//AN// Sorry that I didn't get this chapter out yesterday, we went out of town for the day, and I was too stressed to finish it up when I got home. Make sure you vote in the poll on my profile, right now the votes are tied. Thanks for reading and reviewing! ////
The three cleaned up and dressed quickly. They met outside Remus' quarters, and walked to the great hall together. The other teachers and Headmistress McGonagall greeted them warmly, but you couldn't miss the raised eyebrows between Professor Sprout and Madam Pomfrey when they game into the hall, each man holding one of Hermione's hands.
Each of the present teachers were excited to see Hermione and Remus back at Hogwarts, and interested to see if Sirius could cut it as a teacher, or if he'd have the girls falling off of their brooms while daydreaming about him.
Minerva clapped her hands and, just as during the opening feast, food appeared on the table in front of them, and everyone began to eat and drink while catching up on the lives of the new professors.
"I always knew that you were too decent to be with a boy like Ron Weasley," Professor Sprout told Hermione as she glanced over at Remus. "You deserve someone who loves you no matter what."
"Thank you, I think so too," Hermione said laughing.
Professor Sprout leaned in close to Hermione's ear and said "You know, you HAVE to tell me everything later my dear," and nodded in the direction of Remus and Sirius, who were talking with Professor Flitwick about the use of Charms in Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
Hermione nodded and Professor Sprout excused herself from the table to go check on her growing bobotubers.
Hermione continued to eat her dinner, quietly listening to the conversations around her. Her boys talking to Flitwick and McGonagall about different things to do with teaching and she began to understand how Professor Snape must have felt at these things. Potions seems to have very little to do with any of the other subjects. "Wait a minute!" She thought. "When did it become my boys? Wasn't it supposed to be Remus and I, and Sirius and Remus, not me liking both of them??" She asked herself. "What in the world am I thinking?"
No one really noticed when Hermione excused herself from the table and left. She followed the path that she had watched Professor Sprout take and soon found herself in the familiar Hogwarts greenhouses.
"Professor Sprout…" Hermione called into the largest greenhouse.
"Yes dear?' She heard the older woman answer.
"I was wondering if maybe we could talk for a bit…"
"Of course my dear, what is it?" Professor Sprout asked.
"Well," Hermione began "I don't know how much you know of Remus and Sirius' relationship but…"
"They've been together since they were teenagers," Professor Sprout interrupted, "Correct?"
"Yes," Hermione said, blushing. "Remus and Sirius have been together since before I was born, but Remus and I have had feelings for each other since long before it was appropriate for us to think of each other that way. He helped me tremendously when Ronald and I parted ways, and we both recently admitted how we've felt about each other all these years, but now I'm feeling a bit confused."
"Mhmmm" Professor Sprout nodded.
"Well, I never intended to try and split up Sirius and Remus. Love is a beautiful thing and I know that they're in love, even though Remus loves me as well, but I've noticed them referring to me as 'their girl' and Sirius takes my hand as often as Remus does, and I think I might even have feelings for him too."
"Well, what's the problem?"
"How can I be in love with two men?" Hermione asked.
"Oh dear, dear. I forgetting you weren't really raised in the wizarding world. It's quite common here in our world for witches and or wizards to have more than one lover. You can even have a three-way bonding my dear." Professor Sprout explained.
"So, if I ever decided to marry again, I could marry….both of them?" Hermione asked, amazed.
"Oh yes, of course. It's not as common as a traditional two person bonding, but not frowned upon in the least bit." She said with a pat on Hermione's shoulder.
"Thank you so much Professor," Hermione said with a smile.
"No problem dear, and please, do call me Pomona. You're a teacher now, no need for the formalities." She said.
"I'm never going to get used to all this," Hermione said with a laugh. "First Minerva, now you. It's strange enough to be back here as a teacher instead of a student, and now I have to call all of my former teachers by their first names."
Professor Sprout laughed. "It'll get easier dear."
Hermione headed back toward the main castle, and went to her rooms to take a hot bath.
She turned on the taps and filled the tub full of pale pink bubbles, stripped quickly and slid down into the orgy sized bathtub. Calm washed over her as she laid her head against the cool back of the tub and closed her eyes.
She thought of Remus, and of Sirius, with each other, and with her. She slowly drifted off to sleep, thinking of the romance that she could have with the two.
She was peacefully dreaming of the two men in her life when a loud knock rang out through the room, and startled her awake. She slid under the water and came up sputtering, with water running down her face.
"Just a moment," she called, once she had dried her face and regained her senses.
She wrapped her hair in a thick towel and twisted it on top of her head before slipping on her luxurious, blue bathrobe and heading for the door.
"Who in the world is banging on my door?" She wondered, as she padded, barefoot, into her living area.
She opened the door, only to get the shock of her life.