The End of 4th Year
Regulus just finished his 4th year at Hogwarts being top of his class.
The train ride home is uneventful with Evan and Barty making him swear he will write to them over the summer, just like every year. Once the train stops Regulus gathers all his things and says his goodbyes, walking off the train and toward his parents. He reaches his mother and without a word, she grabs him by the arm and apparates to Grimmlaud Place. His father then appears with Sirius in tow but the second his feet touch the ground he's barreling up to his room, Regulus does much the same both just waiting to be called for dinner.
A few hours pass before Kreatcher gets Regulus for dinner. His pace slow he walks with utmost grace and finds his spot at the un-naturally long dinner table, silently waiting for Sirius because the last thing he wants is to get beat for eating before everyone is seated.
Sirius shows up looking extremely disheveled per usual, once he's seated they begin to eat. The only sound is silver clanking against the glass plates until Walburga starts. "So Sirius a little birdy has told me you were caught with your tongue down a wherewolves throat." Sirius drops his fork with a loud clang and looking ghostly pale says “And what about it?” This has both his parents raging, glass being thrown, curses being mumbled, and Regulus sitting stone-faced, staring at his plate. Sirius storms up to his room not long after, their parents still screaming terrible words. Sirius a few moments later comes down with a trunk and their mother still screaming mutters the one curse they hate to hear “Crucio” Regulus can’t tell when he moved but he finds himself up in his room. Frantically packing his trunk so he can get him and Sirius out of there.
Running down the stairs he sees Sirius lying at the bottom, he assumes that his mother got bored but not after throwing a few slicing jinxes. Regulus quietly walks toward his brother with his trunk in hand and slings his arm under Sirius’s while trying to get him toward the fireplace. What had only taken a minute felt like it was taking an hour, but finally they made it and right as he did he heard screeching, not looking back Regulus grabbed the floo powder and not knowing anywhere else to go he mumbled Potter Manor.