AN: This is my entry for the HPFC One Line Competition Four

I knew what I'd done as soon as the door closed.

"Andy!"

I threw it open, not caring that I didn't have shoes on or that my traveling cloak was hanging on the hook by the door. The snowy ground bit at my bare toes as I raced across the lawn, my nightdress trailing on the ground, the hem soaking wet.

"Andy, wait!" I screamed, tearing along the pathway. I had to get to her before she left the Ant-Apperition enchantment surrounding the estate that my parents had given to me.

Andromeda whipped around to face me. What a sight I must have been, standing in the middle of a snowdrift, hugging myself and shivering in the wind. I looked right back into her dark eyes, unwilling to let myself to be cowed by the intimidating stare of the woman who had once been my sister.

"You're making a mistake that I don't want you to make," I said quietly. "We're sisters, and I don't want to lose you."

Andy huffed, drawing her cloak around herself as the wind picked up again. I barely registered that my body was shaking. My sister was more important right now. We stared at each other for a second that stretched into a lifetime. We had each inherited the Black trait of stubbornness, and neither one of us wanted to break the silence that created a chasm between us.

"You don't have to lose me, Cissy. Don't tell me you actually want to marry that—that—"

Andy seemed unable to find the words to describe my husband-to-be. I felt a surge of anger, but as Mother taught me, I forced it back down. When I spoke again, my voice was frigidly polite.

"I do," I said, my own words sticking in my throat at the lie. I liked Lucius enough—he was always so polite, but it wasn't love. It had to be, though! If it wasn't, I would wind up just like Andy now.

"No you don't,"

"So what?" I asked, the words tumbling out of my mouth one after the other. "It doesn't matter what I want, it will never matter what I want! Besides, all I want is to be happy, and I can't be happy without my family."

I shifted from foot to foot in the snow. It was getting steadily colder. If this conversation went on much longer, I was going to freeze to death. Andromeda stared past me at the house that had been my engagement present.

"I'm your family. Ted will be your family."

"I am not related to Muggle filth," I spat indignantly.

Andromeda made to pull her wand from her robes, but at the last second thought better of it. When her gaze returned to meet mine, it was filled with anger.

"Take that back," she snarled.

I shook my head defiantly. Andy whipped around, her cloak billowing around her elbows as she strode purposefully out the gate. I ran a few more steps, but I tripped on the hem of my nightgown and fell over in the snow.

"You're making a mistake!" I yelled after her as she turned on her heel and Apperated.

"No, you are Cissy."

With a crack, my sister was gone. No, not my sister any longer. The woman who had just left my house was a stranger. I sat up, buried my head in my hands and cried.

I wanted to end this on a happy note, but…oh well.