just lovers (like we were supposed to be)
bizarrestars
Summary:
Regulus closes his eyes and shakes his head again, looking pained, then he opens them and sighs. "And your solution to this is me? Pretending to be my boyfriend?"
"Yeah. It's actually bloody brilliant, if you think about it. Everyone will leave happy. I'm going to fake date my way into falling in love," James announces grandly, sticking his hand out and waving it through the air like he's presenting a banner.
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Or, the one in which James Potter wants to prove he'd be a good boyfriend to Lily Evans and comes up with the brilliant plan to fake date Regulus Black his way into falling in love. It doesn't quite go as anyone expects.
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Summary
In 1979, Regulus Black doesn't die in that cave. In 1981, Sirius Black is placed in Azkaban. In 1982, Regulus Black returns home.
In all the years following, their lives—and the lives of those connected to them—will never be the same.
stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires — macbeth
- Part 1 of Asterism
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 962,209
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
"I just mean, doing the right thing because it's right is better than doing it because…"
"What?" Draco challenges, amused. "Better to do it because it's right as opposed to doing it because it's not wrong? Please enlighten me on what the difference is."
"You're the difference," is Harry's answer.
(Or: Draco Malfoy comes up with a plan, drinks a lot of tea, and fails to fix a clock. Somewhere along the way, Harry Potter falls in love with him, which wasn't a part of the plan at all.)
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 55,706
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Regulus Black was fifteen the first time his name was called at a reaping. He's twenty-five when it happens to him again. A lot has changed in that time, and one of them is that he's ready to do whatever it takes to make it home. Nothing or no one will stop him, not even James Potter.
James Potter has no plans to stop Regulus Black from making it home. In fact, his plans revolve around the opposite. He has his reasons, but he's made his choice to get Regulus out of the arena, even knowing it'll be the last thing he ever does.
Sirius Black was sixteen when he volunteered to take his little brother's place in the arena. At twenty-six, without the option to do it again, he has no choice but to be a mentor to his brother and best friend, knowing that only one of them can make it back out.
Two names called, a mentor on the verge of falling apart, and more secrets and grief between all of them than they know how to handle. None of them are prepared for what comes next, or how far they'll go to make it through.
- Part 2 of Crimson Rivers Universe
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 929,719
- Status:
- Completed