Narcissa pulled her wand out of the pocket of her robes, but Penelope was faster. The Selywn girl pulled her own wands out and pointed it at Narcissa.
"Expelliarmus." shrieked Penelope.
Narcissa felt her wand fly out of her hand and Penelope caught it in her free one, grinning in smug satisfaction. Her eyes widened in horror as she backed into the living room as Penelope slowly walked towards her with a look that told Narcissa that she intended to harm her. As Penelope entered the room, she locked all the doors and windows with a flick of her wand, making Narcissa defenceless and with no means of escape.
"What do you want?" asked Narcissa coldly.
Penelope gave her an evil grin and placed Narcissa's wand in her pocket.
"A chat." Penelope replied innocently.
Narcissa scoffed, "What exactly could you want to chat to me about?" she questioned.
"Lucius of course." answered Penelope.
Narcissa frowned, her heart beating fast in her chest as Penelope pocketed her own wand and pulled out a knife.
"What about Lucius?" asked Narcissa.
Penelope blinked and laughed harshly, making Narcissa shiver.
"I love him. Everything that you have with him, I want for myself." hissed Penelope.
Narcissa chuckled in disbelief, it had been nearly three years since Lucius had broken off his arrangement with Penelope and it was evident that Penelope still had a thing for Lucius.
"Oh Penelope, haven't you ever heard of moving on?" asked Narcissa in an amused tone.
Penelope glared at her then, stroking the knife gently as if it were a kitten, this made Narcissa's heart beat faster in fear and worry. Narcissa knew that without her wand, Penelope could seriously hurt her. She had a feeling that Penelope was here to get rid of her because the Selwyn girl wanted to be with Lucius and to get what she wanted, she needed to get rid of anything that stood in her way.
"I cannot move on, Lucius is the only one for me. He just needs to give me a chance but you have always been in the way." Penelope spat.
Narcissa didn't say anything, all she could think of was hoping that Lucius would be home soon. There was nothing she could do to get rid of Penelope, she was wandless and Penelope was the one in charge.
"You know I studied Muggle Studies at school?" mused Penelope.
Narcissa shook her head.
"Yes, it's rather fascinating and after Lucius made me leave I was home educated. When I got my job at the Ministry, I made an acquaintance with a mudblood who told me how he was glad to have gone to Hogwarts because his uncle had murdered someone. I offered my ear, listened. But really, I was fascinated with how this mudblood's uncle used a knife to stab the person he killed repeatedly because this person had destroyed his life. The uncle wanted to inflict pain before he gave his victim a release." explained Penelope.
Narcissa said nothing, her face was white from the horror as she finally understood what Penelope was going to do to her.
"I wouldn't be wishing for Lucius to return quite quickly. By the time he's home, you'll be dead." hissed Penelope.
Narcissa's eyes widened as Penelope stalked towards her, knife raised and pointed towards her chest.
Lucius rolled his eyes as the meeting continued, he had been stuck in this meeting for nearly two hours now. Listening to the ramblings of the Minister about new laws that they may be passing. How this had been classed as an urgent meeting, Lucius didn't know. He couldn't care less about what laws the Minister was proposing be put in to stop the war against Voldemort, not that Millicent Bagnold knew but Lucius was just telling his master everything that happened within the Ministry anyway.
When the Minister finally declared the meeting over, Lucius looked at his watch. He had said to Narcissa to expect him home for dinner and it was now seven in the evening, she had probably eaten her meal without him. As everyone piled out of the office, one of the muggleborn employees bumped into him.
"Watch where you're going." Lucius snapped.
"S-sorry Sir." stuttered the man.
Lucius rolled his eyes as he watched the man scramble out of the office, he exited the room and found Rabastan waiting outside for him. Only Rabastan wasn't alone, the muggleborn man who had bumped into him was talking to Rabastan.
"So let me get this straight? You've got a thing for Penelope Selwyn?" asked Rabastan in an amused tone.
The man nodded, "She's been a friend to me." said the man.
"Well you are correct to assume I know Miss Selwyn and frankly, you best stay away." chuckled Rabastan.
"But she's amazing, I could help her. She was hurt some years ago by Lucius Malfoy!" the man snapped.
Lucius coughed and the muggleborn turned around, clearly he hadn't been expecting Lucius to have heard the last of the conversation.
"Mr Malfoy-
"What's your name?" Lucius demanded.
"Mark, Mark Smith." replied the man.
"Well Mark, you've been talking to my friend about Selwyn?" asked Lucius.
"I merely inquired because I was told that Mr Lestrange knew Miss Selwyn." said Mark.
Lucius nodded curtly, "I didn't hurt Penelope, she was a psycho." he said.
"Penelope said that it was because of your fiance Mr Malfoy." said Mark.
Lucius rolled his eyes and just as he and Rabastan were about to head towards the lifts, he stopped in his tracks by something that Mark had said.
"Penelope said she wanted to get revenge on your fiance."
Lucius turned around and marched towards the muggleborn, gripping the front of shirt angrily.
"What did you say?" Lucius growled.
"P-Penelope said t-that M-M-Miss Black stood b-between you a-and her b-back at Hogwarts. S-she said that Miss B-Black m-made h-her life miserable and she wanted t-to g-get b-back at her."
Lucius let go of Mark's shirt and rushed back to Rabastan.
"Have you seen Penelope today?" he asked quickly.
Rabastan shook his head, "No, when I went down to her boss's office at lunch I asked where she was. Her boss said that Penelope had written him a note to say that she had things to take of that were of personal importance." Rabastan replied.
Lucius's felt the blood drain from his face as he realised that his gut feeling that Penelope was watching him had been right. Penelope had been watching him because she was waiting for the right time where she could go to the manor to confront Narcissa.
"You don't think she's got Cissy?" asked Rabastan in a panicky tone of voice.
The doors to the lift pinged open and the two men rushed inside and pressed the button for the Atrium. Lucius had never before been so eager to get home, he needed to get to Narcissa before something bad happened.
"It wouldn't be the first time that Penelope has tried to hurt Narcissa." came Lucius's reply.
Rabastan looked shocked, those who knew what had happened between Lucius, Penelope and Narcissa knew that the Selwyn girl was unhinged but it had been three years since the girl had graduated and three years was a long time to hold a grudge, everyone had just assumed that Penelope had moved on from Lucius. But now Rabastan realised that wasn't the case.
As the doors opened up to the Atrium, the two men discovered that the fireplaces were offline. Lucius demanded that one be opened but the workers refused to budge. Lucius left the Ministry via the visitor's entrance with Rabastan, they had no choice but to apparate to the gates of the manor. Lucius could only hope that he would get there in time.
