[daggers - part two]
[3rd] regulus
"The water you sent the girl. It was poisonous?"
The snake-like red eyes of his master gleamed evily. "No. It was a substance muggles use, a highly concentrated, highly corrosive acid. I simply used her own status against her."
He stood at the door of his childhood home that had sealed itself against him. He put his hand gently against the wall that separated No. 11 and 13. "I know you're there," he said, "I come in peace. I need to talk to Lily."
The effect was immediate. Almost instantly a mass of Order members surrounded him. Sirius stepped out, and he met his brother's gaze, stern and angry, but then faltered at the body in his hands. "What- what did you do to her?" He seemed so genuinely concerned about her, as he directed the question at his brother.
Regulus could only glance at her small peaceful smile that she wore as she had drifted off into eternal sleep in guilt, his legs buckling as he fell on his knees. "I- I-"
"What's happening?" Lily stepped out, then abruptly stopped, staring at her best friend's body, at him. "No," she whispered. "Please, not her..."
"I'm sorry," he could only murmur, as Lily looked up and stepped aside, ordering everyone to let him in.
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He felt deja vü as Lily poured him tea in his childhood kitchen, extraordinarily similar to how she had made him tea back in the Hogwarts kitchen. He felt numb, his brain not registering reality.
She was dead.
Gone.
And no matter how much he convinced himself it just didn't feel real, that she couldn't have left him alone in this cold, uncaring world.
But it was only when he recounted the story to Lily that it clicked in his mind and he fell into tears, shaking violently, and those tears glistening in the light. He sorely wished he had chosen the Order when he could, that he had escaped when he could. And now she was dead- by his hand.
And even as Lily pressed her hand on his and consoled him and told him it was not his fault,
He only wished that
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(Only the epilogue left. Thank you to every one of you who read this far and stuck with me till the end.)
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Daggers | r.a.b
Fanfiction'Is a knife evil? only if the welder is evil.' -unknown . . . . . . THEY NEVER REALIZED JUST H O W M U C H HARM THE D A G G E R O F L O V E WOULD B R I N G. . . . . . SHE LOVED HIM ...
