Title: The Way the Young Decay
Author:
dusty_gunPairing: Sirius, Regulus
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5, 800ish
Prompt: 192. Brothers on a Hotel Bed, Death Cab for Cutie
Warnings: character death-canon compliant
Summary: The brotherhood of the Blacks
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The Way the Young Decay )
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More importantly, BOTH Regulus and Sirius were exceedingly sympathetic and that is altogether too rare in fan fic.
I loved Regulus' slow realization as to the crux of the problem: Regulus doesn’t know how to respond. He’s never noticed Sirius so genuinely upset by his mother before. Until now, he’s been under the impression that she doesn’t faze Sirius, that he’s able to just shake it off.
But the way his brother is trembling now, wringing his own hands, he sees that he’s been wrong; Sirius is only good at hiding his hurt.
That felt so very real and, as the story went on, took on a whole new light. He clearly still loves his brother and is somehow puzzled by the whole division thing. (Hell, even the Mary McDonald incident shows his strange innocence.) That worked very well.
And Sirius, poor passionate, deeply feeling Sirius: He’d never admit to his desperation, his devastation, then and there. How much he was hanging onto, relying on, ( ... )
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