the dragon's daughter

Chapter 1: Lyra

a/n: welcome to The Dragon's Daughter.  thank you for reading.  this chapter covers the story of Lyra and a little bit of the building blocks of the story.  this is extremely sad and would advise to read with a box of tissues near by.

December, Malfoy Manor

Draco's POV

I was sitting on the green velvet couch in the seating room or the new, renovated, Malfoy Manor.  After all that has happened in the walls of the old manor, I couldn't stand to even walk in the place.  After the war Lucius went to Azkaban, how he didn't receive the dementor's kiss is beyond me.  My mother became lonely and decided to move to the house in France to help get rid of the cold and bitter memories of the past.  I had to go to Azkaban for 4 months, helped rebuild Hogwarts while there, and had to go to my 7th year re-do at Hogwarts.  While there I found myself thinking about what I would've done with my life if I didn't become a death eater, if I wasn't raised the way I was, and I didn't act they way I did.  I started my road to recovery by doing the most humiliating thing possible, I begged the golden trio for forgiveness.  Potter and Weasel were reluctant at first, but one two hour long rant later from Granger made them reconsider.  Granger.  I never got the images or her on the floor, the sound of her screaming, the pleading look in her eyes for the pain to stop out of my mind from that day in the ballroom, that was the first room to go.  Granger and I got more friendly over our training after Hogwarts, we became healers.  I know, shocker.  I wanted to help people after all the pain that my family cost.  most people have come to terms with me and my family, every once in a while things happen.  but its nothing I'm not used to.  In a couple of months of taking over head positions, Granger and I became the best healers in St.Mungos.  Over those months I became real friends with the Potters and Weasleys.  I was invited to birthdays, parties, weddings.  And I invited them to ours.  Two years after the war I married Astoria.  Though it was an arranged marriage, I love her.  And she loves me.  My friends Blaise, Pansy and Theo became friends with the Potters and Weasleys as well.  Things have been going great.  We're still friends till today, even our children are friends.  Weasel ended up marrying Granger and are expecting a girl right now.  Blaise married Maria, some girl he met while visiting his family in Italy, and let me tell you, the guy fell hard.  They already have a son Gabriel who is two, and are expecting another soon.  Potter somehow mustered up enough courage to ask Weaselette.  The guy can fight in one of the biggest wizarding wars, but can't ask his girlfriend to marry him.  They both have a little boy James, and just had another boy Albus.  Theo married Lia after a year of dating.  I don't think I've had an actual conversation with her, she usually doesn't talk and when she does it's like a whisper.  They had Linus Nott two years ago.  Pansy got pregnant 5 years ago with her boyfriend Liam Verano.  As soon as Clair was born, he walked out.  Blaise, Potter, Weasel, Nott, and I found him in a motel with some girl Julia.  In her hand a pregnancy test, positive.  We yelled and threw a few spells, curses, hexes, and fists around.  We still hate him.  But Pans found someone new and better.  Jakob, a divorced father.  Now him, I like.  Call me over protective, but I'm an only child I found siblings in my friends instead.  He had a son with his previous marriage, Luke.

About two years ago Astoria got pregnant.  I was so overjoyed, but terrified of being a dad.  I didn't want to be like my father.  Astoria gave birth to twins, Caleum and Lyra.  Caleum, my eldest, has my hair and a mix of our eyes, silver like mine, gold specks like Astoria's.  Lyra, my little girl, my princess, has me wrapped around her little pinky.  She looks just like Caleum but has Astoria's dark hair.  A year ago she got pregnant again, and had Orion.  When he was born we thought he was going to have brown hair based on the tuff of hair that he was born with, turns out it turns blonde like mine.  Right now we're pregnant with twins again, but we didn't want to know the genders to make it a surprise.