Letters; a Jegulus story

Chapter 17

Regulus and James kept doing little things like this for the next week. It was now Saturday morning, the morning of the Slytherin vs Gryffindor quidditch game.

Regulus wasn't nervous. Nope not at all!

He was not only not nervous about the game. No, he was also not nervous about the fact James played for Gryffindor. Regulus wasn't sure if he could take seeing James on his broom looking so fine (I'm sorry I had to add it) and not rush over to make out with him, or at the very least stare at him for about 20 minutes.

When Regulus woke up and he realized what day it was he felt his stomach clench. This was going to be a hard day.

When he got to breakfast he immediately walked over to the Slytherin table not even sparing a glance to the other side of the room where the Gryffindors sat. It was still quite early so only a few people were at the table but when they saw him coming they clapped politely. Regulus didn't look at anyone though. He just sat down and took a few bites of toast.

By the time Regulus was had eaten about half of his toast the Great Hall had began to fill. He had just placed his toast down beginning to forget his nerves when he heard a cheer from Gryffindor table. Regulus looked over and saw James taking a dramatic bow as Sirius slapped him on the back of the head. Regulus quickly looked back down at his plate.

By the time Regulus had finished breakfast Rowle, Avory and a few other members of the team had already head out to the pitch to talk about there plans. Regulus decided he would join them.

As Regulus walked out of sight of the Great Hall he heard someone run up behind him and before he could do anything he was being pushed into a broom closet.

"James what on Earth are you doing?"Regulus whisper yelled as James closed the door and lit his wand.

"How am I supposed to go an entire game not being able to kiss you, or hug you, or hold your hand, or even just stare at you?" James dramatically fell back onto the wall as if he was in agony.

"Oh no you will suffer so much. But I guess I'll just have to catch the snitch quickly." Reg said with a smile as he reached for the door nob but was stopped by a kiss.

"You can't do things like that to me its to painful." James said, Regulus rolled his eyes.

"Do what?" Regulus asked as James faked pouted.

"Smile or make a joke or even look happy at all. It's to tempting." James said dramatically.

"So I'm not even aloud to look happy?" Regulus couldn't help the light laugh he added at the end of it which only made James looked more tortured.

"Fine you can look happy but only when I'm not looking." James said as if making it final.

"Fine I won't look happy while your looking! Happy?" Regulus asked with a sneer

"Very. Also I'm not gonna go easy on you." James gave him a quick kiss before walking back out.

By the time Regulus got to the locker room almost everyone was already there. Regulus quickly changed then pulled out a book he kept in his locker as he waited. Once the entire team got there Avory started his speech.

"This is a very important game." he said while nodding "Very important." The team echoed back. "But we have been training all year and I think we have gotten really good." He said looking at each player. They all mumbled something back along the line of 'yeah' or 'super good'. "Now all we have to do is work together and we are golden!" The team simply nodded. "Now lets go out there and kick some Gryffindor butt!" Avory yelled enthusiastically. The team cheered back and stood up grabbing there broom.

As they walked out there was a mix of cheering and boo's. The boos manly came from the Gryffindors while the cheering came from the Slytherins and a few Hufflepuffs the Ravenclaws clapped politely and the rest of the Hufflepuffs looked as though they could care less.

The Gryffindor team came out a few minutes later the Gryffindor team walked out to the same mix of cheers and boos execpt the Slytherins and a few Hufflepuff booed and the Gryffindors cheered.

"Okay captains shake hands." Avory and James walked forward and begrudgingly shock hands. "Great! Now mount your brooms! 3, 2, UP!"

At that moments 15 brooms shot up into the air. Regulus shot up higher then everyone else and scanned the field. He held his eyes on James for a few moments before making himself look down to where the balls were being released.

He only saw the snitch for a second before he lost it in crowd. He watched as the Quaffle was thrown up and caught by some Gryffindor chaser.

"Dorcas Meadowes has the Quaffle for Gryffindor!" The announcer (some random Ravenclaw) called out. Regulus went back to scanning the field looking for a little shine of gold.

As the game progressed Regulus circled the field looking for the snitch and only occasionally watching James. (This is a complete lie he probably spent more time watching James then looking for the snitch.) At around 20 minutes in the score was 90-70 Gryffindor and Regulus noted James had scored probably half the points.

As Regulus scanned the field he noticed a little shine of gold in the crowd when he looked over at it he only saw his brother in the most Gryffindor pridey outfit he had ever seen. But Regulus just sighed and kept looking.

As the game progressed James kept scoring and there was still no sign of the snitch.

After about 45 minutes Regulus finally saw it a little glint of gold in the middle of the field only a few meters away from the Gryffindor seeker. Regulus sighed he knew he couldn't go after it because then the girl would obviously see it, so Regulus made a sharp turn and headed at full speed in the opposite direction.

"Regulus Black speeds off to what we can only assume is the snitch." Regulus felt every eye on him and soon he heard the familiar sound of a broom flying behind him. 'Yes' Regulus thought 'She took the bait.' Regulus turned his head and saw a girl with blonde hair flying behind him.

He made a sharp turn and looked back to the spot where the snitch had been just moments before but as he expected it was gone.

Regulus not wanting to waste this opportunity dived down. He felt the air rushing past him as he feel closer and closer to the ground. He was 20 feets away, 15, 10. He flew up hoping the Gryffindor wouldn't be fast enough to stop herself.

Regulus didn't even have time to see if it had worked before he saw the glint of gold again. He flew quickly towards it. He dodged a bludger and was now gaining on the small winged ball. As he got closer he felt something following him. He sighed assuming that the girl had been able to refocus quickly. The snitch was now just a little out of arms reach.

Regulus reached out his hand and he could feel the wings of snitch beating just out if reach of his hand. At that moment he heard a shriek but before he could even turn he grabbed the snitch in his hand.

The Slytherins erupted into cheers. "Slytherin wins! 270-150!" The Ravenclaw yelled over the cheering Slytherins.

Regulus looked down and saw that it had been the other seeker who had screamed. 'Probably as a last ditch effort to stop me.' Regulus thought as he flew down and landed in the soft grass. He was immediately surrounded by his teammates congratulating him on catching the snitch and saying how good his flying was. Regulus just smiled and nodded as he kept his eye out for one particular Gryffindor.

As the crowd thinned James walked up to him and stretched out his hand. "That was some really good flying." James said as he glanced around them. He had a straight face but Regulus saw a gleam in his eyes. When he looked back at Regulus James mouthed the words 'locker room in 20.' Reg gave a small nod before walking back to his team.

I'm not really sure what this chapter is but I hope you liked it. I made it extra long to celebrate 10k views 🎉🎊🎉🎉🎊 (thats not actually why but we can just pretend.) Thank you all so much for reading and I can promise the next chapter will be pretty good. Love y'all and have an amazing day!