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Zachary: July 13, 2064

"Dad, Mum, I'd like you to meet Zachary, my fiancée," Audrey's voice spoke, making all the breath rush out of Lorcan's chest. It constricted, causing him to gasp out painfully, and his youngest daughter looked at him with concern in her bright green eyes. The eyes she had inherited from him. She was his. He couldn't give her up to some man that he had never met before in his life. She had only known him for three months, whereas she had known him for almost eighteen years. It wasn't going to happen. He wasn't going to give her up.

By this point, Lorcan realized that he and the others had somehow made their way to the couch. Katherine and Luna happened to be over for dinner with their husbands and, in Katherine's case, children, so the two of them were gathered in the room too. Zachary was explaining about his family, and what they did for a living in the Muggle world. That's why I don't like him, Lorcan thought. He's a Muggle-born! But that wasn't it. It was because his filthy hands were holding those of his daughter.

But Lucy, Luna, and Katherine were nodding their heads, laughing at his jokes, and seemed to love him. Lorcan knew he was going to lose the battle if he didn't pull Lucy aside right that minute. "Lucy, can I talk to you?" he asked in a tight, clipped voice, causing her to nod, baffled, in his direction before following him into the kitchen.

"We can't let him marry her," Lorcan started, not wasting any time on pleasantries.

Lucy frowned at him, putting her hands on her hips plaintively. "Now, Lorcan," she began, "if this is because she's your little girl, then you're deluding yourself. She's almost eighteen, Lorcan. When are you ever going to let her go?"

"When I die," he said almost sheepishly.

Lucy sighed. "Lorcan, you already married off your two other daughters, and your two sons. I don't know why Audrey should be any different. She wants to be treated like equals with her siblings, and has wanted that since she could talk. Think on that." And she left the kitchen in a huff, to rejoin Zachary, Audrey, Luna, and Katherine in the living room, leaving Lorcan in the kitchen, feeling substantially worse than he had went he'd entered.

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