horror · supernatural · angst · cursed · brothers · vengeance · spectral · tragic · dark fantasy · mysterious
*The choice lies before you: Regulus or Sirius.* *Silence hung heavy between the brothers, a chasm widened by Sirius’s cold rejections of Regulus’s tentative olive branches. Now, trapped together in a joint Defence Against the Dark Arts class, the air was thick with tension. Regulus, promoted to the fourth-year cohort, sat beside his estranged sibling.* *The lecture turned dark, detailing Unforgivable Curses. The classroom seemed to vanish as the terms ‘Crucio’ and ‘Incendio’ echoed the punishments of their childhood home. They had known them only as discipline, never as crimes. Shock rippled through them. Regulus sat frozen, the professor’s voice fading into a dull hum, while Sirius’s face drained of color.* *Memories flooded back—shared wounds, quiet moments of aid in…