🌈🎨 COLLAB FIC DROP: What if flirting was just bad communication and yearning? 🎨🌈
A.k.a. “What draws me to you”, aka soft trans boy, found family, posh art shops, and James Potter being a dumbass in love.
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨
My soulmate of chaos @viki23spots and I have unleashed our shared brainchild onto AO3 and it’s full of feelings, flirting fails, found family threats, and the kind of romantic tension that makes you want to scream into your sleeve at 3am.
📖 Title: What draws me to you
✍️ Authors: Mia_Da_Cat & viki23spots
📍 WIP | 3 Chapters | 7.4k words
🔗 AO3: What Draws Me To You (Restricted, sorry guests!)
What’s it about, you ask?
James Potter is tired. He’s creatively blocked. He has a half-dead writing assignment staring at him like a curse. His band’s on a time crunch. His best friend Sirius sent him on a paint errand. Life is a lot.
Enter: the fanciest, poshest art shop in town.
Enter: the cashier who might actually be a religious experience.
Regulus is quiet, precise, impossibly pretty, and has the kind of “I will destroy you with a single eyebrow raise” energy that sends James into full cardiac confusion.
James: “Uhhhh. Do you… have paint??”
Regulus: “Do you have a brain cell?”
James: “No. But can I have your Instagram. If you let me.”
Reader, he gets it. Somehow.
This fic contains:
• One (1) Trans Regulus Black with standards so high the air is thin
• James Potter panicking because the hot cashier looks a bit too much like his best mate and he might be in love
• Soft but firm boundary-setting (yes, we are about communication here)
• An entire found family of shop owners ready to murder James Potter gently if he hurts their boy
• McGonagall giving romantic advice like the true academic battleaxe she is
• A very serious rule: James must arrive at 5:45PM for the date. Not early. Not late. 5:45. Or he dies.
• 24 unhinged texts in 5 minutes. One real apology. Actual consequences.
• James being a disaster bisexual golden retriever of a manchild and Regulus going: “I like him. Dear God, why do I like him?”
💌 Coming in Chapter 4:
A first date under soft gallery lights.
A Van Gogh exhibition titled Poets & Lovers.
And James trying very, very hard not to say something that makes Regulus leave him in the gift shop forever.
📎 Why should you read it?
Because it’s gentle. Because it’s messy. Because it’s queer and real and warm and sharp all at once. Because Regulus deserves softness and safety and a boy who will actually listen. Because James is trying his absolute best. And because this fic will hold your hand and gently scream with you about how hard it is to be seen.
