The very imminent struggles of James Fleamont Potter
Since James had been bitten, life had become……. More fulfilling. Granted he had a lot less free time and had to lie to his friends, the overlooking fact that he was now doing something beneficiary with his life was much better than thinking he was going no where.
but.
The unfortunate fact was he was struggling.
and as of this moment he was about to get punched, and it was going to hurt. Ducking to the left he managed to avoid the blow that Severus the half snake half human was trying to land. Using his legs to kick Severus in the belly and sprint out of this alleyway, he fled down the street. He could fight this battle anther day, or after school. Which he was now extremely late for.
He tried to take bearings of his surroundings but OH shit on it. He was in the middle of a maze of looming houses more importantly he had no idea where in England he was. He needed to change, then google map his way to the nearest tube station. ASAP. Getting changed back into regular clothes was a task, with not getting fined with public nudity and making sure no one can see you in the first place, he often spent quite a while finding somewhere secluded enough.
After trying around what he thought must be Bond Streetish he found an alleyway secluded enough to get changed. And although task 1 had been complete he now had to rush to school. He loaded up google maps and checked his location, findin the nearist tube stop to be: Marble Arch (close enough).
He put on his earphones and starting BRISKLY walking to the stop. Then hopped on the central line to st. Pauls. Where he then used his pret subscription to get a coffee (if he was already late why not be later) and then walked to his school.
Luckily period one he had English, Mr. Dumbldore was chill to the point others thought he was stoned half the time but taught the enough to get through their GCSE poetry. Unluckily when he entered the classroom (unbeknownst to him) Miss. Mcgonagal was the cover teacher for that lesson, she was the much loved maths teacher, but very strict on tardiness.
‘Sorry miss i know I’m late there were tube delayed and-’
’Mr Potter could you knock first please’ she said with a knowing smirk
James could see Sirius sniggering like the annoying little shit he was. Sighing, James exited the classroom and re-entered but not before knocking.
“I’m so sorry I’m late, there were tube delays, it won’t happen again I promise miss”
He said before half bowing and half running off to his seat next to Sirius.
“James where were you! I covered for you in form time but McG was to smart.” Sirius whispered in his ear as he was about to respond, ‘McG’ Stared daggers into him so instead he responded “Talk to you after in the cafeteria, McG is looking at us”
”only if you buy me a doughnut yeah?”
***
After trekking us to the cafeteria and buying a doughnut, they sat down and soon Regulus and his friends joined them.
“Hey Geezers” Barty said sitting down next to Sirius with Evan and Pandora trailing behind
“Barty could you please stop calling people Geezers, if they are not Geezers it’s weird and i think offensive to geezers?” Regulus said rolling his eyes. And Ohhhhhh golly gosh he looked nice today
James became much more aware of how he was sitting and what his hands were doing. He knew that despite all the Black family drama (Sirius getting kicked out and Regulus staying ) Regulus was just irresistible. It was literally impossible to resist him, who could? With his dark hair cut neatly ending just at his cheekbones, contrasting to his pale skin and freckle dotted randomly around his face. His eyes were a force to be reckoned with, one the colour of grass and the other a stormy green cloud. James had justified loving liking his best friends brother for the most part. He had concluded that loving Regulus was a simple fact of life, everyone must do it. Like he is the magnet drawing everyone in, Impossibly irrisitable.
When he looked up, his brown eyes were met with slightly concerned green ones. Regulus had a way of staring through someone’s sole.
“James, could you please answer my question?” And James panicked, he was to busy thinking about Regulus to hear his question. The fact that Regulus was now talking to him was still a shocker, like somehow he couldn’t understand how blessed he could be to be graced by his presence.
”Can you stop ignoring me please!” And Oh yes now he was getting frustrated, James LOVED when he got frustrated because he turned into some angry little toddler, his cheeks flushed pink and he started pouting with those god-forsaken lips.
“Sorry, can you repeat the question?” James said lamely
“Ugh, your such a twit sometimes. I was just asking why you were late. And that I need to drop something off at Westfield so I’m taking the tube back with you guys” Regulus said it so coolly and with such a pretty face James felt obligated to respond
”sure, that’s fine” he said back (trying to somewhat bring back his reputation of being an active listener in conversations)
***
Today was his favourite school day. Why you might ask? Because the last to lessons was art, meanwhile the last two lessons of Regulus’ class was also art. He got to listen to Regulus’ conversation and see his artwork. James had noticed that despite his logical approach to life, Regulus was really good at art. And right now James was supposed to be cleaning the brushes, but instead he was watching Regulus paint.
Regulus was painting a scene of a boat crashing within the waves, and also participating in a seemingly pointless discussion with Barty Evan and Dorcas. Which went something like this:
”you know what?” “What is it now Barty?” “Don’t you find Spanish accents really sexy?” “Barty wtf” “no but like gruff” “oh I get those vibes kinda like ‘hola mami’” “oh Jesus not you too Evan” “no but if a Spanish guy came up to me and said stuff i would hit that” “reeaallll” “not you too Dorcas ” “i wonder how you say ‘I want you’ in Spanish?”
“Te quiero but it also means I love you” James said without really thinking. But he gave it a god damn thought when three heads turned around to face him.
“James,” Barty started “were you listening in on our conversation?”
“Maybe” James said (rather guiltily)
Evans eyes widened with conspicuous realisation “James give us you best gruff sexy kind of Spanish flirting”
as James was about to reject it, he saw Regulus blush slightly and bite his lip, he couldn’t say no to that. Putting his gruffest and sexiest accent on he said “Eres tan hermosa y amo tus ojos. Te quiero, te amo. ven a bailar conmigo bebe” regulus went oddly silent as Barty and Evan burst out laughing.
“Thats what I’m talking about, wouldn’t you hit that up no questions asked?” Barty said gleefully
And to James’s surprise and delight Regulus said “yeah I get it now”
The bell rang and it was time for them to go home. James didn’t need to go home, he was content meliting in a puddle right here because Regulus Arcturus Black thought his accent was fit.
But as he was leaving the building he saw Severus snake attempting to mugg some people.
”sorry guys I forgot my physics folder, go without me!” Sirius seemed content with this but Regulus eyed him suspiciously
“K see you later mate” Sirius said and he left
“bye James” Regulus grumbled before putting his AirPods in. He had a strict rule of no one talking to him on the tube and to be fair everyone was to scared to break it. But james had other concerns to deal with. He started to searched a place to put on his Spider-Man suit while running away from Regulus before he could ask why james was already holding a physics textbook and had no need for a folder as well.
***
”OI mate, sev my G, looking for me? Want someone to actually fight or just continue mugging randos like the little neek you are?”
”piss the fuck of Spider-Man”
with that james rammed into sev. And, straddling him started to punch his face. After a while, Severus’ face was banged up he swang away. There was no point staying but not before he webbed him to the wall, giving the police enough time to capture him and hopefully put him in jail.
as he entered the tube station (now dressed in the appropriate clothing) he came face to face with Regulus, who judging by his appearance, was in a bit of a pickle.
“Hi reg whats going on here?” He said as Cooley as he could with his heart rate doubling
”my Oyster card ran out and i dont have money to top it up with, can i go through with you? And for the love of god could you please not call me reg, you are missing 2 syllables for no reason.”
James lept at the opportunity to help Regulus and fished around in his pockets for his own card. After letting them both in, Regulus seemed quite relieved, so relieved in fact that he almost gave james an airpod. “I’ll give this to you if you apologise for calling me reg and promise never to do it again”
”I promise to never call you reg”
”mums?”
”mums”
after safely putting it in his ear, he was quite shocked to hear the arctic monkeys playing, he always thought Regulus was some robot who listened exclusively to classical music. As far as Sirius was aware, that was all he listened to, but at this point, they were listening to 505 and Regulus was humming alone to the words. His voice was soft and welcoming.
”do you want me to change it” probably noticing James’s baffled expression
”no its great Reggie ” he said smirking
and there it was again, the cute adorable frustrated Regulus, the tube air making his cheeks a little more pink that usual.