✧ANCIENT NUPTIALS✧
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'caυѕe every nιgнт
ι lιe ιn вed
тнe вrιgнтeѕт colorѕ ғιll мy нead

A мιllιon dreaмѕ are ĸeepιng мe awaĸe

 ι тнιnĸ oғ wнaт тнe world coυld вe
A vιѕιon oғ тнe one ι ѕee
A мιllιon dreaмѕ ιѕ all ιт'ѕ gonna тaĸe 

oн, a мιllιon dreaмѕ ғor тнe world we're gonna мaĸe

𝔸 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔻𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞𝕤
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𝕡!𝕚𝕟𝕜

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Regulus felt guilty in going out to the Carrow's house again knowing that the entire manner is empty, although he told his sister to go and spend the day with Lestrange or her friends. 

She simply waved him off and said she didn't want to both Rabastan.

Which prompted him to send a quick owl to inform his almost brother that Rory would be home alone. 

Aurora's birthday was tomorrow and she shouldn't spend the day before it alone.

However, what his brother didn't know was that she usually finds herself at the piano when the house is entirely empty. And with it being empty for the next few hours, she decided to let her vocal cords to sing their heart out.

Her fiancee was allowed into the home with ease, Kreacher stopped the young master and pointed him in the direction of where she was.

The small bundle of flowers was appropriate as he saw her in front of her favorite instrument, her hands moving dramatically...However there wasn't any sound being produced, so he pressed forward and felt the small little blockage before he was blessed in hearing her song.

It was simple, lacking the vocals as she wanted to practice the movements a few times more. But otherwise the song was finished in her mind.

Aurora was simply humming along to the words and flipping the page when needed, her lounge dress was rightly adorable hanging by thin straps and held nothing drastic...Merlin he couldn't wait for when this would be a daily walk in.

"I believe I told you to come see me if you're home alone." He spoke, finally breaking his silence and it broke her concentration and caused her to stutter at the keys. 

"Rabastan! You can't do that!" She shrieked, shaking her head in damnation. All of this was seemingly amusing to Omen who began licking her entire forearm in a greeting to the male human her mother attached herself to.

Meow!

"Hello to you too Omen, keeping Rory company are you?" She responded in her own way and rubbed herself against his chest, but Aurora was still smelling the flowers he came with.

"I didn't want to—" 

"Bother me...Rory, love, we're going to live together...Which I cannot wait to catch you in front of the piano." She attempted to hide the song in front of her, but Rabastan was rather playful and sat in front of the keys and began at the most basic of any songs.

"Not all of us are musical geniuses Rory...What song are you learning this time?" He was about to turn it over but she snatched it in the instant. 

"Nothing." It didn't sound like nothing the way she hid it from view.

"Nothing you say, and what does nothing look like." Her cheeks instantly grew with each passing moment that she shook her head.

"Well it started out me just learning a few new songs when I gave up reading for a week." 

"Gave up reading to read music? I suppose you would find the loophole." She tried to smile, but the embarrassment was still blossoming. Especially when he looked at her so adoringly, his eyes so loving...Goddess how was she meant to think!

"I wrote a song."

He rose a brow, his hand brushing back an annoying strain that she had attempted to store away, but he always managed to secure it behind her ear and it'd stay there.

"Potion mistress, fashion designer and now you want to take on music...Aurora—" 

"It's just one song I swear!" She grabbed his jacket and he couldn't deny this childish banter, he leaned in and stole a simple kiss.

His hand still lingering at her cheek, and their lips a few inches away from one another...It caused his eyes to dance between her lips and her own eyes. 

"Sing it for me." 

Caught in a trans had she reached back down to set the bundle of paper at the stand before her.

Rabastan has heard her sing before, caught her a few years ago. But something about sitting beside her as she allows her hands to find their placing was a new experience for either of them.

"Raba I..." 

"I'm not here to judge love, you're voice is lovely and I just want to hear a bit...A small bit." She nodded, her small hands were dancing rather quickly. And he smiled in seeing how the sounds fluently bounced off the wall beautifully.

"I close my eyes and I can see a world that's waiting up for me...That I call my own...
Through the dark, through the door...Through where no one's been before...But it feels like home."

Her smile was shy and he fought the urge to snog her senselessly. But her voice carried and it warmed his heart, though he started properly listening to the words.

What was she singing about?

"They can say they can say it all sounds crazy...They can say they can say I've lost my mind...But I don't care if they call me crazy...We can live in a world that we design."

He held in his disgust as she was calling out her own mother in how she would say her daughter was 'up in the clouds' because of her unbounded intelligence.

"'Cause every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake.
I think of what the world could be, a vision of the one I see, a million dreams is all it's gonna take...
Oh, a million dreams for the world we're gonna make."

If his eyes could tell anything, it surely gave away on how this song was making him feel. And ever so slowly had his arms snaked around her waist and rested his head over her shoulder to get a proper view of both the music and her desiccant hands.

"There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled with things from far away.
Special things I compile, each one there to make you smile on a rainy day."

The mention of their house earned her a small kiss on her neck, not to interrupt to completely. Though her smile broke through for a moment, causing a delay in the next verse, but it was alright considering it turned out to be the chorus.

Rabastan wasn't expecting any of this when coming to visit her, truthfully going out to eat or another walk through their home to make suggestions was what he had planned...But this? This was a much better turn out.

"However big, however small. Let me be part of it all
Share you dreams with me
We may be right, we may be wrong
But I wanna bring you along, to the world I see
To the world we close our eyes to see...We close our eyes to see!"

Was this verse controversial, yes...Yes, it bloody was. But if Rabastan didn't know her hesitation about being a Death Eater for herself, then this was a sure give away.

But then her voice turned ever so light as she turned to look towards Rabastan her own grey clouds weren't storming with anger or distraction.

They were crystal beauties and he was starting to get lost in the moment.

"Every night, I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be, a vision of the the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
For the world we're gonna make..."

He allowed her to finished the instrumental part before turning her attention back onto him, earning herself a loving kiss. 

Soft and not at all simple.

It was a delightful representation and he was in complete awe as this is what she found herself doing when she relaxed the week without reading. She put her heart into this piece of work and it spoke more than just volumes.

"That was beautiful, utterly beautiful." She smiled, as though he had lifted above the world. Her previous bought of fear vanished as she leaned into his hold. 

"I wanted to show it to you later on...But I suppose now was a good time as any." Truthfully he had something to show her as well, but that moment could wait a bit longer as he rose from his chair and offered a hand.

"We can practice for our first dance together?... If you're up for it." She slipped her hand into his, but looked down in damnation to what she was wearing.

"Love, you're at home...I've seen you in your nightwear at least twice now. You're fine." It earned him a swat but it was the truth.

She flicked her wand off towards the piano to enchant a simple song for them to get the grove on, and instantly Rabastan had made this entire bout...Sexual.

In a matter of minutes as well.

Whether it be his hands drifting far too close to her arse or his kisses harnessed more than just the leftover of nip.

"Rabastan knock it off, it's—" 

"I suppose I am distracting, aren't I, kitten? Nine more days." At this point she had to roll her eyes.

Granted he would be teasing her up until the day he wouldn't be able to see her until she walked down the aisle. And Merlin was he anticipating it.

"Yes, and while I have fittings, last minute arrangements and a mother to convince...You sir, get to have fun at your bachelor party." He smirked, his brother was going slightly out of his way to secure the best and exotic dances to gift his brother.

But Rabastan wanted to stay pure. If he made it this far, what was a few more days? And with a stranger, sure looking wasn't all that bad, but he knew the boundaries.

"Nothing to upset you love, I'll behave." 

"Good, then I won't have to dip into Cissy's tricks if you decide to look elsewhere." That caught him off guard, tilting his head in question he began to address it, his little Ravenclaw could be cruel but how cruel could she possibly get?

"I can assure you Rory that I will be loyal, I've heard of Lucius being withheld from—" 

"I'm not just talking about being withheld Raba. I will make it a miserable time." The wink hid her nervous quiet respectively as he swallowed at the idea of Aurora teasing him all hours of the day then denying him.

"Did have my own surprise for today..." He whispered, his voice mere inches away from her ear as she stilled in recognition to his husk temptation. Merlin would she never get used to that.

He removed his wand and silently cased the spell, and in the instant had a blue form burst out of his wand, the form taking a dominant form of what Aurora could only make it out as...

As a Leopard.

Her eyes started to grow teary, Rabastan held no other interest in anyone but her. This proved not only that, but he was the only Slytherin out of the bunch to manage the charm as well.

Aurora hurried and grabbed her own wand from the piano and cast the spell, and with ease had Salem stepped out of the holding cell and met up with her mate.

The two chased and played with one another as Rabastan held onto his wife from behind, the two watched in pure entertainment. "What will you name yours?" 

"You gave yours a name?" She kissed his chin as he countered her question.

"Suppose it's a gal thing then, that's Salem." 

"Hm, Omen is taken already." She jolted her shoulder in hopes it would straight into his stomach but he's already been hit so many times before that it's been useless.

"What shall I name him?" She smiled for a moment and watched at how swiftly the male raced throughout the room, their blue strains so lively with energy and love that it was hard to tear her attention away even for a moment. 

"Phantom." He nodded, agreeing to whatever she would want it to be called.

Salem and Phantom. Only Aurora could come up with names for their paired patronius.

"You know, when they match...It's said that the castors are soulmates?" Her smile was far too bright to be hidden after something like that had been said. 

"I believe we knew that long ago...Or did you just go for it when you asked me to Hogsmeade?" He leaned his head back and closed his eyes, Merlin was he a mess after that.

"I saw an opportunity and I took it." 

"You fell off your broom on purpose!" He hummed, kissing her cheekbone as he leaned his forehead further down into hers. 

"How else was I going to get my first kiss with my favorite Ravenclaw?" Her eyes were in utter bliss.

He had long taken off his outer coat and either looked as though they were in their lounging clothes. However, as they were in this position the footsteps of Walburga became loud and prominent.

"Cassiopeia! Are you home darling?" The voice was so soft, but underneath all that was the true wicked witch and Aurora frowned as the time with Rabastan had been caught short.

"Ah, Rabastan...What are you two up to?" The question had been innocent enough, but it was seeking for a much more higher answer. 

"Regulus sent me an owl saying that Cassi was home alone...Practicing for our first dance, isn't that right love?" She nodded, smiling to both Lestrange and to her mother in hopes it was innocent enough.

But it reminder Mrs.Black of a very important aspect that Cassiopeia must learn. And she was going to tell her that very night.

Though for now, Aurora and Rabastan remained down in the grand hall. It was one of the biggest rooms in the manner that held the piano and would be the one place where a party could be held.

Granted when Christmas dinner was set here, this is where the table would go to accommodate everyone.

As Rabastan finally departed, it allowed the young Ms.Black to settle down and relax. She'll be eighteen in just a few hours, this is the age she'll get married.

Seventeen was graduation and now?... Adulthood, it finally felt like adulthood.

Course her mother was far too jittery and made final suggestions on which dress to wear, even though her daughter specifically designed this current one for her birthday.

"Come here dear, I wanted to talk with you before the days get too crazy." She followed her mother into her own sitting room, although it was for comfort than looking nice, Walburga managed to find herself seated in a chair brought up from upstairs as she began pouring her daughter tea.

And already was this a bad sign.

Aurora was already hesitant on taking anything from her mother that could be laced with fertility treatment, the last two teas had been. 

Granted she managed to slip them out for nontoxic tea instead.

But this was free of anything...Odd.

"Cassiopeia I wanted to discuss what is going to happen during consummation." Ms.Black fluently spit up her tea and gawked at her mother. 

"Mum I—" Walburga held up her hand to continue on with what she was saying.

"We're not on that just yet, patience darling...I'm talking about virgin rites." Her eyes flared up just as quickly as her cheeks did, so this is why her mother wanted her to stay pure.

Not for marriage, but for this...?

"That...That wasn't in the book you—" 

"No it isn't darling, this is ancient magic that is passed down from mother to daughter." Her eyes sparkled in acknowledgment, didn't Narcissa mention this as a hint?

"What sort of ancient magic?" The Ravenclaw in her sprung free as she gaze at her mother intention. With the elder witch sorting through her thoughts, it simply gave Aurora anxiety on what was meant to happy in terms of further obligation to...What was supposed to be their night?

"Virgin rites are a type of blood magic, and if done properly can open up more power for a wizard or a witch, or both. Most often though, the wizard would take the power without thought." Walburga watched as her daughter was starting to get the idea, but even then the given blush was still not dwindling in any regard.

"T-then how does that work?" It was better this way, that her daughter was rightfully clueless. 

"If the wizard is in control of penetration, he gets the boost the ancient magic provides. His spells will be stronger, especially if they are used to protect his family..." The mother allowed Cassiopeia to soak in the information for a few seconds, even taking a middle sip of the tea before continuing.

"...If a witch is in control of penetration, she gets the extra strength, but instead of defense, like for the wizard, her strength will be in offense...Protecting her family from threats and preventing harm by attacking first." It was a moment of revelation that she nodded in revelation. 

This is why it was passed between mother and daughter, it was for her to obtain.

She needed to be in control, that is what her mother was getting at.

"Maidenhead is a very scarred aspect of a young witch's life Cassiopeia. It's also considered a blessing if you two conceive a child the first bout." Aurora swallowed, knowing full well she wasn't going to fulfill that bit in any regard.

Her mother had left this entire bombshell onto her daughter, and the only explanation that was left was that Aurora found in the book her mother had left her.

Ancient Nuptials.

She dove in and spent a good point of the night diving into what was expected of her. The pros and cons of who took her maidenhood was a struggling aspect, but anything that would give her a motherly boost was tempting.

All of this was tempting.

Nothing mentioned about the husband being a virgin, all this relied on her. And just like that, another weight was added to her shoulders to procure something of this.

But it was a moment of bloody relief that there was a third option, that they share her maidenhood penetration. Honestly, she didn't have anything planned for the night, but it was getting to the point of anxiety rushing over with the days coming to just over a week.

Whoever starts will shift control to the other, that their lovemaking is shared between the both of them. And personally the image of Rabastan's cock breaking her maidenhood was seemingly another strain on her mind.

Especially when it was close to three in the morning.

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Date Posted:  07-20-19

Time: 12:51

Words: 3312

Author's Note

Hey! Completely overdo, I try and post every other day and a little extra on weekends but I spent the day traveling and finally getting to Myrtle Beach!!! I'm so excited and so exhausted,  but it's a nice experience so far.

I'll make it up when I get back home OR if I have a few minutes I'll try and edit real quick.

Preview of what's to come:

Next chapter is Aurora's birthday and then...The wedding!

Should I mention a mature warning for the Honeymoon ;)