Missable person
"Regulus ?" Someone's in the house. No one is supposed to be there. They should be gone.
Regulus goes down to the hall and he sees Lucius in front of him.
"Malfoy ? What do you want ?" He was scared, he was all alone in that house not even Kreacher was around because Regulus already told him that he won't need him this entire week.
"I want to talk Regulus" He says firmly looking right into Regulus's eyes, he does that often because he knows how much uncomfortable it makes him feel.
Regulus looks away.
"About what ?" He asked still not looking at him.
"I need your help" Lucius said with the fake disgusting smile on his face.
"I won't help you with anything just leave " Regulus glanced at the door nervously.
"Does your parents know about your little relationship with the Potter guy ?" Lucius whispered and Regulus breathed out. How the fuck does he know about any of it.
"I don't know what are you talking about " He says
"Oh you do know - So again I need your help. And you're gonna help me. Right ?" The disgusting smile again, the way his eyes got bigger when he looked at him with the serious cold gaze.
"What is it you wanna help with ?" Regulus sighed not being exactly thrilled about any of that.
He' supposed to be with James now and Sirius and James's parents. And here he is helping Lucius with his shitty matters.
"I need you to deliver a message" Lucius spoke.
"What message ? To my parents ?" Regulus assumed but Lucius shook his head.
"To your dear brother.." Lucius explained.
"What's the message ?" Regulus asks coldly trying not to resist so much because he really wanted Lucius to be gone.
His presence made him shiver and his mount happened to be dry like he hasn't drank in days.
"Actually you have a choice. You can deliver the message or do it yourself" He sounds so mysterious it freaks Regulus out the whole time, why won't he just say it .
"One of you is gonna be a death eater by the end of the summer. You go and tell your brother to be one, he'll surely do it for his little brother right ? Or if you wanna play the hero- don't tell him at all but then you know who's going to be in his place - you " Lucius whispers and Regulus's cold gaze suddenly falls down, he wants to cry, he wants to let the tears out, he wants James to hold him, he wants James to told him that everything is gonna be fine.
Lucius comes closer to him.
Regulus is just standing there not moving. He can't move.
Lucius grabs his face into his palms. He's looking straight into Regulus's wet eyes.
As much as Regulus holds the tears inside, he can't look at Lucius's face any longer so he just blinks and all the tears falls down on Lucius's hands.
Lucius moves the hands lower, now the hands are on Regulus's neck and then on his shoulders.
Lucius goes closer to him and when he's close enough, his lips are almost touching Regulus's ear. He whispers "It's your choice, don't let your brother do it when you would be so good at it " Regulus feels his disgusting breath on his neck as Lucius let go of him.
Regulus is still frozen not moving at all, he just watch Lucius leave the house.
Once the door are closed, Regulus falls on the floor, crying .
He lies on his back on the floor just sobbing silently even though the house is empty.
He's supposed to be with James now and he's crying on the floor.
He spend another two hours unable to move his body.
When he managed to get up he went straight to shower, he had to wash off the feeling of Lucius's arms on his neck.
He hated it .
He hated the feeling of weakness and vulnerability.
He hated that James is probably waiting for me, wondering why hasn't he came. Wondering if he's alright.
He let the water fall down on his body and closed his eyes, he couldn't stay here.
He just knew he couldn't. He was determined to go to the Potters early tomorrow morning.
When he got out of the shower he lay down and covered himself with blankets and fall asleep.
Not for long because after few hours he woke up.
He heard some noise coming from somewhere in the house.
It was actually scary, being alone in there because normally he would assume it's mother or father making that noise but now he knows he's alone.
He can't stay. He thinks.
Not another hour.
He gets up and took some nice clothes. He took a green sweater and black sweatpants.
That was embarrassing for him and he knew it .
Not showing up there in time and now arriving in the middle of the night.
Finally managed to apparate himself to the place where James lives.
He was there. He was right there in front of James's house. He looked into the window and they were all dark.
But then a light appeared in one of the rooms, it looked like a kitchen.
It was James's dad who was making a tea probably. Regulus hesitated for a while.
Should he knock now ? When he knew someone was up or should he go back ?
No. coming back wasn't an option.
"Regulus? Are you planning to go inside ? " James's dad opens the door and Regulus is standing in front of him.
"I - hello sir -I just- I'm sorry I'm coming that late I couldn't earlier" Regulus explained with a little shaky voice.
"Oh It's alright - I fear that everyone are asleep by now. It's really nice to meet you finally" James's dad smiled warmly it almost made Regulus's hearth melt.
"And call me Fleamont" He added and Regulus nodded.
"Are you tired ? I just made some tea if you wish " Fleamont offered him.
"I would like to have a tea actually, thank you "
And then they had some tea and they talked. It made Regulus a little sceptical, he wasn't used to parents like this. He was expecting James's parents to be good but Fleamont was like a star.
Technically he wasn't star , because Regulus was a star same as Regulus's father was a star. But James's Potter's dad was so precious and it was so easy to talk to him. They had that in common with James.
They talked about literature and art also. Regulus was kind of surprised because he imagined that he would be answering some questions about his family or the dark lord bit Fleamont didn't ask him a single question about any of that things. Regulus was glad for that because that was the last thing he wanted to talk about.
But Regulus saw there was something in Fleamonts mind and he could tell that he wanted to ask so much but he felt like I was wrong thing to do .
"You can ask " Regulus whispered after a while.
"What ?"
"I can tell that you wanna know something so ask I'll tell you " He wasn't sure about answering but at least he could be as polite as Fleamont was the whole time now.
"Okay then- You- You are pretty close. Aren't you ?" Fleamont says and Regulus looks at him with a confusion. With who ? The dark Lord ? His Parents ? Oh he really didn't wanted to answer any of that.
"Who ?" Regulus asked after .
"You and James ? He seems to like you very much, I'm glad he made a friend like you" Regulus's jaw dropped, oh he meant James..
"Right James - yes - we became….friends " He responded nervously.
"Friend like me ?" Regulus asked after few seconds, he probably made it look like they are more than friends and he regret it right after. He did know that James's dad was good, he could tell that he was an amazing dad but that didn't mean that he was supporting that kind of stuff.
"You make him really happy, not the way your brother, Remus or Peter more like Lily actually- you two are pretty similar, I saw that girl just one time but she made James smile and talk about her the same way he does with you-"
"Oh yeah we - yeah" He didn't know what to say at all, he finished his tea and Fleamont got up from the chair.
"I'll show you the rooms, do you want to share room with James or I can make you separate one, but it's not cleaned up yet " Fleamont asked and Regulus knew that he doesn't want to be alone.
"It's okay I can share with James " Regulus hated how that sounded but as he mentioned before, he hated the thought of being alone in the dark of empty room that he doesn't know.
Fleamont just nodded and knocked on James's door and opened them quietly.
"Dad?" James woke up turning on his lamp.
"Hello there you've got a visitor , I'm handing him over to you , see you guys at breakfast" He said and left to bedroom.
"Reg" James whispers as Regulus closed the door behind himself.
"Hey" Regulus sad still standing by the door awkwardly.
"You came" James smiled so preciously that made Regulus even more determined that it was the right thing to do, to go here. He would be looking at wall feeling anxious and disgusted but now he feels good. He doesn't think of Lucius or his Parents or Voldemort it was all gone from the moment he saw James's dad in the door .
"I said I would " He said and James made a space in his bed so Regulus can lay down next to him.
" I missed you " James whispered as Regulus got into the bed next to him.
"Of course you did, I'm very missable person" Regulus joked and James was too used to his humour that he just smiled and didn't comment on it.
"You alright ?" James asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Yeah" Regulus answered and the best thing about it was that he wasn't even lying. He was alright now.
"So have you talked to my dad already ?" James asked not just casually but with a genuine interest.
Regulus was too tired for talking though .
"Can we talk tomorrow please ? I'm exhausted " Regulus murmurs. Hs exhaustion wasn't really caused by lack of sleeping, he slept more likely too much for today.
"Yeah okay sorry - I'll let you sleep" James whispered and they both went to sleep.
They weren't close to each other at all actually. James could tell that Regulus didn't wanted to be close. And Regulus would leaned closer if he wanted by the night.
"I missed you too a lot " Regulus whispered almost asleep and James smiled, his smile was so sweet.. Regulus wanted to make James smile for the rest of his life.
That would probably be the only thing worth doing after all.