Marauders Oneshots

We've Run Out (Jegulus)

Prompt: "We've run out"
Word Count: 530
Pairing: Jegulus (James x Regulus)
Warnings: Angst, Implied death, slight swearing, toxic tendency's
Description: As much as neither could bare to face the fact, they both knew they would run out eventually

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"We've... we've run out of it all Reg, we have nothing left.."

The sentence still rung in his mind, years later now even. Regulus knew this would happen from the beginning. It was the truth that although he knew all long would come around, he couldn't bare to accept. He always knew, deep down no matter how much he nor James wished it to not be true, they would never last.

The world they were living in and the situations around them would never allow them to hold together. Everything about them put them at odds. They were total opposites in almost every aspect. Family views, friend circles, personalities, personal views, it all just contradicted. They were now being fully thrown into the war now, and weren't even on the same sides of it. 

Things had been getting tense between the two as James finished his 7th year and Regulus his 6th, and now all they had seemed to be gone. There was to much between them, and just not enough to hold them together anymore.

He and James used to always promise to each other to stay together, to never let one another go no matter the odds. They'd cuddle together and talk about a future together, the perfect fantasy they both had dreamed of. Talked of ways of telling the others about the two of them and the mixed reactions bound to come from their friends and family. But, they were all just little white lies and dreams. The most unrealistic of dreams even they both knew would never come true.

Their whole relationship had been dependent on dreams, weak hopes, and fake promises. Because nothing could, and ever would come of them. They had been perfect for each other, but put at odds with all the imperfections of life and influences around them.

As even on and ran out, so did everything the two of them had built together. All their love, trust, dependency, relationship, everything about the two of them was gone, and they both knew it.

All they dreams and fantasy's the two had created together, and thought of the two running out on everything they had together had never one discussed or dreamed of. Because even though he and James both knew deep down it was the one that would fulfill,  it was their least favorite of all.

Everything they had ever wanted was worked for in their relationship was now gone. They had run out of the final strings holding their relationship together, and with no final goodbye ever truly being spoken, they both went their ways in the war.

So as Regulus spent his final few years after the heartbreak trying to find ways to complete his goal, nothing to lose, he looked back on his relationship and used it as his motivation. And As he entered the cave to risk it all for that goal, his time had also now running out, he just hoped that it had all been worth it. And someday, in another life or if another place came after this, in a world were the odds wouldn't be against them, they could fix all that was taken, and restore the time robbed from them both.