A/N: Hullo! Just FYI, the las bit is NSFW!


Fleur apparated them directly to the chateau's garden that oversaw the sea. The weather was chilly but not enough for them to worry about getting warmer clothes as they shared body heat and the warming spell Hermione had cast on them when they got outside their cabin was still working well. She smiled as soon as she thought that, 'their cabin' it sounded right. It was right. The woman in front of her facing the sea was just right for her.

"Je t'aime." She murmured and kissed behind the brunette's left ear. The blonde smiled as she heard her moan quietly.

"I love you," She answered her voice just as quiet as Fleur's.

"Zink we could make a small detour for a bit zen 'ead back downstairs to greet your parents and zee Weasleys?" Fleur proposed already working on convincing the British women by carefully administering open-mouthed kisses along her neck. She heard a not so quiet moan near her ear and smirked. It was exactly then that one of her mother's house-elves appeared in front of them.

"Madame a envoyée Celly pour prévenir les Mesdemoiselles qu'elle sait que vous êtes arrivées et demande Mademoiselle Fleur et Mademoiselle Granger-Black à l'intérieur. (Madam sent Celly to inform the misses that she knows of your arrival and expects miss Fleur and miss Granger-Black inside.) " The house-elf looked torn as he clearly didn't want to interrupt the two of them.

"Merci Celly. Préviens maman que l'on arrive très rapidement. (Thank you, Celly. Let maman know that we will be heading inside shortly.)" Hermione answered naturally making Fleur swoon. Shortly after Celly left, the brunette turned on her arms with a cheeky smile. "It's a shame, I was hoping we could accomplish that detour..." Hermione kissed her deeply making her moan into it.

As they broke the kiss, Fleur laughed. "As eef you would let zee rest of zee family waiting." She smirked at her lioness and pecked her lips. "We should go inside. Eef maman sent Celly eets because zey must be about to arrive, ma Belle." Hermione hummed and they started walking to the house. "I'm sure you don't want to miss zee marvelled expression on Ginny's face as she walks in." She joked.

"You are definitely right." The lioness softly smiled at her.

"Glad to be blessed with your presence, my dears." Apolline joked, a grin brightening her features more than usual.

"Of course, maman." Hermione answered not missing a beat. The moniker made the half veela's grin grow to a point Fleur almost worried it would break her face in two.

The Delacour family greeted them and congratulated them, including the aunts and

older cousins. By the time they were both flushed red with the knowing smirks and congratulatory hugs, the British group was announced by Celly and the front doors sprung open to let the large group in. The usually blonde-dominated dinner table now had almost equally as many gingers as Charlie had managed to arrange his work to come too and he, just as Percy, had settled down with an equally redhead company.

"Fleur, 'ermione, why don't you two show zee younger Weasleys their quarters? I'll make a small tour with Molly, Charissa, Arthur and Emmet." Apolline suggested after dinner and after all her younger cousins had excused themselves to sleep.

Hermione and Fleur nodded. As they got up, more than half of the table followed. They began climbing the stairs and Fleur heard a few oohs and aahs.

"So, where will we meet after we freshen up?" Fred asked with his trademark mischievous smile. Fleur glanced at her girlfriend, who smiled, then at Lea, who shrugged.

"Gaby is going to kill us." The later marvelled and it sent her and Hermione into giggles.

"'ow about we meet 'ere in an 'our? Do wear something warm. We are going to zee gardens." Her proposition was met with only affirmative responses. They went around the first floor, Fleur assigning a room to each of the couples and Bill, who was in absolute dismay that he was the only single person out of his present family. As they reached the end of the corridor, it was only Hermione, her, Lea, Harry, Luna and Ginny. The last three looked as them questioningly. "Your room ees upstairs." Fleur provided.

Hermione smirked as they reached the third floor. "And this is your room. We are at the White door-"

"With the flower," Ginny smiled.

"Oui," Fleur smiled. "Zee bed 'as been adapted so zee three of you can fit comfortably and you can change anything you want as eet ees your room officially 'ere at zee Château." Fleur beamed as she saw three head snap back to face her so quickly she was sure she had heard at least one of them crack.

"What?" "Sorry?" "Pardon?" Was uttered loudly by Ginny, Harry and Luna.

"It's actually Harry's room." Hermione offered, not that it changed anything.

"As my brother-in-law-" Fleur began.

"You automatically earn a room of yours being Hermione's immediate family." Lea bluntly explained.

"But-"

"Zat's just 'ow we work." Her cousin said.

"Anyways, it's heavily charmed so you can do whatever you want in there and no one outside this walls will hear. Or that's what Apolline said."

"Eet's true. Maman 'eard us talking once, while I was 'ere for zee clan's meeting, and 'eard you complain about zeir noises." Fleur laughed at the blush blossoming at the trio.

Hermione chuckled. "See you in an hour." She said to them and Lea, dragging Fleur to their room.

"What 'ad you so eager to get me alone, ma Reine?" Fleur smirked, waving her wand to make sure the room was soundproofed.

"You." Was Hermione's only response before she met Fleur's lips with hers.

Exactly one hour later, the couple was leaving their room hand in hand and smiling broadly. After enjoying each other, a tempos charm informed them that they wouldn't have the time to take a shower so, a couple of cleaning spells later, they were putting on their clothes. Fleur knew for a fact that they would be taking a warm bath before going to sleep as they both hated using cleansing spells instead of washing themselves with good old water. When they reached the first floor, only Lea and Bill were there already. They were sat on the couch of the corridor's waiting area and idly talking.

"Well, eef zee freshly mated couple is 'ere, everyone else should too." Lea teased as soon as she saw them.

"Sounds just about right." Bill joined.

"I don't really know what Har and the girls are up to." Hermione smirked then shrugged.

"Grand-mère's silencing spells work wonders, right?" Lea offered.

"You 'ave no idea, Le. Zey are loud." Fleur said, making her best friend groan. She chuckled in his expense.

It took another half hour for the group to be complete. First, the trio came down, making Bill blush and Ginny laugh loudly after they explained why his face was just shy from being the same colour as his hair. Then the twins joined them, both leaving their bedrooms at the exact same time with their girlfriends following, and Charlie shortly after. Percy was the last one, taking another ten minutes to exit his room.

"Oi, we need to drink in honour of Audrey today." George exclaimed as his brother left his quarters, following the woman in question.

"You are right, brother. It figures it would take a ginger to make his tight ass relax a bit." Fred joked making Percy try to defend himself and the rest of the group laugh.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Bill asked after a beat. "Lead the way, blondie!"

Fleur smiled at him and began her way to to the garden. A bit away from the building itself she stopped just shy of the space she had thought when she suggested that they went to the garden. It was designed to comfortably fit a large group such as theirs and keep them reasonably warm thanks to the space in the middle of it that was designed to hold a small fire pit. Around it, there was an assembly of comfortable garden furniture, such as sofas, ottomans and chairs, a serving chart nearby. She called Celly and asked if he could provide them with drinks and snacks. He appeared a few moments later with wine, firewhiskey, water and a great variety of munchables. He informed her that her mother was in the reading room with her aunts and the other two older couples and had wished them a great night.

Soon, everybody was sporting their chosen drink and talking animatedly. Fleur smiled as Hermione snuggled into her while they laid in one of the ottomans.

"Cold?" She asked in a whisper and got answered with a small nod. "We could ignite zee fire…" She looked around and noticed most of the other couples were holding each other close. Suddenly a pile of blankets appeared near her feet.

"The house-elves here are quite efficient…" Percy noted as he snatched one of the blankets for him and Audrey.

"Zat was probably maman after noticing zee night is chiller zan usual. But oui, zey are."

"They are well treated here." Hermione half mumbled with a smile.

"Figures." Ginny smiled. "Uh, apart from the useful blankets, why don't we use the fire pit?" She suggested.

"'Mione, why don't you cast that blue flame charm of yours?" Harry smiled at his sister.

"Right…" Hermione moved to a sitting position, gathered the wand on her wrist holster and performed the necessary spell with apparent ease. Fleur noticed something quite too familiar about the wand in her mate's hand only after the blue flame was dancing in the middle of the group and warming them up.

"Ma Belle, ees eet my wand?" She asked quietly.

"What?" Only then the brunette looked to the stick she was holding, "Yes, apparently."

Fleur thought it was odd, she was sure she had grabbed her wand just before the left the room. Both wands were basically forgotten as soon as they were out of their holsters and on one of the bedside tables. The wand on her holster was warm against her skin just like only her wand was supposed to be. She brandished it and was met with Hermione's wand.

"Zat's-"

"Odd." Hermione filled in. Everybody else was watching them. "It feels warm against my hand… Harry, give me yours." She asked, clearly onto something. The man handled his wand quickly and without questions. "No, cold."

Her brows furrowed. "Unless… Love, is there any mention about wands on the research Grand-mère sent us that I'm not remembering?"

"You hardly don't remember something, 'Mione!" Ginny teased, clearly trying to ease the tension that was building.

"Non, chéri. You know zone pages by 'eart." Fleur kissed her cheek. "But probably zat's eet. Another outcome of our bond." She said, carefully giving back Hermione's wand and taking back hers.

"Seriously? Your wands respond to both of you?" Angelina asked from beside Fred. Fleur nodded.

"Wicked!" The twins exclaimed together.

"Zat ees an unlikely development even with two fully veela mates…" Lea smiled. "You two are indeed unique. Impressionnant (impressive)."

No one asked any other question about their bond or veela bonding, despite their obvious curiosity, and the conversation went to other subjects. Fleur noticed Lea and Bill getting closer together through the night, she had thought it was simply because they were cold but once the blankets appeared and the flame was summoned they hadn't pulled away from each other. She smiled. They would make a beautiful couple… She subtly murmured just that to Hermione, who smiled and nodded to the thought.

"He apparently has a thing for blondes." The brunette whispered back jokingly. She chuckled and nodded.

When she noticed Hermione wasn't engaging in anyone's conversation, she nudged her so the lioness would turn to face her. She beamed at the sight that it was her girlfriend in the blue light provided by the flames, she was sure her eyes were showing how much the other woman was her world. Hermione smiled back, her eyes shining and conveying all that. 'It does.' She heard the lioness say in her head, "and you mean just as much to me." She said out loud and with that, Fleur didn't even bother to contain the urge to kiss her.

"I love you." Hermione said quietly as they pulled back, still caressing her cheek.

"I love you too." She answered, beaming.

"Merlin's balls! You've only gotten worse!" Fred and George exclaimed, throwing a marshmallow on them.

By the smacks she heard followed by a "shut up!", their girlfriends had avenged them.

"Forge are right, though, you've gotten worse with you cuteness." Ginny said, laughing at her brothers.

They called it a night when they noticed they were almost dozing off.

Once again in their room, Fleur embraced her beautiful mate from behind, just like she was used to and they watched the skyline for a bit. Without uttering a single word they separated and started undressing so they could take the bath that had been in their minds since they had left the gardens. A soft smile playing on their lips as they noticed they were thinking the exact same thing.

"Music?" Hermione asked as they walked into the bathroom together and Fleur started the water.

"Oui. Vanilla baz bomb?" The soft hum from her Gryffindor declared her appreciation to the thought.

When the temperature was judged correct, Fleur entered the tub a made space for her mate to join her. Hermione leaned on her and they sighed at the skin-to-skin contact.

The following day was spent in its majority at the beach as the sun provided a warm day. Fleur was sure most of her British family were sweating even in the early morning. When the sunset came, the whole family went to their respective rooms to change so they could have dinner.

"Isabelle, what are the plans for tomorrow?" Charissa questioned the matriarch quietly while they waited for dessert.

"Ah, oui! Zee plans!" She answered excitedly, with one movement everyone was looking at her. "As you all know, tomorrow we'll be 'olding our annual ball. And, more importantly, zis will be zee first ball Fleur will be attending as our héritière (heiress)." Fleur felt her face burn and a moment later her mate's fingers were drawing patterns on her thigh in an attempt to calm her. "To our guests, once Fleur and 'ermione bounded, zey automatically are considered next in line."

"But Appoline…" Molly murmured, seeming confused, which earned a small smile from the Delacour's matriarch.

"While I am considered an 'eiress, Molly, zee nature of our girls' bound takes zem both to first in succession line." She heard a few ooh's as she caught her mother's eyesight and nodded. "We still don't know fully just 'ow zeir magic will merge-"

"Oh, that's why their wands work perfectly to them both!" Fred exclaimed before her mother could conclude earning himself a couple of annoyed looks as well as a few surprised looks.

They were yet to talk to her grandmère about this development. The raised eyebrow she received from both her elders delivered the message that they would have a meeting right after discussing tomorrow's plans.

"Oui, zats why." Her mother continued pretending to know what the redhead was talking about. "Zeir bound as eet ees, ees already stronger zen most."

"Continuing," Isabelle brought the room's attention back to her. "Zee whole Clan will be 'ere to congratulate zem. All of you 'ave elves instructed to grant you anything you need tomorrow, zey will present zemselves to you as soon as you wake up and will make all arrangements for you to be ready for zee ball just in time." The elder smiled at Hermione, "We usually don't 'ave as many elves working during 'olidays, but all of zem wanted to make sure zis ball would be perfect. Zee all volunteered to work tomorrow."

'They will have a separate party after the formal part of the ball ends, mon amour.' Fleur added in Hermione's mind. 'They chose not to party with us, actually. And all of them will receive triple they usually do as they will be working a lot tomorrow.' She smiled, feeling how proud her mate was of her recently acquired family.

"I believe zats all. Zee elves will inform you at what time you are supposed to gather at the ballroom." Isabelle smiled and moved to stand up. Most of the table followed her lead, the recently mated couple didn't move. "Oh, 'ermione's direct family ees expected to greet zee Clan along with us." She added, looking at the brunette's parents and Harry. Ginny clearly was trying to hold her laughter as soon as her boyfriend heard the news.

"Ginny, Luna. As 'arry's girlfriends you are expected to accompany 'im." Fleur added with a smirk, knowing it would throw the redhead out of her game. Ginny looked like a deer caught in the headlights.

"Les filles, dans la salle de lecture. J'ai besoin de vous parler. (Girls, zee reading room. I need a word.)" Isabelle demanded.

Fleur and Hermione simply nodded.

It wasn't that Hermione felt like they were in trouble, but she was at least a bit afraid. They walked hand in hand to the room they were expected, she could feel Fleur's nervousness and tried to soothe her despite herself. They were actually walking just behind Appoline and Isabelle and she was almost certain she had seed them smiling knowingly at each other. As they reached the reading room, the matriarchs sat at their usual chairs and looked at them expectantly.

"Uhm…" Hermione tested her voice. She wasn't really willing to explain how they found out about the other two other outcomes of the bounding…

'Let me, ma Lionne. Try not to think about it now, though.' Hermione couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at it. 'They are still my maman and grandmère.' The blonde rolled her eyes.

As Hermione focused on the other women in front of them she noticed they looked curious.

"Nous avons découvert trois autres sorties dont celle indiquée par Fred. (We discovered three other outcomes, including the one Fred was talking about.)" Fleur began. "Deux pendant que nous étions parties et une après que nous soyons revenues. (Two while we were away and one after we got back.)"

Finally working through her nervousness, Hermione followed: "We can communicate mentally, though I'm wondering how it works if we're not within reaching distance…" Hermione began to think about different forms of testing it.

"Bien que je sois intéressée sur le fonctionnement, continue. (While I'm interested in how it would work, keep going.)" Isabelle interrupted her impromptu planing session, making her blush after noticing she had spaced out.

"We can also capable of wandless magic." She concluded, knowing the third one was already of their knowledge.

"Et de la magie muette. (And wordless.)" 'If I remember correctly.' Fleur added, smirking. Hermione felt her face warming up.

"Cela fait quatre en fait. En supposant que tu comptes l'échange de baguettes dont Fred parlait. (That makes four, actually. Assuming you are counting the wands exchange that Fred talked about.)" Appoline smiled at them proudly.

"Ensuite nous aurons Hermione qui se transforme (Next we will have Hermione transforming.)" Isabelle ventured, laughing. Hermione felt her own eyes bulging out of their sockets. "Non, Hermione. Je ne penses pas que ce soit possible. Mais avec vous deux... (No, Hermione. I don't think it's possible. But with you two…)"

The Gryffindor felt her mate's caressing the nape of her head and relaxed instantly. It wasn't a real problem. She just never thought it would be possible. To have such a complete shift on her core and self. 'I doubt, I can't control my transformation fully and as long as I know I can't even fully transform.' Hermione nodded.

"Et bien, on dirait qu'elles vont être dans leur propre monde plus que jamais, à être capable de pouvoir lire leur esprit. (Well, it seems they are going to be on their own world more than ever, being able to read each other's minds.)" Appoline said offhandedly to her mother, making her laugh.

"En fait, je ne peux pas leur reprocher. (Can't blame them, though." Isabelle noted. "Je ne vais pas demander de détails à propos de ta découverte, je ne peux que deviner. Mais les baguettes... (I won't ask specifics about you discovering as I can only guess. But the wands…)"

"Well, we hadn't noticed we had switched wands when we got back outside yesterday and I ended up casting a spell using Fleur's wand."

"So it didn't feel different to any of you?" Appoline asked curiously, at what they both shook their heads. "It's almost like their wand recognised them as parts of one being…"

"Probablement quelque chose comme ça. (Probably something like that.)" Isabelle agreed.

They were dismissed soon and went back to their room. They only got halfway their destiny as they were ganged up by Gabrielle, Lea, Harry and the girls as soon as they reached their floor.

"Donc…(So…)" Gabrielle began.

"Gaby, tu devrais déjà être endormie! (Gaby, you should be asleep already!)" Hermione could hear the smile on Fleur's voice, despite the fake scold.

"Ohh, allez Fleur! Tu sais que je dors bien plus tard que ça! (Aw, come on, Fleur! You know I sleep way later than this!)"

"Okay, could you maybe keep the French to a minimum since some of us mere mortals don't speak that sexy language?" Ginny grinned as she saw Fleur frown at her by basically associating sexy to her sister.

"Oui, sorry. Since my new soeur ees fluent…"

"What?" Harry cut her off, surprised. "You speak french, Hermione?"

"Obviously. Think about it, she is entering a French family after all." Ginny answered."

"Vous devriez apprendre vous aussi. (You should learn too.)" Luna spoke, learning two shocked faces from her mates. Hermione laughed as soon as she saw Ginny's face morph from shock to arousal.

"You…?" The ginger was able to choke out.

"Part of my family is French, you know, I got tired of not understanding them fully…" Luna smiled at her girlfriend. "And I guess it never came to my mind it would really interest you…"

"Hey! Let's focus 'ere! Why were you summoned by grandmère?" Gabrielle cut them off.

"We were discussing our new discoveries about our bonding." Hermione answered though she was beginning to get tired of standing in the middle of the corridor. The curious gazes that she received gave her the impression she wouldn't be allowed to get to her room any soon.

Fleur took notice of it and suggested they talked at their room, to what Gabrielle complained saying she didn't want to get inside a newly mated room. They went to her's instead, laughing at her.

Fleur and Hermione only got to their room after about an hour and a half later, having discussed a few theories with Lea, Ginny, Luna and Harry. Gabrielle had felt asleep as soon as she finished listening to the updates about the bounding and they moved to Lea's room as it was just beside it.

"I finally 'ave you all to myself." Fleur whispered in her ear as she hugged her from behind.

"I've been all yours since the battle if I'm going to be honest."

'Such a sweet talker.' Fleur didn't make the effort of saying it out loud, occupying her mouth by kissing and lightly sucking Hermione's skin. The brunette chuckled lightly and sighed as she felt her mate embrace her fully. She could feel the thrall, it felt like home and it was something was certain she would miss whenever they were distant.

"I'll miss you too, ma Reine." Fleur offered quietly. Hermione knew they shouldn't think about it at the time and suddenly turned around so was facing her mate.

"I know. But thinking about it won't make any good." She offered. 'I might have an idea or two of what could, though.' She smirked as she saw Fleur raising an eyebrow.

'Do tell.' No words were needed, the images that Hermione mentally showed Fleur made the blonde hold onto her and kiss her deeply. They only disconnected their lips when they needed to breathe. They were both panting. Knowing exactly what effect she had on the blonde worked wonders to her self-esteem, Hermione couldn't help the leap her heart did every time she could see in Fleur's eyes just how turned on she was. Not only by the obvious changes but the worshipping look she always got awed. They locked eyes and nearly got lost in each other. Hermione smiled at her and gently caressed her cheek, relishing in the feeling that touching her skin caused her. Fleur smiled back and leaned to the touch, closing her eyes. What initially had everything to turn into a burning hot mess, became slow-paced and loving. The soft caresses exchanged in silence as if they were trying to memorize each other's features - they probably were -, ever softer kisses and small smiles as they lost their breath over a touch or a gaze. Hermione could never get used to the way Fleur looked at her but she was also aware that the way she looked at her veela was very much the same. It was slow that day, very slow, but the way her skin burned with desire and adoration for the other woman made her writhe. They had slowly made their way to the bed and she was sure to give her attention to each and every part of Fleur's body, she didn't even know anymore where Fleur began nor where she ended. The pleasure running through her veins was hers and Fleurs, their connection made sure of it. She inhaled sharply as she felt a mouth capture her nipple, with a stuttering breath she held the blonde's head where it was, momentarily. The low moan she felt against her skin as she tugged at blonde hair making her moan lowly. The attention Fleur was giving to her nipple moved to the other as she made a line of soft open-mouthed kisses between her breasts, Hermione arched her back at the wet feeling - moaning a bit louder. It took a while until Fleur began to move again, all her way was marked with soft kisses or nibbles if she knew it was a specially sensitive spot. By the time the blonde took pity of her, Hermione was a writhing, begging mess. Fleur entered her just as she flicked her tongue over her clit, their eyes locked. She moaned as she did, Hermione all but screamed at the sensation, almost feeling her nerves overrun with information. Not long after she was recovering from an intense orgasm, still spasming lightly. She made sure to reciprocate the care, as she turned her mate over and kissed her deeply and lovingly. Her hands searching sensitive skin, her ears attent to gasps and sights, her mouth closed against sensitive pink skin at the peak of the blonde's breast.


A/N: Hey again! I hope you liked this one! I loved writing it.

Please review, I'm always pleased to learn what you think! I need to thank pappa for saving my life every time I need help with their French.

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PS: WK: Here it is! Sorry for the delay!

Andrew: Thank you for your corrections, I might go through them after I finish the story.

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PPPS: So, I posted the Drarry oneshot, I'm feeling like writing the Pansmione side of the story, what do you think? Go read the shortstory, leave me a review saying if you want the girls side...