I felt bad for going so long without updating so I'm giving another chapter. Note: The christmas one-shot and Jerza one shot aren't neccessary to read prior to this, but I'd still suggest it. It's all the same AU after all.
Hermione POV
"Guess what I've got," Ginny sang. I slowly raised my eyes to look over the top of the book. The youngest Weasley was standing in front of me, hiding something behind her back, and grinning wickedly. I cocked an eyebrow, lowering the book a little.
The common room was mostly empty, only Lavender, Pavarti, and Katie Bell gossiping on one of the couches. The fireplace crackled and I waited patiently for Ginny to continue. After a few moments, I sighed.
"Okay, fine. What?" I ask. Her grin widened and her eye twinkled with mischief.
"No you have to guess," she snickered. I glared at her. "just kidding! Okay… BEHOLD!" She dramatically pulled from behind her back… a bottle of firewhiskey. My eyes widened.
"Ginny what the hell?" I blanche, looking around frantically. I lunged at her, my forgotten book falling to the floor. Ginny cackled and held me back with one arm, the other holding the bottle out of my reach. She's a lot stronger than I expected. Damn Quidditch.
"Relax Hermione!" she laughed. The other three girls perk up and look over.
"Oh blimey! Where'd you find the firewhiskey, Ginny?" Katie asked, eyes lighting up.
"It's a secret. All that really matters is that I say we play a bit of… 'Never have I ever'!" the ginger announced. The other three cheered excitedly.
"Ginny, we'll get in trouble!" I argue. Although to be honest after all of the rule-breaking I've done over the years, getting caught with alcohol would be by far the least bad. Lavender groaned.
"C'mon Hermione. Don't be such a downer," she complained. I bristle when everyone else agrees. Before I could argue more, the portrait opened allowing Erza, Lucy, and Natsu to enter. Lucy cocks her head in curiosity.
"Why's Hermione a downer?" she asks. Ginny grins mischievously and presents the bottle of booze proudly.
"Because I've got booze and a game and she doesn't want to pla-ay," she teases in a mocking, sing-songy voice. I glare at her, putting my hands on my hips. "I bet they want to play too, right guys? We should be good hosts to the transfers, shouldn't we?" she continues.
"Oh heck no!" Natsu screeches. I turn to look and see him white faced and waving his arms in front of himself, Lucy and Erza grinning at him wickedly. "I am NEVER drinking with Erza EVER again!" he shouts. Lucy tried to withhold her giggles. Natsu glared at her. "Oh come on, Luce! After the Christmas party?! NO WAY," he crosses his arm and turns around stubbornly. Erza smirks in a way that suggests many horrors. Lucy bursts out laughing, unable to hold it back and Natsu huffs. "DON'T LAUGH, LUCE! YOU SUFFERED TOO!" he yelled at her while she tried to get ahold of herself.
"Yea but not as bad as you, Gajeel, and Gray!" she chokes out, wiping at her tears. Natsu groans and clamps his hands over his eyes.
"I'll never unsee the things I saw that night," he whimpers. "I'm outta here!" He runs away up the stairs to the boy's dorm.
"So what's the game?" Lucy asks, straightening up and walking closer as if nothing happened. Katie and Pavarti looked at each other.
"Should… we be worried about that?" Katie asked slowly. Lucy shook her head.
"Nah. The game we played at Christmas was pretty much truth or dare without the truth part. It just got out of hand. I doubt that'll happen again," she offered dismissively. Ginny smiled.
"Well, we were going to play 'Never have I ever', do you guys want to join?" she offers, shaking the bottle temptingly. The two fairy Tail girls nod. Ginny fist pumps. "Yes! Okay lets go up to the dorm then. And since Hermione's the only Prefect on our dorm floor, we don't have to worry!" she says cheerfully. I open my mouth to protest but the words die on my lips as I realize its futility.
"Fine," I allow. I suppose it can't hurt at all. I mean, I'll at the very least learn more about Erza and Lucy.
When we were all sat in a circle upstairs, glasses of fire-whiskey mixed with pumpkin juice in our hands, Ginny laid down the rules. Seeing as everyone already knew how to play never have I ever, it went quick. Lucy raised a hand.
"Is this going to devolve into just a bunch of awkward sex stuff? 'Cause that's what's happened every time I've played," she asks, blushing a little. Erza laughed out loud.
"Of course it will. Eventually. That's just part of the game," Ginny says simply. Lucy and I groaned.
"I guess I just have to hope I'll be drunk by the time we reach them," she grumbles. "Okay, who starts?"
Katie volunteered. "Okay… never have I ever… had sex," she says, grinning wickedly.
"Already?!" I stammered. Erza, Lucy, and Lavender drank, and I tried to sneakily take my drink but of course, Lavender saw.
"Holy shit! Hermione's not a virgin!" she exclaimed, making my cheeks go red as a tomato. Ginny stares at me with her mouth hanging open.
"WHAT?!" she shrieks. "HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?" she continued. She pauses. "Oh Merlin, please tell me it wasn't my brother…" she moaned. I scoffed in offense.
"Of course not! Jesus, Ginny," I grumbled, crossing my arms and averting my gaze. It's true I had a crush on the twit, but honestly, ever since… since the thing with Malfoy started, I've really lost all interest. It doesn't help that him and Lavender are constantly sucking each others' faces off. Lavender giggles.
"He was for me," she snickers and Ginny slapped her hands over her ears and started humming loudly. Oh gross…
Ginny goes next. "Okay… um… Never have I ever… had sex with someone I wasn't in a relationship with!"
I glared at her before taking my drink, noting Erza and Lucy had also taken drinks. Lucy was also red as a tomato, but Erza was completely calm. It was my turn next.
"Uhh… never have I ever… wait…." I stopped for a second as I realized that this was a little more difficult. "Had a crush on Harry Potter!" I blurted out, grinning at Ginny, who glared at me while she took a drink, along with Katie.
"Hey, he's kinda cute," she shrugged. When she noticed Ginny's seething she held up her hands. "Hey! I don't mean anything by it! I had a crush on him. Emphasis on had. He's all yours, girl," she hastily amended. Ginny perks back up. Next was Erza.
"Never have I ever had someone walk in on me and my boyfriend while we were… intimate," she says, smirking at Lucy who steamed. She took her drink, the only one who did, and glared at Erza.
"That is not true! I know for a fact you have!" she argues, pointing at Erza accusingly. The crimson haired woman raised an eyebrow. "I-!" she trailed off going completely pale and her insinuation hung in the air for a sec. The silence was suffocating and Lucy had practically turned to a horrified-looking stone statue. Erza waited a moment for the blonde to unfreeze, face deceptively blank.
"Are… you trying to tell me you've walked in on me and- uh, Siegrain?" she said slowly. Lucy swallowed, eyes darting around and sweating. "Lucy?" she prodded, eyes taking on a hard glint. Said blonde panicked.
"um. Uh," she stammered.
"Oh come on, just tell us! You can't leave us hanging like that!" Ginny demands, watching the spectacle unwind with rapt attention. She had pulled a bag of custard creams from somewhere and was munching happily. I snag one of the cookies from the bag. I almost wish we had popcorn for what was unfolding.
"Yes, Lucy. You can't just start saying that and not finish." She said quietly, her voice threatening a bit. Lucy tapped her pointer fingers together sheepishly, shrinking.
"I was kind of… already in the storage room at the time, with… my boyfriend… and we had, uh, finished and everything but before we could get out you and… Siegrain stumbled in and you were already all over each other and neither of us knew how to deal with the situation and then I was like 'lets just speak up right away and be like, hey Erza, we're in here, we're just going to leave and pretend this never happened', but then when I went to stand up you and him were already… um… y'know…. And so we just kind of hid in the corner until you were gone and it was horrible and…." She rambled quickly. Erza stared at her with wide eyes, blushing. Her jaw opened and closed.
"You…were…" she tried, blushing fiercely, which is something I had yet to see her do. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" she screeched. Lucy flinched and shrunk into herself even more.
"I'm Sorry!" she wailed. Erza seethed while pinching the bridge of her nose. "You moved too damn fast, okay?! And did you seriously not notice us at all?!" she flapped her arms.
"No!" Erza responded. "I didn't!"
Ginny, Pavarti, Katie, and Lavender couldn't hold back their laughs and burst into gut busting chortling. I myself joined in because this was really quite funny.
"This is gold!" Ginny wheezed. Erza looked at Lucy murderously.
Lucy lurched upwards. "MY TURN!" she screamed frantically. "My turn! Um… uh…" she stammered.
"Never have I ever hid my relationship from all my friends?" Erza offered drily, glaring at the blonde who started to sweat.
"That was just because I thought you would chop off his dick!" she screeched in response. I snorted loudly at the rebuttal, sneaking a sip while everyone else was completely distracted by the unfolding drama. Erza flicked her eyes to me, catching me and my eyes went wide. Just when my heart stopped, she raised an eyebrow for a moment before apparently ignoring it and turning her attention back to the mortified blonde. "It didn't even work! And you said yourself you knew practically the whole time anyway!"
Erza snorted. "Of course I knew. How many people walked in on you and La-arry mid-coitus?" she asked, stumbling over the name Larry awkwardly. Lucy looked at her in confusion, before looking about to say something and halting for a second.
"ANYWAYS…" she loudly went for instead. "My record of getting caught with Larry is not up for discussion here," she says, enunciating the name drily and glaring at Erza who just smiled. "Never have I ever… had more than one sexual partner," she said. The only person to drink was Erza. Lucy gaped at her.
"I… was not expecting that," she muttered. Erza shrugged. The game continued for about a half hour before everyone was enjoyably drunk and the bottle was empty.
"Hey… who'd you lose your virginity to, anyways?" Lucy slurred at Erza.
"Siegrain," she responded with a yawn. Lucy stared at her in confusion.
"Wait… but…" she muttered and I tried to focus to figure out the confusion. "Didn't you say you've been with more than one guy?" she asked. Erza stilled.
"Lucy. I said, I lost my virginity to Siegrain." She said quietly. Lucy stared at her, still confused, until the redhead looked her in the eyes. "Siegrain," she enunciated again. What the hell is going on right now. Lucy stared blankly for a moment before her eyes bulged.
"wait… are you saying…" she started. Erza nodded, turning back to look at the ceiling. Lucy's jaw dropped. "How… how the fuck did that happen?" she exclaimed. Erza shrugged.
"Angry hate-sex," she said blandly, making Lucy choke on her own spit. After she recovered she raised a finger.
"That… that actually makes a little sense." She muttered. I couldn't help but relate to the redhead. The line between hate and passion is extremely easy to trip over, as I've learned the hard way. I considered voicing my thoughts but my head was swimming a little too much and I decided I was just so comfortable in my little nest of pillows on the floor. My eyelids were just a bit too heavy and I fell asleep to Ginny's light snores, Crookshanks curled up on my hip.
Larry.
At some point in this story I am going to work in the phrase "an embarassing photo of [insert name here] at the christmas party". Who should suffer the phrase first? Natsu, Gajeel, or Gray?
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