Chapter 11
Time skip to the next morning, brought to you by everyone being shocked by the fact that Snape with washed hair looks hot
After going home after their meeting with the goblins Tom and Regulus decided to spend the evening privately processing everything.
They were discussing everything they had learned from the goblins and what the next steps they were going to take. Even during the night, their dreams were plagued with nightmares and memories they didn’t know they had. Their sleep was restless and it showed the next morning.
At around six in the morning both men were up and laying in bed, unable to sleep. Seeing as they weren’t going to sleep anymore they decided to get out of their bed and start the day early.
While they were dressing Tom was distracting himself a bit by admiring Regulus’ back, he had the perfect view, Regulus was standing with his back towards him, in his underwear, looking at himself in the mirror and styling his hair. Silently Tom stood up and made his way behind Regulus wrapping his arms around his middle, pulled him to himself and nuzzled his head into his neck.
Smiling Regulus raised a hand and wrapped it into Tom’s hair, his other hand went to the arms wrapped around his. Sighing in contentment, Tom enjoyed the affection he was receiving “Leave your hair as it is, it’s perfect already, Stella mea.”
Smiling Regulus turned around, still wrapped in Tom’s arms and moved his own arms loosely around the other’s neck. They stood there like that, looking into each other's eyes, arms around each other. Regulus leaned in and gave Tom a kiss. To Tom’s deep disappointment Regulus pulled away before things could go further and moved to finish putting his clothes on.
“Even if we aren’t meeting anyone today we still have things to discuss, Mon Amour” Reminded Regulus gently. Tom refused to let the other go, not wanting to start the day yet nor let go of the embrace. “Come on Love we have things to do, world to dominate and I have to visit Grandfather’s study… or I guess my study at the Black manor. So the faster we get things done the faster we can get back here” Regulus tried again.
Letting out a sigh of defeat, Tom conceded to the point and went to finish getting dressed. But of course, not before taking another kiss from Regulus, who was searching for his favourite pair of trousers.
After getting dressed and eating breakfast the pair moved to their, now shared, office. Moving to the couch in front of the fireplace they sat down and just sat there calmly thinking of where to start. Collecting his thoughts Regulus opened his mouth and gave a summary of his thoughts“ I got back some missing memories from my childhood… I have another older brother, Antares. I don’t remember much, I was only three when he was kidnapped.The last thing I remember going to sleep after playing with him and Sirius, in the morning…he wasn’t there anymore, at least not in my mind. It feels weird now, remembering how I didn’t remember him.” Regulus paused to gather his thoughts and put them into words.
“I remember him, looking exactly like me. I remember father saying that if Antares wasn’t three years older than me we could’ve been mistaken for twins. The only notable difference between us as kids were our eyes. Antares had sky-blue eyes, unlike my silver ones.” Regulus chuckled softly at something before continuing “I remember him being my favourite, the one who would stay with me, read to me and play with me, even though according to Sirius ‘I was too little’…”
Regulus was smiling softly, with sadness in his eyes, he was silently mourning. Mourning the brother he wished he could have grown up with and the life he could have had. Tom could imagine that he was lost in the memories of a little boy, who he should have but never got to grow up with.
Snapping out of it Regulus continues, at this point Regulus was talking to himself, unaware of anyone listening. “While Walburga was always a spiteful bitch, she turned a lot worse around the time Antares was kidnapped…” Regulus looked bitter at that. “I want to find him, Tom. I want my brother back… I want Siri back as well but realistic goals you know. Do I even tell him about Antares, does he already know of him and just never told me. OH Merlin, how am I supposed to tell Sirius something like that!?! ‘Oh hey Sirius, Regulus here you know the brother that you hate. Yeah well I discovered that we have another brother, what should we do about it?’ “ Regulus was panicking, he was overthinking and it all got too much at some point.
Seeing his state, Tom quickly moved closer to him and picked him up before settling back to his own chair, this time with Regulus on his lap. Knowing that it’s better to get over and finish this discussion, Tom started talking trying to placate Regulus “As you said, my star, you want to find him and I will help you in any way I can. From the information we have from the goblins, we know he was kidnapped so it is likely that his memories were erased as well and we can assume that he was put under a glamour because, no offence, but your family looks distinctive and he would be recognized otherwise.”
Tom paused for a second to look down and make sure Regulus was calming down and still paying attention to what he was saying. “Now with our new titles, finding is not going to be difficult.”
Wanting to change the topic and lighten the mood a little Tom continued “On the topic of our new titles, we now have a chance of not shedding any blood in this war. Between the two of us we own almost half of the seats at Wizengamot and with the dark sector backing us we will have the majority if we play our cards right.”
Both of them sat there, taking all this in for some time. They spend a few hours talking, bouncing ideas off of each other.
Soon after all that needed to be said was said and they were sitting in silence, Regulus stood up and said “I think that we should visit the Black manor, check the study and then announce to all the Black family members that they have a new lord before they hear it from somewhere else. Then after that we can discuss politics closer.” Regulus was smirking smugly thinking of Bellatrix’ reaction to the news.
Tom nodded along and together they decided to visit the manor now and discuss politics in the evening when the lordship is straightened out. Additionally they decided that they will have a meeting tomorrow to announce their new course of action to all of their followers.