AN: Just as a warning: I made the Narcissa and Bellatrix direct siblings of Regulus and Sirius because I thought for my purposes it would make the story more interesting. Hope it doesn't throw anyone too much.

Chapter One: Fairy Tale Gone Wrong
Narcissa Black heard the door slam above her and her mother screaming insults at her younger brother, "Oh Sirius," she sighed to herself, "When will you learn that it is only Mother's way?" she thought bitterly.

Then suddenly her bedroom door was thrown open and her twin sister Bellatrix entered the room laughing cheerily, "So I just saw little Sirius catching the heat. He didn't polish the silver well enough," she reported.

"Oh Bella, "Narcissa said glaring at her sister, "Why do you have to take such amusement when Mother punishes him? He is our brother…"

"Our brother who got sorted into Gryffindor and refuses to uphold the family motto," Bella said righteously before flopping onto her bed.

"But its Christmas," Narcissa whispered, "Can't you just forgive him this injustice?" she asked only being slightly sarcastic, "I mean it's not like he chose to be put in Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat doesn't really put a whole lot of stock in the choice you would rather if its mind is made up! What could Sirius have done?"

"I would have dropped out rather than be in a house full of people with dirty blood." Bella snapped, "Wouldn't you Cissy?"

"But then where would I have learned magic?" Narcissa asked trying to avoid the question and tipping her head forward so her blonde hair would cover her face. The truth was she didn't much care for the business of houses and the purity of blood. That was Bella's forte. Narcissa just wanted to learn magic and start her own family with someone her mother would approve of, and if that meant she would be marrying a pureblood then she would just have to find one she could live with.

"Why Mother and Father would send you to Durmstrang of course!" Bella said, "But it's not like you're the one who disappointed them. You were a good girl and got sorted into Slytherin. A noble house. And anyway, Sirius's crime isn't that he got sorted into Gryffindor," Bella sneered as she said this, "It's that he wallpapered his room in red and gold and hung Gryffindor posters all over his walls. Mother can't get them off, she says it's the scourge of the house, I agree."

"What did he do?" Narcissa asked shocked and sure she must have heard her sister incorrectly.

"He changed the wallpaper in his room so that it's red and gold, the Gryffindor colors, and he has posters of the Gryffindor lion all over the walls," Bella said sounding disgusted, "So he deserves everything he has coming to him.

Narcissa's large grey eyes widened. She was appalled at her little brother's actions, "Uhm," Narcissa said trying to think quickly, "I'm just going to run to the bathroom and then we can start getting ready for the ball tonight. Okay Bella?"

Bella nodded smiling widely, "Yeah okay! I'll get your dress out of the closet."

Narcissa got out of her bed and flowed gracefully out of the room. Her robe was made of the finest silk and it was white, it was one of the few white things she had ever been allowed to own. Her robe and her very pale blonde hair were billowing around her as she hurried up the stairs to Sirius's room as quietly as possible. She didn't want her mother to see her fraternizing with him or she wouldn't be allowed to accompany the rest of the family to the Malfoy's annual Christmas Ball.

Instead of knocking on the door she just opened it slowly, when she got a glimpse of the room her dainty lips parted in surprise, and her wide eyes blinked as if she had just emerged from a cave into the sunlight.

"Cissy!" Sirius said rather quietly but with enthusiasm, Cissy had always been his favorite sister, "What do you think?"

"Oh my god Sirius!" Narcissa said in astonishment which slowly began to turn into disgust, "What have you done?"

"I redecorated," Sirius said proudly.

Narcissa stayed silent as her emotions roiled inside her. She was violently upset by Sirius's actions; she had never done anything to him but try and protect him from their parents. Regulus and Sirius were her little brothers and she had never wanted anything but their safety and a less turbulent childhood then she had been blessed with. Regulus was easy because he was born with the survival drive that Narcissa had been born with, but Sirius was a different story because he apparently had been born without the natural will to survive at all costs. He continually swam against the riptide current that was their mother.

Sirius was looking at her quizzically, "Struck speechless?"

"YOU IDIOT!" Narcissa exploded, "YOU BLOODY FUCKING IDIOT! I have spent most of my childhood trying to teach you the survival skills for this house, and all you can do is just throw it back into my face just so you can stick it to our mother's. Well you know what Sirius? I think I have done all I want to do to help you anymore. Because clearly it didn't mean anything to you when I missed the Christmas Ball so you wouldn't be home alone with Kreacher when you had dragon pox, or when I polished the rest of the silver when you were eight because you didn't have time to finish."

"That was you?" Sirius asked.

"Nor did it matter to you when I distracted our mother while you re-hung the drapes after you and Regulus accidentally pulled them off they're hangers, or when I put the salve on the cuts on your back from when she whipped you and the bruises from when she hit you. I'm tired of looking out for someone who won't even look out for themselves occasionally. So consider yourself officially on your own. Congratulations Sirius," Narcissa finished, she had worked herself up until she was almost in tears. She stared at Sirius through her watery grey eyes for a moment before she turned on her heel and walked out of the doorway shutting the door quietly behind her.
As always Narcissa moved as if she were a ghost in her own home. She dabbed at her eyes with the sleeve of her robe and planted an eager smile on her face before she opened her bedroom door and entered.

"Cissy! What do you think?" Bella asked twirling in a circle in the center of their room. She had already changed for the ball; she was wearing a black satin dress, which was fastened around her neck. The dress pooled around her feet elegantly so that she would have to lift it in a sophisticated manner in order to walk, her black hair was straight and fanning around her all the way down past her elbows. She looked beautiful and there was a rare light in her eyes.

"Bella you look dazzling! You're beautiful, but what's got you so happy?" Narcissa asked her twin sister curiously. There were only two things that made Bella that happy.

"Rudolphus just sent me this!" Bella said handing a folded letter to her sister before she twirled again.

Narcissa opened and quickly scanned it; Rudolphus would be at the Malfoy's Christmas Ball. He had been worried that he wouldn't be able to make it because he had transferred to Durmstrang for his seventh year and Durmstrang's break started later then Hogwarts's. The letter said that Rudolphus's family had pulled some strings, and he'd done some extra work so that he could be allowed to come home a day early to attend the ball with his family.

"Bella! This is great! You'll finally get to see him again," Narcissa said smiling.

Though Bella and Cissy were only in their third year, as daughters of the Black family they had been betrothed to older men practically from birth. Their Mother hadn't wanted to tell them yet, because she couldn't see how it would make a difference at their age. However, Bella knew she was betrothed to Rudolphus because they had been discovered together at last year's Christmas Ball; Narcissa still didn't know who she would be marrying.

Bella smiled radiantly, "I can't hardly wait till I can see him and touch him again," she exclaimed excitedly.

"Oh, too much information Bella," Narcissa said blushing and turning to her own dress. She was wearing an emerald green dress that barely brushed the floor except for the small train out the back. The back of the dress was pretty much non-existent, the fabric came together at her lower back and the dress tied up around her neck. In her opinion, being that the natural colors God had given her were so bland, she could wear any bright color she wanted and she preferred the emerald green of Slytherin. She slipped into her dress and turned to her sister and asked, "What do you think?"

Bella brushed her sister off and said, "Oh come now Cissy! You've never looked less than stunning a day in your life. Don't act as if you don't know exactly what I'll say. Come on let's go!" Bella said grabbing her sister's hand and her high heels before hurrying down the stairs to meet her parents and Regulus to go to the Ball.

Narcissa took her silver heels from Bella at the bottom of the staircase and slipped them on before she took her father's offered arm and he apparated into the foyer of Malfoy Mansion.

Bellatrix and Narcissa stood in a corner of the room together gossiping about the adults around them and trying to avoid being forced into conversation with any of the matrons, or older pureblood ministry men. Suddenly someone appeared behind Bellatrix and slipped his arms around her waist.

"Hello beautiful," Rudolphus said as Bellatrix turned around in the circle of his arms a radiant smile on her face.

"Rudolphus!" She greeted him, "I can't believe you're really here!" She said before she kissed him fully on the mouth.

Narcissa forced a smile onto her face and said, "It's nice to see you Rudolphus," she returned his polite nod before excusing herself and exiting the ballroom trying to figure out where to go now to avoid unwanted conversations.

"Cissy!" she heard a male voice call enthusiastically and then a decidedly masculine hand found hers.

Narcissa turned around and saw Lucius Malfoy standing behind her holding her hand, "Hello Lucius," Narcissa said smiling at him.

Lucius was two years older than her in school and he was very popular with young witches at Hogwarts because of his fine features and his family. Narcissa had a crush on him since they first met at the first ball she had been allowed to attend. She would never forget the way he had caught her when she stumbled on the stairs that led from the balcony to the ballroom and broke the heel to her shoe. He had carried her into the ballroom and set her on a chair where he had then used magic to fix her shoe and asked her to dance.

"Cissy, where are you going? You haven't danced with me yet," Lucius said smiling his dangerous smile at her and looking directly into her grey eyes. He reached his hand out and tugged on a strand of hair that had fallen over her shoulder, "We always dance together at these Balls."

Narcissa smiled a pretty blush spreading across her cheeks, "You always insist," she said fluttering her eyelashes at him and looking down at the floor before meeting his grey eyes with her own again.

"You're the only girl I want to dance with," Lucius said smiling at her and using the hand he still held to pull her closer to him until their faces were very close.

"Really?" Narcissa asked. She was hoping against hope that he wasn't just pulling a prank, and also that he would kiss her before pulling away. She could feel her blush spreading as she glanced at his lips. She had never been kissed before; she wondered what it would be like to have Lucius Malfoy be her first kiss. Her blush deepened when she wondered fleetingly if he would be able to tell she'd never been kissed.

Lucius's smile slowly grew as he noticed the flick of her eyes towards his lips followed by a deepening of her blush, "Good," he thought relieved, "She's thinking exactly what I'm thinking. I guess she isn't the only girl to be able to resist me, because she can't." After that thought he took his other hand and gently cupped her face with it, he gazed into her pale eyes a moment longer before he leaned in and pressed his lips to hers.

Narcissa thought she was going to faint. This was better than she had ever imagined. In fact, nothing could be better than this.

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Narcissa Malfoy jolted awake in her bed, she lay there panting for a moment and then reached to the other side of her bed for her husband Lucius. In that moment, in the dark, it took her a moment to realize that the reason her husband wasn't by her side was because he in the wizarding prison, Azkaban.

She sighed heavily; so many things had gone wrong since that wonderful night of her first kiss with Lucius. First things seemed like they were only going terribly right, it turned out Lucius was the pureblood boy that Narcissa had been betrothed too, they got married after Narcissa had graduated from Hogwarts, and they had their son Draco.

Then the Dark Lord had fallen and Lucius narrowly escaped having to be sent to prison then. Their family home, Malfoy Mansion, had been searched, invasively, and often, for Dark relics to prove that Lucius was not under the Imperius Curse when he helped the Dark Lord. Then, Lucius was caught on a mission in the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic trying to capture Harry Potter to bring to the Dark Lord, and now, even worse. Her son Draco had willingly taken his place, and his life and future were now endangered because he was too young to understand that the Dark Lord was a vengeful one.

Narcissa found she often dreamed of her husband, and of the happy days they shared when Draco was young and the Dark Lord was protecting them. She missed him desperately. She missed her son desperately.

"Goodnight Lucius," she whispered into the dark.