Getting over one's first love was always a task people people deemed hard. Ophelia Greengrass, however, finds it to be even harder as she has to get over her first love whilst being engaged to his little brother.
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❝we may be in a love...
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after their valentines date, ophelia had dragged regulus up to the astronomy tower. she had wanted to tell him for a long time now, and now she has.
ophelia had told regulus about that night. about her birthday and the events that followed.
tears were threatening to spill out of her eyes as she neared the end of the story. "i fought so hard to live but... this is not living. i can't explain it but this isn't living, art, it's just existing," she paused before muttering, "i wish i just died that day."
and if it weren't for the fact that it was midnight and they were in the highest tower in the school grounds, regulus wouldn't have heard that. but he did. and he felt his heart shatter into two.
"don't— don't say that, pan," regulus didn't want to imagine a world without her. he couldn't even fathom the idea.
"oh, but it's true," ophelia said as rubbed her face with her hands. "so many others have died when i have lived," she said, staring up at the night sky because she couldn't bare the look on regulus' face. "what is the point of me living?"
the tears that were threatening ophelia had come through as the salty substance ran down her face. a hiccup came from her and regulus wrapped his arms around her, muttering "hey, hey, im here," again and again. because he was there. he would always be there for ophelia.
incoherent words spilled out of ophelia's mouth but regulus didn't hear nor understand them. he was glad he did. he didn't want to hear her spill nonsense about how she doesn't deserve to be alive.
but he caught one sentence, one sentence that brought him over the edge. "you'd be better off without me," she said. she spoke with such certainty, as though she believed this.
regulus gently grabbed her face, his fingers brushing against her jaw as he leaned his forehead against hers. "i am glad you're here, ophelia greengrass. i am glad that you are alive and i am sorry the nightmares are a consequence for you living. and if i could, i would lie, steal, and cheat."
ophelia didn't know if she should laugh or stare at him oddly. she chose the latter because she couldn't physically make herself do anything positive.
while their foreheads still touched, he laced their fingers together, "i would lie with you every night, i would steal your nightmares away and i will cheat death to be with you. and i will erase all your bad memories of february 29."
she tries to ignore his words, i would lie with you every night, i would steal your nightmares away and i will cheat death to be with you because she couldn't hope. hope was the most dangerous thing on the planet. yet the feeling rested quietly in the pit of her stomach as flash of their future together distract her. "how?"
now, a smile etched on his face, regulus kissed her. he kissed her with such need and passion that ophelia took a second to kiss back, with as much need and passion.
"by making new ones with you."
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this is so short IM SORRY my mind is so blank rn but i just wanted this scene out in the open already :(
i also made a kaz brekker + freddy carter fic so please check that out if youre a fan!! <3
