Just in case you wondered: the book Narcissa was reading in previous chapter was written by Niccolo Machiavelli.

Days passed and Aquilla was growing pretty. Narcissa was happy to see that the baby recognized her already. She also forced Lucius to read aloud for Draco when Aquilla was awake in her crib.

'What for? Aquilla won't understand anyway' Lucius sighed.

'But she'll get used to your voice' Narcissa explained. 'Aw, she still misses Bella…'

'What makes you think so?' Lucius frowned.

'This cloth. She just won't sleep without it.'

It was true – all the time Aquilla was clutching the piece of her mother's clothing. She held it close to her face while asleep, and while awake, she usually tried to put it into her mouth.

'Me want play with Kila!' Draco announced. 'Kila pretty, me happy. Me want play.'

Aquilla looked at him. Narcissa knelt next to her son.

'Play peek-a-boo with her' she said. Draco nodded.

'These two are so cute together' Narcissa stated, looking at Draco playing.

'Absolutely' Lucius agreed. He laughed as he saw Draco pulling faces in front of his little cousin.

'Me Draco, me dragon…' the toddler hissed. 'A big, sary dragon… Kila, be sared…'

Aquilla waved her fists as Draco pulled a very funny face.

'Me sary…' Draco insisted and pulled a scary face. This made Aquilla cry. Narcissa immediately got her up and hushed her.

'It's okay, Aquilla, it's okay, auntie is here, no need to cry, it was only your cousin, only Draco, hush, little one…' she whispered. She cradled the baby until Aquilla stopped crying.

'I forgot about the most important' Narcissa said to Lucius. 'The Lestranges still don't know they have a granddaughter.'

'But… but we promised Rod and Rabbit that their parents wouldn't know they were Death Eaters, and that they were imprisoned…' Lucius hesitated.

'Yes, but Aquilla has nothing to do with this!'

'Then why is she at ours? Why are we the ones to tell them?'

'They don't need to know this… yet. Third drawer.'

'What's there?'

'Quill charmed so that it fakes Rod's handwriting. Will you write? Just don't put there too many lies.'

Lucius nodded and wrote, trying to sound like Rod.

'Read it' he asked his wife, and Narcissa did.

Dear Mom and Dad, blah, blah, blah, I'm sorry I didn't write for a long time, a lot happened, blah, blah, blah, a month ago Bella gave birth to our first child, it's a girl, we named her Aquilla, blah, blah, blah…

'Sounds right' Narcissa nodded. 'Send it to them…'

She put Aquilla back into the crib.

'Me slep in it wen me was tis small?' Draco asked. Narcissa sighed.

'No, whenever I tried to leave you here you would cry so loudly that I had no other choice but take you to our bed. But I tried to make you sleep in it.'

'Oh' Draco said. 'Me was naty?'

'Oh no, sunshine! You were nice, you weren't naughty!' Narcissa hugged Draco tightly. 'I'm the naughty one' she stated then and tickled her son.

'No!' Draco laughed. 'No tik! No!'

'No tickling more?' Narcissa asked, and Draco nodded. 'Okay, kiss Mommy and there will be no more tickling today.'

Draco kissed Narcissa on the cheek. She picked him up and cuddled.

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