Hey everyone! We've made it to level 12 of Jumanji! (I'll try not to use this next year...) Anyway we've made it to December and I'll save the soppiness for my midmonth update. I think we can all say it's been a rollercoaster of a ride though. Well here is the penultimate update of 2020. Oh yeah... my new fic has finally been posted so go and check out Love Strikes Twice.

Stay safe.

Lots of love,

LM xxx

Love Changes Everything-Part 11:

Lucius and Narcissa were back in the safety of their room with the wards up, Draco safely tucked up in bed and asleep after a rather long evening for a 6-year-old. Lucius watched as his wife took her jewelry off and laid it on her dressing table. He could feel the tension in the room and it felt sexual as well as frustration from his wife.

He got ready for bed and watched her as she brushed her now freed golden waves carefully, getting the last stray hair grips out.

"Ouch!" Narcissa winced and Lucius hurried over to her before she looked at him in the mirror, "hair grip and it appears to be well tangled," she sighed before Lucius carefully began to pull the grip out of her hair.

"Your mother must have heard everything," Lucius said slowly working the grip out of her hair, "she must have seen us all go off and realised that something was going on."

"Well this whole situation could have been avoided if you hadn't gone and invited Eira behind my back. If you hadn't have done that then we wouldn't have needed to disappear or me to shout at you," Narcissa said, blue orbs looking at him in the mirror, "I'm sorry if I said anything that upset you at all but I was just so angry and disappointed in you for inviting her and that hurt Lucius. We're meant to be a team. I chose not to invite Eira because I feared something like this would happen and we both swore the last person who we wanted to find out was my mother. We both know that she won't stop until Eira and Severus are dead if she finds out we lied."

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to go behind your back but I needed to see her and this seemed the least suspicious way," Lucius said, "I should have explained this to you first of all but I thought I could talk to her and get her out before anyone noticed."

"She's a Rosier. Has my mother really not taught you anything?" Narcissa sighed as she felt Lucius kiss her bare shoulder, "she has to always try and get one over on people no matter who they are. However good your intentions were Lucius this doesn't change the fact that you went behind my back in the first place and invited her. That's what hurt the most."

Silence fell over the room and Lucius sighed before looking at her.

"I'm sorry OK It won't happen again," he said before she pushed him away.

"It shouldn't have happened at all Lucius!" Narcissa said, wand drawn and pointed at him, "you should never have invited her…!"

She wasn't allowed to finish her sentence as the door flew open and quickly closed before either Lucius or Narcissa realised that Priscilla had entered the room.

"Mother could you please knock next time. Cissa or I could have been naked in here," Lucius said horrified that his mother had walked in.

"Lucius I have seen you naked before and Cissa wouldn't walk around naked unless it was in the bathroom and you're carrying her to the bed," Priscilla said causing Lucius to gasp and Cissa blushed, "anyway we have bigger problems and you two need to keep your voice down."

"What is it mother?" Lucius asked as he sensed there was something bad happening.

"Druella is still here. Yes she said she was going home tonight but she says that she wants to find out what is going on," Priscilla said as she looked at them, "so please be careful. Yes she just invited herself to stay and I said she should have checked with you but Druella is…."

"Stubborn," Narcissa sighed as she looked at Priscilla, "I should have known this would all explode with Eira coming," she said before heading into the ensuite, leaving Lucius and his mother alone.

"You wanted to sleep with Eira didn't you as a goodbye thing so you can work on your marriage. I can read your mind Lucius," Priscilla said as she looked at her son and sighed, "can you not think with your mind for once? That really hurt her and you are meant to be putting her first."

"Mother I'm sorry. How was I to know Eira would announce herself like that?" Lucius asked, "if I'd have known she would come through the front way then I'd have told her to come the back way."

"Either way you need to think carefully and make sure that you watch what you say. Narcissa is a different breed of Black compared to her mother and she will not hesitate to take matters into her own hands and destroy Eira and Severus to maintain your image as the power couple," Priscilla said before saying her goodnights and that she would see to Draco in the morning. Lucius thanked her before watching his mother head back to her room that she was staying in that night.

The next morning arrived and Lucius was surprised to find Narcissa's head resting on his chest. He looked at the time and groaned softly when he realised that it was only just 7am. His eyes looked down as he saw Narcissa still asleep and he silently and carefully slipped out of the bed and dressed before heading down to the kitchens and began to get breakfast underway.

The elves weren't even working yet but that suited Lucius just fine as he was able to begin making breakfast for himself, Narcissa and Draco and their mothers before he could do something else wrong. He heard heels clicking against the floor and went to wish his mother a good morning before turning and seeing his wife stood there.

"My mother is still asleep so we really need to think about what we are going to say to her. She isn't going to let this slide Luc," Narcissa said as she walked over to him, "we do not need her finding out and her being here is not going to help with anything. You have slept with Eira and me with Severus all before we were married. If she finds out…"

"She has found out…" came a voice that sent shivers down Lucius and Narcissa's spines and the latter stumbled as Lucius pulled her behind him.

"So you two had slept with others… well well well," Druella smirked as she looked at the couple, "this changes everything."

"No it doesn't because it was just the once and hasn't happened since," Lucius said, "we had a moment of weakness at school, both of us but that was it and it was before we were even engaged so we have been faithful to each other."

"And I'm really going to believe that?" Druella asked as she smirked sensing Priscilla behind her, "I suppose you know everything Priscilla."

"Well they certainly cannot trust you with anything and if you hurt Eira or Severus then I will not hold back Druella Black, not after everything that you have done to Narcissa in the past," Priscilla said catching the Black matriarch out.

"Well our marriage and sex life is nothing to do with you mother so stay out of it," Narcissa said before going right up to her mother, "do not ruin my life or you will lose me as well," she warned before suddenly apparating away with only Lucius and Priscilla knowing where she'd gone.