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Regret (James Potter)

Summary - When James Potter sleeps with his best friend when both are extremely drunk, she stops talking to him completely and he's left to wonder where he went wrong.

Warnings - mentions of sex, swearing, kissing and a lot fighting.

word count - 2749

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After hogwarts the marauders had all moved into the same block of flats, Remus and Peter shared one on the bottom floor, Sirius and Marlene, Lily and Alice on the fourth and finally James and y/n at the very top of the tall building.

The pair had never seen anything weird about them living together, their relationship had been platonic since first year, which after all was 8 years ago. Nothing was going to change about. Sure there had been tensions through the year they had been living together, they were two 19 year olds in the stage of life when sex was practically the be all and end all so it was only natural to have urges when living within such close proximity. But they had always pushed the temptations away, because they were just friend.

And that's why when y/n had woken up on a Sunday morning with an aching head ache and a naked James laying next to her it's safe to say she freaked out. This was never how it was meant to go, they had been avoiding this for years, she loved him as a friend and she knew fine well having sex with your friend only ever causes disasters. She could barely remember the whole ordeal which she was kind of glad about, sex brought about feelings and she could not have feelings for James. She wouldn't and couldn't let herself have a crush on him.

She quickly pulled the covers of her completely bare body and stood up wincing as the pain in her lower region suddenly became extremely prominent. Picking up all of her items that were strewn around the bedroom and making her way as quickly and quietly as she could back to her own room. She had thrown on the clothes that first came to hand and left the apartment wanting to be as far away from James as she possibly could be, trying her absolute hardest to wipe away the tears that were falling down her cheeks. She made a B line for Lily and Alices flat. What had she done.

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James had appeared at lily and Alices' apartment a few weeks after y/n had left, he looked terrible. They had sat in silence, neither knowing what to say and lily and Alice hadn't helped by completely leaving the flat, apparently it was time they made up.

"Are you going to talk to me then" he questioned, his voice cold. They were sat side by side but far enough apart that they weren't touching, not daring to look at each other.

"Last time I checked you came here, not the other way around" she snapped, she didn't actually know why she was angry at him, it wasn't his fault and she knew it but none the less she couldn't help but blame him.

"What the hell is your problem" he said loudly standing up and staring at her, she brought her eyes to his and glared "you had just as much to do with this as I did"

"You should have stopped me, you know what I get like when I'm drunk" she snarled "I regret it so bloody much, I'm embarrassed. And I hate that you let it happen" he scoffed loudly at her reply looking at her with so much dislike in his eyes that it shocked her, but the hurt was there, and it was much clearer.

"I was just as bad as you, if not worse. I can barely even remember it" he said his voice growing considerably louder and they were sure everybody in Sirius and Marlene's flat could hear them at this point.

"Your an arrogant arsehole James Potter" she responded trying to keep as calm as she could "you slept with another girl the day I left, and I heard the whole thing" she yelled finally snapping