Jegulus - I'll be good

Part Nine

"Bellatrix. What in the devil's name are you doing here?", Sirius' voice echoed from the walls in the corridor as he approached her. Regulus and his cousin stopped talking and looked at him. Regulus face went pale and he immediately pulled his cloak closer around his body.
But Bellatrix seemed to be overly excited: "Oh, Sirius baby! What a pleasure to see you! Are you here to welcome your brother into adulthood?"
The Gryffindor's face became confused and he looked at his brother: "What is she talking about? Regulus?"
The youngest didn't have the time to answer, Bella coiled her arm around his neck, a proud smile on her lips: "He was smarter than you. He's one of us now." With her high laughter she let go off her younger cousin and walked out of the hallway.
Sirius was as pale as his brother now and stared at him: "Tell me that's not true..Regulus, tell me that she lied!" He grabbed his wrist, but the Slytherin pulled away. And that was sign enough.
Something broke in Sirius and his throat started to hurt.
"Why?", he asked quietly, trying to swallow his upcoming anger.
"Because I wanted to, obviously. The Dark Lord is right with his agenda, the mudbloods-", Regulus stopped talking, as Sirius grabbed his collar, pulling him close. He actually looked like he wanted to punch him.
"Shut up, Regulus! I know that's not you, this is not what you really think! I know you better", Padfoot hissed at him. A hand landed on his shoulder and tried to pull him away. James.
"You know me?", Regulus asked sounding sad for a second, "you don't. I don't even remember the last time you talked to me. You left me behind like Im not even existing, you didn't even look back and you're ignoring me since the day I've arrived here! You moved on to something.. Better I suppose, without even wasting a second thought!"
"Regulus-"
"No. This mark here? I wanted it. Because I was terrified, I have nowhere else to go other than you and it was the right thing to do", the young Slytherin replied with his voice shaking. The other boys stood behind Sirius, not sure if they should interrupt them.
Sirius face softened a bit: "You could have come with me, you know."
"Why?"
"You are my brother, Regulus."
"I'm not. Not anymore. Not after you left me behind and shut me out. Seems like Potter is your brother now", Regulus spat out and looked from Sirius to James, a weird look on his face.
"That's not true", Sirius mumbled a bit guilty. But Regulus didn't react to it anymore and just walked down the hall like he had stolen something.
"That didn't just happen.. Right?", Sirius asked hoarsely and looked helplessly at his friends.
Remus took his hand and squeezed it: "It will be fine, Pads. Give him a moment to calm down and then you talk to him again."
James took his hand from his friend's shoulder and sighed.
"We should go to the dorm", the head boy insisted and started to shove his friends through the corridor.
What a chaos.