Day 1 - Prompt: Fire @pandalilymicrofics
February Daily Series - 987 words
**Series 3/5 in a continuous multi-ship story**
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As soon as Pandora saw the preview of the notification pop up, she rushed to her contacts and Face-Timed him. “Pick up, pick up, pick up,” she muttered, flinging her long braid over her shoulder.
“Hi Panda,” Regulus said. “Bit early, yeah?”
“What's going on?” she demanded.
“Shhh!”
“Regulus, you can’t text me something cryptic like ‘I’m on fire’ without explanation! Now, spill. Is it about bi-boy?”
He pressed his lips together in a failed attempt to hide a grin. Before Pandora could chastise him for keeping secrets from her, he tipped the phone down toward his chest. A squeal left her lips the moment dark curls appeared at his collarbone.
“Panda! Hush! He’s still asleep.”
She shimmied excitedly and giggled into her hand. “How was it? You desperately need it, ami.”
Regulus’s face flushed bright pink as he lifted the mobile. “I don’t have the words to explain it. Like…Like drowning, but I want to become part-fish?”
She stifled a laugh and shook her head. Leave it to a poet to create an unhinged description for sex. “That good? Oh, I hate you!”
“You love me,” he replied, grinning wide.
Pandora hadn’t seen him this happy since…well, ever. Her chest clenched hard as she fought back the urge to cry. If she started crying, he would too.
Regulus huffed and pointed at the screen. “Stop it! I cannot go all weepy again.”
“I’m just so happy for you,” she whispered, cradling the phone in both hands. “You deserve a good one, Reg.”
“So do you.”
“Yes, well.” Pandora shrugged dismissively, then smiled. “Unless your new beau has a sibling…”
Regulus scrunched his nose in that incredibly adorable way of his. “No, sorry. Only child.”
“Zut alors.” Pandora sighed and sprawled on her bed. “When is it my turn?”
He levelled a thoroughly unimpressed frown at her. “You could have anyone you wanted, if you’d stop saying weird shite.”
“It’s not my fault people take me seriously! Speaking of Sirius, how is he handling this…development,” she asked, wriggling her fingers at the screen. “He better not interfere, or I swear-”
“No, no. He’s fine with it, better than fine, actually.” Regulus appeared mildly amused. “The prat even gave James his ‘blessing’ to kiss me.”
Pandora bit her bottom lip hard to keep her emotions in check. The relationship between Regulus and his brother had been strained for years. Seeing them reconnect and watching Regulus’s eyes soften when he mentioned Sirius melted her heart.
“By the way, he’s seeing someone here too.”
“Sirius? As in Sirius-Sirius?” she spluttered, blinking rapidly. “The one who vowed to-”
“-die single? The very same.”
“What’s in the water in Wales? Can you send me some, or do I need to drink it on location?”
“I don’t know about the water, but the locals are charming,” a deep voice mumbled. “Who’s that?”
Regulus rolled his eyes and tipped his phone down again. James turned his head and blinked at him in confusion, then squinted at the screen.
“Do I know you?”
“No. This is Pandora. She’s-”
“Delighted to meet you. James, right?” she interrupted, circling her hand in front of the screen. “I strongly approve of all of this and I’m a big fan of your work.”
He smirked, then laid his head on Regulus’s chest. “That’s good. How soon can you get here, Pandora?”
“Oh, I’m not-”
“She was just-”
James arched an eyebrow as his gaze flicked between them. “I’ll buy the ticket, if necessary.”
Regulus hummed thoughtfully. “Well, you did say that you wanted to get away from your brother.”
Pandora sat bolt upright, her heart in her throat. “Wait, really? You wouldn’t mind? I don’t want to intrude or anything.”
“I’ll set it up,” James mumbled, burying his face in Regulus’s chest. “Need to win you over too.”
“That’s true,” Regulus agreed. He stroked his fingers through James’s curls. “It’s not a bad idea, actually. You can meet James properly…and there’s a group of girls-”
“You like girls?” James said, his voice muffled. “Would she like Lily? She seems nice.”
Pandora slid off the bed and stumbled over the shoes splayed across her floor. “I’m packing right now! James, are you a decent wing-man? Regulus is shite at it.”
“Panda!”
“What? It’s true!”
James chuckled and nodded against Regulus. “He’s too pretty, right? Distracts the target.”
“Exactly.”
Regulus pouted, but his lips twitched to hold back a smile. Holding back was Regulus’s mantra. He rarely let himself slip, yet he was failing to hide how charmed he was by this man.
“What’s she like, Reg?” she said, setting her phone on the dresser to dig through her closet. “Lily?”
“Sirius knows her better than I do. He’s dating one of her friends.”
Pandora’s head snapped up. “Oh this I have to see! When’s the first train?”
“Every thirty minutes or so, isn’t it?” James said, turning his head to yawn.
“I can be ready in an hour.”
Regulus’s face lit up as he craned his neck to see James. “Are we really doing this?”
“Yep. Do you see my phone? Thank you.” James squinted at the screen, then smiled when Regulus pressed his glasses onto his nose. “I’ll have Reg email the tickets to you, Pandora.”
“Merde, I can’t believe it! Reg, thank him properly for me, will you?”
“My pleasure.”
James dropped his phone, then scrambled to pick it back up. “Fuck. Wait until I pay for it, mi amor, or I'll forget how to sign my name.”
Pandora ended the call before the couple got too involved. Only an hour to pack, arrange a ride to the train station, and come up with an excuse to skip the mind-numbing boring holiday party her parents planned every year.
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