Title: Alcohol Related Ficcies
Author: eMu
Author's Notes: I noticed that I write quite a few stories centring around characters who are dealing with parent(s) with alcohol problems (hmm…I wonder why?) For some reason or other I thought that my inspiration for these fics was drying out, but I just got a healthy batch for tonight and the realization that I will never stop writing these stories. So I'm going to head them all under this one fic as different chapters so I don't have to have five billion short stories.
Andromeda Black was getting very good at dealing with her mother, she thought so anyway. She'd managed to take any and all anger out of her voice. She calmed herself down in the midst of arguments. She didn't let any of Brenna Black's awful words sink in. She found healthy ways to vent her anger. Now if only her younger cousin could do the same.
"You stay away from her you crazy bitch!"
"Don' you talk ta me that way you little shit!" Brenna slurred.
It was darkly comic. Though only fourteen, Sirius was about a head taller than his aunt. He seemed taller even than that, what with the way Brenna was hunched over and swaying.
It would be her father and her uncle, to go and marry identical twins, Andromeda thought lazily. Her father and Sirius' father were brothers, and their mums were identical twins. Identical in looks, personalities and drinking problems.
Oh yes, the noble house of Black had alcoholics. For there was no nice way of saying it, Brenna and Belladonna Black were dependent on alcohol to get through their lives. And they were angry, confrontational drunks.
Whenever they drank, they would track down a person, be it a child of theirs, a niece, a nephew or their spouses, they would corner their victim and yell at them, doing their best to shatter that person's self esteem in the process. Sirius and Andromeda were favourite targets, the disappointments to the family.
Andromeda had moved out two years ago, after graduating Hogwarts. And she'd been sorely tempted to cut all ties with her family, even more tempted after she'd gotten pregnant by her muggle boyfriend at age seventeen. She'd been dating Ted in secret, but after she'd starting showing, the family had demanded to know who the father was. After having her name burned from the tapestry, it was assumed she would be cut from the Black family.
But she couldn't leave Sirius to suffer alone. She was worried about her little cousin, he still had a good three years left, unless they kicked him out earlier. She wanted to take him in, oh how she wanted to have him live with her. But Ted wasn't making much money and looking after Nymphadora was a full time business. They simply couldn't afford the extra body.
This argument had actually begun because of her, in a way. Oh, Brenna had been civil enough to begin with. She looked at pictures of Nymphadora and gushed over her adorable grandchild, who was almost two years old now. But as the drinks were poured and the tongue loosened, she had come after Andromeda and ranted at her about what a disappointment she was, how could she marry a muggle…
Andromeda had used every trick she'd learned over the years, but after almost two hours of her mother's ranting, some of it hit home and she'd made the mistake of shedding a few tears. And Sirius had jumped to her defence, and now he was being assaulted.
"How dare you say those things about Ted, you don't even know him! Just because he's a muggle-he's a good person! Which is more than I can say for you she-bitches!" Sirius screamed.
"A muggle's a muggle…n'they're all inferiurh to the Blacksh! 'E doesn' desurve any baby of mine! Which is why she isn' mine! Nope, Andromeduh…yer not mine! I disowned you, you go away! Get outta my housh!" Brenna slurred.
"Ted is a good person. What standards you have, he's a lot better than bloody Lestrange, who's probably out now trying to convince Bellatrix to give him head!" Sirius snarled.
"Rodolphus s'a good kid! You don' even desurve ta talk about 'im! Yer nuthhin but a Mudblood loving blood traitor!" Brenna yelled back.
"Okay!" Andromeda called out, attempting to sound cheerful. "Mum it's awful late, why don't you go on up to bed or something?"
"You dun tell me what ta do!" Brenna yelled at Andromeda. Andromeda grimaced. New tactic.
"You know what, I think I'm going to find Auntie Bella and then I can ask her if Sirius can spend the night with me at my place. You know, he really needs to see more of his second cousin anyway. Nymphadora's been missing him." Andromeda interjected the same false cheerfulness in her smile into her voice.
Sirius sent a grateful look at her. As soon as Belladonna decided the visit was over, he was in for more of the same from her at home for yelling at one of his elders, Belladonna's sister and best friend, no less.
Unfortunately, this great plan was ruined as Belladonna was slumped in the doorway, and had apparently heard a bit of the argument. "My shun's not staying at the h-houshe of a blood traitor! 'E's not shetting foot near tha' Mudblood you call a hushband!"
Sirius bared his teeth in a growl. Andromeda was quick to speak before he could make things worse. She walked across the room and put her hand on his shoulder, willing him to keep his cool. "Ted's actually out of town Auntie. I need to go soon, Nymphadora's horrid with babysitters. Are you sure you won't let Sirius stay the night?" She nudged Sirius.
"Please?" He asked in a cool, forcibly restrained voice.
Belladonna considered for a minute. It was almost funny, watching her try to think when she was as inebriated as she was.
"Fine. I dun wanna shee yer face agin anyway, yer a horrible kid. I wish I'd never had you. Stay the night! Shtay th' week fer all I care! Never come back!" Belladonna yelled, before stumbling from the room, calling for her husband.
Andromeda steered Sirius towards the fireplace, but Brenna was not going to let them leave before giving them her own parting words.
"Yer a horrible kid Sirius, all you do is hurt yer mum! Can' you see that? Yer killing my sister with all the stress! She's going to die because of you! It woulda bin better if she never h-had you!" Brenna shouted, specks of saliva flying from her mouth and clinging to Sirius' robes.
Andromeda expected Sirius to blow at that moment. He was impulsive and had temper problems, she wouldn't have been surprised if he'd punched Brenna right then, she certainly deserved it.
But Sirius said nothing. Taking this as the first good event of the night, Andromeda threw a handful of floo powder into the fireplace. The flames roared green, she shoved Sirius into the fireplace and made to follow him.
A hand clinging to her robes stopped her. She turned around and faced her mother, who was actually crying. "Wait, Andy don' go!" Brenna pleaded.
Andromeda wanted to leave very badly. Not only was the knot in her stomach becoming larger and large, and the scent of the beer on her mother's breath making her nauseous, but she did not want to leave her cousin alone in her flat in the state he was in. "What is it mother?" She asked politely, despite her instincts yelling at her to leap into the fireplace and not to look back.
"I'm so shorry! I'm sorry I've bin sush a bad mother. If I wuzza better one then you'da never married a Mudblood! I'm sho, sho sorry!" Brenna slurred.
Andromeda forced a smile. "It's okay mum, I like my life." Obviously this was not a comforting thing for Brenna to hear as she fell over and began sobbing violently, clinging to her oldest daughter's robes.
Belladonna chose that moment to re-enter, her youngest son, Regulus, trailing behind her looking pathetic in his submissiveness. Belladonna took in her sister, then turned to her niece, a look of rage on her face.
"Don' you hurt yer mother! She's been nuthin but good to you, although I don' know why! Yer a horrible kid ta her, and it's yer fault Sirius ish behavin' the way he ish!" Belladonna yelled.
Andromeda opened her mouth to speak, but at that moment Belladonna made to punch her. She missed her mark completely, of course, and instead toppled right over onto the floor with a loud thud. Regulus stooped over to help her up, but he was a skinny little thing, completely lacking the height and build of his big brother. Belladonna fell right over again.
Grimacing, Andromeda stepped into the flames and flooed home.
Author's Notes: Like it? I had even more, and it was much better written, but then the computer deleted it all and I had to start over. Fucking computer, it hates me. Anyway, review please! I will love you forever if you review! ^_^ Big hugs for reviewers!
Author: eMu
Author's Notes: I noticed that I write quite a few stories centring around characters who are dealing with parent(s) with alcohol problems (hmm…I wonder why?) For some reason or other I thought that my inspiration for these fics was drying out, but I just got a healthy batch for tonight and the realization that I will never stop writing these stories. So I'm going to head them all under this one fic as different chapters so I don't have to have five billion short stories.
Andromeda Black was getting very good at dealing with her mother, she thought so anyway. She'd managed to take any and all anger out of her voice. She calmed herself down in the midst of arguments. She didn't let any of Brenna Black's awful words sink in. She found healthy ways to vent her anger. Now if only her younger cousin could do the same.
"You stay away from her you crazy bitch!"
"Don' you talk ta me that way you little shit!" Brenna slurred.
It was darkly comic. Though only fourteen, Sirius was about a head taller than his aunt. He seemed taller even than that, what with the way Brenna was hunched over and swaying.
It would be her father and her uncle, to go and marry identical twins, Andromeda thought lazily. Her father and Sirius' father were brothers, and their mums were identical twins. Identical in looks, personalities and drinking problems.
Oh yes, the noble house of Black had alcoholics. For there was no nice way of saying it, Brenna and Belladonna Black were dependent on alcohol to get through their lives. And they were angry, confrontational drunks.
Whenever they drank, they would track down a person, be it a child of theirs, a niece, a nephew or their spouses, they would corner their victim and yell at them, doing their best to shatter that person's self esteem in the process. Sirius and Andromeda were favourite targets, the disappointments to the family.
Andromeda had moved out two years ago, after graduating Hogwarts. And she'd been sorely tempted to cut all ties with her family, even more tempted after she'd gotten pregnant by her muggle boyfriend at age seventeen. She'd been dating Ted in secret, but after she'd starting showing, the family had demanded to know who the father was. After having her name burned from the tapestry, it was assumed she would be cut from the Black family.
But she couldn't leave Sirius to suffer alone. She was worried about her little cousin, he still had a good three years left, unless they kicked him out earlier. She wanted to take him in, oh how she wanted to have him live with her. But Ted wasn't making much money and looking after Nymphadora was a full time business. They simply couldn't afford the extra body.
This argument had actually begun because of her, in a way. Oh, Brenna had been civil enough to begin with. She looked at pictures of Nymphadora and gushed over her adorable grandchild, who was almost two years old now. But as the drinks were poured and the tongue loosened, she had come after Andromeda and ranted at her about what a disappointment she was, how could she marry a muggle…
Andromeda had used every trick she'd learned over the years, but after almost two hours of her mother's ranting, some of it hit home and she'd made the mistake of shedding a few tears. And Sirius had jumped to her defence, and now he was being assaulted.
"How dare you say those things about Ted, you don't even know him! Just because he's a muggle-he's a good person! Which is more than I can say for you she-bitches!" Sirius screamed.
"A muggle's a muggle…n'they're all inferiurh to the Blacksh! 'E doesn' desurve any baby of mine! Which is why she isn' mine! Nope, Andromeduh…yer not mine! I disowned you, you go away! Get outta my housh!" Brenna slurred.
"Ted is a good person. What standards you have, he's a lot better than bloody Lestrange, who's probably out now trying to convince Bellatrix to give him head!" Sirius snarled.
"Rodolphus s'a good kid! You don' even desurve ta talk about 'im! Yer nuthhin but a Mudblood loving blood traitor!" Brenna yelled back.
"Okay!" Andromeda called out, attempting to sound cheerful. "Mum it's awful late, why don't you go on up to bed or something?"
"You dun tell me what ta do!" Brenna yelled at Andromeda. Andromeda grimaced. New tactic.
"You know what, I think I'm going to find Auntie Bella and then I can ask her if Sirius can spend the night with me at my place. You know, he really needs to see more of his second cousin anyway. Nymphadora's been missing him." Andromeda interjected the same false cheerfulness in her smile into her voice.
Sirius sent a grateful look at her. As soon as Belladonna decided the visit was over, he was in for more of the same from her at home for yelling at one of his elders, Belladonna's sister and best friend, no less.
Unfortunately, this great plan was ruined as Belladonna was slumped in the doorway, and had apparently heard a bit of the argument. "My shun's not staying at the h-houshe of a blood traitor! 'E's not shetting foot near tha' Mudblood you call a hushband!"
Sirius bared his teeth in a growl. Andromeda was quick to speak before he could make things worse. She walked across the room and put her hand on his shoulder, willing him to keep his cool. "Ted's actually out of town Auntie. I need to go soon, Nymphadora's horrid with babysitters. Are you sure you won't let Sirius stay the night?" She nudged Sirius.
"Please?" He asked in a cool, forcibly restrained voice.
Belladonna considered for a minute. It was almost funny, watching her try to think when she was as inebriated as she was.
"Fine. I dun wanna shee yer face agin anyway, yer a horrible kid. I wish I'd never had you. Stay the night! Shtay th' week fer all I care! Never come back!" Belladonna yelled, before stumbling from the room, calling for her husband.
Andromeda steered Sirius towards the fireplace, but Brenna was not going to let them leave before giving them her own parting words.
"Yer a horrible kid Sirius, all you do is hurt yer mum! Can' you see that? Yer killing my sister with all the stress! She's going to die because of you! It woulda bin better if she never h-had you!" Brenna shouted, specks of saliva flying from her mouth and clinging to Sirius' robes.
Andromeda expected Sirius to blow at that moment. He was impulsive and had temper problems, she wouldn't have been surprised if he'd punched Brenna right then, she certainly deserved it.
But Sirius said nothing. Taking this as the first good event of the night, Andromeda threw a handful of floo powder into the fireplace. The flames roared green, she shoved Sirius into the fireplace and made to follow him.
A hand clinging to her robes stopped her. She turned around and faced her mother, who was actually crying. "Wait, Andy don' go!" Brenna pleaded.
Andromeda wanted to leave very badly. Not only was the knot in her stomach becoming larger and large, and the scent of the beer on her mother's breath making her nauseous, but she did not want to leave her cousin alone in her flat in the state he was in. "What is it mother?" She asked politely, despite her instincts yelling at her to leap into the fireplace and not to look back.
"I'm so shorry! I'm sorry I've bin sush a bad mother. If I wuzza better one then you'da never married a Mudblood! I'm sho, sho sorry!" Brenna slurred.
Andromeda forced a smile. "It's okay mum, I like my life." Obviously this was not a comforting thing for Brenna to hear as she fell over and began sobbing violently, clinging to her oldest daughter's robes.
Belladonna chose that moment to re-enter, her youngest son, Regulus, trailing behind her looking pathetic in his submissiveness. Belladonna took in her sister, then turned to her niece, a look of rage on her face.
"Don' you hurt yer mother! She's been nuthin but good to you, although I don' know why! Yer a horrible kid ta her, and it's yer fault Sirius ish behavin' the way he ish!" Belladonna yelled.
Andromeda opened her mouth to speak, but at that moment Belladonna made to punch her. She missed her mark completely, of course, and instead toppled right over onto the floor with a loud thud. Regulus stooped over to help her up, but he was a skinny little thing, completely lacking the height and build of his big brother. Belladonna fell right over again.
Grimacing, Andromeda stepped into the flames and flooed home.
Author's Notes: Like it? I had even more, and it was much better written, but then the computer deleted it all and I had to start over. Fucking computer, it hates me. Anyway, review please! I will love you forever if you review! ^_^ Big hugs for reviewers!