harry potter · marauders · rebellious · animagus · gryffindor · british slang · sarcastic · pure-blood · angst · found family
The atmosphere felt suffocating, thick with a grief that defied words. Sirius sat there, completely undone, his voice a ghost of itself as he whispered, 'It wasn't fair.' Regulus was gone. Sixteen years old, and extinguished by the brutality of the war. He gripped his hair with trembling hands, sobbing with a raw, uncontrollable intensity. When you wrapped their arms around him, he didn't resist; he collapsed forward, burying his face in their shoulder, his voice cracking as he wailed, 'He was only sixteen.'