Regulus Black
We went back to France for most of the holiday, my parents were wealthy enough to not need to sell our old house to get a nice new one and so we stayed at our old place.
We spent most the first few days talking to family, grandparents talking about how big we'd gotten, nothing too entertaining.
Comments about how many owls Evan had gotten, nine, no one seemed that impressed but they weren't disappointed looking, I asked my brother about averages of owls, he did great if you're not familiar with the system.
I found out Regulus had gotten ten owls, now that's seriously impressive and my brother only got one less so I really don't understand why they didn't seem more proud, but his cousin got more so why should they be? Because they obviously got so much better and put sooo much effort into his studying, like they obviously helped soooo much and have sooo much right to judge his GOOD score.
I know it's not like me getting mad over it now is going to do anything, but it's just so infuriating, I'd be so proud of my kid getting nine owls, I'd be proud if they got none but had gone through the tests and tried. I hate my parents so fucking much, sometimes I wish I could take just everyone who didn't/doesn't receive enough love and affection from their parents and just raise them myself with the care they deserve, the care every kid deserves.
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One of the days into the holiday my brother took me down into the town and into the market. We spent ages looking at jewellery and brother bought loads, I asked him about it and he told me they were gifts before handing me a "crystal wrapped necklace" with some see through crystal in it. I didn't know what to do with it and he clearly realised and put it on my neck.
We had to get back earlier than maybe Evan had wished as Regulus was coming round that afternoon, apparently his whole family was supposed to go back but there had been some drama with his brother, Sirius Black, you know, the infamous murderer. Apparently something to do with the Potters and the funny thing is he's famous for ~something to do with~ the Potters.
We had been there less than a week when Regulus came, he could've in theory just come round whatever days he felt like it and stayed home for the nights but that's a waste of powder and I don't think anyone but maybe muggle borns actually enjoy the travel.
It was a rather quick greeting before the three of us headed down to my grandparents (paternal) place and into the fields behind their house. One of the first things my brother did was show Regulus what he had bought.
"Tu ne vas pas voir Dora ou Cas de sitôt, n'est-ce pas?" (You aren't seeing Dora or Cas anytime soon are you?) My brother asked Regulus while trying to find the right gifts in his bag.
"Eh bien, le père de Dora déteste ma famille et comme Sirius vient de partir, mes parents sont plus stricts que jamais et ne veulent pas que je parte aussi, et Cas a son père moldu qui vit avec elle, alors tu prends une supposition." (Well Dora's father hates my family and with Sirius having just left my parents are being stricter than ever not wanting me to leave as well, and Cas has her muggle father living with her so you take a guess.) Regulus sighed, he looked tired, he had that same hopeless look Narcissa had her wedding day.
"Oh..." My brother looked up from his bag for a minute.
"Ouais, mes parents sont devenus fous, ou plutôt encore plus fous que d'habitude. Vous ne savez pas à quel point les convaincre subtilement de traîner avec les enfants d'autres mangemorts me rendrait plus susceptible d'être celui qu'il a fallu pour les convaincre de me laisser venir ici. Putain Sirius m'abandonne avec ça, avec eux." (Yeah, my parents have gone insane, or well even more insane than usual. You don't know how much subtly convincing them hanging out with other death eaters' kids would make me more likely to be one it took to convince them to let me come here. Fucking Sirius abandoning me with this, with them)
"Connard égoïste." (Selfish asshole.) My brother muttered then looked towards me. "Est-ce que tu vas bien, gamin?" (Are you okay, kid?) I nodded, at this time I was looking through the crystal on my necklace and playing with the grass. He turned back to Regulus clearly thinking I wasn't listening or just wouldn't understand properly anyway.
Evan continued on. "Je ne comprends tout simplement pas comment quelqu’un peut laisser son petit frère ou sa petite sœur dans une maison comme celle-là." (I just don't understand how someone can leave their little brother or sister in a house like that)
Regulus shrugged. "Je veux dire, ne soyons pas trop durs avec lui, si tu avais la chance de partir, ne ferais-tu pas la même chose?" (I mean, let's not be too hard on him, if you had the chance to leave, wouldn't you do the same thing?)
Evan looked him dead in the eyes. "Je préférerais mourir dans cette maison plutôt que d'y laisser Félix." (I would rather die in this house than leave Félix there)
Regulus looked down, I couldn't tell if he was crying but he might've been.
"Sirius aurait dû t'emmener avec lui, c'était la seule façon pour moi de partir." (Sirius should have taken you with him, that's the only way I could leave.)
Evan took his right hand out the bag and grabbed Regulus's left hand and rubbed his thumb along the inside of his left forearm. "Je préférerais mourir plutôt que de faire subir ça à Félix, je mourrais pour que tu n'aies pas à subir ça." (I would rather die than put Felix through this, I would die so you wouldn't have to go through this.)
They stared at eachother for a minute before Evan put his right hand back into the bag and started taking things out. "Je t'ai acheté des choses." (I bought you some things.)
Regulus sniffed and smiled. "Oh ouais?" (Oh yeah?) My brother wasn't just my brother, he was Regulus' as well, not brothers by blood but blood isn't everything.
For Regulus:
• A necklace with metal stag antlers on it that made Evan laugh and Regulus give him a death stare,
• A necklace with a star,
• A ring of angle wings,
• One of those chain things that connects to your belt loops which made Regulus ask Evan if he was trying to turn him into a second Barty but he thanked him for anyway,
• A crystal star necklace made of aventurine.
For "Dora":
• A matching crystal star necklace made of rose quartz
• A couple necklaces with metal moths on and rings to match,
• Crystal rings,
• Some weird ass rings with eyes on them,
• These colorful, dangly, crystal butterfly earrings.
For "Cas":
• Another pair of matching necklaces, some shape I don't know the name of, of some type I don't know the names of, in some colours I didn't see, for her and someone named Marlene apparently,
• Those hair crystal things,
• Some ring of a naked woman,
• An eyes of Aphrodite/Venus ring,
• Some earrings I didn't see.
Last but not least, for Baty:
• A skull ring,
• A dog tag/chain,
• A barbed wire choker,
• Some realistic heart necklace thing,
• Some necklace a bat on,
• A snake ring that wraps around the finger and matching bracelet,
• A rose bracelet that's stem wrapped around the wrist,
• A "snake ear wrap cuff"
• A bat ring,
• Some weird skeleton hand thing that links to a bracelet and rings on each finger.
Regulus seemed impressed by how much and what my brother had gotten, I didn't know two of these people and didn't know the other that well but they seemed interesting from the items my brother had assumed they'd like.
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We headed back fairly soon after the presents got out as we (well Evan and Regulus) were expected to help my grandmother finish cooking dinner, she had spent hours, days even on a big official welcome meal that she had waited for Regulus to make.
Normally the granddaughters would be expected to help in this sort of thing but me and Evan were all my grandparents had left with Druella's kids all being married and away with their own families, so Evan and Regulus were signed up to help with the finishing touches.
We ate, me, Evan, Regulus, my mother, my father, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt (Druella so Regulus' as well) and my uncle (Cygnus Black).
Me and my brother's bedrooms were on a four bedroom floor, two spare ones, Regulus occupied one of them, the one next to mine but I'm pretty sure he spent most of his time in Evan's, often I was with them but I'd be naive to think they didn't hang out a lot without me.
We had a communal living room area in the hall that we also spent quite a lot of time in. It was nice having someone other than my immediate family to talk to, especially one who could actually speak to me. I liked conversations with Regulus, he was smart, he taught me facts, like for example, did you know Platypuses sweat milk? Or that their young is called platypups or puggles? Those are the ones I can remember but you guys should just go look at some facts about them it can be rather amusing, especially if you're five years old.