A/N: The three sisters, after a lifetime of loss and darkness, are reunited. This picks up from the last chapter, though there is a big time jump, and is almost like an extension of the same scene I wrote in my How Do I Love Thee? collection.

Submission for:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments): Defense Against the Dark Arts Assignment #6.2 - Write about the characters being reunited.

Broaden Your Horizons Challenge (Platonic Pairings): Write about a family reunion or the return of a long lost relative

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.


Andromeda walked among the motionless bodies which littered the destroyed stone floor. Some were left alone with no one there to collect them; others were surrounded by mourning friends and family. Some were covered in blood, damaged beyond recognition; others looked like they were only sleeping if not for the scared expression frozen on their faces.

She had just left her daughter and son-in-law, putting them in Molly Weasley's care, while she searched for another. Though it hurt to look away from her little girl, to think of the fact that she would no longer see a smile flutter across the young woman's face as quickly as her hair colour changed, she still turned away and began her search. There was someone that she had to see for herself.

Eventually she found her laying next to large piece of fallen ceiling. She had definitely changed from the last time she saw her. Then, she had luxurious jet black locks that would make the boys' heads spin and Andromeda was often jealous of. Her skin would glow and her eyes would glitter as she spoke about the things she loved (mostly things of dark and sinister natures). However now, she was but a shell of that girl. She was wearing her signature black robes, her small, malnourished body swallowed up by the billowing fabric. Her eyes were wide open, her mouth opened in a scream of surprise as she stared unblinkingly up at the sky that peeked through the holes above.

But despite all this, even in death, her sister was still beautiful.

Footsteps on her right prompted Andromeda to look up. A woman stood there, long blonde hair cascading down her shoulder, greyed with age and grime from fallen debris. Her large blue eyes, darker now than she remembered, swam with tears as the woman looked not at the body, but at her.

She hadn't seen Narcissa for almost thirty years but she could still remember the little girl who couldn't sleep at night because Bella had told her about the monster under her bed, the same girl that she had taught how to swim, the same girl who begged her not to leave many nights ago.

But now the past was to be put in the past. Now was a time for families to draw close to one another. Andromeda opened her arms and Narcissa ran toward her, wrapping her own arms around Andromeda's waist as her tears streamed freely down her cheeks.

It had taken a war full of blood and death for them to be finally be reunited, and though the Light had won, everyone had lost.