Author's Note: Alys is an evil, evil woman. That is all.
Also, I couldn't come up with clever chapter titles.
Written for…
5 Drabbles Competition. Crack pairing: Sirius Black/Dolores Umbridge. Prompt: gift-wrapped box
FanFicWriMo June Bonus. Prompts: bereft, chandelier
Unusual Ships Challenge.
Title Challenge II.
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The first thing Orion did after bringing his sons home from King's Cross was turn to his eldest and announce "Your mother has found you a wife" which Sirius promptly translated to "We've found someone desperate enough to take you."
The Umbridges arrived the following afternoon. Sirius knew the girl in question; like all Slytherins, he'd made an effort in avoiding her at all costs, but they'd shared a few classes together in their five years of school. Now she stood in his foyer in a soft pink dress with a matching bow in her dark hair and he wanted to make a crack but his mother had been primping him all morning, slicking back his hair and forcing him into dress robes, and he looked just as bad as the girl.
They sat side by side in the den. She was a welcome decoration in a room otherwise bereft of color and style and beauty. He watched her from the corner of his eye as their parents chattered. Her head kept moving around the room, admiring the crystal chandelier and the ornate tapestry.
"Sirius, don't you want to give Dolores your gift?" his mother suggested suddenly, and Sirius was reminded of the gift-wrapped box sitting on the table between them.
The gift was customary during these sorts of arrangements and he hadn't taken part in selecting it, but he accepted Dolores' thanks as she slipped the bracelet on.
The thought crossed his mind to compliment her - she looked about a thousand times better all dressed up than she did with flobberworm slime down the front of her robes - but the dinner bell rang and they were moving into the dining room before he found the words.