Walburga Black prided herself on being a woman of excellent breeding, taste, and talent. Thirty and unmarried, she decides if she wasn't fated for a husband and home, then she'd have glory instead. Pity her cousin didn't see the brilliance of her plan for entering a tournament. But he was a stupid, silly, flirt anyways. He couldn't duel his way out of a paper bag.

Sirius never stopped to think that his brother may not have joined the Death Eaters of his own free will. Or just how thorough a tragedy his death was. Oh the secrets a diary reveals and the unique opportunities a deadly veil offers.

Grief brims as Severus recalls his "almost brother." Regulus Black, dead but not forgotten.

To Sirius' horror, Regulus gets captured by an evil dark wizard from the future before boarding the Hogwarts Express. Now he and his band of friends and former enemies must give chase and save his baby brother from the Dark Wizard's clutches. T swears