going wild (in my mind)

Regina smiles as Marlene wraps her in a hug. It’s been three weeks now since they started dating. There was a Hogsmeade trip today, the first one since their last date, and the couple was skipping out, to instead sit on the grounds together without getting bothered.

“How are you Reg?” Marlene asks releasing the hug, looking into the smaller girl's eyes.

Regina smiles the smile that only Marlene gets to see. “Good Mars,” she tells her girlfriend. “How about you?” Regina questions. 

“Great, even better now that I get to see you,” Marlene responds. Regina blushes and looks down at her shoes. 

Marlene takes her hand and starts leading them outside. “So…” she trails off. 

“So?” Regina tilts her head at her girlfriend. 

Marlene takes a deep breath. “This is a two-part question,” she says. Regina nods urging her to go on. “Would you maybe want to come to the Halloween party in Gryffindor tonight?” Marlene asks nervously. 

“Yes, of course, I was already going because of Sirius, but it’s nice to be invited formally,” Regina responds quickly. Sirius had all but forced her into agreeing to go. The Halloween was one of the only Gryffindor parties that was actually staff-approved. How that happened no one truly knows. 

Marlene beams “Okay so here’s part two,” she breathes out. Regina again nods. “Wouldyoumaybewanttodoacouple’scostume?” Marlene asks so quickly Regina can’t understand. 

“What?” Regina asks. 

Marlene takes a deep breath. “Would you want to do a couple’s costume?” She asks slower this time. 

“What would we do?” Regina asks. She’s not agreeing to anything, because while she does want to dress up with her girlfriend, she also has limits to what she’ll dress up as. 

“I don’t know,” Marlene admits.

“We can figure it out,” Regina assures her girlfriend. Marlene smiles.

Marlene and Regina have been spending lots of time together, it’s only been three weeks, and Regina is already gone for the other girl. Sometimes they study in the library (Regina studies, and Marlene doodles), other times they are on the Hogwarts grounds, and they’ve even flown around the pitch a couple of times.

Marlene takes them to a tall tree a little ways away from the Black Lake. Regina has always been fond of the Black Lake, in her first year she often spent lots of time looking through the glass in her common room at the Merfolk in the Black Lake.

“So, did you have any ideas on what we could do?” Regina asks once she and Marlene are comfortable on the ground. Marlene blushes and looks away from Regina. The latter girl grabs the former’s face and pulls it back to look at her. “Tell me, I won’t make fun of you,” she says.

Marlene sighs slightly, “It’s really cheesy and such a cliche,” she says.

“I don't care, just tell me,” Regina pushes.

“Fine, what if we did a black cat and a white cat?” Marlene asks. Regina thinks for a moment, still holding her girlfriend’s face.

“Okay,” Regina confirms. Marlene’s grin is blinding. Regina squeezes her face to pucker her lips. Marlene huffs out a laugh. The Slytherin girl stops squeezing and pecks the Gryffindor’s lips.

“You’re adorable Reg,” Marlene laughs. Regina’s face goes red and she moves her hands down to wrap around the older girl’s neck. Regina buries her face into the crook of Marlene’s neck.

“Stop,” Regina’s voice is muffled.

“You know I don't think I will,” Marlene teases. Regina huffs. Marlene pulls Regina’s face out of her neck and their eyes meet, brown and grey. Regina has a slight pout that Marlene can’t help but kiss away. “You’re so lovely,” Marlene whispers. Regina blushes.

Regina shifts down to lay her head in Marlene’s lap, and the latter’s hand starts to card through the former’s hair. Regina takes out the book she’d started reading the other day. Marlene reaches into her bag to pull out one of the Muggle comics she got from Evans.

The two girls are quietly wrapped up in each other the entire day.

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“I can’t believe all it took for you to be fun on Halloween, was for your girlfriend to ask you to go to a party with her,” Barty laughs from his spot on his bed. Regina is in Barty and Evans's dorm getting ready for the party. Marlene agreed to meet her outside the Gryffindor common room. 

Regina scowls at Barty through the mirror she’s standing in front of. “Fuck off Barty,” she seethes. 

“Aw, kittens got claws,” Barty smirks. 

“I swear to Salazar, Crouch I will drown you, you know I'm not bluffing,” Regina tells her friend. Evan comes out of the bathroom, dressed up as a pirate. 

“Barty whatever your doing stop,” Evan sighs. “For what it’s worth I think it’s cute that you're doing a couples costume,” Evan nods his head at Regina. Barty’s face lights up. 

“Merlin fuck Evan why would you say that!” Regina yells. Evan looks white as a sheet with fear. 

“Oh so it’s a couple’s costume, why didn’t you tell me Reg?” Barty asks with mock innocence. Regina ignores him, instead focusing on adding the final touches to her outfit. 

Regina is wearing a black turtle-neck, with faded dark gray wide-leg jeans, they have rips all over the legs. She has a cat ear headband in her dark curls along with a black tail she uses as a belt. Regina has her makeup done to make her look like a cat. 

“I can’t wait to see what McKinnon wears Reg,” Barty grins with a glint in his eyes. Regina rubs the bridge of her nose. 

“I swear Barty if you say anything, anything at all, you're getting pushed off of Gryffindor tower,” she sighs heavily.

“I’ll make sure to keep Barty in check Reg don’t worry we won’t embarrass you,” Evan assures his friend. 

“I highly doubt that but thanks,” Regina sighs, she knows better than to think Barty and Evan won’t embarrass her. Regina finishes putting on her last ring and turns around. “I’m ready,” she tells her friends. 

Evan pulls Barty up who’s dressed as a troll. Evan leads him and Barty out of the dorm and Regina follows. Outside of the Slytherin common room they meet Pandora and Dorcas to go to the party.

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“Regina!” Marlene all but runs up to Regina.

“Hello, Mars,” Regina greets. 

Marlene is wearing a white wife-beater and almost white-grey bell bottoms. She has a headband with cat ears and a tail around her waist. 

“You look heavenly baby,” Marlene looks into Regina’s grey eyes. Regina’s eyes go wide and her face  flushes a deep red. 

“Mars stop,” Regina mutters. She is very aware of her friends nearby.

“I’m telling the truth Reg,” Marlene leans down for a kiss. Regina can’t help but lean up. Their lips meet for a chaste peck. 

“I hate to break your little lesbian-fest up but the party is inside and none of us are Gryffindors,” Barty interrupts the couple. Marlene turns towards the Gryffindor portrait and drags Regina along with her. Regina flips Barty off, and the latter only smirks. 

“You look hot Mars,” Regina whispers to her Girlfriend before they walk in.

“Thanks, baby,” Marlene quickly kisses her cheek. Marlene says the password and leads the group of Slytherins and one Ravenclaw into the common room. The party is in full swing. Regina’s friends all say goodbye before going off in different directions, Dorcas towards the drinks, Pandora and Evan towards where the most people are standing, and Barty to wear people are dancing. 

“You wanna go say hi to my friends,” Marlene asks nodding towards a group of people. Regina nods nervously. She’s technically met all of them before, but it’s different now that she’s Marlene’s girlfriend. Marlene leads them to where Potter, Sirius, and McDonald are all talking with drinks in hand. 

“Hey, Marls!” Potter greets his friend. Sirius looks over and sees Regina. 

“Reggie! You came! And you wore a fucking costume!” Sirius yells excitedly at his sister. “Sixteen years and I finally get to see you in a damn costume,” He says happily.

“She’s doing a couples costume with Marlene, that is not something I thought I’d ever see in my life,” McDonald says eyes wide with shock. 

“Eughl, Godric that’s disgusting,” Sirius pretends to fetch when he looks at the couple's outfits. 

“Stop being such a dramatic cunt Sirius,” Regina groans. Marlene is still chatting with James. 

“Fine, I’m sorry Reggie,” Sirius apologizes quickly. “I’m really glad you came,” he finally says. 

“Yeah yeah, it’s not like you would’ve let me skip,” Regina rolls her eyes, not hiding the fondness well.

“Reg? I’m going to go get a drink want anything?” Marlene asks Regina suddenly appearing in her line of vision. 

“I’ll come with you, so I can see what’s there,” Regina says. She waves goodbye to her brother and follows Marlene through the crowd. Eventually, they get to two little tables, one side is normal and the other has wards set so you have to be seventeen to get a drink from there. (That was a requirement of the teachers, to allow them to have this party.)

“I’ll let you get what you want,” Marlene moving out of Regina’s way. 

“Marlene, I can’t get anything alcoholic, I’m sixteen,” Regina chews her bottom lip nervously. 

“Oh! Shit I forgot for a second, I’ll get you something, have you ever drunk?” Marlene asks moving to the table. Regina shakes her head no. Marlene nods and quickly fills a cup and hands it to Regina before filling her own. Regina takes a sip. “How is it?” Marlene asks. 

“Good, Mars,” Regina smiles taking another small sip. It tastes fruity.

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Regina and Marlene had danced for a while before moving to one of the couches on the party's edge for a break. Regina was sitting in Marlene’s lap and they were lazily making out. 

“Regina?” Fenwick asks. Marlene and Regina pull away reluctantly to look at the Ravenclaw in front of them. “Marlene! What the fuck!?” He all but screeches. 

“What Benji?” Marlene asks irritated. 

“Regina? What the fuck?” Fenwick ignores Marlene. 

“What?” Regina asks equally as annoyed as her girlfriend. 

“How could you move on so fast?” He asks hurt. Regina scoffs. 

“C’mon we dated for two months a year ago,” she tells her ex with a bored expression. “I’m not even into men, Fenwick,” Regina adds. 

“Mars c’mon I thought you weren’t supposed to date your friends' exes,” Fenwick gave up trying to argue with Regina fast. Fenwick calling Marlene ‘Mars’ makes something uncomfortable twist in Regina’s stomach. 

“No one is allowed to call me Mars,” Marlene all but growls.

“I’ve heard Baby-Black over there call you Mars all night,” he complains.

“Does she look like no one to you,” Marlene asks, Regina bites her lip to stop her grin. 

“What about everything we had Regina?” Fenwick asks. “I was a good boyfriend, you traded gold in for silver!” He waves his hands out. Marlene taps Regina’s thigh and she takes that as her queue to slide off of her girlfriend’s lap. Marlene stands up and she’s taller than Fenwick. 

“I’m a better boyfriend than you could ever be Fenwick, I’m not even a boy,” Marlene scoffs. Fenwick looks at Regina then Marlene and walks away with a scoff. Marlene sits back down and pulls Regina back into their previous position. 

“Can you believe the nerve of that guy? I told him I was a lesbian when we broke up,” Regina scoffs. Marlene nods. “He was shitty at kissing, and he has a tiny dick, I gave him one blowjob and broke up with him immediately,” she complains. Marlene laughs. Regina keeps complaining about how terrible he was when they dated.

The older girl pulls the collar of Regina’s turtle neck down, leans forward, and latches onto Regina’s neck. Regina trails off whatever she is saying and gasps, arching up into Marlene’s touch. 

“Fuck Mars,” Regina gasps. Marlene bites lightly onto Regina’s neck, there will surely be a hickey in the morning. “Oh fuck, kiss me,” Regina begs.

“You're so sweet baby,” Marlene says before doing as requested by her girlfriend. 

Their lips meet in a heated kiss. Marlene bites down on Regina’s bottom lip and she licks over the spot to soothe it. Regina moans. She opens her mouth with a gasp and Marlene takes the opportunity to slip her tongue into Regina’s mouth. 

They’ve been making out lots since their first kiss, but this is more heated than any of the others.

Regina tastes like the fruity drink Marlene gave her, and something else she can’t quite place. Marlene gasps when Regina bites her lip a little. 

Regina and Marlene kiss and kiss and kiss until they get rudely interrupted. 

“Godric fuck! I’m gonna be sick,” Sirius’ voice is suddenly in Regina’s ears. Regina and Marlene stop kissing, and Marlene Realizes she has a hand gripping Regina’s ass, she moves it up silently praying to Merlin and Morgana that Sirius doesn’t kill her for defiling his ‘innocent baby sister’. 

“Someone fucking rip my eyes out, actually better yet, just fucking Avada me,” Sirius shrieks. “I thought I was okay with this relationship, I was so very wrong,” he adds with a shudder.

“Salazar Sirius it’s nothing I haven’t had to see you and Remus doing,” Regina groans. 

“You’re my baby sister though!” Sirius whines. 

“Okay and?” Regina asks annoyed.

“McKinnon you couldn’t have done this anywhere else,” Sirius asks devastation clear in his voice. Marlene shrugs. “Well I was going to ask if you wanted to join the truth or dare game in my dorm but never-fucking-mind,” Sirius starts to leave, but, Marlene gets up and Regina somehow stays in her arms. 

The younger girl lets out a squeak and Marlene quickly sets her girlfriend down. They follow Sirius into his dorm where Potter, Evans, McDonald, Lupin, Pettigrew, Dorcas, Pandora, Barty, and Evan are all sitting in a circle. Regina and Marlene sit next to each other on the ground going the circle despite Sirius’ glares.

“Okay, so I guess I’ll start, Lily truth or dare?” Potter turns to Evans. 

“Truth,” She says, basic. 

“Okay, who’s the hottest person here,” Potter asks with a smirk. 

“Remus,” Evans says immediately with a deadpan expression. Everyone laughs. Regina doesn’t see what’s so funny. 

“Okay Marlene, truth or dare?” Evans looks at Marlene expectantly.

“Dare,” Marlene responds easily

Lily thought for a moment. “I dare you to shot gun a cigarette with Regina,” Lily smirks. 

Marlene sighs and takes a cigarette from Barty. Sirius gets up and leaves the room claiming he was going to ‘bleach his eyes’. Marlene lights it with her lighter. 

She stands and Regina kneels in front of her expectantly. Marlene has to force herself not to groan at the sight. She takes a heavy drag of her cigarette and leans down to ghost her mouth over Regina’s lips. She blows the smoke into her mouth. Marlene pulls back and takes an overdramatic bow before sitting back down next to her girlfriend. Everyone claps. Sirius comes back in eyes un-bleached. 

“That was fucking hot Mars,” Regina whispers to her girlfriend.

Regina and Marlene share the rest of the cigarette.

“Um, Pete! Truth or dare?” Marlene points at the man in question.

“Oh um truth I guess,” Pettigrew sounds nervous. Marlene taps her chin with a smirk on her lips.

“Fuck, marry, kill, Remus, James, and Sirius,” she finally says.

“Well that’s easy, fuck Remus, marry James, and kill Sirius,” Pettigrew answers easily.

“Why?” Sirius asks indignantly.

“Ask me again on your turn Padfoot,” Pettigrew smirks. “Okay my turn, Dorcas truth or dare?” He asks turning to Regina’s friend.

“Truth,” she answers and Regina almost scoffs.

“Who was your gay awakening and why?” Peter asks.

“It was two people, Lily, cause I mean just look at the girl, and Remus, cause what person could like such a loser, no offense Rem,” Dorcas nods to Lupin who just sighs. Evan’s face is as red as her hair. “Reg! Truth or dare,” Dorcas smirks evilly at her friend. Regina already knows what she’s going to say.

“Dare, obviously,” she scoffs. Dorcas thinks for a long few moments.

“Okay if you’re so confident then I dare you to take off Barty’s sock with your teeth,” she smirks. Regina rolls her eyes and goes up to Barty’s foot. She quickly takes off his sock with her teeth.

“Easy,” Regina answers sitting back down next to Marlene.

The rest of the game is uneventful.

Regina is wholly bored by the time everyone decides to go their separate ways.

“Baby? Do you want to just stay in my dorm?” Marlene asks.

“Sure Mars,” Regina answers softly.

Eventually, the couple ends up in Marlene’s bed in a tangled pile of limbs.