Regulus
" I don't expect people to stay, I'm tired of begging for someone to stay …"
"You should never have to beg, I Am asking to stay, will you let me?"
Regulus thumps his head on his keyboard, sniffling he looks back up at the chapter he's currently drafting ready to be updated later, ten chapters into his fanfiction and he's crying into a balled up tissue at four in the morning
What's he subjected his life into?
He knows there is no moment of peace in this fandom, all of the fanfictions he reads and writes always have angst tags in them, sibling angst? Yes it's a thing to wail about , unrequited love? ah yes another thing to sob about, main character death?
All of them are dead!
Regulus signed up for a fandom where all of his favorite characters canonically get unalived, barely gets mentioned and shares same trauma, and him sobbing at ungodly hours of the night, with his laptop open in documents and fanfiction website in 36 tabs is just a normal Monday for him
He drank the remaining of his coffee, and decides to get back to his work and drop the update, he'll be bombarded by suffering comments and well, they all have to suffer this fate, editing it a bit and he clicks update
He shuts down his laptop and went to his phone, sleep hasn't knocked on him yet, he opened his TikTok scrolling through FYP lazily, liking some videos and commenting on them as well, halfway through scrolling he came across a creator's account doing a cosplay skit, he tapped on the heart and was about to scroll up when he noticed the small text on the corner of the screen…
Cold Waters - chap 16 by DrownKing_79
It's one of Regulus' recently completed works and the chapter was one of the most heartbreaking scene in the story as the main character begged the other to stay but the other couldn't because time wasn't in their favor, the music fits the skit and the creator did a great job acting it
Regulus stares at the video for a moment, the creator's user is AntlerShedderProngs, ridiculous, Then he rewatches the video again
James Fleamont Potter
Him…
The creator who made a skit of one of the angstiest chapter of Regulus' fanfiction
Is the same boy he dislikes in this whole world
He lives five houses down the the street, he's Sirius' best friend and James stole Sirius from him since they met when he was ten
Dramatics Much?
He still doesn't like him, he's too smiley and the embodiment of the sun and Regulus hates the sun
But
Here he is, rewatching the goddamn video of James Potter, acting a scene, perfectly shedding tears, background music and transition on point
And Regulus likes the video, and added it to his favorites
FOR SCIENCE …
He would agree that James acted great in that scene, hit it home for that one
Regulus decided he'd stared at the video enough, he's already sick of his face why put through it again?
He did scroll on some more and it seems algorithm is teasing him because he's swiped passed six videos and four of them is by AntlerShedderProngs, he shuts his phone with a huff and tuck his head between the pillows
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He gets woken up by loud knocks on his door and Sirius' booming voice
"Reg! c'mon up you get!" He entered
"Oh fuck you!" Regulus throws a pillow at his brother before burying himself under his blankets
"Rude! Hey Mr. i hate the sun because I'm an emo kid, get up we're getting brunch"
He didn't respond, then Sirius pulls the cover off him and the sun rays that seeped through his windows hits his face
"Go awayyyy!" He hissed covering his face with his arms
"Nope, nuh uh, it's already past 10 am and Effie invited us for brunch, come on!"
Oh great, A brunch with the Potters, not that he doesn't like the folks, he's very fond of them, he looks up to Euphemia Potter and loves her for her sweet and caring but feisty nature and he respects Fleamont Potter for his works in pharmaceutical and business and his ability to make people at ease with his presence, they're very great people but then again , their son is James Potter
And well he's …
Regulus groans and looks at Sirius with a sleepy glare, his idiot brother just smiled at him mischievously
"come on Reggie, up you get little star!" Then a finger started poking at his side
And Regulus is very ticklish
"No! get fuck off Sirius! Gah!.. No" he let's out a squeal as Sirius kept attacking him with tickles
"Up and about little star"
"Don't call me that you bloody wanker!" He squirmed and kicked and now both of them are in a messy wrestling match with Sirius poking at every tickle spots he knows and Regulus trying to bury him under the thick blankets and pillows
They ended up falling off the bed, both laughing and then Regulus stands up
"I'm borrowing your sweater then" He launches out of the room then towards Sirius' and the older chases after him with a string of curses
"Oh no not my sweater you fucker! Moony gave me that!"
"Correction, you stole it from him"
"So what? Oi take it off"
"It looks better on me, thank Remus for me this is comfy"
"Wanker!"
"Bitch"
"Motherfucker"
"Eww, there's already too much incest in the family "
"Oh my god!"
They had chased each other down the street going to the Potters, settling their bickering when they knocked
The door opens and Sirius, as if he's the owner of the house immediately makes a beeline for the kitchen hollering a good morning
Then the one who opened the door turns to Regulus
"Good morning Reg,come on in"
"James…"
Yes infront of him is James Potter and his signature sun smile and Regulus scowls
Ah yes, good morning indeed …