The New Beginning.
Since the cave, Regulus spent every day he could with Sirius and James. It was lucky that they were best friends, so he could spend time with both of them.
He followed them and made sure they were safe in the numerous haunted houses they went into.
Just because he protected them, didn’t mean that he didn’t fuck with them too. He loved making the spirit box say some shit that scares Sirius out of his mind and then run around the room screaming that there’s a spirit.
Regulus missed them.
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“Where should we go to next?” James asked.
“You know, I heard the white house is haunted,” Peter said, looking up from his phone.
“When are we getting access to the white house? Oh right. Never.” Remus said, playing with Sirius’ hair. He was braiding it then unbraiding it, then moving to another section.
“Have you heard of the Lizzie Borden House?” James asked, and turned his laptop for the others to see. “These guys died-”
“Yeah, that’s the story of most haunted houses.” Sirius said, earning a small chuckle from Remus.
“Back in 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found dead — killed by an axe-wielding psychopath. The police's No. 1 suspect was Andrew's daughter, Lizzie. Lizzie stood trial for the crimes and was ultimately acquitted, but she spent the rest of her life under the shadow of guilt. She is now said to haunt the Fall River, Massachusetts, home where her father and stepmother were murdered, and her ghost can be heard laughing at the top of the stairs.” James read from an article.
“Now that’s fucked up.” Remus said.
“Let’s go to that place.” Sirius said.
“Already booked it in, when we left for the Conjuring house. I have a full list of them.” James checked the list. “Okay. Never mind. There’s like three here. And we’ve done one and going to two.”
Sirius laughed.
“We’re going to the Lizzie Borden House tomorrow and we’re not coming back to this hotel. So get packing.” James said before closing his laptop and getting into his couch-bed.
“Goodnight ghosts haunting me.” Sirius said jokingly.
As if in response, a shadow flashed on the window outside. Nobody noticed, however, as they were too busy laughing.