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Finally Belonging Somewhere-Part 25:

Lucius and Narcissa just stood silently in the doorway and watch as Aurora danced to the music. Narcissa instantly recognised it as the Sugarplum Fairy's dance from The Nutcracker. Lucius nodded to say he knew what it was before he watched her.

"I think we should give up for now," Narcissa said, "I mean searching for our child. We have a child and she needs us more…"

"You know I'll keep on searching but somehow I feel Aurora needs us more," Lucius said, "us finding our child could hurt her and she needs protection. I'll keep up the search but, for now, we'll focus on Aurora."

"Thank you my love," Narcissa said softly before her eyes turned to their 11-year-old foster daughter.

Aurora's extensions and lines were really good, Narcissa observed and she wondered how the girl was so good already when she'd been raised in an orphanage. The idea came to try and look for some of the girl's possible ballet stuff in the box's in Aurora's room that had yet to be unpacked. She knew some of Aurora's boxes hadn't been unpacked so she'd go and check the boxes.

She was soon brought out of her thoughts when she felt Lucius' hand on her arm. She looked and saw Aurora watching her. She walked into the room and Aurora tried to make a run for it but she was grabbed back and tried to fight Narcissa off but the matriarch stood firm and sat down with Aurora on her lap.

"Let me go! I'm just here because you want to fill the gap in your lives until you find your daughter!" Aurora said getting upset and hitting out and Narcissa again.

The older witch just grabbed the young witch's arms and held them still.

"No Little Flower. I made the decision to foster you because I saw inside your head and saw that you needed to be saved from that orphanage," Narcissa said, "I know what you suffered at the hands of those girls. We gave up the search for our daughter years ago. Then you came along and whilst it stirred everything back up I knew that I could find a space in my heart for you. That is why we chose to foster you because you needed saving," she said softly.

She watched and waited and gradually Aurora stopped hitting out and she just sat subdued on Narcissa's lap once more.

"That's it Little Flower. Mummy's here and you're safe," she said softly.

"Aurora…would you like to dance with Mummy?" Lucius said sending horror shooting through his wife.

"Mummy dance too?" she asked softly as she looked at Lucius.

"Yes Mummy does and I'm sure she'd dance with you now," he said silently pleading with his wife. Narcissa sighed and looked,

"Oh alright then," she said before passing Aurora to Lucius and then she waved her wand and made the pointes a perfect fit for Aurora before she went to find her pair of pointes and soon had them on before she warmed up.

"She's very pretty isn't she?" Lucius asked Aurora before she nodded softly, "what ballet do you like?"

"The Nutcracker and Swan Lake," Aurora replied before Lucius nodded and then put her feet onto the floor and he watched as Aurora walked over to Narcissa and watched her before he found the Sugarplum Fairy piano music and he began to play it.

Narcissa's head whipped around. Lucius never played anymore but it wasn't long before the music began to wash over Narcissa and she looked at Aurora before she began to dance to the music.

Aurora wanted to dance but she was too mesmerised by her foster mother before she felt some soft hands on hers and Narcissa's soft encouraging eyes as she began to feel the music and then Narcissa helped her onto her pointes and helped her to feel the music and soon the two were lost in the music and dancing around.

Lucius cast a charm to make the piano play by itself and he just watched and played as the two carried on dancing. It began to make him emotional as he had longed to see Narcissa dancing with their daughter, They'd found out on the Black Family Tapestry that they'd had a daughter and it had been Lucius' dream to see Narcissa and their little girl dance. He thought about it and, in some ways, he had what he wanted. Narcissa was dancing with their foster daughter so in some ways his dream came true.

He gently pulled Aurora onto his lap and told her to just watch Narcissa. It was then that he realised Aurora hadn't screamed when he'd touched her. He pointed out things to her.

"She's just like you, natural ability. That's why I created this room after we were married. I couldn't bare to see her give it up," he explained to the 11-year-old, "and so this became her room. She did her Healer training in here as well. That's why she's able to do your day-to-day care," he said softly before he listened as Aurora pointed out something to him. "That's right Aurora," he said as he watched Narcissa before he found himself being pulled to his feet and Aurora began to dance with him. Of course he had no idea what he was doing but seeing Narcissa and Aurora smiling and happy was all that mattered to Lucius in that moment of time and he danced with Aurora before Narcissa took her husband to hand and Aurora carried on dancing on her own.

Aurora went and sat down and watched the two as they danced before she swayed along to the music.

"Now my Little Flower. You're joining us," Narcissa said as she pulled Aurora to her feet and the three were soon dancing around and laughing and it was quite the sight for anyone who knew the Malfoy Family. Aurora was beginning to change things. Lucius was softening up and Narcissa had a treasured daughter.

They were laughing and having so much fun that they never heard the wards triggered or the footsteps on the stairs and coming closer as they followed the sounds. The intruder stood in the doorway for a few seconds before Lucius stopped spinning Aurora around in the air and quickly put her down and Aurora instantly went and hid behind Narcissa and Narcissa herself was stunned into silence.

Nobody said a word and Narcissa could feel Aurora shaking behind her and Lucius rested a hand on Aurora's back. Finally Narcissa managed to find the words she'd been meaning to say.

"Mother? What are you doing here?"

"I'd like to ask what in Merlin's name is going on here?" Druella Black fired back with leaving Narcissa's mind racing. Protect Aurora or answer her mother? She didn't know what to do.