Disclaimer: I just own the plot and not all of that as it's following Rowling's.
I Built My Life Around You
**Narcissa's Thoughts**
A/N: The stuff in the **[ ]** is Narcissa's thinking while reading letters, they are not part of the letters!
Chapter 9
Narcissa kept up a regular correspondence with Draco about everything and nothing, enjoying hearing once more about the pranks and social intrigues of Slytherin House. However, at the beginning of November she got a letter that left her feeling deeply disturbed and greatly puzzled.
Dear Mum,
This has officially been the strangest Halloween ever! We got out of the usual feast to find the oddest sight awaiting us.
In one of the corridors some words had been scrawled on the wall and the gryffindor trio were stood there staring at the caretaker's cat hanging upside down from a torch bracket. The cat didn't look dead; it looked like a stuffed one or something, stiff and unnatural. Anyway everyone gets there and the three of them just stand there.
But none of that's the exciting part, **[sounds like quite enough excitement to me!]** the writing on the wall said:
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED
ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
**[What the hell?!]**
Apparently the cat's been petrified, they'll be able to restore it. I've been re-reading the legend of the Chamber of Secrets and this must mean the heir of Slytherin is at Hogwarts! **[Impossible!]** I wonder if it really is open? This is so exciting! I'll write again when I know more,
Love Draco.
**This isn't possible! The heir of Slytherin is gone! He can't be at Hogwarts!** Narcissa stood up and paced about her study, thoughts flying madly across her brain, the main one being that this had to be impossible, it must be someone's twisted idea of a joke.
She walked to the door and opened it looking out into the empty hallway, there was only one person who she could conceivably get an answer from but did she really want to raise this with him? She decided she did.
She made her way down the stairs to the first floor where her husband's study was located. Hesitating briefly, she knocked on the door. There was no reply.
"What do you want?" asked a voice from behind her.
She yelped and turned to see her husband exiting the library.
"What's the matter with you?" he asked curiously.
"I don't know. Sorry, I just got this letter from Draco and it kind of shook me up a bit."
"Really?" His voice struck her as odd, as though he were feigning both surprise and disinterest at the same time.
She pushed thoughts about her husband's tone of voice to the back of her mind and read him the letter which was still clutched in her hand.
"But it can't be true," she said, "We both know who the heir of Slytherin is and that he is in no condition to be wandering around Hogwarts petrifying cats and writing cryptic clues on walls."
Lucius merely looked at her.
"Well, say something," she prompted.
"What do you want me to say?"
"I don't know, I just don't understand how this is possible."
"And how would you expect me to know?"
"I don't know," she finished lamely, **what did prompt me to question him, about it? Did I really expect reassurance from Lucius of all people?**
"Narcissa, let us just wait and see how the situation develops," he said walking past her into his study, "for God's sake woman, unless there's something you haven't been telling me, your son is a pureblood and at no risk. Then again, it might explain a lot if you turned out to be a muggle, your lack of magical ability for instance." He sneered and shut the door on her.
She stood outside staring curiously at the door, having lived with the man for fourteen years she felt she knew him better than he realised and he appeared to be keeping something from her. The only question was what.
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A/N: I know it's short chapter and I will update again soon.
Please Review, I would be ever so grateful! :o) I did give you two chapters after all!
I Built My Life Around You
**Narcissa's Thoughts**
A/N: The stuff in the **[ ]** is Narcissa's thinking while reading letters, they are not part of the letters!
Chapter 9
Narcissa kept up a regular correspondence with Draco about everything and nothing, enjoying hearing once more about the pranks and social intrigues of Slytherin House. However, at the beginning of November she got a letter that left her feeling deeply disturbed and greatly puzzled.
Dear Mum,
This has officially been the strangest Halloween ever! We got out of the usual feast to find the oddest sight awaiting us.
In one of the corridors some words had been scrawled on the wall and the gryffindor trio were stood there staring at the caretaker's cat hanging upside down from a torch bracket. The cat didn't look dead; it looked like a stuffed one or something, stiff and unnatural. Anyway everyone gets there and the three of them just stand there.
But none of that's the exciting part, **[sounds like quite enough excitement to me!]** the writing on the wall said:
THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED
ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.
**[What the hell?!]**
Apparently the cat's been petrified, they'll be able to restore it. I've been re-reading the legend of the Chamber of Secrets and this must mean the heir of Slytherin is at Hogwarts! **[Impossible!]** I wonder if it really is open? This is so exciting! I'll write again when I know more,
Love Draco.
**This isn't possible! The heir of Slytherin is gone! He can't be at Hogwarts!** Narcissa stood up and paced about her study, thoughts flying madly across her brain, the main one being that this had to be impossible, it must be someone's twisted idea of a joke.
She walked to the door and opened it looking out into the empty hallway, there was only one person who she could conceivably get an answer from but did she really want to raise this with him? She decided she did.
She made her way down the stairs to the first floor where her husband's study was located. Hesitating briefly, she knocked on the door. There was no reply.
"What do you want?" asked a voice from behind her.
She yelped and turned to see her husband exiting the library.
"What's the matter with you?" he asked curiously.
"I don't know. Sorry, I just got this letter from Draco and it kind of shook me up a bit."
"Really?" His voice struck her as odd, as though he were feigning both surprise and disinterest at the same time.
She pushed thoughts about her husband's tone of voice to the back of her mind and read him the letter which was still clutched in her hand.
"But it can't be true," she said, "We both know who the heir of Slytherin is and that he is in no condition to be wandering around Hogwarts petrifying cats and writing cryptic clues on walls."
Lucius merely looked at her.
"Well, say something," she prompted.
"What do you want me to say?"
"I don't know, I just don't understand how this is possible."
"And how would you expect me to know?"
"I don't know," she finished lamely, **what did prompt me to question him, about it? Did I really expect reassurance from Lucius of all people?**
"Narcissa, let us just wait and see how the situation develops," he said walking past her into his study, "for God's sake woman, unless there's something you haven't been telling me, your son is a pureblood and at no risk. Then again, it might explain a lot if you turned out to be a muggle, your lack of magical ability for instance." He sneered and shut the door on her.
She stood outside staring curiously at the door, having lived with the man for fourteen years she felt she knew him better than he realised and he appeared to be keeping something from her. The only question was what.
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A/N: I know it's short chapter and I will update again soon.
Please Review, I would be ever so grateful! :o) I did give you two chapters after all!
