HP ficlet: Both of You [Bill/Charlie/Tonks, general]
Title: Both of You Author: celandineb Fandom: HP Pairing: Bill/Charlie/Tonks Rating: general Length: 267 words Summary: Tonks prefers Quidditch players... or so Bill thinks, but Charlie isn't sure. Note: For ragdoll, at the request of coffee_n_cocoa who suggested Charlie/Tonks/Bill, Quidditch competitiveness, lighthearted.
"I don't believe it." Charlie stared at his older brother. "You're bloody jealous!"
Bill's face was red. "Am not."
"You are, too." Charlie was in no doubt. "For Merlin's sake, you're already Head Boy this year. You can't honestly have expected to be captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team too?"
Bill bit his lip and shrugged. "There's a girl..."
"Come on. You can have any girl you fancy at Hogwarts, and you know it." Then curiosity got the better of Charlie. "Who is it, anyhow?"
"Tonks. That Hufflepuff in your year, the one who's the Metamorphmagus."
They both turned to look at the Hufflepuff table. Tonks was plainly visible, not just because of her bubblegum-pink hair, but because she had evidently just knocked over a glass of pumpkin juice and had leapt up to avoid it having it drip all over her robes from the edge of the table.
"What, she doesn't go out with Head Boys?" Charlie loaded his voice with scorn, but inside he was thinking seriously. If she really did prefer Quidditch players, then maybe he had a chance, although girls in general seemed invariably to prefer Bill to Charlie. "Tell you what. Next Hogsmeade weekend, we can ask her to go have a Butterbeer with both of us, and find out then who she'd rather go out with. Deal?"
"Deal." Bill stuck out his hand, and they shook solemnly before returning to their neglected breakfasts.
When they invited her, later that day, Tonks looked from one to the other and grinned. "Go to Hogsmeade with both of you? Wicked. Of course I will."