RP: Morning Meeting

[shh_fleur]

Theodore,

I have the morning without plans, perhaps you should come to my house and we can discuss matters of the school? I believe now is the opportune time to begin such things and trust you won’t let any unimportant engagement prevent you from visiting me.

Yours sincerely,

Fleur Weasley

Fleur watched the owl depart

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[shh_theodore]

Theo read the note carefully, not answering it immediately but rather taking the time to think it through. He'd been making too many rash decisions lately and if he was to see Fleur Weasley again he needed an agenda

[shh_fleur]

Theodore was later than she would have expected, but still early enough that they had time to discuss things. When Fleur opened the door, her eyes were immediately drawn to Beelzebub, and she looked up at Theo with a small measure of surprise.

"Good morning Theodore, it is good to see you again. Come inside, you can leave the dog in the garden," she smiled as she turned and retreated into the house with the expectation Theo would follow.

[shh_theodore]

'Good morning,' Theo answered her with a smile, not completely happy with the idea of leaving Beelzebub in the garden. He wouldn't serve as much distraction there. Still he held Beelzebub back and told the dog to stay in the garden.

It immediately disobeyed and pushed past Fleur into the house when Theo didn't hold onto his leash well enough.

Maybe bringing the dog had not been such a good idea after all?

'I'm so sorry, Fleur,' Theo said instantly as stepped inside. 'He isn't particularly well trained. I wouldn't have brought him if I thought it would be a problem, but seeing how fond Gabrielle is of him I thought...' he shook his head. 'I do apologise. I'll try to get him to keep outside,' he finished.

[shh_fleur]

"Gabrielle?" Fleur frowned and did not finish the sentence, though she looked once more at Beelzebub with a more considering expression. "Perhaps he can stay inside, I do not think he would be good in the garden," she amended as she thought of how devastated Liam would be if he visited next time only to discover his gnomes had been eaten.

They were in the sitting room now and Fleur pointed to a place on the floor near the fireplace where the dog was already standing beside his owner. "You stay here," she said to the dog as she went and sat down in one of the seats and waited for Theo to join her.

[shh_fleur]

Fleur watched Bill as he fired questions at Theodore and felt conflicted. On one hand she was annoyed that it seemed he thought she wouldn't think of such things, but on the other it felt really good to know he was had an interest in her affairs.

"I believe that lots of good can come of this arrangement," Fleur replied with a warm smile in Theo's direction. She had not said she had total faith in Theodore because she did not, but he certainly seemed trustworthy enough and did not want the wizard to get annoyed. "You do not have to worry about illegal dealings. Do I strike you as a corrupter of innocents, Monsieur Nott?"

[shh_theodore]

So she did not have complete faith in him. Well she was probably wise not to, but it did keep him on his toes.

'I'm sure it will be a prosperous arrangement indeed, especially for the young children in town,' Theo answered Fleur with a smile. 'And I assure you, that if you'd struck me as a 'corrupter of the innocent', as you put it, then I would not have offered my time or my money,' he finished with a smile.

[shh_bill]

He was too smooth, that's what bothered Bill about Theo Nott. He was too level. He didn't seem passionate about anything, he knew exactly what to say, and when to say it. He was very much a Slytherin, but it wasn't even that that had Bill slightly on edge. He'd known some very nice Slytherins at Gringotts and on his team who were all very much Slytherins, but Theo . . . there was something off about him. He frowned thoughtfully. "So besides Fleur's daycare, are you working on any other projects?"

[shh_theodore]

Theo shook his head. 'Not at the moment, at least,' he answered. 'Katie, and that would be Katie Bell, I think she knows your brother,' Theo interjected. 'Well she mentioned something about a museum, but I haven't made up my mind on anything yet,' he said with a smile.

'In earnest, most of my time and effort goes into the reconstruction of my childhood home. I'm rebuilding it here in Stoats,' he said with a smile. He turned back to Fleur.

'When we've arranged everything for the school - well daycare - I would love to discuss a few things in that area too. I'm going to France in a few weeks to make arrangements for the purshase of the stone used to rebuild the house as most was destroyed in the battle, and I was hoping you'd have some connections or recommendations to offer for acquiring furniture, fabrics, wallpaper. If you want me to look around for things to use in the daycare facilities, I would of course be happy to do that too when I'm there,' Theo said, flashing of another warm smile