Title: Second Times a Charm

Pairing: Bill/Brazilian Pen-friend

Challenge: Unusual Ships

Prompt: Bill/Brazilian pen-friend (who's revealed to have been a girl all along, with the two of them sending each other romantic letters- and with the cursed hat providing the impetus for Bill to become an expert in the field of curse-breaking, since its curse didn't just shrivel up his ears...)

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the pen friend.

A/n Written using the prompt Singhsong posted in the thread for the Unusual Ships Challenge. It was different and I really enjoyed playing this out in my mind as I wrote it.

Second Times a Charm

Bill,

I'm deeply upset you can't come. I would have greatly enjoyed meeting you in person and being able to finally go to Britain. Experiencing Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, and the rest of your wizard world. Also making use of that tree house you so aptly described wanting to ravish me in.

I would have loved to show you around Brazil and the Brazilian Wizardry School. Oh, you would have loved it.

To make up for you not being able to come I sent you a gift! The rest of this letter will reveal it's self after you open and what-not.

Bill smiled at the thoughtfulness of his pen-friend. Sam was a wonderful person.

Bill ripped into the packaging and out came a hat. Hm, weird. The rest of the letter still hadn't revealed itself so Bill put the hat on and went to the mirror on the back of the door. At that moment he felt a tingling on his body, What the? Looking in the mirror his ears have shrunken beneath the hat and the tingling increased between his thighs. Oh no. Not that.

Rushing to the letter Bill hastens to read it.

You really think you could get off that easily?! Getting my hopes up and crushing them? Not likely ass-hat. Enjoy your shrunken bits.

Sam.

"MOM" the young Bill yells.

Some years later

Bill hurried into the Ministries atrium knowing he was late to meet with everyone else to head for lunch. It was the weekly lunch him, his father, Percy, Ron, Harry, and Hermione went out to since they all worked at the Ministry and Bill was now permanently at Gringotts.

Rushing up to the group, "Sorry guys. The goblins brought in new artifacts and well you know how I am." Bill grins sheepishly.

Hermione waves her hand, "No worries Bill. I get it. Anyways let me introduce you to Samantha Vazquez. She's doing an article for the daily profit on the daily life of me." Hermione says looking a tad annoyed. Looking I notice the extra women. Women indeed she was. Tall statuesque build, naturally tan skin, dark eyes, long wavy black hair. The suit dress leaving too much to Bills imagination as he gives her a once over.

Seeing the opportunity, Bill impishly smiled with dimples, and offered his hand in a handshake to greet her, "Well hello, names William Weasley but everyone calls me Bill. Resident Curse breaker at Gringotts."

She seemed to be holding in a laugh and shook his hand, "As Mrs. Granger said my names Samantha but call me Sam. Ring any bells? Maybe your dangly bits remember being shrunken for a while years ago?" At this she couldn't hold it in anymore.

It seemed to click for all the Weasley's present who exactly this was except Bill. Looking slightly confused he turns to his family and surprisingly it's Ron who answers, "Remember your 6th year Bill? The pen-friend who cursed you?" He managed to get out before succumbing to laughter.

Embarrassed Bill runs a hand through his hair and states, "I tend to try and forget that trip to St. Mungos."

Sam who's has fortunately stopped laughing finally, "If it's any consolation, I felt bad afterwards. Just didn't know how to apologize." She says sheepishly.

Bill always on his A game though quips a reply, "Well if you really want to make it up to me how about dinner? Tonight?"

Laughing she takes his hand and nods.