Bad Skittle

Chapter 4

James wakes up in the middle of the night when he hears talking and crying.

He sits up and looks to the side, coming to the conclusion that it's Regulus.

He immediately gets up and tries to gently wake him up.

"It's just a nightmare, come on, wake up," he keeps saying as he gently shakes the boy and moves his hair away from his face.

"Regulus, please," he says and he hears someone else getting up, soon, Sirius is kneeling beside him, trying to wake his brother too.

"He's always slept like a rock," Sirius comments as he shakes his brother a bit less gentle than James.

They keep doing that, and eventually, Regulus wakes up.

He immediately starts sobbing as his brother and James just hug him.

He rests his head on James's shoulder as he cries.

Sirius gets up once Regulus isn't sobbing anymore.

"I'm going to get you some chocolate, just don't say anything to Remus," he tells him as he gets it from a drawer in a bedside table.

Sirius hands the chocolate to his little brother, who takes just a small piece before giving it back to him.

"You sure you don't want more?" He asks and Regulus nods as he takes a small bite out of the chocolate he took a piece of.

James looks at him, seeming worried, but Regulus smiles at him, trying to tell him that he's okay, even though he doesn't feel like he is.

He takes way too long to eat such a small piece of chocolate, and it makes him self conscious.

"It's still 4am, do you think you can sleep more?" James asks and he nods.

"I'm okay, it was just a nightmare," Regulus tells him.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Sirius asks, kneeling next to James again.

"It was about that night two years ago," Regulus says and Sirius immediately goes pale, something tells James that it has something to do with their parents.

"I hate that mother made you watch that," Sirius says, looking down at his hands.

"Once you were unconcious she did the same to me, that's why she made me watch, she was preparing me," Regulus explains and both brothers start crying again as they hug each other.

They keep talking and after a while James goes to sleep, but Sirius and Regulus keep talking.

"Reg, why do you have bite marks all over your neck? Is that why you've been wearing your scarf everyday?" Sirius asks and his brother looks down.

"Yeah." He only answers the last question, he isn't sure that he wants Sirius to know about Barty.

"Where did they come from? Are you dating anyone?" He asks and Regulus just shakes his head, "who did them, then?"

No other question, he can't pretend he didn't hear it, because he clearly did.

"I don't know." He knows it's a stupid lie and that it's not believable at all, but he really doesn't know what else to say.

"How do you not know? It's impossible that you didn't see who it was," Sirius insists and Regulus is getting progressively more nervous, nervous to the point he feels tears burning in his eyes.

"I don't want to talk about it," he says as his voice weakens with each word.

"Why? Was it forceful? Did they do it without you wanting to?" Sirius asks and Regulus doesn't answer, he just looks down at his hands and shrugs.