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provide - august 6 - jegulus - @stag-microfic - word count: 191

"James?"

He was screwed. Merlin, he was beyond screwed. Might as well throw him out the Astronomy Tower without a wand, because that was how utterly screwed he was.

"James?" Sirius asked again, this time a bit firmer.

He swallowed. "Yes?" he asked, gazing downward, trying to look innocent.

"Can you provide me with a reasonable explanation as to why my brother is currently in your bed?" Sirius said slowly, crossing his arms as he looked down on them both.

"Oh!" James said, his voice rising hysterically, turning to Regulus who gave him a deadpan expression. "Reggie? What are you doing here?"

He wasn't the best under pressure, you see.

Both brothers gave him such similarly unimpressed expressions that he almost pointed out how much they looked alike, but he figured that would be the final nail in his pretty well-made coffin, so he stayed silent, trying valiantly to keep the grin on his face.

Instead, the waited as Sirius turned to Regulus, raising an eyebrow. "Right. But are you sure about this? Really?"

And Regulus just buried his head in the comforter. "Unfortunately," he mumbled, making James beam even more.

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Always / a precious moment of comfort / @star4daisy

“I hate when we fight.” Regulus’ tears had finally stopped. He was used to arguments, confrontations, yet whenever he picked up the slightest change of tone in James, Regulus panicked. He felt a knot in his throat, and as if he had no control, tears streamed down his face.

“I know, love. Me too.” James pulled him closer, he lifted him just enough to place Regulus on his lap, he held him tightly. “I’m sorry for making you cry, I really am.”

Regulus rested his head on James’ chest and didn’t speak until his breathing returned to normal. “It wasn’t you.” 

"What do you mean?"

"It's not anything you say, it's just—James, I'm terrified of losing you. And that fear overwhelms me every single time." Regulus hesitated, afraid of revealing just how much he cared. He had grown accustomed to the warmth that James brought into his life, and the thought of the perpetual cold that his absence would bring was unbearable.

“You won’t lose me, Regulus.” James spoke softly to his ear, holding him as closely as their bodies allowed. 

"One day you might leave, and you might grow tired of fighting, or of me. James, what if you never come back?" Regulus' voice cracked, soft sobs escaping his lips. "I can't see my life without you in it anymore."

"Baby, will you look at me?" James gently lifted Regulus' chin, meeting his teary eyes with a gaze of absolute devotion.

"I will always come back to you."

Regulus' heart skipped a beat. For all of James' sweet offerings of assurance, this felt like the most precious one. "Really?"

"I promise, love." James intertwined their pinkies and, without breaking eye contact, kissed Regulus' finger.

Regulus finally breathed. He would always have James. He would always come back to Regulus.

“Why does anyone want anyone else?” Tiernan answers. “We do not love because people deserve it—nor would I want to be loved because I was the most deserving of some list of candidates. I want to be loved for my worst self as well as my best. I want to be forgiven my flaws.”

regulus and remus doing under-eye masks together because their eye bags are starting to match