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Once upon a time, long, long ago... well, more like 20 years ago... Euphemia married her Monty in front of 6,000 of their closest personal friends. Big cake. Instead of a honeymoon, Monty united all of the ‘good wizarding families’ and created Hogwarts./p>

He rounded up all the ‘bad wizards’ who are all the Villains, Death Eaters, Followers of the Dark lord... basically all the really interesting people... and he booted them off to the Isle of the Lost with a magical barrier to keep them there.
This was Regulus hood; no magic. no wi-fi. no way out.

Or so he thought.

Hang on! you're about to meet us. But first, This happened.

~ James Pov

"How is it possible that you're going to be king next month?, You're just a baby" Dad grins cheerfully as he walks into the room arms interlocked with Mums.

"He's turning 16, Dear" Mum smiles going off to get clothes.

"16?" Dad asks exasperated, "That's far too young to be crowned king".

"Mum, dad" James starts collecting their attention "I have decided my decree. I have made my decided that the kids of the Isle of the lost, should get a chance to live here in hogwarts" James finishes watching as his parents mouths drop and how the anger pools in his fathers eyes.

"The children of our enemies? You want them to live amongst our people?" Dad asks pointing a finger at him accusingly.

"What if we start out with a few? The ones that need help the most? Because I've already chosen them", James says hands clasping together as he looks his parents in the eyes.

"Who are their parents?" Mum asks wrapping he arm around dads wrist.

"Ms. Lovegood, Lyall Lupin..." James pauses for a second.

"and The Blacks" James finishes

"THE BLACKS?" His father fuses, "They are the worst wizards in land!" He continues.

"Dad please just hear me out" James tries

"No, They are guilty of many unspeakable crimes"

"But dad their children are innocent, they haven't done anything wrong. Don't you think they deserve a chance at a better life? Without the influence of their parents" James insists.

"Alright, I suppose the child have done nothing wrong" his dad says walking away. James mum comes up to him putting a hand on his shoulder smiling.

"Well done love". James looks watches as his parents walk away hand in hand before glancing out the window, across the wavy sea and to the Isle of the lost.

~ Regulus Pov

Regulus laughs as he steals a Lollypop right out of a unsuspecting child hand, popping it in his mouth. "Really Regulus? Stealing candy from baby?" Sirius says putting a hand on Regulus' shoulder.

"Like you could do better" Remus says walking over to them.

"Remus is right Sirius when was the last time you stolen something?" Pandora asks with a light smile. Sirius' protest was stopped by the sound of screams and people fleeing the scene.

"Hi Mother" Regulus smiles as he spins around and was met with two old house elves who his mother pushed out them way.

"Stealing candy Regulus? I'm so disappointed". "When I was your age I was-" Regulus cut her off.

"Cursing entire kingdoms, Yes I know mother"

"There's news. You four have been chosen to go to a different school. Hogwarts." In response there's gasps and multiple attempts to get away which were all stopped by the elves.

"What?" Regulus asks brows furrowing as he stares at his mother. "We're not going to some boarding school filled with some pity pink princesses!".

"Yeah, I don't do uniforms" Sirius says "Unless it's leather" he adds bumping shoulders with Remus.

"Yeah mother we're not going" Regulus exclaims.

"Oh, stop thinking so small Regulus it's all about revenge and world domination", and turns around strutting off "Regulus, Sirius" she calls without looking back.

~

"You will go. and you will bring me back the elder wand". His mother says from her chair.

"What's in it four us" Regulus questions

"Do you like watching innocent people suffer?" She's asks.

"Yeah Obviously, who does-" He starts

"Well get be that wand and we can see that and so much more. I will be able to bend both good and evil to my will!"

"Our will" Lyall and Ms. Lovegood correct.

"Our will, Our will" Mother repeats herself.

"Ugh. fine whatever." Regulus grits rolling his eyes.

~

"Remus! you boy better find yourself a girl with a load of money, we aren't rich you know" Lyall says waving his finger at Remus.

"Take Pandora she's already giving me a headache" Ms.Lovegood says sitting down on a wooden chair. Pandora lets out a huff.

"Well Sirius can go to! obviously because his brother" Father says pushing Sirius forwards.

"Ok, well that's sorted, Lyall give Remus the map" Mother says clapping her hands. Lyall pulls out a folded piece of old parchment

"Now it ain't what it used to be, But it will help you find things" He says vaguely.

"I need my locket! I locket! ah!. there it is" Mother says patting around for it before pulling it out of her pocket. "This here my dear is a locket, and inside it is a shrunken down book when you press it becomes its original size, then just close it and it will shrink" she explains handing the locket to Regulus.

"That seams kind of excessive" Regulus admits taking the Locket and putting it over his head. There's a honk of a car outside causing them all to jump.

"Lets get this party started!" Sirius calls.

There are many rushed goodbyes as everyone grabs their bags. But Regulus is pulled to the side by his mother. "Our future rests on your shoulders" she starts. "Don't blow it" She finishes grip firm on Regulus' shoulder. that will forever be imprinted to his mind.

~

The limo is black and shinning and causing a crowd to form around them. As them all put their stuff in the trunk and making their way into the car and taking their seats. The all look at each other as the limo starts moving the inside is black and the seats are leather, There's a bar with a large assortment of different candy and chocolate. Regulus watches as Sirius and Pandora fight to be the first to try one and through grunts they both reach for a handful of basically everything.

"You look dead" Remus remarks poking Regulus' face causing Regulus to flinch back and smacks Remus' hand out the way.

"I'm plotting" Regulus frowns

"Well, whatever it is It's not very attractive". Remus says reaching for another Lollie.

Regulus tunes out what the others are saying and looking around a bit more. there's a button on the door, so like most people he presses it and looks around to see what it did, it takes him a second to look out the now open window into the front seat where his eyes widen when he realises where they're driving.

Straight of a bridge.

"Guys look!" Regulus says panic present in his voice as he waves around behind him collecting the others attention.

"It's a trap" Pandora yells as they all grab onto one another screaming. But they somehow don't fall. Regulus looks out the windows to watch as gold glitter swirl around each other creating a bridge between them and Hogwarts. It's honestly one of the most beautiful things Regulus has ever seen.

Or so he thought.

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As the limo was pulling up to Hogwarts there was many students outside cheering and a band playing music. Everyone was smiling, it was disturbing. as they got out of the limo the band people moved a side.

"Welcome to Hogwarts" a tall thin women dressed in dark green says walking towards them, "I'm Professor Mcgonagle" she says.

"It's so good to finally get to meet you all, I'm James". A boy says he has brown skin with gold glasses framing beautiful brown hazel eyes and Hair that is a mess and a smile that is literally to die for.

"Prince James, soon to be king" They girl next to him corrects she has red hair that frame her face with heavy locks and her eyes are startlingly green.

"This is Lily"

"Princess Lily" Lily corrects, "Mostly because I am his girlfriend" she says with a smile locking hands with James.

"James and Lily are going to show you around Hogwarts and I'll see you tomorrow" McGonagle says with a nod leading the band off to who knows where. James clasps his hands together.

"It is so, so, so good to finally meet you all. This is a big occasion and one that I hope will be remembered" James says while going around shaking everyone's hands but lingering a little bit too long on Regulus. "as the day our to people began to heal" he finishes

"Or as the day that you showed four people where their bedrooms are". Regulus suggests.

"A little bit over the top?" James asks

"A little more than a little bit" Regulus says with a smirk.

"Well so much for my first impression" James sighs clapping his hands together "How about we go inside?" He smiles wrapping his arm are Lily. The castles large about three stories as the walk inside the are stairs leading up to the floors above.

"Peter! Peter come down here" James says as a short boy with blonde hair walks down the stairs. "This is Peter. He's going to help you with your class schedules and show you the rest of the dorms" James say gesturing to the boy next to him. "I'll see you later and if there is anything you need, feel free to-"

"Ask Peter" Lily cuts in smile

"Ok bye" James waves walking off with Lily.

"Hi guys I'm Peter Pettigrew" He starts but never gets to finish

"Come on guys lets go find our dorms" Regulus cuts in walking away they others following after him.

~

The room Has four beds with an assortment of blue and green thing. The curtains are covered ugly green plaid. "You have got to be kidding me" Remus says with a sigh

"What the hell is this?" Sirius adds gesturing around the room

"I think it's pretty" Pandora says with a smile going to her bed. Regulus just lets out a long sigh rubbing the bridge of his noses. Remus walks over to the windows and shuts the curtains.

~

The Tv's on and blasting loud with queen as Sirius is singing loud enough that Regulus can't even hear himself think while Pandora is there cheering for him and Remus sat on his bed watch the chaos and quite frankly Regulus has had enough his head hurts and he will literally strangle his brother "Guys!" he says as he pauses the song, "Do I have to remind you what we're all here for?" Regulus says grabbing their attention and then immediately losing it. When Sirius says

"Yeah Mcgonagle, Elder wand and whatever" Sirius says waving his hand dismissively, "Could you turn the music back on it was getting to the best bit" he says turning back to the TV. and Regulus finally snaps

"This is our one chance! to prove ourselves to our parents and to everyone else, to prove that we are evil and vicious and ruthless and cruel. Yeah?" this was followed by a murmur of 'Yeahs'. "Remus get the map" Regulus says sitting down at a table. The others coming over to join as Remus pulls out the map.

"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good" Remus announces. They watch as the writing formed onto the page like spider web. 'What would you like to see?' It read. "Show me where the Elder wand is hidden" Remus says and they all watch as the writing disappears and is replaced by a dotted line forming from there room in Hogwarts to the room with the wand in a museum.

"Why would they put it in a museum? That's such a stupid place for it to be" Sirius says grabbing his bag.

"Let's maybe not question things that we won't know the answer to and get a move on it's almost curfew" Pandora suggests grabbing her bag.

"Yeah, I agree with Pandora, I would prefer not to get a detention on the first day" Remus adds shoving thing map into his pocket.

"Ok. Let's go" Regulus says clapping.

~

It took them about fifteen minutes for them to make it to the museum there's a security guard on the inside looking at the cameras. Regulus opens the locket grabbing the book and bringing it to normal size as he flips through the pages he finds the one he wants. "Make seep, make it deep, make my victim go to sleep" and they watch as the guard leans back on his chair and closes his eyes. With a smile Regulus goes to open the door and of course it is locked. Fun.

"Stand back" Sirius says as he backs up cracking his knuckles. Regulus flips to a new page finding the spell

"Make it easy, Make it quick, Open up without a kick". The door opens just in time for Sirius to fall on go kick flying through the open door and with a grunt he hits the ground.

"You're an idiot" Remus says helping Sirius up.

"Oh shut up, you love it" Sirius says with a smirk. they all run up they many flights of stairs. But stop suddenly at an entry to a room showing.

Their parents.

They all stop for a second before Sirius hurriedly says "Well the wands not here so let's go"

The other two following him down the hallway. But Regulus stays there staring at the wax figure of his mother Walburga Black with her high cheekbones and her black eyes peering down at him causing a shiver to go down his spine. The feeling of her firm grip on his shoulder coming back to him. The word she last said ringing in his head "Our future rests on your shoulders, don't blow it".

"Regulus come on, I found the wand, let's go" Remus smile knocking Regulus his of his trance.

The wand is trapped in a blue light frozen in midair. and Sirius being the idiot that he is thinks it's the best idea to try and reach for it but when he touches the light, he's knocked back full force and with a groan he hits the ground, a siren starts blaring ringing in there ears. They run down the stairs and out the entrance. "Great job Sirius now we have to go to school tomorrow".

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Class is boring, the topic is boring, everything about it is boring, "If someone hands you a crying baby, do you, A, Curse it? B, Lock it in a tower? C, Give it a bottle? or D, Carve out its heart?" McGonagle asks looking around the room. Pandoras hand flies up "Pandora" McGonagle calls.

"Uh- What was the second one?" She asks with a smile.

"Oh. Okay. Anyone else?" She asks eye darting around the room. "Regulus?". Regulus' eyes snap up to McGonagle from where they were drawing the Elders Wand on a spare piece of parchment.

"C, Give it a bottle"

"Correct, again" McGonagle says crossing of 'C' on the chalkboard.

"How are you good at this?" Remus asks eye wide.

"Just pick the one that doesn't sound like any fun" Regulus replies going back to his drawing.

"You find a vial of poison. Do you, A, Put it in the King's Wine? B, paint it on an apple? or C, Turn it over to the proper authorities?". McGonagle asks continuing the lesson. Three hands go flying up waving around in the air. Sirius grabs Remus' wrist pulling it down while trying to get his own hand higher into the air. "Sirius".

"C, You turn it over to the proper authorities". Sirius says with a grin.

"I was going to say that!" Remus huffs smacking Sirius chest.

"But I said it first! Come here!" Sirius grabs Remus' by the next and ruffles his hair while saying, "Come on, who said it first! Who said it first?". Annoyance grows on McGonagle's face as she tapping on her desk.

"Boys. Boys!" she calls "I am gonna encourage you to use that energy out on the tourney field" she says pointing out the window.

"No, uh that's ok, Whatever that is, we'll pass."

~ Sirius Pov

The Whistle blows "Sirius, James offense" the coach calls. The games is well exhilarating, just knocking into people and pushing them over. Dogging things left and right, and then he scores. "You! Get over here!" The coach yells point at Sirius. "What do you call that?" He asks pointing out onto the field, "I call that raw talent, Come find me later. I'll show you something you haven't seen before. It's called a rule book" He chuckles grinning "Welcome to the team son".

~ James Pov

James was just walking out of class with Lily and Mary laughing when Mary taps him pointing behind him "Those kids are trouble" She says, when James turns around he sees Remus and- Regulus. saying bye to each other Remus walks of with his bag, leaving Regulus look through his locker trying to find something.

"Come on Mary. Just give them a chance"

"James, honey, I know you believe that you can trust him but come on he's a Black, his mother is literally Walburga Black a known supporter of Voldemort, You can't trust him". Lily says hold his hands.

"I think you're wrong about them, See you later" and with that he turns his attention to Regulus while Mary and Lily Walk off. "Hey!" James says with a grin

"Hi" Regulus says shutting his locker.

"How was your first day?"

"Boring". Regulus answers with a half-smile. James pulling his attention to the spray paint on Regulus' lock it's a snake wrapping it's way around a sword, and it's honestly beautiful how the colours blend so nicely.

"You should think of taking this kind of talent off the locker and into art class. I could uh sign you up. What do you think?"

"Way to take all the fun out of it". Regulus smirks turning on his heal and walking away.

"Huh" James sighs leaning back against the lockers. a weird fluttering feeling in his chest.

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Hogwarts has this big thing for inclusivity, so all the bathrooms around the school are unisex ones, meaning that anyone can just waltz in whenever they bloody feel like it. It's funny how they count this as being inclusive even though half of the population here is separated by a big bloody sea of water. How ironic right? and of course Regulus didn't know this so imagine the mini heart attack he had when he went into the bathrooms and saw a woman. She's just look at herself in the mirror hands running through her long blonde hair and running at her red face smudging the already smudge eyeliner running down her cheeks. she turns around to face him as soon as she hears the door open, her eyes going wide.

"Oh crap, you're Regulus, right?" she says face back to the sink turning the tap on and running her hands under the flowing water. "I'm Marlene McKinnon" she adds splashing water onto her face before going back to scrub at it.

"Uh- Yeah. I take it that you've been crying?" Regulus asks leaning against the sink, looking at Marlene.

"Oh- uh- Yeah, my girlfriend just broke up with me and I don't know, I'm just kinda looking for a change. You know?" She's says wetting her hands and running them through her hair. Regulus hums in responds an idea coming to mind he opens the locket taking out the book and tapping it to the proper sizes flipping to the page he was looking for. Marlene whips around eyes going wide.
"What are you do-" Regulus cuts her off with the raise of his index finger, silencing her.

"Make it short, Make it hot, Make the colour pop" and with a flick of the wrist the long blonde hair disappears and is replace with short shaggy blonder hair with hot pink tips. Marlenes hands fly up to her hair as she twirls around to look in the mirror.

"This is so hot" is the only thing that leaves her lips as he fingers run through the hair. "Now all I need to do is fix this make up" she says reaching for the tap.

"I have just the thing for that" Regulus grins shrug of his bag and kneeling down to open it. He rises a second later with a packet of what looks like make up wipes. "Here, stole them from my brother" he says handing Marlene the packet. Which she takes gratefully.

"Thanks" Malene smiles taking a wipe out handing the packet back to Regulus. It's about a minute later of silence before Marlene breaks it. "You're gay right? I just kinda get the vibes that you are"

"Yes, I am why?" Regulus asks skeptically and I brow arched as he stares at Marlene. Who isn't even looking at him just looking at the mirror brows drawn together in focus as she applies the eyeliner.

"Well, I have a friend who may or may not be interested" she says turning to face him waggling her eyebrows. Regulus breaths out a startled laugh.

"Uh- yeah no thank you. I am perfectly fine with being single" he says putting the book back in his locket.

"Oh damn, because as a lesbian you're hot and I wouldn't be surprised if everyone's fawning over you" she laughs putting the lid back on the eyeliner and tucking it away in her bag.

"Oh well, better be off then. I have some more random stuff to do I guess" He says hand on the door.

"Bye" Marlene waves, and Regulus just nods a goodbye in response.

~ Remus's Pov

Remus is sat in chemistry class next to who he now knows as Peter. He's not paying any attention what so ever to what the teacher is going on about. His staring out the window to the tourney field eyes trained on one specific black hair boy.

"Mr. Lupin?" The teacher calls drawing Remus's attention back to where the teacher is now staring right at him. "Is my lesson boring you?" Slughorn asks chalk in hand.

"No sir" Remus says eyes glued to the board.

"Uh well. Perhaps you can tell me what is the average atomic weight of silver?" Slughorn says gesturing to the board holding out the chalk for Remus to take. Remus breaths out a breath. He knows this right? You studied for this? ok well be ok. It the atomic weight, you're good at this. That's all Remus could think before he finally makes it the board, taking the piece for chalk out of Slughorn's hand.

"The answer is-" Remus starts taking a breath before writing. "It's 106.905 times 0.5200, plus 108.905, times 0.4800. Which Professor Slughorn would give us. 107.9 AMU" Remus finishes with a grin, dropping the piece of chalk in Slughorn's hand.

"I forget Mr. Lupin, it's always a mistake to underestimate a..." Slughorn trails off.

"A Werewolf?" Remus finishes for him. "Don't make it again". The way Remus wishes he could replay the way Slughorn's jaw dropped.

~ Sirius Pov

Sirius has had a fear of dogs for as long as he can remember, it might be the fact that he's named after the dog star. Which is ironic really. But know he's in the middle of the field with James and he brings a bloody dog and obviously he runs for the hills, what else was he meant to do? It's a big shaggy black dog! it couldn't have been like a pug or something? no of course not. It's something for the deep depths of his nightmares.

He runs past James screaming, he can faintly hear James's yelling "Sirius? Sirius!". He runs down a path surrounded by trees, left and right it's the same thing. Trees. he can hear the dog barking loudly behind him, so he books it and climbs a tree. Because it's the only reasonable idea. when he looks down to the ground it's there wagging it's tail and barking up at him, Jame's apears out of the bushes yelling "Sirius!"

"James? James? help!" Sirius panics clutching onto the tree trunk tighter. "This thing is demon" Sirius shrieks pointing at the creature.

"Sirius. It's a dog" James says calmly kneeling down to pat it's head.

"It's still a demon! Why are you so close to him? He's going to attack you!" Sirius yells gesturing wildly, grip still tight around the tree.

"Sirius, you've never actually met a dog, have you?" James asks sitting on the floor next to the animal.

"Of course, not" Sirius says.

James only smiles, "Padfoot, meet Sirius. Sirius, this is Padfoot. He's Hogwarts' mutt".

"He doesn't look like a demon" Sirius says stepping down from the tree, keeping close eye on the dog. "Bloody hell" He breaths out kneeling down to Padfoot's level. "You're a good boy, aren't you?" Sirius says a smile finding its way onto his face as he pats the dog's head letting out a soft laugh.

"I guess you guys had it rough on the Isle?" James asks looking down at Sirius.

"Yeah, well- let's just say we don't get that many belly rubs". Sirius sighs standing up wiping the dirt off his black jeans.

~ Regulus Pov

Regulus is lying in his bed, studying for their chemistry assignment because it's for once something interesting. Marlene invited herself over to their dorm, Sirius said he was out talking with James. Marlene was ranting about how 'her ex just got back together with her old ex and it's this whole situation' Regulus isn't really paying much attention. But Remus is fully invested in the drama because, It's Remus and Pandora is laying down staring at the ceiling just listening to the conversations around them and making small comments on Marlenes story. "I'm never going to get a girlfriend" Marlene says dropping onto Remus's bed.

"Girlfriends are overrated" Regulus states looking up from his textbook.

"and how would you know that Reg?" Remus asks grin pulling at his lips.

"Because I'm gay, Remus" Regulus concludes going back to writing something down.

~

Regulus watches as Sirius literally struts into the room, doing a few twirls as he shows off his new tourney Jersey. It's a crimson red colour with his name in bold letters and '3' on the back in gold. "Oh, by the why I found out that McGonagall blesses James with the wand at his coronation or whatever, and we all get to go". Remus says absentmindedly while writing something down in the book in front of him. There's loud knocking on the door.

"Hold that thought" Regulus says looking Remus before heading over to the door opening it to reveal, James Potter in all his glory.

"Hey, Regulus" James smiles down at Regulus. "I didn't see you guys today, just wanted to see if you guys had any questions or anything really"

Regulus looks back to the others before saying "no I don't think so. Oh, wait! I heard that we all get to go to your coronation or something. is that true?" Regulus asks gesturing to the four of them.

James smiles "Yeah, uh- the whole school goes".

"Oh wow, do you think it would be at all possible that the four of us could like stand in the front row next to McGonagall, Just so we can see the whole thing in action?" Regulus says putting on a well-trained smile.

James puts his hands together before sighing " I wish you could, but- the front is reserved for me, my family and my girlfriend".

Regulus perks up at that, "Your girlfriend?" he asks an idea coming to mind.

"Yeah sorry" James says.

"Ok, well bye!" Regulus says closing the door before James could say anything else. Regulus turns back to everyone else. "I think it's time that Jamie got himself in a new relationship. Now I need a love spell".

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The four of them are in the kitchens of Hogwarts, Regulus found a love potion somewhere in the hundreds of different spells within his spell book. They are almost done but they're missing one last ingredient. "We still need one tear" Remus reads looking at Regulus.

"Don't look at me, I don't cry" Regulus says stirring the mixture.

"What if we chop up some onions?" Pandora asks for where she's sat on the table behind them, onion in hand.

"No. It says that we need one tear of human sadness" Regulus clarifies.

"A tear's a tear" Sirius says leaning against the table Pandora is sat on.

"It's really not Sirius, and you would know that if you actually paid attention in Science" Remus says looking at Sirius who is about to open his mouth but is abruptly cut off by the door opening.
Firey red hair is the first thing Regulus sees. Lily Evans, the girlfriend. Regulus acts quick draping a cloth over the book.

"Oh! uh- sorry! saw the light was on wanted to check out what was happening" Lily says quickly. "You guys are making cookies?" Lily asks taking a step closer. "You know just from looking at this it's 100% missing something" she says going into the fridge. Regulus turns to Remus. Mouthing 'Missing something?', which Remus just shrugs in response. Lily comes back with a bag "Chocolate chips" she says smiling as she pours them into the bowl, she looks up at all their confused faces, her eyebrows tugging together "Like, chocolate chip cookies?" she clarifies but there's still no response. "Didn't your parents make them when you're feeling sad and there just fresh out the oven, with a side of a big glass of milk?" she asks bringing a smile to her face as she describes it.

"It's just different for us" Pandora says sliding off the table.

This makes the smile fall off of Lilys face, her eyes start to tear up, as she lets out a quiet "Oh". One single tear falls as she reaches out to hold Regulus's hand. Who quickly brings a hand up to Lilys face capturing the tear and dripping it into the mixture.

"Oh well, bummer we have to get these into the oven, so you best be off" he says guiding Lily out the door. "Ok. Sirius cookie sheet. Evie Oven. Pandora Timer" He directs waling over to them.

~

Regulus is walking to his locker, his brother Sirius beside him "Are you really sure about this? it's really not so bad here" Sirius says leaning against the locket next to Regulus's.

"Really Sirius? snap out of it. You know what happens when we don't do this" Regulus says eyeing his brother.

Sirius just grins in response "Thanks Reg, I needed that. I'll see you after class" Sirius says walking off to who knows where.

"Hey Jamie" Regulus smiles closing his locker.

James looks up a smile flashing on his face "Hey Regulus" he says walking over.

"I just made a batch of double chocolate chip cookies, care for one?" Regulus asks shaking the bag of cookies in front of him.

"Oh, of course. How'd you know they were my favorite?" James smiles taking one and literally shoving it into his mouth. "These are really good, amazing actually" James says a smile growing on his face. "The chocolate- the chocolate- uh- chips. sorry" James cuts himself off. "Have you always had those brown flecks in your eyes?" James asks staring. Regulus only smiles.

~

It's loud, people are cheering as the Tourney game continues and Regulus is actually surprised that Sirius is good at this. It's only a second later that the cheering gets louder as James scores, winning the match. The commentator is praising James and Sirius for their parts played to get the win but is cut of abruptly by James grabbing the mic. "There's something I'd like to say" James starts and the croud goes silent. "Give me an R" The croud shout the letter back. "Give me an E" once again the croud shouts. "Give me an G" He yells and the croud yells back. "What does that spell?" He asks yelling into the mic.

"REG" the croud goes ballistic.

"I love you Regulus, did I mention that" James grins throwing a wink, which makes Regulus flush. "Regulus will you go to the coronation with me?"

"Yes!" Regulus shots over the noise.

~

Lily is sat in the library with Mary, she heard about James asking Regulus to the coronation and she's honestly relieved the whole 'dating James' thing was hard. "Are you ok Lils?" Mary asks reaching out to put a hand on hers.

"Honestly, yeah" Lily breaths out flipping her hand to interlock their fingers. A fond smile makes its way onto Lilys face. "I'm honestly glad he was the one to end things. I don't think I could have down it" Lily says closing her book.

Mary hums bringing lily's hand up to her lips, pressing a light kiss on it before bringing it back down to the table. "Well then, how about you go to the coronation with me?" Mary asks squeezing Lily's hand.

"Ok" is all Lily could think to say.

~

"There you are!" Regulus says walking over to the table Remus is sat at. "I have been looking for you literally everywhere" he says putting his hands on the table to steady himself.

"What's wrong Reg?" Remus asks flipping to the next page in his book.

Regulus heaves a sigh, "James just asked me on a date".

"Congrats? Isn't this what you wanted?" Remus asks closing his book to look at Regulus.

"well yes, but I don't know what to do. I don't date people" Regulus says gesturing wildly.

Remus hums in acknowledgment "Ok I'll help".

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Remus and Regulus are sat on his bed. Remus is carefully applying eyeliner on Regulus. "Easy on the eyeliner" Regulus says pulling away.

"Oh please, Sirius taught me how to do eyeliner when we first met" Remus says smiling fondly putting down the liner, picking up ChapStick instead dabbing it onto his finger before reaching up at putting it onto Regulus's lips. Regulus rolls his eyes a smiling pulling at the corner of his mouth. "Ok, done" Remus says pulling Regulus up and leading him to the full-length mirror. "You look amazing" Remus says. Regulus is wearing a black button up shirt with black trousers and black shoes, along with multiple different pieces of silver jewelry. There's a knock on the door, which Regulus opens to reveal, that's right you guessed it. James.