Chapter 2
"Little Black"

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." Ersilia sighed as she slammed herself face first in Ronan's bed, while the other girls in the dorm stared quizzically.

"It's just her fancy way of exclaiming she's bored." Jasmine clarified the others, who rolled their eyes and looked away, just as Ronan perked up and sat herself on her elbows. "Incorrect. I'm simply quoting Vincent Van Gogh."

"We haven't even been here a whole day, I don't even want any context." Ronan said as she unpacked her stuff from the trunk.

"You know you'll eventually have to go to the head's dorm don't you." Jasmine reminded Ersilia. She let out a dramatic groan, let's just say she'd spent a lot of her summer around Sirius Black. "I'm trying to delay it as much as possible."

"Although, I'm still not quite sure why i can't stay in either your dorms?" Ersilia demanded an answer from her two best friends.

"Because that's against the rules and you're the head girl." Jasmine mused from her corner, resulting in another groan from Ersilia, "Oh how dreadful." she exclaimed.

"Yes, how dreadful it is to have your own dorm,  your own common room and a clean bathroom." Ronan snarled.

"Fine lady, don't get your wand in a twist. I'm leaving." Ersilia reluctantly dragged herself out of the room only to be met with the sight of the head boy black and his friend sat next to him in the common room.

"Well, Well, Well. If isn't the wonderful sight of the snakes in their own natural habitat." Ersilia announced her presence as she descended through the staircase, causing the only two people in the common room turn their heads in her direction. Regulus slammed his head in the back of the couch, used to being annoyed by her mere presence he had chosen to stay away from the heads common room for as long as possible, only to find her in the one place he felt the most himself in the entirety of hogwarts.

"Theo, it's always a pleasure." she greeted the heir of the nott family with a challenging smirk. "Ah, my least favourite Black." she turned to Regulus. Regulus blankly stated ahead, mentally debating on whether or not he should grace her with a reply.

"I genuinely despise you." he said, although it was as if his mind had a mouth of its own as it kept on going, i hate you, you get to live with my brother. i have tried to kill you multiple times, and every single day i think about killing you, it's the only thing that brings me joy. but you're so beautiful yet so vain it hurts to watch your melodic laugh as your crinkled eyes dwellers in the innocence of this cruel world. oh how dreadful it is to hold affection for someone who's so pathetically dimwitted yet so beautifully headstrong and smart. *cue internal sigh*

"You wanna do me so bad reg, it makes you look stupid." the said blonde smirked.

"Do you even think before you speak?" Regulus almost yells, barely managing to control himself so as to not lash out in front of everyone. no cap though, he thought to himself, he wouldn't mind doing her, although that would be an immensely objectifying thought and he didn't like being called stupid.

"Yes I think 'haha that's funny' and then i say it." Ersilia sasses. Meanwhile the fellow Nott who is barely paying attention to the interaction casually adds, "I'm telling you, if you'll close your eyes, they'll disappear." as he flips through another page of the witch weekly.

Ersilia, offended, let's out an overly dramatic gasp, "Must be hard not being able to laugh." she says pointingly towards Theo.

"I do have a sense of humour you know." he claps back.

"I have never heard you laugh before."

"I have never heard you say anything funny."

Regulus let out a silent "burn", just loud enough for theo to hear, but since the common room was empty and quiet Ersilia heard it quite well. Both boys burst out in a fit of giggles as Ersilia let out an overly dramatic gasp.

"Alright, I think i've had my fair share of insults for today. And you better watch your back Princess, i'll come for you. Come on Little Black, time for bed." both boys rolled their eyes at her nicknames and the blonde pulled up the Black family heir by the hands and looped their  arms together as he reluctantly stood up.

"You're not my mother, Lupin." he stated as he reluctantly began making their way to the heads dorm all the way across the dungeons.

Might as well have been, Ersilia thought to herself as she recalled all the horrors that went around in 12, Grimmauld Place, narrated by Sirius.

"Well i'm into it if you are." she insinuated as she wiggled her eyebrows at him. Caught off guard at her double meaning  sexual innuendo he let out a forced cough as he struggled to hide away the blush fighting to rise on his cheeks. simply teenage hormones, he excused his behaviour to himself.

The rest of the walk was surprisingly solemn, Regulus' mind was running with unexplained feelings and ferocious thoughts, well not really unexplained, because he was quite smart, he understood it was a feeling of blossoming crush, but what he couldn't understand was how he'd spend almost his entire 7 years at hogwarts being envious of the girl who was nothing compared him yet everything he could ever want from life and more, mere hours with her had changed into a feeling of longing her and weird churning in his stomach. Could it be possible that she had cursed her? or maybe he was sick? but Regulus never got sick. Maybe she's using dark magic, he scoffed, she won't even know the d of dark magic. He simply couldn't explain the sudden infatuation he felt towards the fellow head girl.

Meanwhile, Ersilia was getting restless, hands still looped together, the silence in the dark still managed to scare her. As much as she could appreciate the quite calmness and serenity of hogwarts, walking silently beside the black boy seemed like her personal hell. Why? she had no clue, but this sudden need to break the silence kept on flooding her. She wanted to say something, just to hear his voice, just for him to pay attention to her. It wasn't like her. She had never wanted something from a man who weren't her family or her friends. But then again, she had always been fascinated by Regulus, and now that their brothers and friends were out of hogwarts there was no looming judgement holding her back.

Ofcourse things had been full of tension last year, but the harsh reality was that most of the prejudiced were out of hogwarts causing way more harm( good and/or bad) in the real world, hogwarts felt pleasantly normally in contrast to the world outside and the previous year.

Deciding to break the silence, Ersilia said the first thing that came to her mind, "You're annoying Black." she mentally face palmed herself.

"Then stop holding my hand." he said without turning to look at her. Ersilia looked down at their interlocked arms and wondered what compelled her to do so.

"No." she said and he didn't pull away either, so it was safe to say that it was consensual.

They reached the heads dorm, a few spaces down the prefects bathroom and entered after saying the password. The dorm was a mix of all things gold and silver. As a symbol of house unity, they figured. It was quite cozy, with a fireplace and a view of the black lake, everything slytherin and gryffindor combined. There was a couch placed near the fire place with 2 work stations and a book case on the other end of the room. Both the heads parted ways to check out their separate forms, it wasn't anything special, just the plain old dorm with a desk and a bed.

After a while of unpacking and trying to make the space their own Ersilia walked out to find Regulus, writing something on a parchment, which reminded her to write a letter to her family of which she made a mental note to do so.

"What are you doing?" she asked him. Surprisingly he answered in a way which wasn't 'your mere existence annoys me'. "Sorting out the prefects duties for tomorrow."

"You reckon we should tell them in the morning or after classes end?"

"After classes end would be suitable."

"Alright, then. See you in the morning." he nodded and turned back to the parchment. "Goodnight, Little Black."

"Night, Lupin."

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Dear whoever finds this first,

The day passed uneventfully, the train ride was pathetically dreadful without my favourite boys at hogwarts+lily. Although Jasmine and Ronan made up for it. They're quite a couple those two. Kind of remind me of how moony and padfoot used to be, or still are. Heads duties for now seem pretty normal, although the real pressure i suppose will start from tomorrow onwards when they'll scare us poor children with the newts curriculum.

It seems weird being here and not having you guys here, and even weird being alone in the heads dorm. Its not like i'm actually alone. Do you guys know who made head boy this year? Black junior!! can you believe it? I'll have to share a dorm with him for the whole year, though i suppose he isn't half that bad, he just likes to pretend he hates me, or everyone who comes within 15 ft of him. Can't blame him though, i'd hate every one too if i were him. We don't talk much, i don't really know why, but it doesn't matter anyway.

I guess i'll learn to manage without you, otherwise i'm perfectly safe and healthy. What about you guys? What are the latest happenings in the potter manor? Did you guys ever figure out who broke the coffee machine? Also please send this letter to mum and dad, i'm quite exhausted to write another one.

Sending all of you love and kisses,
Ersilia Hope Lupin.

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Regulus Black

Your father and i expect great things from you. Remember you are in a position of power and now it is up to you to clean the filthy mess that is hogwarts right now. Remember what we taught you, and start as soon as possible.

toujours purs
Wallburga D. Black

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