September 1973

So far it was proving to be rather difficult to maintain a friendship with Lucius. Of course, he was always good at putting on an act when they were surrounded by others; always being polite and conversing with her and he even went as far as to suggest that she and Henri should dine at the manor one night with all their old friends but whenever nobody was watching or they happened to have a few minutes alone, he would reach out and touch her hand or sweep the hair away from her shoulder so that he could lightly moved his index finger down the curve of her neck which made her shiver. And then the looks he would throw in her direction with those smouldering grey eyes of his roaming over her body which only made her blush at the thought that she knew he was imagining her without any clothes on.

Narcissa counted her lucky stars that so far, she had only been alone with Lucius for a matter of minutes but she knew that her ex-lover was trying to find a way in which they could be alone for more than those few minutes. But tonight she was dreading the party at Malfoy Manor. Firstly, she didn't know what the occasion was for Lucius to throw a party but she knew the old Hogwarts crowd would be in attendance. So far she knew that her cousin Evan, her brother-in-law Rabastan Lestrange, Neil Greengrass, Jemima, Amelia Bulstrode and Bella and Rod would be going to the party and possibly staying the night. Lucius had extended her invitation to include Henri but her fiancé had dinner plans with Isabel; trying to win his ex-lover over and she had agreed that perhaps going to the party alone would be an opportunity to further a friendship with Lucius.

Upon her arrival at the manor, she found that she was the first guest there. The house elf took her cloak to hang up as Lucius greeted her in the living room, gesturing for her to sit down whilst the elf poured her a glass of wine.

"Is Cecily going to be in attendance tonight?" Narcissa asked.

Lucius shook his head as he took to the empty seat on the sofa next to her.

"Cecily is dining with friends tonight and spending the night with them and my father is dining with some business associates and staying at the London flat. So we shall be unobserved." Lucius replied quietly, shifting closer to her.

Narcissa snatched the glass of wine from the elf and downed it in three large mouthfuls. It was going to be a long night if he kept looking at her the way he currently was and if she was going to avoid his advances.

"A night alone with friends, just what you need." Narcissa muttered.

His fingers came into contact with her neck as he swept the hair back over her shoulder, his eyes staring at her with that same smouldering look that she was beginning to again become accustomed to.

"I could always cancel the party and have you all to myself." Lucius suggested with a smirk.

Narcissa rolled her eyes, "When will you understand that I simply want us to be friends and that I will be marrying Henri?" she asked.

Lucius chuckled throatily, "You haven't set a date for your wedding to Henri Rosier yet and in the mean time I told you that you could have my friendship but I wouldn't make it easy for you." he replied.

She inhaled deeply as she felt his hands pulling the hem of her dress up from her knees to mid thigh and stroked the skin softly. Lucius leaned in closer to her, continuing the teasing pace of his fingers as his lips met the pulse point of her neck and kissed her there hotly. Her eyes closed and she moaned softly, dropping her empty wine glass to the wooden floor and hands holding on to his shoulders as he leaned towards her; pushing her back on to the cushions behind her.

Her resolve was weakening, her anger over the last few weeks towards him was fading and she cursed herself as she forgot the plan that she had spent a lot of time making with Henri. Lucius had been right when they had had that conversation in the lift; he wasn't making this easy for her. She had been squirming with desire for her ex-lover and having him this close to her, kissing the places that she had thought he would have forgotten that she liked to be kissed.

Lucius stopped kissing her, looking deeply into her eyes and placing his hands on either cheek to cup her face. His lips were centimetres from hers and his body pressed as close as possible into her own.

"Spend the night with me." he breathed.

"I-I c-can't." she replied, moving her hands to push him off of her.

Lucius sat up and sighed, "Narcissa, how long are we going to keep this up?" he asked.

She frowned, "Keep what up?"

"This. Pretending that you don't want me when it's obvious that you do. I'm not someone that likes to be played and I'm not someone who will give up easily. You should know that by now."

Narcissa gulped, her plan was hitting the rocks. Before she could reply, the elf announced that the other guests had arrived so Lucius left her in the living room so that he could greet the other guests. She accepted another drink from the house elf, it was going to be a long night.

ooOoo

The party ended around one o'clock the following morning with several of the guests drunk and had fallen asleep in the living room. Bella and Rod had left the party to go upstairs around eleven and they hadn't returned, it was everyone's guess as to what the two of them were up to. Jemima was carried up the staircase around midnight by Neil having fallen asleep on Narcissa's shoulder.

Rabastan had hooked up with Amelia Bulstrode and the two were something in the grounds making rather loud sounds of pleasure as Evan snored in front of the fireplace in the living room. Only she and Lucius remained awake in the entrance hall. Narcissa pulled on her cloak and went to open the door when she felt Lucius's hand cover her own.

"If you think I'm going to let you apparate home in this state then you really are foolish." Lucius whispered.

Narcissa raised an eyebrow, "I'm going home. To Henri." she stated.

"No you're not. You will be staying here tonight and sleeping off the drink you have consumed. If I allowed you to apparate home in this state you would be splinched."

She rolled her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck to hug him, planting a kiss to his cheek.

"Thank you for the invitation and lovely evening." she whispered.

He backed her against the door, those grey eyes of his staring at her; telling her that she wasn't leaving the manor.

"Stay the night, it will be safer for you."

"I have to get home."

The next thing she knew, he grasped her shoulders roughly and felt him apparating the two of them from the entrance hall. When the surprise of his unexpected mode of travel cleared, she looked around and found that they were stood in the little cottage in the Malfoy grounds. Lucius took out his wand and she heard the door locking before he took to one of the armchairs.

"How dare you!" Narcissa hissed, hand going to her own pocket to reach for her wand.

But her wand wasn't in there. Lucius chuckled amusingly as he held it up and pocketed it inside his robes with his own.

"If you want it back, you'll have to come here and get it."

Narcissa, eyes glaring at him with anger, strode across the room and tried to prise his robes open; only to have her wrists grasped by Lucius and be pulled into his lap. His lips immediately captured her own and it only took her second to give into the heated touch his lips made against hers and opened her mouth fully to him; tongues teasing each other in an erotic rhythm. She tried to wriggle free of his grasp and felt the arousal through his trousers as he continued to kiss her.

Eventually, his hands moved to her backside, gripping tightly as he began to rise from the chair. Narcissa wrapped her legs around his waist as they continued to kiss heatedly until she felt herself being lowered on to soft sheets of the bed. She broke her mouth away from his and tried to catch her breath.

"Do you want this?" Lucius asked her, his voice hoarse.

He was giving her the opportunity to walk away and she knew that she should. As far as the rest of the world was concerned she was promised to another man and she shouldn't be passionately kissing her ex-fiance for any reason. But she was tired of fighting the urge of not being with Lucius.

"Just once." she whispered.

Satisfied with her answer, he covered her lips with his own and resumed kissing her as passionately as he could and thoughts of his wife and her fiancé were pushed to the back of their minds.

ooOoo

Cecily sat by the fireplace at the Malfoy flat in London, having told her husband that she was dining and spending the night at a friend's house. Of course, Lucius had no reason to not believe her but that didn't stop her from feeling guilty about what she was really up to.

She and Abraxas spent three nights together a week when Lucius was out of the manor; trying to conceive a child in which she could pass off as one that she had conceived with her husband. The plan was set. The moment she received a positive result from the pregnancy spell, she would drug her husband's evening wine at dinner and then spend the night with him in his bed. The next morning, Lucius would wake with a hangover and she would convince him that they had slept together. All of this was to serve the purpose of making Lucius pay more attention to her and the child and stop him from having feelings for Narcissa Black.

"My dear, come back to bed. Second time in a night would have more chances of conceiving an heir." Abraxas called from the bedroom.

But she didn't answer as she pointed the tip of her wand at her stomach. She was usually regular but her period was over a week late. There had been no other symptoms of pregnancy other than a late period.

"Gravida revelare."

A friend had told her about the simple spell, you had to simply point the tip of a wand at your stomach and say the incantation. If the tip came back as blue, it meant you were pregnant. If the tip came back as green it meant that you weren't.

Cecily closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening them again. As she looked down, her eyes widened. Light blue shone back at her.

"Cecily, are you coming back to bed?!" Abraxas grumbled, holding a sheet around his waist as he stood in the doorway that led to the bedroom from the sitting room.

She looked up at her father-in-law and gulped.

"Abraxas, our goal has been accomplished. I am pregnant."

ooOoo

She didn't know what the time was. All she knew was that after being blissfully satisfied by Lucius, she was laying in his arms in the bed where she had lost her virginity to him. They had yet to go to sleep and nothing had been said since they had groaned each other's names at their climax. It wasn't until Narcissa winced at the ray of sunlight peaked through a gap in the curtains that she realised it was sunrise.

Narcissa made to move, only to be stopped by Lucius who propped himself up and hovered over her.

"Where are you going?" Lucius asked.

"Home. I need to shower and get something to eat before I spend the next few hours in bed catching up on much needed sleep." Narcissa replied.

"I think you should stay here with me."

Narcissa smiled sadly, "This can't happen again." she whispered, her hand running through his hair.

"Why ever not?"

"Because you are married as I will be soon."

"Henri said that you two will have a long engagement, that you weren't in a rush." Lucius pointed out.

"But the day will come eventually and I won't be your lover. I won't be your dirty little secret Lucius." Narcissa stated.

Lucius cupped her face and gazed into her eyes deeply.

"I told you, I'll divorce my wife and have you in her place. Nothing has changed for me. I still love you, I still want you and need you. Narcissa, you wouldn't have slept with me if you didn't feel the same way."

"Even if you could divorce Cecily, your father still remains a threat. Do you honestly believe that he would allow you to marry me when he was behind the breaking of our engagement?"

"I'm a Malfoy, I'll take what I want."

Narcissa wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him lightly before trying to get out of the bed but Lucius pinned her arms to her sides and rolled on top of her.

"I'll find a way." he whispered.

"This can't happen again." Narcissa stated.

Lucius raised an eyebrow, "You say that now. But...if we don't leave this room...it still counts as the first time." he whispered against her lips.

All she did was giggle in reply as his lips crashed down on hers and hands roamed her naked body, showing her just how much he was going to do everything in his power to find a way out of his marriage to be with her.