Hey everyone. Here's another chapter for Little Moments. I wrote this chapter for Fortnightly Challenges Thread's Leaf Pile Challenge. I used the prompt Red (words) Angel. I hope you all enjoy Christmas Angel.
"I want to put the Angel on the top of the tree," Bellatrix cried thinking that this was the most important job ever when it came to dressing the Black family's Christmas tree. "Please, Daddy." She did her best puppy dog eyes at him. She knew her father could never say no to her best puppy dog eyes. Even if he tried to.
"I don't know, Bella," her father pretended to be thinking about it. "Let's see what Mummy thinks." He turned to Druella who sat nursing their newest daughter. "What do you say, dear, can Bella put the angel on top of the tree?"
Druella looked up from making sure that Andromeda was getting enough of her super in her than down the front of them both. "Cygnus," she sighed, "I'm sure that you can answer that yourself." She turned her attention back to Andromeda who had started to squirm and cry a bit.
"I guess that that's a yes then," he said motioning Bellatrix over.
The smile that alight over the young girls face was enough to tell him that was the right answer. That had been the answer she was hoping for anyway. He picked Bellatrix up in his arms.
"Alright then," he told her. "Daddy is going to lift you up near the top of the tree and then you can put the topper on. But do be careful the ornaments up top are very old and very breakable. Alright, Bella?"
Bellatrix nodded. She wouldn't break one thing she promised herself as her father lifted her towards the tree.
"Ready for the Angel, sweetie?" Cygnus asked his daughter.
"Yes, Daddy." She reached for the angel that father was handing up with one hand. She wasn't very afraid of only being held aloft by one hand. She knew her father wouldn't let anything bad happen to her. She was Daddy's little girl after all. Finally getting the Angel into position on the tree she smiled as she was brought down. "I did a good job. Right, Daddy?"
Cygnus beamed with pride at his daughter. "Yes. You did, my Bella."
"Next year, Andy and Mummy, can help dress the tree too. Right, Daddy?"
"Maybe a few year from now. But not next year. Andy can't walk yet. But I can bet you will be more than happy to teach her to walk."
They settle down next Druella and Andromeda Bellatrix planning away all the things she would be willing to teach her baby sister Andromeda. She planned on being the best big sister in the whole world.
I hope you all enjoyed Christmas Angel. I can see Bellatrix as young child having Cygnus and Druella wrapped around her finger like this. I can also see Bellatrix being a good big sister when she was younger.