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[behindthesefangirleyes]

“Did they just get engaged?”

“I don’t know. I don’t fucking know.”

[behindthesefangirleyes]

His fingers tremble, but sometimes they do that when he’s cradling the sun. “I’m asking if you will. James Potter, will you marry me?”

[behindthesefangirleyes]

“We’ll have different last names, you know. You can start telling everyone we’re not even related.”

“Now, why would I do that when you’re the only person I’m actually proud to be related to?”

[behindthesefangirleyes]

“Will you ask me again tomorrow?” James whispers, beaming as bright as the sun, warming Regulus all the way through.

“I will,” Regulus promises, and he does.

[behindthesefangirleyes]

It stays steady. Like them. Like a storm, a lightning strike; like the sun, and the moon. Like four people who love each other so very much in such different ways, who worked so very hard to get the chance to, and they’ll keep doing it.

It’s a choice they’ll all keep making.

[behindthesefangirleyes]

“Christ, who would have thought we’d end up here, like this?”

“Marrying our best friend’s brother?”

“Yeah.”

[behindthesefangirleyes]

… and he can feel himself beaming, like maybe he’s the sun, too.

[behindthesefangirleyes]

“I’ll credit you, of course. Call it The Sun Special.”