Title: Can You Really Find Love Again? Chapter 2

Author: Salazarriddle

Keywords: Lucius, Narcissa, Malfoy

Rating: R

Summary: After an accident can a estranged couple find their way back to one another or have the years cause irreparable damage

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Disclaimer: The only thing that is mine is the storylines everything else belongs to JK Rowling and others who own Harry Potter

Chapter 2

Lucius sat stone-faced in the hard plastic chair that was located in the hospital waiting room. He was not used to being in any hospital for reasons outside of business and this was a muggle hospital, which only served to make the husband even more worried. There could be no simple fix to correct the injuries his wife had and there was no way to get her to St. Mungos as Apparating with an unconscious person was very risky.  Being forced to do nothing only increased Lucius' agitation. The frustrated man looked down at his hands which were covered in the now dried blood of his wife. Lucius stared at his hands in a shocked state of awe. In all his years of torturing muggles and mudbloods the Death Eater had never literally gotten a drop of blood on his hands. He was always at a safe distance in his methods-- psychological pain was his specialty, he let others do the dirty work. And now, the sight of someone's blood on his hands was a jarring thought. The fact that it was his wife's blood made the feeling in the pit of his stomach only worse.

"She is nothing to you Lucius. Get over this. Why are you still here waiting?" the man  talked to himself. He glanced up at the clock and saw that it was almost eight o'clock. It has been close to two hours that Lucius had been sitting in the room without a word from any of the doctors. "I do not care if she is dead. She deserves to be dead for this!" the male Malfoy hit his fist against the wall in an out-of-character moment. Deep inside Lucius knew why he was still here but he would never let himself outwardly express those feelings. It would be unbecoming of a Malfoy to act on such feelings. "I was an idiot all those years ago to let feelings like that rule my life," Lucius hissed as he got some strange looks from another man who had just entered the waiting room. "What do you think you are looking at?" the blond hissed through his teeth before storming out of the waiting room. Lucius did not know what to do with himself, he was helplessly lost. No magic could be used to get him out of horrible situation. The man passed about the corridors of the hospital waiting for any word. "Those lousy good for nothing muggles-- they have found the perfect way to torture me…. Keeping me in the dark." Lucius paused when he realized he was outside the hospital.

Rain was now pouring down from the sky and it took only a moment for Lucius to be completely drenched--he soon looked very much  like a drowned rat. He looked at the blood that was running off of his hands and it made the man feel as his wife was slipping away from him, just as the traces of blood mixed with the water and dripped from his fingers, leaving them clean. "No more blood on my hands," Lucius murmured in astonishment as he headed back into the hospital. He was almost stopped immediately by one of the doctors.

"Mr. Malfoy, we have been looking for you. We have news about your wife," the young doctor addressed the obviously distressed-looking pale gentleman.

"What is it?" he asked in a short snappy tone, quite nonchalantly pulling uncommonly long tendrils of soaked hair out from his eyes and flipping them back behind his ears, before fixing the doctor with a piercing stare.

"She is out of surgery," the doctor started off slowly. "But there was extensive trauma to the head. It is too early to tell how your wife will recover." The doctor paused for another long moment. "There was also severe injury to her abdominal region and we had to deliver the baby, " the man paused again. There was obvious distress in the voice and composure of the man. He did not know how to word what would come next. "Things do not look good for your daughter. Under most conditions babies born at twenty-three weeks' gestation do not hold a high survival rate, and the injures sustained in the accident make the chance for survival even lower. We will know more when we can evaluate the extent of the complications from the accident. Currently she is being set up in NICU. Once she is set up there, and further evaluated, we will let you in to see her. I must warn you she is very small and she will be hooked up to many machines. You will be able see your wife once she is moved out of recovery and moved to ICU." The doctor looked over at Lucius unable to gather his reaction to any of the news. "Are there any questions you have?" he asked, hoping that would get the man to talk.

The new father did not know what to make of all this information. The one thing that registered clearly at first was that he had a daughter. Worry and fear began to seep in as Lucius began to process the rest of the doctor's words. Things definitely did not look good for the small child and they were not much better for his wife. "I will find you if I need anything."

With that said Lucius wandered off from the doctor. His thoughts were completely on the small child that was born way too soon. Regret was seeping in as he recalled the argument he had with Narcissa over the child, and it was that argument that caused her to run into the street and be hit by that lorry. "Stop it," Lucius berated himself aloud. "Malfoys do not feel regret. She is to blame for this. You did nothing wrong." He hoped saying the words aloud would change the feelings inside, but it was not working.

Another thought dawned on Lucius… Draco. How was he going to break this news to his son? The child who was alive and well. The child who was off at school. The boy always favoured his mother. Lucius had not a clue how to break the news to the boy.

After another hour of wandering Lucius managed to sit and write a letter to Draco explaining the situation leaving out any part about the baby. After sending the letter off via owl Lucius headed back into the hospital. Finding himself near the NICU, Lucius looked though the glass of the room and saw a team of doctors working over one of the small incubators. From their movements and expressions Lucius could tell they were trying to save the child. Then Lucius caught a glimpse of the card on the incubator. It was pink and it held the name Malfoy. This was his daughter they were fighting to save. His heart fell into his stomach as he watch almost entranced as they worked feverishly waiting for a sign they had been successful.