[HP] Once Upon a Time in England

While people were busy arranging the wounded and repairing the destroyed things, Regulus found Dumbledore and made him a not-so-unexpected request.

In his hand is the fabled Resurrection Stone, which bears a deep incision from when Dumbledore destroyed the Horcrux with the Sword of Gryffindor.Regulus walked into an empty classroom, closed the door, and spun the cold stone three times in his palm.

When he opened his eyes tremblingly, he saw Olivia whom he had not seen for a long time.She is more real than a ghost, more empty than a living person.

"Ollie..."

"Regulus." She said that with a faint smile on her face, "It's good that you're still alive." She walked up to him slowly and looked up at him, "You've changed."

Only the dead can escape the claws of time, and the years are frozen by the passing of life.Olivia was exactly the same as he remembered, and Regulus suddenly felt old—even though less than ten years had passed, he felt that they had been separated for a lifetime.

He has thousands of words to say, but when he opens his mouth, he doesn't know where to bring them up.After hesitating and hesitating, he finally asked, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt, it will be soon." She thought for a while and added, "It's a little cold, but I think it's acceptable."

He should be the one who was buried under the lake.Regulus stared fixedly at Olivia.Sirius was right in ruthlessly ignoring the pain Olivia might face when he decided to die.Now, however, he will never have the chance to know what the other story should be like.

During the long silence, Olivia seemed to understand the churning thoughts and emotions in his heart. She deepened her smile and moved closer: "I don't regret my decision."

"I've always missed you."

"Regulus," she smiled helplessly, like when she found out that he was secretly studying black magic again, "you still have a long way to go."

"Are you going?"

"It's not that I'm leaving." She corrected, "It's you."

They stared at each other.Across life and death, yin and yang, and uncontrollable time.

"Signus is dead," he said. "I used him...sorry."

"It's okay, that's a debt he should pay." Olivia thought thoughtfully, "Will you take care of Millicent?"

"I will. I promised him."

"That's good." She stretched her eyebrows, "Actually, I miss you very much, too."

……

"When I got this ring, I was bewitched by it." Dumbledore's eyes were a little dazed, "I thought... I thought I could see...some people."

"It was just an illusion." Regulus calmly returned the Resurrection Stone to Dumbledore, "Although it is very beautiful."

"Congratulations, you have resisted the temptation of the resurrection stone." Dumbledore came back to his senses and smiled slightly, "Can you do me a favor?"

Regulus nodded.

"Throw it into the Black Lake." Dumbledore looked at the small black stone.Regulus was a little surprised at first, but immediately understood:

"That's right, there's no need to let the legend of the Deathly Hallows harm more people."

But when he turned to leave, he couldn't help but stop: "Is there anyone you want to see?"

"Yes." I don't know if he read it wrong, there seemed to be hazy tears in Dumbledore's blue eyes, "But you are right, Regulus, no matter how beautiful the illusion is, it is just an illusion, why bother? "

It hurts.

Hyacinth fell into a long sleep.Now she was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling unfocused.When her bones fully healed, the first thing she would do was to beat Regulus up.

She heard someone chattering outside the door.Hyacins recognized Marlene's voice.So it's not a bad thing, is it?While she didn't catch or knock out a single Death Eater, she managed to make Marlene owe her a favor.To be honest, there is nothing in this world that makes people laugh more than having a fake love rival owe one's life to oneself.

Thinking of this, Hyacinth couldn't help curling the corners of her mouth.Although she had to suffer the severe pain of regrowing a bone due to Regulus' accidental injury, the battle obviously had a very good result—from Marlene's tone, she knew that things must be going well.

Wait - where's Sirius?Why didn't he wait for her to wake up by her hospital bed?

Merlin on!

Hyacinth sat up abruptly, and at the same time, the door opened, and Regulus and Marlene walked in one after the other.As soon as he saw her, he took a step back nervously: "Speak up if you have something to say, don't do it!"

"Where's Sirius?" she asked aloud.

"Hush!" Regulus held up a finger, "Don't be so excited. He's fine, nothing happened."

"Where is he?" she repeated impatiently.

Regulus smiled slightly, and then dodged to the side: three small figures jumped into the door.Wesson and Harry rushed forward eagerly, but Ida was faster than them.She had already climbed onto her hospital bed with all her hands and feet, and hugged her neck tightly: "Oh, mom..."

"It's okay, it's okay." Hyacinth caressed her hair carelessly, and her eyes fell on the face of the person who walked to her hospital bed.

"Sigh." Sirius sighed heavily, with a look of helplessness, "Hyase, you missed all the exciting content."

She raised her eyebrows, already guessing the result: "Voldemort is done?"

"Dead." Sirius gave her a somewhat unexpected answer. Hyacinth had thought that Dumbledore would choose to let Voldemort spend the rest of his life in Azkaban. Sirius seemed to see through her doubts, "Originally He was supposed to go to Azkaban...but he tried to threaten Dumbledore with those Hogwarts students who volunteered to stay and fight but were unfortunately captured by the Death Eaters, so—”

"Where are the Horcruxes?" she asked impatiently, "Have all the Horcruxes been destroyed?"

"It was destroyed long before the war officially kicked off, so I said you missed all the exciting content." Sirius looked at Regulus and Marlene aside, "Dumbledore destroyed the ring; Ruth destroyed the locket; the gold cup was destroyed by Moody; Alice fixed the diadem; Remus punctured the diary... Now, the Ministry of Magic is busy putting Voldemort's minions in Azka class, including my dear cousin Bellatrix."

"That little Barty..."

He shook his head heavily: "It's been silenced a long time ago."

"The Dark Lord didn't take my suggestion." Regulus added with a worried expression, "We didn't know that Frank had secretly executed Barty Jr. until Frank and the others went to Castle Black. Judging from the clues, the Dark Lord has already doubted my position."

Secret execution... Hyacinth thought of Cornelia who was immortal in Azkaban, and wondered if little Barty was luckier than her.

"And what else?" she asked, "what else?"

"Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets." Regulus replied instead, this is a secret that Sirius and Hyacinth have known for a long time, but now it has completely become history, "Dumbledore sealed it completely gone."

"Great." She couldn't help showing a smile of joy, "Then... everything is over?"

"In theory." Regulus looked at the gradually clearing sky outside the window, and felt that it was time for him to put down some things.

"I finally know where Wesson learned to be obedient and obedient to others." Sirius pressed his forehead lightly against hers, and when Wesen and Harry screamed strangely, Regulus snickered, and Marlene was at a loss in embarrassment Then he whispered in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Hyacings, I love you."

She looked up.At last the last trace of shadow faded from those gray eyes, and they became the look she knew and loved so much.

The seven years that were taken away disappeared in an instant, and she knew that they had all found their true selves.

"I love you too." She softly touched his lips and murmured.