Ron's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Patreon)

I have been absurdly busy, but not too busy to for s-m-u-t! I love this trio. I screamed when I saw it won the poll. There are shockingly few fics of the three of them (especially given how popular the ships are individually) but they're my favorite. There was a time when 27% of the Harry/Hermione/Tom fics on Ao3 were gifts to me. I ask for them for every gift exchange.

Usually I imagine them as a equally powered triad taking over the world, but I wanted something a little darker this time. Is it manipulation? Are they in love? Who knows! Not Ron. But he does have some big feelings about it.

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Tags: Ron PoV | Romione situationship | is it cheating if you're not actually dating? | no Ron bashing but he's having a real shit day and it's only going to get worse

Ron stuffs his hands in his pockets and kicks the pebbles at his feet. He’s brooding. He knows it, but he can’t stand Tom. It used to just be the three of them. The bloody golden trio, together against Voldemort, and now he’s being replaced by literal Voldemort.

He planned everything. Harry kills Voldemort. They win the war. He proposes to Hermione. She says yes. Happy ending.

But it’s eight years after the battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort is still alive, and his bloody horcrux-self is sharing a bloody bunk in the bloody tent. He might go by Tom, but they all know he’s still Voldemort, and Ron hates him. He hates the way he looks at Hermione, that they spend nights awake, alone, researching and that she smiles — bloody smiles — when the sociopath says something clever. Harry watches him, and he watches Harry. It’s so much worse than Malfoy sixth year. It’s obsessive, and he hates it. There’s something weird about the whole thing but he reckons nothing could ever be normal with bloody Tom involved. 

He fiddles with the ring in his pocket. He’s going to ask her. They’re not dating, but they’re together, aren’t they? They live together (in a tent, with Harry and bloody Tom, but still together). They’re trying to save the world together, and he wants some bit of normal in this whole bloody mess. He’s not going to be replaced by bloody buggering twat waffle Tom.

He pulls aside the tent flap and steps inside. Tom. Bloody fucking niffler wanking cock sucking Tom. And Hermione. And Harry. On top of each other. Oh gods. 

“Hello, Ronald.”

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