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He would enter wherever it was alone. Of course he would. His parents might have came if they did care but they had always had an obvious preference towards the older child, even if he was the naughty one. They didn't blow him off the chart until a whole year after he left home! Andromeda was blown off on the spot!
When he was vaguely conscious, he forced his eyelids to stay closed. He was curious, of course, to know what did this place look like, what was after death. But he was afraid, scared that if he opened his eyes, no one would be there. It was so much better to close his eyes and pretend that there is nothing around. Even if it is horribly boring. He wondered if Andy, Bella, Cissy and most importantly Sirius would come and look for him when they entered this world too (hopefully not anytime soon).
After Merlin knows how long, he finally heard some murmurs, as if someone was really there for him. You wish, he told himself sadly. They were probably looking for someone else.
"Are you... are you Regulus Black?" A quiet voice asked him. He turned and came face to face with... Mr and Mrs Potter. Of all people, he had not expected it to be someone completely not related to him. He was hoping for his uncle or aunt maybe.
But the fact that someone, anyone, came for him and warmed his little heart. If he wasn't a Slytherin and hadn't been trained to be composed, he would have leapt up and squealed in delight by now. Instead, he gave a brilliant grin and half hopped, half stood up, nodding excitedly as though he was a young detective getting his first case and waiting to be given all the information about it.
The couple grinned, their eyes lit with amusement at his reaction but they didn't say anything. Instead, they launched into a talk about how they were waiting for their son on another side and they saw a bright green light a little far off and it led them to Regulus. They chatted with him about Sirius, about James, about family, about life, about lots of things but Regulus wasn't really thinking much and didn't remember much.
He did remember them telling him that he couldn't enter the door in the far corner because once you entered, you can't come back. This was sort of a waiting room before you entered the other world. He could wait for Andy, and Bella, and Cissy, and Sirius (hopefully Sirius would be happy to see him when he found out what he had done).
James couldn't be that bad since his parents was nice enough to chat up with him and cheer him up despite never having talked to him before.
But soon enough (well not really, but time pass differently down... wherever this was), James entered and he was delighted to see his family. As they had their reunion, Regulus stepped back a little. They said their goodbyes before they entered the door to the other world.
Of course, Regulus didn't want them to come early but he couldn't help but feel so, so lonely that he was here alone, especially since time passes so much slower when there was no entertainment. He must have fallen asleep, or into a state of unconsciousness, or whatever it was called while you are in the "waiting area" until someone hugged him tight from behind.
"Reggy! I thought nobody would be here!" a female voice cried. It wasn't Bella, she would never sound like that. Bella was darker and would definitely have some evil laugh. Not Andy whose voice was way more mature. Not Cissy because the squeal was not high pitched enough.
"Katherine!" He yelled. "How come you're here so early. Melanion is not coming, is he?" He added hopefully.
The happy face of Katherine changed to one of a mixture of anger, hurt, betrayal, pain, regret, fear and many others he couldn't identify. It was unusual to see Katherine upset over something but to see her show so many negative emotions at one point was very unsettling and Reggy backed away a little.
In less than five seconds, they were all gone, replaced by tears streaming down her eyes with no intention of stopping anytime soon. She told him the story of how she found out that her son was being tortured by his own father ("You had a son with that... that old guy?" Regulus had interrupted her gaining a smack at the back of his head and a I-really-rather-not-talk-about-it look). She was angry and confronted him about it and that was a big mistake. Because she should have helped little Theodore (a horrible name that it seems Sirius has chosen but Melanion doesn't know). He had killed her when she went against him and now the poor innocent boy was left alone with his cruel father!
Both of them had prayed and hoped that Cissy would help him since Cissy took care of him occasionally whenever her son, Draco (that name has got to be chose by Cissy since it was actually good), and Theo had a playdate. It was kind of difficult for Reggy to accept the fact that Cissy had a kid. A KID! Ridiculous.
They chatted on all the things they never talked about since they never really talked on Earth. To him, she was just the tragic love story of Sirius and the best friend of Cissy. To her, he was just the little brother/cousin of Sirius and Cissy.
Until, Sirius popped up. It was almost like Katherine sensed his presence. The second he had popped up she had leapt to her feet and tackled him with a violent hug before he even realised who she was. Once he steadied himself, which took like two seconds, his hands instinctively wrapped around her waist.
And then Sirius had turned and he came face to face with Reggy and his expression was of cold fury. Reggy shrank away, both figuratively and literally. Thankfully, he had already told Katherine about Reggy's story and she had tugged at his arm, telling them that they had so much to catch up on. So there went Reggy's sixteen-year-old innocence as he watched disgusted as they made out.
After a while, she began telling him different stories about her kid, Theodore. Sirius didn't seem to mind that the kid was Melanion but the way she talked about him in which her eyes would light up made him happy. Plus, he sounded more like Katherine than Melanion. Then finally, she went on and told him about Reggy's story, saying that he had to know whether he liked it or not.
For a long while, Reggy couldn't tell if Sirius was angry or confused or happy or disappointed or proud or anything at all. He was just emotionless as he sort of stared through Katherine as though he hadn't heard or seen her.
Then after the longest trial of his life, Sirius had hugged Reggy with a small smile. Which was not very good since Reggy had been holding his breath and he felt all the air come out at one "whoosh" which sent the two lovers into a laughing fit.
They didn't have to wait long after that. People seemed to be tumbling in, or rather they were too busy playing around to realise how much time had passed. Andy's husband, Teddy, came next and he was lucky that it wasn't Bella but Sirius here. Reggy frankly was never much bothered by him. Then came Bella and Sirius and Bella had managed to get back on a good terms (the usual teasing and arguing) despite the fact that... ahem.
Sirius was shaking his head saying in Bella's dad voice that he was very disappointed by her early death blah blah blah when Lucius came stumbling in. That had not been a pretty sight. Bella had his back facing him and Sirius was the first to see him, which meant the conversation turned up to be...
"I cannot believe that my most powerful darling girl had died! At such an early age too! I am highly disappo... ugh WHAT?!" His tone changed from the deep voice to an agitated one and he had raced by Bella to point his wand at Lucius. "What are you doing here?"
Lucius was two seconds away from asking how was it possible that Sirius was going to try kill him if he was already dead but thank goodness Bella had intervened. Of course, he wasn't sure if he would die again in this white room thing but he certainly didn't want to try it out. Sarcastic comment were passed around every few... um, moments, since they didn't know how much time actually passed and just when Bella thought she was going to tell them to quit being so mean to each other when someone came rolling in.
Literally. No one, not even Narcissa, knew why she was rolling but she came in anyway. And both Sirius and Lucius had said "Cissy!" at the same time, before glaring at each other and looking at her as though saying "choose me over him!" Bella rolled her eyes and open her arms which Cissy opted to leap gracefully into instead.
Bella didn't know how she did it but she murmured something to both of them, separately of course, which made them both at least civil to each other. Suppose she still got the skill of grace and calm and all...
Next came Andy of course and once she was happily reunited with Ted (you have no idea how long the making out session when) but Reggy finally had enough and stormed his foot. "Are we going in or not?" It was at this point that they all looked at one another. All these had been friends, enemy, killers and there were some that didn't like each other (ahem... Sirius and Lucius... ahem) but they were entering an unknown world together. They would have to trust each other.
So hand in hand (figuratively), they had strolled through the doorway, entering the next world together and...
I'm so sorry it ends this way but obviously I don't know death. To an organised mind it is nothing but a next greatest adventure but that doesn't mean I know what death means. I just needed a closure because I like happily ever after and I don't like how all endings end separate except Andy and Cissy so... there you go!