The Inner Peace

Chapter 1

The maternity ward was a mess of people rushing back and forth frantically. Amidst all the hustle and bustle a tall, foreboding man lurked in one of the doorways, his eyes pinned on the furthest bed hidden by a curtain. The moans and screams emanating from that bed would have curled the toes of any other being, but he merely watched. A woman suddenly appeared in the ward and quickly walked up to him gesturing wildly, her black hair whipping around her face, her beautiful eyes flashing, and her graceful carriage, belaying her pureblooded origins, agitated. He said something quickly into her ear and she stopped mid-gesture and turned towards the bed at the end of the hall. Snarling at the man, her husband, she stalked over to the bed, whipped open the curtains and disappeared within. The man in the doorway smirked and shook his head a little, his long black hair tied in a pony tail, making the female Healers sigh – but his cold, hard eyes scaring them once again.

Inside the curtain the woman with black hair was clenching the hand of the pregnant female in desperate pain on the bed. She growled at the Healers and asked

"Is nothing being done to help her?!"

"Madame, we've done everything we can, it's either her or the baby now – we can only wait and hope for something soon."

The woman on the bed screamed once more as a contraction racked her body and clenched the darker woman's hand once more. She whimpered and looked up at the darker woman, whispering,

"Baaaaby, keep her safe for me, keep my baby safe – please!"

The darker woman could only squeeze her hand tightly in reassurance,

"Celeste you will not die! I won't let you, you need to be here to watch your baby grow up."

"Bella, it's meant to be, you will let me go, you must, and then you and Rudy will raise her as your own. You know he doesn't love me, like he does you, it is fate darling. I've accepted, now so must you."

With that the woman sent up another scream and the Healers suddenly bustled up and told her to push. The dark haired woman continued to coach the poor woman on the bed, her sleek strawberry blonde hair sweaty and tangled with effort and her petite body racked with contractions now very quick in succession.

The man at the door was clenching his fist in and out, the only sign of his worry. Once again, out of nowhere, a long haired blonde man stalked up to him and began speaking, smirking at the sight of the dark haired and light haired witch holding hands,

"Only you, Lestrange could manage to find a mistress that is friends with your wife."

"I assure you, Lucius, that it was quite a mistake in the happening."

"Ah, so this is the little one that you were sent to seduce. I suppose you succeeded then?"

"Obviously."

"How have we not heard from her family then? Were they not the objects we wanted from the seduction?"

"Lucius, if you have not seen the changes that He has made from their funds, then you are a blind man – or merely caught up with your pregnant wife. How is Narcissa anyways?"

"She is grouchy and in the phase of pumpkin juice and treacle tart … mixed together."

Both men shuddered and suddenly wrenched their heads towards the bed, where a baby's cry had appeared. The darker man, stalked quickly over to the bed to see his newborn babe. The petite woman on the bed held the baby close to her chest wearily, and with a little sigh looked up at the darker man and said

"She's yours Rudy, take her and keep her safe for me, you and Bella must keep her safe! My little Veronique Hermione."

"By Merlin Celeste, I will try."

With that she handed him his little daughter and leaned back on the pillows exhausted.

"Such a beautiful thing to come from such a complicated mistake."

She turned her head, the darker man's wife stepping forward at the young woman's gesture,

"Bella, she is yours now."

And with a little sigh, the young woman on the bed passed away.

A year and a half later

"Bella take her and go! I will not let you go with me and sacrifice yourself, someone has to say with her!"

"Rodophus I told you, I'm coming, its our cause not just yours, and Veri will be fine with her grandparents. Celeste's parents love that baby like it's the only thing on Earth – you know nothing will happen to her!"

"Bella, I don't want you hurt and the only way I know you both will be safe is if you're with her somewhere else."

"The only way she'll be safe is if we take out the Longbottoms before they can come and take our children away! You know they are the ones pushing that legislation through the Ministry, we have to keep Veri safe, no matter what we once were and that He is now gone."

"I just couldn't lose you again Bella … after that night, if even the Dark Lord can die, then what about us?!"

"Rudy, you know as well as I do that He is not dead, He will come back and help us. But right now, we have to help ourselves and that means that I'm coming with you to protect our daughter."

With a mumbled grumble the dark man grasped the woman to his chest and held her there tightly. Their lips met with a clash, both passionately dueling for command. She writhed against his tight embrace and snaked her hands into his hair clenching him tightly. He hoisted her up into his arms, securing her legs around his hips and made off towards their bedroom. Little pieces of clothing littered the floor as they made their way down the hall.

He tossed her onto the bed and prowled towards her, growling softly while stripping himself of his clothing. She moaned and pleasured herself on the bed, one hand snaked between her legs playing with her clit and the other pinching her nipples, a veritable feast for the man watching her with hungry eyes. As he climbed up the bed she smirked at him, dipping two fingers into her wet channel, watching the sight arouse him even more. As he came up and over her, he shoved her hands over her head and kneeled quickly between her legs. Right as he took her nipple in his mouth, he thrust into her. They quickly worked into a rhythm of her undulations and his thrusts. She dug her nails into his back, whimpering and moaning while he laved small tender bites around her breasts and nipples. As they both began to move more erratically, the woman finally gave a low wail

"My looooove."

Her vaginal muscles clenching around the man's firm cock so tightly that it then pushed him over the edge with a grunt of

"Bella."

They lay in each others arms for no more than 5 minutes before getting up and dressing in their finest blacks and robes.

They both went to the nursery where an older couple was watching the baby quietly from their rocking chairs.

The dark woman went and knelt before the older woman

"Madame Lorrain, we must go and do this for Veri, but we will leave her in your care if something happens to us; take her and don't let her out of your sight!"

"Bella, you know we would let nothing happen to her."

Both the younger man and woman then went over to the babe in the cradle and kissed her lightly on the forehead. The woman looked silently at the baby and then quickly cast a nonverbal charm over her,

"It will keep her glamoured until she is 19, if we don't come back, tell her who she truly is when she turns 18 – go into hiding, no one can know who are her true parents, she would be killed on the spot!"

The older woman simply nodded, clutching her husband's hand tightly. The young couple took each others hands and disapparated.

The Lestranges had no way of knowing that they were walking to their imprisonment, that they would not see their daughter for many years, that the Lorraines would have to go into hiding as muggles to save the baby from the Order and Ministry, that their daughter would become the best friend and later wife of Harry Potter, or that once lost to the light their daughter might have a chance of coming back to them.

A/N: So just a little plot bunny that has been morphing into a rabbit so large it no longer fits in my poor head. This part was simply back story that had to be told, so from here on we'll move into present time and I promise more smut will ensue! Read and review my darlings and let me know what you think!