Wolfstar one shots

“Don’t get me wrong, or well in fact do, but when you said we should do something fun before uni starts.. This wasn’t exactly what I had thought”, Regulus said to James who was laying on the sofa eating some gummy worms.

Lazy bitch

“Oh don’t be like that, Reg!” James said and threw one of his candies at him. “It’s going to be fun and before you know you’re going to miss this trip when you’re sitting in one of your lectures ready to just drop out”

“I feel like I would have bigger urge to jump out of a moving car than then go on a trip with Sirius after this”

When James and Sirius had come up with an idea to do a four day road trip together they had thought it was the best idea ever. When they told their idea to Regulus and Remus they had thought it was the worst idea ever. Or well Regulus had thought that. Remus had betrayed him and said it was actually a pretty good idea as long as none let Sirius drive.

So that led them to this moment.

Regulus was doing the last check to make sure everything he needed was packed. Or more like everything they needed was packed, James would forget his own head if it was possible.

And maybe, just maybe he had gone a little overboard with it. There’s of course the sleeping bags, his skincare products, of course, and other important things like some painkillers and other medicine for when James or Sirius do something stupid and split their heads open.

Though maybe painkillers won’t be enough in that situation…

And then there were the clothes, they will be gone only for four days but they had clothes for at least eight days. You never know when something happens and you need some extra pair of trousers or a jacket even though it’s august.

He also had enough underwear for him and James both to shit their pants like four times a day, but…

He wants to be sure, okay?

“Oh, Remus texted they’re on their way!” James said and jumped up from the sofa and ran to Regulus, who was crouching down over one of the bags, like a little kid. Regulus yelped when James’ arms sneaked around his waist and lifted him up.

“Come Reg, it’s going to be fun!” he said and peppered the side of Regulus’ face with kisses. The other boy crunched his face, but couldn’t help the laugh escaping his lips as James pressed his lips to the ticklish spot behind his ear.

“Okay, okay! Please put me down, Jamie”, he said and James did as he told him, but instead of letting Regulus go he just spun him around in his arms. They looked at each other. A smile was covering James’ face and his glasses were a little bit lopsided from when he had his face pressed to Regulus’ neck.

“I know you’re being all crumby, but I promise you it’s going to be fun and Sirius won’t annoy you-”

Regulus raised his eyebrows at him.

“-Any more than he normally does”, James reassured with a grin. Regulus didn’t in fact hate the idea of their road trip, no. It was fun to spend time together again with the four of them, Peter sadly couldn’t tag along. He was visiting some relatives, or something like that. And even though the Black brothers for sure annoyed each other to the point where everyone around them thought one of them was going to get killed, they would still do anything and everything for each other.

They get each other on a level no one else does. It’s funny, because they share the trauma (James and his therapist say it’s not funny, but fuck them honestly) from their childhood. They’re both fucked up from the head, so when the other goes crashing down they’re there for each other. Ready to push past all of it. Sure James and Remus are there for them too, but on another level. In those moments when he needs to get out of the darkness James is there to rescue. He helps him to forget in the moments it’s all too much. He doesn’t really get rid of them, but he eases everything.

But when he needs to wallow in the moment, wallow in the truth that yeah their childhood was absolute shit Sirius is there. They smoke a pack of cigarettes together until it’s time to give the memories the middle finger. Say that they’re nothing more than memories anymore.

And Regulus is proud to say they really are just that anymore. Memories. He won't ever get rid of them, no matter how hard he tries. But he learns to live with them, he learns to leave them in the past where they belong.

Thank fuck for therapy honestly. And thank fuck for James Potter who slept on the sofa for two weeks after suggesting it. Not Regulus' greatest moments, but at least their sofa is comfy…

But besides all the bonding he and his brother do, the next couple of days the two of them will drive each other mad. But that’s a part of being siblings, right?

James brought his hands to cup Regulus’ cheeks. That made him wake up from his thoughts and look at the boy in front of him. That happens too, he just suddenly drifts off to somewhere deep into his mind.

“Hello”, James says as Regulus’ eyes focus on him again. James smiles and gently brushes the pad of his thumb over his cheekbone.

“Sorry”

James shook his head and pressed a light kiss to his forehead. “Don’t be. Everything okay?”

Regulus was just about to answer when a car honked, twice.

Who the fuck let Sirius drive?

And not even a minute later Sirius was bursting through their front door.

Who the fuck let Sirius have the key to their apartment?

“Oi! No seducing my brother Prongs”, was the first thing he said as he saw them standing still close to each other, with James hands resting on his lower back.

“Bugger off”, Regulus muttered but stepped away from James. It’s like Sirius didn’t even hear him. He just grinned and stepped inside. His eyes thrifted to the four bags on the floor, all full of things Regulus had packed.

“How many fucking bags do you guys need?”

Regulus just huffed and took one of the lightest ones so he could take it to the car. Remus was leaning to the car door when he stepped outside, surprisingly (or not) smoking a cigarette.

“You won’t live past thirty if you don’t cut off the cigs”, Regulus said smirking, but still motioned Remus to pass the burning stick of nicotine to him. Remus gave it to him and smirked as he moved to the back of the car to open the trunk for him.

“I’m here for a good time, not for a long”

“Yeah dying to lung cancer sounds like fun time”

“Well”, Remus said and motioned to a cloud of smoke that left Regulus’ mouth with his finger. “Guess we will experience that together then. Beside I could stop any moment I want”

“And when is that exactly?”

“Okay hoes and bros”, Sirius' overly excited voice said, that broke whatever answer Remus was going to give him off. He was carrying one of their bags too and simply just threw it to the back of the car, not caring much where it landed.

“By hoe I meant you”, Sirius said and winked his eye to Remus who simply rolled his own eyes.

“Lovely, thank you sweetheart”

Regulus pretended to gag and passed the cigarette back to Remus.

“I have some rules we need to go through before this roadtrip can officially start”, Sirius announced and took his phone out of his pocket to read whatever rules he had come up with.

“Oh dear god”, Regulus muttered and moved closer to James and wrapped both his arms around his middle. James smiled down at him and put his hand around his waist to bring them even closer.

“Number one! No sex in the car when it’s your turn to spend the night there. If you need to get off then get a hotel room or something, you filthy animals”

Regulus looked at his brother, his mouth hanging open.

“You for real? No one else wouldn’t even thought that expect you”

“Judging by the way James’ hand is only centimetres away from your crotch, I think that it’s very valid rule”

He looked down to where James hand was resting on his hip, his fingers slowly caressing his hip bone. He hadn’t even realised the other boy was doing that. He moved James’ hand higher and glared at Sirius.

“Number two! Everyone will drive at some point”

No one had anything to complain about that one so Sirius kept going.

“Number three! Everyone else expect Regulus can decide what music we are listening on their own turn”

“What the fuck Sirius?” Regulus muttered and pressed his forehead to James’ shaking shoulder. The other boy was laughing, fucking laughing.

“I’m kidding”, Sirius smirked.

“Sirius”, Remus said and raised his eyebrows at him. The other boy only smiled sheepishly.

“I just wanted to see his reaction. No, but everyone will get to choose the music whenever they are driving, okay?”

“How many rules do you have, Pads?” James, who found this whole situation funny, asked.

“Two more, Prongs, two more”, he sang-song and looked down at his phone. He had clearly done some kind of a list and Regulus was ready to burn the whole thing.

This is what he meant when he said this road trip would drive him mad.

“Number four is especially to James and his small bladder. We are not stopping every ten minutes to take a piss. Either hold it or wet your pants”

“Yeah I agree”, Regulus said and poked James ribcage with his finger.

“Personally I would take that as bullying, but I’m letting it slide”, James said and pinched Regulus’ side, making him yelp and move away from him.

“Okay okay and the last one! The only one allowed to put his feet on the dashboard is my beautiful boyfriend Moony. No I don’t take any complains”

Remus pretended to be shocked and took a hold of Sirius’ other hand that wasn’t holding the phone. “Sirius, you're so generous. Thank you, thank you.”, he wiped a pretentious tear from the corner of his eye and pressed a kiss to Sirius’ knuckles.

“Rule number six!” Everyone keeps their hands to themselves”, Regulus announced and went to sit in the backseat. “I’m not driving!”

“Me neither!”

Sirius and Remus yelled at the same time and then turned to look at each other grinning. James didn’t have time to say anything so he just sighed and took the keys from Sirius.

“I guess I’ll be driving then. Be ready to listen some Taylor Swift the next hours”

-

“This is like the tenth time we’re listening to August, James,” Regulus complained as the familiar beginning of a song started.

The trip has actually been pretty normal so far, normal for them. They’ve been driving for two and a half hours and only stopped once so James could use the bathroom. No one had tried to kill each other yet and overall the mood inside the car was good.

The first half an hour Sirius and James screamed the lyrics to the songs James played. From Abba to some weird as fuck british rap that Regulus hopes he doesn’t have to hear ever again. Then Sirius had a meltdown when Do you wanna build a snowman started playing. Why is that on one of James’ playlist? Honestly Regulus doesn’t know. He eventually calmed down when Remus threatened to throw his dramatic ass out of the car window.

And they say the romance is dead

That was followed by Sirius ignoring Remus for whole six minutes, until he came to the decision that he’s done being mad and needed some cuddles. So Remus and Regulus switched places

And there went his sixth rule.

What’s like having a normal brother? Regulus doesn’t know.

And that all led to this moment. Regulus didn’t have any idea where they were at the moment, but the view outside was pretty. They have gotten out of the city a while ago so now it was just some hills and cute little houses here and there.

It is nice

“But it’s so good, babe, like listen to it”, James said and grinned as he hummed along with the song.

“Please no babes or anything else”, Sirius said from the backseat.

Regulus turned his head around to give Sirius the death glare, “If Remus’ hand can rest on your ass, James can call me whatever he likes”

Remus was sitting in the middle seat, Sirius on his left side was cuddled under his arm. His head was resting on Remus’ shoulder as Remus' hand was in fact resting on top of his ass. They looked relaxed. And pretty cute too, but he will never ever tell that to Sirius.

“Let’s switch the driver guys. I’m getting kinda tired and there’s only like an hour to go today”, James said either to stop the two of them from fighting or because he really was tired.

“I’ll drive”, Remus informed and sat more up in his seat. Regulus was glad Remus volunteered, because he himself will avoid driving for as long as he can. Not because he doesn’t know how to drive, he does. But he just doesn’t really like it. He isn’t one of those people who love driving so much they would just drive around for the fun of it. So whenever he and James go anywhere James is the one driving. The only thing Regulus has to do was sit in the passenger seat and look pretty.

“But Moony”, Sirius whined as James pulled to the side for Remus and him to switch places.

Remus chuckled, “Stop being so whiny Sirius”

“Yeah, stop being a whiny bitch”, Regulus teased, because he is after all the younger sibling and that is his job. He unlocked his seatbelt and stepped out of the car, his legs and butt was beginning to get numb from all the sitting.

“How much longer did you say we had left?” Regulus asked James who passed him on his way to sit in the back. He stopped to turn and look at Regulus and rested his head on top of the open car door.

“Like an hour or so, why?”

Regulus smirked and walked to the other side of the car where his brother was sitting. Sirius, who had been leaning his head to the cool car window almost fell out as Regulus opened the door. “Bloody hell, Reg”, Sirius complained and looked at his brother. Regulus just chuckled at the way he almost fell head first to the ground.

“Move to the front seat, would you?”

Sirius turned to look at his other side where James was already sitting. The other boy just shrugged, not having anything to do with whatever Regulus was doing.

“But James-”

“You can have your heterosexual no homo bro bonding time later. I wanna sit with him”

“I’m literally gay”, Sirius muttered as he stepped out of the car and rounded to the other side of the car to sit on the passenger seat. Regulus hummed, happy that he got the backseat with James. “What evil plan did you come up with?” James asked as he moved to the middle seat to get closer to him.

“Nothing, just this”, Regulus said as he pressed himself to James’ side and hid his face to his neck. He inhaled the sweet smell of James, the fucking amazing smell of his perfume. Though Regulus had bought it himself to James, so of course it was nothing but perfect.

“Remus, Remus they’re doing it. My own brother and best friend, in front of my face”, Sirius whined and covered his face with his palms. Remus glanced at them from the rear-view window, but only chuckled. “Sweetheart, you need to calm down”, he said and tapped Sirius’ thigh with his palm.

“You need to go touch some fucking grass”, Regulus said but it came out as a mumble as his face was still pressed to James neck.

“Guys..”, James said “Not to be that person, but I really need to pee”. Sirius and Regulus both turned to look at him as Remus groaned.

“Not to be that person, but I think you and your bladder need to go and see a doctor, mate”, Sirius pointed out

“Hey, don’t say that. My bladder is sensitive”

“Yeah we can tell Prongs”, Remus said and tried not to laugh as he stopped the car to the side of the road.

“I’ll be quick”, James said as he stepped out of the car

“No, take all the time you need, we don’t mind” Regulus said and James gave him the finger as he closed the door

“You need some paper, honey?” Remus sarcastically asked from the open window. Both Regulus and Sirius bursted out laughing.

“I hate you guys”

-

Regulus tried to find a good position where he could finally fall asleep. It felt like he had been tossing and turning for the past hour. Either it was too cold or something uncomfortable was under his back or his neck started hurting. He now remembered why he didn’t go camping. Sleeping in a tent was pure torture.

Remus and Sirius got to sleep in the car the first night. Regulus didn’t actually know if it was any better than the tent, because it still got cold there and the car seats definitely weren’t the most comfortable place to sleep. Still probably better than the tent.

Regulus sighed and settled on his back, but that wasn’t good either. It was way too cold, his nose was ice cold and he couldn’t feel his toes anymore. He turned to look at James who, to no one’s surprise, was peacefully sleeping. But because Regulus is after all evil he moved closer to James, still inside his sleeping bag because he refused to get out. He was wearing a beanie that was pretty much covering his eyes, from where he had pulled it as deep into his head as he could.

He poked James’ cheek. His skin was warm, honestly fuck him. James didn’t even stir so he poked again. And again until James turned his head to the other side. “James”, he whispered.

James flinched awake and turned to look at him. Regulus’ eyes were barely open. He was so tired, but couldn’t fall asleep. James sat up.

“Are you ok, love?”

He knew he sounded and looked like a toddler. He was pouting and pretty much ready to throw a tantrum any second if he didn’t get to sleep.

“I can’t sleep. It's too cold, I can’t feel my toes, James. And my neck hurts and my lower back hurts and my nose feels like it’s covered in ice. It’s literally ice cold. Try it”

James pinched his nose, which he didn’t like either so he tried his best to give him his ‘I’m annoyed with you’ look and turned to look to the side.

“Oh how terrible of a situation you have going on there. What should we do about it, Mr Black?”

“Take me home”, he stated. He had entered his dramatic state now. James hummed and opened his sleeping bag's zipper and raised the edge up for Regulus.

“Come here”, he said. Regulus was confused.

“You mean like, inside there?”

“Yes, come on. Why do you think I have a bigger sleeping bag than you do? Now quickly before it gets cold inside here.”

Regulus quickly ditched his own sleeping bag. He will burn it when they get home. He rushed inside it and pressed himself to James. He pressed his cold nose to James’ warm neck and closed his eyes. James closed the zipper and wrapped his hands around him. The sleeping bag wasn’t that big so they really needed to be pressed to each other to fit in there, but Regulus didn’t complain. That way he could stay warm.

“Better?”

Regulus hummed and nodded his head before pressing his lips to James’ neck. “Thank you”, he murmured.

“Anytime”

-

“Is everyone wearing some clothes?”

Regulus groaned and burrowed his head deeper to the crook of James’ neck. For the rest of the night he had actually slept surprisingly well. Maybe camping wasn’t that bad after all. He wasn’t sure what time it was, but he for sure could use an hour or more of sleep.

“I’m coming in and I better not see any bare asses when I do”, Sirius warned.

“Like you haven’t seen one before”, Regulus muttered as Sirius poked his head through the tent's door.

“Good morning, the sun is shining, Moony is making some breakfast. And you.. Are doing whatever the fuck you are.. doing”

Regulus opened the zipper of James’ sleeping bag. “Literally just sleeping, it’s on you if you make it weird”. Sirius just shrugged and grinned before his head disappeared again.

“Breakfast in five! Be there or suffer from hunger!”

Knowing Remus' cooking was usually pretty good, Regulus scrambled out of the sleeping bag. It had gotten notably warmer since the sun had risen, it was almost too hot in the tent. Regulus turned to look at James who was still peacefully sleeping. He gently brushed some of his hair out of his face and reached down to press light kisses to James’ cheek.

“Good morning Jamie”, he whispered as James stirred awake from his sleep. He always looked so adorable when just woken up. His hair was over the place, more than usually, and his eyes all puffy. And for the first couple of seconds he always looked like he had no idea of anything that was surrounding him. James looked up to him, eyes still almost closed and a lazy smile appeared on his lips.

“Hi, love”, he said, voice heavy and raspy from sleep.

“Hi”, Regulus whispered and moved closer. “Breakfast is in like three minutes”, he smacked James’ ass and got up himself. “Get up, get up!” he said and disappeared through the tent's door. Next to their tent was their car and on the other side was a small picnic table where Remus and Sirius were already eating their breakfast, pressed to each other's sides. The camping area they are staying in has a small cabin with two bathrooms and a small kitchen that the overnighters could use for a small fee.

Remus had made all of them some eggs and toast. Nothing too special, more like something easy and quick, but good.

“Good morning, Reggie”, Sirius exclaimed as he sat down on the opposite bench from the two of them. Remus was skimming through a newspaper, something he had probably found from the cabin. He looked up to Regulus and took a sip of his tea.

“Slept well?”

Regulus hummed and snatched a piece of toast from the table, “Bloody cold, but other than that it was okay I guess”

Remus hummed too and closed the newspaper, “Yeah tell me about it”, he said and glanced at Sirius. He looked right back and through a mouthful of bread complained,

“Not my fault you were so slow that I got the extra blanket and you didn’t!”

“We could have shared”, Remus pointed out. Sirius muttered something back, but Regulus didn’t really catch it. Then a pair of arms wrapped around his shoulders and a chin was pressed on top of his head.

“Morning lads”, James said, voice still sleepy, but more awake then when Regulus left the tent. He pressed his back to James’ front and leaned his head back to his chest.

“Morning Prongs, good night?” Sirius asked.

“Yeah, it was actually pretty nice”, James thought aloud. Regulus was sometimes jealous of the way James could fall asleep no matter where they were sleeping. It would take him five minutes and he was all out of it. Regulus was sure he had been cursed the day he was born. He couldn’t really sleep well anywhere else other than in his own bed. That’s why last night had caught him off guard. After sharing the sleeping bag with James he had slept well.

James stepped away from Regulus and turned around, “Gotta wee”, he informed them all.

“Surprise!” Remus yelled after him, James flipped him off. But just as he passed their car he stopped.

“Guys! We have a problem”, all three of them turned to look at James who was standing on the other side of the car, staring at the ground. Then they turned to look at each other before getting up. As Regulus got where James was standing he saw the state one of the car tires was.

“Well fuck”, Remus muttered from the place beside him.

“Did you guys shag in the car or what?” Regulus asked and turned to look at Sirius and Remus. Sirius let out an offended noise.

“No! That was literally one of my own rules”, Sirius pointed out. “How the fuck would that explain a flat tire?”

Regulus threw his hands up, “I don’t know! Like I know what you two do during”

“Well definitely not pierce tires, that’s for sure”, Remus said and ran a hand through his hair. They all just stared at the tire, not knowing what to do in this situation. They were almost five hours away from London.

“Do we have a spare one?” James asked and turned to look at Sirius.

“Believe it or not I don’t carry one around with me”

“Beside”, Remus said. “Don’t think any of us would know how to change one either, so”, they all muttered something that sounded like an agreement.

“Well I don’t know about you guys, but I’m going to have a smoke”, Remus said and turned around to go and find his pack of cigarettes.

“Really, Moony?” Sirius said and crossed his hands over his chest.

“Well it’s not like us staring at it will fix it, right?” he said and passed the pack to Regulus who gladly took it, then offered it to Sirius who rolled his eyes but took one.

So that’s how they all find themselves sitting on a bench smoking a cigarette. Well expect James who just sits next to Regulus.

“I think we should call my dad”, James offers.

“It’s a five hour drive, we could just call some place that fixes tires”, Remus says and leans his head back to blow smoke rings out of his mouth.

“I still don’t understand how you do that, Moony”, Sirius whines and tries to copy Remus. Regulus rolls his eyes and kicks his brother's shin. “Focus, wanker”

“Don’t kick me”, Sirius says and kicks him right back. James, who ignores the bickering brothers on his left, gets up and walks to the other side of Remus.

“It’s over 70 kilometres to the closest repair shop”, he says and shows his phone screen to Remus who curses under his breath and throws the rest of his cigarette to the ground.

-

“Thanks for helping us and sorry for the trouble”, James says for the third time since his parents got there. They ended up calling Monty, it seemed like the best one out of the very limited options they had. It had taken them over six hours to get there, so it was closer to noon when they finally arrived. Monty had brought a new tire with him and helped James and Sirius to change it. While Remus and Regulus chatted with Effie.

They did have a nice day while waiting for them to get there. They went on a hike that had very pretty views and even went for a swim on the lake next to their camping area.

“It’s alright son”, Monty said. “You guys were lucky me and your mother didn’t have any plans for today”

“Oh shush Fleamont!” Effie said. “This was fun, a little road trip”, she squeezed Regulus’ and Remus’ hands that were on the picnic table the three of them were sitting on. “Besides it’s always lovely to spend time with all my boys”

Regulus smiled and squeezed her hand back.

“And it’s done!” Sirius yelled and high-fived James. Regulus got up and walked to see that there was in fact a new tire on the car. And it looked decent, probably thanks to Monty.

They stayed for a bit after that, Effie made them all food with the ingredients she had brought with her. And the day was overall fun. They said their goodbyes to Monty and Effie and thanked them again for the hundred time.

“I don’t know about you guys”, Remus said and yawned from where they were all sitting around the campfire they had set as it had gotten darker. “But I’m pretty tired”. Regulus found himself yawning too and nodded his head.

“Yeah I think I could use some sleep”, James said and got up from the sand, pulling Regulus with him. “We are taking the car tonight”, Regulus informed Sirius and Remus.

“No naughty business!” Sirius warned and Regulus slapped the back of his head as he and James walked behind him.

“Says the person who broke the car from all the shagging”

“We didn’t shag!” Sirius and Remus both groaned at the same time.

“Whatever”, he chuckled. “Good night!”

“Night guys”, James said.

And as Regulus snuggled closer to James in their shared sleeping bag and closed his eyes he realised that maybe he will in fact miss this trip when he is sitting in a lecture later this autumn.

Damn you James for always being right.