After the Bite

by Davimoh

Bill and Fleur Weasley live happily at Shell Cottage until a strange man knocks on their door and tells Bill that soon, unless he travels up north to an underwater cave surrounded by magical creatures Bill has never heard of, the poison from his werewolf bite will travel through his system and kill him. Told from Fleur's point of view, this story tells how love can heal, and hur

Chapter One

The Sea was crashing against the rocks. I could smell the salty sea air as I poked my head out into the storm. I closed the window, watching Victoire prance around the room with his brand new wand. His, Bill's old wand, had broken at the end of his last year at Hogwarts.

It was almost time for him to go back to school. It had been a good Summer. They had gone to visit Bill's mother and father earlier in the year, and Harry and Ginny had stayed for a week in July. Ron and Hermione and their family went to Romania with Charlie and still weren't back yet, and Bill was dying to see them.

Bill was trying to get the Quidditch match Harry was playing in on the wireless, but the storm was making it all fuzzy. He walked into the sitting room, still playing around with the little radio. The night was beginning to get really black.

"Come on, Victoire, time for bed," I said, patting his shoulder and taking him to his room. He bent his head, yawning into his shoulder. I put him down in his bed, and went to answer a knock on the door, that shouldn't be sounding this late.