Reclaiming the Trio

Chapter 5: What Ginny Had to Say


"Ginny!" Sirius hissed to the girl, who'd been hiding out in the bathroom. "You have quite some explaining to do. Open this door and come out, or I'm opening it and coming in!"


"Shh! Get in here!" Ginny whispered quickly, opening the door just enough for Sirius to slip in. She closed the door quietly and cast her own Silencio on the room. "What?"


"Ginny, Hermione just kissed me after thoroughly kissing Remus. Care to tell me why she would do that, seeing as Harry was your boyfriend?" Sirius asked, and Ginny stifled a giggle.


"Oh, what you don't know," Ginny said, smirking. "Sirius, what exactly do you think your godson has been doing all these years, knitting?"


Sirius gave Ginny a droll stare, and she continued.


"Sometimes, Sirius, when a man loves a woman very mu~--"


"I know about that, Ginny. My question had more to do with why Hermione would want to kiss Harry, especially like that. I thought that you and he were ~-- and Ron and Hermione were ~-- and that Harry and Hermione weren't~--" Sirius said, a bit flustered as Ginny eyed him speculatively.


"Perhaps Hermione finds you attractive and not Harry?" Ginny said in a strange tone, and Sirius shook his head. Of course he wouldn't believe that. "Harry, Ron and Hermione had a . . . special. . . friendship. One that didn't include me, mind you, but one I wasn't particularly bothered by."


"Care to enlighten me before I start imagining my godson as a fudgepacker?" Sirius said, trying specifically not to think of his godson engaged in any sort of activity of a sexual nature.


"How can that bother you? I thought you and Remus liked a bit of chocolate on your sundae?" Ginny said, but Sirius's glare was enough to keep her talking. "Before I even slept with Harry myself, I knew he was with Ron and Hermione. The three of them had been best friends since they'd met, and, at least to the four of us, it seemed an almost natural extension of the relationship. I wasn't involved ~-- you couldn't pay me to go near Ron's nether regions ~-- but I knew that the three of them were."


"How were you okay with this? I thought you were the jealous type," Sirius said, his face a bit red. One lover, fine, but his godson had two ~-- at the same time?


"It wasn't a situation I could be jealous of. Harry's love for me was something else entirely. And he promised me he'd never had a child with Hermione, that he'd already promised Ron that any children she'd bear would be Ron's. They all came to that agreement long ago."


"How long has this been going on ~-- the three of them?"


"It isn't important," Ginny said, her face pale. "Triggers don't matter so much as the tension behind them."


"Ginny, when did they start this ménage a trios? What pushed them into it?" Sirius said, dread filling his stomach. He'd had an idea.


"End of their fifth year. When you fell through the veil and Harry thought you were dead," Ginny finished quietly. "But you need to know that they would have done it anyway. The trigger is never as important as the ~--"


"Tension behind it, I heard. I can't blame him for it, I guess. I've done the same in the past," Sirius said. "But he never mentioned it. And Hermione and Ron never alluded to it, either."


"Sirius, why would they? It isn't as if it's something that's widely accepted. But tell me, what were your first thoughts every time you saw the three of them together?"


"I'm not sure. That they had a deeper friendship, or secret. Almost as if they belonged to each other."


"That's it. It was hard to deal with at first, but that's how the three of them were. Harry wasn't my Harry. First and foremost, he was Ron and Hermione's Harry; Ron was Harry and Hermione's Ron; Hermione was Ron and Harry's Hermione. They came before anyone and anything else, for each other," Ginny said, almost sadly. "But I learned to deal with it. I loved Harry all the more for it; he loved them so much, he was willing to risk be shunned for it. And he gave me his best."


Sirius looked at Ginny curiously; she was gazing into the mirror, smiling as if she saw Harry there. She hugged herself before she turned around and hugged Sirius, for the second time that day.


"I appreciate that this is hard for you to hear, but Harry would have told you himself, and I know he'd want me to tell you. But I know you aren't Harry, and you don't have to take care of me. Be my friend ~-- that's enough," Ginny said, giving Sirius a sisterly kiss on the cheek. "I'm going to say my goodbyes to Remus and Hermione, and then I'm heading back to Hogwart's. Take care, and if you need me, you know where to find me."