This isn’t goodbye this is simply see you later
Barty’s knees went weak as he heard the news. He was gone. The glue that held him together… gone forever and never coming back. He couldn’t help it, he collapsed to his knees and screamed. Raw guttural screams. They had been mentally preparing themselves for Barty’s inevitable death but he had outlived Regulus.
He who must not be named had put parts of himself into horcruxes , Regulus had gone to destroy one. It was a suicide mission Barty could have stopped him. If he had Regulus would still be here. Living. Breathing. Laughing.
He was paralysed. He couldn’t do anything except let the sobbing wrench his body again and again. The young woman knelt down in front of the young man, he looked so much smaller. She ran a thumb over his cheekbone and pushed the hair away from his forehead.
“I’m so sorry,” she soothed “I know that you were close.”
“We were more than close,” he whispered sounding so broken “I proposed to him last week. We were getting married in three months.”
“Hey, hey,” she said taking his face in her hands “look at me okay.”
“Did he leave because he didn’t want to marry me!” He cried.
She held the boy close and tight to her chest as he sobbed into it grasping at her shirt as if it was a lifeline. She was so similar to Regulus. This made him cry even harder.
She whispered reassurance to a boy that she had never met before today. She had already told Sirius already, he had simply shrugged it off and carried on as normal. He still thought of his brother as an evil death eater. But here she was on her cousin’s apartment floor with her cousin’s boyfriend in her arms.
He looked so broken, so terrified. He had seen so much more than anyone should have but then again, hadn’t they all.
Barty wasn’t supposed to outlive Regulus he was supposed to die soon. Yet here he was hearing the news of his fiancée’s death. Regulus was the only person that knew the real Barty Crouch Jr . The only person that could stop him spiralling. The only person that could stop him from ending it all .
He was gone…
He wasn’t coming back…
Ever…
How was he going to survive without his glue. When regulus died it left a hole in his heart . He was shattered into pieces and he wouldn’t be put back together again