For the Connect the Weasleys Challenge (Louis and Roxanne; melody); the If You Dare Challenge (58. Music To My Ears) and the Family Bootcamp (46. Wisdom)
For Ro, who ships Louis/Lorcan with me :)
"That's beautiful," Roxanne murmured, stepping into the large, open room.
After the war, Bill and Fleur had slowly renovated Shell Cottage over the years, until it wasn't a cottage but a proper, two-storey house. A large room on the ground floor had been marked out as a conservatory soon after Victoire's birth – Fleur had been extremely keen to make sure her children knew the arts.
"It's not good enough," the boy sitting at the baby grand piano replied. Of the three Weasley-Delacour children, Louis had been the only one to truly take to music. If he was at Shell Cottage, it was almost guaranteed that he would be in the conservatory.
"I don't know as much about music as you do, Lou," Roxanne said, crossing the room and sitting next to Louis on the piano bench, "But I know enough to tell you that that is better than anything I have ever heard before. How on earth could you think it's not good enough?"
"It needs to be perfect," Louis said, his hands dropping down from the piano. "I can't – this cannot be anything less than flawless. And this is anything but flawless."
"Lou," Roxanne sighed, "You're overthinking this. Besides, why do you need this to be so perfect?"
"It's a gift," Louis whispered. "It's gift for someone, and this needs to be just as perfect as they are."
Roxanne smiled, a wide, beaming smile, that Louis knew spelled trouble for him. "And this someone wouldn't happen to be Lorcan Scamander, would they?"
"Roxanne!" Louis protested.
The girl laughed. "It's not exactly a secret, you know. And I'm happy for you! It's about time you finally asked him out."
"Yeah, yeah, enjoy my pain," Louis grumbled. "That still doesn't solve my problem. I need this to be perfect, and it just isn't happening!"
"Calm down," Roxanne told him gently, suddenly serious. "You wrote this music, right?"
"Yeah," Louis agreed tentatively. "So what?"
"So you don't need to worry about anything else," Roxanne replied. "Look, just like it's been obvious that you're in love with Lorcan, it's just as obvious that those feelings are returned. You've written him a song, I don't think he's going to be upset that it isn't up to your perfect standards – you're the only one who can hear the imperfections in the song anyways."
"Roxanne –"
"I know," she murmured. "But you have nothing to worry about, I promise. He loves you just as much as you love him, and a song isn't going to change that."
For a long moment, Louis looked at her, saying nothing. And then he raised his hands, and began to play once more.
And Roxanne smiled.
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