Previously: "So there are like Vampire cows?!" Kal asked, intrigued.
"Kal!" Severus snapped, "Eat your food." Kal pulled a face but did as he was told, glancing a look at Regulus who winked at him. Kal grinned into his plate, knowing Regulus would tell him all about the vampire cows later, and hopefully become too distracted to ask about his love life.
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Hiddle and third wheels.
Once they had all finished eating Severus and Lucius exchanged a look before Lucius gave a small nod and Severus stood up, "Come on." He said to Kal who frowned, "We need to talk." Kal paled slightly but stood up and followed his dad from the room.
Regulus looked at Lucius with a questioning look, the older man sighed, "We decided enough was enough. He can't keep getting away with this behaviour. It's not fair on any of us, and it's not fair on Draco for them to be treated so differently." Lucius said.
"But you still feel uncomfortable about it? Cue why Sev is giving the actual punishment."
"Yes, he told me to choose between you and Kal and so I chose you."
"Me?" Regulus frowned.
Lucius gave him a cold look, "Don't act innocent, you've been avoiding us lately and I want to know why."
Regulus stared at his friend, trying to find a quick excuse, "I… I wasn't avoiding you… I was…"
"Oh come on Reg! You lived here for six months after leaving the hospital, and then even when you moved back to your house you still came over every few days, and then suddenly you stopped. You only talk to us if we start the conversation and even then you make excuses to leave." Regulus was silent and Lucius sighed again, just as he was about to say something more the younger man spoke.
"They offered me a job… the death eaters… I was meant to spy on you, your whole family… And in return they'd give me as much Hiddle as I wanted." Regulus lowered his head staring at the table as he felt Lucius' eyes on him. "I said no."
"Of course you did." Lucius said.
"But that's the point… I nearly didn't… I nearly said yes and betrayed you all just so I could have another hit." Regulus rubbed at his eyes, trying to ignore the prickling sensation, "I thought I was over it Luc, I thought after the months of rehab and then being here that I wouldn't need it anymore. So why am I so bloody tempted to let you all down?!!" Regulus couldn't stop the tears dripping down his cheeks. Lucius rose and walked over to his friend, bending so that he could look into Regulus' eyes and cup the man's face, forcing him to maintain eye contact.
"The healers told you it wouldn't be so simple remember?" He said, "You have an addiction, it's not something you can just get over quickly. Your body, and your mind, are telling you that you need that drug, you're remembering the good feeling it gave you. Possibly more so because you didn't want to quit at first anyway." Lucius winced inwardly, remembering himself and Severus forcing the younger man into rehab.
Regulus scrunched up his face, "But I know I was stupid. I don't want to get back on drugs!!"
"But there's a small part of your mind that does, because of your addiction." Lucius said patiently. "And we will never hate you for contemplating taking Hiddle again, and if you do slip up and take it again we wont stop caring about you. Yes we'll be upset but only because it's so bad for you."
"But I almost betrayed you!!" Regulus yelled.
"Yet you chose not to. That says a lot Reggie." Lucius said quietly, moving his hand off Regulus' face and kneeling before pulling the other man into a hug. Regulus struggled against it but Lucius refused to let go and finally Regulus collapsed into the hug, sobbing into Lucius' shirt. Lucius held the man until he had started to calm down, then he helped him stand up and led him into the sitting room. "Severus and I trust you." Lucius said quietly, Regulus began to sob again and Lucius sighed, sitting on the sofa and pulling the shorter, slimmer man down onto his knee as he did with Draco and Kal when they were really upset. "We know you wouldn't betray us, especially not over Hiddle… Come on Reg! You have a full bank account, if you wanted the drug so bad you would go and buy it rather than putting yourself on the line with the death eaters." He wasn't sure if Regulus was listening properly but then he felt the younger man's arms circle around him and cling on and Lucius knew that he had taken it all in.
"Can I stay here tonight?" Regulus mumbled into Lucius' shoulder.
"'Course you can."
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"SIRIUS!"
"Hmm?"
"I've been calling you for ages, what the hell is up with you today?!" James asked,
Sirius winced inwardly, "I'm just tired." He mumbled, "I was asleep when you turned up." James blushed and muttered an apology which Sirius shook off. "What did you want anyway?"
"To see why you weren't at Moony's last night." James said.
"No, I meant just now, why were you calling me?" Sirius said, rolling his eyes.
James flushed slightly, "Wondered if you wanted any food." He said.
Sirius frowned for a moment as he thought, "I've got nothing in, was meant to do some shopping today." He shrugged. They'd abandoned the film a while ago, choosing to just sit and chat instead so Remus said, "Let's go to mine, we can get something to eat, then go shopping for Sirius."
"Aww, do we have to go shopping?" Sirius whined, usually when his fridge was empty he just turned up at James or Remus' houses until they did his shopping for him.
"Yes. And we're going to make sure you buy decent food, you've got really skinny because you're not eating properly." Remus lectured, James nodded in agreement. Sirius scowled and ducked his head, hating how they managed to make him feel so small.
"Come on then," James smiled, taking Sirius' arm, "Let's go to Remus' and get something to eat. Or were you meant to be meeting your boyfriend?" Across the room Remus froze, flinching as he saw Sirius close himself off mentally.
"We broke up." Sirius said in a deadly calm voice.
James' jaw dropped slightly "Oh god, Siri I'm so sorry… Look if you want to talk about -"
"I don't."
"Okay, well if you change your mind you know where I am." James said, trying to hug his friend, Sirius tensed and pushed the man away.
"Let's go." He grunted, crossing to the fireplace and flooing away.
Remus and James stared after him and James sighed, "I feel like I don't know him anymore Remmie, like everything I say is wrong and that I'm slowly losing him…" James whispered.
"Of course you're not losing him Jay, Things have just been tough lately… Sirius really liked this guy and is pretty devastated by the looks of it. Also he feels a little bit like a third wheel."
"What do you mean?"
"Well now that we're... you know… Sirius feels like a tag along."
James' eyes widened, "But he's not a tag along, he's our friend!!"
"I know that, you know that… Sirius just needs a little help in figuring it out." Remus explained patiently, "Now come on, before he thinks we're shagging on his sofa."
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Kal rolled over again, trying to get comfortable, and winced. "Hurts?" Came Regulus' voice and Kal looked up at the man, blushing red he gave a small nod. Regulus gave a soft smile and crossed to sit next to the boy, putting his arm around Kal. "You're actually pretty lucky to get spanked. My parents either cast curses on me that hurt for months or ignored me completely and let me get away with it."
"I wouldn't mind that." Kal muttered, "The getting away with it I mean, not the curses."
"It wasn't actually so great, made me think my parents didn't care if I did stupid stuff or nearly got killed."
Kal frowned, "You nearly got killed?"
Regulus laughed, "Yea, in my third year I found this secret passageway and went down it, the wall collapsed and I got stuck. Somehow my elder brother Sirius figured out where I was and got help. He, Sev and Lucius yelled at me so much."
"Sirius?... You've not mentioned him before, not properly anyway."
"We don't really get on." Regulus muttered.
"Why not?"
"We just don't. Now you going to tell me why you've been acting up so much lately?"
Kal sighed, "I didn't mean to… Getting expelled was an accident really, I was trying to fit in. Then I snuck out to go and meet a friend, I was only planning to do it the once but I met this great guy and… well I ended up at his. I had to see him again and I knew there was no way Dad and Father would let me so… I just kept sneaking out."
Regulus frowned, "Maybe your fathers would have let you go and see him, if they knew who he was and where he lived."
"No, I was meant to be grounded." Kal shrugged. "Doesn't matter now anyway."
"What happened?" Regulus asked as Kal wriggled a bit, attempting to stop his sore backside touching the bed.
"Just stuff." Kal mumbled, not really wanting to talk about it. Regulus opened his mouth to ask something else but Kal interrupted, "Look, I really don't want to have this conversation. I know you're worried about me bottling it all up but it's fine… I'll talk to Draco, he knows everything that's been going on anyway."
"Okay." Regulus sighed, "But if you do change your mind and want to talk to me about then you know where I am."
Kal nodded, "So you going to tell me about these vampire cows or what?" He asked.
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I'm not sure about the first part but I wanted to put Regulus' back story in.
Next chapter will have the dinner, not sure if Lily's going to attend that yet or not...
Someone asked if this was going to be and MPreg story, I wnat to know if you think it shoudl eb because I'm cool either way. If it does become and MPreg story then it wont be the sort of predictable 'Kal gets pregnant and has to admit Sirius is the dad', it'll be more a sort of underlying theme, and then perhaps alter on, or in the sequel if I write one, Kal and Sirius (If they end up together) or Remus and James, or both, can have a baby. Hope that made sense... So what do you think?
