The canker galls the infants of the spring,
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Hamlet Act I Scene iii Lines 39-40
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Early Morning, November 1, 1981
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Narcissa sits by the fire of the sitting room, waiting for her husband to come back from another one of the Death Eater business. Her son, Draco, had been sleeping in her arms for hours as they both waited for Lucius to come back.
She finally hears the rustling sound by the door. She stands up, failing in not waking Draco up, and greets her husband by the front door. When she reaches the door, she notices Lucius carrying something in his arms, a swaddling cloth wrapping something. He carries the thing with so much care that Narcissa started to become suspicious but she lay her skepticism aside when he noticed the fear in Lucius' eyes. She knew something was up.
Narcissa hears a gurgling sound from the swaddling cloth. When she was close enough to see, she notices a very small baby.
"Lucius," she stresses. "Whose baby is that?"
Lucius smiles at her, pride showing in his face. "Mine."
"Yours?" questions Narcissa. "Yours!?!?" she asks louder.
Lucius looks at her meanly his eyes starting to narrow. "Yes. She is mine, Narcissa. You have a problem with that?"
"Of course, Lucius! She surely isn't mine."
"I don't care."
"She's not allowed in this house. Not in my house!"
The baby girl starts to cry but Lucius cradles her and hums to her. When the baby calmed down a little bit, Lucius looks back at Narcissa. "First of all, this is not your house. It is mine. Second, she is my child and you will treat her as if she was your own."
"What if I don't?"
"You can go back to the hellhole you came from and never be able to see your son again."
"You can't do that to me."
"I can. Want to press your luck?"
Narcissa hugs her little boy as she looked at the little bundle that Lucius had been busying himself with. She hated the child already, knowing that her husband had cheated on her and that she knew that the mother of this child will remain unnamed.
Lucius motions her to go up the stairs with him and she does what is asked of her. Lucius leads her to the nursery. She lays the half sleeping boy in his crib as she scans the whole room.
She personally picked all the elements in Draco's nursery. She wanted it to be elegantly decorated for the true heir of the Malfoy estate. Everything in the room, like the rest of the house, was made first-class. Everything made of cloth is made of the finest velvet, fleece and linen the world has ever seen. Most of the furniture was antique except for Draco's crib and the bassinet which Lucius had bought for him right before he was born.
Lucius continues to tend on the baby girl before he turns to order Narcissa. "Could you get Draco's bassinet? I just want to use it for her tonight."
Narcissa goes inside the walk-in closet and looks for the bassinet. She returns carrying the bassinet closer to Lucius. "Who is her mother, Lucius?"
"Why do you care?" asks Lucius as she places the baby in the bassinet.
"The mother could be a Mudblood for all I…"
Lucius strikes her face full force that she topples to the floor crying. "I have had enough from you Narcissa. Don't make me use the Imperius Charm on you!"
"Lucius…" says Narcissa weakly. "Please, no! I promise not to say anything anymore."
"Good! Now, go get me some clean blankets and maybe something to wear for my little girl."
As Narcissa finds the items Lucius asked for while he takes off the little girl's swaddling cloth, and cleans her up before putting a diaper on her. Narcissa hands him the items before taking a step back.
"You never did that for Draco."
"Because you do it for him. You want to do it for her then?"
"No."
"Didn't think so."
When the baby girl was dressed, Lucius lays her on the bassinet, his eyes never leaving her face.
Draco babbles something incomprehensible, sounded like "Dada", his hands reaching out to his father. Lucius walks over to him and carries him over by the bassinet. Draco looks over with utter curiosity at the new living thing now occupying his old bassinet.
"That, Draco-" says Lucius, "-is your new baby sister."
Narcissa walks closer to Lucius trying to take Draco away. "That baby is not my child's sister!"
Lucius hurriedly puts Draco down, takes out his wand from his coat pocket and points it at her. "One more word against any of my children and you will be taking orders even from the house elves!"
"Do it then, Lucius!" screamed Narcissa. "Go ahead! I'd rather be under the Imperius Curse than be forced to do something I don't want to do."
"Very well then, suit yourself. Imperio!"
Narcissa's eyes became vacant as she lost complete control of herself. "Do you want anything for her, for you or for Draco?"
"Send Venom to buy a formula for her then. You can take money from the small vault if you need. Go!" (*Venom is Lucius' owl)
Narcissa hurriedly runs out of the room as baby starts to cry again.
Lucius picks the girl up, walks over to the rocking chair and sits. He then lets Draco lean on his other knee as he calms the baby down. He touches the baby's head, feeling the softness of her crown.
"How soft and fragile," he said out loud. "How you look so much like my Lily. Too bad mummy's not here anymore."
(Flashback)
"You're right about that, Lily!" answers one of the two dark-cloaked apparitions that had just appeared by their bedroom door, both pointing their wands at the Potter family.
"Lucius!" screamed James as he ran to his wife's side, helping her up. Lily hold on to the baby as James hides Harry behind them.
"You're quite right, James," answers Lucius as he points his wand at Lily. "Lily, come here."
"No!"
"She seems very hard-headed James," answered the other dark cloaked intruder as he puts his hood down.
James' eyes opened wide, recognizing who it was. "Voldemort."
"Potter!" he said disgustingly as he moves the wand towards James. "Aveda Kedavra!"
Lily screamed as James body dropped to the ground with a loud thud. She kneeled over him, crying over his lifeless body. She stood up, still clutching the baby with one arm and pushed Harry behind her.
"You don't have to get hurt, Lily," said Voldemort, his wand now pointing towards the boy behind Lily's knees.
"Do what you want with me. Leave the babies alone."
Lucius looked his master and placed his wand inside his coat pocket. He then walked closer to Lily and then started to circle around her.
"That's mine, Lily. Give her to me."
"You sick bastard! You raped me and then you kill my husband. You are one sick motherfucker, you know that?"
Lucius' eyes narrowed as he lunged and her took the baby away before walking back beside his master.
"Ssh…" Lucius shushed looking at the little girl in his arms. "Aren't you a little pretty one? My little Empress. Empress Pearl Malfoy, eh?" The baby cooed as she continued to move around.
Lily gasped as Lucius started to move the blanket away from the baby's face. "Lucius, don't hurt her."
Lucius adored the baby and laughed as his Master touched the baby's forehead.
"Don't worry, Lily," says his Master. "We won't hurt her. You don't have to get hurt either, as long as you give Harry to me."
"No! You are not going to touch Harry!"
Lucius held his hand out to Lily. "Come on, love. Just give up the boy and I will protect you by all means."
"No! I will never be yours Lucius, you disgusting fuck! I want nothing to do with you or the Dark Side. I'd rather die than be your property. And you will not touch Harry!"
"Very well then," added Voldemort in a sinister voice. "Take your child outside, Lucius. I don't want her seeing the death of her mother. And do bundle her up. It's a little cold today."
Lucius left the room in anger, in disbelief that Lily turned down his offer. Once he got to the first floor, he heard a loud thud coming from the upper floor. He shook his head, as tears trickled solemn tears for the woman he once loved but never gave it back to him. As he heads by the door, a blinding green flash envelope his surroundings and the whole house started to shake. He ran out and luckily he was a few feet away from the house when the second floor collapsed.
He looked back at the remnants of the structure, looking for any signs of life.
"Master? Lord Voldemort? Tom? Master!"
There was no reply but the baby got startled by his screaming. He shushed her down just in time to hear an owl hooting from behind him. The owl dropped a large envelope right on his hands as it flew back up.
Lucius struggled to open it with one hand, making sure that his daughter was secure in his other hand. Inside the envelope, he finds his baby's birth certificate.
Empress Pearl Malfoy
Midnight of October 31st 1981.
Father: Lucius Malfoy
Mother: Lillian Evans-Potter
"Let's go my Empress Pearl," said Lucius as he started to run from the collapsing of the first floor.
(Flashback ends)
Draco looks up at Lucius, pulling on his knees, as if asking for another look at his baby sister. Lucius moves the swaddling cloth near the baby's face so that Draco may see her.
"Draco, this is your sister. When you two get older, you will get to know your place in our world. Even with the Dark Lord gone, you will follow in his footsteps. He gave his blessing to both of you, protecting you so that you are free from anybody who wants to harm you. The two of you, together, will cause the same destruction that Master had done, or even worse."
Lucius carries his son on his knees then kisses his forehead. "Careful, Draco. Now, give your baby sister a kiss."
Draco carefully leans over her new sister, kissing her cheek and then her nose as his father joins their little hands together.
"Draco Dwyer Malfoy- My Dark, Wise Dragon- meet your little sister, Empress Pearl Malfoy."
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About Middle Names:
=Draco Dwyer- "Dwyer" means 'dark wisdom' in Irish.
=Lucius Leroi- "Leroy" means 'king' in French.
=Lily Susan - In history, in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, Susannah (Susan for short) courageously defended herself against wrongful accusation. Lily defended her self from James (A chapter ago) against an accusation that she cheated on him.)
NOTE: "The canker galls the infants of the spring…" SHAKESPEARE MEANT: The "canker" is a worm, and to "gall" is to break the skin. "Infants of the spring" is metaphorical for early spring flowers, and their "buttons" are their unopened buds. Put it all together, It means that Ophelia could be ruined by the worm of temptation, which would hollow out her heart before it broke the surface. MY STUPID WORD FOR WORD TRANSLATION: The 'devil' destroys the life of the children (Here, the devil is both Voldemort and Lucius, and the children are Harry, Empress and Draco) right after they are born (I thought 'button' meant 'belly button or navel') And as the children grow, they would be as bitter as the devil. (We'll see!!!)
Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Hamlet Act I Scene iii Lines 39-40
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Early Morning, November 1, 1981
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Narcissa sits by the fire of the sitting room, waiting for her husband to come back from another one of the Death Eater business. Her son, Draco, had been sleeping in her arms for hours as they both waited for Lucius to come back.
She finally hears the rustling sound by the door. She stands up, failing in not waking Draco up, and greets her husband by the front door. When she reaches the door, she notices Lucius carrying something in his arms, a swaddling cloth wrapping something. He carries the thing with so much care that Narcissa started to become suspicious but she lay her skepticism aside when he noticed the fear in Lucius' eyes. She knew something was up.
Narcissa hears a gurgling sound from the swaddling cloth. When she was close enough to see, she notices a very small baby.
"Lucius," she stresses. "Whose baby is that?"
Lucius smiles at her, pride showing in his face. "Mine."
"Yours?" questions Narcissa. "Yours!?!?" she asks louder.
Lucius looks at her meanly his eyes starting to narrow. "Yes. She is mine, Narcissa. You have a problem with that?"
"Of course, Lucius! She surely isn't mine."
"I don't care."
"She's not allowed in this house. Not in my house!"
The baby girl starts to cry but Lucius cradles her and hums to her. When the baby calmed down a little bit, Lucius looks back at Narcissa. "First of all, this is not your house. It is mine. Second, she is my child and you will treat her as if she was your own."
"What if I don't?"
"You can go back to the hellhole you came from and never be able to see your son again."
"You can't do that to me."
"I can. Want to press your luck?"
Narcissa hugs her little boy as she looked at the little bundle that Lucius had been busying himself with. She hated the child already, knowing that her husband had cheated on her and that she knew that the mother of this child will remain unnamed.
Lucius motions her to go up the stairs with him and she does what is asked of her. Lucius leads her to the nursery. She lays the half sleeping boy in his crib as she scans the whole room.
She personally picked all the elements in Draco's nursery. She wanted it to be elegantly decorated for the true heir of the Malfoy estate. Everything in the room, like the rest of the house, was made first-class. Everything made of cloth is made of the finest velvet, fleece and linen the world has ever seen. Most of the furniture was antique except for Draco's crib and the bassinet which Lucius had bought for him right before he was born.
Lucius continues to tend on the baby girl before he turns to order Narcissa. "Could you get Draco's bassinet? I just want to use it for her tonight."
Narcissa goes inside the walk-in closet and looks for the bassinet. She returns carrying the bassinet closer to Lucius. "Who is her mother, Lucius?"
"Why do you care?" asks Lucius as she places the baby in the bassinet.
"The mother could be a Mudblood for all I…"
Lucius strikes her face full force that she topples to the floor crying. "I have had enough from you Narcissa. Don't make me use the Imperius Charm on you!"
"Lucius…" says Narcissa weakly. "Please, no! I promise not to say anything anymore."
"Good! Now, go get me some clean blankets and maybe something to wear for my little girl."
As Narcissa finds the items Lucius asked for while he takes off the little girl's swaddling cloth, and cleans her up before putting a diaper on her. Narcissa hands him the items before taking a step back.
"You never did that for Draco."
"Because you do it for him. You want to do it for her then?"
"No."
"Didn't think so."
When the baby girl was dressed, Lucius lays her on the bassinet, his eyes never leaving her face.
Draco babbles something incomprehensible, sounded like "Dada", his hands reaching out to his father. Lucius walks over to him and carries him over by the bassinet. Draco looks over with utter curiosity at the new living thing now occupying his old bassinet.
"That, Draco-" says Lucius, "-is your new baby sister."
Narcissa walks closer to Lucius trying to take Draco away. "That baby is not my child's sister!"
Lucius hurriedly puts Draco down, takes out his wand from his coat pocket and points it at her. "One more word against any of my children and you will be taking orders even from the house elves!"
"Do it then, Lucius!" screamed Narcissa. "Go ahead! I'd rather be under the Imperius Curse than be forced to do something I don't want to do."
"Very well then, suit yourself. Imperio!"
Narcissa's eyes became vacant as she lost complete control of herself. "Do you want anything for her, for you or for Draco?"
"Send Venom to buy a formula for her then. You can take money from the small vault if you need. Go!" (*Venom is Lucius' owl)
Narcissa hurriedly runs out of the room as baby starts to cry again.
Lucius picks the girl up, walks over to the rocking chair and sits. He then lets Draco lean on his other knee as he calms the baby down. He touches the baby's head, feeling the softness of her crown.
"How soft and fragile," he said out loud. "How you look so much like my Lily. Too bad mummy's not here anymore."
(Flashback)
"You're right about that, Lily!" answers one of the two dark-cloaked apparitions that had just appeared by their bedroom door, both pointing their wands at the Potter family.
"Lucius!" screamed James as he ran to his wife's side, helping her up. Lily hold on to the baby as James hides Harry behind them.
"You're quite right, James," answers Lucius as he points his wand at Lily. "Lily, come here."
"No!"
"She seems very hard-headed James," answered the other dark cloaked intruder as he puts his hood down.
James' eyes opened wide, recognizing who it was. "Voldemort."
"Potter!" he said disgustingly as he moves the wand towards James. "Aveda Kedavra!"
Lily screamed as James body dropped to the ground with a loud thud. She kneeled over him, crying over his lifeless body. She stood up, still clutching the baby with one arm and pushed Harry behind her.
"You don't have to get hurt, Lily," said Voldemort, his wand now pointing towards the boy behind Lily's knees.
"Do what you want with me. Leave the babies alone."
Lucius looked his master and placed his wand inside his coat pocket. He then walked closer to Lily and then started to circle around her.
"That's mine, Lily. Give her to me."
"You sick bastard! You raped me and then you kill my husband. You are one sick motherfucker, you know that?"
Lucius' eyes narrowed as he lunged and her took the baby away before walking back beside his master.
"Ssh…" Lucius shushed looking at the little girl in his arms. "Aren't you a little pretty one? My little Empress. Empress Pearl Malfoy, eh?" The baby cooed as she continued to move around.
Lily gasped as Lucius started to move the blanket away from the baby's face. "Lucius, don't hurt her."
Lucius adored the baby and laughed as his Master touched the baby's forehead.
"Don't worry, Lily," says his Master. "We won't hurt her. You don't have to get hurt either, as long as you give Harry to me."
"No! You are not going to touch Harry!"
Lucius held his hand out to Lily. "Come on, love. Just give up the boy and I will protect you by all means."
"No! I will never be yours Lucius, you disgusting fuck! I want nothing to do with you or the Dark Side. I'd rather die than be your property. And you will not touch Harry!"
"Very well then," added Voldemort in a sinister voice. "Take your child outside, Lucius. I don't want her seeing the death of her mother. And do bundle her up. It's a little cold today."
Lucius left the room in anger, in disbelief that Lily turned down his offer. Once he got to the first floor, he heard a loud thud coming from the upper floor. He shook his head, as tears trickled solemn tears for the woman he once loved but never gave it back to him. As he heads by the door, a blinding green flash envelope his surroundings and the whole house started to shake. He ran out and luckily he was a few feet away from the house when the second floor collapsed.
He looked back at the remnants of the structure, looking for any signs of life.
"Master? Lord Voldemort? Tom? Master!"
There was no reply but the baby got startled by his screaming. He shushed her down just in time to hear an owl hooting from behind him. The owl dropped a large envelope right on his hands as it flew back up.
Lucius struggled to open it with one hand, making sure that his daughter was secure in his other hand. Inside the envelope, he finds his baby's birth certificate.
Empress Pearl Malfoy
Midnight of October 31st 1981.
Father: Lucius Malfoy
Mother: Lillian Evans-Potter
"Let's go my Empress Pearl," said Lucius as he started to run from the collapsing of the first floor.
(Flashback ends)
Draco looks up at Lucius, pulling on his knees, as if asking for another look at his baby sister. Lucius moves the swaddling cloth near the baby's face so that Draco may see her.
"Draco, this is your sister. When you two get older, you will get to know your place in our world. Even with the Dark Lord gone, you will follow in his footsteps. He gave his blessing to both of you, protecting you so that you are free from anybody who wants to harm you. The two of you, together, will cause the same destruction that Master had done, or even worse."
Lucius carries his son on his knees then kisses his forehead. "Careful, Draco. Now, give your baby sister a kiss."
Draco carefully leans over her new sister, kissing her cheek and then her nose as his father joins their little hands together.
"Draco Dwyer Malfoy- My Dark, Wise Dragon- meet your little sister, Empress Pearl Malfoy."
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About Middle Names:
=Draco Dwyer- "Dwyer" means 'dark wisdom' in Irish.
=Lucius Leroi- "Leroy" means 'king' in French.
=Lily Susan - In history, in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, Susannah (Susan for short) courageously defended herself against wrongful accusation. Lily defended her self from James (A chapter ago) against an accusation that she cheated on him.)
NOTE: "The canker galls the infants of the spring…" SHAKESPEARE MEANT: The "canker" is a worm, and to "gall" is to break the skin. "Infants of the spring" is metaphorical for early spring flowers, and their "buttons" are their unopened buds. Put it all together, It means that Ophelia could be ruined by the worm of temptation, which would hollow out her heart before it broke the surface. MY STUPID WORD FOR WORD TRANSLATION: The 'devil' destroys the life of the children (Here, the devil is both Voldemort and Lucius, and the children are Harry, Empress and Draco) right after they are born (I thought 'button' meant 'belly button or navel') And as the children grow, they would be as bitter as the devil. (We'll see!!!)