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At some point, Lucius had eventually gotten up the strength to bring his exhausted and spent body into a standing position and help Aria up off of the ground as well. With their clothes scattered about, neither of them bothered to pick them up and both made their way up the grand staircase and found their way to their haven; Lucius' bedroom. After Lucius tucked them both into bed, they quickly fell into the most contented and blissful sleep either had had in a long while.
Both of them had a dreamless and peaceful sleep and Lucius awoke the next morning to the feeling of Aria's warm, soft body pressing up against his as she snuggled up to him closely, craving the feeling of his entire body.
Lucius found himself saying a silent prayer of thanks as he whispered out his thankfulness for the woman by his side. Lucius was never a religious man, most of the pureblood wizards didn't worship any higher deity other than themselves or in the past, The Dark Lord, but now he couldn't help but send out his thankfulness to whatever higher power was listening.
"What did you say my love?" Aria asked in a husky voice as she began coming more out of her sleepy state.
"I am just sending out a prayer of thankfulness for you is all…" He said as he smiled above her and held her more tightly against him.
"I still can't believe after everything, after being so scared, I have you back," smiled Aria as her eyes brimmed with tears of happiness.
"I will never leave you again, I promise," he replied back, just as happy as her. "And now today, we have much to do. Much to talk about."
Aria and Lucius put on their silk robes and made their way downstairs to the grand dining room for breakfast. Waiting for them on the table was not only a deliciously prepared breakfast but also a series of newspapers, the main one being the Daily Prophet, featuring themselves on the front page cover with various titles good and bad, such as, True Loves Saves A Malfoy, Lucius' New Lady Redeems Him, Lucius Malfoy Escapes Azkaban Yet Again, Can A Malfoy Really Love?
Lucius seemed to be unperturbed about being on the cover of so many different publications. As for Aria however, her stomach turned and her appetite suddenly disappeared altogether. She sank down slowly into her chair next to Lucius and nervously picked up the Daily Prophet. Luckily the main page article about the trial and the two of them was mainly fact based without any sort of emotion, as it went over each moment of the trial and what had transpired. But then her eyes fell on Rita Skeeter's column about the whole issue, and Aria was pleasantly surprised to see Rita write positively about their relationship and their love. Of course, she barely focused on the actual trial itself and instead focused on the two of them, their relationship clearly being of way more gossip and intrigue than the actual trial and laws broken. One paragraph stood out to Aria and she couldn't help but smile:
"The most miraculous sight to behold; that of Lucius Malfoy smiling. All because of this mystery woman next to him. If anyone can get Lucius Malfoy himself to smile, then it must mean only one thing; true love. Because of this young woman, much younger than Lucius himself I should note, Malfoy has evaded a life-sentence at Azkaban. The two love birds proved rather effectively that their love was a powerful force to be reckoned with. The two even made the bold claim that they are the mythological Veela couple of ancient texts, that are soul mates throughout different lifetimes. And whilst some may find that hard to believe, if Lucius Malfoy can smile and fall in love with anyone other than himself, than perhaps their claims are true after all!"
"Wow…" said Aria as she put the article down on the table in front of her and slightly laughed. "Rita Skeeter was actually kind about us!"
"Hmmpphh," muttered Lucius as his eyes raked over the many headlines and newspapers in front of him. He closed his eyes and sighed out as his fingers came to pinch the bridge of his nose in frustration. "You see my love?" he said as he motioned over the stacks of papers scattered around them, "This is what I wanted to protect you from. I'm used to being written and gossiped about, but it hurts me to see you dragged into it."
Aria scooted her chair closer to Lucius and took his hands into hers. "If this is the price I have to pay for being able to have you back in my life forever, then so be it. I would do it one hundred times over again," she said as she looked up into his eyes with her kind and loving green ones.
Lucius looked down at her with love in his eyes and brought his right hand up to her face to cup it tenderly as he then brought his head in to press a gentle kiss to her lips.
The two sat in silence, both not eating much and mostly just sticking to their hot coffees. Aria continued to glance at some of the articles. Most of the articles were skeptical of their love and how intense they had claimed it to be. While most of the journalists agreed that they outwardly looked like Veelas, most of them just couldn't comprehend that their love was incredibly special and rare, mainly due to Lucius' past, which many of the journalists couldn't seem to get over.
At one point, Aria saw Lucius crumple up a particular article and throw it into the grand fireplace and glare at the paper as if it had bitten him. Aria saw briefly, before the flames consumed the pages, that it was a piece focused on Narcissa and Draco. The photo of Narcissa that the newspaper had was of her looking incredibly upset, her eyes narrowed into slits. She saw then a quote from Narcissa in bold font reading, "My husband Lucius Malfoy is anything but innocent; the Ministry made a grave mistake today, something I will see gets corrected."
Aria grimaced in disgust at the thought of the horrid woman. Lucius too looked just as disgusted.
"Jealous, hateful woman…" Lucius muttered under his breath. Aria reached out to grab his hand in hers again. "Which reminds me, I plan on going through all of Narcissa and Draco's old things that they have here and getting rid of it all. I want no trace of them left here…"
Aria quite agreed about Narcissa's things, however she knew Lucius was still greatly hurt by Draco's betrayal, but it would be hard for him to erase Draco from the Manor completely.
"Are you sure Lucius? Maybe you can put Draco's things in storage? Do you have an attic in the Manor? A spare room?"
"We do have an attic…" pondered Lucius. "Haven't been up there in ages. However, Draco still has his old room here, and it's filled with his things. I have always left it be for him, should he ever want anything, but now I think it is time he moves on…I need to move on too."
Aria understood, although she knew it would be painful for Lucius to have to go through his son's and his wife's old things. Aria herself hadn't even been to that part of the Manor before. She felt like she still had so much more exploring to do, something which greatly excited her. Lucius and she had always really stuck to their favorite rooms such as the library and his own room, she sometimes forgot there was still so much more left to the Manor for her to see.
"I'll help you love. It'll give me an excuse to explore more of the Manor.
Lucius smiled back at her and kissed her again. "I would appreciate the help of course. And yes, there is still so much more you have yet to see of this place. I want you to know it inside and out as it is to be yours."
"W-What?" Aria said in shock. She knew she was officially moving in, but after his release from the Ministry she fully expected him to put himself back as owner on the papers and deeds to the Manor. "But Lucius, I can't. You are back now. There is no need."
"Don't worry, I am adding myself back…" he began. "But I am keeping you on the deed. As an equal." He smirked back at her; he was quite pleased with himself indeed.
Aria beamed in delight and got up from her chair and proceeded to sit in his lap, as she wrapped her arms tight around his shoulders and kissed him deeply.
"Thank you," she whispered tenderly as she put her forehead against his.
"It gives me the greatest pleasure," he purred into her ear. "You are my Queen and this is your Castle," Aria got chills as his voice rang deep and comforting in her ear, and his lips and teeth then proceeded to plant kisses and nibbles on the tender spot between her ear and neck.
His love nips never ceased it felt like, and the feeling had her writhing in pleasure on his lap, and through her slight movements, her robe had fallen off her shoulders to expose the bare flesh of her upper body to him, her breasts pert, expectant and in need of more.
"Mmm and you are my King," she moaned out her delayed response in pleasure.
Lucius smirked again as he continued sucking and kissing her neck. He had looked down at her body briefly and noticed her exposed breasts and so he supported her with his right hand, as his left came up to cup and knead her right breast, and then her left. He massaged and rubbed each with equal fervor, while occasionally tweaking and pinching her nipples briefly, but firmly, causing her to gasp out each time.
"My appetite has returned it seems…and I must enjoy my breakfast now…" he whispered into her ear.
For a split second, Aria was surprised he would want to stop his ministrations and go back to try and eat breakfast, but when she looked up into his eyes and saw the devilish glint of passion in the grey depths, and his iconic and haughty smirk she knew immediately what he meant by "breakfast."
And with that, Lucius lifted Aria up by her waist and planted her firmly on the edge of the table from where he sat. With a wave of his hand, the uneaten food on the table and the many newspaper articles about the two of them vanished, completely forgotten. Aria adored when he used wandless and wordless magic, as it reminded her of how powerful of a wizard he truly was; and she was glad to see his strength and magic had returned in full force.
Lucius sank to his knees so that his face was in alignment with where she sat on the edge of the table. His hands briefly came up to untie the robe from the remaining bits of her body that were still covered, as the silk fluttered down to the floor. Lucius took in her naked form above him, his eyes raking over her gorgeous body and landing at her center. His tongue briefly came out to wet his lips in anticipation, and without taking his eyes off of his prize, he leaned his head in and planted his warm tongue on her sensitive clit. He hadn't even moved his tongue yet, just rested it firmly on the spot, and it already caused her body to twitch and writhe in pleasure. Lucius reveled in how amazing she tasted; better than before, which he didn't even know was possible. He moaned in pleasure at the taste, which caused vibrations to be felt on her most sensitive area.
Aria bucked her hips up, craving more, and Lucius could only comply, and so he went down on her as he never had before. Lapping her up, taking in every part of her. His tongue would start all the way at the lower part of her core and slide all the way up, back up to her clit, where he would circle his tongue around a few times before doing the same motion again and again. Down and up and around; down and up and around with his tongue. His grey eyes would occasionally open and look up at her, as his tongue continued its motions, and Aria would look back at him, her brow furrowed in that expression she had that he adored so much; their gaze never breaking. It aroused Aria more than she could fathom. His consistent and never changing motion was driving her closer and closer to a glorious orgasm, but not before he suddenly slipped two of his long fingers up into her. Never changing the pace and motion of his tongue, his fingers slid slowly but powerfully in and out, as his tongue continued going down, up and around her clit.
Finally, Aria could no longer take the pleasure building up inside of her; she reached one of her hands down to rest on the back of Lucius' head where she clawed her hands in his silky, blond hair and brought him in even closer as she came all over his fingers and his mouth as she screamed out into the room. Lucius moaned against her as she came, and he could feel her juices leak out onto his fingers and hand. She was so gorgeous and tender in that moment and it brought Lucius so much pleasure to know that he had brought her that amount of pleasure as well.
Aria laughed to herself in giddy pleasure as she laid back on the table, completely in awe of the amount of pleasure she just felt. Lucius stood up proudly at his work, he walked over to stand over Aria's face and leaned in and kissed her gently. She tasted herself on his lips and it was insanely erotic. She always loved how he refused to wipe her off of his lips after each time he went down on her. She loved how much he loved her. Their love was an endless circle.
Lucius in that moment let her know that her pleasure was enough for him and that they would have plenty of time to mutually pleasure each other later. However now he wanted to get some important paperwork done and so he reached out to her to help her up off of the table and after she picked up her robe and put it back on, he led her to the library where the one desk held all of his important papers. It took him very quickly to amend the deed to the Manor. In the span of a few days it had passed from him as the sole heir, to Aria, and now, this new morning the document read Lucius Malfoy and Aria De La Cour. With a tap of his wand, the deed was magically signed and sealed and official, and he smiled to himself in content. His will he had changed before he got arrested, in which he left everything he owned and his net-worth to Aria, remained unchanged. Something Aria still really couldn't believe; however, it was one of the ways he was expressing his love for her.
Over the next few days Lucius and Aria began the daunting task of not only moving her out of her small London flat, but also getting rid of Narcissa's and Draco's remaining items. Aria's flat had been easy to move out of. She never really had that much to begin with, and she easily was able to move all of her clothes into Lucius' room and all of the rest of her favorite items she would store in her favorite room where she stored her Masquerade dress and her Samhain Ball dress. The amazing Sevres vase with the roses Lucius had gotten her weeks ago also came with her and now sat in her favorite room as well; forever preserved.
As for Draco and Naricssa, they had mainly lived in a whole separate wing of the house, something Aria noted immediately, and they were so far away from all of Lucius' favorite and most used rooms, she could imagine that at times it might have felt like the family never saw each other. Draco had the majority of items, though, it looked as if his childhood room had barely been touched. He still had his Slytherin House pride school drawings and banners as well as his favorite Quidditch team posters. His room looked like a typical teenage boys' room and it made Aria's heart slightly hurt that Draco once used to be Lucius' beloved son, and now their relationship was so strained and full of malice.
Although Lucius and Aria had magic, and thus speeding up a normally tedious process, it still took time and she could tell it was hard for Lucius. So, Aria stepped in and managed most of Draco's things, and Lucius took over Narcissa's, since his feelings towards his ex-wife were no longer sentimental whatsoever. Lucius took it upon himself to get rid of every trace of the woman, completely and definitively. At one point she had looked out of a window from Draco's old room and saw Lucius lighting all of Narcissa's remaining items on fire outside in the garden. Well that was that, she supposed. Lucius had agreed in the end though, that for Draco's items, he would store them up in the attic until he felt the need to reach out to Draco and tell him to come get his things. Until he was ready though, he didn't want to see or hear from his son.
Through all of this though, Aria thought it worth all the work, simply for the fact that she could see the attic. For someplace Lucius had so rarely visited, the attic was full to the brim of amazing items and treasures. The space was a large, seemingly never-ending expanse of items, and despite the dust, Aria adored it. She found some of the most amazing books; some centuries old, that she piled up in a corner so she could add to the main library later. She also found many trunks of fabulous clothing from many different eras such as the 1920s, the Victorian era, and even some items from the late 1700s. Aria handled those with extra care but couldn't help but clutch to them as if holding onto history itself. Lucius had smiled at her excitement and her adoration for all of the Malfoy history she had found up here.
"You are more than welcome to come up here whenever you'd like my love. This attic has clearly been neglected for many years and I am sure it would like to be explored. I love seeing you explore my family's history. Of course, Draco and Narcissa were never interested; but alas not everyone can have your brilliant and intuitive mind," he smirked at her.
Lucius had been in a separate corner of the attic. After they had used the Accio spell many times to get Draco's things up in the space, Lucius had been organizing where he wanted everything. He even stored a few of the newspaper clippings from the trial in the attic as well; "mementos of our love" he had called them. She heard him digging around in an old trunk and then stop to look at whatever he found. Aria, herself, was too interested in what she had found; an old, but beautifully preserved harp. Aria thought she might want to bring down the harp to place next to the gorgeous harpsichord in the library, the two instruments were without a doubt priceless and should be together she thought.
Lucius walked back over to Aria with a rather thoughtful and pensive expression on his face, and she noticed him sliding a small, wooden box into his robes discreetly.
"I am going to go out for a few hours my love, I hope you don't mind and that you will be okay here on your own for a bit?" he inquired as he kneeled down to where she sat on the floor so that he could brush a stray hair behind her ear tenderly.
She shook her head sweetly and looked at him with curiosity. Neither of them had been out of the house for days. Lucius no longer worked at the Ministry, but Aria had completely not shown up for a few days of work now. She was wondering why she hadn't been in trouble yet, but she realized that with the trial, and the fact that Lucius had been her mentor, and really her only boss besides the Minister for Magic, no one was probably paying any attention to attendance at the moment, as there were far more important things to do. In fact, Aria slightly had the urge to quit her job. After everything that had went down, she no longer felt the Ministry was the friendliest of places, and while she had loved her job there and had excelled at it, she almost couldn't bear the thought of going into work and Lucius not being there anymore. She hadn't voiced her concerns on the matter yet to Lucius, as she knew he wouldn't want her giving up on her dream job. He already felt guilt about too many things.
"I will be fine. But hurry back to me," she smiled sweetly up at him. What could he possibly be getting up to she wondered?