"You told your family you were bringing someone home with you for the summer, right Charlie?" Audrey swung her rucksack over her shoulder as she looked at the red head walking next to her.
"Of course I did. But I thought I told you to wear something that covered your tattoos. My mum isn't fond of them and I'm bound to have a brother who doesn't." Charlie looked at her arms; color weaving it's way down to her wrists from her back and the unfinished masterpiece on her thigh that poked through her shorts.
"Well if they find out about the ones you're hiding it shouldn't matter." Audrey grinned as the Burrow came into view. "Besides they're not my parents, their disappointment in me having tattoos won't bother me." Charlie snorted and opened the door to his childhood home, Audrey ducking under his arm to get in first. "It's oddly quiet, they knew we were coming today right? Or did you lie to me about how loud your house usually is." Audrey hissed, poking him in the chest.
"Mum? I'm home!" Charlie walked towards the kitchen leaving Audrey standing in front of the door and looking around.
"Who are you?" Audrey turned around and looked for the voice before looking down to find a blond little girl staring up at her.
"Um, I'm a friend of Charlie's. Who are you?" She knelt down and rested her arms on her knees.
"My names Vicky, why do you have drawings all over you?" Vicky – Victoire if Audrey remembered what Charlie told her about his niece – ran a tiny finger over a detailed fox resting on her left wrist.
"Audrey, everyone's out back and ready to meet you if you're-" Charlie stopped as he watched his friend describe all her visible tattoos to his niece. "Hey, Vicky, I see you met Audrey." Victoire looked up from her inspection of Audrey's arms and towards her uncle. "C'mon, everyone wants to meet you Audrey." He watched as Audrey stood, picking up Victoire on the way as the little girl looked at the tattoos on her shoulders and followed Charlie out into the backyard.
The chatter ceased the minute everyone looked at Audrey, who was murmuring quietly to Victoire when she asked questions about certain tattoos. Everyone was staring at the girl holding Victoire as she cooed in Romanian at the toddler who continued to run her tiny hands over her inked skin.
"Mum, this is Audrey Jderoiu, the one I told you was going to visit this summer. Audrey, this is the rest of my family." Audrey cut off mid coo to smile at the large family. "That's Bill, his wife Fleur and Dominique, Vicky belongs to them; Ron and Hermione; Harry and Ginny; George and Angelina; my parents: Molly and Arthur; and Percy's around here somewhere…"
Fleur was the first to recover, stepping forward with a large smile on her face. "Charlie 'as told us much about you in 'is letters Audrey, but ze part on your art form was left out." Audrey snorted before handing over Vicky. "But zey look good."
"Thanks Fleur, maybe I'll convince you to get something while I'm here." Fleur gave a small smile as Vicky murmured quietly in French about how pretty Audrey's tattoos were.
"Per'aps." Fleur looked at the house and adjusted Vicky in her arms. "Percy, you're 'ere." Audrey turned to see the final Weasley appear from the back door.
"Sorry, Kingsley wanted me to finish some paperwork before I left."
"You mean you wanted to kiss up to the Minister, right Perce?" One of the brothers piped up before he was elbowed in the gut.
"Who's this?" Percy's brown eyes finally landed on Audrey whose green eyes were looking him up and down.
"Audrey, I'm Charlie's friend from Romania." She held out the hand that wasn't covered in colorful ink. "Just his friend." Black hair picking up slightly in the breeze as Percy carefully shook her hand. "You and I should go for a drink later and swap stories about him, see who has the more embarrassing stuff."
"Oh gross, Charlie stop her before I vomit." George groaned as he watched the Romanian throw a seductive look at his brother.
Charlie rolled his eyes as he realized Audrey knew exactly which brother wouldn't like all her tattoos as she leaned in closer to Percy who stared wide eyed behind his glasses.
"Audra, that's enough." Audrey tensed up as Charlie spoke up, turning an icy glare on her co-worker. "There are children present and they don't need to be seeing you do this." Charlie pulled her back over to him but she looked back over at Percy who continued to stare at her before she put on a lazy smile.
"I'm still holding you to that drink, it's been awhile since I've been to an English pub. Besides you look like you could use one with how wound up Charlie's described you as." Audrey pulled her arm out of Charlie's grasp and turned back to glare at the man. "I'm going to my place and I'll hope you remember the talk we had about that blasted name when I see you later. I'll owl you about when I want to go out Percy." The girl waved, throwing her rucksack over her shoulder before apparating away.
"Was she seriously interested in Percy? Are you sure she's 100% sane Charlie?" George questioned looking between two of his older brothers.
"Who the hell is Audra?" Ron hissed to Harry who shrugged.
Percy was still standing rooted to the spot the girl had confronted him at, ignoring what was going on around him until he felt a tugging at his pant leg.
"Uncle Percy, are you going to see Audrey?" Vicky's blue eyes shined as she looked at her favorite uncle (it had been a surprise to everyone except Charlie and Bill). Percy looked at her parents who exchanged a look.
"I'm sure Uncle Percy will talk with Audrey again if she has anything to say about it. In fact she should be back any second looking for the key to her place."
Almost as if Charlie had summoned her Audrey stumbled through the backyard towards her friend, eyes glinting dangerously. "My key." She held out her hand and waited for Charlie to hand it to her.
"Audrey? Are you going to stick around long?" Vicky blurted out and was then hushed by her father when the brunette turned to look at her.
"About as long as Charlie's going to be here kid." She looked between Percy and Vicky with a smile on her face. "Which means I should be seeing more of you and your Uncle Percy if I'm lucky, huh?" Vicky turned to look at her uncle with a big smile.
"Really?" They nodded and Vicky reached towards Percy's hand. "Uncle Percy, pretty please go with her?"
"Yeah Percy, loosen up with me, it'll be fun and I'll get you home at a reasonable time." Audrey twirled her keys around her index finger, her lips stretching into a smile as she noticed Molly whispering to her husband and Charlie making cutting motions at her to stop talking. "We can get rid of that stick in the mud personality for a night and you can show me why you can be my favorite Weasley. All right, I've got things to throw around at my place I will now leave, see you later Charlie. Percy." Audrey nodded to the Weasley's before winking at Percy and apparating away once again.
"Is she planning on killing him or something?" Ron spoke up looking at Charlie.
"No, she's completely harmless as long as no dragons are around. The most that would happen is she has a little to much to drink and goes to confront her step-father. Again."
A/N: okay, Audrey is back. Sort of. She's still opposite of Percy the way I like her and with green eyes (because I really want green eyes) still. But she's Romanian and French dudes. Also, this story is set in the summer of 2001 so Percy is 25, Audrey is 27 and Charlie is 29 (Vicky is 3). More about Audrey's family in the next chapter maybe. Someday soon I should be adding French and Romanian to this story. One day.