✧INTERNAL BATTLE✧

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ɪ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ sʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴛʜɪs ᴛɪᴍᴇ

ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ɢᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ʜᴇʀ ᴍɪɴᴇ

 ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ sʜᴇ ғᴇʟʟ ɪɴ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴛᴇ ʟɪɴᴇs

 ʟᴏɴᴅᴏɴ ɢɪʀʟ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀɴ ᴀᴛᴛɪᴛᴜᴅᴇ

ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴛᴏʟᴅ ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ᴡᴇ ʟᴏᴏᴋ sᴏ ᴄᴜᴛᴇ

 ʙᴏᴛʜ ɢᴏᴛ ᴡᴀʏ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ

 ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪ'ᴍ ʀɪᴅɪɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ

𝔹𝕒𝕕 𝕒𝕥 𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖

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It hadn't been her plan to forget the Order, but with everything going on she had neglected her position. 

But that didn't mean she wasn't gaining information.

She sent a coded message to Alastair just the day prior in cause she wouldn't be able to make the next meeting, and by checking the coin he had confirmed the delivery.

Sirius had been neglectful as well, it was a combined effort to hold him back from storming to either the Black manner or Lestrange estate. If he had managed to trespass, there was no telling what they would do to him.

Lily watched him write more in one letter to his sister than any academic paper in the last seven years they had known one another.

She didn't even want to begin to know what he was writing, and it came to the point where Remus snatched the book away.

James could barely contain the yelling match, Merlin had Lily hid away in the kitchen in tears. What Sirius was saying was striking out of anger, she knew that...But Aurora couldn't find the willpower to leave as he had.

It was far too late now for her to escape.

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"SHE'S NOT COMING BACK PADS! SHE WAS NEVER COMING BACK! SHE'S STAYING FOR HIM!" Remus argued, and it was enough, Lily had had enough.

"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" She screamed, re-entering the damn room only to see the toppled furniture near the k9s of the group. "Sirius...You told me you didn't want her to be in danger." She started, her teeth still gritting to the core as she stared into either of the wizard's soul.

"I do—Of course I—" She held up her hand, storming over to point her finger directly to his chest. 

"Then why...In the bloody HELL ARE YOU FAULTING HER FOR SAYING YES TO THE ENGAGEMENT?! YOU THINK SHE HAD A CHOICE?!" Sirius had taken the other option for granted, what if she did say no?

The recognition on his face had her back off from him, only to turn to Remus. "Remus...You're hurting yourself getting this riled up. Please...We'll talk about this. Calmly." Sirius scoffed, regaining his stone demeanor.

"There's nothing to bloody talk about, she's marrying the bastard in a month." 

"Would you rather have it another bastard? That could hurt her?" It was James' turn to flinch at the thought.

"Pads...She's right, Lestrange is a wanker through and through. But, he loves her. You know he does." Nobody in the room wanted to admit it, however James spoke nothing but the truth.

"He doesn't! He doesn't love her! He's obsessed! There's a difference!" Remus was in a realm of distress, his wolf yearning for Salem as his human side wanted Aurora.

Part of him...The same part that mirrored Sirius' in the fact that Rabastan would be able to protect her on their side.

"Then we'll protect her on this side...What do you think your mother would've done to Rory if she refused the proposal?" Sirius didn't hide the fact that he lost his balance, Lily's words instantly hit him. But her grip onto his arm steadied him down to the couch.

Which was missing a few pillows now that she looked to it.

"Sirius. We need to start trusting her, because if she does slip up...If she does get caught, they're going to make it hurt." Lily only spoke the truth, but the rage in his eyes wasn't making anything easier. Instead he stood up from the couch, his destination unknown to everyone in the room, including himself.

But it was indeed sanctioned with a slam of the front door.

"You really think she'll be safe?" Remus managed to say through a choked sob, and James knew the extent of the two's friendship. Aurora had figured out his life's secret and instead of being afraid she took it by the handle.

She was the reason they were all animagius', otherwise it would've taken double if not triple the time. However she managed to do that, play sports, be a prefect, hide away from prying eyes AND get perfect scores?

James was clueless to what the girl couldn't do. But then the sinking feeling came in. "She's putting everyone else happiness in front of hers...Doesn't she deserve a little bit?" 

"And when the wanker lands in Azkaban?" Remus growled, holding onto a pillow further, entirely exhausted at the last hour of fighting. His question going entirely unanswered but not ignored in the possibilities.

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Aurora had barely been up for an hour at the most, and she was being called for a sudden meeting. Even if she couldn't make them all, she wanted to make an attempt. Especially after she heard of a planned raid.


It was going to happen right after the ceremony and the night after, all because the Dark Lord was ecstatic on the number of new members. Apparently it has been the highest of all the previous years. Granted it was probably due to the sacred twenty-eight's children all being in the same year but Aurora wasn't about to say anything.

However the poor girl was on the verge of simply getting dressed, but of course her mother heard her footsteps and came barreling in with a booklet of wedding designs and the entire binder filled, showing what she had been sorting for the past few hours of the day.

It took her father coming in to save her from frying her brain.

"My dear, doesn't Cassi have an appointment to get to...? Surely this could wait until after dinner." She was thankful for her father, but instantly was she drilled with where she was going.

"I was going to get my nails done and look at some designs that might go along with my dress...And Rabastan told me we're moving into the Lestrange summer manner." Walburga had been out of loop in that regard, but Orion nodded unsurprised.

"Oh that's wonderful darling, I'll—" 

"I'm simply going to look at furniture mother. But I'll bring a booklet home and we'll go through it and draw everything up." The master of the house watched in awe at how his daughter learned to control a situation and conversation with her mother.

After the dress sketching bonding, Walburga regretted never getting closer with her daughter. And unfortuently it was far too late to establish a bond with her.

Aurora didn't hate the women, but was sure as hell close.

The women left 12 Grimmauld Place with a skip in her step, and so easily turning a corner to Apparent to Diagon Alley. The girl just merely wanted her nails done as it would give evidence to her otherwise knowing lie.

When all was set and done, she finally managed to head to the safe house, the meeting place that she's only listed twice before.

Knocking was greeted by Alastor, and he was still a bit weary on allowing her the first entrance. But had it been his way, he would fact check everyone arm three times a day and feed them Veritaserum with every drink.

She came into the flat's spacious layout and smiled to see that her friends were already there...But the level of confusion rallied on her face as she noted how James, Lily, and Remus were all sitting down in the center...Looking up at her as though she committed a crime.

However, she was ignorant at the fact because they were missing one person. Granted there were two missing but Aurora had never been that close with Peter.

"I...Is it Sirius?" James was the first one to crack and go to comfort her, instantly extinguishing that thought from mind. Claiming that he was on a mission at the moment...Course he had gone with an angry mind, but there was nothing the three of them could've done.

"He saw the engagement in the paper." Remus bitterly replied, and Aurora could've kicked herself. She didn't even make an attempt in contacting them after all that was happening, it was all the nagging and her mother's endless planning.

But Aurora held her stomach tightly and prayed silently for her brother's for where he is at the current moment. "Where were you?" It was once again Remus who spoke, and her head darted in her direction.

"Moony don't—" 

"No, you know Pads is right." Aurora perked her lips, dulling her eyes and straightening her posture. James could've sworn that she turned into Sirius in that very moment, the two were too alike.


They were surely twins in every regard other than their birthday.

"I don't appreciate hearing that you lot talk about me like a little gossip session. Do you think it's easy to sneak out? To do mindless shite so I won't get tailed right here?" James itched the back of his neck, and it was all too easy for Aurora to peek into his mind.

And what she saw wasn't pretty.

"Right then, I should just quit while I'm ahead." She growled, but even with Remus being a downright git words her...He could never deal with her returning it, so when he reached out she ripped her arm back.

"No. I'm not bloody dumb. I understand you don't trust me anymore, frankly I don't think you ever did once I was announced. But there are some things you will never understand, and I hope you won't have to." She stated, but when she looked down to see Lily's engagement ring, she couldn't help to remember seeing how happy both of them were.

"I didn't know he went and changed our marriage contracts. And you probably knew when my wedding is before me anyhow." Lily felt herself grow sick to her stomach, the women before them was obviously losing sleep.


Both the Black siblings might hold their exterior well, but their interior was what mattered. James thought she looked sickly with how pale she seemed, while Remus was still trying to understand her scowl.

Though it was an additional fact that she didn't know about the engagement at all. But with the growing silence, she was getting uncomfortable. She had information, of course she did...Now that she was a future Death Eater wife, she was growing in status further and further.

"There are going to be planned raids after the ceremony, depending on how long it will take for all the members to be initiated. I'll be at the Malfoy manner during that time, but I don't know where the raids are going to be...Perhaps when I leave the room I can send a patronus or...I don't know." She looked off to Alastair and he nodded, claiming he would talk it over with Dumbledore.


They could figure something out prior to the date.

The young Black sibling chose to write a letter, she caught Alaster staring at her from his corner spot...He wasn't minding his business at all, but listening in rather intently.

He was secretly fond of the girl, rather nerdy but never the less holding the same sort of flare her brother has. He wouldn't forget so lightly how her file during her minor years at Hogwarts already made her a useful member, and now she was their biggest asset in winning this war.

Alaster was just making sure the damn newbies didn't ruin it with their talk and gossip.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy. 

That had been one of her many reasons in wanting to join the order. He remembered it constantly, it sounded suspicious. But he wanted that aspect in a double agent.

Remus and James found themselves talking to Moody, leaving the odd pairing of Lily and Aurora to sit across from one another.

Rory didn't rightly want to know what anyone had said during the argument about her engagement, but the soft smile suggested that the fiery redhead defended her.

Witch Weekly had done an article about the young Black soon to be Lestrange, the magazine was one thing...But actually having the woman in front of her was different, Lily suddenly felt an odd wave of jealousy of the girl. It mirrored what she felt that first time in the prefect bathroom, the intelligence for one thing, her blood, the money, the wedding...And not having to hide in fear.

However on the other side of the couch, Aurora looked at Lily with the same sort of petty jealousy. Lily was able to marry who she wanted, had freedom, independence, could wear anything comfortable without needing to look presentable.

She had nothing to prove. She didn't have cameras attempting to get photos and interviews.

It was a silent game of 'my life vs theirs' and Lily came to the conclusion that her own life was indeed better, the pressures managed to boot Sirius to James' house, or now currently to his own living situation.

And yet Aurora, she seemed to be doing rather well. Uncounted for the nights of unfaithful sleep, but that's just coursing through the idea of war.

"Sirius was just sour you didn't tell him before he found out," Lily explained, and Aurora thought this would just be a silent venture but never the less nodded. 

"I know coming home late isn't an excuse, but everything is so hectic nowadays...It's like I'm functioning on autopilot..." Lily sighed, she could never imagine waking up and putting on an outfit like hers.

It screamed wealth, and she had to hold the will in not asking how much it costs.

"You know, I was drawing up some ideas for wedding dresses...I would love to design yours if-if you would like?" It wasn't like they weren't friends, but Aurora barely had any time to socialize with her gal friends anymore.

She had only seen Harper and Clem at her graduation party but just barely with everyone she had to be with, perhaps she should schedule a tea session—

"I know my mother would plaster there to my cousin before I pick a design, but I just don't know which one to choose from." Lily took hold of the paper and folder...Her jaw instantly dropped at the sight of it.

"Tried to get my mother to go for something a bit more toned down, but that never works so I...I sort of HAD to pick something with flare." She bit her lip and attempted to get away from the odd insinuation.

That her mother still dictates her life.

"Have you decided on one?" Lily whispers, eyeing one in particular. Merlin she adored it, sure she had gone with Mrs. Potter and her mum to look at dresses, but muggle and witch alike...Nothing seemed to capture her attention like these.

"Not really, mother claimed she was going to five made and then I'll decide from there...Please don't repeat this to Siri, I rather not hear him trying to kidnap me from the house anymore." Lily nodded silently and grinned at the girl.

"Of course, nono...I'll keep quiet." Rory smiled in appreciation, but the girl was thankful for the lack of judgment on the girl's face.

Perhaps it was the riches of James and his family that was starting to make her immune to it.

"H-how is Sirius?" The girl had wanted to ask since her first step into the flat, but with the froze stature Lily had given was all the reason she didn't in the first place.

Causing Aurora to sigh in defeat.

"Forget I said anything then, here...I can draw it bigger if you like." Lily didn't rightly agree before Ms.Black began to work on the design with whatever utensils were at the bottom of her bag. Her steady hands gliding along and allowing the image to create under her touch was magical to her eyes.

She knew Rory was a Ravenclaw, but here was one of the purest examples of it.

"He always talks about you...You know. Even if he doesn't mean to bring you up." Aurora had paused in breaking her concentration to listen, then proceeded to nod. "I suppose it's hard to forget your twin." The girl covered up her sadness and unfortunately at that moment James and Remus decided to come to invade in the conversation.

Aurora had to yank up the paper to her chest, otherwise James would've caught a glimpse of Lily's dress.

However, it was a very suspicious sign as both men narrowed their eyes towards her. 

"Oh James knock it off, she was showing me her wedding dresses." Remus choked on his swallow while Rory smirked off towards Lily.

It wasn't that Aurora knew of Remus' affection, and even if she was aware of it...There was just nothing either could do in terms of recuperating them. Yet he was unsure if she felt the same way or not.

But if there was one similarity among Blacks...Is that they never wear their hearts on their sleeve.

"Are you sure?" Aurora rolled her eyes and pulled out a sketch of her normal work wear. And only then did the boy feel somewhat content. 

"She was drawing something for me." Lily finally hinted, but the body still not entirely grasp what she was talking about.

"Ah, Rory is designing her dress Prongs." He shared, and the spark of happiness that had been vacant from the man's face for most of the house suddenly turned into a jittery mess.

"Rory you have to come, please! Please oh please!" Aurora looked in shock for a moment...And then her face entirely fell at the realization.

Nobody here could come to her wedding. Her brother, Lils, Jamesie or Remmy? They would never be able to come to her manner and hang out in front of the fireplace.

"I...I don't know if—" Lily scolded James at being too straight forward. "We're getting married early August, we haven't set a date or location just yet. I—if you could..." The girl began to whisper, and so Aurora leaned forward to intertwine their hands together.

"My classes don't start until September, I'm sure I can figure out a lie by then to-...What?" She looked around at the shocked faces surrounding her and the poor outsider couldn't understand why it sounded odd.

"C-classes?" Lily had assumed the paper was lying to appease the newer generation or to make Aurora look like interesting news. Or had Lily been open to one of Sirius' rants?

"I don't think I could be a dotty housewife if I wanted to be, besides...Even father said my talents would be a waste if I didn't continue." It was always a hitched breath reaction on James' behalf to hear her say father, Sirius had disregarded the man ever existed the second he came to live with the Potters. And the respect had dwindled ever since he had hit his sister.

Although she might claim things are better, no one was entirely sure.

"May I know when he's coming back?...It's alright if you can't." Aurora whispered, her hesitation at the end was almost painful to listen to. Which again, caused James to cave in automatically.

"End of the week." The smile that grew on her face was the same as the one that would linger on Sirius' face when he had a mindful joke awaiting to tell.

Even if Sirius wasn't present at the moment, a part of him is.

Lily started asking a few more questions about Aurora's wedding, but it was the lingering glance Remus was giving James that caused him to swat at the werewolf's stomach.

"Oi, Prongs...Watch it." The conversation was suddenly paused as Aurora knew for a fact that Remus wasn't getting enough medical attention.

Nor entertainment when he is sentenced to the full moon alone.

"Is there murlap sap in the kitchen?" She asked, and Lily nodded slowly. A sign of confusion, if there was one thing Remus would never admit to, it was that he wasn't able to say no to Aurora.

It was a simple reason, but as he tried to protest and anxiously look towards James for help, it ended with James rolling his eyes. 

"You were thinking it too." Remus issued through his teeth, and now it was Lily's turn to feel left out as she questioned what the hell the two were concocting.

"To attack at their wedding." Lily scoffed and leaned further into the couch. "You know they fancy each other, as distasteful as it is to even think about...It could be worse, he could be a git." Lily offered, causing Remus to groan out loud.

"He is a git Lils, he's a git to everyone else but Rory." He stated, trying to work himself up allowing himself to touch her. He'd sucrose to it eventually, but until then it was nice for her to be close.

Close and unwed.

Aurora returned a moment later with a smirk on her face and a fresh batch of something that smelled relatively awful. "He can be a git, but he's a teddy bear half the time too." She motioned up the small bottle and Remus knew exactly what that meant in terms of his agony and in favor to his injury.

He was just embarrassed to show her how bad it had gotten.

Remus knew all too well what it was, back in Hogwarts she helped Poppy with his injuries after babysitting him an entire night. It did indeed work, but alas it hadn't been that much of a blessing now that Sirius had stopped her from even trying to come.

She could barely manage to get to meetings, let alone monthly moons anymore.

She handed off a small piece of parchment with the ingredients for what she made to add to the sap. "Sharing trade secrets?" 

"Patented, don't be an arse." She argued, getting a bit fed up with his growing attitude. Merlin, it sounded like the second coming of Sirius when she spoke like that.

Course all Ravenclaws were known for their quick wit and spuck, but even when separated for as long as they have, it was a bit odd to see them stick to their natural selves.

"We can go to another room if—" He nodded, almost shying away from everyone's gaze. He wasn't comfortable with one person, let alone a while crowd.

She offered up a kind and patent smile while heading over to one of the guest rooms the safe house had to offer.

"I...It's good to see you Rory, even if I was acting like a git when you first came." Aurora's eyes flashed towards him, she had already recognized the stress that everyone was feeling so it wasn't that much of a shocker to deal with.

He gulped as she motioned for him to take off his shirt, showing the poorly wrapped bandages, his own attempt.

But he saw her perking lips, an obvious sign that she wasn't impressed. But she was indeed keeping it to herself for the moment as she unwrapped it.

Starting to place the numbing paste right onto one of the ripe scratches that his claws had managed to puncture sometime during the night.

"Can't you ask Siri or Prongs to come with you some nights?" He shook his head and claimed he didn't want to be a bother. Especially when everyone else's concern is to focus on missions for the order. Or in this case, the wedding.

"Perhaps I can attempt to—" 

"No, I don't want you there. I don't want to hear Sirius getting all 'big brother' on me. That lecture still haunts me you know." Rory giggled at his attempt to talk through his pain and still manage to be the snarky Remmy she remembered so kindly.

It wasn't that Sirius minded how close his mates were to his sister, it was how Remus thinks Sirius would feel when he ever learns the truth of him fancying his sister.

That was an entirely different story.

"I left another potion on there for Lily to follow, if you think it's going to be a bad month just drink a shot a day a week before." He hummed, feeling the effects of the paste on his skin. 

"What...What do you mean another potion?" Her bright smile rallied, and a playful wink was all she offered while rewrapping the wound and helping him return into his shirt.

"You think I'm just cleaning the labs Remmy?" Unfortunately there hadn't been much time left on her clock to fully explain that she was starting to dabble into the realm of wolfsbane.

"We're very worried about you Rory, don't take our—my bitterness on count of our feelings for you." 

"Everyones or just yours?" She whispered, making his cheeks flare in soldence. She cupped his cheek. And gave him a small kiss on the opposite side.

"Please make sure he doesn't do anything reckless? Sure he would've loved to storm the Lestrange manner if he had the chance." 

"He did get awfully close that day, the most you can do Rory...At the moment, is to stay safe." She agreed and removed herself from the room before either said something they'd regret.

She smiled towards the playful couple, as they were fighting over the piece of parchment Aurora had given to Lily for a dress design. But Rory wasn't fooling around and summoned it to her own possession. 

"No Prongs, not allowed." He didn't even have a chance to blink or protests while she created a jinx for everyone but James to not see it.

Earning her quiet the earful.

"Lovely Jamesie, now if you'll excuse me I must go and entertain future Death Eaters...Have a good evening." She spoke, but her tone was dripping with a bit of sarcasm and more so regret than anything else.

Neither of them could voice how they wanted each other to stay safe, but the overlapping silence was a clear cut reminder.

As she found herself apparating to a few given locations, as well as a few furniture stores to pick up multiple catilogs and attempt to fake some given suggests on a slip of paper was she prepared to really return home.

Her last blink of a location had been the muggle neighborhood where her manner resided. In the midst of muggle styled homes, sure it was the same on the outside. But she doubted any muggle had hundred-year-old dark artifacts just laying around casually.

She quickly whisked her wand hastily to cover the sent of the murlap sap or god forbid her mother lock her up until her wedding day if she thought she was trying to hide an injury.

"That must be her, Cassi...We were starting to get worried." Aurora stood in the large foyer to see Rabastan smile and come over to her from the couch to greet her. A rushed kiss to hand then another to her cheek.

"No reason to Orion, she knows her way around a wand...Had the fortunate opportunity to see her duel." The blush was promenade after the compliment and leaned further into his hold and nudged the end of his chin affectionately.

"What has my beautiful fiancé been up to all day?" He whispered, and she leaned in and smile, knowing full well he was on his way to kiss her crown as well.

"Mindless woman things, I won't bore you on the journey to get my nails done...And look for some furniture." It was all too easy to playsuit to these little whims, to look like the doting wife. But Rabastan ate up every lie in the instant, as he hasn't learned the proper cues when she really needed to hide a lie.

No one really has either, Sirius just barely...Or he relied on instinct level to decided whether it was true or not. Since she had never really lied to her parents, their trust was rather high for her as well.

"I was just going to open a bottle of wine Cassiopeia, would you like a glass?" The daughter looked over Rabastan's shoulder and kindly shook her head at her mother. 

"No thank you, tea would be better. Been sporting a headache." Insight of that comment, most of her family's eyes caught wind of the abnormality and Regulus had beat her fiancé in asking if she was alright.

"I'm just fine Reg, just a migraine...It'll pass." She responded, but it didn't have Rabastan hold her any looser. He squeezed her from behind and kissed her cheek.

"An early night then?" She hummed, hiding a giggle at his affection. "Perhaps, I do believe it's time for a glasses check." He chuckled, adoring his little Ravenclaw and offered to take her on a walk on his estate, yet she declined at the headache.

"Perhaps tomorrow. Shall I walk you up to your room?" Rolling her eyes did she see her mother was distracted with fixing herself a bottle of wine. 

"She'll have a fit." Now it was his turn to counter her eye roll with his own. Still, she didn't fight against his tugging in the direction of her bedroom.

"Haven't made it up here for a while..." It earned him a squeeze on his forearm, knowing then that he hit a sore spot. Just mention the time she had gotten drunk at a Christmas party was all too embarrassing to admit to.

"Ugh, you had to...Didn't you?" She groaned, but then the sudden remembrance of her new nightgown laying fresh on her bed caused her to dart quickly.

Quickly opening the door and taking the brand new clothing to shove right beside the textbook underneath her pillow.

"Something I shouldn't see?" He question, his smirk rising ever so wickedly as he tried to make his way to the pillow. 

"You know...I haven't been allowed insider your bedroom since—" Her sentence was interrupted as his hands gripped onto her waist. Perhaps a bit of rush from the fire whiskey his future in-laws had offered downstairs.

Never the less it had earned him a flirtatious giggle.

"Since you started growing these lovely ladies on your chest? I thought I was the only one to notice." Her brow rose with her smirk. "Oh? I believe that was third year then." He nodded in clarity with an almost proud self worth on his shoulders for knowing the truth.

"My little kitten grew up very well, rather than yelling at me about taking your dolls." She rolled her eyes, her hands connecting to the upper ends of his neck to get a few for his hair.

Just a tiny swirl here and there...it'd make him go crazy after a while.

"You had something against them that I'll never understand." He chuckled, but it was an obvious bout that he wanted her attention, even at a young age.

"How about you get ready for bed darling?" She allowed her head to lean forward to touch down to his chest as that was all she could reach. "And what? Allow a bit of teasing, do you really trust ourselves to stop?"

The internal growl festered in her wake vibrated her entire body. 

"Not entirely no, but we feel already wed Rory...Can you imagine the look on your mother's face if you're pregnant within a month." Her eyes widened and her body stilled instantly at his words, there had been no talk of having a child...And for him to even mention the idea started to overwhelm her.

Was that what he wanted?

He wants a child?

How many children does he want?

Talking that into account did he pin his own eyes shut just from overhearing his words. 

"Merlin, forgive me Rory, that isn't what I meant." She inhaled, a few hitches in her wake and he knew he hit a roadblock.

"But you were thinking it, weren't you? It wouldn't be safe to practice potions when I'm with child." He nods, kissing her hand trying to relay the silent bouts of an apology, but she just scrubbed his chin once again.

"How...How about I finish my course...We'll try after all the practicals are done...And...And if I'm not pregnant by summer then we'll talk about potions or—or something like—" When his head leaned down to rest against hers, it was a sign of utter defeat. 



He did not want a child so early in their marriage.

Of course he knew it was his duty to produce an heir considering how his brother has been fairing at it. But they had time. And a part of him...A very big part of him wanted to see her stomach swell up with a child. 

His child.

But if Rory was not ready to a mother...How could he force her into something of that? Ruin her dream? Especially when she's come this far to achieve it?

"I don't think we should worry about precarious things like that just yet...And our eagerness for one another won't be short of anything, but I want us to be properly settled in our home...Is that understood?" He asked, knowing he needed to use a little bit of force to get in that big head of hers.

Demanding if she understood him, it sent a clear cut message to Aurora and her smile began to widen.

Oh how she would eat up everything Narcissa would say about her marriage. Course that was when they were both young and Cissy would fantasize herself over her future husband. But the young witch would want details on dates and the small things they did for one another.

But even in that regard to a decent marriage, she had not become pregnant. She had graduated a year after Aurora and Rabastan had started, of course they waited a year to get married...Still, it proved to be close to five years and no child.


Plus speculation assumed that they were intimate beforehand, though Cissy wouldn't dare tell the truth on either account.

It was probably where Rabastan gets his little ideas from, never the less he strictly remembered that Aurora is indeed religious when it came to her body.

"I'm sorry Rory...My comment was entirely inappropriate." She shrugged, he has been acting as though he's been starved, it wasn't that far from him craving sex. So she kissed her cheek, accepting his apology.

"I'm not a fool to think you'll do anything before the wedding now that we're engaged to one another...I can gladly wait until our first night as a wedded couple." She tilted her head and played dumb for a moment. 


"Really? I seem to recall one time before when someone had a very good game against Gryffindor to—" He picked her up once more, making the squeal of delight out even louder than the last time...

And all poor Regulus was left to do was groan in his room at the idea of what they were up to. He held his stomach tightly thinking about it while trying not vomit up his dinner.

"Kreacher...Can you get me a bucket?" He asked, politely...But still rushed over to his connected bathroom to rid the acid stomach that demanded an escape. 

"N-nevermind." It was a huff of confusion, why hadn't mother and father stopped them?!

He thought, but then again there was not much they could do now. They were engaged, she was almost a Lestrange...

"No longer a Black...Fuck." He groaned, a part of him still wishing that Sirius could return. Make it all right. He wouldn't have a single damn problem walking into that room and cursing Rabastan out for even thinking of his sister in that regard.

What Rory needed was an older brother, not a younger one. It made him feel entirely useless...Course, when he re-entered his room again, he heard both of their laughter once more.

"I swear to you love, I just wanted a kiss." That allowed her to throw her head backwards. 

"A kiss? Is that what you called it? You snogged me in front of the entire Slytherin house...Merlin if Reg had been there—" Now he had silenced her with a kiss. Rendering either of them speechless until Rabastan had another idea.

"So...? Getting ready for bed?" He asked, a playful glint in his eye. But unfortunately he was not in tune with her antics just yet "Actually...I was thinking about a bath."

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Date Posted: 07-12-19

Time: 2:08

Words: 6199

EXTRA CHAPTER BECAUSE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY AND IM EXCITED :))))))