Hey everyone! So sorry updates have gone a little out of sync. Things have been a little crazy and now I have a cold as well. I have a few more things on the list but I am not giving up. I will get updates this month, they may just be a little out of sync. Big thanks to Lucy C Heartfilla for the review.

Lots of love,

LM xxxxx

Hidden Child-Part 38:

Lyra and Draco were running to the Headmaster's office only to find that they weren't there and Draco sighed.

"Come on. Where do you think he'd be?" Lyra asked.

"He could be wandering around the school with Dumbledore," Draco mused.

"Yes but how are we going to find him?" Lyra asked, "I mean he could be looking for us."

Draco turned and looked at her before thinking,

"He'll have letters from mother so he'll have to find us at some point," he said, "we never had the letters from her this morning which means father has them."

The two began to wander around the Castle and were looking for their father. The two missed him dearly and Lyra wanted to see her father to see if he was still wanting to have anything to do with her.

"Where could he be?" Lyra asked, "it's lunchtime…"

"That's it! Lyra you're a genius!"

"I am?"

"If he's here as a guest of Dumbledore they will be in the Great Hall," Draco said before he took his sister's hand and led her to the Great Hall where they sat down at the Slytherin Table and waited for the Greengrass sisters and Zenon to join them. Eventually they did and Draco explained what Lyra had said and his thoughts before waiting to see if the Headmaster and Lucius would show their faces.

They saw Tonks arrive in the Great Hall and a few of the staff members. Sadly for the Malfoy siblings neither Dumbledore or their father seemed to be appearing. Lyra was wondering if her father was trying to avoid her before she felt her brother tug at her sleeve and then she looked. Their father and Dumbledore walked to the High table and sat down.

"You were right Lyra," Draco said, playfully pushing his sister's arm.

"Well everyone has to eat at some point right?" Lyra said brightly as she looked at her father and then began to eat her food, "wonder how he'll be with me though. He still doesn't get me," she said softly.

"He'll get used to it," Draco said, "just eat and we'll go and see him afterwards." Lyra nodded and began to carry on eating her food.

Lyra ate her food slowly. She was nervous about facing Lucius. She always was as her father could be fine with her one minute and then shutting her out the next and she didn't really know how to cope with her father. Lucius was feeling the same as her and that was the only shred of comfort the 11-year-old had.

Eventually the father made his way over to his children and Lyra looked up and the rest of the group made their excuses and left, leaving Lucius to spend time with his children.

"Father, pleasure to see you as always," Draco said.

"Hello father," Lyra said, "did you bring letters from home?"

"Draco," Lucius said, before passing him a couple of letters, "letters from your mother," he added completely ignoring Lyra.

"Aren't you going to say hello to your daughter?" Draco asked, holding Lyra's hand under the table.

Lucius was either blanking Lyra or just focussing on Draco because he began to discuss things with Draco. The upcoming Quidditch World Cup for a start and then other things that Lyra wouldn't be interested in. Well the witch was interested in the Quidditch World Cup because the family of four would be going and that would be her first one and she was looking forwards to it.

"Father...how is mother doing?" Lyra asked when her father and brother had paused their conversation.

"Well the Minister is getting us seats in his private box of course," Lucius said, completely ignoring Lyra, "so your mother is no doubt going to be sorting our clothes out so we all look presentable."

"She will be after the Ball," Draco said, "you know what mother is like," he said.

"The fashionista of the Malfoy family," Lucius said, "I wonder if Lyra will take after her mother or not."

"She is here, sat next to me you know," Draco said, "your daughter has been trying to speak to you and yet all you're doing is ignoring her," he said. He could feel his sister getting angry and that only really meant one thing: her magic would become unstable and that could be disastrous in the Great Hall when most people were there for lunch.

Lucius had stopped speaking and looked from his son to his daughter as if he finally seemed to realise that she was there.

"Why didn't you tell me she was here?" he drawled to his son.

"She said hello and has been asking you questions but you're the one who's been ignoring her father," Draco said, "she asked if you had anything from mother and if she was doing well."

"Oh well sorry. So where was I?" Lucius asked.

"Something about coming more often," Lyra said.

"That's right. Yes the governors don't like what they've been hearing from parents so I will be visiting more often," Lucius said, "so that may mean I'm here for days at a time."

"Why you father?" Draco asked.

"Because I'm the Chair of Governors," Lucius said, "the good news is that your mother will also be coming and possibly staying as she wants your input on things for the Yule Ball and a few other things that I am apparently not good enough for."

"You know mother. Sometimes she wants an underage input into things or another girl's," Draco said as he kept an eye on his sister, "especially my sister's seeing as they have similar tastes."

"Merlin knows what the Yule Ball will be like then," Lucius said before looking at his watch, "well I'd better be getting back to the Manor and inform your mother of the results from today," he said before getting up from the bench and nodding at his son.

"I am here you know!" Lyra said, beginning to make the windows to the Great Hall rattle, "I've been here the whole time and you're talking about me as if I'm not here! Do you have any idea how upsetting that is?"

Lucius turned and looked and saw Lyra stood there and he looked at Draco and then back at his daughter.

"You've been here the whole time?" Lucius asked.

"Yes! Draco and I have both been trying to tell you that. I miss you too, not just mother," Lyra said, hoping to get a response from Lucius but her anger was bubbling and simmering. She waited for a response and never got one. She stretched out her hand and then gasped as she sent her father flying into the air and slamming against the wall.

Her eyes widened and she gasped before looking at Draco and then running out of the Great Hall and crying, unaware that her father and brother were trying to call her back so she could calm down before she caused even more damage.