"Hey, love, you okay?" Regulus asked, making his way into the dorm and kicking off his shoes. James was curled up on the bed, duvet wrapped around him with a random show in the background.
"Mhm, cramps." James said, clearly about to get up and then thinking better of it. "You alright?"
"Yeah, missed you though." Regulus said, sitting on the bed and starting to roll a joint.
"Who'd have thought a few years ago that Regulus Black would be telling James Potter he missed him?" James said, laughing and turning around to half face Regulus.
"Yeah yeah fuck off, let me be nice for once."
"Nah, I don't think I will. We waiting for Barty or not?"
"Why would you be waiting for me?" Barty said, as if on cue.
"I swear to god, every time I mention you, you turn up it's starting to become weird." James said, sitting himself up and situating a water bottle to his lower stomach.
"One of my many skills."
Barty flopped down on the end of the bed and leant forward to kiss James lightly, cupping his face. James loved kissing him, he always kissed him like he was the most important person in the world. It was something they did to show how much they trust and love each other and they'd done it since the beginning. Either way, it's still one of James favourite things to do.
"Is that a joint I see? Naught" Barty said with a grin after he had pulled away and kissed Regulus too.
"If you say naughty ever again I will literally dump you." Regulus deadpanned, lighting the joint and taking a drag.
"My heart is broken, Reggie." Barty grinned. He summoned an ashtray with a wave of his wand and waved his hand around for the joint (properly waving it around, it always annoyed Regulus but James found it quite endearing.)
"Yeah yeah whatever." Regulus rolled his eyes as he almost always did. Effie always joked that his eyes would get stuck at the back of his head if he continued and James was kind of surprised that they hadn't.
The three passed the joint around in a circle, each taking two puffs each; aka Regulus and James had to watch Barty like a hawk as he always had a habit of hogging it. But by the end of the joint, James' cramps decided to dial themself up so much it felt like he was being physically stabbed and all his organs were bleeding out of him. Which, of course, made James angry because he's just smoked weed and he's in so much pain he feels like he might vomit or faint or both. Honestly, 17 years of this shit and he still isn't desensitised to the pain.
"Hey, bub, you okay?" Barty said softly, a hand on the small of his back.
"No, god I feel like I'm being stabbed, fuck." He let his head go to Barty's shoulder and impulsively moved so he was pretty much on Barty, wrapping his arms around him. It actually felt better to have the posture of a fucking koala.
"Do you want a pain potion, love?" Regulus said, reaching toward his drawer and pulling it out, rustling for a pain potion without even receiving an answer. "Here." He said, having found a pain potion and putting it in his hand.
"You know, when you ask a question, you wait for an answer before you act, yeah?" James was smiling (which was not something out of the usual but something he noted he was doing regardless) and drunk the pain potion. James felt better the instant he swallowed the potion -oh the wonders of magic- but he didnt remove himself from Barty still.
"Yeah it is a bit of a problem, Reg."
"It is not a problem, it's just how my questions, especially ones that relate to my boyfriends health, work." Regulus said, his lips curling upwards into a smile.
"I'll take it."