Prompt 10 - Traitor
@jegulus-microfic April 10, Word count 292
James had the perfect hiding place. They would never find him there. For once, he was warm and dry and so high up no one could see him from the ground.
He heard a shriek from somewhere below and shuffled himself as far back as possible.
Footsteps hurried towards his hiding place. He held his breath. The footsteps clattered away again.
James could hear voices, one urging the other to check again.
The footsteps returned, followed by a much heavier set.
“Lift?” A small voice asked. He heard a snort. And then a hand pushed under his cover and poked him in the eye.
“Ouch!” He cried. A fit of tiny giggles erupted in front of him.
He yanked the bed sheet off his head and, with a bit of twisting, dropped out of the cupboard onto the floor. Regulus was standing there with Harry wrapped securely in his hands. “You found me!” James beamed at the toddler.
“Papa told me where you were.” Harry grinned up at Regulus.
“Tiny traitor,” Regulus said indulgently. He stroked Harry’s hair, trying to get it to life flat. It was a losing battle.
James gathered them both into his arms.
“Okay, my turn. You go hide.” He covered his face with both hands. “1,2,3,4,5,” He peeked between his fingers as Regulus and Harry ran away giggling. “6,7,8,” Harry was going to be so easy to find. James could still hear him making far too much noise. Regulus would be impossible to find. He made it easy for Harry. But he made James work for it. “9,10! Ready or not! Here I come!” James removed his hands from his face and purposely ran past the giggling curtains with the tiny feet poking out from underneath them.
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A Bit of Accidental Magic
Day 5 of December Drabbles!
Today’s is short, I felt like writing from toddler!Harry’s POV, which is actually really difficult haha. Short descriptions, lots of raw feelings, but this was very fun to write and the point of this month is to be creative.
Today was a good day. It was a day when both his Papa and his Dada were home. They told him last night before bed that they would both be here today. That meant they could go to the park or the library or maybe even the beach though they hadn’t been to the beach in a long, long time. Dada said it was too cold every time he asked but it didn’t feel that cold to Harry.
He lay in his bed staring at the light across the room. This was the most boring part of the day. He stared and stared and finally the light turned green.
He jumped out of bed and the door in front of him opened without him even touching it. Sometimes the door did that, he didn’t know why. He walked across the hall to his parents bedroom and turned the doorknob quietly. They were both in the bed, sleeping. Grown ups spent so much time sleeping, why would they do that when today was an exciting day.
Harry crawled up the side of the bed and over his Papa’s legs then up to the pillows so that he could get under the blankets with them.
“Wake up Papa.” He whispered. “Papa, Papa, wake up.”
“James, your son is awake.” His Papa groaned.
“Go back to sleep, Harry. It’s still early.” His Dada instructed.
“Nu uh. Light’s green. That means time to wake up.” Harry argued back.
“It can’t be green, it’s…” his Dada stopped talking and rolled over. “Hare bear, it's four thirty. Your light isn’t green.”
“Uh huh. It turned green. I was looking at it and it turned green.” Harry insisted. Grown ups didn’t always believe him. It was very confusing.
“Harry, what have we said about lying?” His Papa had his mean voice on. Harry knew about lies. This wasn’t a lie.
“Not lying, it turned green!” He yelled. He felt like he was going to start crying.
“Alright, let’s go on back to your room.” His Dada got up out of bed. Now Harry did start to cry. They were supposed to go to the park or maybe see Uncle Moony and Padfoot and baby Teddy. He didn’t want to go back to bed. His Dada held his hand across the hall and when they walked through the door, Harry pointed up at his light.
“See!” He screamed through his tears.
“Shit.” Harry stopped crying. That was one of the words he wasn’t supposed to say at school but he could say at home if he used it right. “Alright, come on Harry. Let’s go lay down in the big bed for a bit.”
They crossed the hall one more time and his Dada picked him up into the bed.
“Back again?” His Papa grumbled into the pillow.
“I think Harry has been doing some magic. He changed his light to green.” Harry didn’t understand, he didn’t change his light, the light changed by itself like it always did.
“No!” His Papa lifted his head up off the pillow. He looked very happy, Harry loved when he smiled like that, especially at him. “Harry, that’s so exciting!”
Harry still didn’t understand. He hadn’t done anything but his parents seemed really, really happy about it.
“It’s still too early, so how about we all try to get a little more sleep and then what do you say to pancakes for breakfast?” His Dada offered. Harry loved pancakes, now he didn’t want to sleep at all, he wanted them now!
“With chocolate chips?” He asked.
“Absolutely.”
“But only if you sleep a little more.” His Papa added.
“Not tired.” Harry groaned.
“We know. How about you try and if you still can’t sleep when my clock shows five, zero, zero, then we can go down and make pancakes?”
“Ok.” Harry agreed reluctantly. At least he didn’t have to go back to his room. His Papa opened up his arms and Harry snuggled into them. He liked snuggles with his Papa. Maybe he would close his eyes for a little bit but not too long because he wanted pancakes and the park and maybe the beach. Yet before he knew it, he was asleep again.
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Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Regulus Black/James Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Euphemia Potter/Fleamont Potter, Orion Black/Walburga Black, Sirius Black & Remus Lupin & Peter Pettigrew & James Potter, Regulus Black & Sirius Black, Orion Black & Regulus Black & Sirius Black & Walburga Black, Sirius Black & Euphemia Potter, Sirius Black & Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin & Minerva McGonagall, Minerva McGonagall & James Potter
Characters: Regulus Black, James Potter, Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Hogwarts Students, Hogwarts Staff, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Other Characters
Additional Tags: Regulus Black Deserves Better, Regulus Black-centric, BAMF Regulus Black, Female Regulus Black, James Potter is a simp, James Potter is a Simp should already be a tag
Series: Part 5 of All Harry Potter Works
Summary:
After learning that Lily Evans wasn't his mother, Harry Potter does what any normal person would do, He travels back in time with his friends to watch his mother's life.
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think think think
Regulus sneaks off to the Potters to give Sirius a secret Christmas gift and gets caught by Sirius and James who convince him to stay a bit longer, and every time Regulus is like, "I have to go" and Sirius is like, "It's Christmas Reg, cmon just a little longer, you can say that I dragged you here against your will or whatever, just stay a little for a bit longer." And Regulus, being loki helpless against his older brother, just agrees. And he begins to bond with everyone.
Eventually, Regulus accidentally stays the rest of the day and when he gets ready to finally leave, Effie is like, "Would you like to stay the night? It's quite late" and Monty just straight up says, "Would you like to stay forever?"
And that's how Regulus ran away. (Accidentally)
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