Prompt 6 - Crunch
@jegulus-microfic January 6, Word count 286
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James snorted into his pumpkin juice as he watched Regulus dump a pot of stew on his friend Barty.
“You alright, Prongs? Sirius asked, patting his friend on the back.
“Yeah, sorry. I think Crouch just pissed off your brother,” He was careful not to call him Reg. Sirius would know something was up in an instant. He was many things, but Sirius Black was not an idiot.
“Ha!” He barked. “I wonder what he did. My darling brother isn’t one for large dramatics,” Sirius shrugged and went back to his own bowl of stew, missing the small scrap of parchment fluttering into James’s hand as Regulus strode out of the Great Hall. James carefully glanced down at it and read the words he’d hoped to read in Regulus’s elegant script. ‘Come-and-go room.’ He wasn’t asking James he was telling him. James didn’t care either way and began to wolf down his dinner. He wrapped up a couple of slices of Bakewell tart, slipping them into his pocket.
“See you guys later,” He said to the others as he jumped up from the table and began to walk away.
“Oi, Prongs, where are you going?” Sirius called after him.
“Nowhere,” James grinned.
“He’s going to get the other side of his neck sucked,” Remus teased, blowing loud, smacking kisses at him as he hurried out of the door.
He’d barely made it two steps when he heard a crunch from under his shoe. He lifted his foot and found a very squished snail. Huh, he thought, why would a snail be inside the castle? But he put it out of his mind as he climbed the marble stairs up towards where Regulus was waiting for him.
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