For the rest of Forever

*Time skip 2 years to the summer after Regulus graduates Hogwarts brought to you by Dumblewhore tap-dancing*

He had done it!

He had done it and not murdered anyone!

Those were the thoughts running through Regulus’ head when he received his NEWT results, all 8 of the NEWTs he took were Os. He was proud of himself as he had worked really hard for his NEWTs, and considering an average student takes two to three NEWTs he thinks he did pretty well. He was feeling smug if he said so himself. He remembers last year when Sirius graduated he had gotten three NEWTs and none of them were Os, Pettigrew had told him that information when he was trying to make Regulus like him.

But that wasn’t the only reason he was happy today.

The second reason being, he didn’t have to see his parents anymore and he will be moving in with Tom. They had made things official and started officially courting when Regulus came to stay with him during the summer break after his 6th year. Walburga had gotten even more abusive than usual because they had heard from Bellatrix that he had found his soulmate and that said soulmate is a male. Walburga, having put so much effort into making him believe that his soulmate was dead, was enraged the moment she learned this. (She is an evil homophobic bitch 🙂) Regulus ended up escaping to Marvolo three weeks into the summer and staying there permanently for the rest of that summer.

The only people with the name Black that he still talked to were his cousin Narcissa, his grandfather Arcturus and through letters his father as Sirius and Andromeda cut all contact when they ran away, besides them Regulus refused to acknowledge Bellatrix and his mother well…

When Regulus showed up unannounced with four open wounds, a black eye and shaking from the after effects of the cruciatus curse, Tom wasn’t happy. Luckily Regulus had appareated straight to Marvolo’s bed chamber as he was having a meeting at the moment when he arrived and it wouldn’t have looked good if he had arrived in the state he was in. When Tom reached the room around five minutes later, he stopped the meeting the minute he felt Regulus entering the wards, he was shocked at the state of his soulmate.

He quickly started healing Regulus to the best of his abilities, which meant Regulus was soon perfectly healthy. After pestering an exhausted Regulus and learning how he had gotten those injuries Marvolo was pissed and stormed out of the room as soon as Regulus had fallen asleep.

Next morning when the two were enjoying breakfast in their private dining room, an owl flew in delivering the ‘Daily Prophet’ and dropped it in front of Regulus. Looking down he saw the front page, the cutlery dropped from his hands from how fast he grabbed the paper.
‘Lady Walburga Black of the house Black, was found early in the morning tortured to insanity at a muggle club’

Regulus looked up at Tom with wide eyes and knew, right then and there, that he had his soulmate to thank for this.

So Regulus stood up and walked calmly to his soulmate, trying to reign in his emotions. Having reached Tom, he pulled him to a standing position and said “Merci, je t'aime, mon amour”. Tom was shocked speechless from that as nobody had ever said that to him. The times he had said it to Regulus, was said in parseltongue. So he responded “Anything for you, my little King. Te amo”. And if Tom wasn’t shocked already, he went into an even deeper shock when Regulus abruptly kissed him.

It was their first proper kiss. It took Marvolo a second to kiss back but he soon returned it just as enthusiastically as he received it. Everyone, who said that kissing their soulmate was anything less than magical, was lying. It felt like sparks were flying, literally, their magic was creating sparks of black, silver, green and red around them.

When they pulled away both panting for air and looking into each other’s eyes, they knew, this was their forever and they would get rid of anyone who tries to take it from them.

The third reason for Regulus' happiness was that he could now live with Tom permanently. No more avoiding his father, no more spending months apart, no more creepy Dumbledore staring at him every chance he gets and most importantly no more Potter who has been stalking him for the past year and a half. He now had the freedom to do whatever he wished, be it travelling, studying further, career making ect.

Career wise Regulus had decided to become a researcher and a politician on the side. The politician thing came naturally to him as he had grown up surrounded by it, and it was kind of mandatory as a member of the sacred 28. However as he didn’t want to do it full-time, he had to find something else to occupy his now very empty schedule. That’s when being a researcher came to him, he had realised that he liked learning about new magics and inventing new spells, so he decided to make a career out of it.

Now, here he was at his, now, home with his soulmate reading a book while laying his head on his lap and thinking about his life. Regulus thinks he hasn’t felt this safe, content and happy with his life since… actually, now that he thinks about it, he has never felt like this and to be honest, now that he knows how it feels like, he doesn’t think he can ever go back to the way things were before.

Suddenly something draws Tom out of his book, he sits up and looks down to face Regulus. He looks as if he had thought of something really hard and finally decided to voice whatever it is. “Do you remember when we first met and I told you that the reason I thought I didn’t have a soulmate was because I am immortal?”

Regulus is a little confused about why Tom brought it up and with a renewed sense of curiosity answers “Yes, I do remember but you told me that you would explain it some other time when I asked some time later.” Satisfied with that response Marvolo continues “Well you see, I have been thinking about how I am immortal and have something to fall back on, should something manage to kill. But you don’t and that worries me with the amount of enemies I have accumulated over the years. And quite frankly I don’t want to be alone anymore and right now you are my only vulnerability” Marvolo took a deep breath and looked deep into Regulus’ eye and sincerely hoped he didn't come across wrong, when he asked “I would like to help you become immortal as well. So that we can spend the rest of forever together. I can not bear the thought of a world without you in it. Without you I would end the world. But I won’t make you immortal without your permission, so would you spend the rest forever with me and become immortal amica mea?”

Regulus is shocked and that is an understatement of the century, he is absolutely speechless. It takes him a little to collect his thoughts.

While he is doing that Tom is silently fidgeting with his sleeves and desperately hoping Regulus doesn’t say no. Obviously that is something no one but Regulus, as his soulmate, could detect as he is a Dark Lord and knows how to control his emotions.

But finally Regulus says “I would never let you be alone for forever, mon âme. I agree to become immortal to spend the rest of my life with you, mon Amour, no matter how long that life may be. My only question is how? You said when we first talked about this that your immortality was accidental. Did you truly figure out how to replicate it?” Regulus asked in the end, his inner thirst for knowledge peeking out.

Tom thinks about the best way to describe it to Regulus as it was a long and difficult process and he himself had just figured it out recently after years of searching. “You see, in my school years, I think in my 6th year I found the chamber of secrets, the private chambers of my ancestor Salazar Slytherin, as you know. One night I was walking through the castle with Salazar’s basilisk by my side hunting for rodents. You see, when I was younger I had a bad habit of reading out loud when I felt safe.” Tom admitted a little embarrassed before continuing “Yes I know it's a dangerous habit, but I was young and dumb so don’t judge me. But the point is I was reading a diary of dark arts by Salazar Slytherin. We were walking when suddenly Hel, (the basilisk) hissed in shock because she had accidentally killed something or someone and I felt a sudden piercing pain. As I later came to know, that pain was a part of my soul breaking off. Luckily the only thing Hel killed was someone's cat and not a person but she still killed something innocent so I put her back to sleep in the chamber and left her there.” Tom took a big breath to continue explaining before Regulus can ask the questions he knows he has. “The fractured off part of my soul went into the Salazar’s locket that I was wearing. The interesting thing is until me, everyone including myself has thought that to create a horcrux, one should kill a human. But I only killed a cat and that too really wasn’t me killing it but Hel and the fact that an accidental horcrux could even be made was thought to be impossible until that point.”

Regulus was shocked, he of course knew what horcruxes were, having grown up in a dark family. But even he knew that one shouldn’t make them, they were worse thank black magic. But if what Marvolo is saying is true it should be kept a secret, it would be incredibly dangerous if it becomes public knowledge, how easy it is to make horcruxes. Before Regulus’ thoughts wandered further, Tom spoke up.

“Over the years I have figured out how I made the horcrux, it took me years but I did it. Since then I hadn’t even thought about it until a few years ago ,when I met you. Since then I have been thinking of ways to make a horcrux without making the maker feel any pain. And I am sure I have it figured out. So I am asking again, would you like to be immortal with me?”

“Yes. I want to do this..” Regulus tells Tom with surety in his voice,he had known that he would never leave his soulmate and now he has the opportunity to make that real.

While he thinks Marvolo is just sitting there all happy about the fact that his soulmate agreed to spend forever with him. After asking him some questions about making a horcrux and how they work, to satisfy his own curiosity Regulus tells Tom “First of all, the item that I want to make into a horcrux is the armband you gifted me for Yule. Second of all, before we go through with it I want a detailed description of how it is going to happen. And third of all, when are we doing this?”