[HP] Raven

Episode 02

Severus yawned and blinked sleepily after hearing the two tales of elves, and Regulus put the teddy bear next to his pillow.

"Good night, Cypher."

The boy has closed his eyes in a daze. "Good night, Dad."

Regulus wandered around the empty mansion, passing a portrait of an ancestor of the Everly family. In the portrait, a wizard with a white beard was awakened by his footsteps, and glared coldly at him with blue eyes. With a glance, he wrapped himself tightly in the wizard robe with the fur collar turned up.Regulus picked up a book on the low table and casually flipped through a chapter, about the uses of dragon's blood, there was a note written by Alex on it.

The clock in the corridor on the first floor struck eleven, he put down his book, went upstairs to check on Severs, who had already fallen asleep, and helped him pick up the teddy bear that fell under the bed and put it next to the pillow, and then he Going back to the bedroom door, he opened the door lightly.

The door was unlocked.In the silent darkness, he found the bed familiarly, opened the hanging curtain, and lay down with the smallest amount of movement.

The other half of the bed moved.

"How did you get in?"

"You lost the wrong pillow," Regulus tugged at the feather pillow under Alexa's head, "this one is mine."

"I don't care." Alex didn't look back.

Regulus moved a little over there. "You can't do this, drive me out of the bedroom as soon as you get angry."

Alex still didn't turn her head back and wrapped herself in a quilt. "That's a Swedish Brachysaurus."

"I promise it will never happen again."

Alex didn't speak, she was lying on her side in silence, she felt Regulus leaning his head, and his fingers slid across her neck, she didn't stop him, after a while, he began to ask for Focus on kissing.The ice cubes under the scorching sun melted little by little.She wasn't going to reject him, but she wasn't going to just let him go, her perception began to soften, and layers of vines blocked her way.

In the dark night, the rock-like snake burrowed into the soil after the rain, and there were freesias stained with honey in the hymn that led the way.The sea water slapped the reef violently, rushing towards the dam with the inaudible sound of air currents.The restless waves directly captured the castle under the sea one after another, and the desperate mermaid swam to the shore from the deep sea of ​​snorkeling, and the thin shoulders were as beautiful as a poem under the moonlight.

The mermaid in the legend abandoned the fish tail because of love and grew white legs. She half-closed her eyes and knelt on the hard rock. Falling into hell forever, her long hair is disheveled, like black cornflowers moving in the wind.

The stars fell from the night into the sea, blasting white beams of light one after another on the unfathomable bottom.

When the fog outside the window was about to clear, they leaned together to enjoy the silence of the night, Alex stroked his well-proportioned and beautiful muscles and slender frame, and smelled the same scent on him as hers, and they had used the same bath for years product.

"It's snowing." Regulus saw white flakes of snow clinging to the windows like white spots on a black wall.

"En." She leaned on his side and responded lightly.

"Did I ever say that I dreamed of you." He lowered his head and sniffed her hair with the tip of his nose.

"No," she turned sideways and hooked his neck, "what did you dream about?"

Regulus was silent for a while, recalling in a low voice. "The two of us went to the woods to play and picked wild berries. The wild berries were so tender that they were accidentally broken in our palms, and the red juice flowed all over our hands. We were all very panicked. Start licking each other's fingers."

"and then?"

"I woke up and started changing my pants in a hurry. I didn't dare to look at you for a whole week."

Alex couldn't hold back a smile. "When was this dream?"

he said lightly. "When I was 14...almost 15. That was the first time...and the first time I dreamed about you."

"Let me remind you, we've been married for almost 14 years." She leaned over and kissed his browbones and cheeks.

He said against her lips. "I just wanted to tell you suddenly."

"I know." She rested her head on the pillow.

He patted her on the back. "Sleep, dear."

"Good night, Regulus."

He kissed her forehead, buried the two of them together in the warm quilt, and closed his eyes. "Good night, Alex."

—

In the early morning of the next day, Regulus opened the door in his nightgown. Cypher was standing on the small bench in the bathroom brushing his teeth earnestly. The teddy bear was sitting on the edge of the bathtub, wearing a small lace shower cap on his head.

"Dad, shouldn't you have slept on the sofa last night?" the boy jumped off the bench and asked with his head out of the bathroom, mouth full of toothpaste.

He coughed. "Cypher, it was too cold last night."

"Yes, it's snowing outside." The boy began to gargle.

"Hey, let's have breakfast first." He stroked the boy's slightly curly black hair.

Severus blinked. "Why? Not waiting for Mom?"

"Let Alex sleep a little longer." He was going downstairs first to check if his wife's hydrangea seeds had arrived.

While eating breakfast, Severus added a spoonful of raisins and chopped almonds to his oatmeal, Regulus took a sip of black tea with milk, and turned a page of the Austrian version of the Daily Prophet.

Cypher looked up. "Good morning, Mom."

Regulus put down the newspaper. "Alex."

"Good morning to you too." Alex sat down in her nightgown, poured a cup of tea nonchalantly, added milk, and then took a piece of rye bread and some fruit.

"Mom." The boy said suddenly.

Alex picked up the teacup. "What's the matter, dear?"

"Mom, what's the matter with your neck?"

"...It's nothing, dear, I seem to have been bitten by a bug," Alex helped Regulus fill up his teacup, then turned to Severus to change the subject, "Do you want to eat some Blueberries?"

The boy shook his head and continued to eat his oatmeal with a spoon.

Regulus took a sip from his teacup to hide his embarrassment, and almost threw the cup out when his lips touched it.

"dad?"

Regulus put down the cup calmly. "It's nothing, Cypher, I'm burned."

"Oh, is that so?" Alex took a sip of tea and began to concentrate on eating the bread. "Then you are really careless, Regulus."

The boy ate his last morsel of oatmeal. "Oh... Mom, can I use the cauldron? I want to try a potion I read about. I'm going to Durmstrang next fall."

"Go, dear, you can ask me any questions, or you can ask your father," Alex said, handing Severus' bowl of oatmeal to a house elf in a lace apron and a small hat, "Thank you, Laila."

The boy went upstairs with excitement like a gust of wind.Alex watched the child leave, ate a piece of nectarine with a fork, chewed it for a while and swallowed it, watching Regulus smile calmly. "How is the taste?"

Regulus was extremely wronged. "You can't give me the pus of the babo tuber."

Alex's ears were red. "You can't bite my neck either... When Cypher grows up he-"

"Sooner or later he will understand how he was born." Regulus reached for Alex's teacup and took a sip.

Alex folded her arms with her hands. "oh."

Regulus put her teacup back. "My dear, let me remind you that you bit my neck too. I brought you tea and breakfast in bed the next day. Not the pus of Babo tuber."

"Regulus with a superb memory," Alex pouted, "Unfortunately, I can't think of a counterexample to refute you now."

He smiled triumphantly, his warm breath and the smell of tea on her face. "Kiss me now, and I'll forget the taste of babo tuber pus."

Alex bit his lip quickly before getting serious about putting it on.Regulus cupped her face, and Alex ran her fingers into his hair, along the hairline to the nape of his neck, and the kiss melted like honey between her lips.

The library is separate from the study room. The library room is the largest room on the third floor. The study room next to it was rebuilt after they returned to the manor. It turned out to be a large entertainment room, specially used to play ten pillars. Bowls, dark green wallpaper carved with slender pansies, this room once belonged to Alex's great-great-grandmother, a Polish witch, when her birthplace was still counted in Germany.Later, when the room was remodeled, no major changes were made, but the moldy ball game props inside were replaced with two huge desks facing each other, with two floor lamps that can adjust the brightness and angle, and a black leather double sofa.

They always spend a long time in the study.Scrolls of Elven language were spread on the table, and stacks of copies of documents and classics were stacked on the shelf next to it.Their writings are all written in German on a kind of gray parchment, sent by owl or vulture to the Institute of Ancient Runes in Vienna.Regulus walked up the spiral staircase to see his precious vulture on the steeple every morning, and sometimes Cypher followed if he didn't want to stay in the library and read.In the evening, Regulus and Alex would walk around the yard, check out the hydrangeas, or hold hands and go for a walk in the nearby forest. A few ravens would always perch on the eaves, occasionally fighting with each other, making hoarse calls. quarrel.

Alex's grandmother, Mrs. Hildegard Heisenberg Everly, who grew up in Bremen, Germany, is buried in the Everly family cemetery in the back hills, next to her death fifty Klaus, her husband for the rest of her life.Every year at the turn of spring and summer, Alex would take Regulus and Severus to give them fresh bouquets.Both her parents were buried in England, a country full of their happy memories. Their photos back then were placed on the wall of a small reception room on the second floor of Everly Manor. A thin and handsome man was holding his sweet smile A woman, with her hands resting on her slightly protruding abdomen, a line of slender cursive characters are engraved in English under the photo frame, "Only Love Eternal Life".

Severs waited for Durmstrang's admission letter while waiting, and at the same time sent an application form for the Goblet of Fire.Severs excitedly announced that he wanted to sign up to watch the game, which was a rare opportunity.Alex's face turned pale, and Regulus patted her on the shoulder. They exchanged a few words in a low voice, and Regulus then motioned for Severus to go upstairs with him.

They went around to the small reception room on the north side of the second floor, where Severus sat on the sofa. "Dad," he paused, aware of the uneasiness flashing across his mother's face, "can't I go?"

Regulus thought about telling Severus. "It's not that you can't go, it's just that your mother is worried about you."

"worry about what?"

"It's about dad," Regulus pondered for a moment, "Dad made a mistake back then."

The boy looked at him in surprise.

Regulus did not sit next to the boy, but squatted in front of the boy propped up on the sofa, looking at him with sincere eyes. "Your grandparents doted on me, but also instilled some incorrect ideas in me. I accepted them completely at the time, and I did very bad things based on it. I still feel guilty about it."

The boy blinked in confusion, waiting for his father to continue.

"Your mother corrected my mistakes, gave me the courage to reform and brought me back from the brink of death," Regulus pushed away the boy's hair covering his forehead, his eyes fell gently on Cypher's blue eyes said, "I appreciate her."

"Mom saved you before?"

"That's right," Regulus nodded, solemnly addressing the boy. "Your mother is amazing, Cypher. In my heart, she deserves the best."

"You're the best too, Dad," Severus paused. "Although you did something bad, you made it right."

"No, I'm not the best," Regulus shook his head. He looked at a silver framed photo on the table, with Alex in a black wedding dress holding his arm. They had been seen countless times in the photo. They looked at each other carefully and then looked at the camera together. He remembered the fascinating past and smiled softly, "But your mother is very forgiving. She forgave me and gave me a chance to work hard to be that supporting role." Someone who deserves her."

"and then?"

"We got married, did the right things together...and came home. Almost two years later, you were born. The people involved in those things never came back."

the boy asked puzzled. "But what does that have to do with Mum worrying about me going to Hogwarts?"

"Many of those who did wrong things with Dad back then have not repented. They still hold wrong ideas. Their children are at Hogwarts." Regulus said after deliberation, "Your mother is afraid of them Recognize you as our child and hurt you."

"But I want to visit Hogwarts."

"You can go and see, Hogwarts is a very good place," Regulus thought for a moment, "it's just... Dad wants you to stay with Durmstrang's people and be cautious. Is that okay? "

"I see." Cypher nodded.

Regulus stroked the boy's hair.

"Good boy," he took out a box from a drawer, in which lay a golden snitch, "do you want to play Quidditch with me later?"

—

It was night, and Alex was sitting in front of Severus' bed with a book. She was about to ask him what kind of story he wanted to hear, but was interrupted by his question.

"Mom," Severus said, his teddy bear lying next to him in his nightcap, "is it true that Daddy said you saved his life before?"

"Oh, Merlin," Alex was a little surprised, "what did he tell you?"

The boy blinked his big blue eyes. "Dad said he made mistakes before, but you forgave him and saved his life."

"It's his version, Cypher, not mine."

Severus asked eagerly. "So what's your version, Mom?"

"My version?" Alex thought for a while, her tone became extremely soft, "A man with a good nature would rather give up everything he has, and fight against the rule of the tyrant. I have always believed that there is no existence without me." , Regulus will also wake up from the mistakes of the year. Cypher, your father is very brave, he saved me, and he did not hesitate to risk his life to protect me in front of the bad guys."

"Which one of you saved whom?" the boy asked puzzled.

"All of them," Alex smiled unknowingly, immersed in the memories. After a while, she turned her head to look at the boy, "Let's get down to business, what kind of bedtime story do you want to hear?"

The boy said slightly shyly. "Mum, I can't listen to bedtime stories anymore, I'm going to Durmstrang, I'm grown up."

"Okay," Alex agreed, reaching out to pat the boy on the shoulder. "Good night, honey. Go to sleep."

"Good night, Mom." The boy hugged the teddy bear and wrapped himself in the quilt, closed his eyes, and heard his mother gently close the bedroom door.

The author has something to say: Actually, I like the line of Regulus "No, I am not the best, but your mother is very tolerant, she forgave me, and gave me a chance to work hard to be The one who is worthy of her." ← I am so touched when I write this QAQ

Severus's dog food is double today too.

Cypher: hiccup(