Chapter six: Baby, Dark Lord, and Dark Marks.
It was now a two years after their fairy tale wedding and their daughter Emmy Raven Ursula Flint was now a year old and was a terrific looking child. Had the same black hair like her parents and had Marcus' grey eyes and had Ravenna's perfect features.
Ravenna hadn't spoke with her parents often since the wedding because of having a baby and being married to a Quidditch star captain it was exhausting but they would go with Marcus everywhere since she was still new at being a parent to someone smaller than herself and not parenting her parents anymore was a change as well.
"Marcus I'm so tired. I managed to make you dinner, I'm not hungry because I ate earlier and Emmy had a tough day since she's still teething and walking into things and she keeps grabbing on my wand and it's just exhausting. So how was the match baby, I'm sorry we couldn't come but again Emmy was running into things and crashed into a night stand and then tried to ride Jackie like a horsie." Ravenna said about her exhausting day.
"I was gone while she was trying to ride the dog, man I miss everything." Marcus said a little upset.
"But you're working and besides I took a picture and Minnie was playing tea party, dress up, and goofy faces." Ravenna said.
"Oh she played with Emmy too today?" Marcus asked as he favored Minnie over his other house elves.
"No she was playing with me Marcus." Ravenna said giggling and then started to rub his shoulders and then Minnie carried in Emmy since it was midnight and Emmy was whining and then she saw her father and jumped from Minnie to Marcus.
"Da da!" Emmy said and she kissed his lips.
"Hi baby what are you doing up so late?" Marcus asked.
"To celebrate her and her daddy's birthday. Did you bring it Minnie?" Ravenna asked
Minnie smiled and then the biggest red velvet cake was being pushed in by Minnie's daughter Penope. Then Ravenna sang "Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday dear Marcus and Emmy Happy Birthday to you. MANY MORE!"
They blew out all the candles.
"Thank goodness she was born on your birthday because I can't throw two parties." Ravenna said.
"Party?" Marcus asked.
"I asked your friend Adrian to take over your next game so I can have a proper birthday for you today and for Emmy since we have been to every game and besides I think since you got them to the cup you deserve your birthday off and enjoy your daughter's company while I get you a day of happiness and well Emmy missed you." Ravenna said as she turned to cut a piece of cake and saw Emmy had dived right in and Minnie grabbed her camera and took a few pictures of her.
"Oh Emmanuelle Raven Ursula Flint!" Ravenna said and then she saw her daughter's face and she laughed and Marcus looked at her and then said "No Emmy like this." Then Marcus picked up a piece of cake and smooshed it into his wife's face.
"MARCUS!" Then she picked up a piece of cake and smashed into his face and then Marcus threw some at Emmy and Emmy covered now head to toe threw some at Minnie and Penope and they picked up some and got each other.
"Now this is a party." Marcus said and then kissed Ravenna passionately as ever on her lips and then she got him again with some more cake.
"RAVENNA!" He screeched and then grabbed the whipped cream and ran his creamy hands through her hair and then she took the ice cream poured it down his pants.
"AHH COLD!" Marcus said and then Emmy grabbed the cream and poured it on her own head and giggled madly.
"Let's get her." Marcus and then he grabbed Emmy tickled her and then he tickled Ravenna and they both laughed so hard that they were now crying because they were laughing so badly.
"Marcus please stop." Ravenna said in between laughs and then Emmy cried out "Mama! stop da da." Emmy was laughing but was now wanting to stop.
"Ok my little ladies." Marcus said as he picked both of his lucky ladies up and carried them up to their room. He peeled off Emmy's clothes and she was sticky, messy, and stinky. He realized she soiled her diaper and he gladly cleaned her up since it was very rare he changed her diapers and he loved being her daddy. Then Ravenna was now stripped down to her bra and panties and she said "Well let's take a family shower, she hates baths apparently so showers are go to as of late."
"I can't believe she's a year old now. It's been two years since we got married, I'm sorry but am I stuck in a coma somewhere and this is all a dream?" Marcus asked and then kissed his wife.
"No you're not dreaming because I'm sure she's real since I pushed her out of me." Ravenna said and he chuckled.
"Narcissa sent an owl and I figure we read it tomorrow once we rested tonight." Ravenna said and he agreed.
They started the shower and the water ran down her body and Marcus stood there holding their daughter and he couldn't help seeing her body and it barely changed since she gave birth and lost too much weight.
"You look so beautiful Rave, isn't that right Emmy? Mama pretty." Marcus asked Emmy as he cleaned her hair and Emmy said "mama is beauti, bretty." still talking baby talk.
"Yes that's right." Marcus said and Emmy was now cleaned and shampoo and conditioned and then Marcus handed Emmy over to Ravenna as she was now cleaned as well.
"I love you Marcus. I'm glad you have a birthday off and spending it with us is the best thing in the world." Ravenna said as Emmy fell asleep in her arms and she whispered into his ear.
He stopped shampooing his hair, and rinse it quickly and then soaped up as quickly as possible and washed off and he grabbed Emmy from Ravenna and dried her off and put her in a diaper and a white onezie and performed a drying charm on her hair and placed her into the crib in her nursery and there was Jackie guarding the crib and she looked up and moved to the other side because she saw her master with her little friend and he placed her into the crib and gave jackie a treat for being a good doggie and went into his bedroom through the bathroom.
"Are you wanting me right now?" Ravenna asked and she took off her robe and his jaw dropped and he saw the tattoo of his intials on her right breast.
"When did you get that?" He asked and then he started staring at her body examing her for more tattoos and he found one more and it was of two roses one purple and one red with an 'E' and 'M' next to the rose.
"I missed you alot Marcus, I wanted to get something to permantely say that." Ravenna said and then she started to come up to him and he was extremely aroused and he felt her hands crawl all over his body like the night they concieved their daughter.
"I missed you more than anything. I missed you both and I wish I didn't have to work all of the time so I can be with you and help you more." He said but he was cut off as she grabbed Marcus by his face and pulled him into an embrace and kissed him passionately and she ran her hands through his hair and it spiked up and she led him to the bed and she planted him on his back and kissed his entire body and he moaned deeply and he heard her moans as well and they charmed the inside of the room to be sound proof and can only hear the outside noises but no one could hear their passion.
They made love for hours and they slept soundly until 9 in the morning. They awoke and Marcus saw that she was longing for him again. His touch last night was what she wanted since he had match after match and she was tutoring and Hogwarts was going to offer her a job with teaching but she turned them down since she missed her husband too much.
"Ravey, baby I want another baby." Marcus said and she smiled and then jumped up to stand with him and he stood by the mirror in the bathroom and she said "Look at us Marcus. We sure we can have another. I'm all for it, but are you baby?"
"Oh yes I am ready. I want to have two kids I'm tired of seeing of Emmy alone and I'm thinking of quitting Quidditch Rave, because let's face it I've been on the team for six years now and well honey I miss you and doing what we did last night felt like we hadn't seen each other in years. I just think it's time to retire and take that job at the ministry for Auror since I want to work as an auror and I do have enough passing newts to be able to an Auror and I'll be home more often." Marcus said and then he turned to her and looked for his answer coming from her.
"Marcus if that's what you want then grabbed it by the horns baby and I'll give you another child because I do want another daughter." Ravenna said.
"I want a son." Marcus said with a smile.
"Well how about if I give you a son then I get to dress him up in a sailor suit." Ravenna said playing with him.
"No sailor suits." Marcus said and he kissed her.
"I'll announce to the team I'm leaving at the end of this season." Marcus said and then he heard Emmy cry to get out of her crib.
Marcus walked into her nursery as Ravenna grabbed Narcissa's letter to read to with Marcus over breakfast.
"Emmanulle Raven Ursula Flint. Stop that crying daddy's here to get you out of that crib of doom." Marcus said as he picked up Emmy and he walked into his bedroom.
"Hey look who's up Ravenna!" Marcus said and he put Emmy in his wife's arms. He took the letter from her hand and then said "Let's have breakfast and see what she wrote to me."
"Ok baby." Ravenna said and they all got down the stairs with Narcissa standing in the foryer. Marcus and Ravenna still had their robes on and then Narcissa heard Draco coming through the door and Crabbe and Goyle came as well.
"Oh my goodness I'm terribly sorry but I thought you received my letter early yesterday." Narcissa said and her eyes looked so red and tired. Draco said "Hi Marcus thanks for Falmouth Falcons autographed team photograph. Can I see my god daughter Emmy?" Emmy saw Draco and said "Drac Drac." and she climbed down the stairs by herself and then jumped up and down til Draco picked her up.
Then Ravenna and Marcus walked down the stairs. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't know you were visiting I was waiting for Marcus to read the letter this morning since he came in late last night and well we celebrated for a few minutes his and Emmy's birthday and a cake war happened." Ravenna explained.
"Oh that's why you smell so sweet." Draco said as he kissed Emmy on her tummy and took her into the parlor room with Crabbe and Goyle.
"Narcissa is everything alright?" Ravenna and Marcus asked in unison.
"Yes darling, I need to speak with Marcus about Mr. Malfoy. I should say it front of you Ravenna but you have Emmy and I just need to speak with Marcus since he's still my little man." Narcissa said on the verge of tears and her voice breaking.
"Of course Narcissa, I'll have Minnie make you some tea and have you and the boys eaten any breakfast?" Ravenna asked.
"No we came here rather quickly and I'm sure Draco should eat." Narcissa said.
"Not another word. Minnie!" Ravenna called.
"Yes Mistress Flint?" Minnie asked.
"We're having four others for breakfast and please make a little more than usual since it's not just Marcus we have to feed we got three 16 year old boys that will eat through three helpings." Ravenna said with a smile.
"Yes right away my lady." Minnie said.
"Now we'll go onto the patio since that's Emmy's area she likes the most." Ravenna said and went into the parlor and grabbed her Emmy and then Draco and his friends came along and sat with her outside on the patio slash garden area with a lovely sized table for morning breakfast and sometimes craft work.
"What's going on?" Marcus asked as they sat in the parlor room.
"Well as you know Lucius is a death eater and I am by marriage involved in the group and well Bellatrix my sister escaped and well Draco is now a death eater and I am scared this all too much for Draco and myself. Lucius is now in jail. I'm lost for words. I also know that you were on the recruiting list since your father was a death eater." Narcissa said as she tried to fight back the tears.
"Narcissa should I runaway with my family or will he find us?" Marcus asked nervously.
"Marcus...I don't know." Narcissa said as a tear rolled down her face.
"Narcissa I just said to my wife I'm leaving Quidditch to be an Auror and I can't be a death eater there must be a mistake. I just had my daughter, we're talking about another baby and no no no I can't hear this. Look I just got my life together old mum please tell me this a joke." Marcus said as he felt his eyes water up and he saw she would never make any of this up.
"What about the Warrington's are they death eaters too now?" Marcus asked.
"No Martha, Castiel, and Cassius are now in America somewhere isolated." Narcissa said.
"At least they were smart enough to do that." Marcus said a little upset with her.
"Please Marcus I came to you because I have no one else but Draco at this moment and I'm in fear for my life and your family's. I love you like my own son Marcus. I never joined the death eaters it's my sister and husband's involvement that I was bound to the death eaters but now Draco is one of them because they threathened him into submission. Marcus I am begging you run away from this place and take your family so far away from here and don't come back until the Dark lord is killed for good this time." Narcissa said pleading with him to runaway and not to come back.
"If I run then my family and I have to live a lie and then you are forced to stay at the Dark Lord's side and I can't let you, Lucius, and Draco be in potential danger or worse killed for being involved. What happens if he isn't killed and boy wonder Potter can't kill him uhh, then what happens to you mum? Please tell me you'll runaway too because this is madness." Marcus said.
Ravenna had walked into the house near the parlor room and heard the conversation and saw Emmy playing with her god father Draco. He was so happy playing with her and she fed Crabbe and then Goyle with her fork and then clapped everytime they ate their bite. She looked sadly at Draco and saw he was a good kid no matter how immature he acted, he was a death eater because he was threathened to join to save his mother and father. Then she walked into the parlor and Narcissa and Marcus stopped talking.
"We'll pack up and leave tomorrow." Ravenna said and then handed Narcissa an address in case Draco and her needed to stay at a safe house. Even wrote the address to their new home in case things got too scary and they needed to be warned.
"Ravenna we can't leave baby we have to give up this house, our lives that we worked so hard for." Marcus said so confused.
"I love you and I'm not losing you to a madman with a pet snake and a dangerous obession of killing innocent people may they be muggle born or half blooded or pure blooded. People have the right to live the way they want too and shouldn't be forced into pain, fear, and danger. I want our daughter to grow up, be healthy, smart as textbook, her to see the world for what it truly is and that's living free and dying as an old woman surrounded by the ones she loves." Ravenna said and walked out of the room and then walked back to the patio to grab her daughter from Draco.
Draco looked at her and he was confused. "Emmy say I love you Draco." Ravenna said and she stared at Draco with such sadness and Emmy responded "Drac Drac I wuv you. You stay with me?" Ravenna began to tear up and Draco realized she knew.
"Ravenna I'm sorry." Draco said and he looked at her for a minute and then looked down at his plate of food and didn't look back up and Crabbe and Goyle looked down as well.
"Draco honey you're a good boy no matter how snobby you act and I just want you to know that Marcus, Emmy, and I are leaving here for good. Your mother has a list of safe houses I gave her just in case you and her need to run as far away as you possibly can and she has an address for us just in case she needs to warn us." Ravenna said.
"I thought Marcus and you would stay. You two are the strongest people I know." Draco said feeling scared again.
"I know it feels that way but we have a daughter to think about. I have family out there. We were talking about having another baby and you guys come here and tell us you're in trouble and you're dad is in worse trouble and I can't and I won't let my daughter die after she just turned one today. It's my husband's birthday he's only 25 and I'm only 24, I don't want to us to die because some idiot with a murderous and dangerous following trying to kill us or recruit us. I'm not mad at you or your family I just can't have our little girl die and I can't have him die I just got him in my life Draco please if you and your mother knows what's good for you honey you'll run away or find a protection spell or anything sweetheart, I don't want my daughter's only memory of her god father was his 16 year old self playing with her at breakfast time. She'll need her god father someday to talk bad about her parents once in a while or spoil her rotten with candy til her teeth fall out." Ravenna said and was crying and Emmy was wiping her eyes and said "Mama is Drac Drac coming too?"
"I'll try Ravenna I promise. It's harder than it seems I love my mom and father and I don't know what I do without them." Draco said.
"You'd live with me and Marcus. Besides I know they mean the world to you but you're important Draco this is serious you're playing with fire and you're going to get burned. I hope you come and find us and say the war is over and we can come back to our home but until I'm scared Emmy won't make it to her next birthday if we stay here. I'm not letting Marcus stay here and let that evil bastard take my family and rip it apart. It's bad enough I feel guilty still after all these years for my parent's divorce I'm not going to let that happen to me ever again." Ravenna said and she looked at him and kissed his forehead.
"Come and find us when this nightmare of a war is over and you can Emmy grow up and be apart of our family." Ravenna said and she looked at the other two and then said "Same goes for you two as well. I don't care if you have a hard time being under that's psycho's ruling fists you warn me if he's coming after my husband ok Draco. Please do that for me." She said looking at all of them. "If I lose him then I'll die and who will be there for my daughter two ghosts of her parents." Ravenna said and she placed Emmy back down into her high chair and saw that Marcus was fully dressed and he helped Narcissa onto the patio.
"Look I know about the hunting and recruiting and I'm not going to help their cause. I got a family and this isn't fair. My mother was killed by death eaters so no I won't ever join him." Marcus said confirming Ravenna's heart-felt speech from earlier.
"Marcus I'm not asking for you to join and Ravenna made it clear you weren't staying here and she's right I can't let Emmy here remember me as a guy she had breakfast once and kissed on her tummy I want to be her god father and techinically I'm her Uncle Draco and I'm sure we'll be alright and so will my mother. I'm just saying we'll help you both pack up everything and can we just finish our breakfast in peace and not talk about this anymore." Draco said wanting to finish the conversation.
So they ate their meals in silence and then Marcus called on his agent, his team, and his subscription to the Daily Prophet to cancel, quit the team, and gave a handsome pay to his agent for his quidditch reference and could be offered to come back to the team after a hitatus. Then Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle packed up the nursery with the boxes Ravenna enchanted to hold much more than what they could actually hold. The house elves packed the kitchen and dining room and made their way to their new Californian home in Monterey at her old family home in Half Moon Bay. Narcissa had helped pack the parlor, library, and their study with the use of her wand and Marcus packed up their bedroom and Ravenna was packing up the baby.
They had the rest of the night to eat dinner out in the restaurant Marcus and Ravenna had their first date and made it a night of fun and when they got back to the empty house they saw that there was more than a dozen of death eaters in the house breaking glass and then they were thankful that they moved their stuff to their house earlier that day. Narcissa and Draco got into the house through the basement and they were found by the other death eaters "WHY ARE YOU TWO HERE? THE DARK LORD WANTED YOU AT YOUR MANOR!"
"We came since we heard Marcus was to be recruited tonight and we wanted to find him to congradulate him." Draco said with a smirk. He was a great actor.
"Oh Draco my dear boy." Bellatrix said and patted him on the head.
"Yes Bellatrix I thought we could come but apparently he chickened out." Draco said and then Crabbe and Goyle came down from the bedrooms upstairs and said "Not up there either."
TO BE CONTINUED...