[HP] Once Upon a Time in England

The long winter is coming.

She really likes the cold wind that emerges in early winter. Although it is cold, it carries a real cool air. In her opinion, this means freedom. After all, she has never had the opportunity to experience being frozen in a house with a warm fire in the past. a feeling of.As for playing with snow, that was earlier.

Sirius' thoughts fluctuated.

After putting Harry to sleep, he found that she was neither in Ada's room nor in the living room, nor was there anyone in her bedroom.He looked around and finally found her in the attic.She was leaning against the window, wearing a bathrobe, using a comb to slowly comb her wet hair.

When we first met, she was pale, unwell, and slightly sick, which may be the result of long-term high tension.Now she seems to have improved a lot, slowly revealing her original appearance.It made him realize uncontrollably that she was just as beautiful as she was seven years ago, if not more so.

"What are you looking at?" She turned her head suddenly, just in time to catch his slightly lost gaze.

"You found me?" Sirius was deeply embarrassed.

"I heard you when you went upstairs." She tilted her head to appreciate his embarrassment.

"It's cold." He said pretentiously, "Be careful of catching a cold."

"You're so annoying." She dragged the end of her voice, making people think for no reason.

You didn't drink alcohol or take a love potion today.Sirius warned himself.Don't do the same thing as last time.

"I'm a little nervous." She put the comb on the cabinet and walked up to him.

The person in charge of delivering the letter to Rozier replied to them and agreed to use the double-sided mirror to negotiate with Rozier tomorrow.Edgar said that this conversation would only happen between her and Rozier, and they were just in charge of prompting and recording.

"It's okay. If she is easily irritated, she won't be Rozier." He comforted him, but he wondered if she would feel cold if she wore so little.

As if knowing what he was thinking, she moved a little closer.Silence makes people more dizzy.He had a gut feeling that she wouldn't mind being intimate with him.

"You should go to Regulus."

He suddenly dismissed the distracted thoughts just now, and originally wanted to refuse directly, but couldn't help asking why.

Why did she and Parkinson mention Regulus?More than once?

"Edmund also told you about Regulus? That's right, they all thought he was a victim of the Death Eaters' infighting. But I have a different opinion." She closed her eyes and recalled the past, "From Austria He was a walking dead the moment Livia disappeared. People said it was a disgrace for him to end up like this for a woman, and I believed it until I saw him at Rozier's party. to him..."

-1980-

She didn't want to come to this banquet, Rozier forced her to come.

She gritted her teeth with hatred, but had to obey her orders.

At the banquet, singing and dancing made peace, and Cornelia was proud of herself.After defeating Bostrode, only Bellatrix was left in front of her, and Rozier's group naturally rejoiced.

It has nothing to do with her.She found a place to sit down, intending to stay like this until the end of the banquet.The mask on her face made her uncomfortable and further reminded her that she was Morgara now...she hated the name Cornelia had given her.

"Do you like this dance?" Regulus appeared at this moment.

She had already learned about Olivia's bad news from Cornelia, and also knew about Regulus' distraught.

"You know me?"

"Rozier told me you were here," his eyes were empty, "Hyase."

She guessed Rozier's intention: "What does she want you to tell me?"

"It's nothing more than the ones you're tired of listening to." Regulus was more haggard than her, and he looked at the crowd spinning on the dance floor. "This is Olivia's favorite song."

She was speechless.

"We have the same goal by different routes." He said without thinking, "I chose to obey him and choose to defect, but in the end, no one got what they wanted. The grand vision and beautiful scenery they described to me before are just flowers in the mirror, moon in the water, all It's easy to break up, and it can't stand scrutiny. But I believed their nonsense, one after another, and all I got was losing everything."

"He will forget me, and he will continue his life." She was grateful that the mask covered her face, "I don't want to hear anything about the past, and please don't mention it."

"Isn't that what Cornelia said?" Regulus asked indifferently, "That's how she fooled me back then."

She had nothing to say, neither denial nor admission was appropriate: "She asked you to come and persuade me, and you came?"

"I came to witness the downfall of Rozier." He said unexpectedly, and Regulus ignored the prosperous scene in front of him, "Black, Bird, Lestrange...everyone has There's been Rozier's majesty today, each one terminated by the other."

"Do you believe in fatalism?"

"I have to believe it." After a while, Regulus spoke again, "If you don't want to become Rozier's tool or toy, you have to wait patiently for the chance to escape. It will take you a long time to gain her trust, Convince her that you have given in...she is as cruel as the Dark Lord, so you only have one chance."

"Aren't you afraid I'll tell Cornelia these words?"

"What else do you think I'm afraid of?"

She looked carefully at the other party's haggard face, and saw her shadow in it: "Olivia's matter... I'm sorry."

He didn't speak.

"It's better to be missing than—"

"—she's dead." Regulus interrupted her words neatly, at the same moment, his eyes were filled with transparent water, and regardless of her astonishment, he repeated to himself, "Olivia died."

-Now-

"He said she was dead?" Sirius asked with a frown, "but how do you know if he's lying to yourself? After all, I used to-" thought you were dead.

"Thank you very much," she murmured. "If you'd seen him, you'd understand. Anyway, I think he's telling the truth."

"Did you see him again afterward?"

"Yes, I haven't spoken again." The ambiguous atmosphere just now had disappeared due to the content of their conversation. She took a step back and yawned lazily, "It's too late. I have to go to bed."

It was nothing short of a prank — after throwing him a conundrum he was destined to spend the night thinking about, the perpetrator finished telling the story and walked away.

"Good night," he said dryly.

When passing by his side, she suddenly stood on tiptoe and quickly kissed his lips: "Good night."

The scent of shampoo floated in the air, and Sirius touched his lips dumbfounded, feeling that he was being taken advantage of.

The author has something to say:

Paste bios of new characters in this chapter.The characters that have appeared will be gradually completed in their debut chapters.The biography mainly introduces their experiences before the story begins (that is, the settings that will not be written or detailed in the main text), without spoilers, you can read with confidence:

Olivia Burst: Disappeared when she was 18.The character is weak and easily controlled.She is the younger sister of Death Eater Signus Burstrod, the lover of Regulus Black, and also has a close relationship with Cornelia Rozier.A former friend of Hyacinth White, the two were estranged at the age of 15 over a disagreement over ancestry.