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fic rec: there's no smoke without reason
Feb. 22nd, 2018 04:13 pmthere's no smoke without reason (it's a sign there's something wrong) by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
tonberrys
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Regulus, Bellatrix, Narcissa, Evan, Wilkes, Barty Jr., Voldemort
Rating: Teen
Words: 9808
Author's summary: Responsibility to family, restoration of family - the wounds of Sirius's departure fester in his wake, and Regulus takes a dark plunge into the Death Eaters to settle the storm.
Author's notes: Title is from "Things We Lost in the Fire" by Janet Devlin. For those who are interested in our nerdy headcanon about the specifics of the Trace (as interpreted by us/in the Renascentia-verse), I tossed up a brief meta on my tumblr, but the important bits are referenced in the narrative, so as always, it's not essential.
Author's warnings: [author selected No Archive Warnings Apply, I guess because the depiction of violence is not that graphic and the deaths are not major characters, which are two possible archive warnings, but there is murder by means of fire]
Additional tags: Welcome to the Baby Death Eater Murder Club, Murder, Coercion, Fantastic Racism, Underage Murder, Dark Mark, self-delusion, Pureblood Society, Magical Artifacts, POV Third Person, POV Regulus Black, First War with Voldemort, Marauders' Era, Emotional Manipulation, Bellatrix is a Terrible Cousin
Quote:
There was no room to falter (no room to breathe). Responsibility curled around him like some constricting serpent, squeezing tighter with each breath. People like his mother, people like Bellatrix - they were the sort of people who could just become the serpent, could sink fangs into their problems and rip them to shreds. Regulus had never been particularly good at ripping his problems to shreds, but with every passing day, he had less and less choice.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Regulus, Bellatrix, Narcissa, Evan, Wilkes, Barty Jr., Voldemort
Rating: Teen
Words: 9808
Author's summary: Responsibility to family, restoration of family - the wounds of Sirius's departure fester in his wake, and Regulus takes a dark plunge into the Death Eaters to settle the storm.
Author's notes: Title is from "Things We Lost in the Fire" by Janet Devlin. For those who are interested in our nerdy headcanon about the specifics of the Trace (as interpreted by us/in the Renascentia-verse), I tossed up a brief meta on my tumblr, but the important bits are referenced in the narrative, so as always, it's not essential.
Author's warnings: [author selected No Archive Warnings Apply, I guess because the depiction of violence is not that graphic and the deaths are not major characters, which are two possible archive warnings, but there is murder by means of fire]
Additional tags: Welcome to the Baby Death Eater Murder Club, Murder, Coercion, Fantastic Racism, Underage Murder, Dark Mark, self-delusion, Pureblood Society, Magical Artifacts, POV Third Person, POV Regulus Black, First War with Voldemort, Marauders' Era, Emotional Manipulation, Bellatrix is a Terrible Cousin
Quote:
There was no room to falter (no room to breathe). Responsibility curled around him like some constricting serpent, squeezing tighter with each breath. People like his mother, people like Bellatrix - they were the sort of people who could just become the serpent, could sink fangs into their problems and rip them to shreds. Regulus had never been particularly good at ripping his problems to shreds, but with every passing day, he had less and less choice.