Charlie was on the couch and Hermione moved to sit next to him, "This is a little crazy." She whispered.
"I know but I love you, it might not be conventional but who cares if we're all happy?"
Hermione shook her head, "It doesn't really matter who cares. The people who love us will support us."
"Exactly." Charlie agreed. "Wait, does that mean you agree?"
Hermione sighed, "I need time to think Charlie."
"Ok."
"I'm going to bed."
"Goodnight." Charlie kissed her gently and Hermione smiled softly at him before slipping down the hall. Bill was just coming out of their room.
"Bill." She whispered.
He nodded to the door, "Fleur is going to bed, I'm going to sleep in the guest room."
She frowned at him, "Is everything alright?"
Bill nodded and sighed, "Why don't you two talk."
"ok."
"Mia?"
"Yes?"
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"I know." He sighed, "I mean, that, well, I love you, just as much as I love Fleur. I'd never love one of you more than the other, never want more for one of you and not try to give either of you everything."
"Bill?"
"I just wanted to be sure you knew. It's not Fleur my wife and Mia our lover, its not Fleur my first wife and you my second, you are both my lovers, both my wives, I love you both the same."
"We both love you too Bill." Hermione assured him.
He smiled at her and nodded, "Get some rest. We can all talk more tomorrow."
"OK." She nodded as he moved past her down the hall and let herself into their room. Quietly she undressed and slipped into bed next to her lover. "Fleur?" She whispered.
"He wants to share you." Fleur whispered, "HE wants our marriage to be less."
Hermione shook her head and pulled her closer, "He wants me to be happy. He'd do the same for you."
"So zen what? We alternate holidays like a muggle divorce?"
"We're all family Fleur, I don't think they meant it like that." Hermione tucked Fleur's hair behind her ear. "You know I'd never do anything to hurt you."
"I know." She sighed. "I don't know why I am jealous."
Hermione smirked at her and whispered, "Because Charlie is great in bed and your jealous I've had him and you haven't."
They both burst into giggles.
"Oui, perhaps I should have an affair wiz him."
Hermione nodded, "We can play musical lovers and Charlie can come meet you while Bill and I travel. I can be with him when you're with Bill and we can kick them both out for brother bonding while we have girl time with just each other."
"Oui." Fleur laughed.
After a moment their giggles subsided and they continued to whisper, "You know I'll stop seeing him if you want."
"I want you to be my wife Mia. It never bothered me to share you with a man outside our triad. I know your heart is mine, equally as theres."
"More." Hermione whispered snuggling closer to her, "I love you best. Just don't tell the boys."
"Non." Fleur whispered back, "It is our secret that I love you best too."
They chuckled and teased and talked for a while longer before falling asleep in each others arms.
They spent the next day on the beach together watching Victoire play in the surf, building sand castles.
"What if it were zat way?" Fleur asked Hermione as they made lunch.
"What way?"
"What you said last night, between the four of us."
"I was just teasing Fleur."
"Why not though? I would not be so lonely when you two travel and there would be no nonsense about alone time, we'd each have someone and never be alone."
"You want to sleep with Charlie?"
Fleur shrugged, "I ave always been attracted to him. I could fall in love wiz him, if I let myself, being wiz Bill I never let myself think of another man but last night I dream of things the way you say and today I look at Charlie wiz new eyez, why could we not all be a family?"
Hermione smiled at her, "We could." She agreed. "If Bill could handle it." She sighed, "I still can't believe he just suggested sharing me with Charlie." She frowned, "He's always so possessive with you."
"He forces himself not to be with you." Fleur tried to comfort her.
Hermione sighed, "Maybe. I just, I know we've not been, I guess I thought it would be different if we added marriage. Its not that it wasn't hard to recognize I needed to give up Charlie, I do love him, but we'll be married, he says I'll be his wife as much as you are but it doesn't feel like that. It's always been more like I am yours, like he desires me more than loves me whereas you just love me, completely."
"Perhaps he has just not thought this through." Fleur suggested gently, "Now it is just an idea, he has not considered what it will be but we will make him, make both of them consider all of it."
"How?"
"We suggest to zem ze same zing."
"You with Charlie."
Fleur shrugged, "If this is going to work between all of us, it should be between all of us or we should rethink what we want from each ozer, what we are to each ozer."
Hermione sighed, "So we suggest this and see where the chips fall."
"Oui." Fleur sighed gently and nodded before a delicate frown marred her brow, "Do you theenk Charlie is attracted to me?"
Hermione laughed, "He'd be deaf, dumb and blind not to be."
Fleur sent her that mysterious smile that made Hermione's breath catch, the one she'd given her before their first kiss. It had the same effect today and Charlie came upon them kissing, their hands gently exploring each others curves.
"Fuck." He hissed and then blushed when they turned to him. He adjusted his trousers as discretely as possible while Bill came into the kitchen carrying Victoire.
"Is lunch ready?" He asked his women looking confusedly between his brother and them.
"Almost." Hermione smiled at him moving to take Victoire. "Let's get washed up."
Charlie coughed, "I'm going for a swim."
"The water is very cold." Fleur warned him.
"Good." Charlie huffed under his breath hurrying out.
Bill followed his brother, "Catch them doing something interesting?" He laughed.
Charlie gulped, "You are a lucky bastard."
"You do share in that luck may I remind you."
"Yeah." Charlie nodded, "But I don't witness that." He motioned to the house.
Bill chuckled, "I don't just witness it."
Charlie cursed and adjusted his pants again.
"It doesn't fade if that helps."
"What?"
Bill laughed, "Why do you think I run so much? I might keep them both in bed permanently if I didn't. Every time they look at each other or touch, its…" His voice trailed off and Charlie gulped understanding perfectly.
Sitting down to lunch Charlie nearly choked when Fleur suggested they have sex.
"What?" He sputtered.
"Fleur?" Bill questioned with a deep frown.
"Fleur and I were talking and we think that the only way for a relationship between any of us to work on a permanent basis is for it to be between all of us." Hermione spoke up with a sip of tea.
"So you want…" Charlie tried to wrap his head around it, "What, for me to marry Hermione and wife swap?"
"Hermione's marrying us." Bill growled.
"I have no desire to be married." Charlie shot back.
"Non, this is not what we are talking about." Fleur broke through the tension. "I am talking about sharing a bonded relationship between all of us."
"I know you don't want to marry Charlie and neither of us is asking that but I am going to marry Fleur and Bill. If we want to make a relationship work, I think, that it should be equal between all four of us."
"Equal?" Charlie frowned. "Incest crosses my hard lines of anything resembling acceptable." Charlie told her making a face.
Hermione rolled her eyes at him, "I meant if my wife is going to be sharing me with you, I'll share her with you as well."
"Charlie and Fleur?" Bill frowned.
"Oui." Fleur nodded, "You et moi, Charlie et Mia, You et Mia, Charlie et moi."
"You two can do the brother bonding, man thing when Fleur and I need time together."
"No." Bill shook his head, his expression dark.
"So you're ok with me sleeping with him but not with your wife doing it?"
"You will be my wife too."
"You just don't care about monogamy with me."
"I didn't say that."
"You are the one that came home suggesting I keep sleeping with Charlie."
"I want you to be happy."
"You do not want ze same for me?" Fleur questioned.
"No." Bill hissed running his hand through his hair, "I didn't mean it like that. Of course I want you to be happy." He frowned at her, "I never realized I wasn't enough for you."
"Was I not enough for you? Is zat why you needed Mia?"
"You initiated that."
"You wanted her before I kissed her. You told me."
"Being attracted to her and contemplating an affair are two different things. I would never have crossed that line if you hadn't."
"Non, but you wanted to, just as I did. Does it mean because either of us wanted her zat we were not enough for each other, zat we don't love each other enough?"
"No!" Bill hissed.
"Zen why would it mean zat if I slept wiz Charlie? It does not mean Mia does not love us because she is his lover."
Bill growled and ran a hand through his hair, "I'm going for a run."
Charlie sat staring at the two witches in silence a moment.
"Do you not want to be wiz me?" Fleur asked him.
Charlie blanched, "You're beautiful Fleur."
"But?"
He licked his dry lips, the image of the two women kissing crossing his mind, "I think I'll join Bill on that run." He jumped up and bolted for the door.
Hermione sighed and turned to Fleur, "Bill wont be able to live with it."
"Perhaps, but zen what does it mean for us?"
"What would you have done if Charlie had said yes? Or Bill had been ok with it?"
"Charlie is a very attractive man." Fleur shrugged, "Perhaps in time I would love him as you do. I imagine if zey had accepted ze idea we'd all have had to zink and talk non? Ze only worry I have would be zat Bill tried to accept and couldn't, I never want to lose him or you."
Hermione sighed, "I know. I don't want to lose either of you either."
"You still love Charlie."
"Yes but I still can't believe they've suggested this."
Fleur laughed, "So now we have shocked zem back and zey will truly zink of what zey ask."
"What now?"
"Now mon amore, we go lay in ze sun."
Hermione laughed and waved her wand at the dishes clearing everything up while Fleur went to the playroom to get Victoire.