Unveiled

James, despite Sirius’ interruption, had actually gotten a rather good nights sleep.

That was until, he realised that for the second time that month, his alarm had failed to go off.

That meant, that not only did he miss quidditch practice, but a one mr. Regulus black was still very much asleep in his bed.      

This became even more of a problem, when he realised that Sirius, Remus and peter were all standing outside of his four-poster.
‘James? You up?’ Remus said, sounding rather more sympathetic than expected. ‘Yeah’

Remus pulled back his curtains, And peered inside, before opening them completely. ‘You want to wake him up prongs? I think we should talk.’
James turned to Regulus.

‘Oh Jesus why’d you have to be a heavy sleeper’ james mumbled, more to himself than anything. ‘Amour, il faut se réveiller maintenant.’
‘Pourquoi, c’est trop tôt’ Came a barely coherent voice.

‘James why the fuck are you speaking french to him? Speaking of, how the fuck do you know how to speak french?’ Sirius said, barely containing his frustration at the situation.
‘He can only really speak french in the mornings. His brain doesnt fully wake up till like 20 minutes after his body does.’

‘And why pray tell do you know that?’ James didn’t answer, simply turned back to the boy at his side.
‘J’sais, mais tu peux dormir un peu plus dans un moment, c’est encore le week-end, mais ton frère veut parler avec nous.’

With that statement, Regulus shot up, clearly regaining control of his faculties. ‘Jesus brother why the fuck are you here?’

‘Frankly i could ask the same about you. Firstly james why do you know french?’

‘I learnt it for him.’ James said, gesturing vaguely at regulus.

‘Yeah, and i learnt hindi for him.’Regulus said, smiling again at his boyfriend.

‘Really?’

‘हाँ, भाई, वह मेरे लिए महत्वपूर्ण है और उसकी संस्कृति उसके लिए महत्वपूर्ण है।’

‘You’re getting good!’

‘Am i? In her last letter, Effie says i spell like a child.’
‘She’s just a critic, she’s proud of you i swear.’

Sirius, remus, and peter stared at the couple, as though they had grown new limbs.

‘This is terrifying’ peter mumbled under his breath at the same time that remus whispered ‘you know what, this actually makes sense.’
‘Wait, go back, why did james call you “amour” what are you dating or something.’

Regulus stared at him confoundedly. ‘Jesus fucking christ, no we are two completely platonic friends who happen to sneak into each other’s dorms and suck each other’s faces off.’

‘Jesus christ reggie. I’m going to die.’ James said before hiding his face in his hands again.

‘I’m going to deal with that in a second but how long has this been going on?’ Regulus looked at james before answering, who simply gave a small nod in reply.

‘Three years’ The whole group sat in stunned silence.

‘I’m sorry. I must of misheard, did you say three years?’ Remus said, seemingly recovering from being muted.

‘Mmhm’ james gritted out, still cradling his face in his hands.
‘Oh my god we’re thick’ peter said from where he had perched himself on james’ windowsill.
‘You kind of are, i mean i’ve accidentally left shit here so many times and none of you have noticed, james has snuck out to see me almost every other night, and none of you noticed he was gone. I’d take you for bad friends if i didn’t know better.’

‘Jesus fucking christ, James, you’ve been dating my baby brother for three years and you never thought to tell me? To ask my permission?’

‘I’m sorry? Did you just insinuate my partners need to get “permission” from you to date me? Jesus christ we’re not in the 1950s Sirius. And even if we were you are not mg fucking father.’

’he deflowered you reggie!’

James burst out laughing, before being silenced by the dirtiest glare sent from sirius.

’Sorry, its just, regulus wasn’t exactly… innocent, before i met him.’

’And realistically brother, so what, we didn’t go through with your weirdly puritanical expectations of my relationships. What? Do you want us to break up because of it?’

Sirius didn’t answer.

’Jesus christ thats exactly what you want isn’t it? Sirius, we haven’t talked in years, you have no right to now come into my life, and tell me who i can and cannot love, and it is ridiculous and completely and utterly absurd that you think you have any basis to do so!’

Regulus got off the bed and put on his shoes and one of james’ jumpers.

’Reggie? Where the fuck do you think you’re going we’re not done talking!’

’I just need to make myself a tea before i hear any more of your inane bullshit. Come on james.’

****

It took about 10 minutes of james and regulus being in the common room for someone to come down.

Remus, specifically.

’Where’s Sirius?’ James said, ‘frankly i thought he’d have more to say.’

’I’m sorry james, he just needs a minute.’

’where does he get off on acting like this?’ Regulus sighed, plopping himself down on the couch in front of the fire.

’he’ll come arou—‘

’he doesn’t get to fucking come around james! I’ve been doing this for him, we’ve been hiding for three fucking years so that i could make sure that even if my brother hated me, he could still get the inheritance he is entitled to. I’ve put us through hell just so that he could be happy, but he can’t let us be happy? For once? Jesus how can someone be so selfish?’

’you never told me that.’ James said, rubbing gentle circles on his back.

’it just sounds stupid when i say it out loud so i never did. I know he hates that stupid house and all its shitty artifacts and bad memories. But i figured that for all they put us through, for all they put him through, he might as well get something out of it right? Its stupid.’

’Its not, and trust me im very mad at him right now, but, i also kind of get where he’s coming from?’

Regulus glared daggers at him.

’ I mean, the way he went about it was shitty to say the least, but to be fair, we have been going out for three fucking years. Thats  long time reggie. A long time to keep a secret.’

’i know, i just wish it didn’t have to be this way. I love you.’ Regulus said, kissing him softly.

’i love you too sweetheart. Always.’

’you love him?’ Sirius said, standing on the last step of the staircase leading to the boys dorms.

’if you had just shut up for a moment you might have realised that.’

’he makes you happy.’

’yes, more than anything.’

’okay good, james,’ he said turning towards  him, ‘i give you permission to date my brother.’

’you’re about three years too late for that Pads.’

’Shut up, i dont want to think about it. Jesus Prongs, three years! Thats a long fucking time.’

’i know, and I’m not going to apologise. Reggie means a lot to me, and frankly he was worth it.’

’Aww, see this again is why i call you sappy.’

‘Oh, shut up.’ James said, before kissing him again.

’Nope, nope, not while i’m here.’ Sirius said, covering his eyes with his fingers.

in response regulus started kissing james passionately, pushing him into the couch with his palm.

’oh merlins tits my eyes, peter get the fucking bleach!’ Sirius screamed as he ran up the dorm stairs.

Remus just laughed

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