So this is where it ends. It's funny, he thought, when he signed up he never thought he'd go like this. In an attack maybe, but never like this. It was simple really, almost peaceful. The soft waves of water liked at the boots on his feet, like begging him to join them. Soon, he thought, just a little longer.
He closed his eyes for a brief moment and saw two faces. The faces of the two people he'd ever truly loved, not because he had to, but because somehow they'd found a way into his guarded heart and hadn't left, no matter how hard his parents pushed him to forget them.
Sirius' face hovered in front of him. The last words they'd said to each other rang through his mind 'Don't do it Reg, leave! You can come live with me. You don't have to do what they say. You don't have to be one of them.' The plea in his voice had been evident then, but now was mixed with love.
"I'm sorry Sirius." He tried to say, but his words just tumbled out, blurring together. "I should have listened to you." The pain was spreading now; he could fell himself slipping away, bit by bit.
He ran short of air when Mary's face came to him from the darkness. Her hair blowing around her, her eye's kind, a small smile lighting up her face. She looked exactly like she always did. Beautiful, he thought, if she is the last thing I see, it'll be fine. He tried to tell himself, but his brain seemed to have stopped working and he was just looking at the picture his close-to-death mind had conjured.
"Don't leave me." She whispered, eye's gleaming with the tears she shed when she heard the news.
"I'm sorry." He said, ignoring the pain. "I'm so sorry." His body was going numb, pain was easing away and he felt himself being drawn into the black lake water. All strength had left him; his energy to fight back had gone. The burning image of Mary still lingered behind his eyelids as he closed them.
I should have listened to them when I had the chance, he thought sucking in his last breath, and maybe now they'll forgive me. His word went black at the water invaded his vision, water filled his lungs and soon he was floating, feeling light as a feather as his life left his body.