Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Trinity ❯ Trust and Distrust ( Chapter 3 )

As Trinity slowly sat up she grimly acknowledged that she had had worse days before. Still, her head pounded and her body ached like it was the morning after one of her transformations and added to that she felt sick to her stomach, shaky and freezing cold even though she was covered with any number of blankets. Like a smell she could hear loud voices wafting slowly up the steps and with a grown she got out of bed- grabbing the nearest thing for support- and slowly started her journey down the stairs.

 

 

 

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“ She's in the Order…THE ORDER!”

“ Trinity's very gifted Molly it's a gift we couldn't waste.” Reasoned Remus.

“ Trinity is to young to be in the Order!”

The argument had been going on for at least a half-hour in the living room of number twelve Grimauld place. After Trinity collapsed unexpectedly a small portion of the original crowd of people (Tonks, Mad-Eye Moody, Harry, Hermione and Bill, Fred, George, Ron and Ginny Weasley along with Mr.Weasley, Remus Lupin and a rather angry Mrs. Weasley) had gathered in the living room. All others had gone home after the rushed-less exciting then they had originally planned- meeting.

“ Molly dear, Trinity is of age.” Arthur Weasley said quietly as he tried to calm his wife.

“ We know nothing about her! What if she's You Know Who's spy? What are these gifts you keep speaking of? Why did she faint like that? Don't you find that suspicious?” Molly questioned hysterically.

“ Molly when Harry fainted a lot during his fourth year you never thought HE was a Death Eater.” Murmured Remus.

“ We KNOW Harry, We KNOW he will never join You Know Who's side. That girl seems pleasant enough, but what's stopping her from joining the Death Eaters, and I still haven't been told about this WONDERFUL gift that signed her up in the first place without most members' and my knowledge.”

Trinity sighed quietly and leaned against the wall from her position on the stairs. Truthfully she was surprised Molly hadn't straight kicked her out on her ass yet. Molly was an extremely kind person but quite understandably she was worried about her family in these dark days since Voldemort had returned, these days in which no one could be truly trusted. Trinity stood soundlessly and made her way up the stairs without so much as a creak she intended to go unnoticed but the whole time- from her descent until she had walked slowly up the stairs again using the railing for support- a pair of green eyes had followed her.

 

 

 

 

 

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Trinity used the wall as support as she made her way to a room she knew well, even if she had never been there. Hagrid upon learning of a mission back to the mountains for The Order had asked Harry if Buckbeak could stay in the room he had stayed in while Sirius was alive. Harry had of course agreed at once, knowing Hagrid would be happier if he knew Buckbeak was being well taken care of. Trinity hadn't known this of course. All she knew was that there was a rather handsome Hippogriff-who she felt was named Buckbeak - living in the room next to her. Using the door frame for support she curtsied low and waited until Buckbeak had bowed before walking up to him and bowing politely again, only after did she reach up to fearlessly pet the bridge of Buckbeak's sharp beak. Humming nonchalantly as she grabbed a chair and dragged it by the hippogriff- she had decided trusting her legs right now was NOT a good idea- so she could sit, she began speaking softly.

“Wow, I can tell by your eyes you must be really intelligent.” She murmured knowing that hippogriffs liked being praised. The great beast nodded its head slowly, so she continued. “I wonder who knew you…. Buckbeak? Is that your name?” Buckbeak nodded once more and Trinity gently stroked the feathers covering one shoulder. “ Who ever it was must have liked you a great deal, but they certainly did hate this house.” Trinity pondered aloud.

“ What do you mean by that? How on earth would you know?” Inquired an angry voice behind her.

Harry Potter was confused and as of late what made him confused made him pissed. Yes he Ron and Hermione had “known” Trinity for a year but obviously she had been hiding a lot of things from them, lying to them. For starters she hadn't told them she was in The Order and now she somehow knew something about Sirius even though the subject had only been mentioned a couple of times and never elaborated on and though he knew she was close to Remus Lupin he hardly mentioned Sirius and was gone most of the time doing work for The Order. Also he couldn't figure where she had heard Buckbeak's real name before. Hagrid only called him by his true name around Hermione, Ron and himself. She had only heard him referred to as “Witherwings” and when Hagrid had asked him about keeping Buckbeak at Number twelve Grimauld Place she hadn't been there. In reaction to his words Trinity had jumped.

`I must be pretty tired usually I would have sensed him.' She acknowledged grimly. Upon noticing he was still glaring at her she turned in her seat to face him fully.

“ It would have been revealed at the meeting.” She said in a voice barely above a whisper. “ But you deserve to know, I guess.”

“ Damn right I do.” Harry snarled. “ Now tell me, what have you been hiding from us?” Trinity stood shakily.

“ First, do you think you could tell me who lived here? Who hates this place?”

“ My Godfather Sirius Black lived here until he died last year and he loathed this house.” Harry answered quickly.

“ It was Mr. Sirius-san?” Trinity asked surprised. “ But he's usually such a charming ghost, a little grumpy at times but….”

“ What did you just say?” demanded Harry quickly. “ Repeat what you just said.”

“ I've never seen Mr. Sirius-san's ghost act with such a grudge before. Usually he's smiling or joking around with….”

“ What do you mean his ghost? He passed on didn't he? And how do you know this?”

“ Err his soul has until he is released from behind the veil and then his soul will return to his body so he kinda passed on I guess. I…I know because…because I can see ghosts and talk to them.” Trinity finished in a rush all the while mentally preparing herself for the blow she knew was coming. Trinity expected him to laugh at her, to ask if she was crazy or to blow up because she had known him for a year and had still not told him. She did not expect him rush forward and hug her.

“ Does this mean you can talk to Sirius? Is he still alive?”

“ Yes.” She answered burying her face in his chest the feeling of dizziness swamping her. She swayed slightly on her feet and Harry held her tighter so she wouldn't fall.

“ To what question?”

“ Both. But Harry it's not like he can be alive again unless we can find the other item matching the veil. Mr.Dumbledore-San said it was like the cabinets that allowed the death eaters in the school. The veil's another broken item of transportation only it's broken from the side we need to find, leaving Sirius stuck somewhere in the rift.”

“ I know but there's a chance right?”

“ A slim one, yes.” Trinity flinched as Harry jumped and abruptly let go of her, a slight blush dusting his cheeks.

“ I am happy to see that you are awake Trinity.” Smirked Remus from the doorway, he held out one of two steaming goblets of liquid to her.”

`Damn.' Trinity cursed inside her head as she took the offered cup, shuddering from exhaustion and at the thought of the disgusting liquid hitting her taste buds. She sent a redundant glare at the still smirking Lupin, leaning against the doorframe to keep herself upright. Holding her nose and nearly retching as she finally gulped down the whole goblet in one drink.

“ Can't they come up with a way to make this taste slightly more…drinkable.” Grumbled Trinity a rare note of disgust evident in her voice. Remus finished his drink and with a cough and a wince, murmured his answer to her.

“ No, that would help make being a werewolf easier.” His voice still slightly strained.

“ What are we going to do about tonight?”

“ What do you mean? We've both taken the potion we should be fine.” Asked quietly.

“ What room are we going to stay in?”

“ Trinity we don't have to stay in a room, since we'll keep our minds we could lay by the fireplace and no one would care. I highly doubt either you or I will bite someone on purpose.”

“ Oh. Okay.”

“ It's not your fault you're used to it.” Remus said kindly.

 

“ I see Hermione was right. It's nothing surprising we figured it out after the third full moon you were gone.” Harry pointed out. Remus laughed.

“ You mean SHE figured it out and told you two.” He mocked.

“ What ever still amounts to Trinity being a werewolf …and NOT telling us.” Grumbled Harry in retaliation. Trinity flushed pink and looked away.

“I figured you knew and didn't care or you didn't know and in that case I wasn't going to risk telling you.” She answered shyly.

“ Still….” Harry tried to crush Trinity's excuse but was cut off quite abruptly by Remus.

“ It took me more then a year to tell your father, Sirius, and Pettigrew what I am Harry, and by the time I did they had figured it out anyway. It's a secret to be heavily guarded for your own and others safety. Now I believe Molly's making dinner and I for one don't want to miss it.” Harry took the opportunity to glare at Lupin's back as they began too walk out the door but soon found himself unable to continue as he ended up catching Trinity and she stumbled and swayed on her feet having lost hold of the door frame to support herself with. Remus turned around and slung one of Trinity's arms around his shoulders and supported her-leaving Harry to walk freely- as the trudged slowly down the stairs towards the smell of dinner.