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[Julian Nightray]

It was weird to be back in Nightray Manor after being in Hogwarts New Zealand for months. Julian had almost forgotten how... challenging it could be at home. Father hadn't really said anything to him about the letters he'd sent during his time at school about Mikael. Or well... Father hadn't said anything to him at all. He supposed it wasn't anything new, but he'd really hoped that his Father would be proud of him after what he'd done at Hogwarts. Sure, he had some A's, but they were on useless things like History and Astronomy and Flying. Well... he did get an A in Defense, but everyone was saying that the professor for that class was questionable anyway. He'd gotten E's and O's on the rest. And he'd spied on Mikael and Tiziano and Eurydice - mostly Mikael - like he was told to do so. Still didn't work. And so it was with much disappointment that Julian tended to his plants in the greenhouse. The house elves had done a great job keeping up his plants so that was indeed very satisfying. The work was distracting - so distracting in fact that he skipped lunch and by the time he noticed how long he'd been in the Greenhouse, it was well past. He sighed, he could always ask the house elves, but instead, he decided to search for his mother - perhaps she would join him for a snack or a very late lunch. It didn't take long at least to find her in one of the brewing rooms within the manor. "Mum? Are you busy?"​

 

[Dominique Nightray]

Dominque Nightray had a grand total of four children. The oldest twins were seventeen now, and the youngest was eight. She was not having anymore children, no matter how much Laurent begged - if he would. Dom was done. She was definitely not like her dear, dead mother who had eight children. She continued to mix her potions in her lab. She might have been a homemaker, but without toddlers and infants, her time was a bit more spread out now so she could work on her own things. Dom also didn't pay any sort of attention to the whole Nightray heir affair. She stopped her work as she saw her youngest son come to her, asking if she was busy. She looked at the potion, and then set a timer. "I have a ten minutes before I add the final ingredients." Dom's red lips curled into a softened smile for her boy. "Is everything all right, my boy?"​

 

[Julian Nightray]

Julian had poked his head into the brewing room and waited for his mother's response. It didn't take long, because Mum usually made time for them. He just didn't want to disturb her in case the brew was particularly volatile. When he'd seen her set the timer though, he was a little less hesitant about pushing the door to open a little more and walking in. He bit his lip. Ten minutes wasn't that long of a time, but at least they were the final ingredients, so his mum was almost done with the brew. Unless it involved a lot of stirring and waiting and watching over the potion. Still, it couldn't hurt to ask, right? "Well, I was just going to ask if you would like to have lunch with me?" he asked just as his stomach growled softly. It was late, hours past when lunch would have been served, but he had been distracted in the greenhouse. And well, if his mother was here then maybe she hadn't had lunch yet either, and that wasn't good. He might have melted a little though when his mother asked him if everything was alright, so he just came up to hug her, very mindful of the brewing potion nearby. "Yeah," he nodded, it wasn't, but it felt like they would be.​

 

[Dominique Nightray]

Domi looked at the time. Oh wow, she managed to work through lunch. That meant that she had yet to really order some food to be made. Did anyone else take care of it for her? What sort of mother was she? "Merlin's beard, I lost track of time. Of course I will, right after this is done. We don't need it exploding this room." Domi was even more surprised when Julian came up to hug her. Domi tried to be an affectionate mother, though the coldness of the Snow and Zhefarovich family ran through her veins. It dominated everything. She brushed his back. "It sure doesn't seem like it, dear. Did your father do something?" Domi questioned, and then added with a subtle smirk, "I can punish him thoroughly."​

 

[Julian Nightray]

Julian blinked as his mother seemed to be surprised at the time. See? He wasn't the only one that had been distracted. "I can wait," he said as he slowly pulled away from the hug to peer at the cauldron just a little since he was curious what she was doing. He was no Potions expert like either of his parents, or like the others in the family. But he could at least say that not many in the family were good with plants either. So, in a way, he was the one taking care of their greenhouse so the potioneers of the family could use the ingredients found there. Not that he would ever say such a thing. "No, I think he's just busy," he shook his head. It wasn't like Father did anything recently. If anything that was probably the problem. Anything that Julian did wasn't nearly good enough to catch positive attention from his father. "Muuuum," he complained as any pre-teen boy would at the mention of his mother punishing his father. That just sounded so so wrong.​