Material Girl

Disclaimers: Most of the characters do not belong to me. Thank you.

(Narcissa's Thoughts are in Brackets.)

The next few months flew by like a dream for Narcissa. Whenever Lucius's smugness or big-headedness got on her nerves he'd kiss her and everything would feel alright again. There were occasions where even a look would send shivers down her spine.

But eventually, it seemed that no amount of romance could distract Narcissa from Bellatrix's odd behaviour. She'd become bitter and even more sarcastic. Her usual playful sense of humour diminished into a cruel occasionally sadistic one. Above all, she had become what no one would've ever thought or hoped: Quiet. Narcissa just had to find out what was wrong.
"Hey, Andro?" she said, approaching Andromeda in the Slytherin Common Room. It was about 11 O' Clock at night a few days before the christmas holidays were due to start.
"You, Narcissa Perenelle Black, should be in bed!" Andromeda warned in a friendly way. She raised her Lumos-lit wand. "Even if you are a prefect! It's not your duty tonight!"
"I know, Andro, Have you seen Trixy anywhere? I'm worried about her." she asked, folding her arms.
"I haven't seen her for a while. She went in the bathroom about an hour ago and she hasn't come out." she replied, obviously not too bothered.
"Do you think she might've been sick or something?" she asked, starting to worry even more. "Have you heard her?"
"Nope. I haven't heard a splutter. Sorry." (She isn't sorry, but I suppose it wouldn't matter even if she was.)
"Alright. I'm going to go look for her." she said. "Night." Without waiting for permission, she made her way to the bathroom just outside the Slytherin common room entrance.

The first thing she noticed as she entered the bathroom was an entoxicating smell (That is repulsive!!!). It seemed to be leaking from a sink filled with a strange green liquid (What is that?). Standing next to the sink was Bellatrix. She was holding her wand in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other.
"Bellatrix!!!" Narcissa shouted in shock. "What are you doing?!?!"
Bellatrix glanced at her then turned back to the sink.
"Trixy..." Narcissa started trying to reason with her.
"Stop calling me that! I'm not a widdle baby like poor widdle Sissa!" she hissed. She put her wand down in the green liquid and it started stirring. She held the scissors up to about her shoulders.
"Trix... Bellatrix! What are you doing?" she begged.
Without replying, in a few quick movements, Bellatrix had cut her own hair. What used to be long silky locks was now shoulder length and jagged.
"Bella... Your hair..." Narcissa gasped, she had adored her older sisters hair.
"Yes, Now get lost so I can dye it!" she sneered, pointing to the rippling brown liquid.
"Mum will be angry." she stammered. (Like that's going to stop her! Oh! It's worth a shot!)
"Aw! Widdle Sissa thinks I care! How sweet!" she taunted.
"Why are you being like this?!?! Is it because I'm a prefect and you're not? Is it because I have a boyfriend and you don't? Why?!?!" Narcissa shouted.
"I don't care that you've got yourself a snotty job! I don't care that you've got yourself a snotty boyfriend! I just don't care!" she smirked. "Now, Get out of my face!" she pushed Narcissa out the door and kicked her so she tripped up.

Tears pricked in Narcissa's eyes (What has happened to her? Why is she likes this?). She picked herself up and dragged herself back to the common room.
"Liquorice Wand." she muttered the password to the stone wall entrance. It opened and she burst into the common room.
"What happened?!?!" Andromeda asked, looking from Narcissa's face to her knees. Narcissa looked down to see that her tights had torn and her knees were bleeding.
"She's gone insane!" she said, bursting into tears. Andromeda hugged her.
"I knew she'd be the first one." she said, attempting to be comforting. "She never was normal."
"She's a completely different person. She's not even a person anymore, She's a monster!" she cried on Andromeda's shoulder.

The pair silenced as the common room door opened loudly. In the doorway stood a total stranger. A girl with jagged shoulder-length brown hair stood there.
"BELLATRIX!!!!" Andromeda shouted after and before a few seconds of opening and closing her mouth like a goldfish. She was mortified.
"Oh, I suppose you two are going to bang me in detention, aren't you?" Bellatrix sneered. "Adorable widdle prefects!" (Somehow, I think Andromeda is becoming my favorite sister.)
"Get. To. Bed. NOW." Andromeda gasped heavily and angrily.
Bellatrix laughed then finally did as she was told.
When she was well and truely out the room, Andromeda piped up. "She definitely has gone insane..."

Neither of them talked to Bellatrix. Lucius seemed sympathetic.
"It's always so hard when people change." he said about two days later. He and Narcissa were sat on a stone bench in the Castle courtyard. There was a thick blanket of snow lying on the ground.
"You sound like you speak from experience. Well?" she asked quietly.
"Not really. But it's true, nonetheless." he drawled. He looked down at his watch. "Oh! I've got to go do something. I'll see you later, love." he kissed her forehead then left without any further explanation. (Everyone's gone so weird. I'd talk to Violet, but she'd probably tell everyone else about my problems. Andromeda will help. She's probably in the common room doing homework.)

She made her way to the common room. She couldn't see Andromeda anywhere but she could see two people spread out on a couch kissing. One with Brown hair and one with long blonde hair.
It was Lucius and Bellatrix. Neither one of them seemed like they were being forced into kissing.
"LUCIUS!!!" Narcissa shouted. "HOW COULD YOU?!?!?"
"Narcissa, it's not what it looks like." Lucius said breaking off the kiss slightly.
"Oh, so that's not my sister you're kissing?" she howled, bursting into more tears than she had several nights ago.
She turned to make a dash to the door. Lucius tried getting up to stop her but Bellatrix pinned him down.
"Stop being mushy, big boy!" she laughed mischieviously.
"YOU BETRAYED ME! YOU BOTH BETRAYED ME!!!!" Narcissa screamed, running to the dormitory.