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This chapter is a bit – I don't know cuter, fluffier? Whatever, please enjoy!

Chapter 4 – Narcissa

When Sirius woke up his whole body was aching. He felt dizzy and when he opened his eyes all he could see was blurry lilac walls and very bright sunlight. He blinked a few times. "Ah, you are awake." He heard an impassive voice from right beside him. With some unexpected pain Sirius shifted his head a bit to look at the small figure sitting at the edge of the sofa he was lying on. Narcissa was looking down on him with a mixture of concern and anger. "What were you thinking?", she exhaled. "You don't mess with Bella. You just don't do it."
"I beg your pardon!", Sirius snorted aggravated. "I just protected you."
"I didn't ask for your protection and - stay still!", she added pushing him down as he tried to sit up and face her. "I've healed your wounds and put some tincture on the cuts, but you're still in no condition for sudden movements."
"I don't understand you. Why do you let her do this? That damn bitch humiliated you, she would have tortured you!" Sirius shouted irritated.
"No she wouldn't. Leave her alone." Narcissa's calm voice now had an angry edge to it as well.
"Stop defending her. Don't you see what she has done to you?" Sirius yelled, pushing her hand away and sitting upright. He regretted it moments later, when a sharp pain ran through his entire body.
"Well at least she cares!" Sirius looked at his younger cousin and to his horror there were tears in her bright blue eyes. He had never seen Narcissa getting teary or whiny. She angrily brushed away the tears, but it was no use. "At least Bella doesn't ignore me. She just wants me to become like her, she wants to help me, since I'm such a failure."
Sirius continued to look at her. "What the hell are you talking about?", he asked her.
Narcissa got up went over to a desk and stuffed a piece of paper into his hand. "Look at this!", she commanded. Sirius looked down at the paper. It seemed to be an end of term report.
"What is your problem?", he asked, not getting her point at all. "That are very good grades, Narcissa. Only one A in Care of magical creatures and you have an O in Potions and charms. Everything else is a straight E. It's good."
"Yeah right." Narcissa snorted ironically. "Very good. My sisters had like 7 Os each when they were in their 5th year. There is no such thing as an A for a Black girl. I'm not even a prefect or a member of the quidditch team. I never won any awards or prices; I don't even look like a Black. The only reason why people respect me is because my older sister scared them for good while she was still at school. To my parents I'm just the third daughter and a disappointment. Did you watch them as we arrived? It's like I don't even exist. They treat me like I'm not even there, and Andromeda does the same. She never cared."
Sirius put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure they care about you. They love you…" Narcissa brushed his hand away angrily.
"You have no idea.", she spat out.
"Maybe.", he sighed. "At least that explains why you are such a total bitch at school."
She glared at him. Then, flipping her hair back in a familiar and snobbish way she said defensively: "Well, what am I supposed to do? I don't have a lot of friends like you do. So the only ones who hang out with me are people without an own opinion or those who remember Bella telling them to better be nice to me if they don't want to end up dangling from the astronomy tower."
"Maybe you should try to find some real friends… in other houses maybe." Sirius suggested. "Yeah right." Narcissa snarled. "Like I want to have anything to do with some blood traitors and moodblood-scum. As if they want to be friends with me anyway."
"Why not? I would be your friend, I mean Andromeda and I get along as well."
"Don't make me laugh!" Narcissa sneered. "You never talk to Andy in public. You don't give a damn about me anyway… don't deny it!" she went on as Sirius opened his mouth to interrupt her. "Do you even know this is my room? You never came here before, right? Do you know anything about me? Or Bella? Or Andy? Have you ever talked for me for more than ten minutes of forced conversation at the dinner table? You always act like you are the rebellious and cool guy, whose family rejected him, but you never really tried to fit in, did you? You never tried to like us or understand us! Don't you dare to judge Bella, Sirius! And don't you dare to judge me!" She said all this quite calmly but her voice slightly started to quiver in the end. Narcissa got up and turned for the door, but Sirius snatched her wrist.
"You are right. I judged you due to shallow assumptions. I'm sorry. I can understand that you love your family and that you want their approval… but don't you see how wrong all this is? All this fanatic pureblood stuff? And you are wrong about Bella. I know her, and I know sides of her that you would not consider so admirable." Narcissa slightly shook her head.
"Don't you see?", she whispered. "My family is everything to me. No matter what they believe in, no matter what they do, I would never ever betray them."
She fixed him with her gaze, looking both very insecure and hurt but yet determent. Sirius didn't know what to say so he just pulled her towards him and hugged her. Narcissa was clearly startled, but after a second of consideration she leaned her head against his chest and started to sob silently into his shoulder.

It was Andromeda who found them. She opened the door without knocking, talking in the same annoyed tone she always used confronting her younger sister. "Cissy, where have you been? Rudolpus has arrived, Mum and Dad want you to greet him –" She stopped very abruptly. Narcissa jumped up and brought as much distance between her and Sirius with a speed Sirius hadn't thought possible. Sirius tried to catch Andromeda's eye but she was staring at her younger sister who was facing the window. "What?" Narcissa snapped, still with her back turned to her sister. "Tell them I'll be there in a minute, I'll just fix my make-up."
Andromeda seemed too startled to retort. She nodded and left the room, leaving the door open. "Stop staring like a goggling gargoyle!", she rounded on Sirius. "I've to fix my make-up, get out!"
Sirius shook his head in confusion. He got up and went to the door, but before he left he turned to his little cousin once more. "Gosh, Cissy", he said, smirking slightly, "you're such a bitch."

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