Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well and staying safe. Guessing who hasn't written anything in the past week...? Me so that is my main focus for this week. I really do love writing and it's a shame that I haven't done as much of it as I know I can do. I've also been having a declutter in my room. That's always good isn't it? Anyway I'm hoping to get my Christmas Tree up this month... little early but it seems a lot of people are getting them up as well. I'm currently listening to the Junior Eurovision album and the Christmas album from Maghan Trainor so hopefully that'll help with the writing. Enjoy the update!

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Finally Belonging Somewhere-Part 82:

The visit to Azkaban… luckily for Lucius… hadn't had any lasting affects on Aurora. Well none that he knew about at least. It was a few days after the visit when Aurora began to have nightmares. She didn't tell anyone. She'd had nightmares before and they'd gone away so she thought the same thing would happen again.

Draco, Astoria and Charlotte had noticed that Aurora was getting more worn out but they didn't say a thing. If something was wrong then the last thing they wanted to do was push her away. That was certainly the wrong move they could make.

The morning when Aurora really did feel out of sorts the Weasley twins had been up to their tricks, so nobody realised that Aurora had barely touched her breakfast. That would have been a sign to tell someone that the 12-year-old wasn't feeling herself. Aurora always ate something at breakfast.

Astoria had walked with Draco and Aurora to Transfiguration as that was the youngest Malfoy's first class of the day and Charlotte had been delayed.

"Are you OK Rora?" Draco asked.

"Yeah I'm fine Draco," Aurora replied before Astoria gave her a little hug as the bell rang.

"She's not fine Dray," Astoria said as she sand Draco walked away, "she's burning up."

"If nothing happens and Aurora remains quiet then I will speak to mother at the end of the day, sooner if needed," Draco said before he and Astoria went their separate ways for class.

Unfortunately for Draco something did happen. As she was listening to Professor McGonagall Aurora's eyes began to close and a true sweat began to break out. Her pot of ink fell to the floor and the professor instantly rushed over to see what was wrong.

She sensed instantly that Aurora wasn't well before she stopped a passing ghost and asked it to find Professor Flitwick and tell him to attend her class. She instantly scooped Aurora into her arms and hurried as fast as she could to the Hospital Wing.

She arrived to find Narcissa and Madam Pomfrey there waiting and as soon as she spotted her daughter Narcissa took her and rushed her to a bed by the window.

"How did you know?" McGonagall asked.

"My daughter and I have a connection from when I was carrying her," Narcissa replied before she began to look at her daughter and wonder what was wrong, "when was the last time someone actually saw her eat?"

"That would be a question for Draco maybe," the Hogwarts matron said, "but I can have a look and guess. This must have been going on for some time."

"Well could all this have been caused by Azkaban?" Narcissa asked, "that is the only thing that has happened over the past couple of weeks that could have caused this?"

"Until we know what has happened and what has caused this we cannot rules anything out. Does Lucius know?" Madam Pomfrey asked.

"Yes he does," came the voice of the Headmaster, "I have my ways of hearing things. What is happening?"

"She has a rash and a fever and hasn't eaten a proper meal in three days and the dark circles under her eyes say that she's not been sleeping properly either," the matron replied as Narcissa was looking at Aurora's rash.

"There's something inside this that's causing the rash. I swore to hex Lucius if anything happened to our daughter and it looks like I will be doing that for sure," Narcissa said, furious with her husband at that moment in time. She couldn't believe that she had allowed herself to trust him. Now their daughter was suffering and she couldn't figure out why. That pained her more than she was willing to admit.

"She needs to be cooled down before anything happens," Dumbledore said as he looked over the rash Narcissa had pointed out before footsteps could be heard and nobody had expected the scene that happened as the footsteps stopped.

Lucius was soon against the wall and his wife's wand was directly under his chin.

"Cissa! What the…?" Lucius said, shocked that his wife was threatening him.

"Our daughter is here because of you and your ridiculous idea of letting her go and see Bellatrix! I warned you!" Narcissa hissed before she looked in his eyes and went to say a hex before her wand flew out of her hand and straight into Dumbledore's.

"This is nothing to do with Azkaban Narcissa," the calm Headmaster said, "whatever is going on with Miss Aurora started before Azkaban. Whatever this was…" he said holding up something in a container, "…was in her body for at least two weeks before she visited the prison. I know the charms that were protecting Aurora and they were all working when she arrived back here. Whatever this is is the root of why Aurora is fevering." He turned to his Deputy and asked her to take it to Professor Sprout.

He turned to see Lucius and Narcissa stood around Aurora's bed and he sighed softly. Aurora did seem susceptible to most things that other children weren't. He'd have to get Severus to see if he could find something to help.

"Do we know what it is?" Lucius asked.

"No but I have my suspicions and that is why I have asked Pomona to have a look," Dumbledore said as he looked at the couple, "Narcissa there isn't much anyone can do for her other than keep her cool."

"Narcissa and I will not be leaving our daughter's side until she is better and then…" Lucius started.

"We need to figure out why she's far more susceptible to things," Narcissa sighed, "I have noticed it. Something like this a normal child would be able to fight back a bit at least but she hasn't… she can't."

Lucius looked at his wife,

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Aurora's body cannot fight normal viruses and the such like Draco could," Narcissa tried to explain, "her immune system appears to either be incomplete or it just lacks what is needed to protect her like it should. I need to figure that out because it could be the key as to why she gets affected by things. I just can't see it being an incomplete immune system because that's unheard of but until she recovers from this I cannot figure it out for sure," she said, "once we know we can get her better and then figure out what is going on and help her get stronger. There's something going on and I'm determined to figure it out no matter what."