DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER OR ANY CANNON CHARACTERS, I CAN ONLY CLAIM THE PLOT AND ANY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS PRESENT

A/N All French will now be Underlined and italiced

He's my WHAT?!

Chapter 15

Fleur POV.

After the trials everything calmed down a bit. The kids returned to Hogwarts that Sunday, so we didn't get to spend much time with them. Harry and Louis talked a bit but not nearly as they needed to. I went back to work, although it was a bit awkward having to work with my now ex-husband, but we worked through it. But now I had the time off for Christmas. I didn't really need to work, there was enough in just my personal vaults for me to live comfortably for several years; I just loved being a curse breaker, although the two thousand galleons a week didn't hurt either.

"Harry we need to get up it's nearly two o'clock and we need to pick the kids up from the station." I groaned out as I rested my head in Harry's chest. I had been helping Harry relearn his French as it was what me and the kids spoke to each other around the house before. That would have to change now of course, but old habits die hard I guess.

"Five more minutes…" he mumbled, his face half covered by pillow, tickling my back as he snuggled closer.

"No, we 'ave to get up now. We're already late as it is, and we 'ave a few more kids to take home zis time in case you've forgotten." I said as I climbed up out of the bed.

It took Harry another ten minutes to come down for breakfast. Today was going to be hectic. Things had calmed down with the press since the hearings, but the still occupied at least one page a week in the prophet. Today everyone knew that they were going to be, it was going to be a media frenzy. "So, 'ave you spoken to zee Weasleys about zee plans for Christmas?" asked as Harry put down his coffee mug.

"Yeah, Molly is having a big dinner for all the family tomorrow night, with some notable exceptions… then we're going to your parents for Christmas day and I'm holding my annual New Year's Eve party at Potter manor." He said, smiling proudly at his organisational skills. I smiled back at him as I sipped my tea it will be good to get a break away while we were in France. "I'll go and wake Lilly." He said before he kissed me on the forehead and left the room.

As much as Lilly Potter was a little daddy's girl, since the trials she had been spending a lot of her time staying over at the Burrow. I think it's because she didn't like the idea of me and her dad being together. Sure she was thrilled about the idea in the abstract, but I think that was just about Victoire becoming her sister (even though technically she already was.) But now that Vic wasn't here to keep her sated, she was simply avoiding me at all costs.

I was shaken out of my thoughts by the aforementioned redhead bouncing into the kitchen, excited at the prospect of seeing her 'new' siblings again. "Are you excited to see everyone again Lilly?" I asked as she sat down in front of her cereal.

She nodded as she wolfed down her food, before running back upstairs to get dressed.

I sighed and stared back looking into my tea, waiting for Harry and Lilly to get ready. My mind slipped back to before the war, before Bill, or Victoire or any of the complicated mess, I now found myself in.

Start Flashback – 23 Years Earlier.

"'Arry!" I screamed as he sped up, my arms threatening to give out and let me fall off the broom as he pulled out of another dive. "You know if you weren't so adorable on the ground, I'd dump you right now for half the things you've done on this broom. You nearly gave me a heart attack with that last one" I muttered under my breath as we came into land.

"Eh, any chance of getting that in English?" he asked once we were safely back on the ground. We were walking back up towards the castle, as I refused to get back onto the broom.

"It was nozzing, just about 'ow you are lucky to still 'ave a girlfriend after zee stunts you pulled on zat broom." I laughed as we continued walking. With the second task just over and Gabrielle safely on her way back to France I was anxiously waiting to hear what they had in store for us during the penultimate challenge. Harry was trying to not show his fear, but I could tell that it was there.

"I'm just curious what's going to happen when you find out that I can actually speak French and I can understand everything you're saying when you and your friends drop me out of a conversation so you can talk about me." He said nonchalantly as he continued walking. I stopped dead. Over the past few we had dropped Harry out of numerous conversations, while we were either discussing the tasks or personal matters. I was mortified. If Harry had really heard all of that… Oh God.

"Hey! When did you learn to speak French, and why didn't you tell me?" I shouted after him. But he just laughed and kept walking. "Harry…Harry James Potter you get your perfect little ass back here right now!"

End Flashback.

I was dragged out of my musings as Harry and Lilly walked through the door back into the kitchen. I smiled and stood up ready to go to the station. "You okay?" asked Harry as I put on my coat.

"Yes I'm fine… I was just remembering zat day zat you nearly killed me o your broom, before running off speaking French." He laughed and wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead. I say Lilly making a gagging face behind him, but I laughed it off.

"You ready for this?" he asked. I could hear the concern in his voice.

"Never 'ave I been more ready." I replied before we walked out the door, and I could tell that this was the start of something good.

A/N Hey guys long time no see. Sorry for the lack of updates, after I finished the Leaving Cert. I needed some time off, and then college started so It's been hectic.

Next chapter should be Christmas Dinner and some VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. Please review and tell me what you though, and before anyone says it, I know it's a really short chapter, but I hit a bit of a block to get from here to where I had planned for the story to go, so it's a filler/gateway chapter.

See you next time

- Slygrifflepuffclaw