Narcissa Black

Gabrielle knew that this topic was getting them nowhere good, fast, so she decided just to drop it. “Have you heard anything about the Winter Gala this year? My mother hasn’t mentioned what day it’ll.” The girl asked, the Gala was a big purist party that one of the families hosted every year. It was always the elite purebloods that attended, and it seemed like as good of a topic as any to talk about.

Narcissa sighed as Gabrielle changed the conversation, taking it as nothing but an obvious way to prove her right. “No, I haven’t” she replied with a shake of her head. She had completely forgotten about it and now that is downed on her, it amazed her how vindictive she had been the last few weeks. “I don’t know if I want to go this year.”

“Yeah, I don’t think you need to use that word.” He replied, quickly picking on which one it was. “Oh, that hurts. Did you really forget all about me so quick?” He joked.

“I-” She would have said it if she still felt bitter about what had taken place at the Halloween party, but not anymore. “I wasn’t going to, so maybe you win. There’s nothing I can say that would hurt you... except maybe just saying I have forced myself to forget most things about you.”

“Anyone looking to not live by the rules.” he replied. “Yes, I am.”

“You are really not as charming as everyone makes you out to be.” she said coldly. “Afraid we are out to get you?”

“That’s true, we can’t trust anyone these days. Except each other” Bella smiled slightly at her baby sister. “Just don’t talk about him at all. He told me he doesn’t care about any of us anyway so it’s not like it will make any difference to him” Bella rolled her eyes hiding how much Sirius’ words had actually hurt her. “I’m not taking anyone’s side. But we need to stick together, we’re family”

“Thank you.” She said with a slight nod before sighing deeply. Oh how she wished she could just tell her everything about Andromeda’s plan, but once again she was stuck in the middle and she didn’t know what to do about it. “Yes, but what makes you think he’s not brainwashing Andromeda? I tried so hard to make her understand that we just need each other... but in her eyes he’ll never stop being our cousin. You have to help make her understand.” 

“I’d certainly love to see you try.” He commented, purposefully making it look like a challenge. “I don’t think you’ve forgotten how hard it is to break my spirit.”

“Sure, well there is one word...” She said with a smile though on the inside the idea of calling him a mudblood felt too vile for her. “It appears I’ve forgotten a lot of things.”

“Urgh don’t mention that traitor’s name to me” Bella shook her head trying to get rid of the memory of Sirius declaring that his family meant nothing to him. “He’s not worth it Cissy, don’t fight with Andy because of him”

“My bad? But I can’t just call him traitor when there’s so many running around the school nowadays.” She pointed out even if saying it made her guilty considering their sister was already thinking of becoming one. “Don’t take her side! You should try explaining that to her.”

“No” Serenity shook her head at the other blonde. “I’ve spent my entire life doing that. I’ve never had a proper home before. One with hallways and hidden passages and rooms to explore and hide from people in or hide with other people in” Serenity giggled softly. 

After getting an explanation, Narcissa couldn’t help but just look at her with furrowed brows. It always dumbfounded her to hear people sound so amazed by the simple things Hogwarts had to offer, yet instead of feeling nothing, she felt bad for the girl. “That’s a shame,” she said with a slight smile. “Have you checked all the passages yet?”

“Seeing as you want me to hate him, I’d say it kind of does.” She offered up, brows furrowing as she scoffed at Narcissa’s words. “Perhaps it is you that’s the fool. At least if you’re going to try and pull this shit, you should give a reason.”

“You like to disagree with everything that doesn’t go with your prehistoric mindset.”

“Well about time you learned something around here.”

“I wouldn’t expect anything else, but I simply want to keep letting you know of how my perfect, happy life seeing as that is something you would hate to hear about. A birthday gift I am giving to myself but reminding you I exist and exist happily.”

“I give you ten more years,” she said happily, flashing him a smile before walking away. 

“You always liked when I called you that.” He said, but his smile didn’t grow any bigger. “I’ve been called worse than that, I’ll survive.”

Narcissa’s cheeks quickly turned a shade of pink and she pursed her lips to hide how uncomfortable she was getting. “Now you are just making it a challenge for myself.”