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Finally Belonging Somewhere-Part 8:

Narcissa was sat by Aurora's bed. The Malfoy matriarch and her husband had been offered a private room in the teachers' living area for the rest of the weekend. She didn't want to leave the young witch and Dumbledore and Snape agreed that Narcissa remaining, or rather Aurora remaining with her foster mother, was the best thing to do.

The blonde had learnt from Draco that Aurora loved unicorns and had waved her wand twice. The first producing a unicorn shaped nightlight and the second produced a stuffed unicorn teddy that Aurora now held in her sleep. She pushed some of Aurora's hair out of her face before remembering back to that day they lost their second baby.

"What do you mean our baby has been kidnapped?" Lucius asked, tears beginning to turn to rage as he held his sobbing wife.

"We turned our backs for 3 seconds and the baby was gone Mr. Malfoy," the mediwitch said before Narcissa was on her feet when she should have been in bed,

"So what you're saying is I almost died during this pregnancy and went through all that labour only for you to lose our baby? You incompetent witch!" she shouted before being held back by Lucius,

"Darling get back into bed," he managed to say calmly.

"But our baby…those incompetent people! Our precious baby has been taken from us and you want me to get back into bed?! I knew we shouldn't have let them take our baby out of our sight!"

"I will deal with it but, baby or not, you have just given birth and should be on bed rest," Lucius said picking his wife up and putting her back into bed before watching as she held the blanket they'd brought for the baby. He knew Narcissa would remain in her bed so grabbed the mediwitch's arm and dragged her out of the room placing a ward on the room in case anyone tried to take Narcissa too.

Narcissa was just staring at Aurora asleep before she felt a hand on her shoulder and rested her hand on her husband's shoulder.

"I didn't mean to shout that night…" he said.

"I know you didn't Lucius and I should have listened to you and stayed in bed. Not a day goes by when I don't think about what could have been," Narcissa said, her eyes focussed on Aurora still.

"I will never forget the moment when you screamed out as they told us that our baby had been taken," Lucius said, sitting down on the edge of Aurora's bed and making Narcissa look at him by moving her head gently, "that sound broke my heart."

"Have you…ever decided to move on and try and get over it?" she asked, barely above a whisper.

"Yes but that was our baby and I never want to forget our miracle second baby. It's still in our hearts now matter where it is," Lucius said softly.

"That's how I feel Luce," Narcissa said causing Lucius to look at her properly.

"I haven't heard you call me that since you were pregnant with our second baby…"

"It hurt too much to use it. I know Aurora will never replace our second child or even take its place but somehow it might help us come to terms with it."

The two had never really spoken about that day in all the 11 years since it had happened but now everything was getting stirred up again.

"Cissa…we will find our missing baby. I promise you," Lucius said before placing a soft kiss on his wife's lips, "and what hurts even more is there are parents that abandon their children and leave them to suffer like Aurora has," he said before Narcissa actually began to respond to the kiss before the door opened and Draco and Astoria walked in.

Lucius softly stroked his wife's cheek before rising from his chair.

"Severus let us through," Draco explained, "Daph would have come but she has a job to do. You were talking about it weren't you?"

"Yes we were. Fostering Aurora is stirring it all back up son. Please sit down Astoria," Lucius said.

"Lucius and Narcissa…I hope I'm not adding to your obvious distress but what happened all those years ago…?" Astoria spoke nervously before looking, "Draco said something heart-breaking happened but he wouldn't tell me what. I can see it upsets you though…I was just wondering."

Narcissa's eyes were back on her foster daughter before she sighed,

"16th March 1984 I gave birth a month early to our second baby," she said feeling Lucius's hand on her shoulder, "it had been a difficult pregnancy after the complications with Draco so it was agreed that I'd give birth a month early. I gave birth but the baby wasn't breathing so they rushed it out of the room…"

"Cissa screamed at me not to let them take the baby out of the room but I wasn't quick enough," Lucius carried on as Narcissa was close to tears, in fact the tears were flowing from her eyes again, "the next thing we know is a Mediwitch came in and told us that our baby had been snatched when they'd taken their eyes off it for a matter of seconds."

Astoria gasped and her hands flew to her mouth as she looked at Draco who nodded.

"It's true 'Stori," he said before going to his mother as she was crying again.

"I'm so sorry Lucius and Narcissa," she said hugging the both of them.

"It's OK Astoria," Lucius said.

"And that is why you are fostering Aurora…because Narcissa wants a daughter and you're trying to block out what happened…" Astoria said.

"We'll never get over what happened and it really upset us and made us so angry and I thought Cissa was going to drive herself crazy right after giving birth. I started looking for our child and have been ever since but no luck," Lucius said.

"Then I saw Aurora and it made me mad that some precious girl, beautiful girl, has been completely overlooked and let down by a system like she has. I couldn't save and protect our baby but I will protect Aurora," Narcissa said looking at her husband, son and Astoria, a hint of anger and determination in her voice before she heard Aurora whimper and turned her attention to the 11-year-old and looked inside her head and saw what Aurora was dreaming about and fresh tears fell again and she input images of her and Aurora dancing at the Malfoy Christmas Ball into her head and stroked the young witch's cheek and sang through the tears.

"What's she dreaming about?" Lucius questioned.

"About those nasty girls and one time she ended up in St. Mungo's but I've managed to change it so she's dreaming about me and her dancing at our annual Christmas Ball," Narcissa said before singing softly again. Not many knew the matriarch sang and she hadn't sung since before their baby was taken but she felt it would calm Aurora down and she shocked everyone when she kicked off her shoes and laid down on the bed and held Aurora close, resting the 11-year-old's head on her chest. She trusted everyone in the room. She had let down her guard and Lucius wiped his eyes.

"I have something in my eye," he said as he noticed Draco's smirk.

"Draco…we have to go…curfew," Astoria suddenly said and they quickly bid the Malfoy parents goodnight before they headed off and Lucius sat down in the chair Narcissa had been occupying.

"Singing again are we?" he asked.

"Don't Luce," Narcissa said softly, "the pain is still so raw, especially after telling young Miss Greengrass. I think we need to talk to that girl's parents about a possible promise alliance."

"Says the one who didn't want to think about it," Lucius said before Narcissa felt the bed being enlarged and soon found Lucius had draped an arm over his wife's waist, "sleep Cissa. She's safe and you need rest," he said kissing Narcissa's head softly before watching as she fell asleep before he made sure both his wife and foster daughter were safely wrapped up and warm before he finally fell asleep himself after placing precautionary wards on the room. He was taking no chances at all when it came to Aurora's safety.