Title: Redecorating the ballroom.
Summary: Draco is always gone, but Astoria has never been the type of girl who needs a man to tell her what to do.
Length: Drabble
Rating: K
Prompts: 2 a.m., Astoria hates her mother-in-law, Astoria is a bad ass.
Pairing: Draco/Astoria
Era: Post Hogwarts
It's two am, and he's gone. He's always gone, but today, on this day, it particularly upsets her.
Their anniversary.
That's what today is- not that he remembers, apparently.
She tells herself she puts up with this because she loves him, that she can look past his faults. But really, what choice does she have?
Demand a divorce? On what grounds?
Exactly.
So she remains a good little pureblooded wife of an ancient and most noble house, as expected.
She smiles, and laughs.
She hosts all the stupid parties she's expected to, and goes to all the ones she's invited to.
And when he does something like this, she takes the Gringot's card and goes shopping.
Sometimes she redecorates a room or two in the manor.
Which pisses his mother right off. Two for one and all that, yeah?
Yes, Astoria discovered long ago that the best way to get to her husband was through his bloody mother.
Or by using his hair products.
Sometimes, if she's really mad, she does both.
She uses the hair products on the house elves, just to make her point known.
And then she redecorates the ballroom. Again.
Then she has her elf, Dizzy, pour her a nice glass of wine and laughs in her quarters as she hears Narcissa rage.
Yes, Draco is always gone, but Astoria has never been the type of girl who needs a man to tell her what to do.