Veg
James locked himself in his new room.
Panic went all over his body, he couldn't believe it, that's not- that wasn't supposed to happened.
He was shaking , every inch of his body felt wrong.
He couldn't breathe, he took off his shirt with the thought that it will somehow help him take a breath but it certainly didn't.
He was walking all over his room now, trying to convince himself that this is some kind of a bad dream.
It was real, it was too real and he couldn't bear the real life in this moment.
His mom was dead, she was killed and so was Regulus.
Everything was fucked up.
James took a book of his bookshelf and throw it through the window. It was broken now and the cold air went inside.
The cat he that was following him home few hours ago, jumped through the broken window.
James looked at him as he stepped on the glass from the window.
He was all black just like he remembered him and somehow he just knew it was the same cat, he had the same eyes and the same look on his little face.
His paw was bleeding and James came over to him when he noticed.
He was calmer now, he always is when he has someone else he can take care of and not care about himself.
"Shit you're hurt I'm sorry-" James tried to take him slowly and the cat let him do whatever he wanted to do.
He took him to the bathroom.
It only had a tiny shard in his paw, so James tried to pull it out, he was surprised when the cat didn't even flinch, he noticed that he was just watching his face the whole time. Finally, he disinfected and bandaged his paw.
He didn't resist at all.
And James was too concentrated on the cat's injury that he didn't cry even though he had terrible urge to do so.
James put him into his bed after that.
he just lied there and watched him, it was almost scary.
"What are you lookin' at huh ?" James asked quietly and calmly looking over to him.
"You won't tell me will ya ?" He kept talking to him, he was the only person he wanted to talk to and he wasn't even quite literally a person..
"I would name you but that would made me more sad when you leave" He smiled slightly and the cat he meowed at him.
"What? You want a name ?" James smiled again, he was smiling out of desperate really, what else could he do ?
He meowed again.
"Right so what about - what about Vega " James looked at his table on the book about stars and galaxies he borrowed from Remus when he wanted to learn more about it to impress him.
"It's a girl's name but I bet you don't mind"
He meowed little louder.
"Okay so let's call you Veg then " James looked at the book once again, and a tear fall down his face again.
Regulus's star, that was the page he had opened like hundred times.
It wasn't just one tear, there was another bunch of tears after that one.
Veg stood up and even though he could barely walk, he came closer to James.
He was laying there in the bed not even noticing the cat at first.
He noticed him when his healthy paw was trying to wipe away the tears running down James's face.
It wasn't much successful so he started simply licking off the tears.
James laughed genuinely amused by him.
"I can't tell if you sympathize with me or if you're just thirsty Veg" James said and Veg started to lick his face again.