Chapter 2
It was game day, about a week after he saw that strange sight and regulus was eating his breakfast not by choice mind you, if theres one thing regulus dosen't believe in it’s breakfast, but he promised barty, or should I say barty threatened to lock him out of their dorm.
regulus was looking around at the very few students in the hall, the only ones there were really on Slytherin and Gryffindor quidditch teams since they have game that morning, when he slowly looked at potter to see him already staring back, he softly smiled and mouthed Hi, in that moment Regulus Black realized that maybe he didn’t have to be alone forever.
A beat of silence filled his ears as he mouthed a shy hi back, the warranted a even bigger smile from Jame- FROM POTTER. Now that Regulus was really looking at him Potter was pretty fit. I mean from his almost always messy hair to his deep brown eyes Regulus was at his mercy.
"reg? REG?!?" barty said as he waved his hand in front of regulus's grey eyes, and he turned to barty sharply
"what?"
"okay okay jeez calm down" barty started as he put his hands up in a defensive position "we need to get get down to the pitch or coach'll have our heads"
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As they walked out in the cold gray october weather the wind blew a cold breeze across regulus’s face, pushing back his overgrown hair, the sky was a deep gray and the orange of the leaves was falling at a rapid pace an the ground was fully dry. The path to the pitch was steep and barty always slipped, every time the walked down that path he always slipped on the last little curve before the pitch.
“So reg whats up with you and potter?” regulus looked at him with a confused expression on his face “what do you mean barty? Nothing is going on with me and Potter, I hate his guts remember?”
“Well what that thing that happened at breakfast?” Regulus heart stopped
“Nothing….. I don’t know what your talking about” He gulped
Barty scoffed in desbeilf “Sure buddy and I can read minds” Regulus spent the next half a hour in the locker room convincing Barty that there was in fact absolutely nothing going on with Potter even though deep down he wished differently. Before the game started Pandora came down to see them.
“Reg, I haven’t seen you in forever” she said with a laugh
“Dora?!?” Regulus was pretty surprised to see Pandora, she didn’t usually like or even understand quidditch “What are you doing here?”
“Oh im commentating today” at that Reg smiled.
“Well come over to our dorm after the game we’ll hangout”
“Of course, ill bring some cookies.” responded Pandora. And with that the game was going to begin.
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As soon as Pandora ancouneced all the Slytherin players, she started to list the opposing team, Regulus wasn’t paying attention at all until he heard
“And for Gryffindor’s seeker JAMES POTTER” at that the stadium erupted with appluase, most of the noise coming from his brother & Co. Regulus’s shoulders slumped with anxiety, wishing that Sirius cheered for him like that.
Professer Mcgonagal came out onto the pitch
“ Now I want a clean fair match” and with that the two captains shook hands and the whilestle blew signifying the match had begun.
Regulus flew up to his usal lookout and started searching for the snitch. Multiple players zoomed around him, goals were scored with no sight of the snitch, when suddenly Regulus spotted a gleam down by the field, looking quickly around for Potter to make sure he hadn’t seen it, he looped around the pitch and zoomed down.
“REGULUS BLACK, MY BEST FRIEND HAS SEEN THE SNITCH! HE’S GOING FOR IT” Pandora said whilest the entire stands were on the edge of their seats. Suddenly Regulus felt someone to his right, looking over it was no other than potter.
“JAMES POTTER HAS KNOW ALSO SEEN THE SNITCH!” The ground was slowly approaching and regulus could still see the snitch, James turned to look at him
“Were getting pretty close to the ground don’t you think?” he said.
Slowly Potter began to pull up as did regulus, but stayed fairy level with the ground, his broom mere centimeters away from the ground and slowly he reached for the snitch that was just infront of his broom, when a sudden burst of wind pushed him, and Regulus fell infront of his broom.
the stands held their breath than Regulus stood up and held above his head the golden snitch.
The stadium erupted in cheers and the commentator announced the win for slytherin, with a little breath looked over at James, as the Slytherin team picked him up, to see him smiling very widely at him, for the second time that day regulus’s heart stopped.