Remus waited until they were settled in bed before he said anything else. He held tightly to Regulus' hand, drawing strength from that connection, even though a tiny voice whispered in the back of his mind that it was so far beyond wrong to do so. When he'd relinquished the blanket and the bedclothes had been pulled up, he took another deep breath before turning to face his lover.
"I love you, Regulus." He needed to say it. Regulus needed to know his feelings hadn't changed. "I...I can't say it doesn't hurt to know you were there, or that you kept it from me now. It's going to hurt for a while because I love you so much. But, I'm going to forgive you.
"I'm sure many people would disagree with me. And, I admit, there's a part of me right now that really thinks it'd be easier, cleaner, if I could just hate you the way Sirius hates Peter. But, I love you and I need you and even though it happened within your memory, it wasn't you. Not really. You're not the same man you were then."
Taking both Regulus' hands in his, he laced their fingers together. "I don't need to hear about all of that tonight. Some day, when you're ready, I do still want to hear whatever you want to tell me. But, that wasn't what I was asking for tonight, only things like this. You don't have to tell me about my being turned, either. You've already answered that. He made it personal with my father. They may have been killed because of me, but he wouldn't have focused on my father like that without a history. Which tells me it wasn't an accident that he was in Scotland the night my parents took me to that gathering.
"But, I do need you to tell me something more. It's not going to be easy on either of us and I don't think I can touch you while you tell me. But, I will when we're finished. I'll need you to help me hold it together because what I'm going to ask you to do is likely going to break me, possibly both of us. It has to be done, though. Because you're right. He can use this to hurt us and I'm not going to let him take this away from me too.
"So, I need you to tell me the details. I need you to tell me what he did so he can't use that as a weapon, so he can't use that to taunt me when he discovers telling me about you isn't going to work."