H I R A E T H
lxxxi||fear of losing you
A couple of days after they time at the Weasleys it's New Year's Eve and James had constantly nagged Regulus and Maria to be back at the manor before ten, which they had agreed to as they hurried out of the door and towards the muggle village, where they walk. They're dressed in winter coats and jeans, their gloves hands intertwined between them as they trudge down the snow covered street.
"Where are we going?" Maria says questionably, Regulus smirking when he looks down at her. "Regulus." She drags out the 's' sound at the end of his name.
"You'll find out soon." He rolls his eyes and she huffs as they enter a small café on the corner of one of the streets. "Don't worry, this is just a stop in our travels."
Maria hums, her body thanking her for stepping into the warm vicinity, her chocolate coloured eyes gazing across the menu displayed behind the baristas.
"What do you want?" Regulus mumbles and she sighs, looking at the different drinks.
"I'll just have tea, please." She smiles at him and he kisses her cheek. "I'll sit down, yeah?" Regulus nods and she strolls over to one of the wooden tables and sits in the comfortable seat.
"Can I get a tea, milk and sugar, and a coffee please—black?" Regulus says to the barista who's eyes widen, she looks around nineteen with her blonde hair him curled on her head and her crystalline blue eyes pierced through his body as she looks him up and down.
"Of course, sugar with that coffee?" She smiles sweetly, and he shakes his head. "You with those guys?" She points at a group of your men sat with steaming coffees on their hands and he shakes his head.
"No—uh, with my girlfriend." He nods to Maria who's reading her book peacefully, her coat now over the back of her seat and her brunette hair in loose curls around her face as she concentrates on only the book, not the boisterous noise coming from the middle aged men.
"Oh, girlfriend? You're real lucky." She smiles, looking at Maria before back at Regulus.
"Yeah, I am." He says, handing her the money as she's goes to prepare the drinks, coming back a few moments later with two steaming hot mugs.
She smiles at him again as he walks over to Maria who finally takes her focus off her book and onto Regulus who sets the tea in front of her. She smiles, blowing it and trying to cool it down as Regulus smiles at the sight of her.
"You look divine on this splendid day, Miss Potter." He flirts sarcastically in a posh voice — much more sophisticated than his usual one.
"Why, thank you, Mr Black." She chuckles and goes to sip the tea when Regulus' eyes widen and he notices something that makes him shoot out his hand and grab her wrist before she can even tough the mug with her lips and she frowns at him.
Regulus slowly forced her to place down the mug before pointing discretely to the light blue powder around the rim of the mug, falling into the tea and making it bubble slightly.
"This is a trap." Regulus whispers, pretending to lean over and kiss her lovingly on the cheek. "She baristas, they're trying to get us killed."
The couple both turn their heads slowly at the same time, the baristas continue to bustle around the kitchen, oblivious.
"Reg, I don't think—I think they're bewitched." Maria whispers, her eyes flickering over to the group of men who are whispering quietly. "Imperious curse?"
"Absolutely." Regulus grits out, obviously recognising one of the wizards and clenching his jaw making Maria furrow her eyebrows but as she goes to look over again he shakes his head and grabs her face forcing her to look at him, caressing her cheek as though ready to kiss her. "Don't. . .don't look." He smiles slightly and kisses her softly, keeping up the façade.
"Why?" She whispers against his lips and he sighs.
"Just don't." He says, tucking some hair behind her ear. "You ready?"
"For wh—"
Her quiet voice is cut off by a spell flying at them and Regulus ducks quickly, pulling Maria down with him, the spell hitting the cup and shattering the glass. Regulus fires a stunning spell at one of them, sending him flying back through the window of the coffee shop and Maria stands up with him.
"Avada kedavra!" One of the death eaters grunts and Maria quickly blocks the spell, the forces from the spell making her stumble slightly but she quickly retaliates.
"Reducto!" The death eater quickly moves out of the way as the table beside him is blown to pieces and Maria takes his surprise to her advantage and stuns him back into the wall — knocking him out cold.
"Maria! The baristas!" Regulus shouts at her and she looks at him, torn. "Go—get them out—I'll meet you in the next street over!"
She sighs in defeat and rushes to the counter, sitting on it and spinning her legs over to get on the other side, joining the young women who stare at her in shock as she pulls them through into the back. Taking one last glance at Regulus who's nose is dripping with blood from a nasty jinx, he nods at her and she hurries off.
"Come on." Maria pulls them out into the side street behind the shop and the two of them are shivering in fear. "I'm sorry for this." She sighs, pointing her wand at the blonde girl. "Obliviate."
The girl's eyes become dazed as she wipes the memory of the other girl before the two of them blink, snapping out of it and looking at each other.
"Who are you?" The blonde asks and Maria smiles at them.
"I'm Maria—your bosses. . .niece—he told me to tell you both to take the day off since I'm here." Maria smiles and the two look unconvinced but shrug at the chance to go home for a nap. "Bye!" She shouts after them and the blonde girl smiles whilst the older girl with red hair rolls her eyes and pulls the girl.
Meanwhile, Regulus grips Gasper Avery by the shirt and shoved him against the counter of the shop, the young man laughing with blood trickling from a slice in his cheek that had been left by one of Regulus' rings.
"You—fuck I'm gonna kill you!" Regulus says angrily and Avery shoves him off.
"Fuck you Regulus, we used to be friends." Avery says, folding his arms.
"Yeah, before you raped my girlfriend." Regulus says with a sarcastic shrug before punching Avery straight in the nose making the man groan in pain and the grey eyed boy kicks him in the knee making him fall to the ground.
"I didn't—it was Malfoy that did it!" Avery mumbles, clutching his bleeding nose.
"Yeah, I don't care who did it—you fucking helped—how could you do that?" Regulus says with tears gathering in his eyes as he stares down at the blonde. No matter how much Regulus would love to kill him, Avery is right, he and Regulus where close growing up. Maybe that's why he asked that last question, how could he? The boy he'd grew up with sharing secrets about their families and getting told off for smoking in the house.
"So what? She doesn't mean anything to me."
Regulus knees him in the face and he groans in pain as Regulus grabs his hair tight and pulls him up to look him in the eyes.
"I would kill you." Regulus pushes his tongue into his cheek. "But she wouldn't want me to—"
"That soft is she?" Gasper laughs and Regulus drags him by the hair slightly making him hiss and cry out.
"No, she's not pathetic like you." Regulus mumbles, looking at him. "But if I find out you do anything like that again—to anyone, I'll fucking tear you apart."
With that, Regulus forcefully lets his hair go, his most likely broken nose hitting the tile floor as he lies their pathetically as Regulus leaves some muggle money on the counter and winces at the state of the shop.
Maria paces, messing with her hands as she awaits Regulus, contemplating whether to go back when she sees a familiar head of tousled hair round the corner.
A relieved sigh leaves her lips as she rushes over and slams her body against his, wrapping her arms around his neck tightly and Regulus smiles slightly as he wraps his arms around her waist tightly. He feels his eyes tear up as he buries his face into her shoulder, thinking about the fact that if she'd drank that tea she would've been gone. Leaving him alone.
"I was so worried, I nearly went ba—" Regulus shakes his head as she talks, smashing his lips onto hers, kissing her roughly and she feels herself flush as she traces her finger down his jawline.
If he hadn't kissed her in that moment, he fears she would've seen the complete and utter fright plastered across his face at the mere thought of losing her. He doesn't know why he doesn't want her to see, he's positive that she sure as hell knows that much already. Maybe kissing her was to try and forget what nearly happened — what would've happened.
He breaks the kiss and looks down at her, her eyes widening at the blood drying on his nose and lips, a sharp cut in his forehead and he smiles at her making her lips twitch as she kisses him again.
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Regulus' hands dig into her hips as he pushes Maria against the wall of the hotel room they'd snook into and locked with a quick spell, he hands tugging at his hair as his hands roam her body, helping her shrug off her coat. Dried blood still covers his face and bruises on both of their cheeks but that doesn't matter to them in the moment.
"Fuck." Maria breathes as Regulus' hands caress her hips and one reaches behind her, squeezing her ass whilst the other trails down her stomach and to the buttons of her jeans.
She aids him in tugging off his own coat and shirt as he hurriedly unbuttons her jeans, lifting her by the back of her thighs and swiping the various mugs and cutlery off a table and into the floor loudly, placing her on the table,
She lifts her hips as he slides down her jeans and he kneels in front of her kisses from her knees, up her thighs and her hip bones. She leans her weight back into her hands, throwing her head back with a deep breath as his lips kiss her clit, the into thing separating her from him being her underwear.
"Lift your hips then, sweetheart." Regulus whispers and she sighs, lifting her hips as he tugs her underwear down her legs slowly until they're discarded somewhere elsewhere in the room.
A quiet whimper escapes her lips when he wraps his lips around her clit, sucking gently whilst flicking his tongue, hitting all the right nerves and she grips the edge of the table, knuckles turning white as she holds her breath.
"Well don't go all silent now." The tousle haired boy between her legs mumbles, licking up her entrance making her moan softly as he wraps his arms around her thighs and spreads her legs wider apart. His fingers dig into her skin as she gasps for breath, pleasure taking over her senses — and her ability to hold in the erotic sounds her body is dying to release,
"God—Regulus, don't stop." She moans hoarsely, beads of sweat gathering on her forehead and her heels dig into his shoulders as she feels his lips tug into a smirk against her.
"Did you say stop, Ria?" He teases and she groans under her breath as he pulls away and she stares at him, her annoyance becoming clouded with admiration as he takes her hand in his and intertwined their fingers, his other hand sliding gently up her arm.
"I love you." She whispers and he smiles, his breathing heavy as he admires the girl before him, her hair slightly messy and her eyes dazed, half naked and vulnerable.
"I know. But I love you more." He says, caressing her cheek and she blinks, smiling as he kisses her again and lifts her again, into the soft sheets of the hotel bed.
Undoing his jeans, she kisses his jawline as he pulls her top over her head, leaving her in her bra and him in underwear. She looks at him with those wide, brown eyes that he adores so.
Lying back slowly, she leans up to kiss him gently again, Regulus whispering against her lips, "ready?"
Maria nods her head, "for you? Always."
Regulus smiles as he pushes into her making them both moan loudly at the jolt of pleasure that shot through them as he did. Maria's mouth is agape as she stares up into those stormy grey eyes completely overwhelmed with lust and pleasure, his lips parted as he thrusts in and out of her roughly but painfully slowly.
Swallowing thickly, Regulus kisses her cheek as her breathing becomes louder and more hoarse, the heavy breathing turning into moaning into his ear as he buries his face in the crook of her neck.
"You feel so good." Regulus moans into her ear, earning a whimper from her making him smile in achievement.
Maria gasps when he pulls all the way out just to slam back into her, the two of them hot and flushed against each other. Regulus savours every inch of her body, kissing down her neck and on her breasts, the girl beneath him gripping the pillows behind her and arching her back in pleasure. He savours how she feels around him, how her legs wrap around his waist and how her eyes roll back and her arms tighten around the pillows.
He could've lost her today.
Maria's hips move with his and she grabs his face, pulling his lips to hers in a lust filled and passionate kiss, his tongue slipping inside her mouth making her moan into his.
His hands slide down her body, his fingers circling her clit whilst his other hand slides back up to grasp hers, pushing it into the sheets. He forgets the blood dried on his face and focuses on the blood on hers, feeling himself come closer as he does, her lips parted and eyes closed as his fingers work faster on her clit.
"Reg, I'm gonna—"
"I know." Regulus groans, letting his head fall into the crook of her neck as he releases inside of her with a hoarse moan, continuing his deep thrusts as she grips his tousled hair and comes to her finish also.
"Fuck."
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