A/N: Written for the No Names Drabble Competition, week 5.

In a Heartbeat
5. Regulus/Barty Jr.

They were both supposed to be such good children. Somewhere, one of them went absolutely right and the other went wrong.

Actually, it was more because their fathers were on opposite sides of the war. One supported the blood. The tears. The carnage. The other abhorred it – and showed his distaste by scattering the bones and ash of the slaughters and torturers…

The two boys coming into the real world – they both supported the same thing. For one, it was perfectly in keeping with family ideals. For the other, it was becoming a traitor of his blood. He didn't care.