the ground by another cleverly aimed hex, and was left hanging upside down by his ankle.
"Stop fighting and start talking."
"I'm not telling you anything!" he yelled. "Let me down before I do some real damage."
"The worst thing you can do is throw up over my new shoes! I'll let you down once you've clamed down."
"I'm not telling you anything!" he repeating, glaring upside down at his captor.
"I think you will." Lily replied calmly stepping closer to Regulus. "Because, you've got no one else to tell!"
"That's not true!" Regulus was furious now. "I've got my family and friends…"
"Death eaters that will sell you're soul to your master if it gained them glory, and parents who would desert you if they even knew we were having this conversation." Lily was now face to face with Regulus.
"I'm never going to tell you."
"I can help you."
Regulus shook his head "No one can."
Lily decided that Regulus was now calm enough and lower him gently back to the ground. Clutching her side she lowered herself next to him.
"Regulus, what are you doing here?" she asked firmly.
Regulus turned his head away. He did not want her seeing him like this. Lily had been exceptionally popular at Hogwarts and consequently not someone Regulus would like to be associated with.
"None of your business Evans!" he snarled. Lily simply looked at him.
"Stop staring mudblood- and get out of here before I kill you!" he got to his feet and pointed his wand at her. Lily followed Regulus's actions and stood up, but lowered her wand.
"Firstly, the name is Potter, not Evans, and secondly you would have killed me already if you had wanted to. I thought you might need some help."
"I don't need help! Especially not from you!" he hissed lowering his wand resentfully.
"You sound just like Snape!" Lily scoffed. Regulus gave a hollow laugh.
"If I had bothered listening to him in the first place, I wouldn't be here!"
"Why? What did he tell you to do?" Lily asked. Regulus stared at Lily as though trying to decide whether or not she could be trusted. Eventually he sighed and bowed his head, realising that he had no one left to ask for help.
"He told me not to join the death eaters! He told me I was too young and inexperienced."
"That's rich coming from him! He's only nineteen!" Lily laughed. She looked at Regulus who now had tears falling down him face. Her face softened. "So why did you not listen to him?"
"Because I wanted to prove to him- to my family that I was someone! My mother and father were so proud, and for once they didn't need to bully me into doing more with my life, because to them I had already succeeded!" his voice shook as he told her this.
"So what changed your mind?"
"I was alright for the first few months, all I had to do was lure muggles into traps, spy on people Voldemort didn't trust. I felt uneasy but the rewards were good so I didn't stop. And then…" he looked away. His shoulders were shaking and Lily suspected that he had broken down. She walked over and put a reassuring hand on his arm. He didn't shy away but found strength from her kindness.
"He asked me to kill Sirius." Regulus turned to look at her. She did not look angry or scared. She did look a shade paler but smiled kindly at him.
"You won't though will you?" she looked at him. He shook his head sadly.
"Why does Voldemort want Sirius dead?"
"I think he just wanted me to prove my loyalty." Regulus replied shakily. "Also to reduce the numbers on your side of the war. But I can't- we never saw eye to eye but I do not want to kill him."
Lily found it hard to believe that this was the same boy she had detested at school. He had been rude, arrogant, cruel and vicious towards his brother. And yet he was standing there before her, terrified and sad.
"What are you going to do now?" she asked.
"Die I suppose?" he said dramatically, raising his arms in defeat. Lily raised her eyebrows.
"Or, we could go to Dumbledore and try to figure a way out of this mess!" she suggested. Regulus sighed slipping his hands into his trouser pockets.
"It's not that simple."
"Isn't it?"
"No. You wouldn't understand." Regulus said harshly turning his back on her and rubbing his brow.
"Fair enough, I guess. But Dumbledore might."
"I do not want to speak to that man!" he rounded on her, his voice rising. "He does not understand!"
"Are you trying to tell me that an eighteen year old boy knows more than Dumbledore himself?" Lily replied calmly. "I'm beginning to think that Severus was right about you after all."
Regulus cursed and glared at Lily.
"If you don't want to help me, then leave me alone!"
"I want to help you Regulus, but you haven't told me exactly what you plan to do now, so my plan making skills are being somewhat limited." Lily cried impatiently.
"I don't know alright? I'm not going to kill my stupid brother! So Voldemort is going to kill me instead, but I have to live because…"
"Because what?" Lily cried.
"Because I know why he is immortal!" Regulus exploded. Immediately he fell silent and looked fearfully around the street in case he was being watched. Lily for the first time looked scared.
"Regulus, listen…" she took a step towards him and lowered her voice. "No one knows that- you can't! You don't need to make excuses, I'll help you!"
"I do know! I will tell you- I just need a few months to work it all out." Regulus explained. Lily looked at him disbelievingly.
"Alright, if you say so! Right now we need to work out how to help you. Where does Voldemort think you are now?"
"At home."
"Does he know that you are planning to desert the death eaters?"
"No but it is only a matter of days. The way my brother parades around in public he's not exactly a hard target is he?"
"Go home. I'll contact you there." Lily said slowly, thinking.
"How? If my parents…"
"I'll find a way!" Lily said firmly.
"Lily please…"
"I promise- I will find a way. You have to trust me."
"Don't tell anyone!" He cried grabbing her wrist. She looked at him.
"I won't say anything until we have decided what to do" she said kindly and patted his shoulder.
"I'll be in contact." She promised. Then she was gone.
Please review- new chapter up very soon! Tonight even!
Love
Lilixxx
