TQ

Sirius Black has always been impossible to silence. He is the loudest Marauder, James Potter’s partner in crime, Remus and Peter’s personal tormentor, Regulus’s greatest annoyance, and an unapologetic flirt whenever {y/n} is around. Everyone knows Sirius as the boy who laughs in the face of everything—including his own family. Until one day, the laughter stops. Sirius suddenly withdraws from everyone around him. He stops joking with James, teasing Remus and Peter, annoying Regulus, talking to Lily, Marlene, Mary, and Marianna, and—most painfully of all—he stops flirting with {y/n}. Nobody knows what happened. But behind Sirius’s silence are the people who have always been waiting for him to come crawling back: the Blacks. His parents have begun tightening their control, reminding Sirius that blood ties cannot simply be abandoned. Letters, threats, expectations, and family pressure slowly begin wearing down the boy who once acted as though nothing could hurt him. Sirius refuses to tell anyone. But his friends refuse to let him disappear. As James, Remus, Regulus, {y/n}, and the rest of their friends slowly uncover what Sirius has been hiding, they are forced to confront a painful truth: Sirius never stopped being strong. He simply became too exhausted to keep pretending he wasn’t hurting. And now, the boy who spent his entire life running from the Black family must finally decide whether he will continue carrying their expectations—or choose the family that chose him.