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Written for;
The Unusual Ship Bingo Challenge
The Variety Challenge
Hogwarts Writing Club - Week 2 - Dare
The Fanfiction Marathon
Word Count Without AN - 229
Just A Phase
She told herself that it was just a phase. She'd get over him, she'd marry Lucius, she'd birth a heir to the Malfoy name. That was her purpose, or so her mother told her. She'd bring further fortune to the Black name, she'd add another powerful political alliance to their cause.
Not that it mattered, Narcissa thought. It wasn't as though the Malfoys had a different agenda than the Blacks. Their reputations were as dark and dirty as each other.
But he had other ideas. He told her she could be someone in her own right. He told her she had the talent and the power to do her own thing, to be known as Narcissa Black rather than Lady Malfoy.
When they were together, she could believe him. When they were together, sealed away from the world, only the two of them existing, she could see the life he offered and it appealed to her more than anything ever had.
But then she went back to real life. Back to family commitments and wedding plans. Because no matter her wishes, she wouldn't dare defy her family.
She told herself she'd get over him, that it was just a phase.
One thing she did know, was that she would never forget the loving touch and the gentle words of Remus Lupin.