Marauders One Shots

April Fools

James comments that Regulus isn't fun and Regulus makes a point to prove him wrong.

Regulus could hear laughing all the way down the hall, and he knew what day it was just from their laughs. April 1st, April fools day. Regulus groans. "Why?" He mumbles frustrated.

Screams come next, then Barty and Evan's laughs. Regulus sighs. "Fuck."

"Having fun, Reggie?"

"James, what did you do?" Regulus asks spinning around to face his boyfriend.

James puts his hands up. "Nothing." He smirks. "It was Sirius who suggested it. I just planted the idea in his head and theirs."

Regulus sighs again. "Why must you be like this?"

"It's called being fun. You should try it sometime."

"I am fun."

James raises his eyebrows. "Really?"

"Mmh."

"Ok, prank someone."

Regulus' eyebrows and his eyes go wide in surprise. "What?"

"Prank someone if you're so fun." He says while putting his face right in front of Regulus's.

Regulus scoffs. "I'm not doing that."

James humms. "That just proves my point." He moves his face away.

Regulus narrows his eyes. "Fine. What shall I do?"

"I don't know. It's your prank."

Regulus sighs. "James,"

James smiles. "Have fun deciding." He says as he walks away.

"James!"

What am I supposed to do? Regulus thinks as he walks back to the Slytherin common room.

Dorcas and Pandora are sitting next to each other looking..... depressed? "Cas, Dora, what's wrong?"

Dorcas sighs. "Marlene's pranking people with James and Lily's supervising."

Regulus humms. "What are you thinking about, Reg?" Pandora asks.

"James said I wasn't fun, and now I have to prank someone."

Dorcas laughs. "Reg, I hate to tell you, but you're not fun."

"I know that, I just wasn't thinking."

"Clearly." Pandora responds.

"Help?"

Dorcas thinks for a minute. "Sure, why not. There's nothing else to do anyway."

"Yeah, let's do it."

It might have taken two hours, but they finally came up with something and someone to prank - or someone's.

Regulus hears it going off in the distance and all the screams - mainly the girls. Slime was their choice. Green slime in the Gryffindor common room.

It was Pandora' idea to prank all of Gryffindor - or Lily and Marlene, too - but they couldn't just get specific people in there, so all of Gryffindor was the choice. They did choose the Marauders spot, though.

Regulus, Pandora, and Dorcas laugh as Evan and Barty come in the common room completely drenched in green slime. "You were in the common room." Dorcas manages to spit out before she goes back to laughing.

"Yeah." Barty says sternly. "This was your doing?"

"Well, it was Reg' idea."

Evan spins to face Regulus. "Yours?"

Regulus nods, still laughing. "Stop laughing!" Barty yells. "It's not funny." He mumbles.

Pandora breaks back into a fit of giggles. "Yeah, it is."

Lily, Marlene, and James come trudging in and they all burst out laughing again. "Jamie!" Marlene cries out. "Look what you did!"

"I didn't think he'd go through with it!" James responds. "He's not fun!"

"Yeah, well, he proved that wrong." Lily mutters.

Pandora snickers one last time before looking at her girlfriend. "Hey, Lils."

Lily points an accusing finger at her girlfriend. "This is all you."

"Sorry?"

Lily narrows her eyes at Pandora and marches back out, Pandora following, wand in hand. Marlene almost slips, and James catches her before she falls but then falls into Barty, which makes them all fall when Barty bumps into Evan.

Dorcas and Regulus burst out laughing at their partners and friends. Dorcas grabs her wand and cleans up Marlene before pulling her up off the ground and to the girls' dormitories.

"Reg!" Barty cries. "Clean us up!"

Regulus chuckles. "No."

"This was your fault!" Evan exclaims.

Regulus sighs and tosses Barty his wand from where it landed when he fell. "There, clean yourselves."

Barty sighs and cleans up both him and Evan and his wand before they go up to the boys' dormitories. Regulus sits on the couch and watches James struggle and fail to grab his wand from his pocket.

Regulus just sighs for what felt like the a millionth time that day and grabs his own wand and cleans up James from where he's sitting. James gets up and lays his head down in Regulus' lap before he starts playing with Regulus' hair.

"What are you doing?"

"Playing with your hair. It's soft and curly."

"And tamed unlike yours."

James smiles. "You like it. Especially when -"

"Don't finish that sentence."

James just smiles even wider in return. "I love you, Regulus Black."

"I love you, too, James Potter."