Left disfigured and detached, Sirius tries to get his act together. Sequel to The Life You Lose.

Regulus survives the cave, and, after realizing suicide is not as attractive an option as he had previously considered it, attempts to finish what he started and destroy the locket.

Hogwarts is rocked by an attempted murder when some unknown person pushes Severus Snape off the Quidditch stands. Luckily, Lily Evans, girl detective, is on the case!

A particularly vociferous argument leads Sirius and Regulus to engage in an ill-advised wager regarding which of the two of them will be able to get more girls. I imagine this is the kind of thing that goes on at co-ed boarding schools all the time.

Spring cleaning gets even more agonizing when Remus goes to clean out the flat he had shared with Sirius before the events of Halloween 1981 and is forced to revisit some painful memories and moldy perishables.

Evan is dying; Regulus goes to visit him in the hospital, with hilarious results including a bevy of flashbacks that reflect on the formation of their friendship and the roots of Regulus's so-called defection.