[Completed] Book Two
Following Aurora's graduation from Hogwarts, she was reminded once more that Immer Rein had not expired so simply. If anything it had been demanded almost immediately as soon as she found herself of legal age.
After the chaotic...
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Rabastan had stayed with her until she fell asleep, and well after that as he needed to watch her slip from consciousness, her erratic breaths turning to soft and even breaths. Merlin was this mother dragon mode horrifying.
But he couldn't have been prouder, the pent up rage with the addition of seeing Sirius would set anyone off. And now he was simply on his way down to return to Orion.
But instead an Elf told him he was in his daughter's study, and Rabastan took the slight detour back.
The father was overlooking his daughter's desk, both neat and organized with notes. The elder wizard was simply gazing upon the papers and smiling to himself, respect and pride lacing every smirk he gestured down.
Although Mr.Black hadn't looked up, he heard Rabastan come into the room.
"I hadn't known Cassi was keeping herself from eating..." The master of the house shook his head at the shared disgust at the situation and came closer.
"Not since she has been living here, nor all the times I have taken her out. Course I hadn't known right away ether about her mother's antics, but they became more revealing everyday...I do not want to see the woman near her." Orion looked up to his son in law and let out a firm nod in agreement.
"Sirius appeared at Saint Mungo's." He added, and the father stilled entirely. Now realizing where her rage had steamed from.
"Under regular terms I wouldn't share this, but they're after Aurora...She was in Diagon Alley with Cissy one afternoon and those Gryffindors were stalking her." It was another heartache to hear, Orion was still holding out hope for Sirius to return...But after hearing this? It didn't click properly.
"What did he want?" "At first I thought he had done this but I don't think he had...He might've seen the opportunity to take her but—" Rabastan had stopped at the sight of how angry the father was in front of him.
"It wasn't a time I'm proud of Rabastan, and I cannot thank you enough for pulling Cassi out of her rut when he left..." The shift in tone was dripping with guilt at every turn. "...I heard her beg for him to stay, not like he would, not after that night." Rabastan nodded, knowing just a small bit of the argument from Regulus, but it didn't justify the eldest leaving his siblings to deal with their elders alone.
