James sits on the gryffindor common room, chewing a gum while boredom fills his body as slowly as time seems to pass for him.
"I'm so fucking bored." He turns his head, eyes meeting with Sirius silver ones. Ever since Remus and Sirius kissed, their eyes turned to their natural color and James still isn't used to seeing a different color shining in his friends eyes.
"Well... It's been some time since we pulled a good prank, maybe we can do that?" Peter asks, blond hair falling on his brown eyes.
"Snivellus has been a pain in my ass more than before, we should play a prank on him." Sirius smiles brightly, mischief clear in his face.
"While we're at it, why not do it to all slytherins? People would be suspicious if only Snape was targeted." Remus keeps on running his fingers on Sirius hair even as he talks, never once taking his eyes off of his boyfriend.
"And that's why you're our brain, Moony." James grins, eyes shining like they always do when chaos is mentioned. "Let's brainstorm our next masterpiece!"
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Regulus cleans his mouth as he checks the mirror, to his disappointment, still nothing. As reserved and proper his family looks to be, the black haired boy has no interest in keeping the same appearance as all the Blacks before him have. He's at his fifth year, all he wants to do is play quidditch, paint and find his soulmate. So what if that means kissing as many brown haired boys as he can? He's not gonna complain about it, that's for sure. And if his soulmate turns out to be a girl? Well... Screw the universe then, it's not like he's going to find out if that's what his brown eyes mean.
"You know... you should probably give it a rest, you're probably the ultimate kisser of this school, at this point." He turns around to find Barty standing at his doorway, arms crossed.
"Am I late for the feast again?" His face shows exactly what he wants it to show, I know you don't really care.
His roommate sighs and nods, turning around and leaving the room, knowing Regulus is soon to follow. After leaving the slytherin common room and reaching the corridors, Barty slows down a little so Regulus can keep up. Both know he could keep up anyways, but that's just how their friendship goes, a pull and push no one else is worthy of, it's always only for each other.
They reach their table soon, sitting down and ignoring whatever it is Dumbledore may want to say to the students, instead choosing to rest their heads on each other, Regulus resting his on Barty's shoulder and Barty using Black's head to do the same.
As soon as the food appears on the table, something seems to be wrong. Other tables are gasping, laughing, shouting. Regulus open his eyes that were previously closed and looks up, seeing all the slytherins with bright neon colors of hair in a random pattern. He brings his hand up, picking on a strand of his own hair and pulling it so it can reach his sight. Pink, his hair seems to be neon pink. Looking up, Barty's hair doesn't look much better, since his normal color is replaced with a fluorescent yellow.
"Well, shit." He sighs, knowing his night is already ruined.
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James and his friend group admire their successful work. They were very doubtful if the contact of the plates and pot was really going to active their spell or not, but looking at the slytherins, they know Sirius did some of his best spell work. They laugh it up, like a lot of other students around them do, the difference is, they know the spell can't be undone before the span of a week. James turns around to look at Sirius and praise his doing, but when his brother by heart looks at him, he gasps loudly.
"Holy shit, you're eyes are bright pink!" James own eyes widen just like Sirius' did a second ago and he quickly reaches for his pocket, grabbing his wand and changing a fork on his hand into a mirror.
He too, gasps loudly. His eyes really are a bright pink, just like a lot of the slytherin's hairs are.
"Oh god, it's gonna take forever for me to find them!" His voice sounds whiney, even to his own ears, but could somebody really blame him? Sure he has a new clue, but it's gonna take a really long time to find one person in a sea of other pink haired people.
It turns out that, after Moony checks the math, there are not that many people with that specific shade of hair. Seeing as Sirius included 39 colors on his spell, each color should have 6 people with that color, give or take 1.
With a newfound hope and joy, James set his sight on finally finding his one and only, not realizing he need to know those people, or just kiss them, which sounds easier said than done. When he does realize it, the whining shows its pitiful head again, but as he turns another corridor, a surprise awaits for him.
"Good day, isn't it Potter?" In front of him stands Barty Crouch Jr, back against the wall and arms crossed. "You know... A little birdie told me you were looking for a pink dot in the sea of color that is my house right now. So I decided to help."
"What the fuck..." James mumbles, incredulous.
"I know we don't know each other and we're definitely not friends, but soulmates are a big deal in slytherin, so I decided to help my fellow housemates out." That and the fact his eyes perfectly match a certain someone's eyes, but that's just a hunch.
"Normally, I would be suspicious of your intentions and would never accept the offer, but I'm quite desperate, so I'll consider this a peace offering and go along with this... For now." James extends his hand, awaiting for Barty to uncross his arms so they can shake on it.
"Great! Now... I'll get the slytherins to make a deal with me, all you have to do is sit still and look pretty while someone will go inside the room to kiss you. I'll stand by the door and whoever gets out with their eye color changed will be it."
"That's actually genius, Crouch, how did you think of that?" James smiles brightly.
"Don't worry your little head over it!" Or the fact you'll only be kissing one person. "How about we meet at the second floor classroom, the one nobody ever uses?"
"Sounds more than perfect. 30 minutes before the curfew works for you? I would love to go past it, but I still have duties as a prefect, so..." He scratches the back of his neck, feeling a bit silly.
"Don't worry about it, tonight half an hour before curfew sounds perfect! I'll see you then." And just like that, he left, leaving behind a cheerful James who has no idea of what plans are actually going on in the slytherin's head.
On the bright side, I'll really help him, Barty thinks as he leaves.
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"Reggie, I have amazing news for your slutty self!" Barty saulters in the room, eyes bright with a dangerous sheen and smile wide.
"You really need to start respecting me at some point, you know that right?" The younger Black says, eyes rolling really hard. It's not like he cares at all. He has no fucks left to give.
"Of course, I'll even start right now if you want." Crouch rolls his eyes as well. "Anyways, I think I found him!"
"Evan?" Regulus says, without looking up from the book he reads on his desk.
"What? Why would I be looking for Evan?" He exclaims, confused.
"And how in the hell would I know who you're talking about?" He sighs.
"Ok, Mr. Sassy Pants, guess we'll never know if he's your soulmate then..." He trails off, know this will immediately get Regulus attention.
"Don't you fucking dare kid about that, you know how important that is to me!" He gets up angrily, ready to punch Barty if needed be.
"Woah, honey, chill out. I'm serious." Barty raises his hands, knowing that if he's not quick Regulus will kick his ass and then cuss him out in french.
"I'm all ears then." He sits back down, more calm.
Barty then lays out all the information he has and the plan he made.
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Just like planned, James shows up a bit before curfew, right on time to see Barty leaving the room they agreed on use. He'll admit he never thought Barty would really keep his word and help him, but guess life just keeps on surprising him.
"Ok, so," Crouch starts, not even waiting for James to settle down a bit. "he's in there waiting, but he's a bit worried about it, so he'll only turn on the lights after you kissed, is that fine? Great!" He again doesn't wait, pushing Potter inside the room unexpectedly.
After he almost falls, he manages to catch his balance and a hand reach out to him, touching his arm and pushing him a bit more into the dark. Before he can even comprehend what just happened and will happen, he feels lips against his own and the world seems to fill up, somehow.
This happened so, so fast. Merlin's ass.
The warm feeling never leaves him as they keep on kissing. At some point they'll notice the lights on and see each other and have visual proof of the fact they're soulmates, but for now that is enough.
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"So..." A certain someone appears from around the corner. "Did my advice work?"
"Oh, you have no idea! Thanks for the tip, by the way." Barty smiles, resting against the wall.
"No need to thank me, whatever helped those fools helps me have some more peace." Lily Evand giggles, turning around and leaving, hands behind her back and happiness in her step.