We walked through the corridors, trying to find the perfect place to discuss my plan. A broom closet, it's perfect. That way if someone catches us in there, we can just say we were snogging instead discussing Voldemort.
"In here." I said, ushering him into the broom closet.
"Broom closet?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. I shut the door behind us and put some charms on it, so no one could hear us.
"What about it?"
"Seems a little risqué. Anyway, what's your idea?" Even though it was dark, I could still see how upset he was.
"Oh hush. Okay, well when you first hear my plan, you need to really think about it. You won't agree with at first, but just hear me out." I looked at him, putting on a serious expression. "Join them. Become a death eater. Do it. Make everyone believe you are a loyal follower. But don't do it alone. Let me join too-" Regulus cut me off. I knew he wouldn't listen.
"No! I'm not going to let you ruin your life for me!"
"Regulus! Listen! Let me finish! I'll join his army too. I'll be a death eater. We can convince everyone that we worship him and we want to kill every muggleborn on the whole damn planet. You know occlumency, you can teach me! He won't be able to read our thoughts. We're both great at lying. We're both pureblood Slytherins! We'll have everyone fooled. We're Slytherins for crying out loud, if there's one thing we can do, it's put on a mask so no one can see what we're really thinking."
"Jade, I don't want you to throw your life away for me. I'm not worth it!"
"Regulus Black, let me fucking finish. So after we fool everyone, and Voldemort thinks he can trust us, then we'll turn on him. We'll turn on him and he won't know it. We'll help kill him, bring him down. We'll figure out his weakness, and we will destroy him. And I don't ever want to hear you say you're not worth it. Because you are worth it to me, you always will be worth it. Don't tell me I'd ruin my life for you. Because you know what Reg? You are my life. You're my brother, my twin who is five months older than me. You're my family. If I wanted to ruin my life, I'd let you do this by yourself. I couldn't let you do this by yourself, I couldn't live with myself. I want to help you. You're my best friend. We're going to get through this together." I finished my speech, out of breath.
"Jade Opal. You're amazing. But I don't want you to ruin your future and end up dying or end up in Azkaban because of me."
"Did you not hear a word I just said! You are my best friend. You've always been there for me, and now it's my turn to be there for you. Regulus, you can't change my mind. We can work out the actual details of this later, but you have to let me help you. I refuse to let you do this alone, okay?" Regulus was quiet for awhile.
"I know I can't change your mind." He finally spoke.
"You're smart to think that. We're going to do this together."
"I don't approve. But when you're hell bent on something, it usually happens."
"You know me too well."
"If you ever not want to do it, I understand. I wouldn't want to do it either." He looked guilty.
"Regulus! Don't you ever, for one second feel guilty about this! This is my decision. I want to help you. If I didn't have you with me, then I'd be nothing. You're my brother." I pulled him into a hug. I could feel tears stinging at my eyes. I could never imagine losing him. He's all I have left.
"You can't tell me not to feel guilty. I will feel guilty, especially if you get hurt," He said to me as I hugged him closer. I could feel tears drip down his cheeks into my hair.
"Don't. Don't you for one second think that. You're the brightest to me Reg. You always will be."
"Well what is this?" I heard the voice I least wanted to here.
"Brother fucking dearest. How long have you been standing there?" I snapped, wiping away any tears I had let fall.
"I dunno, I heard you saying; You're the brightest to me Reg." He mocked me. Sirius laughed beside him.
"You always will be." Sirius joined in too.
"I see you fixed the mooing. Maybe next time I'll make you bark, cause you two are acting like straight up bitches." I said coldly.
"I wasn't the one who was transfigured into a dog." James said in mock innocence. I felt my fists clenching at my sides.
"I see you forgot that I was the one who saved your sorry ass from bleeding to death that morning. That was an interesting wound you had there." I said through gritted teeth. James's face froze.. Sirius looked at him. Ah, so James hadn't told him?
"I have no idea what you're talking about Jade." James finally said. At that, I felt my fist collide with his nose. Damn, did that feel good. My happiness was short lived. Next thing I knew Sirius's wand was under my chin.
"Don't hit him you ungrateful-" Sirius seethed at me. Regulus pulled out his wand and he looked infuriated.
"Don't you touch her Sirius. Don't you ever hurt her. If you hurt her, I will kill you. And I mean that. I will kill you, and I will feel no guilt about it. Now lower your wand from her face, before I hex you into oblivion." Regulus threatened, seething.
"You would never hurt me brother," Sirius said cockily. That little shit. I'm going to bloody kill him. No one, no one, talks to Regulus like that.
"Incendio." I muttered quietly and I watched as Sirius's robes caught fire. Playing with fire is my forte, what can I say? Regulus and I watched in amusement as Sirius and James (who had recovered from the shock of getting his nose broken) tried to put out the fire. I started walking away.
"Don't walk away from your battles, you coward,." Sirius shouted to us. This made me turn around and I walked right back up to him, ready to explode and go completely mental on his ass.
"You're going to call me a coward? Who's the one who ran away from home because they couldn't take their mum? You. Every time I go home for holidays, I have to deal with disappointed looks from my mother and father, snide remarks from the rest of my family, and hateful words from my very own brother. I sit there and I take it. I don't run away from my problems, like you did. It's pretty obvious who is the stronger person here, so it would be in your best interest to leave us alone."
"Come on Regulus." I turned to Reg, and started walking to class.
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"I know what our revenge plan will be!" I said in the middle of potions. I honestly have no idea what potion we were supposed to be making, but I just thought of the best idea. Ever.
"And what would that be?" Regulus said, stirring our (and by ours I mostly mean his) potion.
"Lesley!" I smiled, it was the best idea!
"Lesley?" He gave me a confused look.
"You know...Lesley!" How could he not remember that beautiful creature?
"Oh my hippogriffs. That Lesley?" He looked amused, though he didn't look overjoyed. He hadn't been smiling much since this morning.
"Yes! My lovely potion shall make a comeback." I cackled menacingly. In case you're lost, Lesley is the potion I made that grew teeth and attacked anything that moved. Yes that Lesley, my lovely pet shall make its return.
"How do you expect to do this?" Regulus said raising an eyebrow.
"Well, we both have a free period next. I was thinking second floor girls bathroom? We could make Lesley up there, and we can still go to lunch." I explained. Regulus burst out laughing. What the hell was funny about that? "Did I miss something?" I asked.
"That last sentence, it sounds like we're planning on conceiving our child. I was thinking second floor girls bathroom? We could make Lesley up there." Regulus laughed more. Whatever makes him happy, that immature fool.
"God you dirty pervert. We're still doing this." I crossed my arms over my chest.
That's how I ended up on the second floor girls' bathroom, making a potion with Regulus. Moaning Myrtle wasn't in there. She was probably in the prefects bathroom, creeping on the guys while they take baths. Trust me, according to Regulus, she does it all the time.
"This is going to be amazing," I said, as Regulus worked on the potion. He was going to make it and stuff, and all I had to do was mess it up so Lesley is created.
"So, if you really are going to do what you said you would do, you're going to have to act like a pureblood supremacist." Regulus spoke.
"Well you're going to have to teach me, since my family is a bunch of blood traitors." I knew a little bit how to act like a "respectable pureblood". A bunch of them are my housemates, remember?
"Well for starters, when you say blood traitor, make sure you say filthy blood traitor or dirty blood traitor. Blood traitors are bad, almost as bad as muggleborns," Regulus explained.
"That seems easy enough. What else?"
"You're going to have to address him as the Dark Lord. Not Voldemort. Dark Lord is the most respectable way to talk to him. You will have to look down on anyone who's blood status is less than yours. Half bloods can be ok, but they are still below you. Muggles and muggleborns are the worst though. Also, call all muggleborns mudbloods. Never call them anything but that." Whoa, lots of instructions. And I'm sure there are more.
"Got it. Call people mudbloods." I nodded.
"Make sure whenever you see people who are mudbloods, you call them that. Whether it's out loud or under your breath so only your friends hear you, make sure you say it. Speaking of that, you're going to have to befriend people like Malfoy and Bellatrix. Pretty much, be friends with all our housemates, and agree with everything they say. You need to build a reputation and earn their trust." Regulus handed me a vile of liquid. "Pour this in and stir counterclockwise seven times." He ordered. Whoa déjà vu.
"Yes ma'am. I mean sir." I poured the contents in and just started stirring. I didn't need to pay attention. "So, okay so I'll have to act like a git, if I want to get in. I think I can do that."
"That's not all. I'm going to have to teach you occlumency. You are good at lying already. Actually, your very good at lying. That's a plus." Regulus went on, telling me what I had to do to be a believable death eater. All of a sudden, the potion changed colors and teeth grew. It jumped out of the cauldron and next thing you know it attached its teeth to Regulus's leg. I just sat there laughing my arse off.
"Jade! Get it off!" Regulus cried, trying to shake Lesley off of his leg.
"Petrificus totalus." I waved my wand at my lovely Lesley and it froze. I pried it off of Regulus's leg.
"God, I can't wait till they have to deal with that thing," Regulus said as he inspected the nice gash Les had made on his leg. I muttered some enchantments of the current petrified Lesley and put it in a container. Later I would bring it up to James's dorm and let it loose. Mwahaha.
"They won't even know what hit them." I laughed as I stood up and put Lesley in my bag. "Can you stop fussing over your leg, it's fine. Help me clean up the cauldron." I ordered Regulus. Well this is a first, usually it's Reg telling me to get off my lazy arse to do something. Well, well, the tables have turned Regulus my boy.
"Fine, but when I die of rabies or something, it will be all your fault." Regulus whined.
"Quit trying to send me on a guilt trip and help me." Reg stood up, picking up the cauldron and flicked some residual potion at my face. "Regulus! How dare you get this…this…stuff on my beautiful face!" I cried, and I flung some soap (it was foamy, perfect for throwing) at him. He dodged it (damn quidditch reflexes he has built up) and threw more potion at me. "Aquarius!" I cried again, but laughing. I wiped the potion from my face. "I'll turn this into Lesley, then you'll be sorry," I said laughing.
"What are you two doing in here?" Lily Evans said, giving us a stern look. Oh boy, I get to deal with Miss. Goody two-shoes. This will be fun. Regulus started to answer but I cut him off.
"I got this," I said lowly, but grinning. "Well you see, I could be asking you the same question, shouldn't you be in potions right now if I am correct? But if you must know, me and Regulus here are making an illegal potion, though honestly I don't see why poison that looks like pumpkin juice is illegal, so we can go sell it on the black market for a quick galleon," I responded, dripping with sarcasm.
"You think quick on your feet, and you can bullshit your way through anything, he will like that." Regulus said quietly out of Evan's hearing range. And when he said he, I'm sure he meant Volde- the Dark Lord.
"You know how I do." I responded quietly, smirking.
"Really what are you doing in here? I'll give you both detention," She threatened. I rolled my eyes, detention? That's the worst you can think of?
"What you don't believe us? Well if you must know, we were up here in the second floor girls' bathroom making Lesley." I said cockily, keeping a straight face. Inside however, I was dying of laughter. Regulus had to look the other way so he wouldn't start laughing.
"Potter, Black, I'm serious, what were you doing in here? If it is something illegal, I will have you both expelled. I'm head girl." Lily's face was heating up with anger, and it was fucking hilarious.
"Lily, love, you must believe Jade here. We figured that we would make Lesley now so we wouldn't have to miss lunch. We could of done it in a broom closet, but well, that's so cliché and Filch is more likely to walk in on you." Regulus joined in. I didn't think he had it in him, I'm so proud. Now it was my turn to look the other way and let out some quiet giggles. Lily looked furious.
"This is not a joke! What were you two doing in here? I demand to know right now, for the safety of the students here!" She yelled at us, her face matching her hair. I let out a full, hearty laugh now. This was just too hilarious.
"Lily love? What's going on in there?" I heard James's voice shout in. This is going to get interesting.
"James can you come in here?" She yelled, exasperated.
"Yeah, because I can take him so seriously." I muttered, rolling my eyes. I took the cauldron from Reg and put it under the sink, letting the water rinse it out. I finished cleaning it and shrunk it, throwing it in my bag.
"What's wrong? Who is it?" He walked in, trying to look all tough and shat like that. It just made me roll my eyes even more. "Oi, not you two again." He sounded irritated. "What are you doing in here?" He tried to sound intimidating. Let's just say he failed at that.
"Oh well you know, making some poisonous potion. The usual," I said, my voice dripping with sarcasm.
"And shagging. Just so much fucking," Regulus chided in, which made me laugh.
"Yes, lots and lots of that. We heard it's good for the baby." I said patting my stomach.
"We we're just doing it for Lesley's sake. For my baby's health." Reg said, slipping an arm around my waist. That's when we both lost it. We both just started laughing. I buried my face in my hands and just laughed. Tears of laughter forming in the corners of my eyes.
"I don't find any of this bloody funny! Both of you detention! And you will tell us what you were doing in here, or we will report you to the headmaster and get you possibly expelled," James yelled.
"Prongs mate? Is everything okay in there?" I heard Sirius yell before he walked into the bathroom.
"Merlin, it's a fucking party in here! Where's the booze?" I threw my hands up in the air, laughing once again.
"Bitty, you can't drink while you're pregnant." Regulus said with mock concern, laughing with me.
"What the hell is going on in here?" Sirius demanded.
"These two, troublemakers are doing something, possibly illegal, in here, and they won't tell us what they are doing!" Lily said, clearly frustrated. I was missing lunch for this, but it was so worth it.
"We were just having a bit of fun, gosh." I said, sarcasm dripping off every word. "I can assure you we were doing nothing illegal. Well nothing we think is illegal." I said softly, changing to my serious side in the flip of a dime.
"Tell me what the hell you two were doing in here, or I will expel both of you faster then you can say Hogwarts." James grabbed my arms and lifted my up to his eye level. Damn chaser muscles. His face was centimeters away from mine, and it was freaking me out. My new found claustrophobia seems to be working, because I could feel myself start to hyperventilate.
"Put her down right now you ungrateful little git. Don't you ever touch her, or even breathe on her. You get too close to her and I will make it my personal mission to make sure you will be found dead. No, that is not a threat. That is a promise. You hear me Potter? Never touch her again, or you will be a dead man." Regulus was furious, as he held his wand under James's chin, his eyes glowing with anger. Regulus really does not like it when people touch me. If I was James, I would be running for my life right now.
"Don't talk to him like that." Sirius snapped at Regulus, as James dropped me to the ground. I took a step back, my head spinning. Damn claustrophobia, I felt like the walls were going to cave in. I stumbled until I found a wall to sit against. I sat against the cold stone and put my head in-between my legs.
"You stay out of this," Regulus said coldly.
"Don't tell me if I can be near my little sister, I am her family," James snapped at Reg. Regulus let out a low, hollow laugh.
"You have the nerve to say you are Jade's family? You haven't been there for her at all since she was eleven. You have been one shit ass big brother to her, you know that? Where were you when she broke her ankle last year? When she accidentally ingested crocodile blood her third year? Oh wait, you weren't there for her. James, you don't realize how much hurt you put her through, how close to the edge you have pushed her. You don't care about Jade, and if you do, you sure have a nice way of showing it. She was in tears when she told you she hated you. She cried that day, and she never cries. And she even apologized for saying that, and you go on treating her like shit. So don't you say you're her family, because you treat her like she's an infectious disease, not like she's your sibling," Regulus said bitterly. "I suppose you learned from the best." Regulus spat, glaring toward Sirius. I lifted my head up. Regulus just said everything I've ever wanted to say to James. I couldn't of put it better myself. I slowly stood up, walking cautiously to Reg.
"Thank you," I whispered to him.
"Don't thank me. I owe you everything at the moment, I told you I'll never pay you back for what you're doing for me," He said lowly, squeezing my shoulder.
"Can we go now?" I said impatiently. James was stunned from the speech Regulus had just recited to him, and Lily and Sirius were just standing there dumbly. Useless Gryffindors. Typical.
"You still have to tell us what you were doing," Lily stated. Jesus Christ, she needs to let it go.
"We were not doing anything illegal. It's none of your concern what we were doing, because it is not going to cause harm to any of the students. Now drop it and let us go," Regulus said coldly. God this has been one hell of a day.
"Come on Reg, let's go, the baby is kicking," I said laughing. Sometimes you just had to laugh everything away.
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Authors Note
SUPER LONG CHAPTER ! Around 3,891 words! Eight pages on word processor. I was just on a roll writing this. I just couldn't stop xD Very drama filled chapter, I'm sorry if you don't like my perverted humor. I couldn't resist when I wrote "I was thinking in the second floor girls bathroom. We could make Lesley in there." I just started laughing and thinking "That's what she said!" Ahg, sorry (: So I Reviewers, especially my reviewers!
Author's Note 2.0:
Sometimes I read old things that I wrote and I just cringe. Almost halfway through fixing things. I've already got some ideas for future chapters.