Chapter 9
"Mama, can you make him stop crying please, he is hurting my ears." said Nymph as she walked in to the nursery. She had been woken up by her cousin.
She had been excited when she had been told that little Draco was going to be coming to live with them but it was the very first night and to her mother it seemed as if the novelty of having her cousin here might have been worn off already. She just wanted to go to bed.
"Go back to bed babe." she said to her as she continued to cradle her nephew, who was balling his eyes out.
"Its ok sweetie," she said to him as she picked up his bottle.
But he had made it quite clear to his aunt he wasn't going to drink his milk that night. He was in a strange house with people he did not know and he didn't like it. Andromeda rubbed his back and tried to make him feel better singing to him and hugging him but nothing worked. Draco wanted his father. No one else would do.
"I know you're sacred, and that is ok," she said to him, kissing the top of his head. "Fear passes," she said as she begun rocking him. They were going to get there no matter what it took. She knew they were.
Kissing him, she tried again to give him his bottle, which he in turn rejected.
This was Narcissa's baby Andy reminded her self. And something good had to come out of her death. It might as well be him.
"Come on little man, you have got to eat something." she said to him, but it made no difference. "I know you are probably missing you dad hey?" she said and it was at the word dad he fell silently as if he was old enough to understand. "But he wouldn't want this for you would he? He'd want you to be a good happy boy for your auntie. Not that I think he would want me to have you at all." she continued and he looked as if he was trying to make him mind up whether to carry on crying or not. She appeared to have got through to him.
"A month. You can not leave me here for a month." said Lucius to the ministry official who had come to see him to tell him the date of the trial. Apparently they had bigger fish to fry than him if they were going to be leaving him be for so long. But he had to get out sooner than that, he just had too.
"I am afraid after what you were caught doing Mr Malfoy you have no right to tell us what we can and can not do too you." he said to him, snarling at him as if he was a dog.
"I know - I was wrong I accept that. But I was under the imperious curse, I didn't know what I was doing, but please - I have a son. My wife is dead and he is going to be missing me. He has no one else. " he said desperately.
"And as touching as all that is it does not excuse what you did sir. You will be punished and until then you are going to be kept here. I can assure you your son is safe, we have checked on him and he is with some one responsible."
"Then he has been removed from Eliza's care I take it. You wont have trusted her to keep him if I employed her. Who has my baby?" he asked. He had the right to know where he was at least.
The man said nothing and Lucius felt his frustration mount. Would it be too much for him to tell him his son was safe?
"Please…" he said pathetically. That was all he wanted. To know he was safe.
He said nothing to him and walked out of the room. Lucius was left not knowing who had his son or where he was. It was then Lucius had to admit the truth to himself. He was a man broken. He didn't know where his son was, if he was ok. And it had all been his own doing.
Wrapping his arms about himself he sunk down against the wall of his cell.
"Oh Cissy…darling…I need you…miss you…sorry…I am so sorry…"
Ted had forgotten in the time since his little girl had grown up how much hard work a baby was. He was only glad it was Andy who was going to be staying at home with the little one. He didn't know if he had the patience. It seemed to the three Tonk's all there house guest had done since he had arrived was cry. As Nymph came down stairs with her uniform on to go up to the local muggle primary wheres her parents sent her, she screwed up her face as she cooked at Draco.
She wasn't impressed by him.
Couldn't it go back to being just her, her mother and father?
"Have you had some breakfast babe?" asked Ted over the baby's cries as he wailed in his aunties arms.
"Yes." she said having just come down from brushing her teeth.
"Right then dad is going to take you in today mum has to try and settle this one down." she said to her, as she jiggled Draco.
He had to get tired of crying soon didn't he? she thought trying to comfort him and her.
"You don't think he is sick do you?" suggested Ted.
"If he is then it is homesickness." she said to her husband as she continued rubbing the baby's back.
"Right well me and her are off then. I am going to go straight to work, try and have a good day wont you babe," he said to her. "and you be as good boy fer' yer auntie."
"You have a good day love," she said to Nymph as she got her coat on and left.
Maybe she had Draco would go out in a while too. A bit of fresh air might do him good. It might so them both good.
"Ok then baby, lets see what is going to make you feel better than. We can't have you crying for ever darling." she said to him.
In the bags of things Eliza had got him together when she had went up to the manor, Andy had found mostly baby grows, and toys. A little snake and a dragon. She might have to get him a lion she thought to herself. Just to piss Lucius off. She tried to imagine his face when he came to get him to see his son cuddling the house symbol of the Gryffindors.
She had found he had a baby blanket, But he had kicked it off himself a number of times when she had tried to cover him in it. Going in to the nursery, she lay him in the old crib she had from when her daughter had been a baby.
She wondered how long she and Ted were going to be looking after him.
As long as he needed to be she supposed. Whether that was going to be twenty days or twenty years…
An: hey guys, I hope your all enjoying the story.
No updates for the next week I am afraid. I am going on a half term break with my mum.