Regulus smiled softly to himself, an unnatural form for his soft pink lips which were usually curled down in an ugly grimace.
It had been the best summer of his life, he thought, he had finally ran away from his parents. He stayed at James potters house after he went to find sirius, effie and monty had taken him in and fixed his broken ribs walburga gave him as a parting gift.
He had lounged around the giant lush gardens of the potter mansion, playing exploding snap with his brother and secretly making out with his best friend every night, although sirius didn't need to know that.
He was still getting used to the feeling of being able to say and do whatever he wanted at anytime without his mother judging or criticising or punishing hum. It took a while to get used to but it felt good.
Regulus walked down the train away from his brother and his friends looking back over his shoulder to catch James's eye and smirk mischievously, James smirked back his gorgeous soft mouth twirling up at the corners of his deep brown skin. God he was gorgeous.
That was another thing regulus learnt at the potters, about God and christmas. Before, he had only ever heard stories about how some people celebrate some guy called Jesus getting brutally murdered for nothing. He personally thought that the whole story was bullshit, but it was nice seeing all the colourfully wrapped boxes piled under the glistening green pine tree.
Regulus peered throught the windows searching for his friends. He walked down the train, stumbling slightly as it jolted forward going faster, steaming through the Scottish Highlands. He finally found his friends, lounging in the carriage nearest to the back. He slid open the glass doors and plopping himself down next to evan.
"Reg! You look great darlin' how 've you been?" Pandora looked at him in surprise, speaking in her strange accent with the little lilt that made everybody fall in love with her.
"Hi pan, I've been good actually. Stayed with the potters over the summer, mother went a bit mad."
Evan and Pandora stared at him slight surprise before evan looked at him mischievously,
"The potters huh? How are they doing reg? Don't they have a son, Jack was it?"
"James" regulus replied automatically before feeling his cheeks flare up at the mention of his secret lovers name. Evan was the only one who new about regulus and James, as he had caught them making out in the dungeons one time.
Evan looked up at him innocently, his eyes glistening with the need to laugh, but regulus quickly cleared his throat and changed the subject as he saw Pandora looking at them suspiciously,
"So um where's barty at then?"
Pandora looked at him oddly, evan stifling laughter in the corner,
"Um I think he's getting his cousin or something, he's in first year and barty senior is making barty jr look after him or something but he-"
Just as Pandora was speaking the door slammed open once again, this time revealing barty in all his dark annoyance and a smaller kid who looked about 7 with thick box glasses and buzzed orange hair.
"'Lo ladies, gentlemen. I present to you the sad, the unfortunate, goerge. Also known as my cousin."
Barty pushed goerge into the carriage slamming the door shut and falling onto the chair next to Pandora. Little goerge stood in the middle of the carriage looking like he would rather jump into the black lake than be here.
"Well that's a bit unfortunate isn't it."
Pandora stared at regulus, eyes widened,
"Regulus! Don't be rude to the poor thing. Just because his looks aren't.... ideal, doesn't mean he won't be a fabulous wizard. I'm sure you looked just the same when you were a first year."
Barty and evan burst out laughing and regulus smirked amusedly.
"What. Why are you all laughing?"
Barty and evan calmed down enough for barty to choke out his words.
"Oh fuck Pandora, I completely forgot you only joined third year. In first year basically reg was like drop dead gorgeous as always so half the girls were begging to go out with him before he gets so annoyed he fucking screams to the whole fucking common room 'I'm gay bitches back the fuck off' I swear to fuck that's when I decided I wanted to be his friend."
Regulus felt his cheeks heat up in embarrassment, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly,
"Hey I didn't have a choice okay? They were so fucking clingy, I swear to merlin I'm surprised I only threw one of them in the black lake."
Evan and barty burst out laughing again Pandora looking around in bewilderment and goerge standing there looking more terrified than ever. Regulsu couldn't help but start laughing as well when evan fell off his chair and and fell head first on the floor and his nose started bleeding, it was bloody hilar-
"What the fuck reggie?"
Regulus looked up from evan lying all bloody on the floor ro his brother and his friends standing in the doorway staring down at them all on tge floor, Pandora trying to stop evan nose from bleeding and regulus and barty trying to stop crying with laughter.
"H-hey siri. What's up?"
Regulus wiped his eyes and grabbed his wand fixing evans nose with a quick healing charm and sitting back down on the chair.
"Um OK, I'm not gonna ask. There's no space left in any of the carriages, do you mind if we sit here?"
"Uh yeah sure I guess"
They almost sat down an awkward silence, regulus fidgeted with his curls, spinning then around his fingers, eventually remus, the unnaturally tall one spoke up,
"Um who is that?"
Remus pointed to goerge, who regulus had forgotten about at this point, and everyone turned to stare at him trembling in the middle of the carriage like a trapped mouse.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH P-PLEASE DONT HURT ME PLEASE!"
little bald goerge ran backwards into the glass door and banging his boney face, before scrambling to open the doors and run out screaming about being to young to die.
"BAHAHAHHAAHHAHA OH MY FUCKING MERLIN."
barty, regulus,evan and Pandora all burst out laughing while the maraurders stared at the empty space left behind by goerge in shock.
Regulsu bent over laughing at the hilarious scene that had unfolded in front of them,
"Barty, you do realise your dad is going to fucking beat the shit out of you right?"
Barty looked at him, sighing and slumping down in his chair,
"fuck my life, my cousins a fucking pussy. Reg, you wanna crash at hogwarts over rhe christmas break? You still owe me from first year."
Regulus sighed dramatically,
"Noooo I forgot about that. Yeah I'll stay, I can't believe your still holding first year against me."
"Sorry babe but the rules are the rules."
Regulus nodded,
"Yeeh I know I'll stay with you, but evan you stay with be over Easter break you owe me from 2nd year."
Evan made a noise of disapproval, muttering in annoyance,
"Fine I'll stay, but only because I don't break the rules unlike SOME people huh PANDORA?"
Pandora smiled sheepishly, scratching the back of he neck
"Hey I'm sorry i-"
"Hold on I'm so confused, what the heck are you guys on about?"
Everyone looked over to James's (gorgeous) slightly bewildered face, laughing slightly.
Regulus sighed slightly, he didn't like talking, never mind having to talk to his secret lover without making out with him.
"The rules are that if something happens at home so that you can't go home over the holidays, somebody stays with you at hogwarts and then you owe them for whenever they need you to stay with them."
James and the other marauders looked at then liked that was an odd thing to say,
"Why would you have to stay at hogwarts so much though."
The chubby one,Peter, finally speaks up, regulus never really liked hum that much. He was always at bit oblivious.
"Because everyone in slytherin has shitty parents and we all do something to annoy then at one point or another."
"Oh"
Peter looked down at the ground, his round cheeks glowing red. The carriage fell into another awkward silence., this time his brother spoke up,
"Well this is kinda awkward."
Regulus rolled his eyes, his brother the real life sherlock Holmes, and muttered "no shit sherlock" under his breath.
His brother either didn't hear his or ignored his comment and continued on,
"How about we all play a game? Never have I ever is fun, rough we have no alcohol."
Regulus looked up at this, alcohol might not be a bad idea. Could smooth put some of the awkwardness.
"We can get some alcohol, barty do you wanna go?"
Barty nodded excitedly at the thought of alcohol, hopping out of his seat and put the door in a flash
"Wait where are you getting alcohol from?"
Regulus flashed a grin at James and saw his cheeks light up red, "let's just say we're good acquaintances with the trolley witch."
Evan flashed a grin at him, laughing at the terrified look on letters face,
"Is alcohol really a good idea?"
Regulsu went to answer remus but Pandora got there first, "with these three? Never."
Remus nodded a bit retreating back into his sear as barty burst back in pulling 3 bottles of Italian vodka from under his shirt.
"Let's get this party started bitches! OK rules are if you've done it take a shot up you haven't don't take a shot. Easy!"
Everyone nodded and sat on the floor of the carriage around the drinks as barty pored out shots for everyone.
"I'll go first!" Sirius shouted out," OK um never have I ever had sex with more than one person in one night."
Immediately evan barty and regulsu burst out laughing taking a shot each and pouring another for themselves, sirius turned to regulus eyes widened and mouth on the floor,
"Reggie! My innocent little brother?"
Evan stifled a laugh, "innocent? Think again black, reggie is the forest thing from innocent can get."
Sirius looked from evan to regulus jaw still dropped to the floor making odd squeaking noises,
"Anywayyy ill go next, never have I ever done weed."
Fucking James potter saved him from sirius's lecture about safe sex. Fucking gorgeous James potter.
Regulus took his shot tearing his eyes away from the way James's messy hair ruffled In the non existent wind and the way his eyes gleamed golden against the non existent sun beams.
The game went on, mostly just the slytherins drinking, plus a few sneaky shots remus took which went unnoticed by everyone but regulus.
Most of them were drunk at this point, or at least tipsy in Peters case. Regulus was finding it harder and harder to take his eyes of James and James was just plain staring at regulus's lips at this point, it was a known fact that James potter had a very low alcohol tolerance. Sirius was going to notice them at this point, evan certainly had and was making kissing faces at his behind sirius's back.
He focused back in on the game again, it was remus's turn. Remus practically lay on sirius's lap, sirius twirling his hair around his fingers,"um never have I ever fucked somebody I wasn't supposed to"
Regulus and James had taken their shot before they could think about it, sirius looked at then both curiously,
"Reg?James? Who have you fucked that you're not supposed to?"
He looked at both of them suspiciously as regulus and James froze glancing at eachother worriedly.
"Uh oh" came a voice from the corner, stupid fucking drunk evan.
"What why uh oh what do you mean uh oh? Why do you to keep looking at each other like that? Like you funked eachother or some-"
A look of realisation dawned on sirius's face, and regulsu scooted towards the door ewady to make a run for it
"OH MY FUCKING MERLIN DID YOU TWO FUCK EACHOTHER? WHAT THE FUCK. YOU TWO ARE DEAD. FUCKING DEAD."
regulus got up as sirius pounced on him, he grabbed James's hand and the ran out the carriage door, sprinting wildly and waving around bumping into people unable to keep straight from the alcohol. He looked up at James and saw him smiling down at him. James laughed breathlessly eyes creasing at the corners adorably, albeit the screaming banshee brother chasing them in the middle of the hogwarts train,
"I love you y'know"
regulus felt his heart swell up with joy "I know. I love you more y'know"
"Impossible."
And regulus couldn't have been happier.