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“Never have I ever fancied someone from another house.”
It was the usual celebration party after a quidditch game. Gryffindor had won, much to Regulus’ annoyance. Now he would have to deal with them bragging about their victory until the next game.
Most of the people who attended the party had left, leaving the Marauders and the Slytherins, with the exception of Pandora who was a Ravenclaw.
Sirius was sitting in Remus’ lap on one of the obnoxiously red sofas, next to them were Mary and Lily, whose legs were intertwined and sitting on the floor beside them was Peter. Regulus was sandwiched between Pandora and Peter who were talking around him and opposite James. Marlene, Dorcas, Barty and Evan all fit in between.
It was a nice circle. Regulus would never admit it, but he was enjoying the evening. Well, before they started spilling secrets in drinking games.
Regulus had plenty of things he didn’t want people knowing, things he definitely didn’t want his brother knowing. But rules are rules so he drank when he had done it and silently observed (judged) everyone else when he wasn’t drinking.
Unsurprisingly, everyone had liked someone from another tower. Inter-house relationships were not surprising anymore.
Marlene sat up straight when she realised it was her turn to speak, almost spilling her drink on her girlfriend while doing so. Dorcas rolled her eyes and took the cup from Marlene's hand.
"Alright. Never have I ever been with more than one person at the same time."
Regulus drank.
So did Evan, Barty and James. Regulus smiled smugly.
"Woah, did you three?..." Mary asked, gesturing to the three Slytherins sitting next to each other.
"Nah, they're not really my type," Regulus denied, despite that being the complete opposite of the truth. He wasn't about to give in that easily.
"And what about you, Potter? I wouldn't have taken you for someone who was up for a three-way, or more," Dorcas asked, taking a sip from Marlene's cup.
James' eyes darted in Regulus' direction for a fraction of a second, but he just shrugged and ran a hand through his hair, clearly not about to spill the secret to everyone.
They moved on.
“Okay, my turn. Never have I ever… made out with someone from Slytherin.”
Barty grinned at Pandora, who was the one asking. “Is it a shot per person?”
“You’re such a slut,” Sirius cackled.
Pandora rolled her eyes at their antics. “Tell us how many people and it’s only one shot.”
Mary didn’t drink, Lily said one and wrinkled her nose up in disgust. Regulus assumed that meant Snape which, honestly, who in their right mind would snog that greasy haired toad? Neither Peter, nor Pandora drank. Regulus drank and said 2. Marlene and Dorcas both said one, Marlene grinning up at her girlfriend and Dorcas waggling her eyebrows at Barty playfully. Barty said 5 which, in his defence, was a result of his ‘whore phase’ where he was trying to get over Evan. Clearly that didn’t work because he ended up under him. Remus scratched the back of his neck sheepishly before drinking and saying 10.
As you can imagine, total uproar. Barty was calling Sirius a hypocrite for saying he was a slut when his boyfriend was twice as bad. Sirius was demanding names, James was trying to calm him down. It was a bit of a mess.
Oh well, why not add fuel to the fire?
“Yeah, Lupin’s not a half bad kisser. My first kiss actually,” Regulus said casually, wondering if he could be heard over the shouting.
“You what?!” Sirius practically screeched, “when was this?”
“My first year,” Regulus shrugged.
“You made out with my boyfriend before I did?! I’m actually going to kill you, you boyfriend kissing bastard!”
Regulus laughed at his reaction, winking at Lupin and smiling at James who was staring at him open mouthed. After a few minutes of everyone shouting at each other, Pandora screeched so loud Regulus physically jerked back, almost into Peter’s arms. Everyone fell silent instantly.
“Right. I think Sirius was going to tell us how many Slytherins he’s kissed,” Pandora said calmly, as if she hadn’t turned into a spawn of Satan two seconds ago.
“What the actual fuck,” Pettigrew whispered and Regulus sat up suddenly, realising he was practically on top of the other boy.
Everyone else seemed to ignore the demon sound Pandora had let out and they continued with the game.
“Aww now I feel inadequate, I haven’t kissed as many people as my boyfriend,” Sirius complained.
“Sweetheart, it’s not a competition. And for the record, you’ll never be inadequate to me,” Remus said in a voice so loving that Regulus actually gagged out loud.
“Oh shut up Reggie you’re just mad you’re single,” Sirius growled at him.
Regulus snorted, if only Sirius knew. His eyes wandered to James for a second who was already looking at him with a glint in his eye.
“Well, how many Slytherins have you snogged then?” Evan asked.
Sirius knocked back the shot, “only one, I'm not sure it counts considering I don’t remember much tongue, isn’t that right Bartemius.”
“Barty you’ve kissed my brother?”
“Yeah but I was like, in my slut era and really really drunk.”
“Ew Barty I’ve kissed you! What if your lips had his spit particles on, that basically incest?!” Regulus complained, glaring daggers at him.
“Reggie you know me and you have done more than-“
“No that’s even worse!” Regulus groaned again. He always got a little bit more emotional when he was tipsy.
“Crouch have you been defiling my brother behind my back? You know I really thought we could have been friends. Let that be a message to all of you, you defile my baby brother and we are no longer friends,” Sirius said. Regulus saw James wince from the edge of his vision and scoffed at the dramatics. Trust Sirius to be overprotective for no reason.
“Sirius I’m not a baby, I can do what I want. And who I want.”
“We’re getting off track again. I still haven’t found out how many Slytherins James had kissed, it was my question after all, so can we please focus on the game,” Pandora said calmly, Regulus was glad she didn’t make a demon child noise again.
James looked momentarily taken aback before downing his drink and saying three. It might have just been the lighting, or the alcohol, but Regulus thought James was blushing.
Regulus, Evan and Barty all shared a knowing look before turning back to the circle.
“Alright my turn!” Remus clapped his hands, “never have I ever, snogged a member of the Noble House of Black.”
Barty, Evan, Dorcas, Marlene, Remus and to everyone’s surprise, especially Sirius’, so did James.
“Prongs we haven’t kissed, why are you-“ Sirius’ eyes widened and he whipped his head around to Regulus who smiled and leant back against the wall, “James. Fleamont. Potter. Have you been defiling my innocent little brother?”
Barty, Evan and Regulus snorted at the word innocent but James just stuttered over his words and looked to Regulus for help.
“Sirius, we’ve been dating for a year, if he hadn’t defiled me a little by now I’d be pissed.”
Once again, total uproar.
“JAMES? You're dating my baby brother?” “Regulus, why didn't you tell us?!” “How on earth did you keep a secret like that from Sirius?”
The only people who did not look shocked were of course, Regulus, Barty, Evan and for some reason Remus. But Remus some how knew just about everything so Regulus wasn’t that surprised.
Sirius was trying to tackle James while Remus was holding him back as he was flailing about everywhere. James looked at Regulus in desperation.
“Your brother is trying to kill me, please help,” he almost whined. Regulus walked over to him and sat himself right into James’ lap, slapping Sirius’ hands away.
Regulus put his hand over Sirius’ mouth so he would actually listen to what he had to say.
“I’m not a child, I’m certainly not innocent and I’m not a baby. I can’t date whoever I want and I can sleep with whoever I want. Do you think I chose this? Do you think I wanted to fall for James?,” James made a noise of protest but Regulus just slapped his arm to make him shut up.
“You don’t get to choose who you fall in love with. So stop trying to kill my boyfriend and be supportive because you’re being really fucki- don't lick my hand you intolerable waste of air!”
“No Reggie I just want to say I'm happy for you! Sure with the original shock I wanted nothing more than to castrate my best friend for daring to mess with you, but now, I’m feeling much more supportive. I mean it’s my best friend and my brother how could I not be!” Sirius said after Regulus moved his hand.
James and Regulus turned to each other, “you know what that means, love?” James asked.
“No more snogging in broom cupboards?”
“No more snogging in broom cupboards.”
“I’ll drink to that,” said Barty, lifting up his glass.