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Bellatrix sat up in bed reading the Daily Prophet, Lyra started crying "Shut up" Bellatrix snapped at her daughter. Lyra carried on crying, Bellatrix considered cursing her before grudgingly picking her up and feeding her.
When Lyra had finished she was laid straight back in her cot, Bellatrix wasted no love on a girl. When Narcissa wasn't there Lyra was ignored. It would build character Bellatrix thought to herself. Her mother wasted time on her and it hadn't hurt her. Bellatrix's mother still hadn't visited her in the week Lyra had been in the world, if the Dark Lord visited hours after the birth, Bellatrix was sure her mother could come and glance at her first true grandchild.
Narcissa arrived at midday to find Bellatrix moving around her room where a black silk bed coat pointedly ignoring the baby "Mother's coming in an hour" Narcissa informed Bellatrix.
"Well it was inevitable" Bella sat down on the chez longue at the end of her bed.
"How's Lyra?" Narcissa said crossing the room to the cot her green dress trailing across the floor.
"Who?" Bellatrix asked picking up a book.
"Your daughter, Bella, Lyra Lestrange" Narcissa leaned over the cot.
"Oh she hasn't been quiet all morning" Bella said flipping a page.
"Have you feed her?" Narcissa asked picking up the baby.
"Yes, Cissy, I know how to look after my child" Bella snapped.
"Hmmm" Narcissa crossed to her sister's jewellery box and removed a necklace with a crystal on the end. Narcissa made the crystal catch the light "Can you see the light?" she asked Lyra. Lyra's eyes followed the light. "Narcissa put the necklace back" Bellatrix commanded. Narcissa did as she was told.
When they mother arrived Bellatrix was sitting on her window seat wearing her loosest dress while Lyra wriggled in her cot tangled in grey sheets. Narcissa lead their mother in "Show me the child Bellatrix" Bellatrix hurried across and picked up her daughter and brought her to her mother. Druella Black cast her eyes over her granddaughter before saying "She'll do" she paused and took the child holding her out before her "A son next time though make no mistakes my girl" she told her daughter sternly.
"Yes mother" Bellatrix said meekly.
"Heaven knows what your father would have made of this. He had such high hopes of you Bellatrix" their mother said snottily.
"I know Mother" Bellatrix said looking down hatefully at her daughter. Narcissa stood behind her sister with her hands clasped; she didn't look nineteen she looked like the fifteen year old girl who stood behind her elder sister while their mother scolded them.
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