"Wake up Narcissa! Wake up! It's the first day!" Tiffany began to bounce on the end of Narcissa's bed. The poor confused Narcissa jumped up. She saw Tiffany jumping on the end of the bed and she fell back into her pillow slightly relieved that it was only her.
"What time is it?" Narcissa asked covering her eyes with the back of her hand.
"Six." Raven answered brushing her short black hair in front of the mirror. Narcissa groaned and rolled out of bed.
"Okay, I'm getting in the shower." She started walking to the showers just slightly down the hall when she ran into Silver. She had apparently just come from the showers as her hair was wet and hanging down her back and she was wearing a bathrobe.
"Hey Narcissa, saved a shower for you." She winked and then headed into their room.
After her nice fifteen-minute shower, Narcissa walked back to her room and started getting dressed. Silver pulled her wand out and hit Narcissa with a quick spell that dried her hair completely.
"Hey!" Narcissa said almost amazed. "How did you do that?" She felt her hair and then began to brush it. Silver shrugged.
"Just something I picked up from my mother, no one wants wet hair when they go out." She smiled and finished putting her hair in a high ponytail. Narcissa finished with her hair as well and straightened up her uniform. She then slid on her shoes and followed Silver out of the room.
The great hall wasn't as full as it was the night before and people were lazing around getting their mail and reading the paper. People were coming in at different times and leaving to be early for classes. Narcissa sat down at the Slitherin table and began eating off of the clean plate that had just burst into food. She ate some eggs and bacon before pushing the plate away. Just then her owl flew in and dropped a letter before flying off again. Narcissa rolled her eyes, that owl was terrified of everything, it was no surprise it didn't stop to eat some toast or something. She opened the letter to see that it was from her mother.
Dear Narcissa,
I hope you are having a good time; I want to know what house you got in! I hope you're behaving like a proper young lady, and you better get all good marks, I didn't put you in higher level classes for you to fail them! Owl me all the time, love!
Love from,
Your dearest Mother
Narcissa smiled. Her mother was already worried. It was sad really, ever since the incident with Narcissa's oldest sister Andromeda, her mother was always concerned with what her daughters were doing. Andromeda was disowned from the family for getting pregnant with a mudblood's child. Narcissa was told to never talk about her older sister. She was strictly forbidden to see her or mention her. But Narcissa sometimes sent letters to Andromeda; she still loved her sister, even if she married a filthy mudblood.
"Narcissa?" A voice said from behind her. She turned to see Malfoy standing behind her; somewhat relieved he had the right name. He sat next to her, wearing his cloak and scarf around his neck, only this time it was Slytherin colors. "Are you ready for our first class." She nodded, how could she forget the only class she shared with him?
"I've got my books, I was planning on leaving to find the classroom." She explained resting a hand on her pile of books.
"Ah yes, well don't bother, I can walk you there after I get my mail." He said looking up at the owls searching for his own. Finally he recognized one of them and it flew down to him. It carried a little package in its claws that Lucius quickly took away. He opened it up to reveal a brilliant looking set of leather gloves. He scoffed. "Mother seems to think I need to keep warm all the time…" he pulled out the small card under the gloves. "Keep warm." He recited from the card. He tossed it with a roll of his eyes.
"Its nice that she's thinking of you." Narcissa offered with a polite smile.
"Yeah well, there is such a thing as smothering someone." He stated simply as he tried on the gloves.
"I know what you mean, my mother is the same way." She said not going into detail. Lucius smiled at her.
"We should get going to class, we have fifteen minutes to get there and the staircases do move about." He stood up and offered his hand to help her stand as well. She took it with a light blush and a thank-you, and the two left the great hall.
"So tell me about yourself Narcissa, I'm curious how someone as intelligent and lovely as you survives in a house with Bellatrix Black." Obviously he and Bellatrix were enemies with the way he spoke about her but Narcissa wouldn't let it bug her.
"Well, there isn't much to say, I'm the youngest in my family, and I hate sitting around inside." She told him. The truth was, she wasn't very interesting, she didn't want to go on about herself and bore him to death. Lucius just nodded as he led her up the stairs. They climbed about three flights of stairs as Narcissa was forced to go into detail on how she was tutored. When they finally reached the classroom they were right on time. The other students were filling in and sitting at tables. Lucius chose one closer to the back and made Narcissa sit with him. The teacher came into the room, it was some crazy man named Phillips, and he made sure you addressed him as such. He went around putting setting down tea cups on each table, his face somewhat resembled that of a curious mouse.
"Open to page three hundred and twenty seven." Phillips told the class before wondering over to some boy and asking about their shoes. Narcissa looked down at what appeared to be a guide to determine what each symbol in the tealeaves of your cup meant.
"This class is complete jive." Lucius whispered to Narcissa as he crushed his tealeaves.
"Alright I want you to look into your partners cup and figure out what lies ahead for them!" He threw his arms in the air to make it sound like it was more interesting that what it really was. Lucius grabbed Narcissa's cup and began searching through the book. Narcissa glanced into the teacup in front of her and raised her hand. Lucius looked at her curiously. Phillips came over right away and leaned over her shoulder to see in the cup.
"Professor-"
"Phillips." Phillips corrected her.
"Yes, um, this is very strange, and I'm not sure if I'm reading it right…" She pointed to a little splotch in the bottom of the cup. Phillips chewed on the bottom of his lip.
"Well I won't lie to you boy." He said directing his attention to Lucius. "You're going to help make some drastic changes in this world." Lucius grinned, that sounded good to him. Phillips shook his head and continued looking through peoples cups, every once in a while he would say something like "Oh my!" and "Mhm, thought so! Thought so!" Lucius finally finished looking through the book and turned to Narcissa, her cup in his hand.
"Well, You have a sun… and you have a bunch of other little squiggly things over here… and that blotch there means…" Narcissa held back a laugh as he tried to figure it all out. "Your going to go on a date with me tonight, and you're going to have the time of your life." Narcissa blushed furiously and grabbed the cup from his hands.
"It doesn't say that!" She protested looking into the cup. Lucius laughed, a laugh that made Narcissa's heart melt. "But I would love to go."
After the class had finished and Phillips had peeked into everyone's teacup, the class was released and had ten minutes to get to their next class. Narcissa parted ways with Lucius and promised to meet him at lunch, before running down all the flights of stairs to the dungeons. It was a long walk but she made it. She caught Severus standing just outside the door to the class with a scowl on his face.
"Severus!" Narcissa called out. His face softened upon seeing her. "What's wrong?"
"Oh nothing, we just have a potions class with the Griffindors." He explained following her into the classroom. The teacher at the front desperately tried to get the classes attention.
"Class? Class!" At his last yell the room became silent. Severus and Narcissa sat down at the only remaining desk. "Now, today's class will be something simple, since your minds must be empty from the summer. I want you all to try and make a simple healing potion. I don't really care what it heals, but as long as it works. You should all know how to make it because its first year knowledge. Remember, if you screw up, the consequences wont be too bad, but let's just say your partner wont thank you." The rest of the class began to chatter as they started mixing things into their cauldrons.
"You do know what your doing don't you?" Narcissa asked as she watched Severus start to dump things into the cauldron.
"I know a little something about potions." He shrugged as he finished adding ingredients. "There, now all we have to do is wait for it bubble and its complete." Severus seemed very confident so Narcissa relaxed.
"So… Lucius asked me to go on a date with him tonight." Narcissa informed Severus, she felt he was a close friend and seemed trust worthy enough. Severus' eyes went wide as he soaked in this news.
"He asked you on a date?" He seemed shocked causing Narcissa to frown. "No-no, it's just, he never really likes people, he's very full of himself you know, and plenty of times a girl in our year would ask him out and he would turn them down, that and he's a real jerk to everyone. You must be something else Narcissa Black." Severus explained feeling almost happy that his friend could make a breakthrough, even if he, himself, never could. Narcissa was beaming.
"Wow, I had no idea… I had assumed that he had been on lots of dates…" She stopped to think about this a little bit. Had he really turned down a bunch of girls?
"It's done." Severus said stirring the cauldron a little bit more before grabbing a beaker.
"I'll try it." Narcissa offered rolling up her sleeve and making a small cut on her arm. This act made Severus warm; he never had a real friend other than Lucius. Narcissa really trusting him with this. He handed the potion to her and she chugged it down. The cut on her arm instantly vanished.
"Mmm, tastes like cherry Pez…" She said licking her lips, Severus smiled and took back the glass. A big blast was heard from the other side of the room. The professor went running over.
"Mister Potter! You should have known not to mix in the crow's foot! Now look what you've done! Mister Black calm down please! I'll fix you up." Narcissa's cousin Sirius Black had grown large green boils all over his skin and began screaming. Narcissa tried to hide her embarrassment but noticed that Severus was looking at her.
"That's my cousin… how embarrassing is that." She let out a giggle and began to help Severus clean up.
The rest of the day went by fairly slow, probably because Narcissa wanted it over with so much. She had spent lunch talking with Silver so she couldn't really talk to Lucius at all, he didn't seem to mind though, and he just listened in. But now was supper and after that would be her date with Lucius! She sat down at the table between Severus and Lucius who were already eating. Silver ran over and sat across from her and both of their plates suddenly had food on them.
"Narcissa, you'll never believe what I just did…" She waited for Narcissa to ask but she could barely keep it in. "Ok, you know that red haired chick in Griffindor?" Narcissa nodded. "Well I saw her heading for the washrooms so I ran in and took all the toilet paper out! And then she went in!" she waited for everyone to laugh.
"And?" Lucius asked, assuming like the rest of them that there was more to it.
"And? And nothing! She went into the bathroom without any toilet paper! She was probably freaking out in there!" She burst into a fit of laughter as the rest of them just continued eating.
"So I was thinking we could go for a walk into the forest." Lucius said to Narcissa who stopped eating and looked at him.
"But aren't they forbidden?" She asked continuing to eat again.
"Well, yeah but who's going to know?" He asked looking defiant. Narcissa shrugged, she couldn't help herself, she did really want to go into the woods, and she loved the forest, and just because there were apparently bad things living in there, didn't make it a bad place.
After dinner had ended, Lucius took Narcissa outside. They started heading for the forest until they heard something and stopped. It sounded like someone was saying Snape. They walked around a large rock to see a group of boys picking on Severus who was sitting under a tree trying to read. They were calling him names and grabbing his books so that they could toss them around. Lucius clenched his fists.
"You stay here Narcissa…" He said quickly before walking over to the group of boys. "What have we here? Potter and his gang of misfits?" He asked giving them all a glare. "How unfortunate that you would decide to pick on someone much more smarter, and better than you are. If I were you, I'd clear out of here fast before I might be forced to pull out my wand." The boys looked nervously at each other before one or two of them ran off leaving Potter and Sirius alone. Lucius gave them a look and edged his hand closer to his wand. They booked it back into the castle quick as lightning. Severus looked up and smiled.
"Thanks." He said simply before going back into his book. Lucius nodded and made his way back to Narcissa. He placed his hand in her hand and thus continued on their walk to the forest.
"That was nice, what you did for Severus." She said quietly. Lucius didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth were slightly pointed up. They walked into the forest and down a dirt trail. He held her close as they began to weave through trees. And just when Narcissa was sure they had gotten lost, they burst into a clearing where a bunch of flowers were growing. Lucius sat down in the middle of it and Narcissa followed.
"Well this is it." He said picking a flower and giving it to her.
"It's perfect." She said simply before laying back into the flowers. Lucius rested his head in his hand and watched her pick the pedals of the flowers. He was acting weird, he never had a thought towards a girl before, they were useless and stupid and not worth wasting time. But when he saw Narcissa, and how beautiful she was, his mind started to change, and that change went into overdrive when he realized how smart she was. He may have only been twelve years old, but he was beginning to understand love songs.
A/N: Just to clear things up, when I started this I couldnt help thinking they had to be like normal teenagers of the time, even if they were wizards, so if you read oldschool slang, its just me showing that they arent completely cut off from the muggle world. :)
-Teenfox
