Chapter 8
"I sorry but it's just for a few days I swear!" said Regulas.
"I know but," said Narcissa as she walked her cousin to the door holding on to his hand. "But I'm just really going to miss you! You're my best friend Regulas, I don't know what I'm going to do without you!" said Narcissa.
"Oh sweetheart, I will be back before you know it!"
"Promise?" said Narcissa raising her eyebrow in the fashion her father might.
"Of course," he said.
"Well have fun on holiday, don't, forget me and yes, I do want postcard," she smirked.
"Then my fair cousin, dear," he said. "You shall have one."
"Bye Reg!" she said waving him off as he got in to the carriage and rode away completely unaware of the rat that was watching her from the garden.
What to do with her self now Narcissa did not know.
She felt so empty. She missed Lucius. She should have told him but…. so many things were going on but now…he was gone and she felt so alone. She loved him so much
Her father was out, she couldn't talk to Bella, she had enough on her plate. She'd go swimming.
So arriving out side in her bathing suit that was quite reviling, to say the least, Narcissa tucked a few strains of hair behind her ear before diving in and doing a few laps.
Narcissa was a good swimmer, she had been taught by her grandfather when she was a girl of just five years. Her mother had called her 'a little water baby'.
She was so wrapped up in her own little world that she never saw Peter standing by the pool before it was too late.
She tried to scream but he had his hand over her mouth before anything came out. He was not as weak as he looked.
But at that moment Narcissa certainly was.
She felt hot embarrassed tears streamed down her face as he grabbed at her costume. She felt so unsafe, so un-protected.
He was just about to hold her under the water and had succeeded in doing so for several seconds when another figure jump to her rescue.
"Leave her alone," said a voice she knew only too well as it pulled Pettigrew off her. It was dangerously low, she knew Lucius had come to save her and he was mad.
After practically drowning him, certainly leaving him unconscious the figure turned to the scared young women.
"I can't believe I let that happened," said a wet Lucius Malfoy. He was fully robed in black and his hair hang ran his shoulders dripping but the cared for Narcissa too much to care about how he looked.
"I'm so sorry," she cried in to his shoulders. "I do need you Lucius, I need you so desperately."
"Shh darling, it's ok," he soothed her. "I'm here now and I'm not going any where."
She cried for a long time and they just stayed there in the pool together. Finally he got her out and took her back up to the manor.
He lead her up to room after he found out no one else was home. Her suitor in her room would hardly be appropriate in Orion's eyes but then again, did Lucius really care Orion thought in that minute?
No.
Slowing she calmed her self down, and became embarssed foe crying in front of Lucius but he didn't mind, he just got her some fresh robes out her closet and let her change.
The robe had shoulder length sleeves so he could see her wrists which were in flamed. She was pale and still shaking.
Retreating in to his arms, it took her a minute to get used to the physical contact but it didn't take her long to relax in to him.
"What made you come back?" she said.
What made him come back? He didn't know except he still loved her. He had changed so much to be with her and to be the man she deserved. She was so perfect and proper. He had been sleeping with different girl every two weeks before she came along.
"I missed you," he said honestly. "I didn't want to live without you." he said. "What happened at the funeral was just bad timing I guess, I couldn't cope with it all. But I can now Narcissa, just as long as you are with me I can cope with anything." he said shutting his eyes and leaning his head in to her soft blonde locks. "Just be honest with me Narcissa, I want to know if something like that happens again, ok?"
She just nodded and held on to him for dear life. When she was with him she was so safe. He would protect till the day they died together. She couldn't go on with out him. Not anymore. He was the central point of her life and her world revolved around him. And it always would.
He vowed silently never to leave her again. They were two halves of one heart. Being alone just didn't work now.
"I'm back for good my princess."
She knew it was true.
Narcissa was so sleepy and warm and she didn't stir when he picked her up and carried her to her bed, he laid himself down next to her and held her hands as she laid her head don his chest. She slept peacefully.
Lucius laughed. It had been years since he had had an afternoon nap.
He watched as she got lost in dreams. He'd do anything for her. She was the most precious jewel in his life. What if peter had raped her? What would have happened to his princess?