Chapter Two: By Chance

Back in Hogwarts, morning light seeps through the window curtains and Hermione yawns, undressing in front of her mirror.

"You'll do fine, I promise, and we'll meet again," Fleur turns around and assures her with a optimistic smile. She strokes the tip of Hermione's nose with the side of her forefinger. "And to make sure of that I want to give you my necklace,"

I can't seem to get my mind off of her ever since. Not one day passed without me even remembering something that happened- and it's been two months already since then. She shakes her head and laughs to herself. Though it will be a year, or possibly more till I see her. She looks down at the necklace Fleur gave her and brushes her fingertips on it. Her heart begins to beat faster in her chest as she remembers Fleur bidding her farewell.

-Flashback-

"Alright this is it," Hermione murmured as she stood in front of the hotel.

Fleur nodded, a hint of sadness in her eyes. "Yes it is," she mumbled and took a step forward to Hermione. "I 'ad a lot of fun today 'erminoe, and I 'ope to see you again, it's been a pleasure getting to know you."

"You too," Hermione said and was about to say something else till she felt Fleur's lips on her cheek. "Fleur.."

Fleur takes a step back and smiles warmly at her. "Good night 'ermione, sweet dreams, À la procaine (Until next time)," she said and walks off, leaving a very flustered Hermione behind.

Hermione blinks as she comes back to reality. Reaching her hand up to her cheek, she touches the spot where Fleur had kissed her and feels her cheeks growing red. The kiss was normal wasn't it? Between friends, and I heard French people are usually.. Affectionate. She frowns and exhales heavily. Argh what's this feeling? I haven't thought of anyone this much before! The brunette shakes her head once more and puts on her clothes. Taking one last look at herself in the mirror she leaves the room and walks down the stairway.

"Look, over there!" Raising one of her eyebrows, she notice a couple of students dashing past her and wonders what the commotion is about.

"Mione!"

She turns around to see Harry and Ron run up to her. "C'mere, they're coming,"

"Who?"

"I don't know but it's someone, come on," Harry says excitedly and pulls her to the stone railing where other students are quickly clustering to.

The crowd of students chatters amongst themselves, thrilled as they see a carriage carried by flying white horse swoop over Haggard and a large ship swimming up to shore, floating towards the school.

During lunch, Hermione listens in silence along with the rest of the students in the Great Hall as Dumbledore announce to them two other schools joining them as they are taking part in an event called the Triwizard Tournament. Her attention turns to the door as it opens and a group of girls dressed in light blue uniforms stroll down the aisle, pausing for a moment and gesturing towards the students.

So this is one of the schools? Hermione glances over at Ron to see him practically drooling as the girls stroll to the front. She restrains herself from smacking him in the back of the head and instead scoffs. Getting her attention back at the new students, she watches as the group split apart . The last girl in the group twirls gracefully and stops with her right foot as she faces her gigantic in height female teacher and bows. Curious, she watches the girl and is surprised as she recognizes her face when she looks up from under her hat. Fleur. Fleur? A lump jumps up to her throat rendering her speechless. Why is she here? She blinks. It's not a dream? Then-can she see me?

Now where is she? Fleur though standing normally calm, anxiously casting her eyes over at the table of students, scanning for a familiar face. She unconsciously holds her breath as she sees Hermione's face and a wide smile appears on her face. There she is, I knew it! Their eyes connects and them both of them feel a rush run throughout their body as they smile at each other, acknowledging each other by a simple bow of the head. Knowing that she shouldn't do anything to embarrass her teacher, she quells down her excitement and takes in a deep breath. Someone tugs on her skirt and she looks down at her adorable little sister, flashing her a grin. She gives her an "I'll tell you later look"at which her sister only shakes her head with an amused expression.

Hermione claps enthusiastically as the Beauxbatons seat themselves down the Ravenclaw table. The applause later dies out and the next school, Durmstrang, enters. Preoccupied at trying to talk to Fleur, Hermione looks over to the blonde to see the girl gesture for her to talk after the meeting with the schools is over. She nods and feels someone tapping her.

"Know her?" Ginny asks as everyone's attention is on the male school.

Hermione nods with excitement. "She's the one I met in Paris, the one I told you about,"

A grin appears on Ginny's face. "Oh, her," she replies "Got it," She chuckles as she sees Hermione's happy expression. "Make sure your face don't get stuck that way or else Ron will bombard you with questions,"

Hermione nods and hears the introduction of the Durmstrang end. The hall gets quiet as Dumbledore gives more information about the Trizward Tournament and the directions of how to join as well as warning the students of doing so if they are not prepared for such tasks.

"Wow, too bad some of us can't join because of the restriction huh Hermione?" Ginny says looking over to her friend to see her getting up. "Going already?"

"Where you going anyway Hermione?" Ron asks

"Meeting a friend," Hermione responds quickly and walks off down the hall.

"A friend?" he replies in disbelief "Who?"

Ginny throws him a glare.

"What?"

Outside of the lunch hall, Hermione leans on the wall and looks up at the door as she hears it creak open.

"Fleur!" she exclaims cheerfully and rushes towards Fleur.

" 'ermi-" Her breath is knocked out of her as the younger girl tackles her. "I'm very glad to see you cheri," She wraps her arms around Hermione and gives her a gentle squeeze.

"I can't believe you're here," Hermione mutters into Fleur's shoulder, inhaling her scent and feeling oddly enraptured by doing so. Finally accepting that Fleur is in front of her, she takes a step back. Shaking her head in disbelief, she looks up at the other girl with a grin, not able to contain her delight. "Wh-what are you doing here? How? How did you get here?"

A wide smile crosses Fleur's face. " Well by the carriage-" She stops as Hermione crosses her arm and suppresses a smile. "Eh- Well 'ow else 'ermione? I am just like you,"

"You mean- you're not a muggle?"

"Non," Fleur replies with mirth, "And thank goodness I'm not or else I wouldn't 'ave met you 'ere." She sighs in relief. "I'm so 'appy to know what I thought was right. When I saw your wand I knew you were a witch,"

"Wha- then how come you didn't let me know that you'd be here?"

"Well I wasn't sure if you were one, you could 'ave just been a muggle carrying around a stick that looked like a wand," She muffles a laugh as Hermione gives her a playful glare. "I'm kidding cheri, I'm kidding."

"Well I can kind of understand why you wouldn't, after all you'd be in trouble if I was an actual muggle," Hermione says crossing her arms, "But still, you knew you might meet me again here and you didn't even tell me" She light-heartedly taps the side of Fleur's arm. "Honestly, and I thought we weren't going to meet again till a long time,"

"Oh? Then were you lying to m about meeting me in Paris after a year?"

"Well I didn't exactly put a date now did I?" She burst into a fit of giggles as Fleur tickles her relentlessly.

Fleur stops as she notices the men passing by giving her loving looks, their eyes spell bound.

" 'ermione, do you mind going outside to talk?"

Hermione looks around, wondering about the males gawking at Fleur around her and nods. "Sure,"

Fleur tenderly grabs the brunette's hand and walks outside of the school towards the lake. Releasing her hand, she gazes off at the lake as she tries to calm down her heart from being in contact with Hermione.

"Well I knew you were popular -uh- wow, I guess you'll be pretty popular here too huh?" She feels her heart turning to lead and bites the bottom of her lip.

" 'ermione are you jealous?" Fleur turns around and stands in front of Hermione. "There's nothing for you to feel bad about, I 'onestly think men should fawn over you,"

"Me? Why?"

Fleur looks at her dumbfounded. "The question is why not, why wouldn't they be? You are stunning, gorgeous, and adorable."

The brunette stares at Fleur in shock, heat flowing to her cheeks.

"I can say more if you want to,"

"N-no, that's okay, thanks," Hermione replies. I don't think my heart can take it if you do with it pounding like this. She blinks as Fleur reaches out and brushes the side of her cheek with her thumb.

" 'onestly, there really is nothing to be jealous about," she says "I don't like when they look at me like that. It's almost repulsive, they only act that way because of my blood."

"Blood?"

Fleur nods. "I'm a Quarter Veela you see, so I 'ave this .. Um.. Thing, that attracts men, like a spell I suppose." She drops her hand to her side. "But I think this blood of mine is nothing more then a burden, men can't even look at me without drooling and if I say something they don't 'ear it."

Then is this why I feel like - Hermione looks back up at Fleur as the blonde turn to look at her.

"Doesn't work on girls however," Fleur said with a smile, "Which I am at least thankful for, or else I wouldn't be able to have nice conversations like this one with you non?" A thought comes to mind and she leans over to whisper in Hermione's ear. "Though I really wouldn't mind if someone as dazzling as you would falling for me,"

"Fleur!" Hermione exclaims as Fleur pulls away laughing, her ears still feeling the tingle of Fleur's breath blowing in them. "Honestly, no one has ever teased me as much as you,"

"Doesn't your friend Ron do the same?"

"He doesn't really count ," Especially when he makes me angry right afterwards and it's not even funny. Hermione places her hands to her hips. "You do it in a different way,"

"Really? In what way?" Fleur inquires playfully as Hermione finds the ground interesting. "But I don't 'urt your feelings right?"

Hermione shakes her head.

"Okay then I suppose it's okay for me to resume my teasing," she states with a giggle

Hermione feel her jaw slack and shakes her head. "Honestly you are- something," she says.

"Oh I just know I'll enjoy my time here 'ermione," Fleur exclaims, stretching out her arms. "Oh," She looks over her shoulder at Hermione. "You know you never 'ave told me how happy you are to see me, and you were so excited before when you thought up of it,"

Hermione grins, finding her chance to tease the girl this time. "Oh really? I said it when I saw you. You didn't hear me?" she lies.

Fleur turns Hermione curiously, not remember that the brunette said anything much but asking why she was here. "I don't think so,"

Hermione grins. "Oh well I guess that's too bad," she says and walks off down the side of the lake.

" 'ermione!"

The brunette giggles as Fleur walks after her.

"Oh come on, I wanted to surprise you and you won't say that you're happy to see me?" Fleur pouts.

"Nope, I won't say it again," she said with a grin and dashes off into a run.

"Fine I'll just make you say it won't I?" Fleur states with determination and rushes after her.

The two of them laugh as they barely escape or catch one another.

A/N: Hey everyone, I hope you enjoyed the story, thanks so much for the reviews by the way, it makes me incredibly happy to know you like it so far (smiles like a child) Oh- I forgot to tell you all by the way in the last chapter that "Cheri" means "dear" or "sweetheart" from what I've looked up, just in case if you were wondering, and wanted to ask if any of you guys have seen Final Fantasy Advent Children? The glacier forest I wrote about was inspired from the one I saw in that movie (grin) Anyway as a forewarning I don't know much about Harry Potter and the magical world-series-characters, so I might mess up on a couple of terms or something in the future chapters but I'm definitely trying my hardest by researching online to not make any mistakes. Do tell me though if anything is displeasing, I'll try my best to do what I can though I can't say I can fix it. So (inhales) hope you like the story, I'll try to give you the next chapter soon. Thanks for reading (bows)