The Stages Before a Lovers Quarrel ~ A Jegulily and Wolfstar Fanfiction

#8

Sirius woke up at about 4:30 that morning. It was an exciting day and so here he was, creeping around his house, collecting a couple presents for his dear Reggie and then silently making his way to his brother's room to wake him up.

"Reggie! Reggie! Reggie! Wake up! It's your birthday!" He whisper-shouted.

"Siri?"

"Up, up, up, Regulus! I have a present for you!"

Regulus sat up in his bed, very excited. His tired eyes were wide with interest as his brother covered them and placed something squirming in his lap.

"Siri?" He asked shakily. "What is that?"

"Open your eyes and find out, baby brother." 

He ripped his hands from his eyes and opened them to find a small, black kitten with tiny, white speckles that looked like stars. Its eyes were a light grey, as if trying to mimic Regulus'.

"I love... it!" He questioned.

"She's a girl."

"I LOVE HER!" He shouted, unable to contain his excitement. The two boys played with her for a while until she snuggled herself in a spiral underneath Regulus' duvet. Then they moved on to the next present. It was a large book. About as big as 'The History of Magic' by Bathilda Bagshot. It was an encyclopaedia of Latin. A language that Regulus had wanted to learn since he was 7. His parents were, of course, very proud as he was now going to be trilingual, English, French and Latin. That's the only reason they bought him the book. To be proud of a son they don't care about.

At the end of the day, Regulus had gathered a rather large pile of presents in the corner of his room, apart from his new cat, still curled up in his bed, which he named Brigid. He got rings with the family Crest from Cygnus and Druella, different rings with skulls and other decorations from Bellatrix, a special journal and quill from Narcissa and from Andromeda he received rare star charts from across the globe. Why they were rare, I have no idea, I'm just the author, gimme a break.

The family had a large dinner party that night in Regulus' honour with extended family, the Sacred 28 and few family members that migrated to America and such that were visiting Europe.

There were a few people there that Regulus didn't know, a few kids his age that he immediately had to be acquainted with if was to go to Hogwarts in 3 months. Pandora and Evan Rosier were there, Narcissa's cousins on the other side. The Crouch's were there. Bartemius Crouch Sr had his son kept by his side and seemed to be scolding him for most of the night. The Malfoy's had left there son Lucius to represent the family, he was spectating his classmate Narcissa for most of the night, which seemed to make her uncomfortable.

Regulus walked over to the Crouch family first with all his 11 year old pride and asked Mr Crouch Sr if he could "borrow" his son. And under no circumstances was Mr Crouch going to say no.

"Thank you, for taking the damned devil off my hands, Young Mister Black." He had said.

The newly acquainted pair walked off together into the gardens at 12 Grimmauld place. They found a tree to climb and escape from everyone.

"Hi, I'm Barty."

"Regulus." He held out his hand. "How do you do?"

"I'm well, how about you?"

"Bored. I never wanted a whole party. Sirius, my brother, thinks it's a chance for all out families to set us all up together, you know. Who'll marry who."

"He's probably not wrong."

"Wanna play a game?"

"Sure. Oh wait, I know something we could play, let me just get the Rosier kids, Evan and Pandora. Have you met them? They're so much fun. They taught me all these pranks I could play on my father last time we had an event like this."

"Sounds fun!"

"Definitely, I'll be right back!"

As Regulus waited his emotions went numb again while waiting in silence with only the wind and leaves for company. He swore it was at least 20 minutes before Crouch came back with the Rosier twins.

"Thank god we escaped that hell." He heard part cry with relief, sort of sarcastically, even though it was true.

The three climbed up a few branches, settling in a vast ocean of leaves.

"I'm Evan, she's Pandora. Get us mixed up and I'll kill you." The boy said with jest. His sister laughed. "What!? You've seen how many times our mother mixes us up Panda."

"I'm Regulus."

"Think we already know that. Our mothers were thinking about setting you up with Pandora, we heard them."

"Merlin. Sorry but there's no way I'm marrying you, I barely even know you."

"Right back at you Reggie," She laughed.

"It's Regulus."

"Uhh hello, have we forgotten I'm here? Have we forgotten we're going to play a game?"

"We didn't, the author did." Pandora said.

"The author, what are you talking about?" Barty asked.

"She said nothing, my sister is very weird." He glared at her.

The four of them ended up laughing and then got started with the game. Which turned out to be hide and seek. They played for about an hour and Regulus won the most rounds. It made sense since it was his house. Sirius joined them halfway through, he got on pretty well with Barty and Evan. He jokingly tried to charm Pandora and she repeatedly called him crass. Overall the night had gone better for all five of them than they had originally thought it would. That night of course the mood had to be ruined, for some of them. While Regulus was sleeping he a nightmare. His mother losing control, his brothers life being lost. Regulus watching it all happen. Regulus was at fault again. Sirius taking the fall. Sirius is always taking the fall. And when Regulus woke up he found he couldn't breathe. It felt like he was dying. He scrambled to Sirius' room. Shaking his brother until he awoke. He had to make sure he was still alive. Regulus stayed in Sirius' room that night. And the next just to make sure he would be alright. Sirius was the best thing that Regulus would ever have.

A/n :) I'm sorry, I love angst. But hey over 1000 words and a new chapter. Go me! Thank you for reading btww. Also don't you love the Slytherin skittles -dorcas content. (Shes in Sirius year, only Sirius know her so far so sorryyyyyyy). I'm so excited to progress this book. I'm excited to share it. Hope your all having a great time. Reading and just in general. Love u all

-alex

(PS, still not proof read)