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James smiled as he watched his husband trying to get their son to sleep, little Harry squirming and giggling as Regulus tried to tell him it's way past bedtime.
"But Papa!! I don't wanna sleep!!" Harry did have 2 whole bars of chocolate after dinner, so James couldn't blame him for being so energetic.
He decided to intervene as Regulus looked exhausted, especially after having a late shift at st mungos.
"Love, Papa and Daddy will tell you a story, yeah? Promise you'll sleep after that?" James said as he wrapped an arm around Regulus's waist, feeling him lean against his chest.
Harry was still jumping up and down on the bed but seemed to contemplate the horror of sleeping. He saw Regulus's soft smile even before he said it,
"Daddy's gonna tell us a lovely story and we can cuddle together, hmm? How about that?"
"Hmm, I guess it's okay!" Harry grinned, his dimples making an appearance.
Regulus smiled as he leaned on the headboard and pulled Harry to his side, pressing a kiss to his forehead.
"Story daddy!!"
"What's the magic word, love?" James teased as leaned on the other side of him.
"Pleaseeee" Harry pouted, which as usual melted them.
"Well, Once upon a time-" he was rudely interrupted by both Harry and Regulus groaning. "What?!" James laughed as his son and husband rolled their eyes in unison.
"James, darling, please that's so cliche" Regulus smirked as Harry nodded along.
"Yeah daddy! Ooh! I have a question!" Harry bounced in his place, eyes mischievously lightning up.
"Yes, love?" James asked as he looked at Regulus, who's eyes were closed with a soft smile.
Merlin and Morgana, he was so lucky to have them.
"When did you start liking Papa?" Hardy grinned wide.
James watched as Regulus's eyes snapped open curiously.
"Well baby, when your Papa was tiny-" he heard Regulus scoffing and suppressed a grin
"He had a crush on me. Pfft, so embarassing" Harry was giggling a bit and Regulus stared at James deadpan, even as he rolled his lips to suppress a smile
"You had a crush on me too, Jamie"
James smirked, "That's irrelevant, anyways. He used to hate me when he was tiny-"
"Really?!" Harry interrupted, grey eyes alight with curiousity, he couldn't even imagine his papa hating his dad.
Regulus rolled his eyes, "I didn't hate him, Haz. Just disliked him a bit"
James grinned, "Yeah, well it happened in my 5th year, it was a match against Slytherin. The gryffindor seeker was sick, so as a reserve seeker I was playing against your papa. We were bickering a lot even as we were flying. He called me me 'arrogant nosy bumbling fool with no self preservation or dignity'-"
"Papa!" exclaimed Harry, shocked. "Apologize to daddy! Please!"
Regulus sighed, "I did, but sorry again, darling."
Just then Regulus smirked, "Your daddy called me a, ah, what was it? 'A sneaky sarcastic snake with a cold dead heart' -"
"Low blow babe, I apologized! But you called me an idiot first"
"Well you're the one who called me a stupid pretty face"
"Yeah, but you called me a twat with no brain!"
"Yes, but you also called me a sneaky git!"
"You also called me an ego filled babboon!"
"Yes, but-"
"Daddy! Papa!" They were interrupted by a pouting Harry.
"The story!"
James smiled sheepishly while Regulus gave Harry an apologetic smile.
"Sorry love. As I was saying…Reg suddenly saw the snitch and sped towards it, I chased after him, of course" James smirked and winked at Regulus, which after all these years, still got a blush out of him.
He saw Harry looking between them curiously and decided to continue the story.
"But just then, the snitch swooped to the ground, your Papa,who was 60 feet above followed after the snitch without stopping. Do you know how serious the wound would be if he crashed, Haz?"
Harry, his grey eyes wide in awe, shook his head.
James saw Regulus's pleased smile and chuckled.
"The injuries would be so serious and that's a hard move to pull too! Reg caught the snitch, of course" Harry cheered and smiled.
"And at that moment, as he got out of the dive and came out with the snitch, smiling and pretty"- he knew he was fucked, James didn't say-
"I knew I liked your papa"
At the end of the 'story' both Harry and Regulus had happy smiles on their faces.
James grinned as he started to get up.
"Well love, you did promise to sleep, yes?" Regulus smiled softly as he too, got up.
Both of them started to tuck Harry in. Harry pouted but didn't complain.
"Another story!! When you got married!" Harry pouted more.
This time, James chuckled and kissed his forehead, while Regulus brushed some hair away from his face and smiled, leaning down to kiss his cheek.
"Now that's a story for another time, baby" Regulus said, as he rested his head on James's shoulder. James smiled and wrapped an arm around his waist.
"Good night, baby"
"Nighty night, papa"
"Good night, Haz"
"G'night daddy"
James turned off the light as he and Regulus walked out of the room, not closing the door, Harry's gonna get in their bed in the morning anyway. He knew they shouldn't make it a habit but both of them were soft for their son and Harry was growing up fast already. Just a few more years and he would start to lock his room. Atleast that's what Regulus said.
James leaned against the doorframe as he watched Regulus get into bed, smiling and shaking his head at Regulus's raised eyebrow, as if saying 'Well potter? Getting in here or what?'.
"Well Potter? Aren't you supposed to get in here?" James laughed a bit before crawling into the bed and wrapping his arms around Regulus.
James felt Regulus run his hand through his hair and smiled contently.
"For the record" James mumbled
"Hmm? Yes darling?" Regulus whispered sleepily.
"I still think you're a sneaky git. A pretty one though"
A pause
James started laughing as Regulus weakly thumped his chest but he too, started laughing.
Merlin, he really must have done something great in his past life for this.