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"This is just unbelievable..." She muttered, throwing a discarded newspaper in front of Ted.

"I know. It's truly a miracle!" He grinned. "Now Dora can have a safe childhood without any of us looking over our shoulder constantly. Although, it's rather sad what happened to the Potters," He frowned. "They were such nice people. Their son had just turned one not too long ago! Of course, they were in hiding for quite a while..." He trailed off.

"Yes, yes," She mumbled uncaringly. "What of the Death Eaters? How many were caught?"

"I don't know, but," Ted skimmed a paragraph or two before placing a pointer finger on the page. "Aha! Here's the list of known Death Eaters. Your sisteris at the top for being armed and dangerous." He sneered, "Serves her right..."

"What about the rest of the Lestranges?" She asked hesitantly, knowing full well that Rabastan would be there.

"Rodolphus is under her, and that uh-boy, the one you were engaged to," He snapped his fingers thinking, "What'd you always call him? Hermit, was it?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Rabbit."

"Ah, yes! I knew it was an animal."

Andromeda picked at her fingernails, not knowing whether Ted was speaking of his nickname or of Rabastan himself. She had to be even more careful now. Not that she wasn't before, but she would have to constantly cover up her Dark Mark. The Aurors were having a field day, as Ted called it, by arresting anyone who had any sort of connection with the Dark Lord.

It had been a shock last year when her cousin Regulus had died suddenly by the Dark Lord's hands. Aunt Walburga had been an absolute mess afterwards. No, no, not because it was her son and she was heartbroken that he had lost his life, but because there was no heir left to the House of Black. However, the newspaper had stated that Sirius had been the Potters's Secret Keeper, and that he had betrayed them to Voldemort. Andromeda hardly believed such a thing. Sirius was as non-Death Eater as you could possibly get. Besides, Sirius being Secret Keeper was too predictable. The Potters would have given the role to someone less likely. There was simply something wrong with that entire situation, and she did not want to be involved.

This- this event with the Potters couldn't have had worse timing. The Dark Lord was thinking of finally announcing her as a Death Eater so Dora wouldn't been too influenced by Ted. Unfortunately, she was. No matter how hard Andromeda tried to make her understand, a five year old just can't seem to grasp such things. At Nymphadora's age, Andromeda had already memorized countless poems and rules that were to be used as a house-wife and as a member of society.

"Your brother-in-law, the prick, he's on here too."

"Lucius?"

He nodded.

"Isn't it about time for you to take Dora to that Muggle school?"

"Andromeda, it's summer."

"Was anyone going to tell me that you babysat that-that brat? Not only did I find out from this one over here," Bellatrix shouted, pointing to Narcissa. "But this happened five years ago?"

"Exactly. It was five years ago. In the past." Cygnus explained without blinking an eye.

"Well, why was it even here? Did you at least try to kill it?" She sneered, her voice had now taken a sinister edge.

"It was the only time we saw our granddaughter." Druella lied smoothly. "It's not like we've had children from you recently." She smirked.

"Cissy has Draco. That should be plenty for you two. You barely raised us!" She scowled.

"That was a bit cruel," Narcissa butted in gently, so as not to arouse another reaction from Bellatrix.

"No one asked you." She all but hissed. "Now, why was she here?" She sat on the chaise longue attempting to simmer down.

"There was no babysitter. So, we took her in overnight."

"So you spent time with your lovely Half-Blood granddaughter. Just lovely."

"She sends us pictures of her all the time, and she keeps us up to date on any recent news."

Bellatrix threw up her hands in exasperation and rolled her eyes. "What's the point of disownment then? She married a Mudblood! Reproduced with a Mudblood! How can you even- Nevermind, just-Nevermind. I'm leaving. Why don't you invite her over for tea sometime? Owl me if you do!" She hollered, slamming the front door in the House Elf's face.

Cygnus cleared his throat.

"I'm sorry," Cissy started, "Ever since the Dark Lord's downfall, she hasn't been herself lately." She sighed, "Well, even worse than her usual self. I personally believe she's planning something drastic, but no one seems to believe me. " She shrugged.

"Why'd you tell her?" Cygnus asked, confused.

"I didn't. She found some pictures of me and the kid here with a specific date on them. We happened to be glancing through some old photo albums and it came out." She made a face. "I should've put those pictures up."

"It's quite alright. As long as she doesn't suspect us."

Narcissa frowned, causing lines to form across her forehead, uncannily resembling rivers. "Suspect you for what?"

Druella clenched her jaw in panic, and she reached for a teacup on a side table. "Narcissa, dear, would you like to stay for tea?"

A/N Sorry, this is a bit short... I just really wanted to get this up for you guys. It actually ended up being the short chapter yet. The original didn't even make a 1,000 words, so I decided to rewrite it. I actually had no intent of putting this up today, but I just happened to be that bored. Quite sad really. REVIEW!