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**Narcissa's Thoughts**
Wedding Bells Just Turned to Rust
Chapter 14
"Lucius Malfoy, you are hereby cleared of all charges against you."
Narcissa watched from the gallery as the jury came back with their verdict but in truth she heard little of it, her head was spinning from her conversation with Severus.
**Why did I do that? What if they do convict him? Do I really want that, do I want revenge that badly?**
Lucius was smirking at his acquittal and at the way the minister was all but apologising for trying such an eminent figure in the first place.
**How the hell did the ministry defeat Voldemort? They can't even see through my husband, then again neither could I. Still, this is a sham! What if they believe my note's real! No, Dumbledore will defend him, that man isn't as daft as everybody thinks. Speak of the devil, why is he staring at me? Bloody idiot.**
Dumbledore gave her a look she had seen a thousand times at school, but it had never been aimed at her before.
Narcissa turned away from Dumbledore's piercing gaze back to her husband who was now leaving. **With any luck one day he'll choke to death on one of those bloody sherbet lemons of his, and I hope I'm there to watch!**
She rose to her feet and turned to leave, glancing back one last time at the look of disappointment on Dumbledore's face. **You really hate it when you can't save people don't you?** she thought glaring at the man and waltzing gracefully out of the courtroom.
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It was several weeks before she finally heard the outcome of Severus' trial, Lucius was reading the morning paper when he suddenly looked up disgustedly saying, "I can't believe it! The traitor got off! I mean, the ministry went to the lengths of planting evidence on him and they still don't manage to secure a conviction! The useless fools!"
"Sev got off?!" Narcissa had to work hard to stop her relief showing.
"Yes."
"That's awful. What does it say?"
"Just that it was proved that he was working as a spy for Dumbledore and wasn't a deatheater. Wasn't a deatheater! Hah! He certainly seemed to be doing what the rest of us were!"
Narcissa rose from the table, "I'm going to see Draco."
Lucius nodded distractedly and carried on reading the paper. Narcissa left the room and went up to the nursery where her son was, closing the door behind her and all but collapsing into tears of relief.
**I could have killed him, or worse actually! That was never what I wanted, oh God! I'm as bad as Lucius is, I keep thinking of myself as just another victim but I'm just the same, I'm just the same.**
The tears rolled relentlessly down her pale cheeks, over the last year or so her skin had lost it's colour and she looked almost sickly she was now so pale.
**Oh God Sev, I'm so sorry! I can't believe the person I've sunk to being!**
She looked up to see Draco standing up in his cot watching her silently. "Oh love," she picked him up and rocked him gently in her arms, "I may not have been the best of people but I promise you I will be the best mother I can be and I won't let him hurt you, you're going to make your own choices in life somehow, I'll make sure of it."
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A/N: Please Review!!! The next chapter is the only one which isn't from Narcissa's POV it's from Sev's. Lovely, Lovely Sev! I'll update again soon!
**Narcissa's Thoughts**
Wedding Bells Just Turned to Rust
Chapter 14
"Lucius Malfoy, you are hereby cleared of all charges against you."
Narcissa watched from the gallery as the jury came back with their verdict but in truth she heard little of it, her head was spinning from her conversation with Severus.
**Why did I do that? What if they do convict him? Do I really want that, do I want revenge that badly?**
Lucius was smirking at his acquittal and at the way the minister was all but apologising for trying such an eminent figure in the first place.
**How the hell did the ministry defeat Voldemort? They can't even see through my husband, then again neither could I. Still, this is a sham! What if they believe my note's real! No, Dumbledore will defend him, that man isn't as daft as everybody thinks. Speak of the devil, why is he staring at me? Bloody idiot.**
Dumbledore gave her a look she had seen a thousand times at school, but it had never been aimed at her before.
Narcissa turned away from Dumbledore's piercing gaze back to her husband who was now leaving. **With any luck one day he'll choke to death on one of those bloody sherbet lemons of his, and I hope I'm there to watch!**
She rose to her feet and turned to leave, glancing back one last time at the look of disappointment on Dumbledore's face. **You really hate it when you can't save people don't you?** she thought glaring at the man and waltzing gracefully out of the courtroom.
*******
It was several weeks before she finally heard the outcome of Severus' trial, Lucius was reading the morning paper when he suddenly looked up disgustedly saying, "I can't believe it! The traitor got off! I mean, the ministry went to the lengths of planting evidence on him and they still don't manage to secure a conviction! The useless fools!"
"Sev got off?!" Narcissa had to work hard to stop her relief showing.
"Yes."
"That's awful. What does it say?"
"Just that it was proved that he was working as a spy for Dumbledore and wasn't a deatheater. Wasn't a deatheater! Hah! He certainly seemed to be doing what the rest of us were!"
Narcissa rose from the table, "I'm going to see Draco."
Lucius nodded distractedly and carried on reading the paper. Narcissa left the room and went up to the nursery where her son was, closing the door behind her and all but collapsing into tears of relief.
**I could have killed him, or worse actually! That was never what I wanted, oh God! I'm as bad as Lucius is, I keep thinking of myself as just another victim but I'm just the same, I'm just the same.**
The tears rolled relentlessly down her pale cheeks, over the last year or so her skin had lost it's colour and she looked almost sickly she was now so pale.
**Oh God Sev, I'm so sorry! I can't believe the person I've sunk to being!**
She looked up to see Draco standing up in his cot watching her silently. "Oh love," she picked him up and rocked him gently in her arms, "I may not have been the best of people but I promise you I will be the best mother I can be and I won't let him hurt you, you're going to make your own choices in life somehow, I'll make sure of it."
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A/N: Please Review!!! The next chapter is the only one which isn't from Narcissa's POV it's from Sev's. Lovely, Lovely Sev! I'll update again soon!