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Regulus in his drunken, anxious state ran out of the room and down a few corridors, James following behind struggling to catch up. "Reg, Reg." James called out trying to catch the younger attention so he would look at him. Regulus stopped walking and James suddenly realized how hard he was breathing.

The Black clutched his chest, his heart rate speeding up. He let out huff after huff no longer in control of his breathing pattern. His mind raced with memories of the previous summers and holidays spent at home as well as the earlier encounter with his harasser. He turned around to James as the room spun. James looked at him, eyes laced with concern. "Regulus, breath. You're okay. I'm right here. You're safe here." James repeated, in effort to calm the boy.

Sirius looked around the room after on of the party guests had told him about what had happened. Once he realized his brother was not in the room, he had sobered up and panic had overtaken his body. He ran out of the room, Remus following, confused as what the redhead girl (who he believed name was Lily) had told the birthday boy to cause such a look of indignation on his face.

"Sirius, what is going on.." Remus asked, more so stated, demanding to know what was happening. The two hastily made their way out of the room, as Sirius looked around, ignoring Remus' questions. He was far more concerned for his brother, as well as angry, thinking about the horrific ways he wanted to hurt the creep who had caused this dilemma in the first place.

TW sewer slide mention

The pair had heard voices from down the hall snapping their heads towards them, and Sirus quickly made his way to them, not caring much if Remus followed or not. They turned at the corner of the end of the corridor to face Regulus looking like he had just watched a man kill himself. He was slid up against a wall hyperventilating and looking around paranoid. His right hand was up against his mouth and his left clutched his shirt. He had fat tears rolling down his face and looked as though he didn't recognize where he was or who was there with him.

TW over

James sat infront of the hysterical boy trying his best to calm him. He looked up registering the others presence and looked at them both as if pleading for help. Sirius then went over to his brother and calmly spoke, "Reggie, hey its me, Reg," The younger looked up at him, grabbing onto him as he let out a choked sob. Sirius grabbed him and pulled him into a tight embrace, grounding the boy.

As he came out of his panic-strucken state, he whispered to Sirius, "I'm so sorry Siri, I ruined your birthday, Je suis désolé!" He started crying again, promptly taking in the events of the night. "Reggie, none of this is your fault, you didn't do anything wrong, cher frère. Aucune faute ne vous incombe." Regulus sniffled pulling out of the hug. "Siri, Je veux aller dans notre chambre, je suis gêné." The younger said. Sirius nodded, turning to the others.

"It's a wrap boys, party is over. We are going to bed." Sirius stated as the two brothers stood up from the floor. Regulus clutched onto his brother, feeling safe with him. James stood up and looked at his best friend nodding, before looking over at a seriously confused Remus who was staring at him with eyes practically begging for answers. He ignored him for now, and went over to a more clear minded Regulus and pulled him into a hug.

"I love you Reg, I'm here for you. We all are." James said, causing the younger to blush slightly at his words. He loved him?? What? Bad timing James. But he appreciated it nonetheless, assuming he meant an in-general love. Like a friend, or Family. Not in love, because James wasn't capable of loving someone like Regulus that way. It just was not possible.

The two pulled away, Sirius nodding, stating that he agreed with James' words and was, and would always be there for him. Though you could tell in his face he had also noticed the tallers first words. 'I love you Reg', letting it slide as of now, as per the previous events of the night. The two brothers made their way to their dorm, as James turned with a sigh to Remus.

"What the actual fuck is happening? What happened to Sirius' little brother??" Remus said, now agitated at his own obliviousness. James did his best to explain the incident, leaving out details he deemed non-irrelevant to the night. Like how Regulus had muttered in his panic about how he 'couldn't do it again' and 'he didn't want to anymore', which only concerned the older more.

The small muttering statements that had confirmed his suspicion about how the youngers' time at home was actually going, other than the ordinary bullshit that happened in 12 Grimmauld Place; the quiet, panic induced, little slips Regulus had muttered out that most people probably wouldn't think twice about, that just sickened James to his core. That just ratified his biggest horrors of what could be happening to the boy he had grown to love so dear.

He shivered, twitching as he and Remus walked back to the party, shooing everyone out exclaiming, "Party's over people get a moving!". When everyone had cleared out, the designated 'cleanup crew' of the night picked up the space; as to not get in trouble in the morning when all the daytime teachers flooded in to see such a mess of trash, vomit, and alcohol.

There were only about 4-5 staff that slept in the actual building, as this year the school was under-staffed. The only reason the party was able to be thrown in the first place.

TW for (in depth?) mention of vomit

The 'cleaning crew' included of Peter, James, some girl who volunteered to help names Amelia Bones, Mary Macdonald, Marlene Mickinnon, and what was supposed to be Regulus, but was now Remus. They were just about to be done, as Mary came up to James as he held back his sick cleaning up some bloaks retch off the floor. "That's foul." She said as she scowled down at the smeared pile of puke on the floor. James looked at her with a displeased expression. "How do you suppose I feel." He said sarcastically.

End of TW

Mary looked at him for a second debating how to say what she was about to ask. "What happened earlier? All I heard was that you swung at some lad that had hurt Sirius' brother." She said. James sighed and looked over at the spot it had happened previously in the night, like he was reliving the encounter with the git.

He turned to look at Mary and told her "I don't quite remember, I was pretty out of it after my fourth or fifth shot." He smiled meekly. Mary hummed and walked away, and that was that. He was lieing of course, he hadn't drank at all tonight, as he was an athlete and saw his 'body as a temple'. Rumors in general were quite unavoidable, he wouldn't be part of spreading them. Especially if it concerned someone he cared deeply about. Especially if it concerned Regulus.

Everyone started heading to their dorms for the night, exhausted from the party and cleaning for 30 minutes straight. James pulled his phone out of his pocket to see it was about 1:00 AM and he, Remus and Peter made their way to the dormitories. Peter looked between the two taller skeptically, as he had seen (and been sober enough to process) the whole situation earlier.

Remus turned down a different hallway to his dorm, saying a quick goodbye to the two before Peter finally spoke up. "Is Regulus okay? I pretty much saw it all, as much as you did." He said. Him and James had been together when it happened, though Peter didn't do much anything about it besides pointing it out to James that Regulus looked extremely uncomfortable, before the both saw the boy be forced into an unwanted kiss.

He felt guilty about it, like he could of done more, but ultimately decided he wouldn't be much help anyways. He never was good with feelings, much more a logic oriented person. "He will be, Sirius is with him in the dorm. I reckon he's sound asleep, t'night probably exhausted him." James replied, reassuring the shorter male.

The pair walked into their dorm, seeing Regulus and Sirius together asleep in the youngers' bed. James whispered to Peter, "Told you. Out like a light." Peter walked over to the bathroom quietly to get ready for bed as James closed and locked the door, careful to not wake the brothers. He walked over to his bed as Sirius opened his eyes and groaned slightly. "What time's it?" He asked groggily as he rubbed his eye with his hand careful to not elbow a sleeping Regulus' head on his chest.

'Just past one mate, go back to bed." James said as he took off his shoes, glasses, and jeans, putting on pajamas and laying in bed, too tired to actually get ready for the night. Sirius looked at him, now a tad bit more awake. "What are we going to do about the wanker who," He paused, motioning to the sleeping boy in his arm. James thought about it for a moment.

"We should wait for Reggie to wake up, then ask him what he wants." He said, staring intently at the boy, words repeating in his mind 'try not to stress him I suppose..' Sirius looked at him as though he were mad. "I don't think its a good idea to bring it back up to him as soon as he wakes up, Jamie." He said with a protective tone. James figured he was right. So he nodded and looked back at Sirius.

"Then we wont do anything, for now. After a bit, depending on how everything is going, we can subtly confront him, and see what he would prefer. I just don't think he would be happy to find out we had gone behind his back and assaulted his harraser, without at least asking him, or even telling him anything."

Sirius nodded, yawning and turning his head the other direction of James. "Night' Jay." He said as he drifted back into sleep.

"Night' Siri."