Regulus and I sat down at the table for dinner with the rest of the quidditch team. I had calmed down after that whole bathroom episode, but I'm not so sure if Reg had.
"I heard you two were shagging in the girls bathroom on the second floor," Terence said as soon as we sat down. He gossips as much as a third year girl, I swear.
"So that's what you heard? I didn't know rumours traveled so fast," I said laughing, before the claustrophobia thing, the whole ordeal was hilarious, really.
"Yeah, it's going all around the school. People in the dungeons could probably hear Evans yelling. Apparently she walked in on you two going at it and she flipped out," Terence went on. So that's what everyone thinks? Hmm…
"Well I can guarantee you that we were not shagging in the bathroom. We were making a potion for something," I explained. "But when she walked in, me and Reg decided to be increasingly difficult and just gave her a bunch of sarcastic excuses. It was hilarious."
"So you two don't a have a thing?" Derek cut in. I don't even know what my relationship with Derek is, in all honesty. We weren't "dating" but, well I don't know. I think he wants to be more then friends, but I really don't really want to. I'm just not that attracted to him.
"What? No! Incest is just wrong," Regulus butted said, his voice filled with disgust. That would be nasty, sleeping with Regulus. Ick, incest is gross.
"Oh…ok." Derek let out a sigh of relief and I'm pretty sure he said good under his breath, but I didn't think much of it.
"So what were you making a potion for?" Terence kept asking. He was so nosy. Gosh.
"Well, let's just say I'll be getting some revenge on those blasted Gryffindors." I laughed evilly, looking over at their table. All of them were glaring at me.
"Will it be better than the hot pink hair? That was brilliant." Jeremy commented. Yes the pink hair was indeed, brilliant.
"I don't know. This might cause them more physical pain." I said laughing.
"There's another rumor going around that your pregnant?" Terence said smirking, raising an eyebrow. At this, Regulus and I started laughing. After about a minute of laughing our arses off, Reggie spoke.
"Well that stupid mudblood Evans wouldn't leave us alone, so I just told her that we were taking care of some things for our "baby"," Regulus explained. It was weird hearing him use words like mudblood, he never really used them around me. Guess I'm going to have to used them too.
"But really I'm not pregnant," I added, still laughing. "And if I was, I wouldn't go around telling mudbloods and blood traitors like my brother and his friends." I said rolling my eyes. Well it's not too hard acting like a true Slytherin.
I walked through the halls, invisible. Lesley was still stunned in my bag, which was also disillusioned. Time for a little revenge boys. Mwahahaha. I came to the Gryffindor common room, where student were coming in and out. Dinner had just finished, and hopefully the boys would be in the dorm, and Lesley will attach its (I'm not sure if it's a girl or guy, okay?) teeth to one of their crotches. A girl could only hope. I followed some third years into the common room, which was full of people. I was still jealous of their common room. Why do they get all the nice stuff? I'm sorry, but Salazar had no décor taste. At all. I quietly moved up the stairs, oh the memories of turning their hair pink.
"Who does he think he is? Telling me I can't even be near my own sister," I could hear James complaining. I would punch his nose again but it would ruin my revenge plan. And at the moment revenge was more important. I slowly crept towards the seventh years dorm. The door was open. Could they have made this any easier? I smiled to myself and pulled out my wand and the non-moving Lesley. I opened the container and stood right next to the doorway. I dumped Lesley into my hands (it was almost like it was a gelatinous substance) and reanimated it. Lesley sprang to life, snapped it's teeth, and jumped out of my hands into the room. I didn't stick around to see what happened, because I started sprinting back down the stairs as soon as Lesley jumped. I heard multiple yells and quite a few girlish shrieks. I heard someone come out of the dorm and I ran faster. Quickly I got out of the common room and kept sprinting down the hall. I turned a corner and stopped to catch my breath. I heard more feet pounding, damn.
"Come out, whoever you are, don't be a coward," I heard the voice of Sirius Black yell, he was headed in my direction. Forget catching my breath, I'd rather not be murdered. I started running again. I could hear him running behind me, he was catching up. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it! Not only was I being chased after, Sirius wasn't being maliciously attacked by Lesley, which was the whole point of this. Where was I going anyway? Regulus will be in the library, that's where we decided we would meet. I had to shake off Sirius first.
"I know you're there! I can hear you!" Sirius said angrily. I felt around in my pocket, and found a knut. Guess I'll be loosing some money today. As I came up to an intersection of hallways, I threw the knut down the one and stopped running, hoping Sirius would fall for my trick. He stopped and looked down the hallway. I held my breath.
"You don't think I'm that stupid, do you?" He asked out loud. Fuck me ten times over. I started sprinting again, I am going to either die by Sirius murdering me or from running too much. I will never ever complain at a quidditch practice again, that was nothing compared to what I was doing now. I ran into the library as fast as I could and started running through the shelves.
"Sirius Black, what do you think you're doing running in my library!" Madame Pince scolded Sirius. Thank Merlin, he stopped to try and explain to her.
"I-have-to-find-someone." I heard him pant out. I ran into an empty row of shelves and reillusioned myself. I ran towards mine and Regulus's usual table, in the back corner.
"Jade! What took so long?" Reg whispered as I sat down hurriedly next to him. I sat there catching my breath and grabbed a book from the stack that was on our table.
"Reg, make it look like were studying or something. Sirius is in here, he's looking for me, though he doesn't know it was me who did it. Don't look suspicious." I hissed as I heard heavy footsteps. I opened the book to a random page, desperately trying to catch my breath.
"Unicorn rabies plague of 1328?" I asked, still panting a little. What the hell was Regulus reading?
"Out of all the books you chose, you picked the one about magical creatures. Although,that does sound interesting. Unicorns with rabies?" Regulus said laughing. I looked at the rest of the books. They were all dark arts books. Probably from the restricted section.
"What are you two doing?" Sirius said, glaring at us, as he walked up to our table.
"How many times have we been asked that today?" Regulus said rolling his eyes. I stifled a giggle.
"Too much my love, too much. And if you must know Sirius, we are reading about unicorn rabies!" I said happily, but on the inside, my organs were probably shutting down from so much running. I will never run again, I swear.
"I don't believe that. I think you were up in our dorm, and let that…thing…into our dorm!" Sirius said, his eyes narrowing suspiciously.
"I think we have better things to do then that. Can you hand me that book on killing people, where to hide body, and how to cover the evidence?" Regulus asked, rolling his eyes. I really think Reggie and I were put into Slytherin just because we're the biggest smart asses on the planet.
"Bullshit," Sirius said, his eyes now full of anger.
"Can you go away? Your stupidity is distracting," I said looking back to my unicorn rabies book.
"Ha ha. Cute. How do you keep getting in our dorm? And how do you even know where the common room is?" Sirius sat down across from us. Guess he's staying awhile. Joy.
"Are you accusing me of going in to the Gryffindor common room? I'm offended really. With a bunch of blood traitors like yourself in there, why would any Slytherin want to even go near there in the first place," I said with loathing in my voice, and a sneer on my face. I felt Regulus nudge my foot, and I saw him shoot me a look. He approved. I'm going to make a great fake death eater.
"Excuse me? What did you just call me?" Sirius looked shocked. Probably because he's never heard me talk like this.
"You heard me, you aren't deaf. So Regulus-" I turned my attention back to Reg, maybe Sirius will leave if we just ignore him. "Ready for the game tomorrow?" I asked. We were playing Hufflepuff tomorrow, of course we were ready for the game. I could already feel another party coming. Hahaha.
"Hell yeah! We will crush their pathetic arses. They flinch every time we walk past them. With you and Jeremy hitting bludgers toward them, they're probably going to need a new pair of pants." Regulus said, smirking.
"How do you keep getting our dorm!?" Sirius said, aggravated. He pounded his fist on the table for effect. I chose to ignore him.
"I can already sense the amazing post-game party. Jade plus alcohol equals amazing," I laughed. I could see out of the corner of my eye at Sirius was getting more and more agitated.
"No, Jade plus alcohol equals violence. And getting my middle name wrong. And pretty much snogging the pants off of Pacheco." Regulus corrected me.
"I did what! When did I snog Derek? Well besides on the Hogsmeade weekend." I snogged Derek? Oh shit..
"Yeah don't you remember? That one night when we were playing spin the bottle. Almost everyone was smashed out of their minds. I swear you and Derek we're going to go at it right then and there. I swear all the guys on the team got a hard on when Derek got your top off. Man that was a fun night." Regulus laughed.
"HE WHAT!" Me and Sirius both cried. I had forgotten he was sitting there. Reg and I both looked at him.
"Sirius. I think you need to leave." I said, and I turned back to Regulus. "He got my top off? Oh my God...how come you can remember everything when you're drunk, but I can't remember shit? And all the guys got boners? Does that include you?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"Incest is not cool. And yes, he got your top off, why would I lie about that? Now Sirius, you need to get your arse out of here, because clearly me and her have some pretty personal things to talk about. Stop looking at her like that, god you're probably imagining her shirtless, now that we got that idea in your head." Regulus said rolling his eyes.
"I'm not leaving until I get an answer...and I was not imaging my best mates little sister topless!" Sirius said stubbornly.
"I can assure you that we were not in your dorm. Now go away, okay?" I rolled my eyes and continued to ignore Sirius.
I laid in the grass, looking up at the stars with Regulus.
"Today was so eventful," I said quietly to him. I looked up at the sky, drinking in the stars. They were just so beautiful. So pretty, yet so out of reach.
"You can say that again. Between the bathroom and the library," Regulus said.
"Thanks again, for what you said to James in the bathroom. You're much better at confronting people than me. I tend to just yell at them. You get your point across calmly, and I think it has more of an impact," I stated.
"Yeah, well when I was telling of James, I was kind of directing some of it towards Sirius, but I don't know if he noticed that." Regulus spoke softly.
"Awww Reggie! I'll tell off Sirius, just for you," I said and looked up at the Regulus in the sky. "Hehe, there's you," I pointed to the star. There was a comfortable silence but then I broke it. "I really snogged the pants off of Derek?" I asked. Honestly, I don't remember that at all.
"Nah, I just made that up." Regulus said shrugging.
"You what!" I cried. I looked over at him, he was smirking. "Why would you make that up."
"Well it's good to know I tell believable lies. But I wanted to see if my brother fancied you and I can now say that I believe my theory is correct." Regulus said, disgust in his voice. Sirius fancying me? What?
"What are you talking about Reggie?"
"Well when I was saying that incredible lie, you should of saw his face. It was so full of jealousy. And I really hope you don't go falling in love with him Jade. I don't want to see you end up with someone as unworthy of you as him. You're too good for him," Regulus said, pulling me closer to him. Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up. Sirius could maybe fancy me? What is this life?
"I don't think Sirius would ever fancy me. Just saying. And besides, I have other things to worry about than having a boyfriend. Like you need to teach me occlumency." I said, reassuring Regulus. But honestly, on the inside I couldn't stop wondering. Did Sirius really fancy me? He probably didn't, me and him were much too different.
Hufflepuff got crushed. The common room was full of drunk individuals. I was standing in the middle of the common room with Regulus, talking to some seventh year. I wasn't totally plastered yet.
"So then I was all-" I was interrupted by a boy, looked like a 4th year maybe.
"Potter, you have detention tonight, they want you down at the entrance hall, now. You too Black." The boy walked off. What the hell? Why did I have bloody detention tonight?
"What did we even do!" I asked Regulus.
"Bathroom incident?" He offered.
"Oh yeah. My stupid prat of a brother. Seeya guys," I said bye to everyone and headed towards my stupid detention.
"You have your mirror?" I asked. Last year in Hogsmeade, me and Reg found these enchanted mirrors, it was like a two way mirror, so I could talk to him through it.
"Yeah…why?" He asked as we walked out the common room. It was pretty depressing to leave my fire whiskey behind.
"We're probably going to get split up, because me and you would end up setting the school on fire while trying to fill up a bucket with water," I explained.
"The sad thing is, that is so true." Reg said grinning, shaking his head. We walked to the entrance hall. Why the hell did I have detention on the night I just had a quidditch game?! James probably planned this, bloody git.
"Yup, we're here." I said dully. I scanned the hall, and saw Pettigrew (who creeped the hell out of me) and Black. Oh bloody fucking hell. Why does he always have to be at my detentions? Does Merlin hate me or something. Probably.
"Great, they're here." Reg said lowly, rolling his eyes. I nodded, agreeing.
"You two-" Filch pointed to Regulus and Pettigrew. "-will be polishing trophies in the trophy room, with no magic. And you two-" He pointed to Black and I. "-will be scrubbing the floors in the second floor girls bathroom." Reg and I stifled giggles at the mention of that bathroom. But oh great, I get to spend my night scrubbing floors with Black, while I could be getting wasted in the common room. Fan bloody tastic. Regulus and I went our separate ways and I carried my bucket up to the bathroom. I ignored Sirius thoroughly, just like he ignored me. But I couldn't stop thinking about what Regulus said. I walked into the room and I couldn't help but smile.
"Oh the memories," I said smiling.
"What was that?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing…" I trailed off. I sat down and started scrubbing the tiles. I scrubbed all my frustration into the floor. If floors could bleed, well let's just say this one would be dead by now. An awkward silence had filled the room, after the whole Lesley's-Comeback thing. Which was awesome. It had attacked James's face. I've never been so proud!
"Jade is a wanker…Jade is a wanker…Jade needs to answer her damn mirror….Jade!" I heard my mirror say. I loved listening to what Regulus said when he waited for my answer my mirror. "Jade Opal, Regulus Aquarius want's to talk to you…Jade is a wanker and a slag….that's it Jade, desperate times call for desperate measures….JADE LIKES TO SNOG THE PANTS OFF OF DEREK BLOODY PACHECO AND SHE LIKES IT WHEN HE TOUCHES HER AND-" I quickly pulled the mirror out of my pocket. Sirius was looking at me weirdly. Fantastic.
"What? You're so obnoxious." I snapped as I looked at him through the mirror.
"The trophy room is booring. You get the amazing second floor bathroom," Regulus whined.
"Where did you get that?" Sirius suddenly asked. Looking at the mirror.
"Hogsmeade, last year. Why do you care?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Jade? Who are you talking to? Is that my brother?" Regulus asked.
"Just wondering…" Sirius spoke calmly. I'm surprised he wasn't still mad about the whole vicious potion thing.
"It is him! Jade, don't get too close to him! I don't want you to get herpes!" Regulus cried, clearly slightly intoxicated from our post-quidditch party. I couldn't help but laugh. That kid was a basket case, but he was my basket case.
"I do not have herpes!" Sirius said, knitting his eyebrows together.
"Don't listen to him Jade, he sits on a throne of lies. Anyway, why do we have detention now, we could be getting drunk, and you could be doing something utterly stupid, yet hilarious, right now. You tend to make bad decisions when you're drunk. It's so entertaining," Regulus laughed from my mirror.
"Oh hush up Reggie. I don't even know what you're like drunk, because whenever you're just a little bit tipsy, I'm plastered out of my mind and I can't remember shit! It's not fair," I pouted.
"It's not my fault I hold my liquor better. Now seriously, stay away from that thing I am related to. Remember what happened last detention?" Regulus spat the last part bitterly. I knew he was not over it! My eyes went wide, I had forgotten about that almost kiss, well I had almost forgotten about it.
"What did I say about that? It was nothing. Now you're going back into the pocket of death." I glared at him through the mirror and shoved it in my pocket. I went back to scrubbing the floor violently.
"So really, how do you keep getting in our dorm?" Sirius asked, sitting closer to me.
"I have no idea what you're talking about." I said rolling my eyes. He opened his mouth to talk but I cut him off. "But if I was going to go into your dorm, I would know because you and James can't whisper. But like I said, I've never been in your dorm." I went back to scrubbing the floor.
"Last detention?" Sirius asked raising an eyebrow.
"What is this? Twenty questions? Go away," I snapped. Merlin, he was being so annoying. I liked the Sirius I knew when we were in Slughorn's detention. He was only slightly annoying.
"Would you like to clarify what happened last detention?" Sirius said smirking. How I would like wipe that smirk off of his face.
"Would you like me to punch your nose in too?" I said sarcastically.
"Jade Pacheco…..Jade Pacheco….Jade and Derek sitting in a tree F-U-C-K-I-" I quickly pulled out my mirror. What the hell was up with Regulus?
"What? What could you possibly need!" I yelled at him.
"Ooo gosh, someone's PMSing. You should of just skipped detention. You always get upset when you're alcohol deprived."
"Why are you so content on making it seem like me and Derek are going out?" I rolled my eyes.
"Because I love to tease you. And besides, you and Derek may as well be going out. He's already seen you topless!" I cracked a smile at that, knowing it was a big lie. "You could marry him too. He's a nice pure blood. And you two can have a herd of little kiddies running around, and I would be the awesome god father who they love. I can see it now. Jade Pacheco, lovely housewife of Derek," Regulus rambled on.
"Regulus, you need to shut up." I said, I could feel a blush creeping up on my neck. Sirius was hearing this whole conversation too. Great…
"What! No! Don't put me in the pocket again!" He cried.
"I'll put a silencing charm on you. Now shut up and don't mirror me again. You're irritating me and I didn't get to finish my damn fire whiskey." I put the mirror back in my pocket and huffed.
"Would you date Pacheco?" Sirius asked. Why would he care? Because he fancies you. I could just hear Regulus's voice in my head.
"I don't know. Maybe. He's the only guy who's ever shown any interest in me. Most guys think I'm a heartless bitch. Which in a way, I can be a heartless bitch, if I want to. Why do you care?" Now it was my turn to ask the question.
"Jade Potter! Jade! Jadeeeee! JADE OPAL PACHECO!" Regulus yelled from inside my pocket.
"Maybe if I just ignore him he'll go away." I said. Sirius smiled at this.
"He's so unlike himself around you." Sirius spoke, talking about Regulus.
"You're wrong. He's himself around me. It's when he's around you and other people, he puts on the mask."
"Jadeeeee! Jade Pacheco? Ok your not responding to that? How about hmmm Jade Snape? Jade Opal Snape! Ok ew, he's a dirty half blood anyway, we don't want him watering down your blood status.
"God! Shut up Reg!" I muttered to myself. "Like I was saying, around others he's reserved. Remember when he told off James in here? When he was saying that stuff, he was directing a lot of it towards you too. I don't think you realized how much of an impact on his life you had-"
"JADE FUCKING POTTER ANSWER YOUR MIRROR. Ok, swearing doesn't work either. Mkkay…how about Jade Lupin? I know you were smitten about him last year… "Oh Regulus, look at his eyes!" Jade Opal Lupin answer me! It's important!" Regulus whined. I felt my face heat up.
"You fancied Remus?" Sirius said smirking, raising an eyebrow.
"Pfftt, that was last year….and I just thought he was cute. But anyway back to what I was saying, I don't think you realized how much of an impact on his life you had, it really changed him when you left home. He became…I don't know more distant. But Sirius, whether you realize it or not, Regulus always felt like he wasn't good enough for you. He's been stretched thin, between you and his parents. It hurts him when you tell him he's useless and shit like that. Just like it hurts me when James tells me he hates me," I finished.
"Jade Malfoy! Yeah, how about that! He's a nice looking, very respectable, pureblood, you could marry him, and then yeah! And he's rich!" Regulus would just not shut up. What could the boy even need?
"Jesus Christ Regulus! You never shut up! What do you fucking want!" I yelled at him as I looked in the mirror.
"I was thinking-" He started.
"Oh my God! You actually think!" I said mock awe.
"Hey hey, I wasn't the one who failed their transfiguration O.W.L." He said defensively.
"Psh, transfiguration is rubbish. Charms is the best subject and you know it."
"Not the point Jade! So I was thinking! You should come to my house for Christmas break!" He said happily. Christmas break? That would be fantastic, but isn't that when Volde- I'm sorry, the Dark Lord, is coming?
"But Reg isn't that?" I shot him a look, finishing the sentence with my eyes.
"Well if we get you prim and proper by then, I think it would be okay!" He looked happy. It was strange, maybe he has consumed more alcohol than I thought before we came to detention.
"Okay, we'll discuss this later, okay? Other people might be listening. Okay?" I once again put the mirror back in my pocket, hopefully for the last time.
"What was that about?" Sirius asked.
"Nothing." I said, looking down the floor. This has been the most stressful detention ever.
"You failed transfiguration?" He said smirking.
"Yes, I'm telling you it's rubbish! But you know, since James got an O on his exam, I was expected to get that too. Guess that's why I didn't even study for that exam...I knew I would fail it anyway, and besides I don't want to be good at the same things as James," I replied.
"Well what do you want to be when you get out of school?"
"I dunno. Not an aurora, that's what everyone wants to be. Besides I'm shit at transfiguration and I'm bad at potions too."
"So what are you going to be then? A death eater?" His voice full of sarcasm. Oh if only you knew Sirius. My eyes flickered down to my wrist, where a dark mark was sure to be sometime in the future.
"Nah, I'd rather be a musician. I'm good at violin." I said nonchalantly. Fact was, I wasn't going to be a musician. Ever. Nope, I'll be a death eater, and I am going to try and stop Voldemort. Bring him down. I'll play the Dark Lord like a fiddle.
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Authors Note
You guys blew up my mail box :D I love when you guys do that! So many emails! So this was a loooong boring filler chapter, but meh. Deal with it. Ten pages! Over 4,000 words, that's the most I've done. Love you all xoxo Oh yeah, I'm sorry if this is has lots of mistakes in it, I proofread it at 1:40 A.M. So ha[:
Author's Note 2.0
Drunk Regulus is my favorite Regulus. Halfway done with revisions! Yaaay!