Wolfstar one shots

It was going to be a good day. James could feel it as he walked on the halls of Hogwards, on his way to the great hall for breakfast. The Quidditch practice had ended an hour ago, and after a quick shower he was ready to spend this warm spring day with his friends. Maybe sneak to the Honeydukes and back.

“Hey you”, a voice called behind him. Without turning James knew who it was and couldn’t help his lips turning upwards.

“Morning”, James said without turning or slowing down. He heard steps behind him and next there was a person walking beside him. He looked at the person and the light blue, almost grey eyes that looked so much like his brothers which at first had made James feel a bit weird, looked back at him.

“You trying to run away from me?” Regulus asked and put his arm around James' shoulders.

It was something Regulus did in public when he didn’t want people to look at them, but still wanted to be close to James. The gesture seemed friendly to others which was enough for them. Not that they cared what others thought, they just didn’t want to draw attention.

“Maybe”, Regulus pinched his other shoulder. “Okay I’m not!”James laughed and jiggled his shoulders to get Regulus to stop. “I’m just hurrying to the Great hall. Sirius said he had something important for me when I got out of the shower earlier”

Regulus hummed as an answer, but didn’t look at James. Instead he was giving a hard look to a couple Slytherin boys who walked past them. James also spotted them looking at them with a rather rude look, but tried to brush it away. It didn’t matter.

When they arrived at the Great hall most of the students were already there, having breakfast while chatting with their friends.

Before Regulus and James parted their ways to sit on their own houses table Regulus took a hold of James wrist and pulled him close.

“You know”, he whispered to his ear. “I’m kinda jealous that my brothers gets to see you get out of the shower every day, but I don’t”

James' face grew red and he showed Regulus with his elbow before speaking. “Oh quiet Black. Go eat your breakfast”

Regulus smiled and started walking backwards to his table.

“You know I hate it when you call me that”, he said loudly.

While smiling James walked up to his friends and sat down next to Peter.

“Morning lads!” he said cheerfully and began to fill his plate with food. He was pretty hungry after getting up early in the morning and having a practice before eating anything.

“Morning Prongs. How was the practice?” Peter asked and poured pumpkin juice into James' mug.

“Thanks. But yeah it was alright, I’m sure we are going to beat the Slytherin team at the next game”

“Yeah you better do”, said Sirius who just a moment ago was busy talking with Marlene. “I can’t bear another month of you whining about losing or Regulus being all cheerful about winning”, he got quiet for a second. “Actual Regulus would be worse than you so just win, please”

James just settled to roll his eyes. Hearing Sirius say he would be dramatic about losing a game while being dramatic was rather amusing. Especially when they all knew how dramatic Sirius would be about it too.

“Whatever”, James said and took a sip from his juice. “Hey you said you had something to tell me”

Sirius seemed to think about it for a second. “Oh yeah no I didn’t really have anything. I just said that so you wouldn’t spend too much time shagging my brother before getting down here”

“Or let him shag you, whichever way you like it”, he added.

James looked at his best friend, mouth hanging open before turning to Remus. “Your boyfriend is being mean”

“Stop being mean Sirius”, Remus instantly said before settling back to his conversation with Lily.

Now it was Sirius' turn to look at James sulking. Then he raised his nose up and looked to the side.

“Rude”

“Any plans for today?” Remus said, completely ignoring Sirius.

“I was thinking of sneaking to the Honeydukes. But besides that, nothing”, James thought aloud.

“I was planning on doing some kind of prank on Flich. That wanker and his cat almost got me into trouble last week. But Honeydukes in the evening sounds pretty great to me”, Sirius who had already stopped sulking said. “I would invite you to tag along Prongs, but I’m assuming you will be busy?”

“He will thanks”, Regulus who had come stand behind James answered to Sirius before talking to James

“Wanna go to the lake after you’re done?” he smiled kindly and carefully touched James back between his shoulder blades.

James was too focused on staring Regulus' face, his sharp cheekbones, light eyes and black curly hair that settled just under his ears. The length was perfect, James thought. Not too long, but enough length for him to crap on while…
“James, love?” Regulus' quiet voice woke James from his thoughts to see the dark haired boy looking at him with an amused smile playing on his lips. “You still here?”

James blushed for the hundredth time today, or at least it felt like it, and looked down to his hands. “Yeah just thinking, but let me finish my breakfast and then I’m ready”

“Sure”, Regulus simply said before turning around and walking back to his table.

Severus was looking at James with a disgusted expression and said something rude. Assuming from Regulus slapping the back of his head with his hand.

“Fucking Snivellus, luckily I have raised my brother right”, Sirius casually stated after analysing Regulus and Severus talking about something at the Slytherin table.

“Raised?” Peter asked, confused and turned around to see what was happening at the other table. By now they have stopped talking and Regulus was turned to the other side, not looking at Snape.

“Not really raising Pete, keep up with it”, but before Sirius could go on any more a girl called Kady, sitting opposite from James, a couple of seats to the left, turned to James.

“So it’s true then”

James’ eyebrows wrinkled while he was looking back at Kady. “What is?”

“That you’re seeing Regulus, Black”, Kady said taking a break before the last name

“Hey no need to say my last name like that”, Sirius said, offended, but Remus hushed him down and brought a hand to his shoulder.

James just looked at her confused. Hasn’t it been clear that he and Regulus were seeing each other like the girl liked to call it. They haven’t been keeping it a secret, but didn’t rub it to others faces either.

“Yes? Something wrong with it?” James asked and sounded offended without even trying. Her question was rather rude.

“Isn’t it weird that you’re seeing your best friend's brother? And a slytherin, like isn’t he a death ea-”

Sirius slapped his hand to the table before she could finish her sentence. “If I were you I would be very careful with what to say next”, he warned.

“But isn’t it true? All of the Slytherin’s are, aren’t they?”

“You should just drop it”, James said quietly, but firmly.

Kady opened her mouth to talk, but closed it and walked quickly out of the Great hall.
“People are so fucking mean. She doesn’t know anything about him or you guys”, Remus murmured as almost everyone around them at the table were looking at them. James just sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

“You okay Prongs?” Peter asked from beside him.

“Yeah Moony is right. They know nothing, I don’t care about comments like that”, he moved to look at Sirius. “And neither should you”

But even though James said he didn’t care, he couldn’t help but feel a bit bothered by the her words. How could he really feel happy with Regulus if that was all they would hear all the time?

-

The weather outside was sunny and warm as James had guessed it to be. He and Regulus were on their way to the lake. They were far away from other people’s glances and Regulus had slipped his fingers to James’, holding his hand. Every once in a while he ran a thumb over James' knuckle.

“You have been awfully quiet since we left the castle”, Regulus said after a long silence.

James’ thoughts have been over the place since he left the Great hall. He couldn’t help but think about Kady's words. Isn’t it weird that you’re seeing your best friend's brother? A slytherin.

It was in fact weird, wasn’t it? He didn’t know about the Slytherin part, yeah Snivellus may be a total tosser, but not all of them were… bad. Death eater. That was a bad one, it really was, but he knew Regulus wasn’t one. Still hearing other students talk like that about his relationship, his boyfriends who he was falling in love with, even if he didn’t admit it. Yeah it did hurt.

“Oh sorry”, James settled to say. He didn’t have an excuse for the quietness, he didn’t want Regulus to know how other people talked about him.

“Don’t be, it’s okay”, Regulus brought his hand to his lips and kissed James’ knuckles. “I like the silence, but it’s not very common when being around you”

He pulled James to sit down with him to the ground. James sat down close to Regulus, crossing his legs, resting his arm on Reg's bent knee.

“So what’s wrong then?” Regulus finally asked. He’s been waiting for the moment the other boy would ask what was bothering him.

James sighed and turned a bit to the right, now facing Regulus. “Today after you left our table during breakfast this girl said something”
Regulus' gaze was on the lake somewhere far from James' face. It was something that bothered James. How he didn’t always look at him when he was talking and Regulus knew it.

“Really what did she say?” he asked calmly, still not meeting James' gaze with his own.

“She said that it’s weird seeing my best friend's brother. And that you are a Slytherin and that”, James didn’t want to say it. “That you’re a death eater”

“I’m what?” Now Regulus turned his head to James eyebrows furrowed.

“Nothing”, James mumbled. It felt wrong to say it, like he believed it too.

“No James, what did you say? I can’t hear if you mumble”, he said, asking him to repeat himself again. James didn’t like the way he was saying his name. It sounded cold and rude, like it was a punishment, but still so calm like Regulus always was.

“Don’t talk to me like that”, James snapped and moved farther away from him. Regulus sighed and turned his head again, not looking at James anymore. Frustration bubbled inside James.

James loved the calmness in Regulus, no matter what the situation was he was calm.

There were only a handful of times when he had witnessed Regulus yell. Usually he just seemed rather bored and answered strictly, but calmly. It was something James didn’t know was possible before he met Regulus. And it drove James mad, and it was selfish of him. To wish the other boy would show emotions, yell straight to his face as loudly as he could. But he never did.

In opposite situations when dealing with sadness, Regulus became passive. He just didn’t know what to do. But James didn’t blame him, growing up with the Blacks family, it wasn’t a big surprise showing emotions like sadness wasn’t something they did. It was more of a surprise that Sirius was so full of emotions, then Regulus being the polar opposite.

“Well I’m sorry, but I really didn’t hear what you said”, Regulus shrugged. James felt a lump in his throat and although he tried to swallow it away the lump stayed there, bringing tears to his eyes.

“She called you a death eater”, he spitted out. “There, you happy now?”

Regulus cracked his knuckles before licking his lips. “No, not really”

“Huh?” James asked, not expecting that as the answer. He quickly swiped the one single stupid tear that rolled down his cheek away with the sleeve of his sweater. He was pathetic, crying while Regulus just simply sat there.

“I’m not happy. My boyfriend is snapping at me while crying”, he turned his face towards James. “Yes I saw that, don’t think I didn’t. Because he is upset over some rumours that go around the school. So no James, I’m not that happy”

“Stop saying my name like that”, James said quietly and turned away from Regulus. Now it was his turn to stare at the lake. He heard Regulus mumble a list of cuss words under his breath. He got up and for a second James thought he was about to leave, but then squatted down in front of him. He rolled the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbows and came closer to James.

“Do you see it?” he asked, looking down at his bare arms.

“See what?” James asked, confused by Regulus' sudden actions.

“The dark mark? Come closer, do you see it somewhere? I can strip my clothes off if you want me to, but to me it seems like there’s nothing on my skin”

James lifted his head up to look at Regulus, who also lifted his head. He smirked before speaking.

“You are wrong”

Now Regulus was confused. “What?”

“There are marks in your skin”, he pointed out and lifted Regulus' shirt up. Under his navel next to the trail of dark hair was a big purple hickey with a couple smaller one’s next to it, covering his light skin.

“Oh”, Regulus breathed. “Well we are now talking about marks we don’t want to have in my skin. The process of those was very pleasant”

“Shut up. But no there’s no unpleasant marks in your body”

“Great”, Regulus said and rolled down the sleeves of his shirt before sitting down next to James' legs, fully facing him.

“Now what was the other problem? My brother, right?”

James nodded his head.

“Well I don’t think he is much of a problem. Not when talking about this topic”, Regulus added.

“No, but isn’t it weird? He’s my best friend, has been since I was eleven and now I’m shagging his brother”

“Pretty sure it’s the other way around”

James closed his eyes and fell backwards to the green grass. “You are just like your brother”

“Please don’t ever say that again. That is the biggest turn off ever”, Regulus pleaded the same time he drew patterns on James' thigh.

He reached his neck up to look at Regulus, “You were turned on?”

Regulus looked back at him and smirked. “Always when you’re around love”

It was funny how quickly their conversation could switch from serious to.. this. It was something James adored about Regulus. How fastly he could change James' mood without even trying. He maybe wasn’t great with showing emotions like sadness, but he sure was good at changing the mood to flirtatious.

The damn Black’s charm, James thought.

“But back to Siri- the subject, do you think Sirius had something against us seeing each other?”

“What’s with you and ‘seeing each other’?” Regulus asked, throwing his head back. “Sounds ridiculous”

“Dating, being partners, boyfriends, fuck buddies with feelings”, James said suggesting different names.

“No. He may be dramatic and moody as hell, but having problem with us, no”, Regulus stated. “Do you?”

“No. He loves us, and I think he’s just happy that we are happy”

“So what’s the problem here then?” Regulus asked and settled next to James on the grass. He turned on his side, eyeing James' side profile. He lifted his hand, caressing James’ jaw and cheek with his fingers. He took a hold of his jaw and turned his face towards him, but James opposed

“Look at me”

“You never look at me either”, James blurted out without thinking and right away felt bad about his words.

Regulus huffed a breath, but didn’t seem offended. “No, but that’s because I have my issues. But I wanna see your pretty eyes”

Blush creeped up from James neck to his cheeks, he gave in, turning his head to the side.

“There they are”, he kissed the corner of James' mouth quickly. “Now listen. You care too much about what other people think”

James was about to open his mouth, but Regulus kept talking. “Yeah I know you don’t want other people to talk behind our backs, behind my back. But I couldn’t care less about the shit they talk about me, I’m used to it by now”

James didn’t like the fact that Regulus was used to it, he shouldn’t be. He still didn’t say anything, but let him keep talking.

“And if someone talks about you, I will deal with it, okay?”

He tugged gently at the hairs in the back of James' head. “Okay?”

“Okay”, he said quietly.

“Where’s the smile that I love?” Regulus asked, pretending to look around for it.

James couldn’t help but smile at the silly boy laying next to him.

“There it is, as gorgeous as always”, Regulus' own face broke into a smile and he kissed James nose.

“You are making me blush Reg”, James complained, moving closer to hide his face on Regulus' neck.

“I know, that’s why I’m saying all those things”

James lifted his face from Regulus’ chest looking offended. “You enjoy embarrassing me?”

“I don’t embarrass you. I just tell you what I see, and just so you know I very much enjoy the things I see”

“What are you seeing then?” James challenged.

“The sky, the beautiful lake, those mountains”

“I hate you”, James said and turned around

“No you don’t”

“No I don’t”

-

By the time it was dinner the two boys had got back to the castle hours ago and spent time in an empty classroom.

“Aren’t you cold?” James asked as they walked together to the Great hall. Regulus was only wearing a t-shirt with some muggle artist at the front. The shirt was cropped so if Regulus raised his arms the shirt would rise up and expose a part of his stomach. James thought it was an interesting choice of clothing from Regulus. Usually the boy didn’t use cropped shirts, but he wasn’t complaining. Regulus looked extremely hot in it.

“No I’m good”, Regulus told him and took a hold of his hand, swinging them between their bodies as they walked.

“I’m pretty sure that’s Sirius’ shirt on top of all”, James pointed out.

“Yeah it is. I stole it from him during the Christmas”

“Is that the one he got as a present from Remus?” The shirt had a man in it and with big letters that said ‘David Bowie’.

“Probably, but he pissed the shit out of me so I took it. Bet the wankers been crying about losing it since then, I don’t even know who David Bowie is”

“When are you guys going to grow up?” James wondered aloud as they reached the Great hall. He was about to let go of Regulus' hand when he pulled him closer, the same way he did in the morning.

But now he kissed him, hard on the mouth. James made a shocked sound when Regulus’ tongue slipped into his mouth. Then he pulled away and declared loudly,

“See you tomorrow” and kissed him one more time. His eyes focused on something behind James’ back. He lifted his arms up in the air, showing his, in fact, bare arms to the girls at the gryffindor table. First the girls looked at his arms then their gazes moved lower.

The shirt rose up. Way too much for James good, the feisty bruises now very visible. It didn’t leave much room for guessing. Lastly Regulus flipped the girls off and turned around.

“Bye my love”

James couldn’t make himself move right away; he just stood there as shocked as everyone else in the room. Then he quickly walked to his table without looking anyone in the eyes.

The first one to speak was Sirius.

“Hey wanker!” he yelled over to Regulus. “You are wearing my shirt!”

“Fuck off, It looks better on me anyways”

And yeah, maybe James was in fact falling in love with Regulus Black.