"Andy I don't..." He trailed off and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. Blood traitor she may be, but she was still his cousin. The nice cousin, even, the one he used to like best before she started spouting all that rubbish about equality.

"Of course you can make your own choices," Regulus sighed, "that's why it's so vexing that you make the wrong ones! I don't see what is so horrible about not wanting to lose you." He approached her slowly, just as slowly reaching out to place a hand on her shoulder.