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Hope you're having a lovely month! The sun is finally shining here in the UK. Updates on here will become a little weird. I'm trying to catch up on my AO3 account so one fic will be updated once a week for a bit whilst I catch up on there. Basically I want all the same parts posting for all my fics on the same day so that's why the posting schedule will be a bit odd for a bit. Thanks for bearing with me. Big thanks to everyone sticking with this story!

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Hidden Child-Part 14:

Narcissa and, to his wife's surprise, Lucius had remained by Lyra's bedside all night as the young witch's temperature finally began to creep back up in the night.

"When she went missing I finally understood how you felt when anything happened to Lyra," Lucius said, "I should have loved her from the start."

"We should have been raising the two together, not the way we have been Lucius," Narcissa said.

"Well what do you think I felt when you didn't produce me another heir? At least we had a son before she came along because she cannot and will not carry on the Malfoy line," Lucius said.

"She will carry the Malfoy and Black noble lines whether she is the heir or not. She is still a Malfoy Lucius," Narcissa reminded him before hearing Lyra beginning to stir. She just glared at Lucius before soothing Lyra right as Zenon appeared.

"Mr. Jacobs," Lucius greeted the boy before watching as Zenon walked over to them to try and see Lyra but, to his surprise, Narcissa had put a shield up that deflected anyone, "Narcissa! What are you doing? He's fine."

"I'm not willing to take any chances, not after what Pansy did to her," Narcissa said, "I don't trust anyone anymore Lucius." She suddenly looked down as Lyra had sat up.

"He is the best friend I have; in fact he's the only friend I have in this place!" Lyra said, "he is the only person that has chosen to become friends with me even though he knew I was a Malfoy. Mother please don't take him away from me…I don't even care that he's a halfblood."

Narcissa sighed before she looked at Lyra before she sighed again,

"Fine. OK then, if he really is your friend then I guess he should be allowed to see you," she said before downing the shield, only for it to be put back up again.

"He's a halfblood?" Lucius question staring straight at Zenon.

"Yes I am sir. Pureblood mother who was a Slytherin and halfblood Hufflepuff father," Zenon said meeting Lucius' stare. He was ready for a fight to remain Lyra's friend.

"You cannot be friends with my pureblood daughter. That's unthinkable. She'll be the laughing face of Hogwarts" Lucius said.

"So never mind about the fact that Mr. Jacobs here is the only person who has been able to befriend our daughter, our precious daughter," Narcissa said, "you told me that you were beginning to see my side of things after what happened but now I can see that you're still the same, never going to change and think about what your…sorry our daughter wants and needs," she said, an arm around Lyra who was still wrapped in her blanket.

Lucius looked from his wife to his daughter, who seemed to be shaking in her mother's arms. He just looked before walking through the shield around Lyra's bed and then looked at her.

"What do you want Lyra?" he asked, seeming to realise that it was about time he started listening to his daughter. After all she was beginning to develop a mind of her own at Hogwarts.

"I want Silver to be my friend," Lyra said, "as mother has said he is the only friend I have in this place and I don't think I'd be able to survive at Hogwarts. Please father don't take away the only friend I have here. If I don't have Silver then I might as well not be here," she said, "and I know that you want me to get an education," she said, a hint of the Malfoy smirk on her face.

Lucius looked at his daughter before he looked at his wife and then back at his daughter. He really had underestimated her; she did have the Malfoy streak inside her after all. He looked at his wife and then at Lyra all wrapped up before using his wand and relaxing the shield.

"Fine," he said simply before Silver hurried over to the bed and smiled as he saw Lyra.

"How you doing?" he asked softly.

"I feel cold still, but slightly warmer than I did before," Lyra said softly.

"I should have gathered something wasn't right," Zenon said, "I mean Pansy cannot be trusted at all where you're concerned Lyra and she's never going to hurt you again because I won't let her and your brother better realise that before something serious happens."

Just at that moment the Hospital Wing doors opened and, to everyone's surprise, Draco walked in and up to his sister's bed, stopping at the bottom of it. He looked rather guilty and stood with his head down.

"I'm sorry for what I did to Lyra. I should have double checked instead of just walking off with Pansy," he said, not even looking at his parents or sister, "Pansy, however, is my girlfriend and I should be able to trust her too. After all I am the heir of Malfoy Manor."

"Draco that's enough!" Narcissa hissed as she'd had enough of Draco and Lucius thinking they were better than herself and Lyra.

"Doesn't matter mother because I have prefect duties," Draco said, "I will be back soon. Goodbye mother, father, Lyra," he said before nodding and walking out of the Hospital Wing.

Narcissa just sighed before feeling Lyra shivered and she asked for some warming potion to be brought, to which Madam Pomfrey soon appeared with a potion and Lyra held out her hands and instantly drank her potion and began to feel warmer soon after.

"How you feeling?" Zenon asked as he saw Lyra smile for the first time in a fair few hours.

"A fair bit warmer than I was," Lyra smiled softly as she unwrapped herself more from the blanket and then sat up better.

"Lyra…" Lucius warned but it was clear the 11-year-old wasn't going to listen to her father as she spoke to Zenon about the things she'd missed whilst she had been in the Hospital Wing.

"I will have a talk with her after Zenon leaves," Narcissa said as she walked over to Lucius, "but you need to change the way you view her or else she'll never listen to you. We really do need to sort this out, Lucius, with Draco it's too late but we have time with Lyra, time to repair the damage that the way we have raised the two of them. Who knows we may even be able to repair some of the damage that has been caused with Draco too. We have brought this on ourselves Lucius and we have to solve it."

"But what's the point? We know her destiny," Lucius whispered, "your sister even knows about it and she's out there somewhere," he added.

"Bella won't come near her, not whilst I'm around. She protected Lyra when it mattered and I'm sure she'd do the same again. We all know that Bella loved the Dark Lord but she wouldn't kill her own niece Lucius; that I am sure of. She will need both of us if she is to complete the task she has no idea about."

"We have to tell her. We cannot keep it a secret much longer," Lucius whispered.

"We will keep it a secret until at least the end of her Second Year and then decide," Narcissa said before walking over to Lyra as Zenon had to leave.

Narcissa waited until the three were left alone before looking at Lyra,

"Do you want to come home sweetheart? Back to the Manor?" she questioned.

"No. That is out of the question. She's staying here. We have not gone through what we have only to have you pull her out," Lucius said.

"So my view doesn't count? Despite the fact I'm the one who's clearly being bullied?" Lyra said, "forget it mother. I'm not important."

"Right that's it. I'm staying in Hogsmeade until all this settles down, well going between the Manor and Hogsmeade," Narcissa said glaring at her husband before tucking Lyra in as the witch had begun to fall asleep again. Changes were slowly afoot in the Malfoy family…very very slowly…