Hey Lovelies! Yay for Saturdays! Anyway, here is Chapter 7, "I Will Be" by Wynonna Judd. If you have never heard this song I suggest that you listen to it, it's amazing! Cissa definitely needs to hear it after this chapter! Enjoy!

Chapter 7 – I Will Be

The morning that Cissa and Draco were supposed to meet Lucius was the morning that she was officially four months pregnant. Her bouts of morning sickness had passed and she was practically glowing when she came sweeping back into their bedroom. She had on loose fitting silver robes that did their best to hide her noticeable baby bump. She had asked that she be allowed to be seated before Lucius was brought in and they had agreed.

Her hair was done up in an elaborate twist and her makeup was flawless. She looked incredibly beautiful and Harry knew that she was doing it on purpose. "You know you're gorgeous all the time right? You don't have to get so dolled up to be the most beautiful woman in the world."

She laughed, "You have to say that, I'm carrying your baby."

"True." He kissed her forehead on his way past her. "But I'd say it even if you weren't. That baby only increases your beauty in my eyes. You've always been perfect."

"Always?"

"Well maybe not that one day you were trying to throw curses at me in the Manor during the war, but even then you were kind of hot."

"Even then I was kind of married." She shot back over her shoulder.

"Doesn't mean I can't think you were hot!" He couldn't help hollering back as he headed into the bathroom that smelled like her perfume.

She was nursing a cup of tea when he arrived in the kitchen a few minutes later. They were going to meet Draco at the Manor and then head to Azkaban together. Apparation was by all means the easiest way to get there. Harry looked over at the clock their meeting was scheduled to being in an hour. "Are you ready?"

She looked up at him with a sad smile. "As I'll ever be. Let's go." She took his hand and together they stepped through the flames into the Manor.

They came out in Draco's study and Harry had to smile. The last time he had been in the study was the day he asked Draco for Narcissa's hand. "Good morning Mother. Harry." The door to the study opened and Draco and Hermione both came through it. "Are you ready to go?"

"No." Harry looked down at his wife. "But she's pretending to be, so we may as well go."

Cissa rolled her eyes, "I'll be fine." She led them out of the room, down the hall and out the front doors of the Manor. Draco caught up with her and took her arm as they disappeared right outside the gates. Hermione caught Harry's hand as he was about to follow them.

"Take care of them Harry. All three of them." Her eyes were pleading and he wrapped his arms around her.

"I'll keep them safe 'Mione. They are my family, it's my job." He pulled away from her and with a sad smile he followed after his wife and stepson.

When his feet hit the ground on the rock outside of the prison he was instantly cold. He was glad to see when he looked ahead of them a glowing silvery-blue lioness marching along proudly next to Cissa. She had been cautious enough to have her patronus ready and waiting when they arrived.

Draco went ahead of them into the prison and Harry wrapped an arm around his wife. "I will be right outside the door, and I know that you and Draco are perfectly capable of protecting yourselves, but I just want you to remember that I'm here. That I'm not leaving the three of you to go in there alone."

"I know." She brought her hand up to cup his cheek and he rested one of his on their child. "I'll be careful. I love you."

"I love you too." A short kiss followed his words and he led her into the prison. She allowed him to escort her to the room and then moved from his arm to Draco's.

"I won't let him hurt her Harry. I promise, they will both be fine." Harry nodded to the other man and allowed his family to pass through the solid wood door that was keeping him out of the conference room.

Cissa took a seat on the side of the table closest to the door that they had entered. Arranging her robes in a way so that they hid her bump. She didn't want Lucius to see that she was pregnant. Her left hand she placed in her lap and then she covered it with her right. She hadn't taken her rings off, she wouldn't go that far, but she was trying to keep them out of sight.

"Are you ready for this Mother?" Draco was standing just over her right shoulder and she turned to look up at him.

"No. I wish that I never had to see him again, but for you my darling I am willing to put my anxieties aside. You are worth it."

He nodded at her. Not quite sure what to say. At that moment the door on the opposite side of the room opened and Lucius was led in by a rather grey looking wizard. His long blonde hair was dirty and matted and he looked destitute, but neither Draco nor Narcissa reacted in any way to his appearance. In fact neither said a word until he was seated on the other side of the table.

"Lucius." Draco refused to call the man Father. As far as he was concerned he no longer had a father. Just Harry, who somehow made a better father than Lucius ever had, and he wasn't even one officially yet.

"Draco?" He looked hurt by his son's cool tone, but there was even more hurt in his eyes when he looked across at his ex-wife. Her icy, mask was firmly in place and she had not even acknowledged that he was there yet. "Cissy?"

Her eyes shot to him when he called her the pet name that only he and Bellatrix had ever used. She hated that name it made her feel slimy and dirty. "Lucius." Her voice remained cool and effortless. "My name is Narcissa, not Cissy. You will not call me that ever again."

He was shocked by her abrupt rejection, but Draco squeezed her shoulder and took control of the conversation. "We are here for one reason and one reason only, and that is so that I may take control of all of the family businesses legally and under the title of Lord Malfoy." He drew a piece of parchment out of his pocket and slid it and a pen across the table. "I need both of your signatures, and I have to have them at the same time."

Lucius looked annoyed. "You came all the way out here to take your fortune now. What makes it of the utmost importance that you have it now?"

Draco looked down at his mother and she nodded. He swallowed and then looked back up at the older man, "I am getting married, and I wish my wife to take her place by my side as the Lady Malfoy."

"It's high time that someone with greater influence held that position." Narcissa cut in. "I think that together they will bring great honor back to the name, and for that we need your signature Lucius." She fixed him with an icy stare when he didn't reach for the pen. "You can't possibly be thinking of refusing, you have no ground on which to stand. I can have you stripped of your titles forcefully you know? The only reason you still have them is because Harry had you imprisoned instead of killed."

She was staring hard at him and she didn't realize that she had said Harry instead of Lord Potter, but Lucius did. "Oh this was all Harry's doing was it? Well, then why don't you just go and get him to strip me of my titles now? It would have been easier than coming here and getting rejected."

She huffed out her breath, but she wasn't going to back down that easily, she didn't have to submit to this monster of a man anymore. "Lucius Abraxas Malfoy, just sign the damn document, give our son what is rightfully his and you will never see either one of us again!" Without thinking she slammed her hands flat on the table in front of her and he caught a glimpse of the flash of her ring before she slipped her hand back into her lap.

"What are those?" His temper was rising and she could see it. She subconsciously scooted back from the table, taking Draco with her. "What is on your hand Narcissa?"

Her mask was once again firmly fixed to her features. "I don't see how that is any of your concern Lucius, please, just sign the papers."

He glowered at her, but he reached for the pen. Signing his name across the bottom he shoved both towards her and she signed her name. She rolled the parchment up quickly and handed it to Draco so that Lucius couldn't see her signature. With a curt nod to her son she stood and spun to leave the room.

She thought she had gotten spun around quickly enough that the swish of her robes would hide the swell of her stomach, but she didn't. He saw the bump around her middle that could only mean one thing. "You're pregnant!"

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she spun around to face him. "Yes. I am."

"How? Who? What is going on?" He was getting angry, and he was confused, not a good combination when it came to Lucius Malfoy.

"Well Lucius, seeing as we have a son together, I'm pretty sure you can work out how I got pregnant. That part hasn't really changed. As far as who that is none of your concern." She took a step backwards towards the door and knocked the metal chair over with a rather large crash.

Immediately the door behind her flew open and the guard that had been waiting outside with Harry entered the room. "Lady Potter-Black are you alright?"

Narcissa's eyes fell closed when she heard her title fall from the guard's lips. When she opened them again Lucius was staring at her open mouthed. "Potter-Black? Lady Potter-Black? That means…that means…No!" He was furious and he stood up from his seat, causing his own chair to over turn.

At the second crash Harry came barreling through the door to get between his wife and her ex-husband. "Yeah Lucius, that means that she married me, and that that baby is mine. You stay on your side of that table or so help me Merlin that will be the end of you."

"Potter!" Lucius spat at the young man over the table. "That is my family, you had no right to come swooping in and steal them away."

He grabbed Draco by the arm and keeping himself between the two of them and Lucius he herded them towards the door. He looked back over his shoulder as first Cissa and then Draco filed out of the room in front of him. "I had every right. You could have saved your family Lucius, but you wouldn't betray your master. You betrayed them instead. They are my family now, and you will never hear from any of us again."

He slammed the door behind him with an echoing crash and then with Cissa under one arm and the other behind Draco's back he led his family out of the prison and turned on the spot.

Hermione came rushing towards them when she saw them reappear outside the gates. "Are you all right? Is everyone okay? Did you get your document signed?"

Draco slid his arms around her waist and pulled her into his chest. "Slow down 'Mione, one thing at a time. Everyone is fine. Well, everyone except Lucius. He found out about Mom and Harry, and the baby. But I got the document signed and Harry took care of him."

Hermione peered around Draco's shoulder at her friend. "Cissa?" She pulled out of Draco's arms and moved to wrap her own around his mother. "Are you alright?"

The blonde nodded into Hermione's shoulder. "I will be."