Pyjama’s
1. Regulus Arcturus Black
His friends told him they wanted to go crash the gryffindor party just to get back at gryffindor for winning the match.
Regulus knew better, he knew Dorcas had a humongous crush on the gryfindor seeker, Marlene McKinnon, and that his other friends Barty and Evan were both thirsting over Remus Lupin, but then again who wasn't?
Regulus despised his brother's best friends, the four of them were known for both their looks and their pranks. Sirius with his long dark hair, piercings, growing collection of tattoos and alternative clothing stood out of a crowd. Remus, well Remus was Remus, his hair a dark blonde, shorter at the sides forming his curls into a mullet, he had strong and toned arms though he has never been spotted working out, along with his scars it made Remus's attire one of hogwarts' greatest mysteries. Then there was Peter, with his bubbly loud laughter and his piercing blue eyes, Peter was kindness in human form, a pretty boy.
Lastly there was James, James with his loving personality.
his hair which was either a complete mess or carefully slicked back at the sides and quaffed on top, no in between.
James who was hogwarts's golden boy, girls wanted to be with him and boys wanted to be him.
James with his red converse and lopsided glassses, a grin always seeming to be stuck on his face. He was not afraid to make a fool out of himself, confidence radiating off him. He was the ever lasting charmer making girls fall for him left and right even though everyone knew he only had eyes for one person, Lily Evans.
He was the definition of perfect, at least that's what Regulus thought, and it made him hate James even more.
James with his stupid little doodles on his homework, his stupid ability to make flying seem like second nature, just this afternoon he had proved yet again that he deserved the spot of team captain as he led his team to victory. Regulus had to admit it was also partly his fault that slytherin lost the match, too distracted by James, the way he slicked back his stupid hair with his hand every so often to keep it out of his face, or the way he loudly cheered whenever his team scored, his voice echoing through the pitch and lastly his smile, fuck his stupid smile.. Stupid, stupid, stupid Stupid.
And so Regulus had missed the snitch flying past Marlene who quickly darted after it.
Regulus's infuriation had turned into infatuation the first week of this school year.
He hadn't had the chance to practice all summer, too busy trying to keep his parents pleased knowing it wasn't long before he turned seventeen, got his heritage and could get the fuck out of there.
The first evening back at hogwarts Regulus had ran off to the quidditch pitch to fly. It was still very hot outside, summer not yet fading into autumn so he had put on some muggle shorts reaching to just above his knee, and a random shirt before he practically ran out of the changing rooms and to the broom closet where his broom had been sitting all summer catching dust.
He had made it a few laps around the pitch, looping between the stands and the goals getting back into the feeling of flying when his eyes caught sight of another person below him on the grass.
Regulus was curious to know who had disrupted his peace and had to bite back a groan when he got closer and noticed it was James Potter. Regulus kept his distance not wanting to be spotted as he watched what James was going to do.
Regulus rested his arms on his broom leaning forward a bit in a more relaxing position as James began stretching. He didn't know exactly why he was watching the other boy work out but he couldn't be bothered to look away.
Regulus was cooling down a bit from the flying he had done earlier, while James was starting to sweat from working out while the evening sun shone down on him.
He had started pull ups from his broom which was hovering above him, letting out grunts with each pull and regulus was stuck in his place as the sounds resgistered in his brain in a way they had never done before.
What the fuck
And then it happened. James let himself back onto the grass wiping the sweat from his face with his shirt, revealing part of his stomach before pulling it off completely. Again Regulus had to bite back a groan, but this time not from frustration, as the realisation struck him Regulus shot up almost making himself fall from his broom.
the feeling in his stomach was a disturbing one.
Without another look in James's way he darted off trying to get away while cursing at himself under his breath for getting turned on by watching someone work out.
It was even worse that this 'someone' was a guy and it was even worse that this 'guy' was James fucking Potter, his brothers' best friend who he had sworn to hate for the rest of his life for taking his brother away from him.
Regulus had hoped it was just him being a hormonal teenager and not him genuinely crushing on James potter, a boy.
Fuck, he was gay, and insanely attracted to James Potter.
It made sense that he was, Gay that is, He has never fancied a girl in his life and he though it was just because he was taught to not fall for someone as he would be married off for status anyways.
Oh boy was he wrong.
His friends didn't take long to find out about it. They saw regulus's cold stare towards james had softened, or the flush on his otherwise pale cheeks whenever James did something that he found attractive.
His friends had annoyed him- no they straight up bullied him for it. Regulus himself could see the irony in it as well that he, Regulus black, had a huge crush on James potter.
His friends had backed off after a while, but the topic wasn't dropped, making a comment about it whenever the opportunity presented itself. Like right now as they were crowded at the foot of his bed trying to convince him to come with them to sneak into the gryffindor party. It wasn't that he didn't feel welcome in the gryffindor tower, not at all, He bets his brother would even be happy to see his face.
Regulus and Sirius had a falling out before summer, sirius begging him to come back with him to the potters and regulus refusing, they fought about it for a while until regulus revealed why he stayed and why he kept that information from him, he wanted to keep it a surprise that he would run off after getting his heritage planning to give half of his money to sirius, which was his to begging with. The surprise was ruined unlike their bond which had been improving since.
But regulus still didn't want to go, he had already dressed down to his dark green and blue plaid Pyjama bottoms and his sleep shirt, which was a band shirt he may or may not have stolen from sirius, ready to have a peaceful evening curled up in the windowsill reading his book.
"Guys I already changed, and I'm really not in the mood for a party"
Dorcas shrugged at his protest "so? Go in the Pj's"
Regulus had scoffed at that.
Barty had his arms crossed over his chest eyeing his outfit "mate, you look hot as fuck in your Pj's, Potter is really missing out on the sight, besides everyone there is too drunk to care anyways" Evan nodded in agreement next to him.
It wasn't long till Regulus agreed, the chance of seeing a drunk James potter was a little too appealing to resist.
"I knew the mention of potter would get him to agree" Barty smirked as regulus put his feet in his beat up converse shoes, his mother would kill him if she saw him in this state, dressed in muggle clothes, about to crash a gryffindor party for a chance to see James Potter and thirst over him from the safety of a corner of the room.
How pathetic, he thought to himself as he finished lacing up his, no longer white, shoes.
"Atta boy, let's go, some of us might even get laid tonight" Evan threw his arm over Regulus's shoulder as he smirked suggestively at Dorcas who looked around to find out who he was suggesting to, playing oblivious when she knew damn well he was talking about her.
"I'm not the one shagging tonight that's for sure" Regulus told Dorcas who pouted at him.
"Don't be so sad Reggie, maybe this night will change his mind, he might look at you in your bad boy clothes and get weak in the knees like you did that night on the quidditch pitch" she threw her arm over his other side as she spoke.
"Bad boy clothes?" Regulus asked with a breathy laugh.
"there is no way your parents would allow you to wear it, so its rebellious, besides the Rolling Stones shirt makes you look cool" Dorcas explained.
"Ey Rosier, maybe we should go out in our Pyjama's as well next time, seeing as it gives of the bad boy look" barty wiggled his eyebrows at Evan.
"You wish, you two would just look like two toddlers who got out of bed to find their mummy because they had a night mare, Reggie is the only one who could pull it off like this" at her words barty was quick to flip her off, Evan followed but pointed his finger at Regulus instead.
"Oi what did I do?" Regulus whined.
"exist" Evan grumbled.
"Mate he's just jealous" Barty assured Reggie who couldn't help but laugh at his friends.
"Of bloody course I'm jealous, have you seen the lad? It's so aggravating that he doesn't see how insanely attractive he is, he's stupid"
"I- Uhm thanks?" Reggie mumbled at the double sided comment.
Before they could get any deeper into their spiralling conversation they reached the portrait of the fat Lady who arched her brow at the group.
Regulus shot her a toothy grin "evening m'lady, Fortuna Major" the portrait shot him a disapproving look, shaking her head as she let the door open.
"Told you he knew how to get in" dorcas whispered to Barty and Evan who were grinning as they followed Regulus into the crimson common room.
"Well there you are, now I'm going to throw back a drink and find my viewing spot for the evening" His friends chuckled as he walked off towards the drinks, he poured a glass with some cherry flavoured punch and leaned back against the table to watch as his friends mingled in the crowd, Dorcas finding Marlene in no time.
There were a couple ravenclaw's and hufflepuffs, but besides Regulus and his friends there weren't any other Slytherins. "Is that my shirt?" Someone asked from beside him, making Regulus grip his cup tighter as he got startled.
"No" he said with a straight face not having to look to his left to know sirius was standing beside him.
"Didn't expect for you to be here" his brother went on.
"yeah no, me neither" Regulus mumbled before taking a gulp of his drink.
"What's with the outfit?" Sirius asked eyeing his younger brother.
Regulus shrugged "literally got dragged out of bed, have nothing more to add to that".
"Looks good" was sirius's short reply, though sirius was a very talkative person, the two brothers didn't have to share many words to understand one another.
Regulus took in Sirius's outfit "anyone in particular you're trying to impress?". Sirius shook his head.
"Oh bummer... what did lupin think of it?" Regulus smirked as he watched his brothers cheeks heat up at the Mention of Remus lupin, one of his best friends.
"Thought so" regulus got a light shove from that comment which made him chuckle as he straightened back up.
"Oi padfoot there you are" Regulus's breath hitched as James pushed his way through the crowd towards them.
"We're about to play some games up in one of the dorms, some lads from slytherin and Marlene's girlfriend are also join-" James stopped talking when his eyes fell on the younger black brother.
"Oh hi Regulus, you coming as well?" James asked sounding hopeful. Before he could answer Sirius answered for the both of them
"sounds fun we'll join" regulus opened his mouth to protest but was cut off by James
"great" he said with a grin before Sirius and him started walking, James noticed Regulus wasn't following after only two seconds. James turned around and playfully rolled his eyes at regulus grabbing his wrist to pull him with him up to one of the dorms.
Regulus's heart stopped as he felt James's warm fingers wrap around his wrist before it slammed back into a fast beating rhythm as he started walking after the boy.
Regulus focussed on putting one foot infront of the other but it was hard when James was touching him for the first time ever.
Pathetic.
He had thought james would let go of him as soon as he noticed Regulus complying but he did the opposite by letting his hand slide further down Regulus's wrist, now holding his hand in his, lacing their fingers together as he started walking up the stairs, sirius in front of them not seeing the gesture.
James' hand was soft and big in his, and oh so warm, regulus felt like he was on fire. "they're not in a relationship yet you know" regulus commented to divert his attention. James looked back at him confused stopping in his step for a second.
"they might as well be with the way they were attached to one another" he shrugged before walking on.
"They kissed?" Regulus asked surprised he hadn't noticed, how long had he been standing at that table?
"Hell yeah they did, and how" James sounded proud.
"It doesn't bother you?" Regulus asked carefully and James shot him a look over his shoulder.
"What does?"
"Them kissing, two girls, two people of the same gender liking one another?" He rambled desperate to know.
"Oh that? No not at all, I think everyone should be able to love who they love, it's not like we can chose who we fall for" well that one was for sure, Regulus would've never chosen to fall for the most out of his league boy in the school.
"Does it bother you?" James asked then and it made Regulus notice they had stopped walking on the middle of the stairs.
"Would be a little double sided if it did, hating on my own sort" why did he say that? He should not've said that, how can one drink influence him this much? Maybe it was James's hand in his, it was making him feel drunker than any amount of alcohol has ever done.
"You-" james paused clearing his throath "you like boys?" He asked carefully, like the question would offend Regulus.
Regulus looked James in the eyes, searching for something, anything, as he breathed out "yeah, I like boys".
He had expected James to immediately drop his hand, but if anything he held on tighter as he gulped and nodded "cool".
James quickly turned to face the stairs again and started walking pulling Regulus with him, who was mentally cursing for coming out to James Potter, who was one step closer to uncovering the truth, fuck.
As soon as they entered a dorm James let go of his hand, which Regulus should've expected but it still didn't feel right.
There were people sitting around on the floor in a mess of blankets, pillows, bottles and cups. "Reggie!" Dorcas greeted happily shooting up from her place on the ground next to Marlene and tackling him into a hug almost sending him to the floor.
"We kissed" she said happily into the hug.
She was about to quickly let go knowing how regulus feels about hugs but before she could get anywhere regulus pulled her back into him, he just came out to James, he needed a bit of support from his friends.
He never came out like that before, stating he liked boys to someone who is presumably straight. His friends figured it out by themselves and he never had to state it, with sirius it was a matter of teasing him about his undeniable crush on Remus when he huffed "Fine I like boys, and I like Remus will you shut up now" regulus had chuckled at Sirius's face before he gasped and laughed louder.
"we just ended our bloodline"
Sirius looked at him dumbfounded"what?.. oh.. OH!" He turned towards Regulus abruptly putting his hands on his shoulders shaking him "you're gay too?!" His smile was so big and proud and Regulus nodded, he couldn't help the tears that welled up in his eyes at the pure acceptance radiating from Sirius who then sent him a soft smile throwing his arm around his shoulder and pulling him into a side hug.
"Fuck that bloodline anyways"
"What's wrong, are you okay? Do you want me to walk you back to the dorms?" Dorcas shot him back into reality.
"I came out to james" Regulus whispered softly making sure no one else heard.
"You Whut?" She gasped and regulus quickly hissed a ssh at her.
"How did he react?" She asked with a big proud smile, similar to the one Sirius had worn back when they were hiding in the quidditch stands and he came out.
"The only thing he said was 'cool' but before that he talked about how he thinks everyone should be able to love anyone"
"Damn you James potter, you're making it hard to hate you for not liking my best friend" Dorcas murmured making Regulus chuckle before they went to sit in the circle with the others.
It took a few minutes till everyone was settled and had a drink of choice in hand, Regulus decided to lay off the alcohol for a bit too scared that his clingy side which comes out when drunk would be revealed infront of all the gryffindors.
The group was big, meaning it was Regulus and his friends, James and his friends, and then the gryffindor girls, Mary Lily and Marlene, he also recognised Pandora, a ravenclaw girl he knew from family gatherings and then there were two huflepuff girls who were friends with Lily and Marlene.
If it weren't for Regulus being stuck between Barty and Evan he would've upped and darted out the room the moment he saw his company.
"What are we supposed to do now?" Regulus asked his two friends who shrugged and told him to just wait and see.
Mary put an empty bottle in the centre of the circle, oh merlin what had Regulus gotten himself into. "We'll take turns in clockwise order to spin the bottle, the person it lands on has to either answer a truth or do a dare the spinner gives them, dares aren't allowed to be too dangerous and truths are answered with a drop of verita serum". A drop of verita serum would make the drinker spill the truth for only a minute or two which made it perfect for a game of wizarding truth or dare.
Mary was the first to spin the bottle having it land on peter, "truth or dare pete?" Mary asked with a deviant smirk
"dare" peter answered with no hesitation "what I'd rather make a fool out of myself then spill some secret I don't want to".
"Alright, I dare you to take a handful of soundabouts" peter grimaced as Remus handed him the packet of sound making candies, the instructions clearly read to only eat one at a time.
Peter shook some of the Jelly bean looking candies into his palm "Well here goes nothing" he gulped before putting the small handful of candies in his mouth. He chew them and within a second a Lion like roar left his mouth before it turned to the neighing of a horse and then the sound of a frog and it ended with a dolphin. Everyone laughed at the sounds peter was making.
Peter coughed as he recovered, James patting his back while stifling laughter.
The game went on and regulus relaxed a bit as rounds passed without it being his turn. After Sirius had spilled to the group that his most embarrassing moment was that one time he drank too much and he ended up puking for two hours straight while Remus sat next to him. Regulus could only smile at the thought of Remus comforting Sirius on the bathroom floor for two hours.
Sirius still had a flush of red on his cheek and his neck and Remus looked at him fondly, sirius was seriously and idiot for not seeing his feelings are very much mutual.
Sirius quickly spun the bottle to get the attention away from him and the bottle landed on james and Sirius smirked. "I'm scared for both truth and dare here Mate" James muttered as he sat up straight.
James looked to be deep in thought trying to make the right decision, sirius really was a maniac when it came to truth or dare. "Dare, I'm taking a risk here aren't I padfoot?" Sirius nodded with a smirk.
"I dare you to snog the prettiest person in the room"
Person
Sirius probably meant nothing with it but it still made Regulus's heart flutter with the thought that there was a chance James wasn't completely straight.
"Snog? Like full on kiss, or just a peck?" James asked his cheeks heating up.
"I said snog James, do I have to give you sex ed classses again or?"
Some people laughed at the comment as James mumbled "alright alright, snog it is, Merlin"
Regulus Looked away as James stood up, everyone knew he was going to kiss lily, this might be the most boring dare of the evening, the answer would come as no surprise.
But it did, it did come as a surprise, to literally everyone in the room but Lily Evans who looked smug when regulus looked up to see if James had kissed her yet only to feel a hand cupping his chin making him turn towards the person towering over him.
His eyes widened and his breath hitched as his eyes met James's, James who was tilting regulus's head back with questioning eyes, James who was slowly leaning in sinking down onto his knees to sit besides regulus's outstretched legs, James who closed his eyes and softly pressed his lips against Regulus's.
Regulus was startled but soon his wide eyes fluttered closed as he relaxed against James's touch. This was something he had never allowed himself to even dream about, but here james was kissing him, and not just that, he kissed him because he thinks he is the prettiest one in the room and not Lily Evans who everyone thought he was in love with.
James's tongue softly ran along his bottom lip, regulus took the hint and opened his mouth, their tongues meeting in the middle and it was nothing like anything he had ever felt before.
Heat was spreading all through his body as he leaned up more trying to get closer, his arms winding around James's shoulders and holding the back of his head.
"YOU WHAT?! LILY WAS RIGHT THERE I GAVE YOU THE CHA-" sirius yelled somewhere behind them before being cut off by Remus who gritted
"let him have his moment"
James only smirked against his lips moving his tongue around one more time before pulling back smiling down at regulus.
Regulus pulled his hands back from James' neck where they had subconsciously landed, leaving them hovering mid air as he watched James in shock. James's lips were red and his eyes were glossy.
James, the asshole that he is just winked and proudly sat down on his seat again but not before passsing lily and clapping his hand against her outstretched one in a high five.
Regulus cleared his throat trying to get back to the earth he quickly moved to sit in a different position trying to hide the growing bulge he was sporting. The people in the circle staring at either Regulus or James in shock. Sirius was seething besides remus, Glaring at James.
Everyone was left confused, the only ones who didn't look like they lost their brains, were Remus, Lily and James himself.
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