The Unsinkble, Sinkable ship
05/05
Sirius’ POV
The Royal Palace of England
5:00am
Sirius is pacing around his room. What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?! I can’t even fucking begin to fucking imagine-! “Uhh Sirius? Her Majesty has asked that you attend breakfast in 5 minutes she has some news regarding the missing Crown Prince James.” Shit. Remus… oh fuck Remus. COMPOSE YOURSELF. “Sirius?” “Ah shit- Yep! Coming.” Sirius opened the door, he walked through the doorframe and straight into Remus. “Shit sorry.” Sirius steps back. “It’s quite alright. Though we should get to the Queen, this is something you definitely want to hear.” Remus spoke softly while leading Sirius down the corridor. “Right yeah.” As the pair walked down to the Royal Dining Room, Sirius stuck next to Remus’ side, for emotional support of course, thats all Sirius let it be.. For now.
“Sirius my darling boy sit down.” Effies voice rang out in the large room. Sirius sat down at his spot, the empty spot next to him which used to- No no no which is James’ spot- Felt.. too empty to be normal. Sirius smiled over at Effie, reassuring her that he was okay. “So you have news about James?” Sirius asked timidly. He played with his food looking at Effie and Monty nervously. “Yes, yes we do. Miss Evans and Miss Lovegood is the detective currently on the case. Miss Evans and Miss Lovegood would you like to explain?” Effie asked.
Two young women entered the room, one with fiery red hair and freckled skin and the other with bleached blonde hair, Dyschromia, and taller than the red head. “Yes, Your Majesty, I would be honoured.” The taller one said. “I am Miss Lovegood, or Pandora if you would like. The Crown Prince was seen entering a bar at 11:38pm the night he went missing, the 27th of April this year. There was also a reported small rowing boat had been stolen, it was docked almost right outside of the seaside bar’s entrance. Another report of a small rowing boat has been seen with 3 people aboard and one of them in what was said to look like handcuffs and a gag heading towards a large ship.” Pandora had a gentle but authoritative voice which seemed to make the news less of a sting. Well at least that’s what Sirius thought.
“So you think that James was kidnapped.” Sirius rather stated than questioned.
“Well yes. We do believe that is a possibility.” The redhead- Miss. Evans spoke.
“By who?” Fleamont questioned wearily. He was shaking, he wanted nothing more than his son to be okay.
“We’re not sure yet but we will resume our search immediately” Pandora spoke softly.
“Thank you girls, you are most helpful.” Effie praised. She looked tired Sirius reckoned. Well any parent who has a missing son would have trouble sleeping at night. Sirius’ mind cast him back to Grimmauld place. Most parents.
“It’s our honour to help you in this desperate time.” Miss. Evans replied. The two girls left the room, and the rest continued with their breakfast.
05/05
James’ POV
Regulus’ Ship
12:00pm
James was seated on the top deck of the ship, eating lunch with the rest of the crew, which included Regulus. Today was clams and muscles, Dorcas’ speciality. James met Dorcas on his first full day on the ship, she was a nice girl with a mean streak which - in James’ eyes - was a defense mechanism. He liked Dorcas, she was an honest person who held her friends and crewmates closer to her than anything else, James wished he could say the same about himself, Infact he felt like this 99% of the time around the people on board.
He felt weak
He felt uneducated
He felt more privileged which strangley made him feel guilty, not as better about himself as he had hoped.
James and regulus hadn’t spoken to each other since Regulus spilled out his entire emotional map to James and pretty much dumped every emotion he had been having in the past 16 years of his life after his brother left, and, it was.. A fuckton of emotions. James felt so seriously bad for Regulus but so genuinley terrified of him to his core. Still, it was evident in James’ mind about how much he is falling for Regulus’ sailor boy charm. All James’ wanted to do was to ask Regulus how he was feeling, but Regulus was so all over the place everyday, James only caught glimpses of him here and there, until today. Regulus had finished his lunch and was heading back to the kitchen to drop his dishes and continue working away with whatever he was doing, so James’ decided why not follow him. When Regulus left, James excused himself from the table and practically sprinted until he saw Regulus. Gods he’s gorgeous. Regulus was scrubbing away at his dishes, when a string of Regulus’ curly, ebony, waves fell out from behind his ear. James’ heart skipped a beat, he was nervous and his hands were clammy but this was his once chance to talk to him.
“Hey Regulus?” James asked nervously, he didn’t want to seem intruding.
“Oh, James, are you alright?” Regulus replied tentatively.
“I’m alright I just wanted to ask if you’re doing alright since our last.. Interaction.” James stated. He didn’t know what to name the ‘interaction’. Regulus’ eyebrows raised slightly still disappearing instantly into his overly-long hair. “Shit, gotta get pandora to cut my hair again.” Regulus mumbles.
“Hmm? I’m sorry I didn’t catch that.. Could you.. Um.. repeat it..?” James was still nervous.
“Oh uh, yeah I’m fine thanks for asking.” Regulus said in his best reassuring tone. “Um actually before you go James could you just re-jog my memory of last time we interacted.”
“Oh uh sure. You came into my room at around 11:00-11:15 and you were fine until you started crying about something to do with your parents and Sirius. I’m sorry I forgot what you said because you were really upset- which is completely valid by the way- anyway then you pretty much clung onto me for the rest of the night before you went to sleep.” James finished his sentence and took a big sigh. “Phewph, well um we did get through a lot of emotions that night.
“Yeah I guess we did.” Regulus said, clearly dazed by something.”I’m. I’m gonna go now. See you James.”
“Oh okay. Uhh see you Regulus.” When Regulus left James realized that he left his Lunch plate still covered with food, which was usually a rare occasion with Regulus who loved to keep things clean and tidy.
James spent the rest of the day off, trying to make sense of what he felt to Regulus, because clearly he wasn’t thinking platonically. Something along the lines of liking girls and boys but not just that, not just two, but more, all. Whatever, James didn't think he’d ever even be able to come out to his parents. It’s not like they’re homophobic or anything at all. James is just so so so terrified to step out of line, especially since the whole county if not more people are watching his every move
Constantly
Day
Night
Morning
Noon
It.
Never.
Stops.
($u!c!d@l thoughts)
Its too much for James sometimes. That’s when he takes a step away from the cameras and find himself on the roof or at a tall spot, debating, crying, shaking, alone, sobbing, wanting, reaching out but getting nothing in return. But ever since he got kidnapped by Regulus, he reckons hes been doing a lot better. Like a lot better. It made him smile, being able to accomplish something, to accomplish anything.
(You can start here)
James was thinking of all of the information Sirius gave him about the LGBTQIA+ community he remembered one word, Pansexual. Pansexual, huh, cool.