Bonds of Blood 0011: Chores

A knock on the door distracted Harry and Fleur from their intimate time together.

"Please come in, Mrs. Delacour," Harry answered in Fleur's place as she hid her face in his neck. She didn't want to talk to her mother right now.

The door opened and Fleur's mother walked in. She smiled slightly as she saw her daughter's state, "I'm not here to fight, Fleur. I got a letter two days ago. That was the reason I wanted to invite Lily and Harry to breakfast." She said.

Although Fleur didn't seem interested, she was listening with rapt attention.

Apolline accurately gauged her daughter's state and smiled a little before continuing, "Harry, I need you and Fleur to go somewhere. Particularly, the Veela colony that Fleur's Grandmother came from." She told them both.

That finally got Fleur's attention, "What for?" She asked, pulling away from Harry's neck.

"Harry will finally come of age this year and it is now your turn to go for the annual ceremony. I used to go there every year with your father, until…" She trailed off for a moment before continuing, "Now it's your turn." She said with a little smile.

"Ceremony?" Fleur asked questioningly.

"It's nothing too major. You are just going there as a stand-in for your Grandmother. She had a very high status when in that colony and you will be the representative of our family there. And since you already have a chosen partner, you will bring him. It's on the 5th of July" Apolline said casually.

"I don't think it's just going to be some innocent ceremony…" Harry commented.

"No, it's not," Apolline slightly shook her head, "You both will be officiating your bond by presenting them with your mixed fluids that will directly be scooped out from Fleur," Apolline said with a straight face, much to the duo's bafflement.

"M-mama…" Fleur went beet red in her face. Harry stuttered out, "Mrs. Delacour, I don't think…"

"What's the problem? You just have to let them scoop out the fluids from Fleur… You don't need to do anything in front of the Veela elders. You can even do it yourself if you are feeling too possessive." She asked naturally.

"How can you say that with a straight face?" Fleur asked, horrified.

Harry added, "Mrs. Delacour, we haven't yet…" He paused, "…taken that step yet."

"Oh…" Apolline said with a surprised tone, "I thought that you would've been at it like rabbits already…" She said thoughtfully.

"My mum insisted that we wait…" Harry said embarrassedly. This was an extremely uncomfortable situation.

"Can't one of my second cousins go?" Fleur asked.

"They will all be attending. Being full-Veela, their circumstances are slightly different since they live in that colony." Apolline explained.

"Can nothing be done?" Harry asked with a frown.

"When did I say such a thing? I'll take care of it." Apolline said nonchalantly with a smile, "You kids can go there next year." She didn't think that it was a big deal, "But you do have to go at some point." She said pointedly, "It is a tradition among the Veela and will only be beneficial for the both of you. There are certain magical benefits involved with the ceremony."

"But then…" Fleur looked at her with worry shining on her face.

"You don't have to worry about my situation dear, I've been going for the past three years since we lost your father. I have a different ceremony." Apolline smiled at her daughter's concern, "But I do have something for you both to do." She looked at them pointedly.

"What is it?" Fleur asked with a worried frown, "I don't want to be involved in any weird Veela orgies…"

"Pfft…" Harry laughed out loud at Fleur's words.

Apolline smiled amusedly, "I won't be sending you to any Veela orgies… I just need you both to perform maintenance on your grandmother's old mansion."

"Oh, sure. I don't mind that." Fleur easily agreed. She and Harry had been going to that mansion every summer to fix it up. It wasn't a new chore.

"Great, You both should leave now so that you can return by the night," Apolline told Fleur with a tone of finality.

…

Harry and Fleur appeared in the middle of an unmaintained yard that was full of overgrown grass and weeds.

"Incendio." Harry didn't care about the grass and instantly cast a fire spell and constantly poured his magic into it. His wand essentially functioned as a weak flamethrower as he completely burnt all traces of the weeds with a controlled flame. As he turned around to where Fleur was previously standing, she moved to an already cleared part as Harry finished things.

He was constantly maintaining control over the flames such that they quickly burnt the required amount of the grass and didn't spread uncontrollably. This only brought the height of the grasses to a manageable level.

After Harry was done burning the overgrown grasses, "Diffindo," Fleur cast multiple severing charms to remove the burnt tips of the grasses to bring them down to perfectly trimmed heights. The whole process took the duo no more than a minute.

"I still don't understand why you guys don't just live here…" Harry said as he admired the views of the green grasslands from the courtyard.

"This is too remote of a place. And unlike your mother who can just casually create Portkeys with customized configurations, they are expensive to use as a regular means of transportation." Fleur pointed out.

"My mother is a genius…" Harry said with pride in his tone.

"Yeah yeah, you can admire her genius later. We have to get this place cleaned up soon." Fleur brought him back. Harry thought something for a moment, "Meet back here in an hour after cleaning our halves of the mansion?" Harry asked Fleur with a competitive gleam in his eyes.

"Winner gets to domme?" Fleur asked back excitedly.

"Impossible. I can take you to our favorite strip club though." Harry offered.

Fleur shrugged, "Worth a try." She was aware that Harry didn't like being truly dominated. He would act passive every once in a while to let her enjoy feeling some control, but actually allowing Fleur to be in full control of him in bed wasn't acceptable to him. She agreed to the counteroffer that Harry gave her, "Sure."

"And if I win?" He asked with a gleam in his eyes. He knew exactly what he wanted.

"You can tie me up however you want?" She offered him without much confidence in her words.

"I can already do that whenever and however I want." Harry pointed out casually.

"What do you want?" Fleur understood that he wanted something specific.

"When school starts, I want us to take care of Celine…" He smiled vindictively.

"No…" Fleur frowned apprehensively.

"Come on, she's still such a bitch to you. We've always stuck to pranking her from afar. I want to break her and make her apologize for each and every mean thing she has ever done to you." Harry said with a flat yet slightly furious tone.

Fleur just smiled and walked up to him before cupping his cheek lovingly, "She used to bully me years ago, 'Arry. Once you found out and we confronted her, she hasn't done anything more than a mean comment here and there. I've moved on."

"I know, my love. But I want to rid her of those random mean comments once and for all." Harry was stubborn.

"Celine's a Prefect, 'Arry, it won't be easy… And she's practically the strongest duelist in the school." Fleur said with a frown.

"And?" He asked nonchalantly, "You know full well that I'm more than strong enough to deal with her if push comes to shove. Hell, we both are." He said with steady confidence. He wasn't boasting.

He truly was more than strong enough to wipe the floor with any student, and most of the professors when it came to dueling. Only the strongest duelists like the Charms Professor and Madame Maxime could beat him in direct combat. And he'd even won a duel against his Charms Professor once.

"You aren't going to change your mind, are you?" Fleur sighed.

"I'm very vengeful." He shrugged.

"Fine, it's a bet." Fleur stopped caring about the problems and said, "I just have to finish faster than you, don't I?" She smiled slyly before breaking off into a run.

"Oh, my sweet lovely Fleur…" Harry smiled as he waved his wand and cast a spell. In that instant, vines burst out of the floor under Fleur and started wrapping around her.

"'Arry!" She shouted while struggling, but was unsuccessful. The vines wrapped around her arms before she could grab her wand and held them above her head while lifting her up into the air. As more and more vines wrapped around her, Fleur shouted, "You cheater!"

"All's fair in love and war, my darling. And my love for you can break just about any rule and agreement in the world." Harry laughed before leaving a last comment, "Enjoy your stay for the next thirty minutes." He entered the mansion.

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