Unexpectedly Expecting

40: An Awkward Meet And Greet

Dora

Teddy rested comfortably in her arms as her mother, and Uncle Lucius Malfoy entered the hospital room. Mum was wearing a nervous expression on her face, but she tried to mask it by smiling down at Teddy.

"May I hold him?"
Dora smiled. "Of course."

She watched her mum interact with her son for a bit before looking at Lucius. "What brings you here, Uncle? Dad said he was coming back soon."

He sighed, frowning. "That is news for your mother to tell you. I am here as moral support."

"Suurre you are, Uncle."

He grinned. "You might be right there, little Niece. All the same, it is for your mother to tell you, not I."

Mum handed Teddy off to Uncle Lucius, and her mum turned to her. "Dora, honey. Your father and I...well, we decided to divorce. He found out about Lucius and I, and that we were together first before he married your Aunt Narcissa. You have an older sister named Heather."

A half sister who was a Malfoy! This was news! When she could calm down, she asked, "A-And does she look like you, or--"

Mum reached in her purse, and magically enlarged a framed photograph of a dirty blonde witch with silver eyes, and wearing an Ilvermorny school uniform. She was smiling a big dopey grin with her arms around two friends of hers, and she would have been in the school year before her, so there was no chance they could have met even if she had been a Hogwarts student. In short, Heather was very pretty even at eleven when this picture was taken. She handed it back, and mum put it back in her purse after shrinking it down to fit again.

She zipped up her purse, and Dora asked, "Does...Does she know about me? About dad? Or that she's part Black and Malfoy? I mean, she's as pure as they come blood status-wise, so Noseless Asshole, or the Ministry, could target her at any time."

Uncle Lucius laid Teddy down in his makeshift cradle, and joined mum. Mum looked up at him, and they shared a secret grin. "No, I wanted to keep the adoption anonymous at the time, and your Grand paid a lot of hush money to the Farris family to conceal what he considered a scandal to the family name. Not even Lucius's father knew of the birth as far as I am aware. I didn't even tell your Uncle until he came to the house with his plan to acquire the Elder Wand from the despot."

"Mum, that's dangerous. What if Aunt Bella catches you? She is crazy, yeah, but not enough to let you anywhere near her master," Dora cautioned.

Mum's face took on a look of coldness that shocked her, because in that moment she looked very much like Bellatrix LeStrange: "If she tries to stop me, I will kill her. She murdered your Aunt Cissa in cold blood, and I want to avenge her."

"And I cannot do it," Uncle Lucius piped up. "I am not at my full strength magically, and even if I were not, the Dark Lord would suspect me of foul play more because Cissa was my wife. Your mother can masquerade as Bellatrix easily, and has more of a chance to acquire the Elder Wand."

"This is a reckless plan. But who am I to talk about reckless?" Dora joked. "I have a werewolf husband, and his beta as my lover. Harry would want that wand just as much as Noseless Asshole."

"Do you know where they are?" Uncle Lucius asked.

"No. But they want to hit Hogwarts next to look for the final horcrux," Dora informed them. "That's as much as I know, I swear. Remus is keeping his plans as close to the chest as possible."

Uncle Lucius nodded. "I'll inform Severus of this. He is essential to our plans. But don't tell your...wizards about this."

Dora saluted him. "No probs there, so long as you make my mum happy."