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James was the last to step out of the floo gate. Coughing, he led Sirius and Regulus up a flight of stairs to the rooms they would be staying in.

"This," James pointed to one door, "is my room. Sirius, you're next door to me. Regulus, you're across the hall. Dinner is at eight. My parents shouldn't be back until then."

The two brothers watched as their guide walked away without a word.

"What's up with him?" Regulus asked.

"He's worried about this whole meet the parents thing."

"Ahh. Well, I'm going to take a nap."

"Maybe if you hadn't been playing with that boy on the train-" Sirius was cut off, staring at the door now separating him from his brother. "Well, if that's how you're going to be," he huffed.

Dragging his trunk behind him, Sirius made his way into his own bedroom..

"We get our own bathrooms? Hell yeah!"


"Sirius! Open the door! Dinner started five minutes ago!"

"Don't get your pants in a bunch. I'll be out in a minute."

James sighed and settled in to wait on his boyfriend.

'Fake boyfriend, James. It's fake.'

"Are we going to dinner or not?"

James pushed off the wall he had been leaning against, falling in step beside the longhaired boy.

'Wait a second.'

"WHAT DID YOU DO!"

"You don't like it?" Sirius mock-pouted, running a hand through his now green-streaked hair. "I decided it had been too long since I last highlighted it. You could barely even see the purple anymore."

"You fucking idiot! You just ruined everything!"

"Watch and learn, Potter. Watch and learn."

James watched as Sirius took off, striding towards the dining room.

"Merlin, if you can hear me, I could use a little help."


Keeping his eyes closed, James pushed open the door and stepped into the room.

"-and then I said 'But, Jamie-baby, that's not your wand'."

Uproarious laughter rang in James's ears. He turned blood red, recalling the very incidence Sirius was retelling. Cautiously opening his eyes, James watched in fascination as his father was won over by his boyfriend's cheerful exuberance and his mother with the boy's table manners.

'Who the fuck are you and what have you done with Sirius Black?'