"You look like Morgana herself!" cooed the mirror and Ginny smiled complacently.
She knew that the glitter in her eyes was not artificial but came from thinking about him, about his hands on her, the way he had moaned..
" He wants me! ", she whispered to the mirror," if not, he surely had realised that it was me and not Daphne!"
" Whatever you say, dear.." replied the mirror coaxingly.
Irritated, she stared at his copper frame and checked her plunging neckline. It looked still decent but if she bend down, there was not left much to the imagination.
" I really wouldn´t call that flat!", came to her mind. Her full breasts were looking even whiter than usual and the dark green of the dress made her skin shine nearly translucent.
"Let´s see," she murmured as she went downstairs," Tom always said that the colour that fits me best is Slytherin. Let´s see."
Three pairs of eyes stared at her appraisingly as she entered the room.
The owner of the third pair finally coughed sharply and shot a slightly threatening glance at Sirius and Remus who hastily began a conversation about firewhisky.
" Hello Sister!", said Bill and pulled her in one of his famous and strong hugs, " You´re looking gorgeous and mmh - you put on the egyptian stuff for me! Oh I love it, it reminds me at sunny days,- but you knew that, ah thank you Gingin !"
" He, there," he adressed Remus and Sirius," can you smell the perfume Ginny used! I gave it to her, it´s from Egypt! That reminds me, did I ever tell you the story Sirirus, when I met these dog - guards and.."
He plunged in some mad story that apparently demanded Sirius´ best attention as he giggled and snorted from time to time. But Ginny saw how he looked covertly at her under his lashes at times.
Remus saw it too.
When she asked Remus, if he liked her scent, he smiled slowly, tilted his head and whispered unheard:
" I can smell so many things on you, you would be surprised."
He looked at her with his strange, golden eyes.
" But I like, oh yes," he murmured, " every man, I mean every person would find it inticing."
She chuckled flattered and a bit exited and reached over the table for a butterbeer . When she brushed slightly over Sirius´ hand, Remus and her both realised how his knuckles turned white fom his sudden grip on his glass.
" Cat´s got the canary." she smiled inwardly and supported the chat with Lupin again as if nothing had happened.
" I always forget that you were a marauder, too," she said flirtingly to him, " and therefore must have had some mischief on your mind, too."
" People tend to oversee that yes," he agreed friendly and transfigured her butterbeer into firewhisky, " you know, the Beauty and the Brain, thats what they always called us."
" Ha!" snorted Sirius.
" Yes.", Remus confirmed innocently," even if I always thought, that Sirius really isn´t the brightest pencil in the box, but what can you do!"
Bill and Ginny were still laughing about Sirius´ pout when Molly and the houseelves brought the dinner. They ate, chatted amicably and simply enjoyed each others company and friendly talk for a while.
When the meal was finished and they had started to keep themselves occupied with their drinks again, Bill cleared his throat.
" Whats it, Bill?" asked Molly.
"Well, actually, it´s something I wanted to ask Sirius, but I think it doesn´t make much difference if you are here, too." Bill said and Ginny could see that he was nervous. That was unusual.
" Spit it out then, I won´t bite..ha-ha.." said Sirius.
Bill´s grin was a bit stressed.
"Well, you know, umpf. There is this bachelor-list of you, right?" Bill obviously had problems.
"List. Yes." Sirius suddenly didn´t seem to feel so comfortable anymore and his eyes flickered over to Ginny, who stared at him openly. He looked away hastily.
" I wondered if Marla is still on it?"
Sirius looked at Bill uncomprehending.
" The daughter of the russian wandmaker? Gregorovitch?" he asked." Yes, she´s still on, clever woman."
" Umpf well," said Bill, nodded and obviously tried to keep his hands from fidgeting .
Molly Weasly´s scream alarmed several houseelves to a neck-and-neck race. She jumped up and threw herself at Bill.
" Oh my Baby Boy!"
Bills face showed the famous Weasley-tomato-red.
" All grown up! Marrying! What a wonderful choice she is! Oooohh I´m so proud and happy for you!"
Slowly, a comprehending grin creeped over Sirius´ and Remus´ face and they did their best to ensure Bill, that Sirius had not wanted to marry the girl himself, NO, even if she was beautiful, YES and the whole room was in a wild and happy uproar.
Ginny shouted together with everybody and marveled at the tears of joy on Mollys face and the stupid- but-relieved expression on Bills.
She used the opportunity to down another firewhisky together with Remus and even allowed him to give her a small kiss on the cheek.
Sirius had observed them and frowned.
He turned towards Molly and said casually but aloud :
" By the way, someone made a gigantic dirty spot on the armchair in the study, it´s really ugly."
Molly looked at him menacingly.
"What!" he exclaimed," Wolves behave differently! We can be glad, that he doesn´t piss in the corners!"
Remus cried out indignantly and Sirius started to laugh histerically.
Molly shook her head.
" You!", she said, " Both of you, you are worse than the twins!"
She turned towards Ginny.
" Dear," she said lovingly," Bill and me have to aparate home, we have to tell Arthur, oh he will be SO proud! Can you stay on your own tonight?" She was already talking to Bill again when Ginny nodded.
In a fuss, they finally aparated. Before they vanished, Bill suddenly looked thoughtful at Sirius.
" You´re taking responsibility for my sister, Black."
Sirius gulped and looked definitly unhealthy.
He took Bill´s order obviously serious, because as soon as the Weasleys were gone, he looked at Remus.
His friend was showing one of his famous Arithmancy-Divination tricks to the giggling little minx. Sirius had seen Remus doing this intellectual-seducing thingi often enough at Hogwarts and knew how good he was at it.
" Time for bed!", he barked,irritated, " Weasleys go sleeping, Werewolves don´t forget that the moon is in two days and take their potion please. I have to feed Buckbeat now."
He stared them down till they finally retreated, grumbling and pouting.
With a relieved sigh, he went to look after the hippogriff.
Ginny kneeled down on the Smyrma carpet of her room and pulled out the pensive from under the dressing-table. She was in such a sparkling good mood and, she had to admit to herself, a bit drunk.
How she had enjoyed to be in the focus of Remus´ open and Sirius´hidden attention and how annoyed Sirius had become later! And the way he had looked hungrily at her neck when he thought she couldn´t see him.
"Never heard of reflecting polished glasses, ha?" , she thought and dived chuckling into the pensive.
Sirius sighed contently as the elegant fingers of the woman caressed his high checkbones and he pulled her closer..
Ginny moaned and looked more closely at the way he opened his generous mouth just so slightly, - oh! Her hands clasped around her throat and slowly ran down to her breasts..
She was not alone.
Some alarm that had saved her during the battles several times horrified her now again and she did what she had always done: ducking down, grabbing her wand from her ankle-holder, swirling around and pointing at the enemy!
Remus Lupin stood in the bedroom of Sirius´memory, he stood very close to her and he looked wild and dishelved and good.
She let her wand sink down and he said resolutly " FINITE INCATATEM"
The pensive kicked them out, violently as always and when she tried to rise, she found herself even closer to him. He already stood again and helped her up. Didn´t let her hand go.
" You´re really fond of him, arent you!", he whispered slowly and again she could see how golden and glittering his eyes were.
She gulped and nodded helplessly. She could feel how she started blushing, what did he think of her now!
Obviously nothing bad. He looked at her appraisingly and touched her fingertips lightly as a feather.
" You´re blushing everywhere, you know that? I´d like to find out how far this blush goes, down to your navel perhaps?"
His voice was still smooth but had some darker undertone now.
" It´s a nice little plaything, Siri´s pensive, isn´t it? We had much fun with it at school ourselves. But it´s nothing compared to the sight of you, touching yourself. You´re enchanting Ginevra, sensual and I´d really like to teach you more than at school.."
His pupils narrowed unhasty to slits and his voice was more like a soft growl.
Ginny again realised what most people chose to ignore: Remus Lupin was not a human being.
She felt herself getting wet.
In her second year she had had a crush on this man. As many others of her classmates, she too had been reading the literature about werewolf stamina and knew what to expect from a lycantrophic lover.
She made one step forward.
" Mmh.. I can smell how wet you are, have been the whole evening, " he whispered, " come closer.."
She started to drown in these glowing, hypnotising eyes when:
Someone grabbed her hair and yanked back her head brutally.
"What the hell is going on here!" shouted Sirius into her face. She had never seen him so pale and angry.
AN: Lets see lets see, what will happen next?
Thanks again to you all, it means alot to me that you are reading this story and honestly speaking, I can´t resist to check from time to time if there´s a review.. If you want to do me a favour, go and read my one-shot fic " Primary Education", I think it explains a lot .
kisses, swanhild