Happy December everyone! The most wonderful month of the year has arrived. NaNoWriMo was a write off... if you'll excuse the bad pun in there so I just decided to get some writing done for my fics. My hours have gone down at work now so I'm hoping to use the time wisely to plan and write all my fics. Whether that happens though is always a different story with me.

Lots of love,

LM xxx

Breaking Traditions-Part 10:

The next morning and the Blacks had retired to the guest wing and had remained there, much to the relief of everyone, but Narcissa was shutting herself away in the parlor or library and this was concerning to Abraxas but Lucius and Priscilla knew it was the way Narcissa coped with things.

"We are going to start the process of adoption," Lucius told his parents, "Narcissa and I agreed last night. Both fathers said if a girl could be found then they will support us and mother you have already given permission for us to start the process. Cissa and I discussed it last night and I told her that we would start the process but I wish to send one last owl to Draco to make sure that he is still OK with this. It was he who brought it up in the first place but I wish to make sure that he really is OK with this."

Silence fell on the study and Lucius took a sip of his drink and he watched as his mother and father just watched, clearly in thought about what their son had just said.

"It would still be good to check with Draco," Abraxas nodded, "he may well have changed his mind being at school but if he agrees still then yes the process can start."

"Yes. I will do that as soon as Draco writes asking for some of his mother's cookies. He's writing home almost three times a week for them," Lucius told his parents, a light smile on his face.

"Well he did learn how to make cookies from the best cookie maker," Priscilla said, that glint in her eye that her husband and son knew all too well. She suspected that Narcissa knew about it as well but hadn't mentioned it to her daughter-in-law yet.

Lucius finished the meeting with his parents before he walked down the corridor to Narcissa's study and was surprised to find her sat at her desk, Elara on her perch ready to receive some post to carry with her.

"What are you doing?" he asked as he crept up behind her and kissed her neck softly.

"Getting ready to send a letter to Draco and another box of cookies and sweets," came a soft reply, "why? Do you have something that you need to send to our son as well?"

"Yes! Merlin yes! Please don't send Elara until I come back. Cissa…"

"I promise I won't send Elara until you get back," she said and watched as Lucius tore off in the direction of his study. She turned and looked at her owl, "now what do you think that was all about Elara? What has got Lucius acting like that I wonder." The loyal owl just hooted and Narcissa just chuckled and wondered what had got her husband like that.

Eventually she soon had her answer as she saw Lucius come back with a letter.

"A letter for Draco? What are you up to?" Narcissa smirked. That smirk always set Lucius off and he looked at her.

"Nothing. Just something I promised my parents that I would do before something is decided for sure. Can the letters go into the box? It would make it easier for Elara," Lucius said, not revealing anything at all as he watched her. Narcissa nodded and cast charms to protect the letters, placing them in the box and sealing it, tying the box onto Elara and then letting her owl fly off on the journey.

Lucius waited until the owl was out of sight before he pulled his wife to her feet and pressed his lips to hers and pulled her close. She stood on her toes, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissed him, softly at first and then she began to deepen the kiss and he instantly responded wrapping his arms around her, tangling his hands in the golden waves of her hair that he adored so much.

A soft moan escaped her lips and a desire began to grow deep inside them… a longing that neither had felt for so long and Lucius began to move her back against her desk and she gasped softly as she felt her thighs hit the cold wood. Nothing else really mattered in that moment as they began to get lost in each other and the moment they clearly needed.

They were so lost in the moment that they didn't hear the sound of heals getting closer and Lucius' outer robe had just been pushed off his shoulders and disguarded onto the floor when a voice shook them from their thoughts.

"What in Merlin's name is going on here?" came a voice that made the two spring apart before Narcissa's eyes widened.

"Mother!" she gasped as she saw the formidable form of Druella Black stood eyes wide open and starting at them.

"If you two are going to have a moment then please close doors. You are not some loved up teenagers from some Mudblood family," Druella said before Narcissa just scoffed.

"I'm going to play with Snowy," she said to Lucius before ignoring her mother and headed out of the study and down to the library Lucius guessed before he turned to his mother-in-law.

"Don't you ever speak like that in my house again!" he warned Druella, "you just underminded the Lord and Lady of the Manor. You are not in charge here Druella and you are lucky that Narcissa didn't make you leave last night."

"She would never tell me to leave. I am her mother and that is the end of that. She wouldn't stand up to me no matter what you told her to do. She's changed in my books and not for the better," Druella said, "she still believes in that fairytale of having a daughter…?" cue a scoff, "I thought that idea had been stamped out of her all those years ago. Remind me to have a word with my grandson when I see him at Christmas."

"You will do no such thing Druella. Draco wishes to see his mother happy, as do I and my mother and the fathers if everything works out right for us. Once I have heard back from Draco we will hopefully be starting the adoption process and you can either support us or shun your daughter and hasn't there been enough of that over the years… especially after…"

"Don't you dare speak her name!" Druella hissed before she just glared at Lucius, "Your card is marked Lucius and I will not be supporting this unless something convinces me otherwise," she said before sweeping out of the room and seconds later Lucius did and went to find his parents to tell them all about what Druella had just said to him.