Paint It... Potter?

fucking looney.

"You will be on your best behavior," Walburga instructed as she straightened his robes. They didn't need it, it was just an excuse to his any last-minute threats in his ear.

"Yes, well I'm not Sirius" Regulus said pulling away from her sharply.

"And who is Sirius?" She asked him tilting her head appearing to be confused.

"You're serious?" He asked laughing.

"Deadly." She said with a stone-cold look. Laughing was a definite mistake. What happened to him? He would have never made that mistake before.

"You have no brother." She said shaking her head at him.

"You can't honestly-" he began.

"You have no brother." He really needed to hold his tongue. He knew he would have another physical reminder as he felt the stinging hex burn up his back.

"It would do you well to remember that." She said pushing him backward toward the train. He would remember. Sitting on the train the ache in his back from the fresh hex he would remember.

"Christ Black I can smell the teenage angst." He snapped out of his gaze. Mary was hanging in the doorway.

"Come on," she said tilting her head. "I've got a compartment with the girls, and they've been dying to know how would are."

"Oh, piss off." He told her rolling his eyes.

"Don't be a prat," she told him giving him a joking glare in return.

"He said, piss off, you fucking mudblood." It was Snape. He had pulled Mary out of the compartment.

"You vile little-" Mary began shaking her head " You're lucky lily made me promise I wouldn't,  because if it were my way you'd be fucking dead." She said glaring

"You don't scare me you insufferable little mudblood."

"I really should. Mary told him, wand clenched in her hand.

"Come on Regulus," Snape said making his way out of the carriage. "We don't associate with her kind."

"I'll do whatever the bloody hell I want  thank you." He said pushing passed the boy.

"And get more creative you fucking hypocritical halfblood scum." He check Snape's shoulder as he passed him.

"Come on Mary," Regulus said taking his friend's hand. Well, he was screwed now, holding hands with a muggle-born in public. He was directly disobeying his mother. Oh well, he had another two months until he had to pay for it.

She led him to the compartment. It was just Marlene and lily. A year ago, Alice would have been there, and a few before that Molly.  Though he had never been invited in, he had always observed the groups meeting.

"Oh. My. God." Marlene said.

"Lily Marie Evans." Mary gasped

"Is that a hickey" Marlene stepped forward to prod at the sport on the red-haired girl's neck.

"You slag," Marlene said. As Lily pushed her off. "

Was it potter?" Marlene asked leaning to get a better angle to see that mark. As she blushed Regulus paled.

Four days, that's what it had taken for James to give you what he never really had with Regulus for Lily.

Four days, that's what it took for months of a relationship to disappear.

And only mere seconds Regulus decided he hated James Potter again.

"Well, I wish I could it was fun to see you all again," Regulus said. And he meant it, the small interaction had drained him.

"Fuck you," Marlene said pushing him in the shoulder.

He couldn't remember leaving their compartment, couldn't remember walking down the corridor of the train, and stumbling into the shared compartment of his friends. When he woke up he was asleep across from Evan and Barty.

He looked around,the blinds were shut. And it was now night. The lights burned a dull yellow above them. He could feel the glamor charms on Evan's face no doubt to cover the hell he faced in the past few days.

There was a pang of jealousy at the peaceful way his head was resting on Barty's shoulder. He spread himself on the bench, legs aching. He thought longing ly about the few nights he had spend with James. As it set in that he would never again have one of those nights. He drifted into his stiff uncomfortable sleep.

he was in darkness a sense of fear traveled through his bones like a ringing he spoke but his mouth didn't open.

It was his mother, she was in his head, he was telling him everything he already knew.

the other voice was distant and sounded like he was hearing it from underwater a sharp pain hummed through his body head hit stone he was being pulled through the rock, it was filling his lungs. Cementing him in place, he clawed away. He clawed at his throat and lungs. But eventually, he couldn't move, he was stuck helpless. He couldn't struggle, so he stopped. He let the liquid stone fill him, and drag him down.

He woke up to his head smashing into the floor of the cabin.

"Fucking merlin!" Barty said jumping from the noise.

"Are you good down there mate?" Evan asked stretching his arms.

"Yeah, I think I'm just going to sit here for a bit."

That door sprung open and all three boys scrambled for their wands. Pointing them at the intruder.

"Jesus, calm down," Sirius said raising his hands in defense. The three boys glared at him.

"This is for you." He said dropping a package in Regulus's lap. It was a record. He fingers itched to tear it open.

"It's from Andy." Sirius said shrugging. "if you even care." Regulus rolled his eyes at his brother

"Of course I care," Regulus said in a hushed whisper.

"You've got a bloody weird way of showing." Sirius said angrily.

"Please, you're just pissed because I've got the balls to do what you never could." This struck a nerve with his brother. Regulus watched as his nostrils flared and his lips twitched.

"What you're doing isn't brave, it's fucking crazy. Regulus." Sirius said almost panicking.

"They're going to bloody kill you." Sirius hissed at him.

"They won't,they need me." Regulus said reasoning with himself and his older brother.

"Don't be an idiot." Sirius scoffed.

"I get it all." Regulus told him. "I get the name, the money, and the land. All I have to do is stick it out for a few more years"

"Are you fucking kidding me." Tats what you're doing this for?" Sirius asked outraged.

"This is all for the fucking money, and the glory of being  in the ancient most noble house of fucking incest and child abuse."

"I'm doing it for us Sirius!" Regulus said now nose to nose with his brother. Normally Regulus would have been taller. But Sirius wore a pair of black muggle boots.

"If you wanted to do something for me you'd leave." Sirius huffed in his face.

"I did. See where that got us?" Regulus said gesturing around the compartment, at the three obviously wounded boys.

"They won't let me out. So I'm going to fucking bleed the dry." Regulus explained with an almost cruel smirk.

"And they need their heir, I've got them wrapped around my bloody finger.

"You're fucking looney, Reg. You know that? Fucking looney." And for some reason Regulus laughed. He laughed right in Sirius's face and as the door shut he continued until he was on the floor rocking back and forth crying, which his friends standing over top of him.