I've returned from the past

Chapter 3

Orion Black sat in the Malfoy manor dining hall and watched the other Death Eaters. Bickering back and forth and Abraxas seemed fairly annoyed by his son.

Lucius was pissed off with Barty- which was fair he supposes.

Orions wife had died more than a few years ago due to a sickness and was a bachelor.

He never mentioned to anyone that he'd killed off Walburga- sick of her incessant screeching and manipulations that had once threatened to tear down the family. Now they were stronger for it.

"The Lord will not see anyone!" Barty shouts at Lucius and Orion had grown bored of those chattering animals and held up his hand for silence. They became as silent as stones and he gave Barty a warning look, so the man sat, fuming and looking like he'd stake Lucius through the chest.

"Be that as that may Barty, Reinhard has interesting news." He looks at his old friend and the man looks at him with a tight nod.

They were all as thick as thieves around here. But it was missing- hah. It. No, his brother was missing.

No, Cygnus wasn't missing. In fact he was quite probably writhing in the grave at the irony that he was dead and Orion still thriving.

Sirius and Regulus stood silently behind him, learning. Arcturus was still alive and thriving- though had retired to an Estate with his mother and happily given him the position of family head.

He's certain Sirius would much rather be elsewhere than here but Regulus was rapt in his attention- as he always had been.

The two brothers were vastly different- and he'd be damned if Walburga had tried to seperate his only sons.

But not only that- he killed her because that was exactly what she had tried to do.

And what had Hadrian told him in the past?

'Orion, blood is more important than marriage.'

'And that is information for me?'

'Yes, for you alone.'

He'd figured it out when he'd begun paying attention to Walburga- how she hated Sirius for being sorted into Gryffindor. For being gay and so forth.

Something within him knew that somehow- somehow Hadrian had known about Sirius and Regulus. Like he'd already met them.

'One will be troublesome I'm certain. The other will stay true to his heart and beliefs. Even if it makes him a traitor.'

He'd pondered those words. Sirius was the troublesome one most certainly- but Regulus? A traitor? He'd given the boy veritaserum and the boy hadn't lied about not being a traitor. Though when asked if he'd betray their cause for their family if he believed it was right- well Regulus would have done that.

Though his son had been hurt by that he worried not about it.

"Yes. I was at... the grave a few nights ago," Reinhard pauses for a second- to figure out how to say it. They'd never spoken about it. Not here.

Even the others didn't know how Hadrian had died.

It seemed cruel to him to not tell them- share his stories. But it had pained them too much.

"Albus Dumbledore was there." Orion personally felt neutral to the man. For his cause- how he'd changed it and his approach a while back. He didn't directly go against them either... for now. "And we talked and he caught gaze of something so I looked across the road." Reinhard got a far-off look. "Are we certain that your brother never had a son?" He blinks in surprise. "He was too young to be his direct son- but a grandson perhaps? Hadrian James Potter lives- and if he didn't look like a spitting image of him I would say we kill him immediately."