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Hidden Child-Part 25:
Of course it had to be Pansy who had to find the Malfoy siblings and Astoria curled up under the blanket and the noises she made instantly woke up Draco and Astoria but Lyra remained firmly asleep snuggled into her brother. Draco had gently passed his sister to Astoria before rising up and walking over to Pansy.
"Don't you dare say anything that will harm my sister. She's suffering enough as it is with what those girls in her dorm are doing to her she doesn't need you as well," Draco warned.
"How dare you talk to me like that? Remember who you're talking to Draco," Pansy said before seeing Astoria hurrying Lyra back to her dorm so the girls wouldn't be able to say anything to her.
"What are you doing here?" Daisy asked as Astoria stood by the door to the dorm.
"Waiting for Lyra to get sorted. If you've got a problem with that then you can take it up with Draco," she replied before the four girls made their way out of the dorm and Astoria walked in more, "Lyra?"
Astoria instantly began to worry as she heard a snuffle and she pulled the curtains back and then wrapped her arms around the younger witch.
"Let's get you to go and see Zenon," she said. She had an understanding with the Malfoy siblings now. Of course she'd tell Daphne, her sister, but nobody else.
As soon as she saw him, Lyra ran to Zenon and threw her arms around him. The young wizard looked up at Astoria.
"I know everything," she just said before dropping Lyra's bag down and heading off to her sister and friends.
"How does she know…?" Zenon asked.
"Because Draco has told her everything," Lyra said, grabbing some waffles, pancakes, eggs and bacon, "Astoria told be on the way here. Draco told her after I fell asleep in the Prefects' area last night." Zenon's eyes widened,
"You two fell asleep in there?"
"Astoria too. Yes not ideal I know but it just happened and we have to deal with it," she said before beginning to eat.
She was halfway through her breakfast when Elara arrived and she instantly took off the package addressed to her and opened it and let her mother's freshly baked cookies hit her nose before pulling out a bottle of perfume and a letter. She sat and read the letter and smiled.
"Another bottle of perfume?" Zenon questioned.
"Narcissus, Daffodils…" Lyra said softly, "the flower she's named after," she said softly before relaxing as she smelt her mother's scent. It was Narcissa's signature fragrance and always comforted Lyra. Zenon smiled softly before he looked and saw Pansy watching them before she headed out of the Great Hall.
Lyra hurried back to her dorm to put the cookies away before hurrying to Defence Against the Dark Arts. She slipped into her seat next to Astrid and felt the perfume bottle safely inside her robes. She just wanted to be back where she belonged with Zenon but little did she realise that she'd see someone else that she missed dearly.
"Cissa!" Lucius called from his study before hearing the sounds of Narcissa's heels on the polished wooden floor before she appeared in his study and saw him reading a letter.
"Yes Lucius? Not another Ball for us to attend," Narcissa said.
"Actually an interesting owl from Pansy Parkinson. It appears that Draco has defied my orders and is letting our daughter mix with that boy," Lucius said before hearing his wife snort,
"So she's suddenly turned into our daughter?"
"Just get your cloak," Lucius said before grabbing some Floo Powder and throwing it into the fire and waiting for his wife before they stepped into the flames and Lucius said, "Hogwarts!"
Lyra and Zenon were in a Flying lesson and Draco in Charms when Snape went to get them all. He collected Draco first and then he and Draco went to collect Lyra and Zenon.
"Sorry Madam Hooch. I need to take Lyra Malfoy and Zenon Jacobs to the Headmaster's office," he said and Madam Hooch nodded and Lyra and Zenon joined Snape and Draco.
Snape said the password before telling the three to head up the moving staircase.
"Whatever happens it was my idea," Draco said, "promise me you two." The two nodded and Draco knocked on the door before being told to enter.
"Ah Draco, Lyra and Zenon. How lovely of you to join us," Dumbledore said before Lyra looked and gasped,
"Mother! Father!" she said before she was pulled over to her mother by her father. He was determined to keep Lyra and Zenon apart.
"Lucius don't be so rough. She's 11-years-old," Narcissa said checking her daughter's arm.
"Narcissa she has defied our orders and is seeing that boy," Lucius said.
"Father if you want to blame anyone it's me," Draco said, knowing his sister was safe with their mother. Lucius turned to look at his son; his eyes widened in horror.
"What do you mean? Blame you? You hate her…" he quizzed.
"No father. She is my baby sister and I'm learning to love her and realise that she may not be the heir but she's precious and family," Draco said, "she was miserable and I made her happy by letting her see him. It's better than what she's dealing with with those so called dorm friends of hers."
Narcissa looked at her daughter,
"What is Draco on about sweetheart?" she asked before looking as Lucius walked over to Zenon and Narcissa wrapped an arm around Lyra as she watched.
"So Mr. Jacobs you are just as defiant as your mother was. She was always testing the Dark Lord and my sister-in-law," Lucius smirked, "it seems like it runs in the family. Despite the fact I told you to stay away from my daughter, sorry our daughter, you then proceeded to listen to our son who has also defied our orders and see Lyra anyway," he said before finding Lyra stood between her father and Zenon."
"He is my friend; my best friend and the only reason I'm still here," Lyra said, "he's the reason I haven't been begging to come home and be homeschooled like mother wanted."
"Get out of the way Lyra," Lucius said before seeing the defiant Black family streak that she'd inherited from her mother.
"No! You will not harm Silver!" she shouted, "you will not hurt my friend."
Lucius just got angry and then someone else stood in front of Lyra, Draco and Zenon.
"Narcissa out of the way now!" Lucius said.
"So you can hurt our children and the only person who has seen beyond our family name and befriended our daughter? At one time you believed she was our precious miracle baby; a flower to go with me…Lucius please don't make our light go out…please…" She had her wand ready to defend her children if she had to. A mother's love was stronger than anything that Lucius could conjure.
"Fine I won't do anything. Lyra, Draco and Narcissa out of the way," Lucius said and Narcissa put her wand back before moving her children out of the way and watching, an arm around each other her children.
"So young man what do you have to say for yourself?" Lucius asked.
"Nothing. Other than I'd do it again and again if I had to. I remember seeing your daughter on the train, a scared and closed up 11-year-old, barely able to understand the world around her and I went in and spoke to her," Zenon said, knowing he was fighting for a future with Lyra, "and slowly she began to trust me and began to open up to me and told me everything about what she'd heard. I haven't told a soul. But, as Mrs. Malfoy has said, I am the only person who has seen passed the Malfoy name and been able to make that connection with your daughter. I have also stood up for her on numerous occasions as her dorm members have decided to make her a target for whatever reason. I'd go to Azkaban if it meant I'd get your approval Mr. Malfoy."
Narcissa gasped as she heard Zenon say he'd go to Azkaban for Lyra. She waited to hear what Lucius would say but he was stunned into silence. His eyes looked from Zenon to his wife and then to his daughter and back to his wife and Narcissa nodded.
"Well the fact that you would go to Azkaban for my daughter says a lot Mr. Jacobs," Lucius said, "I wanted my daughter kept away from the likes of you but I can see that you will defy me and see her anyway. One word reaches me that she is being sucked into that world and I will take her from this school and you will never see her again. Am I clear?"
"Yes sir," Zenon said before feeling Lyra's arms around him and she actually cried.
"Draco take your sister and Mr. Jacobs back to the dungeons please," Dumbledore said and Narcissa said goodbye to her children before they went.
"Lucius you need to treat her better. Narcissa's right. She is a flower and one day the future of our world will be in the hands of your daughter. We lose her and everything is lost," Dumbledore said.
"There is no way she's going to do what path is laid out for her," Lucius said, "she will do her schooling and then we shall see about that. Right now I have to become her father and protect her. If Draco can learn to love then so can I," he said turning to his wife, "I will try. I promise Cissa," he said before simply leading his wife over to the fire before they disappeared in a sea of emerald green flames; Narcissa hoping Lucius was serious because he had a lot of making up to do with their daughter, a serious amount of damage to undo.