Brother's Best Friend
So this is actually incredibly fun! I'm having a great time writing this story.
(Notes at the end w/ summary)
TW:
-Cussing
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I wake up slowly to the smell of sweat, sex and.. Mahogany? When I finally open my eyes I realize that I'm currently tucked under a big arm. James. I just lay there and look at the divine man in front of me. The sun peering through the curtains hit his face making him look as though he glows. The bangs of his hair are draped over his face covering his forehead but to the point I could still see his closed eyes. He has very long eyelashes for a man they're quite beautiful. He's shirtless revealing his chest and the tattoos that come with it. On his hip he has 3 initials all in different handwriting, an S, an R, and a P, he has an elaborate sun tattoo on his chest, there were a few more small dumb tattoos scattered around his torso, and I'm pretty sure last night I saw a tramp stamp! It was like a heart with antlers coming from it. It was actually quite elegant for its position. I need to get a better look at that tattoo. I wonder if he has more that I'm not seeing. What the fuck is wrong with me? Why am thinking about him so much and why am I still here? Normally I leave as the sun comes up but the sun is out and shining! Shit! I want to get up and leave but there is something about the way he's holding me and how he smells and looks that just stops me from moving away.
I just stare at James for a little while before I need to try and readjust my position but when I go to move he pulls me closer so I stay. I mean who am I to say no? He slowly opens his eyes filled with sleep. He just sits there and looks at me for a little while, with his eyes barely open, because of the light in his eyes, then he says in a soft rugged voice "Buenos días, Guapa." his voice was so filled with sleep but god. I almost melted right there and then. When he seemed to notice me looking at him trying to figure out what he'd said, I'm guessing it was good morning, he said "Oh sorry spanish is my default I said good morning." I looked at him and let out a little giggle. A GIGGLE?! Since when did Regulus Black giggle? What am I, a school girl?
"Good morning to you too, James."
"I'm going to go shower." He said, looking at me with a little glance.
"You can join if you want." He pulled me in closer to him, placing a kiss on my neck.
"As much as I would love to, Darling I need coffee." Look I'm not an addict or anything what I am is hung over as fuck and I need coffee or my head with explode.
"Do you need coffee or a hangover remedy, because right now you look like your head is going to explode." Holy shit. He's a mind reader! I need to run. He'll read my mind and know I'm thinking about him and then I'll have to die out of embarrassment. Ya okay Regulus let's not tell the mind reader that you need to die. "Both." I say coolly with a laugh.
"We have some ginger lollies in the top left pantry. It sounds dumb but it really works I swear!"
"Oh so you guys party a lot?" I mock with a fake accusatory tone.
"Darling, were bar owners. We party hard. You know you should come to one." WHAT?! Did he just invite me to hang out? Does he not understand the idea of ONE-night stands! Does he want me to fall in love with him? If I even can love. Wow, that got dark. Regulus, stop monologuing and respond idiot! "Maybe I should." He presses a kiss to my forehead, gets up and walks to the bathroom that is connected to his room, leaving me there.
Finally I will myself to get up and go to his kitchen which I briefly saw last night while James went to retrieve some snacks for us to eat in his room. We sat up together talking for hours. God there's something so strange about this boy. Like why the hell am I staying up talking to him? Why am I chilling around at his house after the fact?
Once I brew my coffee I grab some French vanilla creamer from the fridge and slowly stir in the amount I want. Maybe James is my soulmate. I mean the french vanilla creamer, the bar called puzzles!? Wow.. I have a low bar. That's really depressing. Oh ya the ginger candies! Where did he say they were again? A few minutes later after looking in all the pantries I find the candies and pop one into my mouth.
While I sit on the kitchen counter I'm drinking my coffee and nursing this god awful candy. God why did it have to be ginger? I hate the taste of ginger. But dammit the candy is working. The countertops are cold against my bare thighs seeing as I'm just in my boxers and one of James' shirts which is super loose on me. It was an extremely worn out Queen band tee. I'm betting when he first got it it had been black but now it was a faded gray. I hear a door open from behind me and then a voice different from James' shout, "James did you make a pot or just a cup this time you greedy bastard?" The voice was clearly a man's voice. It sounded like he had an accent, a welsh accent maybe? It was rough and had a hint of sarcasm in it but you could hear the generosity behind it. "Sorry not James!" I reply, turning around to see a tall dirty blonde man. He was slightly tanned and he was covered in scars, not like in a bad way they added to him maybe even complimented him. He was very attractive, not as attractive as James' obviously but still. He was wearing a sweater and some sweatpants.
"Oh shit. Hey, I'm Remus. You must be the guy from last night, eh?" He talks so smoothly and casual it's honestly kind of soothing. I then realized he said 'the guy from last night' and I got beat red. Oh hell had he heard us? Was I that loud? That's so embarrassing!
"God, sorry did you hear us last night." I groan out with my hands over my face out of shame. The man just looks at me and laughs. Oh my god! Why'd I even bring it up? Now he's laughing at me.
"It's okay mate we didn't hear you I ran into James last night in the kitchen. It was date night last night so I should apologize to you!" He lets out a soft chuckle which makes me laugh a little too.
"Oh ya, Regulus." I say motioning to myself.
"Oh shit really? Damn that's so cool you're named after a star actually my boyf.." He's interrupted when another man shouts out to him asking what was taking so long. Hmm, that voice sounds so familiar. Oh god have I hooked up with my one night stands roommate? This is about to be wicked awkward.
"Haha speak of the devil and he calls!" Remus jokes. He starts preparing 2 cups of coffee while we have some light conversation. Finally the second man, Remus' boyfriend enters the kitchen. When I turned around to see him he's stood there frozen in place. Oh. That's where the voice is familiar.
"Reggie?" The man says barely getting the nickname out of his mouth. I just look at him in shock. Fuck! What the fuck do I do? How the fuck do I responed? This is not how I planned on.. My thought is interrupted with James coming into the room in nothing but gray sweatpants, his hair wet.
"James, we have company." The man shoots out referring to James' lack of a shirt.
"Sirius, I think it'll be okay, he has more clothes on then he did last night so that's a start." I say with a small smirk trying to break the weird as fuck atmosphere. Thinking about it now I don't see how the first thing I tell my 'long lost brother' is that I fucked his roomate and longterm bestfriend last night would make the atmosphere less weird. James walks over to me and places himself in between my legs and grabbing my coffee and taking a swig off it.
"God damn Reg, is there even any coffee in here!" He says with a laugh.
"So how do you 2 know each other?" James asks, looking between me and sirius. There was a moment of awkward silence before anyone spoke. It was obvious to me that Sirius wasn't going to say anything seeing as he was looking at me like a deer in headlights.
"Well our mother introduced us about 20 years ago or so." I said in a more serious tone than expected for such a ridiculous answer. Me and Sirius just kind of look at eachother in a very confusing silence that said 'what the fuck do we do now?'.
"Hey, Sirius."
"Hey" There's so much behind such a simple greeting. Like 'oh hey brother who I haven't seen since 16 when you abandoned me in our abusive household'. Shit. I was abandoned. He left me for dead. He hates me. He doesn't want to see me. Especially not with his best friend who took him away from me. Fuck fuck fuck! How the fuck do I get out of this?
I jump down from the counter pushing James off of me and running to his room pushing past the series standing at the hallway. I rush around the room collecting my clothes and putting them on quickly. Once I finally have my shoes back on I grab my leather jacket, Sirius' old jacket that he gave me a week before he left, I throw it on my shoulder and walk out of the room and straight to the exit. Ignoring James from behind me muttering "what the fuck just happened?", ignoring Sirius chasing after me to stop me, ignoring whatever the fuck just fell out of my pocket. I open the door and slam it shut, running down the steps like fucking Cinderella or some shit! Once I get to the street I hope in a cab and go home something I should've just done last night.
"Is someone going to tell me what the fuck just happened?" I ask with so much confusion of why I just watched the most gorgeous man storm out of my apartment after meeting my best friend.
"Hey James." Sirius croaks out tears developing in his eyes "you know that brother of mine?" He lets out with a whale tears streaming down his face now. I rush over to him to catch him as he lets himself fall to the ground.
"Ya? What happened?" I'm so confused! Is there something I'm missing? Is this a case of me being an idiot?
"What happened? Dipshit you put your dick in him that's what happened!" Ohhhhh!
Fuck.
"Oh fuck. Shit Sirius I'm so sorry! I would never have done hi.. that if I'd known who he was!" Sometimes I'm a complete dumbass, but I'm smart enough to not tell Sirius that I 'did' his long lost little brother like he was some game.
"Siri, are you okay?" Remus asks in a comforting voice trying to mask his concern. He comes over to us on the floor and sits down pulling Sirius into his arms while he cries.
"Fuck. Did I just fuck up something without even starting?"
Fuck, did I just fuck up something without even starting? God the people who said that me and Sirius' were practically brothers were so fucked. Cause one that would be messed up because of the whole Regulus issues and two we weren't brothers we were the same, we are 2 halves of a heart. Without Sirius there would be no James and without James there would be no Sirius. In hindsight that weird connection I had with Regulus makes sense now I mean yes me and Sirius are halves of a heart but a part of his heart is Regulus. Regulus fits into Sirius' heart like a puzzle piece that he could never lose. As long as I've known Sirius I've known Reg. Fuck, James shut the fuck up and comfort Sirius.
"Sirius, what do you want to do? Do you want to talk, do you want to just sit here and cry in our arms, do you want to punch me for this whole thing? All answers are valid."
"For now a bit of the second and third one." He responds barely even a whisper. So that's what we do. We sat on the floor and comforted him. I couldn't tell you how much time passed but by the time someone finally spoke again it was lunch time.
"I don't want to punch you for bringing my brother to me. I want to punch you for bringing him back to my apartment to do.." He pauses to make a fake puking noise " whatever vile things it is that you did to my BABY brother!" clearly he was over his urge to puke as for he was hitting my chest over and over again not very hard but just enough to get the point across. He didn't seem actually upset. It seemed to be partly a joke and partly a warning of 'If you ever fuck my brother again I swear to god I will actually punch you.' The 3 of us just sat there and laughed for a little bit before getting up.
"Who wants lunch?" Remus asks. Offering Sirius a hand up off the ground and back to his feet.
"I could go for some sushi!" Sirius responds with a very clearly faked tone of excitement. We've known Sirius since we were 11 and 12, and he's an awful liar, so Remus and I can tell when he's not okay. But we also know if he wants to talk he will so we don't push.
"Sushi it is!" I reply mirroring Sirius' 'excitement'. The 3 of us all go get changed. I put on my favorite pair of blue jeans, an Arsenal football jersey I got for fairly cheap a while back, and I grab my favorite jacket the corduroy exterior showing that this is in fact my favorite jacket and has been since I got it when I first moved to london at 18, the inside that was once a nice and soft fuzzy white texture, now a sort of brittle worn out light brown.
Once I walk out to the living room to wait for the boys I notice a piece of paper on the floor. Oh ya I saw something fall from Reg's pocket early! It feels wrong to call him 'Reg' now seeing as he said I could because I was attractive so I'm guessing that that's what he normally tells his hookups, and I am no longer one of his hookups, I'm his brother's best friend. When I unfold the small piece of paper I see that the only thing written on it is a phone number and "call me." written in very fancy handwriting, no doubt because of his posh asshole parents he grew up with. Hell, that's so weird that I know that about him now. He didn't tell me he's just the brother of my best friend. Amidst my thinking I realize wait was this note originally for me or did he just constantly have one in his pocket? Was he the kind of guy to sleep around? I mean he was bloody incre.. James stop, that's Sirius baby brother. Oh god, I'm a brother fucker now!
When Sirius and Remus come out of their room I quickly stuff the number into my pocket. Should I show them? Will that upset Sirius more? Does he even want the number?
"What are you hiding?" Remus questions basically immediately. I swear that boy's a werewolf with his crazy observational skills!
"Nothing." I'm a good liar, it's honestly a problem, comes with being such a people pleaser at all times, anyways the only reason Remus questioned it is because he watched me stuff the piece of paper away.
"James. Show me." Sirius chimes in, holding his hand out for the paper.
"Sirius, it's Regulus' number. If you want it you can have it but you don't have to. Okay? If you're not ready then I'll put it back in my pocket and we'll forget about it." He just looks at the paper in my hand for a second obviously pondering if he should take it or not.
"I.." he stops and hesitates before speaking again "I don't know right now." With that I put the paper back into my pocket.
"Then there is no paper until you want it." He walked over to me and embarrassed me into a tight hug.
"Thank you, Prongs."
"Always, Padfoot."
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Translation:
James Spanish-English:
Buenos días, Guapa = Good morning, beautiful
Notes
So how did we like this chapter? I really like this one actually! I think Regulus trying to bring humor to the situation is hilarious. And OH MY GOD their inner monolouges they just YAP & YAP & YAP don't they!? They is technically me but still. God Reg & James are so fucking me!!
Also my editor/bsf didn't help on this chapter as for she has a life! Crazy right!? Nah nevermind she ended up editing it today!
Summary
Regulus wakes up next to James simps over him some more, get's confused why he actually seems to like him and his personality. (SHOCKING NEWS: YOU CAN LIKE PEOPLE YOU HOOK UP WITH)
James takes a shower while Regulus gets coffee, a hangover cure, and a traumatizing experience.
Regulus meets Remus and then Sirius, his long lost brother. He tries to bring some humor to the situation very poorly by pointing out how he slept with James, who's currently shirtless in the kitchen confused. Sirius is shocked, silent(that's a first!)
Reg leaves in a hurry when he realizes that Sirius hates him and wants nothing to do with him (it's giving.. unreliable narrator?) but he doesn't realize the piece of paper falling from his pocket
James and Remus comfort Sirius
James gives us a fit check
James finds the piece of paper Regulus dropped with his phone number on it.
Sirius finds out about the paper and says "I.. I don't know" when asked if he wants it yet or not. So James has it to internalize 'was this paper for me? is Reg just a manwhore? no I can't I'm his brother's bsf'
Then the 3 marauders go get sushi (I might add peter I might not still deciding)
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