From Eden - Regulus Black (Complete)

Chapter Forty-Eight

DOUBLE UPTADE TO APOLOGISE FOR COMPLAINING LIKE A WHINY SPOILED PATHETIC PERSON ON THE LAST CHAPTER NOTES.

MIDNIGHT TOWER

Regulus' felt like his stomach was on his throat and his heart on his stomach. There was something wrong with his body, he was sure, but he couldn't find exactly what was going on with him. He felt anxious as he waited, pacing in silence, expecting Anne on the Astronomy Tower.

He knew that all that fear that she wasn't going to show up and realise that he wasn't as good as she thought him to be was the fear of abandonment he had ever since he could remember how to be someone. He knew how to call it after Sirius brought it up when they were arguing and Regulus cried with all his seven-year-old lungs that he didn't want to sleep alone in his big-boy bedroom because of the noises the house made sometimes; it started because he couldn't control how his mother felt about him and that he couldn't make his father stay at home.

Regulus knew that if he wanted to make his relationship work, he needed to trust Anne. All his anxiety needed to go away.

Anne didn't have anything to do with his mother or how she always seemed to be angry and ready to punish him. Anne had no idea how his father was never there as the support he was supposed to be. Anne had no fault in why he was so fucked up.

Anne was better than his mother. Anne was better than his father... He was better than his father. Just because their relationship was horrible, it didn't mean that theirs would be as well.

He heard a noise and stopped walking.

Footsteps approached quickly through the stairs, so he leaned against the wall, hoping the shadows could swallow him whole until he sure that it was Anne or somebody that wouldn't get him in trouble. He didn't need an owl going to his mother, telling her of his detention in the second week of school.

"Regulus?" called the familiar female voice.

The red hair under the moonlight made Regulus smile to himself as he stepped out of the shadows.

"Hi," he said. "How was your day?"

"Thursday sucks," she complained, smiling at him.

Anne threw herself on his arms without thinking twice.

Regulus hugged her close. He liked to have her in between his arms; her heat was comforting against his cold body from staying up there for so long. If he didn't know any better, he'd say that her body was made to be near his. They fit too perfectly for it not to be.

"I thought you'd come with your dad's cloak, the invisible one you mentioned," Regulus said against her shoulder, speaking in a low voice.

"Sirius and Remus are using it to go out tonight," she said. She pulled away only enough to look at him, but kept her arms around him. "We don't need the cloak though, Hufflepuff is giving out a party tonight, a whole lot of people are going."

"Whose party?"

"Amos Diggory," she answered. "Pretty boy has been following Lily all the time and trying to ask her out, but she said no three times already. She thinks he'll move on to try to get me to go out with him. Can you believe she said she thinks we look alike?"

Regulus chuckled.

"I would never have thought that," he joked.

"Oh? Don't we look alike?" she asked, laughing.

"No, not at all!" he said.

Anne laughed, throwing her head back, her weight being supported by his arms. Her neck was completely visible to him and he could see the hair there standing up with the cold breeze from being on top of the tower.