Regulus/Rodolphus- Quest
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Their love was a quest, finding each other, battling between what was right, what was wrong and what was expected of them.
Rodolphus was set to marry the ferocious Bellatrix Black, and Regulus was supposed to marry little Ara Greengrass. Neither were supposed to fall for the other.
Yet, somehow, they did.
They met, they bonded, they loved. They climbed mountains and bent over backwards to remain together. They met under the guise that Rodolphus was mentoring Regulus- for Regulus was a potential death eater. No one suspected a thing.
Naturally everyone believed them. They spent many a night, lying in bed, holding to each like they were life itself, laughing over the ignorance of their parents, who would surely find a way to break them apart if they knew. (Walburga Black could do anything if she put her mind to it, that much was for sure. Regulus shuddered to think what would happen if this little tryst was discovered - he'd be disgraced.)
Regulus didn't care, because Rodolphus was perfect, he was sweet, he wasn't kind, (How does one become such a powerful Death Eater by being kind?) but he wasn't cruel - at least not to Regulus. He showed him everything, and taught him everything about the Dark Arts.
Regulus loved him for it.
When the war came, Regulus had to make a choice. He'd seen what Rodolphus was capable of, how he'd tortured Alice and Frank Longbottom into insanity. He wasn't Regulus's Rodolphus anymore.
Their love was a quest, finding each other, battling between what was right, what was wrong and what was expected of them.
In the end, the only thing Regulus had left was himself.
So he chose what was right, even if that meant sacrificing his own life.
Their quest was over.
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