La Nuit
Thankfully the walk up to Headmaster Dumbledore’s office is fairly peaceful, no brothers trying to talk to him, no heirs trying to bother him with drabble, and no friends asking him if he’s alright.
Regulus should have known something was going to ruin his peace.
He walks into the headmasters office not knowing what to expect, however it certainly wasn’t this.
“Grandfather. Is something the matter?” Regulus asked thoroughly put out from this interaction.
“We heard. About your… incident in the great hall.” Narcissa replies despite not being the one spoken to.
“And what of it?” Regulus retorts, truly not seeing the point of the visit.
“Well-” His cousin tries to say before getting cut off by their grandfather, “I believe you need to learn how to control, so to speak, your new magic.” Arcturus remarks.
“And you think I can't do that by myself?” Regulus questioned. “I'm no longer a child grandfather, I can handle myself, this new magic included.”
“Yes, I know that Regulus, it's just that the family magiks are different, even I had needed assistance in handling them when I first came into the power.” Arcturus recalls, remembering the many times he had lost consciousness in the beginning of his lordship
“Then it is a good thing that I am not you, you should remember that despite the fact that you are my namesake does not mean that I will suffer the same fate as you” Regulus idly wonders why they are even bothering him with something so… trivial.
“Reg, perhaps you should consider that maybe even you can't handle something like this alone.” Narcissa interjects.
“And why are you here? You've never exactly been Lady Black yourself.” Regulus asks.
“She has not, however she has gone through something… similar to what you are going through now and I think that you would be more comfortable with her assistance rather than mine seeing as you are closer in age.” Arcturus tries entirely unaware that Regulus has already made up his mind. He would prove to everyone he could handle his new position without any assistance, even if it killed him.
“Thank you, but no thank you, as I said I can handle myself.” With that Regulus left, uncaring of the mess he left behind.
-
The moment Regulus steps out of the headmasters office he starts thinking of ways to get this situation under control. After all, he can’t have everyone believing he can’t handle the position, the position that was given to him by their ancestors and magic herself, no he can’t have that at all.
The first thing Regulus does is write a letter, a part of him is worried it might be a mistake but a bigger part helps him realise that if he doesn’t do it no one else will.