The Night We Met
They had been driving for about 15 minutes, and the silence was already suffocating. Regulus hated awkward situations to begin with but he hated them even more when they were with his brother.
"So Reggie," Sirius started to say from the passenger seat "how's school?"
Regulus rolled his eyes for what must've been the millionth time that day "You did not just say that to me."
"Yea you're right. I'm sorry Reggie, I really am but I had to get out of there and our parents wouldn't let me take you. If I did they told me they would file kidnapping charges and I would not last in jail."
Yea because you look like a twink is what Regulus wanted to say, so he did. "Yea that's fair you wouldn't last a second but only because you look like a twink."
Remus laughed unbelievably hard at that, and Sirius' face went impossibly red (from Remus' laugh being so cute or from Regulus' joke being embarrassing he didn't know)
"That's not true!" Sirius nearly yelled
"Yes it absolutely is Pads" Remus responded immediately "James would agree and you know it"
Who's James? Regulus wondered to himself
"He would not! He would never do that to me he's my best friend!"
"Ok then let's call him and ask but you're not allowed to talk" Remus suggested
"Fine" Sirius said with a huff of breath
"Regulus, I'm sorry to bother but I'm driving do you mind calling James for me?"
"It's not a bother, I wanna see this guys reaction" Regulus took the phone from Remus giggling a little at how much argument his harmless joke had caused. He swiped up from the bottom of the phone and was met with a password screen "Uh Remus what's the password?"
"Oh right! I forgot to unlock it, it's 747487"
"Ok, thank you" As Regulus typed in the numbers he looked at the letters that were under them and as he typed he noticed that those numbers, in that order could very well spell out 'Sirius'. These gay motherfuckers, he thought as he finished typing. Afterward he opened up contacts and searched for James but nothing came up, just as he was about to ask Remus said,
"He should be under Prongs"
Thank goodness he said something, Regulus did not want to have to ask another question. But what was with these weird ass nicknames? Deciding to ask about the nicknames later Regulus dialed the number and handed the phone back to Remus who then connected the call to the car.
"Hello?" A gravelly voice came through the phone oh my god Regulus thought please don't tell me he's hot
"Hi James, did I wake you?" Remus asked sounding a tad bit concerned
"Yea but it's alright. What's up mate?" James said his voice still sounding tired
"Well, I was picking up Sirius' brother and he said something so I just wanted to see if you thought it was true."
"Alright. What is it?" James asked picking up the water from his nightstand.
"Do you think that Sirius looks like a twink?"
James spit out the water he had just taken a sip of and asked "WHAT??"
"Do you think that Sirius looks like a twink?" Remus repeated
"I mean, yeah but how did that come up in conversation?"
"JAMES" Sirius suddenly jumped into the conversation sounding completely appalled.
"SIRIUS IS THERE??" James asked shocked and a little scared for when the trio arrived
"Ok, thanks Prongsie bye" Remus said as he hung up the phone "told you so"
"I do not look like a twink, you look like a twink" Sirius mumbled to himself
The rest of the drive was spent in comfortable silence, save for the Taylor Swift Remus was playing on the radio. It was nice, and for the first time in a really long time Regulus fell asleep perfectly content with where he was and most of all, happy.
When Regulus woke up they were back at a castle. Regulus' first thought was that they had driven back to the Black manor and that this was all just a sick joke but he looked a little closer and saw that the gates were dressed with yellow flowers and on the right pillar read "POTTER'S CASTLE". He looked at the castle itself and noticed how welcoming it looked, with a brightly colored garden that seemed to shine in the lights hung from the lights lining the path toward the entrance. When Remus parked the car Regulus could hardly contain his excitement and slid from the middle seat toward the door but when he pulled on the handle it didn't open. So Regulus did what any sensible person would do and started pushing on it.
Suddenly though, it did open. And of course Regulus fell outside of the car, only to be caught by the person who opened the door. Woah was the only thought in his head when he looked up. The man was tall, like really tall. and he had tan skin, and dark curls that softened the sharp features on his face.
"Hey" the gorgeous man spoke and picked Regulus up the rest of the way, now holding him bridal style "You must be Regulus sorry about the child lock this is my car and Sirius usually sits in the back, so we have to be sure he doesn't do anything stupid." The pretty man smiled and Regulus thought that he melted in that boy's arms.
"HEY I HEARD THAT" Sirius screamed
"Yeah I know" the absolutely stunning man finally put Regulus down and Regulus didn't know if to be glad or upset "I'm James by the way"
shit
"Cool it's nice to meet you" Regulus said trying not to make it too obvious that the biggest crush he's ever had, had manifested itself in a half second.
"JAMES" a voice called out after him "JAMES WHERE'D YOU GO?" The detached voice found the two of them and Regulus saw an absolutely stunning woman come up to the two of them "There you are James, you just vanished where'd you go?"
"I came to help Remus and Sirius with Reggie's stuff" James said completely nonchalant "Oh Regulus this is my fiance, Lily Evans"
fuck my life Regulus thought as he extended a hand for her to shake.
"A pleasure ma'am" Regulus responded remembering the etiquette Sirius had retaught him.
"There's no reason to be so formal, you know" Lily said after shaking his hand "we are going to be living together I believe, so I think it's alright that you loosen up a bit."
"Oh ok" Regulus said trying not to sound to heartbroken or bitter "I'm gonna go see if I can help Sirius and Remus"
"All right" the couple nodded
Regulus got to the trunk and neither Remus or Sirius were there so Regulus got in the trunk, into a space where an upright trunk had been removed and hestuck his head inside his knees cursing himself for always liking straight men. Suddenly a voice interrupted his pity party
"It's an arranged marriage, you know?" Remus' accent cut through the quiet Regulus was glad to find.
"What?" Regulus asked in confusion
"Lily and James, it's an arranged marriage. Lily told her father she was a lesbian so he expedited the process of marrying her off and threatened war if the two didn't get engaged."
"Really?" Regulus asked hope filling his voice
"Yeah but if you're planning on making a move make sure Sirius doesn't find out" Remus finished saying just as Sirius arrived
"Hey you two what are you talking about?" Sirius asked clueless to the conversation that had occurred not twenty seconds ago
"Books" Regulus said immediately
"Ew books." Sirius responded "Well anyway your room is ready to go we just need to finish bringing up your stuff then we're done."
Regulus helped them bring everything else up the stairs but let Sirius take it to the room because if he carried stuff up the stairs the sweat would mess up his hair (a direct quote from Sirius Black). Remus and Regulus both laughed and rolled their eyes but as they went back to the btrunk to grab the last two things they both whispered "Twink" causing them to bust out laughing again.
When all the bags had been moved Sirius brought Regulus to his room
"ok so, this is your room, my room is right next door, Remus and Lily are at the end of the hall and James is right across from you, you'll meet Peter, Euphemia, Fleamont, and the rest of the gang in the morning at breakfast but just go to sleep for now."
Regulus nodded and walked into his new room feeling instantly comforted and falling fast asleep as soon as his head hit the pillows. That night he dreamed of what could be with the gorgeous man that caught him when his clumsiness got the better of him. But when he woke up in the middle of the night he laughed at himself for how stupid that was because: James was straight,
Right?