French language

Dragon speaking

Fleur groaned softly as she was pulled out of her sleep and came back to some sort of semi consciousness. She was awake, but yet she was not. It didn't prevent her from feeling a soft touch on her exposed left cheek though. She couldn't help but push herself into the touch and nuzzle it, for some reason the touch felt so.. so.. right. As if that touch belonged there.

She heard a soft chuckle, that in her ears, sounded so beautiful and… familiar. She felt the touch move over her cheek, softly caressing her skin. She could feel goosebumps of pleasure starting to appear.

The chuckle left her thinking though, she heard that chuckle not long ago. Then it her! She started to remember the dream she had last night.

She and Artemis were standing on the balcony outside of his room, talking about some important event. Somewhere in the conversation she made a slip of the tongue. She expressed her love for him. In her dreams, she had closed her eyes, feeling more vulnerable than she had ever experienced before.

Yet that vulnerability and doubt was for nought as he returned her love. He had initiated a kiss while she still had her eyes close. The had stayed in a lovers embrace on that balcony for many minutes. Eventually she had grown tired and the last thing she felt was him picking him up and carrying her in his strong arms.

Oh Lord did she wish that this wasn't just a dream, that it was reality.

A soft chuckle reached her ears, yet again. She had totally forgotten about that chuckle. Artemis' chuckle.

Using that chuckle as her pathway, she pulled herself to full consciousness. She opened her eyes and the first thing she saw were golden eyes, a mere half meter away from her own.

Those golden eyes broke something in her mind. At once memories flooded her brain, like when an obliviation is broken.

The balcony dream is real! Her face lit up in a smile. Artemis was finally hers!

She saw his face lit up in a little smile as well "Good morning love"

Her stomach took a huge jump. He called her love! She couldn't help but feel a little fangirly, but hey, who could blame her. She waited for this moment for a very.. very.. long time

She took a quick moment to notice that he was propped up on side, with his head leaning on his hand and his other stretched out, cupping her cheek while she felt his thumb slowly caressing it. A pretty major detail was that they were still clothed.

"Hmmm good morning to you too handsome" she all but purred to him as shifted towards him and pressed her head into his chest.

He chuckled softly and the hand that was on her cheek moved to the back of her head and started to softly caress and stroke her hair.

She sighed contently and it remained quiet as they were basking in each other's presence.

In her head she began to process, in detail the events of yesterday again. Spending most attention to the conversation about his identity before he changed it. She took a moment to analyse it, he was a Potter. Twin to the Boy-Who-Lived. She didn't know who the firstborn twin was, the Heir Potter.

While the Potter family isn't super old, they did hold a comfortable fortune. Of course due to the Boy-Who-Lived situation, the family took a huge up turn on the famous scale.

Then she came to a thought that froze her heart in fear.

She pulled her head back from his chest so she could look up at his face. His eyes were closed and his face graced with a little smile. She could stare all day at it, but she needed an answer to her newly found worries.

"Artemis?"

He should have picked up on her worry in her tone, yet he was so comfortable in a day dreamy state that he didn't notice.

"hmmm?"

"Artemis do you.. have you.. Are you drawn up into a Potter betrothal contract?"

That question had no difficulty in pulling him back to the present at all. His eyes opened and quickly searched hers.

"No my flower. I'm no longer a Potter. The dragons, they performed a ritual when I was ten that changed my magical signature. If any were drawn up before it, they became invalid. As in the eyes of magic, Harry James Potter no longer exists."

Her worry flew away from her at the speed of light. Elation filled her heart and mind. She moved her head up to his and captured his lips into a soft loving kiss.

She let herself drop down beside him again and let her head rest on a pillow, her face faced upwards so she could stare into his beautiful eyes.

His free hand that was on the back of her head during all of this, came back to cub a cheek again with his thumb caressing it softly.

They stared into each other's eyes for a few moments, until Artemis broke the silence.

"I do suppose that they received my Hogwarts attendance letter addressed as Harry James Potter"

Her face scrunched up into a thoughtful look, he couldn't help but think that she looked very cute.

"But wouldn't it be that no letter arrived at all? As Harry James Potter didn't magically exist on his eleventh birthday anymore?"

He shook his head softly "No, children are registered in the Hogwarts ledger when they detect positively on magic on birth. The residence of those children at the time they become eleven are taken from the MOM or the Muggle Ministry. So Hogwarts can contact them. Magical signature tracking is illegal in all ICW member countries"

"That sound logical" she softly responded

He smiled softly at her again. After some moments he dropped the hand he was leaning with his head on. He moved closer to her, circled both his arms around her just below her breast and dropped his head so that it was lying just above her breast on her shoulder.

Her arm on his side circled around his back, softly pulling him into her body. Her other free hand reached up and started stroking his hair.

She smiled softly and contently as she watched him close his eyes. She was inwardly very pleased that he too craved for bodily contact with her, probably just as much as she craved for with him.

She didn't know how long they stayed like that, but after some time his head popped up again.

"The Masters are requesting my presence, my flower"

She gave him a nod and a soft okay, silently voicing her displeasure for having to move from the embrace.

He untangled himself from her and sat up, cupped on of her cheeks "Afterwards we will go to your parents and break the news okay?"

A confirming nod he got in reply and he turned away to get up from the bed, he was stopped however by a question from the beautiful French veela still lying down on his bed.

"Do they.. Do they approve.. of us?" she asked meekly and fearful

He turned around to face her again his answer softly and face pulled in a comforting smile "You would even be in this castle right now if they didn't"

She wondered, as he left the room to go to his meeting, how the dragons ever passed judgement on her before she even had set foot in this castle and met them personally. Then she remembered that he shared a mind with one, and the ability to use projector pensieves.


The fireplace in the floo-room at Delacour Manor flared up in bright green flames as it ejected a pair of blond adolescents. The male of the pair stumbled forward and would have lost his feet if his female counterpart hadn't reacted quickly and snatched him back by their joint hands. Conveniently the pair ended up in a tight embrace.

The females blue eyes twinkled in amusement as she stared up in the golden ones of her boyfriend.

"How to defeat the powerful wizard Artemis Ladon you ask? Just throw him through a floo and he'll end up on his butt" she said fake mocked him

Artemis scowled back in her for a second before his face broke up in a smile and he laughed "You forget that he has a beautiful witch always alongside him there to catch him"

"And don't you forget it Mister! I will not let you out of my sight now that I have you" She said while poking him in the chest with her index finger

"Yes dear" he returned theatrically as if conceding a point to her

A chuckle interrupted their playful bantering. Both their head turned towards the doorway to the living room, standing there was Jean with a face of amusement.

"Have him dear?" he asked with his eyes twinkling in amusement.

A blush crept onto Fleur's face "Uhm papa, we might need to talk"

"Oh we will honey." He responded back "But first! Appoline! They finally found out about each other!" he shouted over his shoulder

A high squeal, a crash and hurried footsteps was all he got as an answer. Not 3 seconds later Appoline appeared beside her husband in the doorway, face split in a beaming smile.

Her daughter however was less amused "What do you mean 'they finally found out about each other'?" she demanded with a scowl.

"Oh honey, we knew for ages that you two were meant to be" her mother gushed as she hurried towards them and gathered them both in a hug.

"We are so happy for you two!" she beamed as she let them go and stepped back

Fleur's initial irritation at her parents already forgotten "Really!?" she asked hopefully

Her father cut in "Of course we are honey, we know Artemis for a very long time now, and we couldn't imagine a better person for our daughter" he indicated with a nod towards Artemis, receiving one back with a thankful smile

The smile that beamed from Fleur's face could make the sun look dim.

"Now your mother has prepared lunch, so let all sit down in the dinner room" Jean told them while gesturing behind him towards the doorway

Artemis grabbed Fleur's hand, they shared a smile and he leaned forward and gave a soft loving kiss on her cheek and muttered softly in her ear "Love you my flower"

"Love you too my Artie" she responded while squeezing his hand lovingly

They all adjourned towards the dining room and sat down. A little while later a blond blue eyed blur sped into the room and squealed and jumped on Artemis lap as soon as she saw him

"Hi little angel, how are you doing?" he smiled towards the little cuddle bug that was pressed into his chest.

"Much better now that you are here big brother" she murmured into his chest

He couldn't help but smile "You know Gabby, maybe I will become your real big brother in the future!"

Her head snapped up from his chest, the look on her face showed her clear excitement "Really!?" she squealed

"Yes little angel! you see, Fleur and I started dating since last night. And maybe, in the future we might marry! And then I will be your big brother in law!"

She squealed even harder and shot up from his lap and dived onto that of Fleur "I'm sooo happy Fleur!"

The older blue eyed veela chuckled and shot Artemis a warm look over Gabrielle's head. It never failed to warm her heart to see the most important man in her world interact the way he does with her family. The fact that he already was planning for a future with her made it all the more better for her this time.

Men are scarce for Veela due to their Lure. It being some sort of 'selection' mechanism. The weak are ensnared and the strong can resist it. The men who can resist are the ones that Veela draw to and form relationships with or atleast try to. However the men that can resist their lure are few, and to hear the one they found planning for a future with them… Well few Veela aren't touched by that.

The elder Delacours looked warmly at their 3 children. They felt blessed that they had such a family. 2 beautiful and smart daughters and 1 strong and confident 'adopted' son, who will if all went well, marry their oldest daughter and finally will become family in everything.

Lunch was spent talking softly about everything and nothing, although the harder subjects were avoided. There will be many moments in the future to talk about the upcoming war and everything dark that comes along with it, but that moment is not during breakfast, lunch or dinner. That time is for family bonding.

After diner they went and sit in the living room, Fleur curled up into Artemis side with Gabrielle in his lap on the couch. The elder Delacours went and sat in their comfy chairs.

"So I think the time is due that I tell everybody about my history before Artemis Ladon" Artemis began softly. Fleur reached out and softly held his hand which was snaked around her.

Nobody said anything as Artemis pulled the words to the forefront of his mind "I was born on 31 July 1980 alongside my twin brother. He was the older of the two of us, maybe like 2 or 3 hours. Everything was fine in our life until 31 October 1981. Our parents were gone that night and our house was attacked by Voldemort." Gasps from Jean and Appoline rippled through the room.

"He killed our baby sitter and was planning to kill me and my twin. For some reason he failed and got killed, or more like defeated." His sad voice interrupted by a dark chuckle from himself

"My twin got credit. The Boy Who Lived was created. And me… Well I wasn't famous and thus quickly forgotten" his voice got quieter and tears started forming in his eyes. It saddened the heart of every occupant in the room to see the strong and confident young man in front of them break apart.

"I had enough when they forgot my 10th birthday. I left that night and I stumbled upon Veraxes in a cave and well… The rest is history I guess"

It remained quiet in the room except for Fleur whispering soothing words in his ear and Gabrielle soft crying. Gabrielle never liked it to see someone she cares for sad.

The elder Delacours stared at each other, silently holding a conversation with each other like only long married couples could. The reached a final conclusion, they will never let this young man go. Not that they even were thinking about letting him go before, but their hearts filled with even more conviction to be his family.

The Potters didn't know it, but this was the day that they didn't make friends with the Delacour family.

A/N: Next chapter we will start the more in depth talk about the war and what it entails for the Delacours + An OOTP meeting reveals a startling revelation about the Potters