Shadows | Regulus Black

F O U R T Y T H R E E

Fuck I'm speeding through this break I cannot wait to go back to Hogwarts omg and seventh yeah 🤌🏻

Later that day

Madeline woke up in her bedroom, the night lamp on her bedside table was one and it was dark outside. She groaned as she sat up in her bed.

"Oh finally you're awake." She heard that familiar voice say. She turned her head to her reading couch, Sirius sat up and walked over to her bed.

"Why is it that whenever something happens to me, and I wake up, you're right there." She chuckled.

"I'm you're lucky charm, I'm around, you wake up. It works perfectly." He sits on her bed.

"My own personal lucky charm, Sirius black, I'm the lucky one." She joked.

"How are you feeling? Are you warm?" He asked as he picked up her hand. "Well definitely warmer than you were." He chuckled softly.

"I feel fine, and-" she looked at her clothes. "-Im still in these clothes. I'm gonna change then I'll come down and join you guys." She let go of his hand.

"Alright, I'll wait for you on the other side of the door." He pulled her into a hug. "I'm glad you're alright."

"You guys can't get rid of me that easily." She hugged him back.

When Sirius shut the door behind Madeline crawled out of bed and went to her closet to pull out clean, dry clothes. She changed then threw her hair back into a low pony since it was tangled and messy from the previous events.

She opened her bedroom door and Sirius and her walked down the stairs and made their way to the living room with all the noise.

"She's alive!" Sirius said as they walked in.

"Oh my god finally you're awake." Alyssa said as she jumped out of her seat and ran to pull her into a hug.

"M!" Camilla said excitedly, joining the hug.

"Hey superstar, I'm glad you're alright." Lily smiled at her.

"Don't do that again. No more death scares. I don't think I can take another one." James said as he pulled his sister into a hug.

"Potters don't go down easily. When I do die it won't be something as simple as drowning or from playing quidditch." She hugged him back.

~

It took quite a bit of convincing them that Madeline was fine and they didn't have to worry about her every second of the night. And so once they all finally stopped stressing out they resumed their Christmas Eve party.

They played a few rounds of charades. They drank and drank and drank. Marlene brought in a tray of cookies, Alyssa and Camilla made three pizzas so they didn't just have sweets and alcohol in their stomachs.

Madeline didn't drink as much as she usually does, or at all actually, she didn't feel like getting drunk after drowning today, it wasn't necessarily the best idea.

While everyone but Remus was dancing around the room to Queen, Madeline walked over to that couch, she sat down then threw her legs over the arm rest and she put her head on Remus's lap.

"Hey, hyperthermia" he looked down at her.

"Hey, my hero." She chuckled.

He put his arm around the front of her chest, his hand hanging over her far shoulder. She turned her head and looked at his hand.

"Sorry about your hands." She said as she picked it up with both of hers and inspected the bandages hand.

"It'll heal. Nothing new." He chuckled.