Moments In Our Present
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Nos Cheveux
Fleur Delacour's hair parts weightlessly between Bill's fingers while she pulls down the cloth tie that holds back his ponytail with her manicured nails. His own copper hair falls loose against his neck. Bill uses Madame Toadflower's Everyday Shine Conditioner, but his hair is still coarser. When he goes too long without a trim, it gets split ends. He is amazed that she enjoys playing with it as often as she does when her hair is so much finer.
Never one to be contrary to a woman who wants to touch him, in private he allows her to braid it.
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Sa Colère
Fleur Delacour is not a shapeshifter on the level of a metamorphmagus like the veela. She is always recognizable: crystalline blue eyes and silvery blonde hair, high cheekbones and pert, straight nose. But Bill Weasley knows that when Fleur is in a temper her lacquered nails grow longer and her white teeth sharper; her hair flutters independent of the air currents around it. He has only seen her this way once, when an intoxicated Muggle on the street refused to take 'No' for an answer. He is glad that he was on time to meet her, for that man's sake.
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Leur ErreurBill's apartment is decorated with artifacts from his time in Egypt: a broken piece of wall from the tomb of a wizard pharaoh carved over a thousand years before, a statuette of lapis lazuli from the tomb of an animagus showing her mid-shift between a woman and an ibis. Fleur's fingers trace the contours of the artifacts as Bill's voice tells the stories of their liberations. She learns about the ancient curses protecting the treasures of the old wizards, and what it takes to break them. She learns the ancient Egyptian wizards short-changed the goblins on one too many debts.