—breathe—
He couldn't breathe.
In the nightmare of a dream, he couldn't breathe.
That was the first thing his mind registered, the next being the reason—that dark, foreboding water surrounded him in that nightmare of a dream.
His eyes opened and closed, registering an eerie green light fading far above him as his pale fingers desperately reached up.
"Breathe and scream!"
He felt hands grasping him, pulling him further down into the dark abyss, his eyes unable to discern in those moments what or who drug him down, yet his mind did register a thought that only resulted in his anxiety growing worse.
"There's nobody here to save me, to hear me scream."
—panic—
Something was going wrong.
—something—
Then there was nothing, almost as if he were in a state of limbo, with the only thing—
Something went wrong, horribly wrong.
And there was that voice, not his own, one that said—
"Please try again."
He awoke then in a place that should have been familiar.
—breathe—
One thought.
—scream—
Second thought.
—please try again—
Third thought.
—then—
Arms wrapped around him, the memory of dying, remembering the hands pulling him to his death—
He screamed.
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The Four Interchanging Lives of Regulus Black (Harry Potter Fanfic)
FanfictionRegulus died in a dark lake. Sirius died falling through the veil. The brothers both awake with lingering memories of limbo's message of trying again as well as the multiple lives they're meant to proceed through simultaneously. Disclaimer - I don't...
