Liability

Chapter 18: Regulus

CW: Drug addiction and rehabilitation. I'm not an expert on the subject but I tried to make this as accurate as possible.

Are you all dressed up but with nowhere to go?

Are your tears falling down when the lights are low?

Another Friday night tryna put on a show

Do you hate the weekend 'cause nobody's callin'?

I've still got so much love hidden beneath this skin

So, darlin'

Put a little love on me

.- Put a little love on me, by Niall Horan

"Ready Reggie?"

"No"

Sirius laughed

"We have to talk to the wicked witch" Sirius said "She needs to help you out for God's Sake"

The Black Brothers waited for their mother to arrive. Sirius fixed a meeting with her in a nearby cafeteria. The three of them (with James) had searched for good places and experts to help Regulus with his addiction. Most were expensive. None of them had enough money to pay for it. Walburga had. And as Sirius had put it, she was still responsible for Reggie until he turned 18.

Regulus felt stupidly guilty about the whole situation. James and Sirius wanted Regulus to feel better and get clean when all he could think about was drugs, drugs and more drugs. Not only his body craved it, but his mind as well. The world seemed so sad, opaque and hopeless without drugs. Even though he had been close and fine with James and Sirius lately, his mind just drove off sometimes.

"Sirius... How are you?"

Just because Regulus was the problem now, it didn't mean that Sirius didn't feel bad.

"I'm better, honestly" he smiled "The medication and Poppy help a lot"

Regulus smirked.

"And before you say something, not every pill is beneficial, especially the one you crave"

"Fucker"

Sirius giggled.

Regulus could tell that Sirius was as nervous as he felt. Their mother was a very weird and unstable woman. None of them knew exactly how she was going to react.

"He was nice to me, you know?" Regulus said trying to distract both "Your boyfriend..."

"Remus?"

Regulus nodded "He was always with a smile on his face, and then he always forgot the strong drugs that I asked him. I reckon he was trying to help me instead of gaining money"

"Really?" Sirius asked

"Yeah. I used to find him annoying. But he was a good person. Not like his boss"

"Boss?"

"Greyback" Regulus sniffed.

Sirius made a disgusted face "I don't like that bloke"

"You met him?"

"Yeah" Sirius rubbed his head

"Well that Remus lad is much better than him" Regulus said "And I can tell you like him a lot"

"I love him Reg"

"Love?"

That was a surprise. Sirius had never talked about loving his other boyfriends.