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Bill Weasley ([info]bweasley) wrote in [info]tinworth,
@ 2009-12-12 21:46:00

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Characters: Tracey Davis, Bill & Fleur Weasley
Locale: Tip Tap Toe
Date: 12 December
Warnings: None

Bill still wasn't entierly sure about this whole idea of sending Vic to dance classes. The fact that he knew he was being irrational was the only reason Fleur had managed to talk him around it at all, but he still couldn't help shake the feeling that he didn't want his daughter just sent out among like that. After all, he'd spent his childhood at the Burrow, with his mother and brothers, playing either in the yard or with other wizarding children in carefully orchestrated play-dates with parents present. The knowledge that his experience had been somewhat singular compared to most people didn't stop him from thinking that was the way things were supposed to be, and enrolling a four-year-old in a dance school with complete strangers was simply bizarre. The fact that there would be muggle children there was well just made it doubly so.

So Fleur took him to the school to check it out and talk to Miss Davis and, hopefully, ease his misgivings about letting Vic attend. He was quite certain that he'd give in eventually, Fleur had her ways, but that didn't stop him from taking advantage of the opportunity to check things out. They left Vic with his mother and apparated to a point in Delabole so they could walk the rest of the way to the dance school, and Bill held the door open for his wife to precede him into the building. "Does Tracey know we're coming?"

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-13 05:28 am UTC (link)
"No," Fleur admitted. "I didn't think it would be proper to send an owl to her at home, and I didn't know if you used the phone for this sort of thing."

All the same, she stepped over the threshold to the lobby of the little studio, peering in through the viewing window at the class underway. It wasn't the class Vic would take; the girls were older and the style definitely wasn't ballet. Tap shoes clattered in a thunderous - yet perhaps not harmonious - counterpart to a jazzier sort of tune, and Fleur grinned.

"Aren't you glad I didn't say tap, Bill?" she wondered aloud, luckily finishing her thought just before the music and tapping ceased. Fleur heard the teacher talking, though from where she stood she could not see if it was Tracey or not.

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-13 05:47 am UTC (link)
"Very," Bill agreed, grateful that the clatter of the dance had ended. He could just imagine little Vic running all around the house in those horrendously loud shoes, and also knew that if she did he'd be hard pressed to make her stop. Bill's daughter had him wrapped around her little finger effortlessly.

He stood next to her and watched the class through the window, one hand coming up to unconsciously play with her hair. The girls in the class looked happy, most of them playing around instead of listening to the teacher. He looked around the lobby, wondering if there was anything else to the studio. "Guess we just poke around until we find her? I'd have to interrupt their class to ask." Following his own advice, he stepped away from the window to what appeared to be an office across the lobby, knocking sharply and accidentally pushing the unlatched door inward by doing so.

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-13 06:54 am UTC (link)
Tracey could not say that she was grateful for her afternoon lesson cut short, though under normal circumstances she might have been. Emptying a pair of size five ballet flats into the trash because one of her students had thrown up in them was not normal.

The girl was feeling much better, no doubt, and Tracey had been happy to hand the soggy slippers over to her mother. As she made her way back to the classroom to collect her own things and head home, she spied the Weasleys milling about.

"Did you lose something? A girl, perhaps?" She asked with a smirk, peeking into the Intermediate Jazz and Tap classroom.

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-13 06:56 am UTC (link)
Fleur could feel her cheeks flushing as Tracey caught them snooping throughout the studio. "I do not think you were lost, but you are who we were looking for," she smiled, offering her hand to the slightly younger witch. "I brought my husband this time so he could see the school, and ask you about your students, maybe talk about if Victoire would... fit in? Bill, this is Tracey Davis, Tracey, this Bill."

Tracey must know what she meant, Fleur hoped, and would perhaps have somewhere they could talk about the prospect of accidental magic without alarming her boss.

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Bill, for his part, didn't care in the least that they'd been caught looking around, especially since they'd found the object of their search. Turning away from the empty office, he smiled easily and held out a hand to Tracey. He kept his face slightly angled so that the left (and unmarred) side was more obvious, a habit he'd adopted over the years. "Nice to meet you, Miss Davis."

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-13 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Tracey remembered when the Weasleys had taken up Shell Cottage - her mother had gone on about what sweet manners the young wife had, though that likely had more to do with Gracie's not understanding a word of French - and Tracey might have taken an appraising glance or two when she saw the pair about Tinworth.

He'd been handsomer, surely, but what stories he could now tell.

"Pleasure," she replied shortly, though not in an unfriendly fashion. She knew just the sort of questions Fleur no doubt wanted to ask, because they'd been asked by the parents of the other three wizardborn children at the school, and no doubt by Tracey's own mother eons ago.

"We can talk in my classroom, if you like. It's empty."

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-14 05:10 am UTC (link)
"That would be wonderful, thank you," Fleur nodded, following Tracey to a dark studio, the mirrors reflecting the emptiness around them in an eerie yet beautiful sort of way. "So much quieter," she mused as Tracey found the electric light switch and the classroom buzzed to life, "I do not know how you handle the tapping so loud, I would not be able to hear my thoughts for what to teach next!"

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-14 06:07 am UTC (link)
Bill followed along as well, looking around the room as they entered. The lights were a curiosity for a moment, but he'd seen them before so it was just for a moment. What he mostly payed attention to was the fact that with all the mirrors in the room, he couldn't turn his scarred side away.

He chuckled at his wife's comment and stepped up next to her, facing Tracey. "I'm sure you can pretty much guess what we came here to ask about?"

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-14 05:30 pm UTC (link)
"Yes," Tracey answered with a grin, crossing to a shelf well out of the way of any of her younger students reach and retrieving her wand from a pocket in her duffel bag. The privacy Charm she quickly cast spoke better of her understanding.

"The school has a bit of a history with wizarding children. Mostly Muggleborn," she noted, with no sense of what that might mean to the Weasleys. "How old is your daughter?"

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-15 12:07 am UTC (link)
"Four," Fleur replied. "I know it is young to think she will be a ballerina, but I think it must be lonesome sometimes, with no sisters or cousins to play with. Vic has a very big imagination, but it would be good, no, to meet other little girls her age?"

She smiled encouragingly at Bill. There were no plans in the works for siblings to come along soon, and cousins would be a surprise, though Fleur knew Ron and Hermione were planning for a summer wedding like her own.

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-15 12:50 am UTC (link)
"Do you have many other wizarding children? Or any of them her age? I have to admit, I'm a little more...hesitant than my wife here about letting her attend here. Not that I have anything against dance, and I think if we can work out all the details she'd really enjoy coming to classes." He hoped Tracey would understand what he meant by his hesitation, although hearing that they had a history with magical kids was encouraging.

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-15 02:23 am UTC (link)
Tracey's brows arched at the exchange that was happening as much between Fleur and Bill as it was with her, feeling a little like she was meant to settle a debate.

Relationships.

"Right now there are three, that I know of, anyway," Tracey explained, not ruling out the possibility that there might be a Muggle child with magical abilities. There was something in Cornish waters, she fancied. "Bronnie's her age. Probably."

Trouble was, of course, little girls looked so much alike until they started bad mouthing each other and dangling their training bras about.

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-15 02:36 am UTC (link)
"Have you ever had any problems with magical accidents?" Fleur asked. It was a reasonable concern to have, but Fleur did not believe that the answer was to keep a child sequestered until they were able to be properly trained. Magical accidents were just that - accidents, and could often be explained away as tricks of the eyes or wild imaginings of little children. It took an exceptional child to try and discipline themselves to make any controlled use of their magic without the aid of a wand, and Fleur had only once heard of it being successful enough to draw the suspicion of Muggles around him.

Victoire, she reminded herself with a quirk of her lips, had very little in common with Tom Riddle. Unless of course you ate chocolate in front of her without sharing.

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-15 02:42 am UTC (link)
Bill, of course, had completely different ideas about how easy accidents were to keep under wraps, hence the majority of their friction over the whole 'send Victoire to dance school' issue. "If you teach both magical and muggle children here you must have some sort of plan in place to counteract any threat to the Statute, right?" He didn't work in law much, or at all, but surely the Ministry kept tabs on stuff like this?

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-15 03:48 am UTC (link)
Now this was a speech Tracey had rehearsed, though she left out her nasal impression of the Ministry employee who, due to her employment there, paid Tip Tap Toe a yearly visit.

"All establishments that serve a Muggle and wizarding population are subject to intermittent observation by the Ministry, and any witch or wizard in the employ of a Muggle - that would be me - is charged with reporting any infraction directly to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement."

Catching her breath, Tracey rattled on, decidedly more like herself than her previous declaration had been.

"Trust me, the Ministry has more to worry about than whether or not a kid makes smoke pour out of her ears when she falls down."

Not that something so obvious had happened since Tracey was a student, and the culprit.

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[info]jesuisenchantee
2009-12-15 04:00 am UTC (link)
"Nothing to worry about then," Fleur declared happily. The Ministry made an occasional visit, and Tracey would be on hand if anything were to happen. Not to mention this mysterious Bronnie had Fleur so excited she was ready to sign Victoire up right now. A possible Wizarding playmate, and maybe even a new friend for Fleur if her mother was any fun!

"Do you teach the adult classes too?" she asked, hoping for three friendly birds with one pair of ballet flats.

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[info]bweasley
2009-12-15 04:15 am UTC (link)
Bill wasn't at all happy with that attitude. The Ministry had plenty else to worry about, of course. Bill, however, did not. Bill had his daughter to worry about, full stop.

But if someone was checking in on the place, and they were still open, then that had to mean that everything was up to code, right? And Fleur looked so pleased and hopeful and with a pang he realized that she must be more lonely that he'd realized, working from home all the time. The tone of her voice when she asked about adult classes was enough to make him bite back what he'd been about to say. Instead he put an arm around her shoulders and reminded her, "For you, right? I've already told you I'm not wearing tights."

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[info]disadorable
2009-12-21 12:31 am UTC (link)
The sentimental display distracted Tracey for a moment from her response, but she kept her eye rolling completely internal for once.

"We don't have adult classes, actually," she returned, admittedly surprised at Fleur's eagerness. It was a little pathetic. "Listen, I can give you a pamphlet... ?"

If they hadn't decided between themselves - and Tracey had seen plays and parents enough to know they hadn't - they certainly weren't going to get more out of her than they would paperwork, and she had places to be, and bottles of wine to cozy up with.

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