Motherhood: Ain't it precious: Chapter One
A/N: This is another of my off-the-top-of-my-head-spur-of-the-moment fics, so yeah, sometimes you like 'em, sometimes you don't.
Summary: Necia Matthews, Head Secretary in charge of Auror assignments, reports and emergency services at the Ministry of Magic, London Auror Head Quarters. Necia is a twenty-nine year old witch, single mother and an important, new member of the Order of the Phoenix. Set before and during OOTP.
Necia, among other girls, just so happened to have a major crush on a little puppy we know, a little puppy called Sirius Black. Or at least she did, back in school, what happens when all here feelings come flooding back.
(Disclaimer: I own all my own characters, the rest and the places are created by the genious mind which belongs to J.K. Rowling.)
Chapter One: 'Morning...
"Zack!" Necia, a sinlge mother of twenty-nine, called for her five year old son. "Zack, baby, where are you?"
She was starting to panic now. Zack liked to play hide and seek, which freaked her out as one time last year Zack had decided to hide in the back of the neighbours car, as they were getting ready to set out for an early vacaction for the summer.
Necia had to magically make the car run out of gas and rushed after the car as Zack sat in the back, waving to her vigourously, the neighbours oblivious to the fact that a young boy was in their car.
"Come and find me mummy!" Zack yelled loudly. Necia darted to the back of the house, where the call had come from. She sighed with releif when she saw Zack's tiny sneakers poking out of the bottom of the spare bedroom's navy-blue curtains.
"Hmm... I wonder where Zack is?" Necia said, pretending to not know where he was. Zack loved this part. She pretended to look under the bed. "Zack?" She said, trying to hide her own laughter. She checked the wardrobe, calling him again.
Zack giggled from behind the curtains. She slowly crept up to the curtains and pushed them aside, causing the giggling Zack to scream in surprise.
"Gotcha," Necia yelled triumphantly, catching her small son in her arms and tickling him.
Zack giggled madly. "Stop it, Mummy, I'll put on my jacket," gave in.
"Good, go get it from your room," Necia told him softly, placing him on the ground.
The boy sprinted from the room and Necia heard him enter his own room and knock his coat stand over as he pulled on the jacket.
"Opps!" came his cute little voice.
Necia walked down the hall and into her kitchen, picking her breifcase off the bench. She had a meeting at the new Order of the Phoenix Head Quarters, which she'd only been to once before, and that time she only stepped into the gloomy small Entrance Hall, meeting only Remus Lupin, a boy she knew from school.
She walked into the living room, scooped up Zack's day-bag and walking to the front door. Zack rushed down the hall and stopped when he saw her, his eyes were close to tears.
"Baby, what's wrong?" Necia asked, kneeling as her son ran to her.
"I broke it, mummy," Zack exclaimed.
"What did you break, sweetie?" She was hoping it was nothing dangerous or valuable.
Zack held out a button. Necia took it and examined it. It was from the blue jacket he was wearing. Tears rolled down his cheeks.
"I'm sorry Mummy, I is bad."
"No you're not," Necia told him small blonde son, she brushed his fringe back with her fingers. "Mummy can fix it, easy."
She took out her wand, placed the button on the place where Zack had accidentally ripped it from and tapped it with her wand. The button was immediately stitched back on.
"Thank you, Mummy," Zack said, hugging her around the neck.
Necia kissed him on the cheek, Zack wiped his face, making faces.
Necia smiled at her son, he looked up at her.
"You look prettiful, Mummy," Zack told her. "Where are we going a'day?" He asked.
Zack was due to go to Kindergarten when the new school year began, at the moment she couldn't seem to get him into any day-care centres, and she distrusted baby-sitters, so she was forced to take Zack with her everywhere.
"Thank you, baby," Necia said, opening the front door and taking her son's outstretched hand. "We're going on another secret adventure, and if you're good Mummy might buy you a treat."
"Really?" Zack asked, getting excited. "What kind of treat?"
"Any kind you like," Necia told him, juggling her suitcase as she tried to get her car keys from her hand-bag. She locked the front door of the small one-storey house she owned and walked Zack to the car.
She made sure he was clipped into his toddler's seat in the back and walked around to the driver's seat and got it, placing her breifcase, handbag and Zack's day-pack on the front passenger's seat. She started the car and off they went, with occasional calls from the back seat such as: "Ohhh... Mummy... what's that?" and "Mummy, you're so prettiful."
They arrived in the street next to the one called Grimmauld Place. She parked her car at the park across the road and got out, helping her son escape the safety clutches of his seat.
"Ahhh! Are we going to the park Mummy?" Zack called, as Necia collected her things from the passenger's seat.
"No sweetie, Mummy has important work to do, remember what I said about being good?" She asked as she helped Zack put his day-pack over his shoulders.
Zack nodded. "Yes, Mummy. I'm gunna be a good boy."
Necia kissed his cheek. "Good, now remember what else Mummy says about secret adventures?"
Zack nodded again. "Mummy says if I tell 'nyone about 'em that the adventures will be less fun the next time."
"Good boy," Necia said, straightening his collar. She took his hand and began walking into into the street when the Order's Head Quarters were located. They reached the tiny gap between houses thirteen and eleven. Necia turned to Zack again.
"Sweetie, mummy needs you to close your eyes until Mummy says, okay?"
"Okay, mummy," Zack closed his eyes tight and put his hands over them.
"And when we get inside, you have to be very quiet, okay?"
Zack nodded, his eyes still covered.
Necia took a piece of parchment out of her pocket and unfolded it. She re- read it, it had een sent to her by Albus Dumbledore, the head of the Order of the Phoenix and Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Necia and Zack had just been let into Number twelve, the ancient house of Black, which was also named: Order of the Phoenix Head Quarters.
Zack still had his eyes covered. Molly Weasley, a plump witch and mother for seven Weasley children - also a member of the order, th woman whom had admitted her to the Head Quarters, was staring at her son, an eyebrow rasied.
Necia knelt next to him. "You can open you eyes now baby, but keep quiet."
Zack nodded and opened his eyes, lowering his hands. He looked around blinking.
He quickly clutched to his mother's legs, hugging her with all his might, obviously terrified.
"I'll take him from here," Molly told Necia quietly, she went to take Zack's hand. Zack stepped away.
Necia turned to her son. "Zack, you must go with Mrs. Weasley, Mummy has work to do. I will see you soon. You can play with your toys, but remember be good."
Zack still looked scared, it was obvious that he didn't want to leave her.
Necia sighed and dug into her handbag, producing a red lollipop, Zack's favourite lolly. A smile grew on Zack's face. She hated bribing her son with candy, it taught him bad future habits, but these meeting were important, if they failed her son wouldn't have a future anyway, so a little candy couldn't hurt.
"If you go with Mrs. Weasley, she'll give you this lollipop."
Zack's excited face gazed at the candy. Mooly held out her hand, in a motherly way.
Zack grasped it, and Necia handed Mrs. Weasley the lollipop.
"Give it to him when he can make some noise, he gets a little excited when he has one," Necia explained.
"You don't need to tell me dear," Molly said, "I've had seven of them, sugar is the sweetest thing to them."
Necia smiled at Molly, she liked her already.
"The meeting about to begin," Molly explained. "It's just through that door," She pointed to a door near a steep staircase.
She thanked Molly and hurried into the room. "Sorry I'm late," She apologised when Remus opened the door for her.
"It's fine," He said, "We were just about to start."
He led her to the lond table that several wizards and witches were sitting at. Remus indicated that she take the seat next to him. She did so and looked down the end of the table to her left, there sat Albus Dumbledore.
"Now that we're all here," Dumbledore said warmly. "Let us began. Sirius could you pass Necia the latest sets of information."
Necia looked at the man whom Dumbledore had talked to, she couldn't believe it. Well she could, she had been told that he lived here and it was his house, but to see him again, after so many year.
"Good Morning, Necia," Sirius Black said, handing her a set of rolled parchment.
Necia blinked at him, blushing. "'Morning," was all she got out.
Hey, what did you think? Review and tell me about what you think of Necia and Zack, I think Zack is the cutest, he reminds me of the times when I was little and I used to go to a day-care centre everyday. There were so many little boys just like him.
Until next chapter...
PS: So this is cleared up. Necia is pronounced: Nee-Sha. Okay?