I meant to say this before but I forgot lol. This whole fic is inspired by Secrets of Regulus Black by liveloveregulus on Ao3. And I'm constantly getting inspo from other fics/fan works too

Thank you so much to everyone who's been following and liking and reading this.

James Birdsong thank you so much :)

Anyway I'll shut up so you can read now.

"Why the bloody heck are you up so early?" Regulus came downstairs to see James playing exploding snap by himself.

"huh? I don't know" he shrugged. "Sorry if I woke you up"

James had in fact woken Regulus up but he couldn't be mad at him. After all James was allowing him to stay at his house.

"it's fine. Hey, do you have a hairbrush I could borrow? I forgot mine yesterday"

"oh yeah, upstairs bathroom under the sink there's a brush you can use"

"thanks"

"no problem. At least you had some stuff with you. Sirius had nothing so don't feel bad about it" James told him. Regulus turned around to go brush his hair a smile tugging at his lips.

Yet again he was the smarter of the two brothers. After all being smart was one of his only redeeming qualities.

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"School starts up again in a few days, does anyone need to get more school supplies?" Euphemia asked everyone at breakfast. The end of Christmas holiday was in only two days. Everyone was home for winter holidays because the headmaster had some thing to deal with and couldn't have students around.

"I do" Sirius told them. "My potions book may have had some first hand experience of what being on fire is like" he laughed sheepishly.

"I want to look at the new broom" James said.

"I have all my school supplies un-burned. But I could probably use some new quills and I left my broom" Regulus said, James gasped.

"we can't have the spectacular Slyitherin seeker without a good broom!" James said dramatically waving his arms.

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"I'll meet up with you at lunch" Regulus told the Potters.

"why can't we come with you?"

"I want to do this alone." And with that he walked off to Gringotts, pulling his robe closer as the winter winds blew.

"Hello, I would like access to the Black family vault please"

"identification?" The goblin at the desk snarled. Regulus handed him his wand.

"I'm Regulus Arcturus Black the heir to the Black family" he prayed that his family didn't beat him here.

"Alright"

An hour and one chaotic mine cart ride later, Regulus was in his own vault.

He had taken some of the Blacks money and got his own separate vault that only he and Sirius (if he absolutely needed) would have access too.

"Thank you" He smiled leaving with the money he would need for his supplies.

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"how did you get everything you needed? I thought you didn't have any money anymore?"

"I went to Gringotts and got my own vault with some of the Blacks' money" Regulus told them with a smug smirk at the astonished look on Sirius's face.

"well boys since you're all done with your shopping how about you head back home. I still have some errands to run, but I shouldn't be long" Euphemia told them, they agreed.

sorry that this is so short. I wanted to upload something (I'm thinking weekly uploads every Friday/Saturday) but I decided to rewrite the end of this chapter but it kinda got away from me and now it's long enough for it's own chapter. It's also 3:35 am and I've gotten almost no sleep the last few days.

I head cannon that James is a morning person whereas Regulus is a night person but is used to having to get up early.

Anyway the next chapter is going to be very hurt/comforty

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