Chapter 2

That day Narcissa arrived back in her manor room and felt tired and a little weak. She didn't know why. Was this the symptoms of being ill? Was she sick?

Yes, she answered her own question. She knew what she had. Lucius-itus. She was dangerously in love and that was possibly the worst thing a girl her age could ever get.

Leaving her quarters she walked through the manor that had been home to her all her life. She didn't know where she wanted to go (except in to Lucius' warm embrace).

As a last resort she went to her father's study.

Orion Black was a hard, cold man in public but at home he was kind and sensitive. Especially to his daughters. He loved them all very much due the fact he knew what it was like to lose a child. He had once had a son but he had died in birth. Were he still alive he would have been Andromeda twin. All in all he lived his life for his three daughters.

When he heard the doors to his study open he looked up to see his youngest. He was protective of his little Narcissa, even more so than her sisters. She had been weak at birth and she too had almost lost her life but she was a fighter and had pulled through.

"Princess!" he said glad to see her.

Normally he would have seen her at the train station but he had been so very busy lately though maybe now she had come to him it was time for him to take a break.

"Daddy, it is so good to see your face," she said embracing him. She clung to him for a little longer than usual though he did not object. He liked to hold her.

"And yours my daughter. How was the school? My dear you have grown up. To think I have not seen you in over ten months. I have missed you so dearly Narcissa," he said to her his eyes telling her everything his month did. "You have grown my love taller and in to a young women." he shook his head! To think this was his babe. It was craziness.

"School. It has been going so wonderfully. Ii have started courting a very fine young man father," she said. There was no point keeping it a secret and besides, if the Malfoy's were coming here, Orion already knew, did he not? Narcissa would not hide or be ashamed of her love for Lucius.

"Yes I have heard. The Malfoy heir. I must say that -Lucius- he is a very fine choice for my youngest daughter. He will be arriving in little less than seven days will he not?" he asked.

"Yes he will," she said coyly.

"Well, I am happy for you my darling. So come, sit. Tell me, how are your studies going," he asked. Her academic life was important to the father. All three of his daughter studies were important. "You have just sat your OWLs Narcissa. I trust they went well?" he said raising an eyebrow, beginning to pouring his self and his child out some tea.

"Yes daddy I think they did." she said smiling. It was the truth they had gone well.

"You put in sufficient studying for them child?"

"Yes daddy!" she said taking the small china cup he passed to her.

"Good very good, you are a bright child Narcissa. I intend to see that reflected in your results," he told her. He knew that yes studies were not important for a girl like Narcissa. She would be a hostess and a mother. But no one would ever call a child off Orion Black stupid. All three of his girls were bright.

"And I intend on making you proud to call me your daughter!"

"Sweetheart you need not do that for I am already so proud to call you my daughter. How could I not be?" he said softly cupping her face with one of his hands. She leant in to it shutting her eyes and placing her own hand over his.

"I love you so much daddy," she said.

"And I you, my precious daughter," he said kissing her brow.

"How have things been here?" she asked.

Orion knew not what to say next. He had met a man called Voldemort. He wanted to kill all the mud bloods. And Orion partly agreed with him.

Darks times may lay a head.

He didn't want to worry or take his youngest innocent with that though.

"Daddy?" she asked looking worried. "Things have been ok haven't they?"

"Yes child. Everything has been fine but I must get back to my work. You run along and play now," he said to her.

She was really worried now. Her father was lying and she knew it. She was not as naive as she made out to be.

"Ok daddy, I'll see you at dinner," she said leaving his luxurious study.

It had a high ceiling, just like every other room in the manor and many volumes of book fiction and fact, all of which Narcissa had already read as a child growing up.

Once she had been suffocated under the weight of Bellatrix's and Andromeda shadows. She had run away in to fairy tales and other wonderful ands. But today she was a women of her own and had earned her own spot light.

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That night at dinner Julius could not help but be happy for his heir.

He had a large family all in all having five children but Lucius had a quality to him that lite up the whole of the Malfoy manor with one grin.

Tonight however his heir was the younger sibling's favorite toy.

They all knew he had a girlfriend and for this he was paying the price…dearly.

"Listen!" said Lucius coming tot the end of his tether. "Me and Narcissa like each other very much and she means a lot to me. I will not hear her b e bad mouthed by anyone, especially not my family. She a wonderful young women whom I love- very much." he admitted talking a sis of wine.

How he wished she was by his side. He didn't fell whole alone anymore.

"Enough for her to be the mother of your heir?" asked Lucius' curious mother, Christina. It was instinct, he was and always would be her very first precious baby boy.

"Yes mother, more than enough for us to have children."

The younger siblings were shocked by this. Though there father was head of the family there was a certain respect they held only for the head of the children. He was old enough to be an adult but also young enough to be a child. To hear him display such emotions was a new experience to say the very least.

Lucius looked out the window of the dining room and smiled. Draco as ever was watching over his father waiting till the day he could come along.

a/n: this isn't a very good chapter I know but I tried.

XDeMeNtEdX: Ellouise's sequel is called 'time to grow' and chapter 1 is already typed! I've actually never seen a stars wars film, are they good? Thanks for reviewing!

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