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"James." Regulus rasped. James leaned back and shook his head gently.
"Not this time, baby." He muttered quietly, raising his hand and tracing a path down the edge of Regulus' cheek, who shuddered subtly in response. "I told you I'd wait until you acknowledged you wanted to do it again."
"Can I?" Regulus burst out breathlessly "Can I indulge without being forced to face the consequences, without having to acknowledge what it..." Regulus trailed off, closing his eyes. When he reopened them, James shook his head softly, an alarmingly open expression of sympathy and fondness in his eyes.
"Not with this, sweetheart," James responded gently. "You'll just have to decide whether it's worth it."
James Potter is a cocky arrogant git who gets into people's business when no one wants him to
Regulus hates him
He hates him but is the only one who can save him
Yet Regulus knows he can only keep him, or keep him safe. He only knows of one way he can ensure James Potter lives. And if it breaks his heart, so be it.This fic will be split into two parts. The first set in Hogwarts, the second set outside of it, before and during the war.
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28 Dec 2025
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All James wants is to get back at Lily, his on-again-off-again girlfriend. Maybe his best friend’s brother and his sworn enemy isn’t the right choice for that.
All Regulus wants is to win his family home from Narcissa in a battle of inheritance. James Potter is the key to doing that. So what if he uses James? Regulus is being used as well.
A dare, a debt, a family feud, and a few fistfights later, someone falls in love. Everything falls apart.
Still, it turns out the love they seek can be found in the strangest of places.
“You're doing what wrong?”
“…Life. Is this how it should be, blacking out every weekend, sleeping around recklessly? Coasting by from one numbing minute to the next?”
Smoke spilled from Barty’s mouth, and he looked over at Regulus, his eyes unreadable. “People like us don’t have the privilege of doing it another way, do we?”
Regulus paused at that. “Who are people like us?” he asked, his voice faint.
“Damaged, fucked up people. We didn’t grow up normal. We don’t get to be normal now.”
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26 Dec 2025
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It starts as a joke.
Regulus tells himself it’s nothing. James tells himself it’s harmless.
They’re both wrong.
(or Regulus Black wanted James Potter, the golden boy, happily taken, and entirely off-limits. It was supposed to be funny. It stopped being funny the moment James wanted him back.)
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09 Dec 2025
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A Muggle AU in which a ballet dancer and a rugby player call it “casual” while accidentally developing feelings, catastrophically failing at communication, and pretending it’s all totally fine.
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“Why the hell are you here ruining my lunch, James?”
James rubbed a hand over the back of his neck, trying to find words that didn’t sound completely insane.
He failed.
“I... don’t think you should be sleeping with Evan anymore.”
Regulus stared at him like he’d just proposed murdering the Queen.
(...)
“If you need a fuck buddy for, you know, stress relief and stuff… You could just use me.”
(...)
“Come again?”
“If the position’s open,” James said, attempting a grin, “I’m applying.”----
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26 Nov 2025
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Andrew tips his head in thought, “Is it about what Nicky was saying yesterday?”
Neil stiffened, smirk faltering a little as heat rises to his cheeks, “No. Don’t even remember what he was saying about the masks.”
Andrew hums now, short and bored, “I didn’t say anything about masks.”
Neil turns from Andrew, picking up his pen, “I have homework to finish.”
Ah, Andrew thinks, Interesting.
“For someone who lied for his entire life, you really are shit at it.”
“I’m good enough for it to keep me alive.”
Andrew hums again, “Not good enough to do it to me, though.”
Neil looks towards the textbook to his left and sighs, “How unfortunate.”
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andrew dresses as ghostface for halloween and neil discovers a thing or two. smth that initially started out as a mask thing before it fizzles out to just me wanting to write andreil
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Russian Translation by rainboww_toad
Link: https://ficbook.net/readfic/019706a5-c35e-71b7-9306-76721375e340Bookmarked by cigarettes_ocean
26 Jul 2025