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NARCISSA TRIED TO READ 

the book she had in her hands but couldn't help but let her mind wander around. The girl, Draco's safety, her husband, the Prophecy, Draco, the girl, Celeste, the Prophesy, her husband, the girl, Celeste, her sister Bellatrix, Draco's safety, Celeste, Draco, Celeste....

"Cissy, where is your mind wandering?" Bellatrix asked from her little sister and snapped her out of her thoughts.

"I met a young girl," Narcissa said and closed her book before looking at her sister. Bellatrix was laying on the couch with her feet up on the couch as well, something Narcissa really hated and Bellatrix knew it; it was the very reason why she does it.

"A girl?" Bellatrix repeated with the signature Black smirk. She was about to say something very childish when she noticed her sister's facial expressions, the same one she has seen so many times before. "No, Cissy not again," she sighed and got up.

She walked to the corner of the room where you could always find a small table with some fire-whiskey on top of it. Bellatrix took out two glasses and took a deep breath in while looking at herself from the mirror in front of her. Her curly black hair was all over the place as usual, her deep brown eyes flickered with sadness for her sister and her niece. Bellatrix has never been an emotional type or affectioned but she did deeply cared for her niece. She snapped out fo her thoughts and walked to her sister.

"I know what you're about to say Bella," Narcissa said and took the glass from Bellatrix. "But maybe..."

"Cissy, don't do this again. You just end up getting hurt," Bellatrix sighed and massaged her temples in frustration.

"But maybe----"

"Cissy, listen to me. I wasn't around when Celeste was taken or when you got sick because of the worry and pain but Lucius told me and I won't let that happen to you again," Bellatrix said firmly. "Don't get me wrong, I'd love for her to return here but the odds are pretty much against us."

Narcissa silently nodded at her sister and understood her point of view, to be honest in a way she didn't want to know about this girl because the pain and disappointment would be too grand for her to handle again. She didn't even know the girl's name, she was American and had an uncle and aunt, so the odds were really against her. She must also have a mother and father who were loving her and caring for her the way Narcissa would care for her daughter ― if she was still around.

For the past eleven years every time she has seen a young girl who could be the same age as her Celeste, with blond hair and golden eyes, her heart had stopped. Often she had walked to that girl but immediately realized that it wasn't her daughter when she had looked into their eyes, they weren't her little daughter's.

"It's just that she had those golden eyes," Narcissa sighed and gave a sad smile to her sister. "She's the only one who has them."

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AFTER THE LAST

O.W.L's on June 18th and the attack on Dolores Umbridge by centaurs, our American and English trio thought that they were done for the day; what else could possibly go wrong. But oh how they were wrong. Both of the trio's along side with Luna, Ginny Weasley and Neville Longbottom were lured to the Department of Mysteries by no-one else than Lord Voldemort himself.

After entering the Department Harry and Luna heard voices and before they stood a change, various Death Eaters captured everyone except Harry. Slowly Lucius Malfoy approached Harry and demanded him to abdicate the Prophecy to him. Unwillingly but in fear for his friends lives Harry gave Lucius the Prophecy.

As this action was going on, Bellatrix couldn't help than stare at the young blond girl her husband Rodolphus Lestrange was holding. Bellatrix's eyes pierced straight into the girl's golden ones. She observed the girl and my my how much she was like Narcissa, merely stubborn as she tried to fight herself from Rodolphus' grip, so beautiful and yet so loud as she yelled.

Bellatrix wasn't the only one who was distracted by Celeste. 

Lucius Malfoy glanced at the girl every now and then ― wondering if she was the girl his wife had mentioned. He shook his head and pushed those thoughts from his mind, he had more important matters to deal with at the moment and a stranger was not worth his time. 

Suddenly a bright light blinded her and the other Death Eaters, as the Order of the Phoenix appeared to the children's rescue. All children ran further from the Death Eaters and tried to escape while dulling with their help and friends against their opponents. 

Bellatrix ran after Ginny Weasley and was about to cast a spell when the 'little Narcissa' rushed in front of Ginny and held her wand towards Bellatrix. Her eyes softened a bit when she got to look at the girl from very near distance, she couldn't harm her.

"Run," she whispered to Celeste and turned away to chase the others.

"D-did she just...?" Ginny asked.

"I think she did. Let's go," she said and took Ginny's hand and guided her towards a door, where Beth and Nathan were waiting for them.

As they ran out of the Department of Mysteries Celeste's mind raced faster than her heart; she kept thinking about how the most vicious woman let her go without harming her and how her cold eyes quickly softened the second she faced her. There was something familiar about her, but then again right at that moment she was so confused that she might've easily thought the woman could've been someone very close to her. Which obviously was impossible, she was Celeste Starling and the woman was no other than Bellatrix Lestrange. 

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ONCE BELLATRIX

arrived to the Malfoy Manor after the incident in the Department of Mysteries, she couldn't shake the image of the girl from her head. Even though the last time that she saw her niece who also happened to be her goddaughter, Celeste was three years old and visited her in Azkaban, the girl really looked like little Celeste and now more importantly she looked just like Narcissa. Her mind wandered back to the time when she got to meet her niece for the first time.

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Bellatrix had already met her nephew two hours ago but she hasn't had the chance to meet her niece yet due her difficult enter to this world. Mediwitches had told her that there might not even come a time she'd get to meet her little niece but like always, the Black blood ran so strongly inside the little girl that she made it trough. 

Bellatrix knocked on her sister's hospital room door and waited someone to open it to her. Lucius opened the door, holding baby Draco in his arms. 

"Hi dragon," Bellatrix whispered at the baby boy before walking further in. She saw her sister leaning against a huge stash of pillows, holding another little bundle of joy. Bellatrix walked next to the bed where her sister was tucked in and looked at the baby.

"Whoah Merlin, she's a very pretty baby," Bellatrix managed to say and quickly wiped a tear from the corner of her eye.

"Are you crying Bella?" Lucius teased her when he looked at his sister-in-law.

"Phef, me crying? No. Just allergies, mind your own business Malfoy," Bellatrix snored and turned back to the baby girl.

"Bella, do you want to hold her?" Narcissa asked with a wide smile across her face.

"O-okay," Bellatrix nodded and extended her arms so Narcissa could place the baby gently in her arms. She looked at the little girl. "You gave all of us a quite scare," she whispered and thought about how her niece had almost died. "What's her name?"

"Her name is Celeste Narcissa Bellatrix Malfoy," Narcissa smiled.

"Y-you named her after me?" She asked with wide eyes.

"Yes, and we'd like you to be her godmother," Narcissa said. "What do you think?"

"Don't let it get to your head," Lucius rolled his eyes.

Bellatrix couldn't find any words so she nodded and looked down at the baby in her arms- "I'm going to spoil you to rotten."

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Unfortunately her time with her niece ended way too soon as she was taken to Azkaban. Bellatrix snapped out her thoughts and ran the stairs up and saw her sister sobbing on the floor. "Cissy..."

"They got him, didn't they?" Narcissa whispered and turned her head to face her sister. "H-he's going to..."

"It's too early to say," Bellatrix sighed and sat on the floor next to her sister.

"What about you?" She asked. "I can't loose him and you."

"Oh, I am not going back there. I'll have to leave for awhile but I'll be back, I promise."

Narcissa just nodded and wiped some of her tears away. "I-I heard that Sirius.."

"It was necessary," Bellatrix said sharply. She looked at her youngest sister, looking like a beaten puppy. She straighten her posture. "I met a girl too," She said quietly. "I don't know if she was the same one you met but Cissy, she really did have your eyes."

"T-that's her," Narcissa sighed and jumped up on her feet. "She was there?"

"With Potter and the others, yes," Bellatrix frowned her eyebrows and got up as well. "I let her go," Bellatrix sighed. "And I'll most likely end up in a big debate with The Dark Lord but for some reason I just couldn't hurt her."

"D-do you think she could be her?" Narcissa asked.

"Honestly I don't know," Bellatrix said and gave a sad-ish smile to her sister.