Fics like too little, too late

"You can just be miserable in peace, if you like," James said without looking at him. "Or, I'll be miserable right alongside you. Companionable misery. Your choice." A choice. How often was he offered that? -- Regulus Black is very good at surviving. He has learned to go quiet, to go cold, to fold every wanted thing away behind a locked door where his family can't reach it. He does not intend to be saved. He intends to survive as long as he can, and to hold on to the one thing they've never quite managed to take from him: himself. James Potter has never met a person he couldn't win over or a hurt he couldn't take. But, when he finally meets a certain green-eyed Slytherin, he begins to learn that some doors you can't force open no matter how hard you try. But the war is coming for all of them. For the brothers trying to find their way back to each other, for the friends on opposite sides. And none of them can meet it alone. And maybe the only way any of them gets out is together. A Marauders-era slow burn set against the first wizarding war. Runs from Regulus's fourth year/James's fifth year through to the war itself.

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