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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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-Marriage-
/7th year/
Lucius and Narcissa were in the Slytherin common room. The boy (who had recently turned eighteen) knelt on the floor in front of his girlfriend. "Narcissa," he said, pulling a ring box out of the pocket of his robes, "will you marry me?"
Narcissa was shocked. "I—I have to think about this," she said, fleeing to her room.
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"Lucius asked me to marry him," she announced to the girls she shared a room with. She flopped onto her bed. "I don't know what to tell him."
"I think you should accept," Tina replied. "You love him, don't you? Besides, the Malfoys are loaded. You'd be set for life."
Kelly said, "Maybe you should weigh the pros and cons. Make a list or something."
Pandora spoke up, "Do you want to be with him for the rest of your life? That is, after all, the real question here."
Narcissa sat up but didn't say a word. The others watched as she thought about her answer, her long blond hair falling into her face.
After a few minutes, she got up abruptly and walked out of the room.
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Lucius stood up as Narcissa came back into the common room, his gray eyes hopeful. The seventeen-year-old girl went over to him and took a deep breath.
"Yes."
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Lucius and Narcissa were married a year after they graduated from Hogwarts. Narcissa didn't know that her husband was a Death Eater. Lucius always left at night, when she was sleeping, or told her he had an important meeting to attend (which was true, just not in the way she thought). All the young woman knew was that he supported Lord Voldemort.
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/A few years later/
Lucius came home from work to find his wife waiting for him in the study. He pulled off his cloak and greeted her with a kiss.
Narcissa was unusually tense. She didn't even smile when he kissed her.
"Is something wrong?" Lucius asked, putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Yes. No." Narcissa shook her head. "I have something to tell you."
"What is it?" Lucius asked, fearing the worst.
"Lucius, I'm pregnant," Narcissa told him.
"You are?"
She nodded, smiling. Lucius kissed her again. This time, she kissed him back.
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/1 year and some months later/
Narcissa held her young son in her arms, trying to make him go to sleep. "Shh… Draco, please just go to sleep," she begged.
The blond woman heard some familiar sounds somewhere else in the manor, which meant that Lucius was home.
"Dobby!" she called. The house-elf scampered into the room. "Dobby, stay with Draco until he goes to sleep, or until we call you."
Narcissa went to go find her husband.
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"Lucius."
The man looked tired. It had taken some work to convince the Ministry to clear him. He stared silently at his wife.
"We need to talk," Narcissa said.
"Later," he said, getting under the covers.
"No. Now."
He sighed. "Fine."
"Why didn't you tell me you were a Death Eater? Actually, what I want to know is why you became one in the first place."
"The Dark Lord was very persuasive. He was taking over everywhere. He would have succeeded if it hadn't been for that Potter boy…"
"You didn't try to make me become a Death Eater." She sat down next to him on the bed. "Why?"
He looked at her. "It was dangerous. I want you to be safe."
"If—if he had succeeded, would you have made Draco…" She didn't finish her sentence.
"I don't know. I really don't know."
Narcissa put her head on his shoulder and let Lucius play with her hair.
"I love you," he whispered, then kissed her on the forehead.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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