Bad Skittle

Chapter 14

It had been three days since Regulus was taken to St Mungo's. Everyone had visited him, and Remus convinced Sirius to give back to Hogwarts for classes, and Sirius went, but only because his grades were miserable. James, on the other hand, had stayed with Regulus, having only left his side when one of them needed to use the bathroom. Regulus liked that James stayed, he really appreciates the company.

They were both sitting on the bed while Regulus read and James saw a movie on the small tv that was stuck to the ceiling.

James's fingers were drowned by Regulus's hair, as he had been passing them through it, but stopped and left his hand there.

"James?" Regulus asks, clising his book a little and looking at his boyfriend.

"Yeah?" James asks back, just to show that he's listening.

Regulus decides that he'll ask the question that has been stuck on his head for weeks, "What do you see when you look at me?"

James gives him a soft smile.

"I see a beautiful boy, in every sense of the word. I see someone who feels misunderstood and just wants to feel loved, but he doesn't know how much everyone around him loves him." He kisses Reg's forehead.

Regulus wants to say that not everybody loves him, but he knows that James means that everyone he cares about cares about him too.

He decides to kiss James, who laughs a bit. They start to make out and after a good amount of minutes, they stop, bith smiling and breathing heavily.

Just as they were about to start kissing again, a nurse walked in with two trays of food.

"Oops, sorry for interrupting, I'll be right out after I leave the food," she says while setting down the trays on a little table. She walks to the door, but stops and turns around, "don't do more than kissing please, since you're on suicide watch, the room has cameras." With that, she leaves the room.

James turns hushed attention back to his boyfriend, hoping they would continue their make out session, but Regulus was just staring into nothing, tears forming in his eyes.

"Reggie?" James asked, but the boy didn't react, "Regulus, do you hear me?"

Regulus just nodded and turned his attention back to James.

"Yeah, sorry, I just zoned out for a bit" Regulus answered simply.

"It's okay, there's no need to apologize. I was just worried because you seemed like you were about to cry," James explained.

"Oh," was all Regulus said as he looked down and took his boyfriend's hand in his own and observed it.

James decides to not insist, he knows that Regulus will tell him once he's ready.

They stay like that for most of the day.

At around 6pm, about half an hour after James had left to go get some food and clothes from his home, there was a knock at the door and, without waiting for an answer, a nurse came in.

"You have a visitor, and he asked to speak to you alone," she says, looking at Regulus.

"Oh, okay," he says and she nods.

The nurse leaves and when the door opens again, it's mr. Crouch who comes in.

Regulus's hands start sweating and he feels short of breath.

"Relax, I'm just here to talk," he says as he closes the door, but that doesn't relax the boy even a tiny bit.

"Go away," Regulus manages to say, but his voice sounds much more unsure than it did in his head.