Chapter 1
October 31st
Regulus found himself questioning his entire life. The youngest son of the House of Black, the one who was supposedly the new heir, was now doing lines of coke of a dirty club bathroom as Remus Lupin moped beside him. Really there was a lot to question but he didn't. He was there now, and it was too late to change that.
"Please, Reg" Lupin begged, again, clearly the answer 'no' wasn't an acceptable one and truthfully, he didn't mind sharing with Remus, he just wished Remus would ask Evan himself, "Evan will just get mad at me."
Regulus scoffed, brushing the remains for the surface and turned to Remus "You're not a child, Lupin, he won't 'get mad at you', go up and ask, say 'please' if you want, he'll give in either way."
Regulus ended up asking Evan. Evan, of course, done his disappointed act walking off into the crowd and Remus followed. When Evan had started the whole drug-dealing-because-he-was-bored thing Remus quickly got involved with their small group and almost year later he was still there. Beautiful, innocent, smart Remus. Sometimes Regulus thought they were his downfall or maybe it was the drugs, maybe it could all link back to their parents, maybe it was his own, maybe it was just Evans. Didn't matter, nothing did when it came to who's fault something was, it just happened and now it was someone's problem. And even worse, out of the four of them, Barty was the most sober.
Glares at everyone at the bar, judging them, Barty. Drinking water in small sips, frowning with frequent watch checks Barty who had been forced out until 12, at least. "Hey, Birthday boy."
"Go away, Black."
"Sorry, did I do something, Crouch? Or are you just in a bad mood, as usual" Part of him wanted to ask Did you forget to take your meds? and the other part felt bad for even thinking it.
Barty stood up pulling of a box of cigarettes and for a moment his face softened, just slightly, letting Regulus know he wasn't actually angry even if he wanted to act like he was, "Find Evan and Remus if he's coming back, I want to leave." Raising his hand, he wiped at Regulus' nose and leaned in, close enough Regulus could hear him breath, to whisper 'look in a mirror next time' before walking to the exit.
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"Remus, Remus, Remus," Evan grinned "There's someone I want you to meet."
Much to Remus's displeasure, Evan began walking to a full table, Evan's 'people to meet' were never good. The occasional use and dump were good, especially when it came to the stupidly rich but tonight was supposed to be them leaving as a group, not with Evan's choices for company.
"I'll give you 2 guesses on who he is." Evan smirked, stopping in front of a confused group.
Of course, he knew who it was, he'd seen pictures, but they hardly compared to the man in front of him. Sat on the lap of someone dressed as Prince Charming, black leather skirt and heels against pale skin, mouth parted, eyes not moving from Remus as Prince Charming's face fell rather visibly and his hold on the Sirius' waist loosened. "Heard quite a bit about you, you know?"
"Really?" the man blushed.
"The pretty one." Sirius look at his lap, face still red "The star."
When he looked back up grinning, he seemed to forget Prince Charming was ever there at all. "Did Remus Lupin just call me the pretty one? I think people here would disagree; you know? James would."
"Well," Remus paused, crouching down in front of Sirius "James must often be wrong, I suppose." Sirius laughed, his fingers brushing against Remus' hand and Remus looked up slightly at him then to the man he was with before standing back up, Sirius' hand falling back to his lap as he did so. "You know me then?"
Sirius blushed again, that fleeting confidence rid of, "Everyone does. You're talented. Hot." his voice almost a whisper for that last part.
Unfortunately, Sirius' smile didn't last long, his face hardening and James opened his mouth to speak before closing it again.
"Remus," Regulus spoke from behind me not even glancing at the group around them "We're leaving if you want to come with us"
Barty came from behind him, sending James a disgusted look and a small, forced smile to the rest of the group ignoring Sirius completely, "Hurry up with goodbyes, Lupin."
Turning back Remus saw Sirius now standing, coming just below Remus' nose in height, taking Sirius' hand he kissed gently looking down at him, lips still brushing against his skin, he found himself moving before he thought it through, whispering to Sirius and leaving with a soft kiss to burning cheeks.
"You disgust me, Lupin." Regulus said once they left the club completely.
Remus laughed, "He's gorgeous." he glanced at Barty, already in the driver's seat by the time they opened the door "Besides," he leaned into the gap between the two front seats "We're only leaving so you can get fucked, if anything I should be disgusted." Evan laughed and Barty only glared and started the car.
"Shut up. That is not why we're leaving."
"So we're not leaving because miserable over here turns you on by being a dick all night?" he tapped Barty on the shoulder only to be ignore, which was probably good considering he was driving but Remus done it again anyway to get the glare to prove his point, "really seems like that's why, is all I'm saying." he sighed leaning back into the seat next to Evan to look over at his phone.
"You think we can find Sirius' nudes? Someone's got to have some." Evan said, a loud whisper to Remus while looking at Regulus.
Much to their surprise, Barty was the one that spoke "Both of you be quiet." and placed a hand on Regulus' leg which only took a shared glance at one another for Remus and Evan to start laughing, both much drunker than had thought.
"Did we really not leave to have sex?" Regulus asked once they were alone. Evan and Remus both passed out with buckets and water beside them both on Evans bed, neither out of the night's clothes and only covered but what Remus hadn't kicked off. "I mean I just figured, being your birthday and all, you'd want to."
Barty just got in bed beside him and pulled them closer together, "I'm tired"
"So, in the morning?" Regulus felt Barty's grin against his neck and a muttered 'definitely' before falling asleep.