I arrived at the Living room where everyone was sitting. From the faces of my parents, I could guess that me waking up and having half the bandages removed was not what they expected to see this evening.
It seems when they were talking, Fleur just asked to be excused and came walking towards my room. While Draco being suspicious of her did not let her wander in the mansion alone. When asked how did she know that I was going to wake up, she just replied that and I quote 'It is my job as a good wife to know.'
Her expressions and actions seem to depict Fleur as someone similar to a pink-haired girl with the last name Gasai. Though I am not too sure about that as she seems to not have a problem with me having more partners.
Moving back to the situation at hand, I can spot Mom giving glares to Fleur while Fleur acts like the sea is calm. Dad just brushes off the incident as my young recklessness and an accident. While Grandpa seemed to have a shine in his eyes while looking at both me and Draco.
I also met a lady who was tall and had blonde hair. I guessed her identity to be Fleur's Mother, Appoline Delacour. Now that I looked at her, I could not find the beauty that was spoken of in the books. Rather she appeared to look the same as her movie counterpart. But on further inspection, I could feel the mana around her moving in an enticing manner, to say the least. This was not present when I tried to look at Fleur. When I asked Draco about her appearance. Draco looked at me as if I was an idiot and said with a scowl "Brother, are you trying to flex that you saved a beautiful damsel in distress."
With confusion apparent on my face, I moved my inquiring gaze to Fleur. Fluer smiled at me and then I heard a voice in my mind saying, "The soulmate is not affected by the charm of the Veela they are bound with." Me, being the little scientist I was, started feeling the mana near Fluer. Fleur was sitting on a sofa beside me along with her mother, which made it easier to just focus on the Veela peculiarities in the mana surrounding.
The shocking discovery I made was that Veelas also had a mana-heart and it was stronger with respect to their veela-blood purity. But it seemed like they don't have conscious control over it. Their mana-heart works just like the real heart, on the body's instinct. Though I concur that they could gain control over it with some special circumstances or maybe rituals even.
Back to the living room, I just sit in the floating chair while everyone else was sitting on luxurious sofas and we chat a little bit. What I could gather from our small talk, Grandpa was talking about starting the wandless magical training that was forced to be postponed due to my injury. Mom and Dad were not against the idea and Draco looked excited to learn some real magic and not what he called 'being a bartender'. Fleur was..... being Fleur and looking at me with hearts in her eyes.
As we were talking, a house-elf appeared and announced the arrival of Mr. Delacour.
A few moments later, The door to the room opened and we could see Mr. Delacour being led to the living hall with a little 2 years-old Gabrielle in tow. Mr. Delacour seemed relieved seeing his wife and daughter safe. Though he made aa difficult expression while looking my way. I was a bit offended honestly but I let it go cause he is my to-be Father-in-law.
Mrs. Delacour got up and hugged Mr. Delacour and sat beside him with Fleur. Gabrielle went and sat with Draco cause there was not much space available. We started talking, It started with some simple introductions, then we moved on to the topic at hand.
There was a short description of the whole incident and there were some wet eyes (no tears.... real men don't cry) some hugs and then Mr. Delacour asked about my situation and was more than ready to pay all my medical expenses. I am pretty sure I saw a shine in Dad's eyes but Mom quickly shot Mr. Delacour down.
It took some convincing from Mom and Mrs. Delacour that the bandages were just excessive and I only suffered minor cuts and bruises. (It seemed Mrs. Delacour and Fleur were obliviated too but fleur remembers due to the bond) We all had dinner and there were some chatter and Mr.Delacour apologized profusely.
But everything went well and another thing to notice was that Draco developed quiet a good Friendship with Gabrielle.
(I wonder If Mr. Delacour would still feel so guilty if he knew that I already stole his daughter for compensation.)
The Delacour family departed on a friendly term but Fleur gave a secret wet kiss to me. When I tried to stop her, she shut me down by saying that we both are grown adults in a child's body. When I heard this, I left a mark on her that will be the key to our relationship developing further later on
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After the departure of Delacour Family, Mom looked at me, grabbed me by the hand, and started dragging me to a random room. After we entered the room, she cast a charm that I could only guess to be an anti-eavesdropping one.
"Did the girl say anything to you? Did you hear any voices in your head or feel anything weird?" Mom said with a hint of urgency and worry present in her voice.
The gears started moving in my head at an extremely fast speed, and I started contemplating whether I was busted and if not, should I tell her on my own. And I reached my answer.
"Are you talking about the Veela soulbond, Mom?" I said trying to sound confused. "So It did happen" I heard Mom mutter. "Please don't tell Dad. He is still in the process of making up his mind about Magical Creatures and Muggles. I will tell him myself before going to Hogwarts." I said quickly to stop any ideas from forming in her mind.
Mom looked reluctant but she nodded nonetheless.
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After all this, I was quite tired so I went to my room and just laid on the bed and went away.
[PS... READ THE AUTHOR'S NOTE. IMPORTANT NEWS THERE]