Little Black Lies •| Regulus Black |•

• T H E S E C R E T K E E P E R •

"Reg, what the fuck mate! How you been beating the girl!" Sirius shouted as she shot up from his seat towards me.

We had just walked into the dining room where everyone had been enjoying their breakfast, Euphemia and Monty must have been back at the ministry.

"No, why the fuck would you say tha- oh shit" Regulus turned him head towards me.

"What are you guys talking about?" I exclaimed.

I ran towards the large mirror antique mirror that sat in between two doors and my eyes widened at the sight. My chest was covered in bruises that were so obviously love bites but the thing that shocked me was the deep red hand print around my neck that lay across the marks.

"He doesn't beat me" I slapped away Sirius' concerned hands.

"Then what the fuck does he do, that's not normal" James questioned from the table where he had been looking intently from.

"Right I don't think Padfoot wants to know what his brother does to me in the bedroom" I took a deep breath.

"He did that to you while having... sex?" Remus was shocked.

"Ew, never say that word when you're talking about my brother and Green bean" Sirius plugged his ears with his fingers.

I sat myself in between Lily and Marlene as the both stared in amazement at the marks covering me. Gently prodding their fingers at the sore's every so often throughout breakfast.

"Um Peter, what happened when my father came for me? You were the only one there" I asked the very quiet boy.

He slowly lifted his head as he had a mouth full of toast but quickly swallowed it down. He started to stutter at the question, adding onto the fact Regulus was yet again staring the boy to death made him even more nervous.

"I-I um, I heard t-the bang and hid I-in the bath-bathroom" He managed to choke out.

"Wormtails a wimp, there's nothing he would've done to help you, Nad's" James scoffed at the nervous boy.

"It's okay, there was only one of him and Merlin knows how many of them, I don't blame him." I told James as I turned to smile towards the shy boy who gave me a very awkward smile back.

"Full moon in seven days, I've brought enough Wolfsbane potion for the both of us, courtesy of James" Remus smiled to me in his very innocent way.

"Thank you, Moony" I smiled back to him.

"How come I don't get a nickname?" Regulus wailed.

"Lily and Marlene don't have one either, grow up" Sirius playfully punched his brothers arm who sat next to him.

"Stop. Hitting. me" Regulus seethed, but the anger didn't bubble out which became obvious when he lunged out of his seat, onto Sirius, sending them crashing to the floor.

They scuffled about for maybe a minute or two as we laughed at the rowdy brothers but James and  Remus finally pulled them apart.

"I'm not Nadia, you can't bite me!" Sirius held his face in an 'ow' expression as he held onto his arm where Regulus presumably bit him.

"Well you had my arms pinned down, the only thing I could do was either bite you or knee you in the balls, which would've you preferred" Regulus bickered.

Sirius face fell flat at the thought of being knee'd between the legs and accepted his fate. He muttered a quick 'fair enough' before returning to a seat a few spots down to where he originally was sat.

"We'll be going back to the cottage today. Dumbledore is going to visit and place the house under the Fidelius charm. This will hide the home and only the secret keeper will be able to tell anyone of it whereabouts" James informed.