Saving Brothers

Chapter 5: Regulus Black

By the end of the week Hermione had enough of everyone asking if they should hold a bin in her face. It was funny sometimes, like when Sirius asked her whether she could play seeker for Quidditch and puke in his brother's face. Hermione and Ginny were having a lot of fun. In the evenings Hermione would study with Remus and Lily while Ginny, Sirius and James would mess about or sometimes play quidditch. Peter, the unknown Marauder would go to the Slytherin common room. But tonight Ginny had strayed away from the rambunctious teenagers and headed to a willow tree by the lake. She sat there, basking in the lowering sunset when a quiet voice was heard above her,

"For someone as loud as Sirius, you're awfully quiet."

Ginny looked up to see Regulus Black sitting in the branch above her.

"What the hell are you doing?" She asked him, curious about why he was sitting in a tree looking at the sunset.

"Until you came here, enjoying the silence and reading." He drawled picking up a book on transfiguration.

Ginny rolled her eyes, brushing her now familiar brown hair from her face

"Yeah, if you're quiet I'll be quiet."

Ginny watched the sky turn into a wonderful burnt orange. The sunset was one of her favourite thing about Hogwarts. You could see a beautiful when it goes down over the lake. Ginny thought that was the only insinuate thing now a days since the war.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Regulus said suddenly.

"Yeah, reminds me of my br-friends from home." Ginny said sadly, remembering all of her family and loved one at home.

She hadn't even bothered to think about her family. She wondered how George was mostly. He had sunk into severe depression and had destroyed every mirror in the house. He could not look at himself since Fred died. Tears sprung in her eyes and she gently began to shred grass absentmindedly.

"What's wrong?" A voice asked next to her.

"Merlin, you scared me then." Ginny scolded when she saw the face that looked like Sirius's but different, looking at her curiously.

"Nothing thinking about...things." Ginny replied sadly thinking about how in about 20 years' time her brother's body would lie in the great hall.

"Hey, it's ok. At least your parents don't pressure you." Regulus told her, clenching his fists until his knuckles were white.

"My parents are dead; my friends from home are dead. My friend George is slowly dying because his twin brother died and I haven't even bothered to mourn for them because I moved here so suddenly." Ginny rambled, not realising she was starting to cry slightly.

Regulus moved to hug her but was stopped by the approaching calls seemingly coming from his brother and his friends. Silently he climbed up the tree and Ginny rubbed her face and stood up.

"Coming!" She yelled back, casting one lingering at the tree where Regulus had disappeared. He really was different than Sirius had made him out to be. She left cheered up slightly.

Regulus marched through the dungeons thinking about his encounter with Reeves. She was nice, pretty and in lots of forms mysterious. He wished his damn bastard of a brother didn't call her away.

"Black, how nice of you to join us." Nott drawled.

Everyone was in a circle it was Lucius, Theo Nott, Bellatrix, Barty Crouch Jr, Snape and the rest.

"Now that we have arrived, it has come to our attention that the two new students are purebloods, therefore qualifying them for our...club." Bellatrix smirked.

"I doubt their join cousin." Regulus interceded. "They are both friends with my half-wit brother and the freaks he hangs around with."

"Well then that's our mission. Reggie you'll try befriending Ginny and I'll deal with the other." Lucius smirked.