IN RUINS- James Potter

chapter one hundred and eleven

"I'll pray for you." Trying to make her way out of the Lestrange manor, Nora had to help the order with their defensive spells, and hoping she could make it, using Theo and Damon as an excuse. Hissing at rabastan to be farther from her, Nora was scared to even tell Bella she was leaving for the night, knowing rodulphus was still acting like a father.

"Can you hurry up and tell them?" The man hissed at her, mouthing it from afar. Rolling her eyes, Nora stood into the kitchen wearing her muggle clothes, however it made rodulphus do a double take. "Uh, I'm going out." She announced, Bella looking over at her and then at her husband.

"Alright, to whose?" Rodulphus asked, Bella putting down her knife. "Really? So when your son or daughter is leaving at night, you'll approve?" She asked, Nora looking at rodulphus with an apologetic look.

"What you're still testing me? She's not our kid." He defended himself, Bella be coming baffled. "But she's our practise child!" She reminded, Nora deciding to take a seat for them go over this again.

"Now, if they ask to go out, what do you say? Especially if there's a war going on?" Bellatrix asked, raising an eyebrow and holding the knife, rodulphus sighing at his wife. "No you may not."

"Or?"

"Why are you going out at a time like this?"

Waiting for her moment to respond, Nora stood up again as she had to do this routine with this, coming up with a baffling response. "You never let me do anything I wanna do!" She whined, stomping her foot, going back to normal for rodulphus to respond.

"Now she's given you a script?" He asked her, Nora shrugging her shoulders. "Gave me ten pounds to do this." She told him, ripping off Bella more than herself.

"But for the record, there are baby classes you can take to feel prepared." The girl added, looking over at Bellatrix. "You want to be paid or not?"

"Bella this is stupid! Our child will be fine... how about we focus on making one." Wishing she wasn't in the kitchen anymore this, she didn't know if she was allowed to leave or not, having to suffer a little.

"Okay— you cannot talk about shagging in front of a child either! Rodulphus what the fuck?" Bella shrieked, swinging the knife around in her hand. "Like Nora knows where children come from,... do you?"

"I do yeah. So can I leave now?" She yelled over Bellatrix rambling, rodulphus giving her the thumbs  up. "Use the floo when you come home." He told the girl, going back to arguing with his wife.

Walking out, Nora was happy to know she didn't need rabastan, apparating to the potter manor Standing in the middle of the kitchen and scaring two adults. Nora turned when she realized she meant to be outside, grimacing. "Nora darling! Wonderful to see you again." Exclaimed Effie, wiping her drink that landed on the counter.

"I'm so sorry, I meant to wait outside, still not very good at this." She apologized, going over to help the woman, Fleamont laughing a little. "James has been doing his hair for twenty minutes, I think it's time we should see if he's alright." He laughed a little more, Effie rolling her eyes.

"He's just upstairs if you want to see him, we're leaving in twenty so you all can practise." Effie told the girl, Nora taking that information and finding the staircase, hoping to hear him.
Walking up the stairs and heading to his room, Nora leaned on the doorframe when watching James fix his hair in his mirror, shirtless while mumbling a tune.

She could watch him for hours, in his own little world with very few things to be worried about. Nora wish her life was that easy, being able to dance around in her room and listen to whatever music she wanted to. In a way; she got to be the person she always wanted to be around james, she just only gets to do it when she's out of her house.