CHAPTER Twelve –

The next morning the news came out about the Triwizard second event. Hermione was amazed because there was no bias in the reporting and they had their facts straight. She finished the paper and leaned back in her hospital bed. She heard the main door to the hospital open before Harry and Fleur walked in with another tall woman that looked like her twin sister.

Hermione smiled at Harry as he came over kissed her on the cheek "Feeling better?" Harry asked her.

Hermione smiled "I am ready to get out of here. Harry then leaned over Daphne and did the same before Daphne quipped "Excuse me but why did you kiss the Princess before the queen. By all rights I do out rank her."

Hermione chuckled at her and then retorted "In your dreams baby. Everyone knows what the "B" stands for after the Queen." Fleur had to try not to laugh as Daphne's expression was one of shock and then she smiled with a glint in her eye.

Daphne winked at her "Yes, but at least you recognize me as the Queen."

Hermione scowled "You are insufferable, you know that?"

Harry shook his head "Well it is nice to see you both are feeling much better."

Daphne turned to look at the new girl "Potter, so who is this?"

Fleur answered "This is my sister Gabrielle."

Hermione looked confused "I thought she was a little girl."

Harry scratched his head "Well yesterday she was and today she is not. It is something we need to discuss once you get out of here."

Daphne held her hands out "Kidnap me Harry, hurry quick before the wicked madam forces more foul potions down my throat. I will do anything you tell me."

Harry thought carefully "For how many months?"

Daphne scowled "You are a pig Potter."

Harry looked shocked "Hey I could have asked for years if I wanted because I have been under her care and you don't really know what it is like. Just wait till tomorrow."

Daphne looked very irritated "Ok, month /years, I will do it. Just get me out of her clutches."

Poppy walked in and then smiled as the conversation ceased. "Why Miss Greengrass if I made potions that tasted good, why you young ones would be in here all the time. I will have you know it takes a special talent to make them taste so bad." She smiled with a glint in her eye. Harry chuckled but Daphne scowled at him.

When Daphne and Hermione arrived at the lord's suite they were met by an older looking version of Fleur, an elderly distinguished gentleman talking with Fleur, Gabrielle, and Harry.

Hermione looked at the girl again and then sudden comprehension dawned on her "Oh shite I know why Gabrielle is different." Everyone in the room looked at her.

Daphne smiled "Ok, Princess mind telling the rest of us?"

Hermione looked at Harry and then stated "Gabby is a Veela just like her sister. A life debt for a Veela is different." Hermione sighed "Every girl in this room would be dead if not for Harry. He saved us all." Harry hung his head in shame.

Hermione crossed her arms "HARRY JAMES POTTER! Would you rather us all be dead?"

Harry jumped up "No, of course not but Gabrielle and Fleur were both enslaved by this and that is not fair."

Fleur smiled "Oh I don't know…Master… I kind of like being under your clutches." Fleur had a distinct twinkle in her eye. Her Mother and father laughed along with Gabrielle.

Jacques Delacour stood up "Harry, this is not your fault and I think the future Lady Potter is trying to get you to understand this."

Appoline Delacour stood "From all the reports my Gabrielle was dead but somehow you brought her back. Her transition to a fully matured Veela is most likely caused by the interaction of your magic with her Veela nature."

Hermione grinned at him "Harry that would certainly explain many things from yesterday." Hermione smirked at him "That is the second time you have saved my life."

Harry stood and walked to the fireplace "Hermione, without you and your help I would have never made it this far." Harry turned to them "I just don't like feeling like you have to be here rather than you want to be here."

Daphne walked straight up to him and grabbed his crotch roughly "Listen here Potter and listen well. Was I here before the task because you made me or because I wanted to be?"

Harry gulped "Because you wanted to be my friend."

Daphne kissed his lips "Got it in one. I knew you had it in you. This life debt really doesn't change anything because I trust you. If you were Malfoy or those other Slytherin idiots I would be a slave and on my knees servicing them for the rest of my life."

Daphne smirked as she said the next "Now I have a Master that I don't mind servicing at all."

Harry relaxed a little "You don't mind then?"

Daphne hugged him "Harry, I am very happy it is you and now if my Father refuses the contract you can force it anyway because of the life debt. Since I control you who is the slave here?"

Harry snapped his fingers and a collar appeared on Daphne's neck "Need I remind you who is the marked one here?"

Daphne growled "Potter you get this off of me now!'

Harry crossed his arms "No! It will remind you of who is in charge!" Daphne had a hint of a smile on her face. "You will wear that in public for a week." Harry finished.

Daphne bowed her head "Yes, sir."

Fleur looked at her parents and then smiled "Maman and Papa zis is a little game that Daphne likes to play. Harry only does zis because Daphne wants it."

Appoline then smiled "He does not play this way with you?"

Fleur smiled "No, he knows that is not my thing. He treats me the way I like." Fleur and Gabrielle parents both relaxed.

Hermione then walked next to Gabrielle "I suppose you will be joining us then."

Gabrielle walked over to the window and sighed "I am not like the rest of you anymore." Gabby turned to her parents "I am not Veela, I am not human, and I am not a witch exactly. I am not sure what I am." Gabby flashed with bright light and when the light ended, there before the entire group was a very large Phoenix with bright purple and Gold feathers.

Appoline set down on the chair "How is this possible?"

The Phoenix trilled happily and then lifted a leg. A target Dummy appeared across the room and then the leg flashed as a spell left it and destroyed the target dummy. Everybody stood with their mouths open and then looked back at the Phoenix. The Phoenix flashed again and then in its place was a very green like snake that looked exactly like a miniature version of the Basilisk from the second year.

The snake coiled and then raised its tail before casting a spell at the wall. Another flash found Gabrielle standing where the Basilisk had just been. Harry walked over to her and held her "I am so sorry for this."

Gabrielle smiled and bussed his cheek with her lips "No, Harry don't be. Whatever I am I belong to you and your future wife. I sense the bond between you and I enjoy the feeling it gives me. It is not a Veela Bond but I sense I belong to both of you. I am not sorry about it at all."

Hermione thought for a minute "Gabby do you have any other forms other than the two you showed us?"

Gabby smiled "No, I had a vision last night and knew that I could become those."

Hermione frowned "Harry what spell did you cast when you helped her?"

Harry looked thoughtfully before he answered "It was not a spell. I felt my magic in my core and I wanted her to be alive for Fleur, it was unfair to her, to us because they didn't ask for any of this."

Hermione came to hug Harry and sighed "This is only theory on my part but I believe Gabby's transformations are no accident. Harry was bitten by a Basilisk in second year and a Phoenix cried in his wound to save him." Hermione looked into Harry's eyes "The first semester Harry used very old family magic and made seven family's squibs and incorporated their magic into his core." Hermione kissed his cheek and then walked to Gabby before hugging her "Harry is very powerful and I believe he unknowingly did something magically impossible and changed Gabby into to what she is."

Harry looked very upset "Can I change it back, make her like she was?"

Gabby reacted "No! I do not want to be changed I am what I am, what I am suppose to be."

Harry frowned "This is not fair to you."

Gabby's eyes flashed "Says who?" she asked and then added "I decide what is fair, not you Harry Potter. This is how I am now and if you try and change me then I will be upset. You either accept me as I am or reject me but you will not change me."

Gabby's eyes suddenly softened and she relaxed "I understand you believe this unfair and an accident that changed a little girl into something she didn't want to be. You are being noble in that you want me back to decide for myself how I wish to be." Gabby smiled "I have my wish already is what you don't understand."

Harry relaxed and sat down before holding his head and Gabby smiled before sliding behind him in the chair and holding him. Hermione sat in front of him and then Daphne and Fleur sat on the arms of the chair.

Harry felt their presence and then smiled "Can you imagine me, a little boy, locked into a cupboard to having the four of you."

Gabby voice turned ice cold "What do you mean a little boy in a cupboard?"

Harry looked very frightened "Uh that is not important."

Gabby looked at the back of his head and then suddenly screeched "Those animals!" She then jumped up and turned into a Phoenix before she flashed away.

Harry was very agitated "Oh, god."

Hermione turned on him "What is she talking about?" Harry wouldn't answer her.

Daphne sighed "Harry's youth wasn't a happy one. His relatives were not nice to him and left scars."

Hermione lifted his head with her hand under his chin "Show me Harry. I want to know."

Harry looked into her eyes "They are not important anymore."

Hermione was more forceful "Then if that is so then I want to know the same as you wanted to know when I was harmed.

Harry sighed "You don't play fair."

Hermione did not smile but her eyes became intense "I don't play when it comes to your welfare and I will not compromise…show me." She demanded which caused Harry to shudder.

Harry stood and removed his shirt and Hermione gasped at the scars that he had. Fleur touched one "They were worse two months ago before Daphne and I used a special scar cream. They are still not where they should be."

Hermione was visible crying and hugged him from behind. "This is not pity Harry. This is me hurting because somebody hurt you."

Another five minutes and a very pissed off Gabby returned and stood in front of Harry "Those were vile, bigoted people, they give humanity a bad name. They no longer breathe or taint the same air we do."

Gabby went to her parents and hugged them "I am home now Mama and Papa. I am where I belong. Harry and the four of us will be coming to France to visit this summer." She smiled "I love you."

Appoline smiled "I sense that you are very happy with this."

Jacques looked at her with sadness and pride "You will always be my little girl."

Gabby chuckled "Yes, Papa but I am with a great man now too."

Jacques was visible crying "Yes, yes I can see that." Jacques turned to Harry "Harry you will come to visit and stay with us this summer along with all your…girls."

Harry blushed and nodded before Appoline began to laugh "Do not be embarrassed I believe the girls get much more benefit than you do from this. They are all glowing."

Gabby said with a very sweet smile "Oh wait until tomorrow morning because I have something very special in mind that will blow their minds." This caused Appoline to laugh with a very musical voice.

Good night everyone Jacques called out as they left the suite.

Harry looked at the four women and then gulped before backing up carefully "Why do I suddenly feel like a mouse in a houseful of snakes."

Hermione arched her brow "So now I am a snake?"

Fleur hugged him from behind "Got him!"