Chapter 3
“AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A shrill scream echoed throughout the manor, coming from the bedroom opposite of the Dark Lord’s. This was quickly followed by hysterical laughter from both Barty Crouch Jr and Evan Rosier.
“WHAT IN MERLIN’S SAGGY TITS! What are you two doing here!? And whose ‘brilliant’ idea was it…TO DUMP ICE WATER AND SEAWEED ON ME!” roared a severely pissed off Regulus Black, who was shivering from the cold and covered in seaweed but red and seething with anger. From the look in his eyes he was ready to murder someone…preferably Barty and/or Evan, and there wasn’t much that could save the, should he decide to do it.
Barty was rolling on the floor and clutching his stomach laughing while Evan was leaning against the wall still chuckling but now somewhat calmed down. Barty decided to try answering Regulus but every time he looked at his seaweed covered friend he burst into laughter again, so it sounded something like this “The Dark Lord…hahahaha….. Soulmate…hahaha….Idea…hahahaha…..threatened…...permission”. It took Regulus a minute but he figured out what he was trying to say, well at least he thought he did. “So let’s get this straight-” That made Barty snort and he was about to make a joke, but he saw the look Regulus was giving him and decided that if he wanted to get out of there in one piece he should not open his mouth. “As I was saying, before somebody interrupted me! You two saw me getting my soulmark last night and came up with the ‘brilliant’ idea to prank me as a penalty for being the last to find my soulmate out of all of us. But not before you went and threatened THE Dark Lord and then proceeded to ask permission to wake me and he allowed you to come dump a bucket of ice water and seaweed on me.” By the end Regulus was even more pissed off than before and someone was going to get cursed soon if he didn’t get an adequate explanation soon.
Both of the offenders nodded their heads agreeing with everything they were accused of, leaving out the part where the Dark Lord just allowed them to WAKE Regulus and not prank him.
Then Evan thought of something and started looking nervous all of a sudden, Regulus of course saw his face and gave him a glare which could scare, so Evan took a deep breath and rushed out “We also may or may not have also written to Pandora about you finally finding your soulmate, as she wasn’t here last night to see it for herself”.
“Run.” is the only thing Regulus said before the pair were out of the room. Smirking smugly Regulus got out of bed and locked the door, before calmly casting a ‘scourgify’ and a ‘exaresco’ on himself and the bed to get rid of the seaweed and water.
After checking the time and contemplating on what to do, he decided to take a shower to get rid of the cold from the water and get ready. Walking out of the bathroom with hot steam following him and a towel around his hips Regulus walked back to the bed. He was surprised to see gorgeous black and dark blue robes set out on the bed before shrugging and assuming that his soulmate had sent them with house elves.
After getting dressed, he spent a good 20 minutes admiring himself and fixing his curls trying to look good for his soulmate, even though he looked perfect from the moment he got out of bed. When he was finally finished getting everything ready he realised he was starting to get hungry and he decided to call a house elf to show him where the dining room was.
“House elf!” Pop was heard and he could see the creature standing before him wearing a uniform with the Slytherin house crest on it. “Hellos, I is Darcy, what I dos for you?” asked the elf. “Hello Darcy, I am Regulus and can you show me the way to the dining room?” inquired Regulus. “Of course, sir Regulus. Darcy be showing you the way, please follow Darcy” responded the elf, who had started to walk out of the room and was waiting by the door waiting for Regulus to follow.
Walking behind the elf, Regulus looked around, the mansion was mainly decorated with Slytherin colours, though that was given considering it is the Slytherin family manor.
Along the corridor walls were hundreds of portraits of olds witches and wizards, most of them looking at him quizzically, which made him a little uncomfortable if he was being honest but it was nothing he wasn’t used to and he was not going to show that he was uncomfortable as that is a sign of weakness, that would be unacceptable.
Finally reaching the dining room doors Regulus thanked Darcy for her guidance and walked in. He was pleasantly surprised by seeing so many familiar faces, around the table he saw Barty and Evan, who were red in the face from probably running there, his cousin Bellatrix, her husband Rodolphus and her brother-in-law Rabastan. Regulus had to hide his surprise when amongst all the other people he saw his sister, not that he would ever tell her he calls her that, Pandora Lestrange with another one of his friends Severus Snape. How Pandora got here that quick after probably just receiving the letter was a mystery but it was better to not question her as getting a straight answer is near impossible. There were a few unfamiliar faces as well but Regulus deemed them unimportant and strided towards the seat to the right of the head.
Sitting down, everyone except his friends and Pandora were staring at him weirdly, probably because of where he sat. Regulus wished everyone a good morning and began to eat the breakfast the elves had put in front of him, not before checking for curses of course, with the amount of times people have tried to prank, poison or curse him all the time, he couldn’t be too careful, especially not among people known for murder.
“Well, well little itty bitty baby Reggie…didn’t mummy tell you that your soulmate was dead and gone? Did you get desperate and decided to magic yourself one? How dare you use magic on my Lord!?! What enchantment did you use to fool our Lord?! ” Ranted Bellatrix while sneering and glaring at Regulus, who was already used to her idiocracies and jealousy towards him in everything, decided to ignore her. “Don’t you ignore me you little twerp. Tell me what you did to our Lord now! Before I ‘crucio’ you! Don’t think I won’t tell aunty about you lying to people!” That got everyone's attention as they knew that if Bellatrix so much as touched Regulus four people in that room would kill her without a second thought and that was not counting what the Dark Lord would do to her if he caught her. But they knew they couldn’t do anything as they knew that it wasn’t their business yet and that if they said anything it would imply that Regulus couldn’t protect himself.
Regulus, who just wanted to finish his breakfast in peace before finding his soulmate, who was now even more pissed off than he already was, decided to do something about his cousin. “Listen here and listen well dear cousin of mine. I know you have always been jealous of me as I am better than you and the heir to the House of Black. I could make grandfather disown you today and you wouldn’t be anything on your own. You are nothing. I know that hurts your fragile ego, only being worth something because you got married and having no real worth of your own, you don’t even have an heir. Even Rita (her soulmate, who left her because Bellatrix tried to kill her for being a halfblood) didn’t want a crazy bitch like you. So listen closely because I’m already angry beyond belief, if you threaten me or my soulmate one more time I’m going to curse you into the next week with some of the darker curses I have found in our family library, you know the one you don’t have access to because grandfather deemed you unworthy of that knowledge. And if that isn’t enough for you to stand down, don’t forget we grew up together dear cousin, I know all your secrets and I know just how to use them, because whatever your dear aunty Wally taught you, my mother taught me better. So sit down and watch your mouth.” Regulus went quiet after that letting some of the black madness that had seeped through during all the threatening calm back down before he stood up.
“Now ladies and gentlemen have a good rest of breakfast, I have lost my appetite and I’m going to find Tom” When he closed the door behind himself he let his smirk show, it felt good to let some of the madness out and he can't say that Bellatrix didn't deserve it, she had it coming for her. And maybe she will leave him alone for now.