The Silver Trio
Hippolyta, Sev and Sirius were returning from the Quidditch pitch.
"I have noticed that you refrain from saying affectionate words to Hippolyta, you always call her by her name," Sev told Sirius. "Don't be shy, she is very affectionate and she needs it, at least when the three of us are alone, she's not going to think badly of you."
"Great, Sev," the Gryff responded. "Because after the storm of feelings these days and the disappointment I had yesterday with Lily, I feel very, very in need of affection."
"Well, if you befriend Valerie, she's going to give it to you, she's the ideal person for that. She is very emotional and affectionate, in that she doesn't look like Sly at all, she will do you a lot of good."
"Great, Sev."
"And also with Cecile tonight, trust her. She will understand it perfectly, Cecile is a great expert on the human soul. She was the one who helped Lily appreciate me the most."
"Oh…"
"Without barely knowing me," the Sly added, "She told her all the time, he is a jewel, he is a treasure."
"Oh…"
"That's it, Sirius, give me your hand," Hippolyta said.
Sirius took her hand. "Thanks sweetie."
"Do you want to come to the clearing with us and so Prince will teach you at the same time as me?"
"Don't you care?"
"Not at all, Sirius, we kill two birds with one stone, we'll take away Cecile's work for the night," said Sev.
"Great, then."
"Won't they miss you?"
"Stop worrying about my pretenses, Sev, I'm a specialist."
From when he ran away to see his girls, the Sly thought. "I do not doubt it."
"I'm also a specialist," said the girl. "Can we tell Sirius our secret, Prince?"
That we slept together, she's dying to tell someone, Sev thought. "What secret, Hippolyta?"
"What we did last night after playing the piano."
To divert attention. "Ah! Sirius, do you know that Filch caught us coming home?" said Sev.
"What are you saying?" Sirius asked, laughing.
"What you are hearing. On the last flight of stairs in front of the Great Hall. We ran away so he wouldn't punish the kids."
"Excellent!"
The three of them laughed.
"A clean laugh from there to the dungeons," the Sly added.
"Wow... how angry he must have been."
"Indeed, he could hear our laughter echoing through the corridor."
"We should have accompanied you to the dungeons," said Black.
"Before the end of the term I'll take you to see our house, you'll love it."
"Great, all I have left to do is get to know the Huffle. What a house the eagles have, huh?"
"The best in the castle by far, the terrace is spectacular," said Sev.
"Of course, what a privilege. And here I thought Gryff was the favorite house."
"That is because of the old man and Minerva, but remember that the castle is more than a thousand years old and I don't know if you know that it was Rowena Ravenclaw who searched and decided its location."
"Of course I know," the Gryff responded. "I have also read that book about the history of Hogwarts, for some reason I already knew the existence of the Room of Requirement."
"Sure."
"What is the Room of Requirement, Sirius?" asked Hippolyta.
"The place where we were last night playing the piano, pretty," Black responded. "I'll explain it to you if you promise to keep the secret."
"Let Prince tell you how reliable I am."
"She is, Sirius," said Sev. "Tell her."
"That place in the castle is used to ask for anything you can think of," the Gryff explained. "You ask for it and it appears behind the door."
"Wooow..." Hippolyta exclaimed.
"Anything you can think of, even a forest if you feel like it."
"Prince! Then we can go there whenever we want."
"No, honey, not when we want, when no one needs it," Sev objected. "We have to take turns using it, because if there is someone inside who has asked for something, no one else can enter unless they ask for the same thing."
"Oh, what a shame…"
"And you shouldn't go alone either, not for the moment. When you want to go, tell me, Valerie or Deborah, and we'll go with you."
"Okay," the girl agreed.
"Sure?"
Hippolyta walked around them in front to look him in the eyes, walking backwards, still holding Sirius's hand. "Sure, Prince. I'm going to behave very well after all the trouble I've given you."
"That's how I like it, honey. Go on, walk normally again, don't trip."
"Okay." Hippolyta returned to her place next to Sirius, they had already headed towards the Forest. "Can I continue telling you what we did when we got home?"
I'm going to give her permission, I don't care if Sirius finds out, and thus test once again how trustworthy she is, Sev thought.
"Yes, Hippolyta, tell him."
"The three of us threw ourselves on the couch laughing."
"Wow... how good..." Black laughed.
"And then we spent a long time pampering each other."
"Great, then your anger was over before you go to bed."
"That is, and I convinced Prince not to read me, this morning I told him the whole truth," continued the girl.
She didn't say anything, Sev thought. She has already noticed that I diverted his attention earlier.
"I'm very glad, because he would have had a very hard time having to do it, sweetie," said the Gryff.
"I'm never going to lie to him again, or do anything without first consulting with him, because he knows very well the things that need to be done, even better than my parents."
"True, and he loves you so much that he will always protect you before anything else. You must trust him, from now on he will no longer be able to read you to protect you from yourself, and you had very misbegotten ideas, sweetie."
"What is misbegotten?" she asked.
"Nonsense, risky, reckless."
"What is reckless?"
"Reckless is someone who is too brave, does not think about the real danger that things pose and puts their life or that of others at risk without need," Black responded. "You have to have a certain fear of things, being afraid does not mean not being brave, being brave means being able to overcome that fear despite everything, but always thinking things through very carefully, so as not to take unnecessary risks."
A Gryff who knows exactly what it means to have courage, Sev thought.
"Sure…"
"Like me when I protect myself from my cousin," Sirius continued. "It's not that I'm afraid of her, but why take unnecessary risks? I go to Diagon when I know I won't cross her."
"Sure…"
"Or like your Dad when he crosses her and leaves quickly, Hippolyta," Sev told her. "It's not that he's afraid of her, it's simply that he doesn't risk having her read him, and he does very well."
"Sure…"
"Another example," Black continued. "I am very, very afraid, terrified, of killing my brother in a battle as you yourself have realized, and that is why I have just decided that I will not fight in battles. That doesn't make me less brave, I just don't want to be faced with something that would destroy me for life, I would never get over it."
"I understand you perfectly, because despite everything he is your brother and you love him very much."
"That is. You have to be brave but not reckless. And put your own life before everything else, because if you die, you don't know anything, you don't suffer, but all the people who love you suffer, and for Prince and your parents it would be worse for you to die than for them to die themselves."
"Sure…"
"That is why you must preserve your life at all costs, pretty," the Gryff concluded.
"I will, Sirius."
They remained silent for a long minute. What a good influence Sirius has on Hippolyta, Sev thought. Great, they are going to be neighbors, they can see each other whenever they want, we also have to introduce him to their parents as soon as possible. If they have trusted me, they will trust him. He is also famous in the Wizarding World, the Blacks black sheep, the bravest of his lineage. And now that he has matured and changed as a person, he is truly exceptional, the times that the three of us can spend alone are going to be fantastic, we are going to become inseparable. Wow, I don't think I'm going to miss Lily as much as I thought, nor will he.
A new affinity group, the three of us will go and have a snack with the remaining Death Eaters when Hippolyta comes of age as she proposed to me yesterday. A silver-green out of three, luck for Hippolyta. I already have the name, the Silver Trio.
And tomorrow we are also going to take Hippolyta and Ariel to the Room of Requirement party, I don't want to sleep on the beach anymore, I will come back when the Gryffs come back or even before, so I can sleep with Hippolyta too tomorrow, three nights in a row, lucky for her.
Because the last night is for Lauren, with her I will sleep on the beach, but dressed, without doing anything, I know that she will respect me just as I respected her when she was undecided.
Finally Hippolyta spoke. "Sirius, are you getting sad again for your brother?"
"No, sweetie, I was thinking how lucky I am to have you both as friends, you are the best thing that has happened to me in a long time," Black responded.
"I copy you, Sirius," said Sev.
"So, can I let go of your hand for a moment to ask Prince a question in private?" the girl asked.
"Of course, Hippolyta, without any problem."
She walked around them, Sev stopped, Sirius took a few more steps.
I know what she wants to ask me, if she can tell Sirius that we slept together, Sev thought. "Let's see, you can't stand it, huh? I already know what you want to ask me."
"Let's see, what?" she asked.
"If you can tell Sirius that we slept together."
"That is."
"You can tell him," he agreed.
"Know that it is not because I feel like telling him, it is because he is a boy and he will understand you better than the girls so that you can talk to him and he gives you advice. If you want, tell him, in private, but tell him."
"How wise you are, Hippolyta."
"Your favorite phrase."
"I think the three of us can talk about it."
"Okay, so now you put yourself in the center," the girl proposed.
"Okay."
They went to where Sirius was.
"According to Hippolyta, it's my turn, Sirius, so you're going to stay without holding her hand for a while," Sev said.
"It doesn't matter, you also need a lot of support today."
He knows what the topic is about.
They continued walking towards the Forest, Hippolyta took Sev's hand.
"Who starts, Hippolyta?" he asked.
"You start, Prince, your way, it's your problem."
"Very good. Sirius told me earlier, as we walked to the field, how badly Lily behaved last night when I left. She didn't care that I was angry with her and that you were also upset, and not only that, when I went to pick you up to go play the piano, since I didn't invite her, she made Remus stay with her so she wouldn't be left alone. and that's why he couldn't come with us."
"She also got angry with you."
"No, it wasn't for that. Explain it to her, Sirius." Sev asked.
"Lily has stopped loving Prince because she has fallen in love with me, she was comfortable with me and ignored everything else," said the Gryff.
"Ugh…" she was indignant. "Indeed she doesn't deserve you, Prince, what I told her yesterday. Have you apologized to her?"
"Yes, of course I have," the Sly responded.
"And that I apologized, have you told her?"
"No, not that, I haven't had the chance."
"Then don't even think about doing it," she said. "How angry it makes me now to have trusted her yesterday."
"Nothing happens because you did it. What I was telling you this morning, feelings can change."
"Those of some people, inconstant. Yours for her didn't change in seven years. Mine for you are not going to change either."
That she doesn't like change, that's her characteristic, Sev thought.
"Not even mine for you, Sev," Sirius took him by his shoulders.
"And don't be with her either, Sirius, so it won't be so easy for her to change her boyfriend. She would also play it with you when she got tired of you, she doesn't deserve you either."
"I had already thought about it, Hippolyta, that's why Cecile is going to teach me Occlumency and not her."
"Very well done, Sirius. And not only for you, but also for Prince. You would be a very bad friend to him if you were with her now, after how she played the game."
"Of course I do it for that reason too."
"What happens is that now you're not going to have anyone to be with in the summer but me, Prince. Can you be with the other girl you can't tell who she is?"
"No, I'm not going to see her all summer," Sev responded.
"Then you will be alone with me."
"That is."
"Unless you love someone else again, but really, huh?" said the girl. "Don't be in a mess again."
"No, honey, calm down. I'm going to let the whole summer pass."
"Do you go on or do I go on?"
"You go on, I'm a bit embarrassed to tell Sirius," Sev responded.
"I knew it. Everything makes you embarrassed, Prince."
"You were also embarrassed to tell me things this morning."
"But because they were very new things for me, I didn't understand them," she explained. "What Sirius said before about being brave and overcoming fear, well, we also have to overcome embarrasment, we don't have to be ashamed, we haven't done anything wrong."
"You are absolutely right, Hippolyta."
"I'll tell him and that way you'll learn. Last night Prince and I slept together."
"Oh..." Sirius said.
"In the afternoon he didn't even want to take a nap with me, out of bed."
"I understand, Hippolyta."
"But then he proposed it to me, he couldn't wait."
"I didn't propose it to you for that reason, honey, but because you told me that you hadn't slept with anyone since you were little," Sev clarified.
"But at night you told me that you were looking forward to it. Did you lie to me?"
"No, Hippolyta, it was true."
"And now do you feel like it?"
"Of course I do."
"Then we're not canceling tonight," the girl deduced.
"Of course not."
"Very good. Give us your opinion, Sirius. We have slept in pajamas and in the morning we have give each other three pecks. Have we done something we shouldn't have done?"
"Of course not, Hippolyta," Black replied.
"Is it clear to you, Prince?"
"Yes, honey," Sev responded.
"More questions, Sirius. I've been wanting to kiss him for days now but he doesn't want to, he says not for a long time. Can he kiss me if he changes his mind?"
"Of course he can," replied the Gryff. "But don't play it with him, don't give it to him if he doesn't want to."
"Is it clear to you, Prince?"
"It's clear to me, Hippolyta," he replied.
"More questions, Sirius. Last night, when I saw the drunks on the floor, I wanted, for the first time in my life, to do boyfriend things with him."
"Ugh… you shouldn't have seen that," Black said.
"I also saw him with Deborah at the last house party, eating each other like crazy."
"I'm very sorry, Hippolyta," said Sev.
"Don't worry so much about me. I know very well what the issue is about, my parents don't hold back in front of me and when I was little and went to their room, I caught them more than once, and they have always explained everything to me in a way that I could understand it. I call it boyfriend things to be softer, but I know the name of all the things."
"Oh…"
"Of course, they never lock themselves in with Fermio in case I need something," she explained.
"Of course."
"Well as I went. That I want to sleep without pajamas with him like I did with my parents when I was little, because I really like the warmth of the skin, and he has told me that he likes it too, but of course, since I already have the desire to do boyfriend things, he doesn't want to, because he says that I'm going to have more desire and I'm going to have a bad time."
"He's right, Hippolyta," said the Gryff. "If you sleep without pajamas you'll feel more like it, and maybe he will too."
"I'm sure not, Sirius," said the Sly.
"The treacherous morning ones, Sev."
"True."
"What's that?" asked the girl.
"What happens to us boys when we want to do boyfriend things," Black explained.
"That it get up," she deduced.
"That is. Sometimes we wake up like this, without even thinking about it."
"Well, well, it wouldn't scare me in the least, it's something natural."
"Well yes. Besides, it can happen to us even if we sleep in pajamas," the Gryff added.
"True," said Sev.
"Then the only problem is me, and I decide not to be a problem," Hippolyta said. "I prefer to take the risk of wanting to do boyfriend things and having to put up with the urge as I already can withstand the urge to kiss him and be able to sleep without pajamas. What do you think Sirius?"
"That you both must decide," he replied.
"I have already decided. Give him some advice, man."
"Alright. This is my advice, Sev. If you are sure that you are not going to feel like it and even if you do, you will know how to restrain yourself, and I am sure that you are perfectly capable, grant her what she is asking of you. She will respect you, and in any case, she can do it herself later, so she will also learn for the future."
"True," Sev said. "Hippolyta, honey, have you ever touched yourself?"
"I haven't," answered the girl.
"Well, when you think about boyfriend things, you can touch yourself and give yourself pleasure. Talk to Valerie, Deborah or Cecile about those things, they know a lot. Just like I need to talk to a boy, you also need to talk to girls who know and advise you."
"Sure. But I don't tell them that we slept together."
"You can do it to Deborah," he gave her permission. "We're going to have to team up with her to be able to do it in the summer, I can't count on Lily anymore."
"Of course not, I don't want to do it either."