So we know a lot of fics like to make Regulus talk in french and then James gets all flustered yada yada yada… This is obviously true, but Regulus Arturus Black, linguistics and cross-cultural communications connoisseur, would 100% be on his knees whenever James speaks hindi. James, who tends to ramble when he gets really concentrated, studying in the library with Marls, trying to explain Ancient Ruins to her because she’s rubbish at it and he doesn’t want her to fail her O.W.L.S., when all of sudden, mid sentence he switches over to hindi (because english words aren’t doing it right now, so he subconsciously switched to the language he could find the words in). Marls is used to this, and having grown up with James, just lets him babble on until he realizes she isn’t responding anymore. It usually takes him a few minutes, but then he just rolls his eyes and starts over. All the while, sitting a few tables over, Regulus, who is still very oblivious to his queerness and who has never really paid any attention to Potter before, goes beet red and doesn’t understand why he’s stopped his transfiguration essay and his brain just won’t stop short circuiting. Fast forward to the Hols of James’ sixth year, when a bloody and beaten Sirius and a tear-stained and hyperventilating Regulus show up at his doorstep (because yes the Black brothers have a good relationship, and no Sirius was not gonna leave Reg alone with their Hellbound of a mother), James squeaks out some hindi and calls for Euphemia. As Effie patches up Sirius and wipes away tears from Regulus’ face, Monty hugs his boy and James responds back with some more hindi, and for Merlin’s sake Reg cannot understand why his heart rate spikes again, even though he’s no longer having a panic attack. As the boys grow closer the summer before James’ seventh year, they start this whole flirty banter thing. Reg purposefully speaks french to James to make him all fidgety and cute, but what Reg doesn’t expect is James panicking and mumbling to himself in hindi (and Merlin that was hot). When they kiss for the first time, after very sexually tense quidditch drills, James mumble hindi’s onto Reg’s collarbone, and that’s when Regulus knows he’s done for, this lad in front of him owns his heart and there’s nothing he can do about it.
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