Hey everyone!
Happy June! It's been such a crazy week and all I really want to do is curl up with my Build-A-Bears and shut myself away for a while. I am plodding along though. However I will confess that I am so in love with the live action Aladdin!
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LM xxxxx
Finally Belonging Somewhere-Part 48:
The next morning arrived and Lucius was awake early and he watched Narcissa sleeping next to him. He was reluctant to leave her but heard the familiar sounds of his father passing the room and soon wrapped his house robe around himself and followed his father to his study.
"I like what you have done with this study Lucius," Abraxas said before he sat down on the sofa Lucius had had installed if Narcissa had ever joined him.
"I'm relieved to see that I am not the only one awake in the dawn," came Cygnus' voice as he joined the other two wizards before Lucius summoned his elf and asked for coffee to be brought to the study.
"I think I was the one who woke everyone," Abraxas said, "I just couldn't sleep any longer so I thought I'd head to the study for a while."
"I was watching Cissa asleep," Lucius said before blushing as he realised what he said. "I'm worried about the effect this will have on her now we have our daughter back. She was almost driven insane when Aurora was taken…"
"To find out that the girl you have been fostering is your missing child is enough to mess with our heads let alone someone's like Narcissa," Abraxas said.
Cygnus remained silent and listened to what was being spoken before he sighed,
"Yes it will mess with her head but it will heal her heart. We all know that she hasn't been the same since Aurora was taken and she will no doubt become fiercely protective of her. At the same time the hole in her heart will heal as well," he said, not wanting to say anything against his daughter but knowing that he needed to be honest as well. He sighed as she looked around before seeing Lucius walk towards the door and saw his youngest daughter walking into the room.
"I moved Aurora into the master bedroom. I thought she'd be safer in there than in her room," Narcissa said before Lucius wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Whatever you think is best my rose," Lucius replied softly before he led Narcissa over to his chair and sat her in it before perching on the arm of the chair and watching to see who would speak first.
"Narcissa what's troubling you?" Abraxas asked.
"Whoever took our little girl had to have been family because they knew that Aurora was the name that Lucius and I had picked out if it was a little girl," Narcissa revealed, "only family knew that, nobody else. We feared that having a girl would mean she'd be taken away so we only told family both names that we'd selected."
"Narcissa is right," Lucius said, "Aurora Rosalie was the name we'd chosen for our daughter. Aurora for dawn paying tribute to the Blacks sky, star and constellations theme and Rosalie for both families as that version of the name is French. We'd thought long and hard over her name. I wonder who it could have been. I know nobody in this Manor, you and the mothers as Aurora's grandparents, would hurt Narcissa and I in this way which means we need to look outside the circle here now and see who could have wanted to hurt us in this way."
"And hurt her," Narcissa said causing the three wizards to look at her, "I'm talking now as a healer, not a mother. Some of the mental and physical damage to Aurora is irreversible and not even the best healers in the world could reverse the damage. She's behind mentally and that will never change. She will always be behind. All we can do is help her catch up."
"What about her weight and figure?" Lucius asked, needing to know.
"She will begin to put weight on slowly but she'll more than likely take after me with being slim. As for her… female development I can only say once she begins to develop in that area. That is the last I will say about that area," Narcissa said before resting her head on Lucius' arm.
"How are you feeling?" Cygnus asked his daughter.
"In shock," Narcissa replied honestly, "I've been her healer with the family healer and knowing that my findings are that of what happened to my daughter makes me feel sick," she said, "if we'd have just done the test sooner than we would have discovered it sooner. She's my little girl… our little girl…"
She stopped talking as her voice began to wobble and Lucius pulled her to her feet and sat down, bringing her onto his lap. The fathers disapproved still of this kind of contact but in the home, their son and daughter's home they'd live with it.
Silence fell on the room as everyone paused and had a drink before Narcissa sighed and bit her lip. Druella would have ticked her off for it but she and Priscilla were clearly still asleep.
"I don't think she should be going back to Hogwarts when the new term starts," Narcissa said, "she clearly doesn't understand the events of yesterday at Gringotts. She needs to understand that before she is able to go back. As soon as we give Rita Skeeter the interview and it is published everyone will know who she is and we need to prepare her as much as we can for what is to come next and get the last of her things from the orphanage."
"I can do that," Abraxas said, "I'll go and get the last of her things unless you want to see the place where your daughter grew up."
"I think, father, Narcissa and I must see where Aurora was raised to somehow find some closure," Lucius said, "we have to see everything that was hers so we can find out what her life was like in that place. It will be hard but we really must do it," he said.
"Well then," Abraxas said, "I can still use my contacts in the Ministry to launch an investigation into trying to find out who took Aurora in the first place. That is the burning question that we all have now and I will do my best to get it answered."
"Thank you father," Lucius said, nodding at his father before he had a sip of his coffee.
"It's like it was fate that you two found Aurora on September 1st," Cygnus thought aloud as he looked at Lucius and Narcissa, "it really was fate."
"I do not care what it was father," Narcissa said instantly, "what matters now is making sure that Aurora knows that she is loved and never being removed from here ever again, that she's safe here. Even if anything does happen to myself and Lucius Abraxas and Priscilla will return to the Manor and become her magical guardians unless Draco is 17-years-old and of age. If he is married to Astoria by that point they will become Aurora's magical guardians. Lucius and I have made sure she will never be removed from here again."
"I taught you well," came a female voice and everyone turned just in time to see Druella and Priscilla finally awake.
"Yes you did mother," Narcissa said as she finally noticed that daylight had arrived and it must have been around 8am.
"Yes it's 8am thereabouts," Priscilla confirmed, "still no sign of Draco and Aurora then."
"Draco will wake soon I'm sure," Lucius said, "Aurora's body will be in shock so she will wake when her body can finally absorb it all. As for the fate comment… I do not care what it was that brought Aurora back to us what matters now is that she knows that she is safe and loved and never being taken away again."
The others agreed and Lucius called for fresh coffee to be served and then the adults carried on talking as they waited for Draco and Aurora to wake up so they could have breakfast. They were silently all wondering the same thing. How would Draco and Aurora react when they finally woke up?