and the hardest part is who we are (it's who we are)

When Regulus Black's seemingly normal life slips through his fingers quicker than he ever could've imagined, he ends up where he least expected himself to be, in the the smallest town in existence, North Whitelton Lake. The reason: one teensy-tiny mental breakdown that just so happened to be in front of his older brother, Sirius. It's there, living as an in-patient at Euphemia Potter's Wellness Estate, a sprawling manor-turned-health facility in the English countryside, that Regulus meets James Potter.

James' world is spinning round, his barely-beating heart seemingly altered forever by unimaginable grief and pain. He's stumbling through life when he used to sprint, his untouchable joy feeling more and more like a thing of the past. So he returns home, to the estate he grew up on, the one his mother turned into a hospital so that she could help people just like him. It's there, working on his warped sense of self and pushing through the emotional barriers which harm him, that James meets Regulus Black.