Hey everyone. This story was brought to you by Mythology: Events of Ragnarok assignment on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I wrote for Task number 5 which was to write about having to deliver bad news. This is a companion piece that follows a week or two after the events of First Kisses and Revenge. I hope you all enjoy Padfoot's Bad News.

James Potter prepared himself for the conversation he knew he needed to have with Sirius. They'd been fighting more and more since the day Regulus Black had trick James into kissing him. It wasn't like James did it on purpose. Had he had his glasses on at the time and been paying more attention he'd have known it wasn't Sirius.

"Padfoot," James called as he walked into the dormitory they shared with their other two friends, "are you here?"

"Of course I'm here," Sirius snorted.

James sighed hearing the argument clear in Sirius's voice. What had he done wrong now? He'd stayed clear of Regulus from that day forward but that hadn't changed Sirius's attitude about what had happened. "What's wrong now?"

"What's wrong now?" Sirius repeated. "What's wrong now? It's the same thing that's been wrong for a days now, Prongs."

"What's that supposed to mean? I haven't done anything wrong since that day. You're acting like I'm a serial offender." Tears came James's eyes as he watched Sirius's glare. "How many times do I have to apologize to you?"

"However many times it takes until you can stop thinking about Regulus while we kiss," Sirius hissed at James. "You can't have us both, Prongsie. So choose."

"Now?"

"Take as much time as you need." Sirius's pained sigh hurt as much as anything else that had been done or said over the last few days. Ever since that day.

James Potter walked down to the courtyard where the incident had happened. For some reason he was drawn to the spot like some magnetic force was pulling him towards it. Sitting he sighed closing his eyes. An image floated in front of his eyelids. Not the one that usually was there when he closed his eyes. Not Sirius's smiling face or at least he knew that now. It was another Black's face. The face of Regulus Black. Sirius had been right when said Regulus was on James's mind since that kiss.

"James." Regulus's voice floated soothingly to James.

Opening his eyes before placing his glasses on James blinked up at the Slytherin boy. "Hey Regulus," James replied not knowing what else to say or do.

"What are you doing?"

"Thinking."

"About?"

"Choices."

Regulus cocked his head to the side looking much like his older brother. "What choices do you have to make that would make you look this stressed?" the younger boy asked.

"Sirius got pissed off at me because of what you did," James informed the younger Black. "He said to choose between the two of you and I don't know what to do. What would you do?"

"I'd follow my heart. But that's just me."

"Thank you, Regulus," James said standing up and heading towards the Quidditch Pitch to have a little bit of a fly and think.

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Sirius sighed feeling all the pain he'd kept bottle up for the past few days. He could still see James Potter's shocked look when he was caught kissing Regulus. He could understand that James didn't know the difference without his glasses on. But the thing that hurt the most was that he was losing James to his younger brother of all people.

"Where are you going, Padfoot?" Moony asked him as went to leave the dormitory.

"To find James," Sirius sighed. Knowing James Potter he knew exactly were the other boy would be located.

The walk down to Quidditch Pitch was longest walk that Sirius would ever take in his life. He knew he'd given James the choice but he just couldn't be with someone who was slowly falling for someone else. He couldn't and he wouldn't. Seeing the dark haired seeker flying around the stadium Sirius's heart fell to his knees. He had to do this.

"Prongs," Sirius called out motioning for the other boy to land, "I need to have a word."

Landing James Potter wasn't prepared to hear what was about to be said next. Walking over to the dark haired grey eyed boy James Potter could feel his heart drop to his feet at sight of tear track running down the other boy's face.

"I know I gave you choice, Prongs," Sirius began haltingly, "but then I thought about. I thought about how you seem to be thinking more and more about Regulus. I can't be with someone whose is interested in just me."

"But..."

"I'm sorry, James," Sirius told him. "But we can't be together any more. We can still be friends but we can't be anything more than." Whirling on his heel Sirius went off to find comfort from someone else. Maybe Marlene and he could start back up their fling from a month ago.

I hope you all enjoyed Padfoot's Bad News.