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Regulus Black has a lot of rules. Surviving them is another matter entirely. For four and a half years, you and James have managed the impossible: keeping your relationship a total, suffocating secret from Hogwarts, your pureblood masters, and—most dangerously—your volatile brother, Sirius. It was a flawless system, aided entirely by Lily Evans acting as James's public "beard" in the Great Hall. It survived house rivalries, dark lords, and the heavy shadow of Grimmauld Place. The system survives everything. Except the Dark Mark tearing your sleeve open in November, a devastating "mistake" in the cold light of dawn, and the raw, unhinged snap of the Aethel Bond forcing life where logic said it shouldn't be. Seven months later, in June 1978, the school year is dying and you have vanished from the dungeons to hide two newborn twins in a cloaked Hogsmeade safehouse. But when Lily finally loses patience and force-links the communication mirrors across houses, all hell breaks loose. Now, you're sitting in the quiet hum of the safehouse, watching a Gryffindor chat descend into caps-lock sibling hysteria, a Slytherin chat where Barty and Evan are treating your disappearance like an extreme sport, and a force-linked mirror network where James is finally doing the terrifying, agonizing math of what his words actually cost. Can you manage your brother's French-texting fury, or are you going to have to figure out how to hex a golden-boy Chaser through a closed ward?