Reggie and the Skittles
Sirius is at his wit's end again, He shouldn't have agreed to play chase with Reggie, the little gremlin bolted as fast as he could as Sirius chased him down the hall, it was fun at first but the fun can only last when said four year old is nowhere to be seen and Sirius is now panicking looking for him
"Found him?" He asked James a little frantic
"No sorry Pads–Wait… Pads…Let's use the map" James beams and Sirius wants to smack himself, a complete idiot, is what he is, of course they should've used it earlier, would've save them all the goddamn trouble, James took out the map out of his pocket
"I solemnly swear that Iam up to no good" Sirius chants and the writing starts to spread through the parchment, dots with names shows
"There! Oh… He's near the dungeon, Slytherin Dorm! He's–" James wasn't about to complete what he's saying when Sirius runs with godspeed towards the dungeons,
His alread on full panic, if one of those pesky Slytherins got to Reggie, especially Mulciber, Avery or heavens forbid, Snape, finds Reggie wandering there without him, Sirius is sure his dear old hag of a mother would be alerted and she would take Regulus
He spots a group in the corridor near the Dungeons, one of them carrying Reggie, as Sirius comes closer, he recognizes the one carrying Regulus, Rosier's twin sister, Pandora
"SIWI!" Regulus calls, his smile wide as Sirius skids to a halt infront of Pandora, catching his breath
"Reg,you rascal! Who told you to run off like that!"
"Were pwaying! And I found Panda!" Regulus says
"Hello Sirius" Pandora greets
"Well hello Black" Evan Rosier smirks at him
"Yoh!" Barty nods at him
"You should keep an eye on Baby Black, he could've run into Mulciber's group, you know how they can be" Dorcas has her hand on her hip
"You think I don't know that? The little gremlin decided to run away from me" Sirius retorts, he's not breathing heavily anymore and wiped a sheen sweat off his chin
"Don't worry Black, we got to him first" Barty has his shit eating grin
"Well thank Merlin for that, come on Reggie, we're going back!"
"No! Siwi, I wanna pway with Panda un Evan and Bawty and Cas pwease?" His face scrunched, eyes big as he clings to Pandora,
Sirius looks at Pandora and the rest of Regulus' Slytherin friends with a raised brow
"Regulus…" He sighs
"Don't worry, We'll keep him with us, Is that okay? I kinda miss him too" Pandora cuts and Regulus nods with enthusiasm at the idea
Sirius bit his cheek, He doesn't trust the Slytehrins, but Pandora is in Ravenclaw and Dorcas is well, she's been around them alot due to being with Marlene, still, he questions if he can …
"Siwi, pwease?"
"Fine, but… I'll get you at noon for your nap"
"Yay!"
"Thankyou Sirius" Pandora beams at him before turning her attention to Regulus who's now chattering with Evan and Barty, he looks at them, there's a small relief that washes over him, he wouldn't admit it, and he still don't trust them but he can see that they really care about Regulus, his baby brother found friends, maybe different from Sirius ' own but they care the same
"Separation Anxiety?" Dorcas chides, smirking at him
"Can you blame me? Can you look me in the eye and say you would trust Crouch and Rosier in taking care of your plant?"
Dorcas rolls her eyes at him "well No, but atleast I can tell you that they care for Reg"
"Yeah, and atleast they have you and Pandora, well I should get going, Our free period's about to end, Reggie, I'll see you later yeah?"
"Bye bye!!"
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Regulus likes Pandora, she has many beautiful stories about nargles and wrackspurts, and she has many clips that looks like sparkly butterflies and dragonflies, Regulus likes that she lets him braid her hair
"Come on Ev, make one!" Pandora chides at Evan, asking to make her a flower crown, they're currently in the gardens having a little picnic, Regulus is sitting on Dorcas lap as he weaves Pandora's hair into messy plaits, Barty is lying down, eyes close sucking on a sugar quill
"Oh fine, give me those flowers" Evan sighs, and took flowers from the basket weaving them together
"Wanna make em too!" Regulus let's go of Pandora's hair and gets up from Dorcas' lap, he scoots towards Evan and took a handful of flowers from the basket
"How do you make them?" Regulus asks
"Well, here I'll show you"
Regulus really do like them, Evan is a little cold and a little mean but he's also gentle, Barty is playful and he's a little crazy but he's cool and then of course Dorcas, she makes sure to keep Barty and Evan in check which is really cool too
Regulus and Evan continue to weave their flower crowns, Regulus' face scrunched in concentration, his tongue sticking out ,while Evan instructs him on how to do it, halfway through the tangles of flowers, Evan felt Barty shift beside him, then he felt him stuck something on his hair, it's a little rose
"What's that for?" He can feel his cheeks burn
"Looks good on you" Barty says in a sleepy tone with a bit of bashfulness
A child like giggle popped the bubble and Evan cleared his throat looking at Regulus, who's looking at them,Pandora hiding her giggle on her hand and Dorcas smirks at them
"W-what?" Evan stammers at them, Regulus giggles and turns to Pandora
Look"Panda, Awe Evan and Bawty Boyfwends like Siwi and Wemus?"
"N- It's…Reg…" Evan stutters more, he turns to Barty who didn't even looked bothered and just turned away feigning sleep, he wants to strangle him right there
"Nope, Reggie they're not boyfriends yet…" Pandora smiles, her eyes glinting mischievously
"But they wike each othew?"
"Oh Very Much" Dorcas answers,her smirk wider
"Dorcas! Dora!please" Evan grumbles in defeat
"Tis okay Evan! Bawty wikes you too" Regulus gives him a little pat on his knee, his eyes on Evan, Dorcas and Pandora just laughs out loud
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"He fell asleep after making flower crowns" Dorcas says passing Regulus to Sirius,a flower crown still stuck into his hair
"Thanks Cas"
"He made some for you guys too, here!" Pandora gave them four sets of weaved flowers
"I'll take that" Remus recieves them, his smile soft
"Thanks again, we'll put him down…"
Sirius pauses for a while and Remus looks at him prompting him to continue, Sirius pouts but he does, though he did so without looking at any of them
"If you want to check on Reggie you can, anytime, We'll tuck the rascal in now"
He says hurriedly, shifting Regulus to balance a on his hip before grabbing Remus and hurrying to get back inside
The quad remained standing there
"Well… Looks like we get to play with Little Reggie again" Barty shrugs
"Yeah" Pandora replies
"Well, I'll get going now, I have another class before dismissal" Dorcas waves before walking back
"We better go back too" Pandora starts
"You go first Dora, I have something to talk with Barty" Evan tells his sister who looked between him and Barty before smiling wide
"Alright"