Author's Note: Well, um… hmm. Oh yeah. I realize that the Slytherins don't sound very Slytheriny, but there's just no other way I can make it work… Argh. Darn my short attention span… Oh! Um… There are some parts that might be confusing if you haven't read my other fanfic, Love and Flashbacks.
Title: An Unexpected Love
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Just a little.
Summary: Narcissa Black marries Lucius Malfoy, never expecting to love him as much as she does. This is the story of what the wife of a Death Eater goes through when she loses her husband.
Disclaimer: All this Harry Potter stuff belongs to J.K. Rowling, but the plot of this story is mine.
Setting: This story begins during Lucius and Narcissa's days at Hogwarts and goes through their years of marriage to each other.
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/…/ - time
italics - emphasis
-Special Feelings-
Narcissa was working with Lucius during Potions class. She looked at him and noticed that he wasn't smiling.
Lucius was sweet only to her. He never displayed too much emotion in public. That was partly because his friends were always hanging around, and he didn't want to seem like a sissy. Narcissa didn't mind if he didn't show a lot of affection toward her around other people, because he made her feel really special when they were alone.
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Pandora Robinson, the other Slytherin girl in Narcissa's year, came into the dormitory. "Hi, Narcissa. Kelly." Tina was nowhere to be found.
"Did you break up with him?" Kelly asked.
"Yeah. Severus is too… intense for me."
Narcissa said, "I can't believe you went out with him in the first place."
"Well, I felt sorry for him," Pandora replied. "Besides, you're the one going out with Lucius Malfoy."
"And what, pray tell, is wrong with Lucius?" Narcissa asked, raising an eyebrow.
"He's so mean to everyone."
Narcissa snorted. "At least he's better-looking than Severus. And he's not like that around me. He's not mean, he's just a bit distant sometimes."
"Well, what's he like around you?" Pandora asked out of curiosity.
Narcissa smiled. "He's… nice, and kind of sweet… I don't know… I think he's adorable."
Kelly laughed. "I can't believe the word 'adorable' was just used to describe Lucius Malfoy."
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The Hogwarts students got off the train and onto Platform Nine and Three-Quarters.
Lucius was with his girlfriend, saying good-bye. "I'll miss you."
"Well, I'll miss you more," replied Narcissa.
"No, I'll miss you more."
"No, I'll miss you more."
"Oh, don't make me gag," Pandora said as she passed by.
Lucius leaned down to give Narcissa a good-bye kiss. "Bye," he said, before walking off to join his parents.
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/6th year/
"Oh… it's beautiful," Narcissa said to Lucius. She was holding a locket, which Lucius had given her for their one-year anniversary.
She pulled her long, golden hair away from her neck so he could put the locket on her.
"Lucius, how serious is this relationship?" she asked.
Lucius thought for a moment, then said, "Pretty serious. To me at least. I like you a lot."
The blonde smiled. "I feel the same way about you." She hugged him.
He held her close to him and closed his eyes. "Mm. I love you."
"What?" Narcissa took a step back. "What did you say?"
Lucius thought about the last thing he had said, and his gray eyes widened. "Nothing. I didn't say anything. We were hugging, and I said absolutely nothing. Nothing at all. No words came out of my mouth." He nervously ran a hand through his white-blond hair.
"You said… you said, 'I love you,'" Narcissa said.
"No, I didn't. What I actually said was, uh, 'I'm a gnu.'"
"No. That's not what you said. Besides, that makes no sense. You love me. You do, don't you?" She looked at his face.
Lucius didn't say anything for a moment. He just looked at the beautiful girl in front of him. "Yes," he said, looking away, "I do. I'll understand if you don't feel the same way. I don't know why—"
Narcissa silenced him by putting a finger to his lips. "I love you too," she said softly. She replaced her finger with her own lips.
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Narcissa lay down on her bed, a huge grin on her face.
"What's up?" Tina asked.
"Oh… nothing. Lucius just gave me a beautiful locket for our anniversary and told me that he loves me."
"What?" Kelly asked. "When did this happen?"
"Just now."
"This is really serious, isn't it?" Pandora asked.
"Mm-hmm. You know, I never thought it'd get this far. I thought we would just go out a few times and then stop seeing each other. But oh… somehow, I fell in love with him."
Tina said, "That's really nice. A bit strange, considering it's Lucius Malfoy, but nice."
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"You told her that you love her?" asked the greasy-looking Slytherin boy.
"Yes, Severus. I don't know what happened. It just… came out," Lucius replied.
"You shouldn't get so attached to people," Snape said disdainfully.
Lucius looked at him. "Narcissa is really special."
"It's your life. I'm just giving you my opinion."
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"Lucius? Are you all right? Your mind seems to be somewhere else," Narcissa looked at her boyfriend, concerned.
"I'm okay. I was just thinking about some stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"Nothing that concerns you," Lucius said, trying to steer her away from the topic. "It's not very important. I was just thinking about something, that's all."
"Okay. You'd tell me if something was really bothering you, wouldn't you?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course," Lucius replied, not looking very sure at all.
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(AN: This is a spoiler for Love and Flashbacks.)
"Watch where you're going, Mudblood!" Severus Snape yelled. Charlotte Davis, a Gryffindor, had bumped into him while turning a corner.
"I—"
Koren Smith, another Gryffindor sixth year, came over and pushed Snape. "Don't you dare insult my friend, or you are going to regret you had ever been born." She wasn't afraid of him and knew he wasn't going to do anything to her. Koren, unlike Charlotte, was a pureblooded witch. She was also not one to be pushed around.
"Come on, Severus," Lucius Malfoy said. "It's not worth it. Don't waste your time fighting with these Gryffindors," he continued, fixing Koren and Charlotte with his most contemptuous look.
Snape looked at the angry girl in front of him and started walking toward the dungeons. "I'm going to make her pay for that," he muttered when the Gryffindors were out of range.
"Don't worry. They'll get what's coming to them," Lucius said harshly.
Narcissa stared at him. She had never seen this side of him before (except when he was talking about James Potter). She didn't understand why they were being so serious. And what did he mean, 'what's coming to them'? The Slytherin girl had never had anything against Muggle-borns, as long as they didn't bother her. She started wondering how well she really knew her boyfriend.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author's Note: Don't know why it's so short. I have so many ideas, but not a lot of them made it in here. Why is that? One of the many mysteries of my life…
