Happy New Year everyone!
2020 has arrived and I hope that everyone has had a lovely holiday period and New Year. I gave myself the period off writing. Mine was OK apart from the the fact I caught a virus that lasts about 6 weeks. I've decided that this decade will be my best years yet... once I can shake the virus. My rewritten Fantastic Beasts fic will go up tomorrow as it's a special day.
Happy New Year again!
Lots of love,
LM xxxx
Finally Belonging Somewhere-Part 61:
"I don't want either of the children to go to Hogsmeade," Narcissa said as she and Lucius were alone for a while as Cygnus had gone to speak to Dumbledore about something, "they aren't safe. Bella could go after Draco to try and lure us into a trap so she can come after Aurora again. I don't want her being taken away from us again. She's already lost so much," she sighed as she looked out over the Hogwarts grounds.
"And yet that might be the only way to stop her skulking back into hiding and cornering her… by beating her at her own game," Lucius said before sighing as he saw the anger on Narcissa's face.
"What did I just say about our children being used a bait to trap her?" Narcissa said as he looked at her husband, "what if she succeeds and manages to take her?"
"Well we now have what she can't dream of. Aurors. We have Aurors that will help us keep Aurora safe," Lucius told her, "We are OK now since I was proven innocent all those years ago," he said, "Fudge wouldn't risk anything happening to our little girl…"
"How in Merlin's name do you know that Luc? How do you know that he is one the same side as us?"
"Because he listened to me and got that orphanage shut down and saved those other girls at the orphanage," Lucius said, "Bellatrix is on the loose and the Minister wouldn't… and doesn't… want a Death Eater like her loose and out there capable of doing anything. He took our little girl from a hospital and could have killed her but she didn't. That makes me think that somewhere inside that blackened heart of hers she cares about you. I think somehow you and Aurora could get her to give herself up or fall into a trap. You have to choose though. Bellatrix or Aurora."
Silence fell on the room as Narcissa sat down in the window seat and sighed as she clearly began to think about what Lucius had said. She was loyal to the Malfoys but had always been brought up to be loyal to her family. She sighed softly before looking up and seeing a picture of her doing some ballet with Aurora.
"Aurora is my daughter. She and Draco have to come first. I am still loyal to the Noble House of Black but I also have to be loyal to my new completed family as well. Aurora has to come first," Narcissa told her husband as she looked at him and then smiled as she saw him walk over to her and take her soft hands in his.
"We will capture Bellatrix and make her see what she has done to Aurora. She will face justice," Lucius promised her as he heard a knock on the door and gave permission for him to enter.
The couple looked and saw Cygnus walking back into the room.
"Where did you go?" Narcissa asked her father.
"Speak to Dumbledore and Fudge Fire Called as well. Aurors will be stationed at Hogwarts and Hogsmeade so Draco and Aurora can carry on as they are," Cygnus said as he looked at them, "my guess is she wants to try and lure us into a trap but we need to lay our own one at some point so that we can catch her and then make her pay. I am loyal to the Blacks but our objective now has to be getting Aurora justice for what she has suffered."
"Oddly enough that is what we have been saying Cygnus," Lucius said as he stood up, "but we will figure out what to do once we have managed to tell Draco and Aurora about it. I don't want to do anything yet because Aurora may have to be in the trap and we need to make sure that she understands that and what she has to do. I am so grateful for you standing with us on this. Maybe Druella could be involved somehow. The more ties to the House of Black we have the more chance we have of luring Bellatrix."
Narcissa heard a knock on the door and used her wand to open the door and instantly smiled as she saw Draco and Aurora stood there before Aurora gasped.
"Grandfather!" she squealed before rushing over to him, doll in hand. Cygnus stroked her cheek and then he picked her up slowly and gently. Narcissa's hand must have grabbed Lucius' at some point as he winced but Aurora didn't react at all.
"Hello little one," the grandfather said as he looked at her. He wished that she was taller and just looked more like other girls around her age but, sadly, she was just too small still but he was secretly enjoying being able to carry her around still.
He walked over to the window with her and pointed out the owls flying in and out of the owlery.
"Can you see the owls?" he asked.
"Yes. Estella lives there when I don't have to send her to mummy," Aurora said as she looked at him, "she was mummy's owl before she became mine," she told him before she began get excited, "there she is!" she said and pointed out the owl.
Narcissa watched the two and then the tears began fall as she watched her daughter with her father. Lucius watched the two as well and he began to feel the emotions his wife was feeling.
Draco stood there and just watched as his parents turned into emotional messes and then he just smiled and sat down beginning to read his book while he waited for everyone to settle back down.
Cygnus suddenly looked at the clock on the wall.
"I don't want to leave you little swan but I have to go," he said and, to everyone's surprise, Aurora began to get upset, "I'll come back and see you soon Aurora. I have permission to come and see you now," he said before kissing her head softly and then passing her to Narcissa, "I'll be in touch soon Lucius," he said before shaking his son-in-law's hand and then leaving the room.
Draco headed over to his mother, father and sister and looked at Aurora,
"Here's my Astronomy book," he said softly and smiled as she began to look through the book and smiled softly, "whatever is going on we will be able to solve it," he said surprising his parents who looked at him in surprise. Narcissa didn't react but kissed her daughter's head and smiled as she pointed out things in the book. Lucius watched and was determined to keep his family together no matter what.