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Regulus Black did not die just for people to call Draco Malfoy the prince of Slytherin
Regulus has journals upon journals of poetry and letters that he never gave to James stashed under a floorboard in Grimmauld Place, forever untouched.
Regulus has a mole on the side of his neck and it's James' favorite spot to kiss. It constantly is red all around it just from James' attention.
regulus was terrified of being a bad dad to harry.
t e r r i f i e d.
he worried, and he paced, and half the time he panicked if he was left alone with harry for even two minutes for james to go to the kitchen and bring back a bottle.
james was phenomenal with him, a natural. james was born to be a father. lily was an amazing doting mother, it all seemed to come so natural to her. mary always made harry squeal with excitement the second she walked into a room. but regulus felt as if he could never be a good father. he never had a good example, so how could he be?
so when harry potter was eleven months old, and took his first steps towards regulus, who at the time was not even paying attention to him. and james and lily screamed in excitement, scaring harry and causing him to not only just walk to regulus, but run to him.
well, regulus figured he must of not been doing to awful of a job.
and as he held a now crying harry who couldn’t understand why everyone was screaming and being so loud, and clung to his papa with tear stained cheeks and soft coos. regulus decided it didn’t matter how terrified he was of being a father, because he already was one, and harry seemed to think he was doing a pretty good job.
The first time James truly talked to Regulus, met him and not just the idea and the concept of him that he knew from Sirius, was when he went to the Astronomy Tower one night to calm down after an incredibly intense panic attack. It was dark and silent, and the last thing that James was expecting was to get punched right the moment he walked in. When he opened his eyes, he saw a teary-eyed Regulus Black looking messy, shocked with himself and surprisingly not put together, so different to the constantly perfect boy James had seen around at school. And James would look back at that moment, even knowing that what followed was a "what the fuck Potter?" coming out of Regulus' mouth (even though he was the one who fucking punched James) and say that that's when he started falling irrevocably and maddeningly in love with Regulus Black
The first time James truly talked to Regulus, met him and not just the idea and the concept of him that he knew from Sirius, was when he went to the Astronomy Tower one night to calm down after an incredibly intense panic attack. It was dark and silent, and the last thing that James was expecting was to get punched right the moment he walked in. When he opened his eyes, he saw a teary-eyed Regulus Black looking messy, shocked with himself and surprisingly not put together, so different to the constantly perfect boy James had seen around at school. And James would look back at that moment, even knowing that what followed was a "what the fuck Potter?" coming out of Regulus' mouth (even though he was the one who fucking punched James) and say that that's when he started falling irrevocably and maddeningly in love with Regulus Black