Harry begins to have a funny feeling in the pit of his stomach, like he was being torn through the core with a sword leading him downstairs. It was the weirdest feeling the boy had ever had, in all of his 19 years he had never felt something so magical. Sirius looks confused when Harry cries out.
"Oh Harry your mate is here, I wonder who she'll be, let's hope it's not Hermione, we don't want Ron angry now do we?"
"Siri there is something I need to tell you," fidgeting Harry realizes his secret needs to come out, and given how tonight had gone it seemed there was going to be a lot of secrets spilled.
"Oh talking can wait Harry, come on I want to know which pretty little lady we'll be introducing into the family, oh I can't wait to tell Sev."
"Sirius I'm gay, listen to me, I'm gay, bent, a fag, whatever you want to call it, there is no pretty little lady because I couldn't care less about ladies," Harry sighs and Sirius turns around at the top of the stairs to stare at his son.
"Why didn't you tell anyone? Did you tell anyone?"
"Only Luna, and only because she has a thing for Ginny. And I um, I have a pretty good guess as to who my mates are, but I don't know how well it will be taken."
"Oh okay then, well do you want to go downstairs and we can meet him for the first time in your true form?"
Sighing again Harry decided to just follow Sirius, knowing exactly what would happen when everyone found out he had two mates not just one. There was bound to be someone with feelings hurt and two someone's with mixed emotions and he just hoped they would understand. If they didn't he would literally die of heartbreak and Hermione had told him that afternoon it would be the most painful way someone could picture dying. This was going to be hell.
As they reached the bottom of the stairs the eyes on them in the dining room were wide and everyone seemed to be staring at Harry, but there were only two sets of eyes that mattered to the boy, those of his mates', sitting at the table with parchment. In three steps Harry was at the table, sitting with the twins and focused soley on them. He didn't even notice as order members entered the dining room or as the two youngest Weasley's stared in utter horror as Harry dropped into the chair and began to just watch the twins.
To Harry sitting with his mates was normal, instantly, but everyone in the room was a little confused as to why it was his first instinct, especially when Fred and George got slightly confused and looked at each other with hopeful glances. Harry misread this however, and stood before retreating to his and Ron's bedroom with a tear falling down his cheek. Something inside his heart broke with that look, like he couldn't feel joy without their approval and they certaintly didn't seem to approve.
Both boys wanted to follow but something made them stop, maybe this was rejection, maybe they were too hopeful, maybe this wasn't what the universe wanted and it had just been some kind of cruel prank.
Snape steps out of the shadows, "Surely you can't be speechless right now, a million jokes and pranks and the most important moment of your life comes and you've got nothing?"
"Boys what's wrong? What on earth just happened?" Molly Weasley sounds angry, but the buzz around the room has little to do with what just happened and more to do with the fact Harry is a Junivi, something the wizarding world hadn't seen since Voldemort was a child.
"He doesn't"
"Want us Mum,"
"He doesn't want us now, after all these years, after we have gone through everything just wanting him…"
"George let's go outside, I don't want to be too close in case he loses his mind. He's probably mad at us."
George and Fred rise from the table and walk into the pitch black of the burrow's yard, walking close together with hands brushing once in awhile but neither boy laces their fingers together and for the first time since all of this started everyone feels the pain the boys felt for all these months. The boys were in love with Harry but it was plain to see the boys had a special bond, a strange love that neither boy could explain as anything but true, romantic feelings, but right now their souls hurt.
"Sirius go talk to your godson, he can't reject the boys, I may not be thrilled my boys are bonded to a elf warrior but honestly I'd rather that than have three dead boys here in a few hours. We fought too hard to keep the kids alive, your stupid godson isn't going to let all of them die of heartbreak." Molly Weasley was angry, rounding on Sirius and Snape scoffs.
"Maybe I should go to Harry and you can go to the twins Sirius, it would be good for them to hear from someone on their end of the arrangement." Eyes pass confused glances around the room and Sirius' widen as he realizes what Severus is doing, getting ready to spill their secret.
Walking slowly to Severus, Sirius takes a deep breath, and almost invisibly puts up a bubble around them before Sev lets down the glamour and his submissive mate cuddles against his side. Gasps come from everywhere in the room, and Siri kisses Sev's cheek. "Um and by the way, we're Harry's real parents, James and Lily were just watching him that night. Their son died the night they did, our boy just managed to live."
Hermione shakes her head, clearly not having expected any of this but now seeing all of the clues and the signs, and Remus and Tonks smile, as they were the only two who knew prior to that night.
"I don't care which one of you goes to who but I think it might be time you need to go… Our kids lives are at stake and it seems like the twins are just as upset as Harry is and I swear to god Sirius if your son kills my boys there will be hell to pay."
No one, however, seemed to notice Charlie slip out the back door, and he ran to catch up to his younger brothers. The three boys sat in the grass of the field and George laid his head on Fred's lap, whether the boys admit it or not Fred was the sensitive one but George was the boy that needed physical attention, and being the younger of the two he was even more submissive, something Harry had noticed through observation but you wouldn't normally notice about the twins given how outgoing they both seemed.
Even Charlie seemed surprised to see the younger twin so openly cuddle with his bother, a romantic yet needy position he felt honored to see even though he knew the only reason he was was because he had just been rejected by his mate.
But here is the thing that really bothered Charlie, it hit really close to home, and not just because these were his brothers. Charlie was a junivi elf as well, and for 4 years had known that he had a mate within his own family who he was certain would never accept him. He had gone through his transition ages ago, and every day he spent in Romania he felt like he was getting one day closer to dying from heartbreak, to the point he had been drinking, a lot. Hiding this from his family was hard and maybe this is what finally needed to happen to help Charlie straighten out his life.
Fred plays with George's hair, running his fingers gently through the red locks and he gently strokes the boys soft, fluffy hair. George bites his lip to keep from cryingas his slightly older brother tries to soothe him, but a few stray tears do fall down his face. Neither boy even acknowledges Charlie until the oldest of the three casts a muffliato around them and decides to share his secret with them.
"Boys I'm going to tell you something you cannot tell Mum or Dad okay?"
Both boys look up at Charlie and he takes it as a promise and drops his glamour so they can see his true form, with emerald green hair that has blonde streaks running through it, olive skin and hazelnut eyes.
"Who is you're mate?"
"And how did you leave her to come back here just for this?" For the first time tonight both twins were energetic and almost back to their old selves.
"When can we meet her? She's from Romania isn't she?" Fred has completely forgotten about the rejection from his mate but it seems that George hasn't by the way he stays cuddled against his twin. Charlie really did feel badly for the boys but this was going to be more mortifying for the eldest of the three than he particularly wanted to deal with.
"Actually um… you all know my mate but he doesn't know so you can't tell him," the elf avoided his brothers' confused glances and continued, "I've known for four years Percy is my mate but because of something with him I fear rejection so I figured out how to live without rejection or mated life and I'm doing my best, maybe drinking a bit too much but so far I've made it four years without dying and without my mate even having any idea," Charlie rushes through the sentences as quickly as possible and both of the twins are staring with the most incredible expressions of confusion and in Fred's case glee.
"You, Charlie, are mated to Percy? Poor Percy who could never have the balls to get anywhere near a scary dragon?" Fred laughs as if it 's the funniest thing ever, and Charlie's temper flairs slightly.
"Yes Fred, yes, I'm mated to Percy who saved your ass from detention and who dealt with all the embarrassing shit from you all those years he was at Hogwarts. Maybe instead of laughing at me you should consider the fact your mate just walked away from you. I've had to hide who I am for years and you guys were rejected just for being you. Grow up." And with that Charlie left, anger burning through them and he didn't even care about the tears silently streaming down Fred's face or the hiccuping sobs coming from George.
Sirius and Charlie bumped into each other on the path from the yard to the burrow and Siri's eyes widened when he realized what he was looking at but Charlie was too angry to care. He pushes past Sirius and continues towards the house, the door opening with more force than absolutely needed and as a dish crashes to the floor Charlie realises what he's done. He just showed everyone his true form and had completely blown the fact he was Junivi.
"Charlie what are you… How did you… When… This isn't possible!" Molly Weasley didn't even try to clean up the shattered plate on the floor and Charlie spells it back together onto the counter.
"Not tonight Mum, tonight is about Harry and the twins," with a sigh he begins to climb the stairs but then his heightened hearing began to pick up on something, and all of a sudden he knew his mate was panicking again, a too familiar feeling and with an increase in his temper due to the twins verbally attacking his mate Charlie is at Percy's side in an instant, faster than humanly possible even with magic, his Junivi abilities making his protect his mate.
Gathering the twenty three year old in his arms he sits on the plush carpeted living room floor letting the boy cry, silently casting a visual and verbal sheild so the were blocked from sight and sound of the order other than just a loop of his magic.
Tonight was going to be a long night, but then again the nights Percy melted down always were. You see Percy Weasley had autism and althoughthe younger siblings didn't know Bill and Charlie had been old enough to remember things before Percy got diagnosed and all the things that changed after.
Cooing softly he rubs Percy's back and runs his fingers over his spine in a soft, methodical way. He can see everything going on outside their private bubble and there appears to be commotion in the living room and he is never more grateful that Percy has buried his head in Charlie's chest and he is oblivious to anything except for the breathing and touch of his dominant. Apperantly he would have quite a bit of explaining to do once his mate was calm but for right now his whole priority was right here in this bubble and he wouldn't be okay until Percy was calm.
Slowly the boy stops crying, but before Charlie can ask if he is okay Percy's breathing evens out and he is asleep on Charlie's lap, wraped around his dominant and he looks so peaceful Charlie is having trouble even considering moving the boy, especially this being the first time he has ever held his mate so he stays put but he drops the shielding, allowing him to hear and fully see everything and he no longer has them hidden now that the vulnerable moment is over and now he is simply holding his sleeping mate. As soon as the shield comes down all eyes are on the boys and Charlie gives a glare around the room almost daring for someone to bother his mate, god he sure wanted to see someone try. And then Harry walks into the room with Severus Snape…