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Regulus Black was a lot of things, the youngest member to the house of Black, little brother to Sirius Black, a 6th year Slytherin student at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, 5 year running Quidditch champion, A trans man, a ‘disappointment’ according to his family, son to Walburga and Orion Black, Best friend to Bartumis Crouch Jr, Evan Rosier, Pandora Rosier, and Dorcas Meadows.
Yes, Regulus Arcturus Black was a lot of things, had many titles but, the one title he let’s no one fuck around and forgot about, his most important title of them all, James Fleamont Potters boyfriend. And lord have mercy on the poor soul who forgets that.
Like right now.
Gryffindor is having a party for their Quidditch victory against Hufflepuff and Regulus is very proud to say that his boyfriend was the star of tonight’s game, so of course he’s going to be the star of tonight’s party. Regulus is talking with Remus, they're not really into partying like their boyfriends are but they had to be here to show their support obviously.
“And then she had the nerve to say that I was cheating off her test.” Remus tells his story slightly annoyed. “I didn’t get in trouble thankfully because Minnie knows me better than that but it’s just ridiculous. What’s her problem with me?”
Regulus only hums as he listens to his friend talk. Ever since Sirius ran away and took Regulus with him two years ago, Regulus can honestly say he’s never been happier, in those short two years he found a loving supportive family in the Potters, his and Sirius’s relationship is stronger than ever, and he’s grown even more friends in Sirius’s friend group who he actually gets along with very well, and he got a smoking hot boyfriend. Regulus is kind of winning at life at the moment.
“She’s a bitch and has been trying to get under your skin all year, just ignore her.” The black haired boy tries to make his brother's boyfriend see reason as he drinks out of his cup.
“I can’t when she is constantly at it.” Remus rolls his eyes, also getting a drink of his own cup. They’re talking about Harper McDaniel, a 7th year Ravenclaw who, according to Remus, is out to make his life a living hell. Regulus thinks he’s being dramatic but no way is he going to tell the wolf that when it is very close to the full moon. Remus is just more irritable the past few days.
“And not to mention did I tell you sh-“ Remus starts but Regulus isn’t even trying to act like he’s paying attention anymore cause the hairs on his neck stood up. James. His mind says as the boy starts looking around for his boyfriend around the crowd. Sirius, Barty, and Marlene like to joke that Regulus has a ‘Spidy sense’ when someone is flirting with James. Regulus thinks it’s just a boyfriend sense, because he can tell when someone is after something that’s his.
And Regulus sees the problem from across the clearing in the woods, a 6th year Slytherin, Regulus recognizes her from the common room.
James is in a large group with people congratulating him, not that Regulus minds at all, James was good at this week's game and he’s happy people are telling James how good he actually was. What’s bothering him is the fucking bitch who’s feeling up his arms. That won’t do.
Regulus’s eyes go murderous as he zeros in on the girls hands on his boyfriend, and James, polite, stupid, wonderful idiot James can’t see that she’s flirting with him, and Regulus knows this because it has caused arguments before. James can’t see how much of a catch he is, he’s oblivious when it comes to flirting and it kills Regulus.
“Uh oh-“ Remus says as he catches onto what Regulus is looking at, Remus, and well anyone, knows how possessive Regulus can be, it’s not a secret, and Regulus doesn’t even try to hide it. So Remus does what any friend would and takes Regulus’s drink out of his hand as Regulus stomps over to the crowd surrounding James.
James Potter's face lights up when he sees Regulus walking over, he’s missed his boyfriend terribly even if they are at the same party, when Regulus isn’t in touching distance a piece of James feels like it’s gone.
“Hey love.” James smiles, forgetting about anyone else that’s around, he does that a lot when Regulus is near. Forgets about other people or anything else, it’s what James likes to call the ‘Reggie effect.’
James makes a move to get up from the log he’s sitting on but Regulus’s eyes narrow and he pushes his boyfriend back down and sits on his lap, wrapping an arm around James’s neck before leaning in to whisper in his ear.
“She’s touching you.” The younger boy sneered quietly, his voice low and rough causing James to forget how to breathe for a second as he rests his hand on his boyfriend's thigh.
“Well good for her, but I’m touching you, arent I love?” James whispers back as he squeezes Regulus’s thigh and Regulus only glares up at him and grabs James by his cheeks with both hands pulling him into a hot, steamy kiss.
And who is James to not kiss back? He’s only human after all and plus James loves when Regulus gets all possessive and jealous. The younger one already knows that James is going home with him, no one else but yet he still gets like this every single time and James lives for it.
They kiss for a hot minute, and James blocks out everything and anything around him like always, he’s immersed in Regulus’s lips, obsessing over his touch and the way the boy's hands slide up the back of his neck and his long skinny fingers pull on his hair. James can’t help but gasp and Regulus takes that opportunity to add his tongue in James mouth.
Regulus pulls away abruptly leaving James in a confused daze as he leans in for more but Regulus pushes his head, redirecting it to Regulus’s neck and James happily obliges, attacking the pale neck in kisses. Regulus groans and moves his head to where he can look at the Ravenclaw and he smirks, raising an eyebrow. Mine. His eyes say to her, knowing that she’ll get the hint and she did, after all Ravenclaws are known for their intelligence. And she huffs standing up and walking away and Regulus celebrates his victory as he pulls James’s head away from his neck.
“Dorm?” Regulus asks as he stands up already knowing the answer and James’s eyes turn dark as he only nods and takes Regulus’s hand walking them up to the castle.
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Regulus Black was bored, he was in potions with Gryffindor but instead of James, he was paired up with Sirius because their names are in alphabetical order, but not to worry cause James is at the desk in front of him and Sirius with Kayla Porter, a 7th year Gryffindor Muggleborn, just great.
Regulus has always been good at potions, he doesn’t even need to try at the subject, it all just comes naturally so his and Sirius’s potion (no help to Sirius at all) have been done for the past 10 minutes, so Regulus sat down and decided to maybe draw something while Sirius messed around and started hitting James in the back of the head with loose parchment.
The younger Black heir isn’t clingy by any means, just because James is in the same class as him and in front of him doesn’t mean he needs the boy’s undivided attention, James is working on his potion, that’s a good thing. Plus James needs the practice because to put it nicely James Potter is horrendous at the subject.
Regulus’s head shoots up however when he hears a giggle a loud, high pitch giggle.
“Would you stop that, we are trying to work.” Kayla laughs at James as he throws the papers back at Sirius.
“Oy! he started it.” The boy with the messy brown hair states and just to drive his point home even further Sirius throws the parchment back at James hitting him dead in the face.
Regulus would be lying if he said he didn’t snicker at that only a little.
“Pads please, me and Mrs. Porter are trying to work, take your antics somewhere else.” James says in a dramatically and over exaggerated posh accent and Kayla turns to him raising an eyebrow smirking.
“Mrs. Porter huh?”
“Yes ma’am?” James said now in a horrible southern accent as he tilts his imaginary cowboy hat at the girl causing her to giggle again , and cover her mouth.
Reg is done with the conversation now and goes back to his drawing, as he tries to not break his quill with how much he’s squeezing it. Don’t do anything stupid Regulus, she’s just a stupid girl.
“Oh that’s adorable.” The girl says at James’s ridiculous antics. Maybe she’s just being friendly.
“Yep, well adorable is my middle name.” States James and Regulus tries to hide the smile on his face. Okay that’s true, James is fucking adorable when he wants to be.
“I bet you like adorable people huh?” Kayla asks quietly and Regulus presses on the page too hard creating a hole on the parchment but doesn’t react farther than that.
“I guess so yeah.” James said nonchalantly and Regulus is going to kill him! How can’t the idiot see that she is flirting!
“Do you think I’m adorable?” She asks again and the younger boy can imagine her batting her eyelashes and looking at James sadden and before James even answers Regulus knows what he’s going to say.
“Of course darling.” James Potter is a dead man.
Okay, Regulus knows that he’s only being kind and in James’s mind everything is literally adorable but Regulus already knows that the girl is going to get the wrong idea.
“But you said you like adorable things.” She edges on and Regulus slams his book shut, he’s had enough of this shit he thinks as he looks at the blonde and smiles.
“Yeah and he also likes it when I bend over and I arch my back.” Regulus hisses, and the words leave his mouth before he can even think it through. Maybe he said it a little louder than he would’ve liked because now all of the classroom is looking at them in dead silence.
Regulus doesn’t need to look around the room to see that almost everyone is in shock as he looks right at the girl raising an eyebrow. Everyone knows him and James are together, they're out to the school, they don’t care. What everyone is shocked about is the fact that quiet Regulus just said that in class. Just yelled out James’s favorite sexual position in class.. To everyone.
Not even Slughorn knows what to say to Regulus as he eyes down the girl in front of him and she only blushes and turns around silently going back to her potion and Regulus smirks, crossing his arms as he leans back into his chair looking around the room.
“You all can go back to your potions now, nothing to see here.” And that’s exactly what everyone did, all except James who’s staring at Regulus. “What?” He asks his boyfriend in a bored tone.
“Storage closet after class.” Is all James said before turning around as his pulps get bigger, dilated with want.
“Oh come on you two I’m right here!” Sirius yells whining but Regulus ignores him as his mind wanders to all the possibilities the storage room has to offer.
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Okay, so maybe Regulus has a problem he can admit that, even though he wouldn’t like to admit it. But they say the first step into solving your problems is to accept that you have a problem and Regulus has finally accepted it. His problem is James Potter.
Regulus and James got into a bit of an argument the other night and haven't spoken to each other since. James wants Regulus to admit he’s in the wrong, and Regulus would rather chew off his own hand.
The only reason Regulus is going to this stupid Gryffindor party is because it’s for Peter’s 17th birthday and he can’t miss it, Pete is his friend. Plus Barty and Evan would kill him if he refused to go to their boyfriend’s birthday.
“Pumpkin Pie.” Evan says to the Portrait of the fat lady as she opens the door to let them in. Barty and Evan make a B-line straight to Peter in the middle of the party who already looks drunk.
As soon as Regulus walks in however, like it’s a reflex, he automatically stops James who again has a large crowd of people around him. But Regulus sucks it up and ignores him as he goes over to the bar to sit with Lily and Remus.
“You look like you could use a drink.” Lily jokes as she pours him a cup.
“Yes please.” All Regulus can muster out as he takes the cup and downs it.
“You know drinking won’t fix your relationship problems.” Remus comments with his smart mouth and Regulus wants to kindly ask him to fuck off.
“No but it can numb them.” Regulus shoots back glaring at Remus; it doesn't work though. Until Regulus really became friends with Sirius’s friends, everyone was intimidated by Regulus’s hateful glare but nope, not Remus and certainly not James.
“Or you can just admit you’re wrong.” Lily suggested and Regulus shoots her his famous glare and Remus only shakes his, disappointed that she would even suggest such a thing. Lily only puts her hands up in defeat. “Ok ok fine. I guess not.”
“Definitely not, I would rather drown myself in the lake. Besides, I wasn't wrong.” He was wrong. He knew he was wrong but he can’t admit it! His mind won’t let him admit it.
“Umm.. Reg..” Remus says mumbles looking over Regulus’s shoulder and Regulus turns around following Remus’s line of sight.
Oh..
Oh hell no!
Regulus slams his cup down and walks straight over to the pair. Someone just kissed James, full on the mouth, in front of everyone. Someone kissed his Jamie. And you can call Regulus selfish but he was never taught to share what was his.
Regulus marches his little happy ass over the the pair, he’s aware that people are watching but he doesn’t care, not one bit does he give a flying fuck as he rips the guy away from James breaking them apart.
“What the hell!” He yells looking between the pair and James’s eyes widen in shock and confusion.
“Wai-Wait not Reg I didn’t- He kissed me I d-“ James panics and he seems like he’s unable to breathe. Regulus holds up a hand as his eyes soften looking at the boy.
“I know baby, let me deal with him first and then we'll talk, I’m not mad at you.” He reassures his panicked boyfriend as he turns to the other guy. His eyes darken with anger. “Did James say you could kiss him?” Regulus’s voice is calm, and low. Too calm. Dangerously calm.
“W-Well no..” The boy stuttered nervously and Regulus nodded once looking him up and down.
“I will give you 5 seconds to run.” Regulus pauses and stares at the boy before continuing. “If I see you again, in my line of sight I will not hesitate to kill you where you stand. And I do not care if that is at this very party, on this very night. Or if it is the great hall 3 days from now or out on the street 30 years from now.” The boy trembles as he only nods and Regulus shakes his head again.
“Words, do you understand? Yes or no?”
“Y-Yes..”
“Leave.”
And with that the boy runs out of the command room and Regulus turns to his panic boyfriend, takes his hand and leads him upstairs to his dorm room shutting the door.
“Reg I didn’t- I didn’t know he was going to kiss me I swear! I swear we-we-we were just talking and he leaned in and I was shocked and-“
“Shhh..Shhh Jamie I know. I know, baby come sit down.” Regulus says walking over to James bed as the older boy follows them. James is in the middle of a panic attack, he’s shaking and tears are in his eyes and Regulus doesn’t care about the stupid kiss at the moment, he really doesn’t, all he cares about is calming James down.
James sits next to him and Regulus holds James’s head against his chest as he mumbles recurring words in the boys ear. “Shhh love, it’s okay. I’m not mad at you I promise. I love you so so much. I need you to breathe for me Jamie please, please just breathe.”
Slowly but surely Regulus helped James out of his panic attack as he kept holding the older boy in his arms and kissing his head. James sniffles against his boyfriend, his cheeks wet from tears. “Y-You’re still wrong.”
Regulus laughs, his shoulders shaking as he shakes his head. “No I don’t think I was.”
“Reg-“
“Okay, Okay fine.. We were both wrong.”
“Reg!”
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+1
Unlike what Regulus might think, he too is also very desirable. He just doesn’t see it but oh Merlin James sure can, he’s just not as possessive as his boyfriend, James is on the more protective side of the scale but that’s not to say that James doesn’t have his moments.
“Prongs do you even have to ask? I mean you guys are dating after all and have been for over a year.” Sirius says from where he’s at on his bed, his head hanging off of it as he throws up a bouncy ball and catches it.
“Of course I have to ask.” James answers like it’s the most basic answer in the world. Why wouldn’t he? Is the real question.
“I don’t know Pads, I think it’s romantic, wish my boyfriend would ask me instead of assuming.” Remus huffs annoyed and rolls his eyes as he sits next to Sirius and pushes his legs off the bed causing the oldest in the friend group to fall to the floor with a loud ‘ thump’
“Oww! Moony, this is abuse!” Sirius yells at his boyfriend pouting as he rubs his head.
“It’s what you get for just assuming. Evan and Barty asked me.” Peter says from his bed with a small smile. Now that’s a relationship no one could’ve predicted but it was cute. Peter deserves someone to treat him well and James thinks it’s great that now Pete has two people to treat him like a Prince.
This year Hogwarts is doing something they’ve never done before, an end of the year ball for the 7th years. And James is getting ready to ask his boyfriend to be his date. He’s totally not nervous, he definitely is.
“What if he doesn’t like the bouquet?” James asks nervously looking at his friends as he chews on the inside of his cheek, a nasty habit that everyone always gets into him for.
“Firstly stop chewing, you’ll hurt yourself.” Moony reply’s back. “And secondly not only are those Regulus’s favorite flowers but also you could give him dead grass you found on the sidewalk and he would still say yes because it’s you Prongs.”
“My moon does have a point James. He’ll love it trust me, as his big brother I know him better than anyone, I would know.” Sirius added cockily.
Okay James, they're right. You’re overthinking this, he’s your boyfriend damn it, pull it together.
James lets out a deep breath and walks out of the dorm room, out of their common room and towards the Slytherin dorms. “Angel Fish.” James says and the doors open allowing him to step inside.
Now like James has previously stated, he himself is not a jealous person most of the time, but there is some of the time where his autistic self just can’t handle seeing Regulus with another person. Like right now.
Honestly James knows he shouldn’t be jealous, Regulus is gay! And most of the time, seeing Pandora in Regulus’s lap as they laugh together wouldn’t hurt. Honestly to god it wouldn’t but today, the sight of it makes James see green in jealousy and he drops the bundle of flowers making everyone look at him.
Everyone looks at him confused and Regulus gently sets Pandora off of him before coming over to James carefully. Regulus has been around James, and dating James long enough to know what the older boy looked like when he was about to have an episode.
“Everyone leave. Dorm rooms now.” Regulus said firmly to the group behind him, not taking his eyes off James. He also knows the boy well enough to know that he would be embarrassed having a breakdown in front of a large group of Slytherins that he doesn’t know.
“But-“ One 2nd year said but Regulus wasn’t having any of it as he held a hand up still looking at James who had tears in his eyes. “Go, now.”
“You heard the man, let's go. Everyone out!” Barty yells and starts shooing everyone into their dorm before him, Evan, and Pandora go to the boy’s dorm rooms.
“Baby. Love what’s wrong?” Regulus asks quietly, walking up to James and James shakes his head.
“It’s stupid..” The older one mumbles and Regulus smiles a little.
“Not if it upset you.” The younger one speaks softly before looking at the flowers on the ground. “Are those for me?” James can only nod. “I love them.” Regulus smiles and bends down to pick them up before noticing that James was in a tux. “What’s the special occasion Jamie?”
“Was gonna ask you to the ball..”
“And what ruined your plans?”
“Pandora was on your lap..”
Regulus feels his heart break and he brings his boyfriend in for a hug. “Oh baby I’m sorry. It won’t happen again, we were only messing around.” Regulus whispers in his boyfriend's ear as he kisses James’s cheek.
“It’s ok.. I’m over reacting..”
“No you’re not, your feelings are valid and accepted. If you don’t like something then you didn’t like it, you don’t have to explain yourself.” Regulus pulls away and grabs James' chin to make the boy look at him. “I love you, the flowers are beautiful.” He smiles before leaving in for a soft kiss.
And James relaxes into the kiss as he holds onto Regulus’s hips gently and pulls away. “You like them?”
“I love them so much.” Regulus says wholeheartedly honestly. He really does love the Flowers, their his favorite after all.
“So you’ll go to the ball with me?”
“Of course I’ll go with you, I wouldn't want to go with anyone else.”
And at that James smiles wide and pulls Regulus into a tight hug. Okay, maybe James does have a tendency to get jealous, but can you blame him? After all, his boyfriend is perfect.