Chapter 2
Regulus! Wake up!”
Regulus awoke to the sound of Sirius’s pounding on his door.
“What do you want Sirius.” Regulus asked annoyed
“Reggie we need to start the day now, me James will show you around, but we have to do interviews and photos before” Sirius said, “I’m coming in Reg” and so he did. Sirius opened the door and walked in. He walked up to Regulus’ bed and began violently shaking him “up, now! Come on Regulus wake up”
Regulus let out a loud groan “I’m up”
“No you aren’t, you are literally laying in bed, wake up tosser, you have fifteen minutes till the styling team comes”
“Ugh, can’t I just put on clothes and that’s it, just for once” Regulus complained getting out of bed, and taking his uniform out of his closet.
“Well, you have to cover the-“ Sirius gestures to his cheek “bruise she left”
He had almost forgot, his dear dear mother, had given him a farewell gift, right before he left for school. Instead of acknowledging Sirius’ comment, he asked Sirius “when do I have to do the interviews and photos, and how long will it taker?”
Sirius sat down at his desk “interviews and photos in an hour, and it’ll take about an hour and a half”
“Great” he replied sarcastically.
“Me and James will be there though, they want to interview me as well, and we have some photos together, you know, perfect family and all, and James wouldn’t let me go alone”
“Yay, now I’m really excited” he replied sarcastically with a deadpan expression.
“Oh come on Reggie, I don’t understand why you don’t like him, you haven’t even formally met him yet”
That was technically true, but Regulus knew enough to know that James was not a person he would become friends with, and he had basically stole Sirius from him, so Regulus saw no reason to even try to like him.
“I know enough, Sirius. Does he really have to be there?”
“He doesn’t no, but good luck trying to talk him out of it, he refuses to leave me alone with the press”
“Fine, he can be there, but don’t expect me to act all friendly, and definitely don’t except me to even talk to him”
Before Sirius could come up with a reply there was a knock on the door. “Regulus sir, are you ready for the stylists?” It was Kreacher a voice.
“I’m ready, you can send them in Kreacher” he replied.
He turned to Sirius “are you staying, or do you need to be with your precious James?” He asked in a sharp tone his eyes staring harshly at Sirius, a little rude maybe. Sirius hadn’t really done anything, but Sirius had gotten used to him and his moods, so he didn’t really respond to his rudeness anymore.
“I was going to stay, but if you want me out, I will go” he answered, tone soft not taking the same tone as Regulus had done with him.
Regulus’ gaze softened a little “sorry. You can stay” he said
The door opened and a little team of stylist rushed in, shooing Sirius away from the desk, and gesturing for Regulus to sit.
“I don’t know how they expect us to do our job, in the little space” one of the stylists mumbled.
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As the stylists laid the final touches on him, Kreacher entered the small room, the room now containing about ten people.
“Your royal highnesses, we need to get going, only fifteen minutes till the interview”
The stylists finished up, and Regulus and Sirius rose to their feet, letting Kreacher guide them, to the designated interview room.
When they arrived James Potter was already standing in front of it, and when Sirius spotted him, he began running up to his best mate.
“Prongs!”
Regulus rolled his eyes at the nickname, he didn’t know how people could come up with such bad nicknames, but leave it to his brother to do it.
Sirius and James started chatting, and when Regulus and Kreacher reached them, James looked to Regulus.
“I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced-“ he stuck out his hand “James potter”and with one glance at his brother, who was looking back at him expectantly, Regulus took the hand unwilling, and scowling at the boy “Regulus black”
“Nice to meet you” James said smiling at him
“Yeah” Regulus said unimpressed.
“Reggie be nice” Sirius said scolding
“I’ll be nice if I want to” he said, and walked into the room.
“Hello your royal highnesses” a short woman with platinum blonde hair, and an atrocious green dress said. “I’m Rita skeeter, and I’ll be interviewing you today”
They said their hellos, before Regulus and Sirius was led, to a little sitting area. There was three chairs, two of them beside each other and the last one siting across from the two.
“Regulus if you take the right chair, and Sirius the left” Someone instructed. Regulus found it quite weird, how the last two times Regulus and Sirius had been filmed, their places had been switched, it was always Sirius on the right, and never Regulus, but he didn’t say anything as him and Sirius took place.
“We will begin the interview shortly, the team will count down, and then you’ll only have to talk when I ask you questions got it?”
Sirius nodded, and Regulus responded with a yes.
The interview started, and Rita began asking them all kinds of questions, some about the school, some about family and some about another topic.
It probably took about forty five minutes, where nothing special happened, and Regulus just had to answer the same kinds of question he always got.
When they were done, Regulus stood up and walked over to were Kreacher and, unfortunately, James stood.
“When do we have to take photos?” He asked Kreacher
“They want you outside of the school in ten minutes, so we better be going sir” Kreacher answered.
Sirius, who had followed Regulus to the others, was now talking with James “Sirius, photos in ten minutes outside, me and Kreacher are going now, you coming?” He asked, purposefully leaving out James and ignoring him completely. “We’re coming with you” Sirius stated, and when Kreacher and Regulus started walking, so did his brother and James.
They reached outside, where there was lots of press people.
“Prince Regulus, prince Sirius! Over here” a man called for them.
“Do we really have to? There are so many people, can’t you just show me around now” Regulus asked Sirius.
Sirius looked towards him, worry in his eyes. “ I’ll try and get us out of here Reg, but I can’t promise anything, let’s go over to the man” he said gesturing to the man who had called out to them moments prior. And so they did, walked over to the man that is.
“Good morning your royal highnesses” the man said, “can we get some photos of you in front the trees there?” The man asked gesturing to where he wanted them.
“Yes, we can most certainly do that” Sirius said, and to most people, there was nothing unusual by the way he said it, but regulus heard something weird in his voice that he couldn’t place, so he looked at Sirius. Sirius’ eyes glistened with mischief.
He leaned towards his brother and whispered, so only he could hear “Sirius I know you, what the hell are you up to”
“Well, I promised you Reggie, that I would get us out of here, now just come with me”
Regulus desperately wanted to know, what the hell that was going on in that small head of his brother, but he knew he wasn’t getting an answer right then, so instead he just followed Sirius, to where they would be taking photos.
“If you two stand there,” the man said gesturing to the exact spot he wanted them placed.
Regulus was tense, he hated the press, he hated photos, well really Regulus just hated people, so when the cameras started flashing, and someone said, that he needed to smile, Regulus was ready to strangle them.
“Calm down Reggie” Sirius said placing a grounding hand on his shoulder, “Reg, are you ready?”
“Ready for what? Sirius what are you planning?”
“Listen to me, and just do what I say”
“Sirius I swear to g-“
“We run on three”
“What?!”
“One” Sirius started counting, “two… three, run Reggie!” Sirius said, setting off in a sprint himself, Regulus followed shortly after, catching up with his brother.
“What the hell Sirius!” He exclaimed, glaring at his brother.
“Where are you going! Come back!” They could here people yelling at them, but it was too late, the brothers had already escaped.
“I told you, I would get you out of there” Sirius said smiling at him.
He really did have a stupid brother, but regardless, Regulus couldn’t help but smile slightly even though he did his best at hiding it. He really loved Sirius, so fucking much, but he wouldn’t admit that.
“You fucking moron” he said, but there was no way Sirius could take it personally when Regulus, was smiling and laughing.
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James’ pov:
James was currently walking out of church, he was supposed to show Regulus around together with Sirius, but after they had pulled their little stunt, James hadn’t been able to find them, and he had choir practice, so him and Sirius had, over text, agreed to meet afterwards.
That was how he found himself on the way to them, but being stopped by the sound of Bellatrix Blacks voice, “Oi potter, good voice you’ve got”
“What?” James asked confused. He was confused because even though James was best friend with Bellatrix’ cousin, they never spoke to one another.
“I said good voice, heard you yesterday at the welcome ceremony” Yes, James thought, because that cleared all James questions.
“What do you want Bellatrix?”
“Im hurt you think that I can’t compliment you without wanting anything Potter”
“Look Bellatrix, say what you want or I’m leaving, this is a waste of my time”
She laughed at that, an almost manic like laugh, but James didn’t know exactly what of the things he had said was funny to her.
“Where’s your manners Potter? Shouldn’t you be a little more nice to me, since I am a part of the royal family and all?”
“I, quite honestly, couldn’t give a shit if you are a part of the royal family.” He stated and started to walk away, as he had said to Bellatrix this was a complete and utter waste of his time.
“Not so fast potter wait up”
James stopped up and turned to her “what?” He said in an irritated voice.
“I need booze, and since you are a non resident, you are the only one able to get me it”
“If you think I’m going to get you booze you are so wrong”
“It wasn’t a request potter, get me the booze”
“I honestly can’t see why I would do that”
“Well first of all, it’s for regulus’ initiation party” she looked at him like he would immediately agree then.
“Secondly-“ she continued when she realized he wasn’t going to agree that easily “it would be a shame if regulus’ own brother wouldn’t be at his initiation. So unless you get us the booze, neither you nor Sirius will be invited to the party, and I quite honestly don’t think Sirius will be too happy about not being there”
She did have a point. Sirius loved regulus so much, and he wanted to be apart of regulus life as much as he could, so James figured that him not being invited would make Sirius either really mad or sad, or maybe both. Now that James thought about it, he didn’t really know, if Sirius would even want for regulus to have an initiation, he might think that it’s too wild for, as Sirius calls him, ‘his baby brother.’
“I don’t know” James said a little unsure.
“Come on now potter, I’ll pay you, and, you and Sirius get to go, what’s to lose?”
He was silent for a moment, not knowing what he should do.
“Fine, I’ll do it, but me and Sirius can come to the party, and I want the money right after” He agreed at last.
“Brilliant, I need it by Friday” she said and walked away, not giving James anymore info.
He stood still for some time, before starting to walk in the direction he was heading, before the interruption.