Fleur may appear cold to others and most of the time it is true. But the cold persona melts way when she is with Hermione and her words and actions towards her shows how much the blonde truly loves the brunette.
To the average witch and wizard, Fleur takes on the persona of being a total ice princess. Her chin held up proudly, her back straight and her eyes ice cold, she is the very intimidating heir of the Veela clan which everyone fears. She as an image which makes her unapproachable and one would think that she is plotting the revenge on one who has wronged her. Fleur was a terrifying figure, and one would think twice before crossing her.
But that ice cold persona completely melts when she is with Hermione. Even when she first met the younger witch, she just melted into something else entirely. Even her friends and fellow veela members were shocked at the change of her. While they do see the more natural side of the blonde, it truly took Hermione's presence to completely break down any barriers and to leave the true Fleur Delacour open and for all to see.
All the veela clanmates and friends of Fleur can all honestly say that they have seen the change of persona with Fleur when she is with Hermione. And they can all say that they have caught them in very love like positions before. Such as walking into the blonde's room to see the blonde holding the brunette close to her, her lips attached to hers as they entwine their legs together and cuddle like there is no tomorrow. Or even seeing the two cuddling in the sitting room in the carriage, the blonde holding the brunette in her arms while the latter is reading a book, her eyes focused on the print in front of her while Fleur litters kisses along her neck.
The most surprising part was the way that Fleur acted in public when in the presence of her girlfriend. While others fear her when she is on her own and is with the flock, it is like a switch is flipped on when Hermione enters the picture and the next thing that they are seeing is the blonde hurrying towards the brunette and sweeping her into a hug, pressing a kiss to either her lips or cheeks, smiling serenely even though she gets hit lightly by a blushing Hermione.
Fleur loves holding her girlfriend's hands and it is a habit of hers to grab it when she is near the brunette. It is second nature to Hermione now to only have one hand to operate with as Fleur is busy holding the other one. Hermione is also used to having arms being wrapped either around her waist or hanging around her shoulders, being held in a back hug while she talks to others as Fleur wants nothing more than to have her in her arms.
Nicknames is something which is common between the two. Fleur has multiple terms of endearment which she calls Hermione and the brunette often wonders how she comes up with such ones as she turns to the blonde each time that she hears the terms leave her lips.
"Mon petite souris! Where are you scurrying of to?"
"Please mon amour, I am bored. Entertain me."
"Where are you going darling?"
"I do so love it when you get feisty ma petite lionne."
"Mon Dieu! Why are you running from me renarde!"
"Come now ma douce, I want to hear how good I'm making you feel."
"Don't worry ma Cherié, they will love you. I promise."
"My love, it's okay. Just breathe. I'm here for you."
"Mon bébé, I shall never leave you. You have my heart."
PDA and nicknames aren't the only way which the blonde show how much she loves the brunette. Despite being very busy herself with the clan, as well with her own job, she always puts Hermione's needs before her own.
The one time was when Hermione woke up the one night incredibly ill and she ended up rushing into the bathroom to rid herself of her stomach contents. She has been feeling fluish all day, and she didn't eat much dinner and she just woke up tonight with the urge of getting sick. She felt awful and the constant lurching into the toilet bowl was not helping.
But then she felt nimble fingers gathering up her hair and she turned around to see a worried Fleur holding back her hair with one hand while rubbing her back with the other. She held her hair back and rubbed her back as Hermione got rid of the rest of her stomach contents and helped the brunette clean up herself before guiding her to bed.
Hermione thought that the blonde would join her under the sheets again but then she was surprised when the blonde left the room and didn't come back. Confused, Hermione listened carefully to hear where the blonde was going and was surprised to hear the front door closing.
Where on earth was she planning to go? It was just past one in the morning and it was freezing out. What was she planning on doing?
Hermione felt that she had to go look for her, but her body was feeling weak already and she was breaking into a sweat already despite just washing her face earlier. So even though her heart was wanting to go find and follow the blonde, her mind and everything else kept her in bed and she soon dozed off without much of a fight.
She was awoken again when she felt soft hands stroking her cheeks and her name leaving the lips of the woman she loves. Fleur was sitting on the bed, her eyes looking tenderly at Hermione as she gently woke her up. Hermione opened her mouth to say something, to ask where she had gone, but Fleur beat her to it. She pressed her thumb gently on her lips to stop her from talking and lifted her hand to show a small brown paper bag with the pharmacy logo on it.
"The man said that this would help. With nausea and with a possible fever."
Hermione couldn't help but look at the blonde in shock as she began to open the packet to gather the medicine she had gotten. Did she seriously leave the house at one in the morning to get her some medicine? How was a pharmacy even open at that time? Hermione had so many questions, but she was never given the opportunity to ask as Fleur was soon giving her a spoonful of medicine, along with holding a glass of water to her lips and giving her the pill to swallow with it.
After she made the brunnette take the right amount of medicine, did Fleur slip in on her side of the bed and quickly wrapped her arms around the brunette and held her close. Hermione leaned into her embrace and sighed, linking her fingers with the blonde's after her prompting at taking her hand.
"You shouldn't get too close. You will get sick too." She felt Fleur shake her head behind her.
"I don't care. The man said lots of TLC is needed when tending to a sick person. And I intend to give you that. Don't worry, there is no allocated quantity. It is infinite." Hermione couldn't help but laugh.
"You are so stupid."
But she still leaned into the blonde some more and Fleur tightened her hold on her, her thumb rubbing Hermione's hip bone as her top had riled up slightly. She felt a kiss pressed to her neck.
"I'll take care of you. You don't have to worry."
"Thank you, Fleur." Hermione mumbled up, being the last thing she said before nodding off to sleep.
While to others Fleur may appear cold, but those close to her all know just how much she loves her girlfriend and how she just melts when she is with her. Fleur is truly herself when she is with Hermione and she isn't afraid to show it. Fleur isn't the next clan leader in Hermione's eyes. She is just Fleur. And the blonde loves that about her.
She loves everything about Hermione and through words and actions, Fleur always shows her love. Nothing can ever stop her from loving the younger witch.