Like A Flower

Like A Flower

By Taranda

Rated PG due to suggestions of abuse

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"A flower touches almost everyone's heart."

-Georgia O'Keefe

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I am Fleur Delacour. The Beauxbatons champion. The beautiful girl from France.

My mother named me because she thought of me, her firstborn, as a sort of noblewoman. But I am proud to be Fleur, because of everything that has happened to me and that I am still strong.

My father was abusive. He started hurting Gabrielle and I when I was eleven. Years later, I asked my mother when she started to be abused by him. She told me it was right after Gabrielle was born. But my parents never divorced – my father was killed in an automobile accident when I was fifteen.

Mother tells me that I am very strong. And that I never was delicate like she was afraid I would be. She encourages me, telling me I am the strong woman she always hoped I would become.

My mother tells me that I am the flower of her heart.

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A/n – I own nothing.