Chapter 2
Regulus woke up with a jolt. He had nightmares pretty frequently, especially after Sirius's death. But when he looked around he didn't see his bedroom at Grimmauld place and he didn't wake up on his bed. The floor felt hot, like burning hot. And the world kind of looked like a lobby in a therapist's office with a small TV on the wall and a large desk with a quick-moving line in front of it.
But to the side of the main desk, there was a smaller empty desk with a sign above that read "help desk". A girl with blond pigtails sitting behind the desk looking bord, Regulus walked up to the desk and the girl perked up immediately.
"Hi I'm Pandora. What can I help you with?"
"Uh-hi" Regulus stuttered out "Where is this? How did I get here what's hap-" he was cut off by Pandora.
"Oh, you sweet thing. This is limbo or the place between life and after-life. You got here because you died or for some other reason left the mortal world. Now, just tell me your name and we can get all of this sorted out and get you where you're going."
That made absolutely no sense whatsoever. But with a lack of options…
"Regulus, my name is Regulus Black."
Regulus heard some buttons clicking on her keyboard than she said.
"Okay, regulus black…" she pauses "Umm we don't have a file for you."
"What do you mean I dont have a file?"
"Everyone that is or has been alive has a file here and yours isn't here. I typed your name and nothing showed up. Just give me a second, let me go grab my boss, i'm so sorry."
And then he waited at the desk awkwardly as she brought another girl over to fix whatever apparently happened that stopped his file to show up.
They talked for a long time out of earshot from regulus but then pandora came back to the desk.
"So it turns out we have no idea what happened and this has never happened before, so you can decide what you want to do." After that she started mumbling "Or I guess you could just go to a void but those are really boring. we can also make you a pocket dimention to do whatever you want…"
"So" he interrupted her "What do I do, i'm not dead, I was alive earlier today, I went to Sirius's funeral today. What the fuck is even happining? can you guys just sort this out so I can go home soon."
A couple heads turned to look at him after the outburst regulus was just standing, trying to hold back from crying because he would rather have to deal with his parents than have to process what's going on.
When he looked over at the people staring he saw a familiar face looking back at him.
It was Sirius.