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AN:11 reviews makes me happy! Yay! No but um, thanks for faithfully reviewing. It's really nice to know someone's reading this! To my reviewers-
Skull: I'm glad you like. Oh and a banshee is a creature from Irish Folklore, that follows a family and appears when someone in the bloodline is going to die. J.K. Rowling mentions it briefly to be related to the wizarding world, when Seamus sees it in PoA. Yeah. J
SoccerGirl2004: I'm so glad you asked that question! I was going to tell you guys, but I forgot. There are 3 parts to this story. One part is when Narcissa is 11, Andie is 13, and Bellatrix is 15. It's going to flash forward a bit, and name a few important things that happen up to when Narcissas in 5th year. Third part is Narcissa 7th year, and I think then a prolouge. This is pretty much my story map and may change a bit, so forgive me. J I swear it WILL make sense when it's written out! Oh and there is definitely
Chapter 6
"Andie?" Andromeda turned to find Lily Evans, breathless before her.
"Oh. Hi Lily. What are you running the marathon?" Lily laughed slightly, but continued.
"I wish. Worse. The boys have dungbombed the dormotories again. Just thought I'd warn you."
"Those bastards!" She muttered, and Lily looked quite stricken, "How can you put up with him?"
"With who?" Lily asked, as they began to walk.
"That Potter kid. Isn't he your boyfriend or something?"
"When hell freezes over!" She yelled, and Andromeda began to laugh, "I mean…no, no of course not. What about Sirius? I know for a fact he's your cousin."
"Yes well, Sirius being my cousin isn't reversible. Potter being your boyfriend is."
"He's not my boyfriend." She hissed angrily.
"I know, I know! Just kiding, luv." Andromeda reassured, laughing, "Just don't know why you get yourself all tangled up about it."
"I'm not tangled up. I'm just annoyed. Dungbombs, I mean come on…" She sighed, and they entered the Gryffindor Common Room.
"Right. Dungbombs." Andromeda sat down, figuring Lily would yell at them enough, and when she saw Ted in the chair opposite the fireplace, she gulped.
She had been avoding him. And she knew he knew she was avoiding him.
She just wish he knew why.
She felt like a time bomb. Like one of these days, she'd just explode and everyone around her would get hurt.
So she had to get away, hide herself in a conviently empty area, and let herself go in silence, where no one would ever be harmed.
She thought this is probably exactley the way her sister and her little lemmings wanted her to feel.
But she didn't care. She thought of Ted slumped against the wall, and the blood. Then she thought of everyone she cared about like that. Only, inside, their hearts weren't beating.
It wasn't very pleasant to be haunted like that. But she knew, with the things her parents believed, and what they'd do to prove it, that these images were bound to happen. With her being the little "liberal" and all. The "Rebel" her father would call her, sneering to his daughter whose black eyes would twinkle darkly in delight as he totured her.
The only person she'd really been talking to lately was her little sister. Narcissa was easier to talk then a wall. She sat there, and nodded her little blond head, and smile reassuringly.
But, Narcissa being in a different house and a different year, it was very difficult to find ways to converse with her.
"Andie?" Andie looked up from the arm of the chair her eyes had been transfixed with in her thought to see Ted, "Can I talk to you outside for a moment?"
"Sure." She said cautiously, and stood up, but her friend name Candice pulled at her arm, encircled with a group of friends.
"Oh, Andie, don't go! Tell us that joke, you know, that excellent one about the muggle and the cauldron! We need a good laugh, today."
"Oh, I won't take ages. A sec, I promise." She said, and strode out of the common room with Ted.
"I notice you haven't been talking to me. I'm not stupid." He said, over his shoulder, walking quickly.
"I don't think you are." She said softly.
"I just…I thought you were stronger than that."
"What?" She said, stopping in her pace.
"You're scared. You're scared of what they'll think if you keep hanging out with me right? What will happen to you? I just never thought you could be so selfish." He was angry, and it flashed across his eyes, as he spoke quickly and loudly.
"How dare you! You do not know what I put up with so I can be friends with you! You don't!" She felt like she really was going to explode this time…tick tick…"You know what, I am scared. I'm scared for you. I'm scared for my little sister. I'm scared for everyone here. But never, not once in this process have I thought about myself! I know what will happen if I hang out with you! You'll become an even larger target than you already are! I've been trying to stay away from everyone. I'm a huge mistake, to my parents. And they think the only way they can fix me, is by hurting everyone I care about. And I'm not gonna let that happen to you Ted." Tick, tick… "I'm not."
Ted was flabbergasted, standing in front of her, scared to speak, "I'm sorry, Andie." He moved closer towards her, laying his hand on his head, his eyes glistening, "Really."
She closed her eyes, sighing, "I know I…" She was cut off as she felt his lips press against hers.
BOOM.
She pushed him off her, and he spiraled to the ground with a thump.
"You just had to do that, didn't you! God! I try to explain this to you and you go and do that!" Andie sighed, and stormed back to the Common Room.
Ted sat on the floor for a while, in a daze. Everything had just happened so quickly, right before him.
He'd just kissed his best friend. Andie. I mean, Andie was just Andie…She'd never been anything but Andie, and it was supposed to stay that way.
But what he had just done, and how he had felt about it…how she had felt about, completely jeopardized everything.
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"This stuff is freezing!" Narcissa mumbled to Charlotte and she agreed, as they rubbed the liquidy goop on their faces to produce their masks.
"Oh, I know. But isn't halloween so lovely?!"
Narcissa looked at Charlotte amused. "Sure. I guess it's all right."
"Oh me and my sisters used to go muggle trick or treating, you see, and really freak them out by wearing magical costumes! My mum doesn't think it's too nice, but really, it's fun."
Narcissa giggled and was releived when she had all the mask on.
"So what are you being then?" Asked Narcissa, and Charlotte hoping dropped the spoon back in the cauldron.
"Bloody Mary!"
"She's that ghost from the states, right?"
"Oh yes! She's really bloody famous over there, even muggles know of her. Get it? Bloody?"
Narcissa laughed at Charlottes attempt at humor, "But I though only witches and wizards could see ghosts?"
"Yes, but some magic folk can't keep their mouths shut!"
"Are you all done?" Ms. Jensiko yelled over the hub bub, and it died as the students nodded. "Good. Do not, I repeat do NOT touch your mask untill it makes the weezing sound. That's when you know it's done. That will take about a minute. Then you sprinkle on your powder, and it will be done by 5:00 tonight."
"This is so cool!" Charlotte sighed, and Narcissa smiled. Tonight would be fun.
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"How STUPID is he?" Andie mumbled as she put her mask on.
"What was that?" Asked Candice.
"Nothing important."
"So what are you being?"
Andie smiled as she was quite entertained with her idea, "I'm going to be opposite of a centaur. Horse head, human body."
Candice laughed, "That's brillant! Well I'm being a vampire. Nothing special. Hear that Ted?"
Andie winced and looked away, "What's that Candice?"
"About Andies idea?"
"No. She doesn't talk to me anymore." He yelled back, and Andie could feel his eyes on her.
"What?" Candice asked absent mindly.
"Ask her!" He called back, and went to his potion.
"Andie? What's wrong with you?"
"We had a fight. Okay?"
"Oooo a fight! How intense!"
"Oh shut it, Candice!" Andie hissed as she sat back in her chair with a huff.
"No no, I think I've opened a secret door here. Oh my god! You and Ted broke up?"
"We were never going out!" Andie hissed, "Now shut up before I…"
"Ted! You broke up with Andie?" Andie buried her head in her hands.
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about you breaking poor Andies delicate little heart!"
"Candice! You bloody imbicile!" Andice cried at her, and went to sit in another seat.
"Well, I think you guys were cute together." Candice called with a smirk as Andie shuffled off with a huff.
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Bellatrix sighed as she entered the great hall as Salazar Slytherin. All the fifth year slytherins were being him also, to show their pride.
What a stupid escapade. She thought looking around at the other people. Everyone who wasn't a slytherin glared at her. They all blamed her for the attack against that Tonks guy.
But hadn't they always glared at the slytherins like this? With that hatred in their eyes as if they were responsible for every wrong in the world.
She had feared it when she had first came here. Everyone was out to get the Slytherins. But later she realized, they were only afraid of them. They had fear, and iced it with a layer of what looked like hatred.
They were all cowering in fear. Gryffindor the brave. Bull crap. Because they knew she possesed power they could only dream with.
This summer she was sixteen. This summer she could join the death eaters, like her father.
This summer would be great. This summer would be everything she had every dreamed of. She would finalley prove to everyone who had ever doubted her, who she really was. To her father. To her stupid stick up the ass sister.
But here she was, stuck in October. Good Lord.
She saw a green face aproach, and she realized it was a banshee.
She felt her throat go dry, and her hands knumb.
"Hi Trixie!" Squeeled the voice of her younger sister, and she sighed inwardly. "Did I scare you?"
Bellatrix smirked. "Nearly wet myself." She drawled sarcastically, though, an irish native, she really had been scared. She loved her family…well MOST of them.
"Slytherin?" Narcissa frowned, "That's not very fun."
"It's not supposed to be fun, Cissa. It's respect." She stated.
"You look funny as a boy." She giggled.
"I resent that." Bellatrix laughed. "And I suppose you'd make a good one."
"Of course. Dashing, really" Narcissa flipped her black hair for effect.
"How'd you know it was me?"
"Well, you were doing that scowl thing at everyone. You know, like this." Narcissa made a face that resembled one of a cow that had just ate a lemon, and Bellatrix laughed.
"That's attractive." Bellatrix snorted, and she saw a horse head approach them.
"Hi cissa." The horse looked at Bellatrix and she knew it was her sister. "Bellatrix."
"Andromeda." She said, looking down at her nails. They barely ever called eachother by their full names.
"Cissa. Nice costume."Andie said lightly, "Scare the crap of me, it would, if I didn't know it was you."
"What are you?" Narcissa asked, feeling uncomfortable as her two sisters glared at eachother.
"I'm a centaur in reverse!" She exclaimed, she had obviously been waiting for someone to ask.
"Really. I thought you were an ass." Bellatrix swished around, and smiled.
That was pretty good. She thought with a smirk.
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"Welcome to The Costume Contest! Now, at first I was going to have myself be the appointer of the winners, but I decided it be much more fun to have you all vote! So…take a good look around and hit the ballads! But most of all…have fun!" Dumbledore, dressed as a unicorn, sat down, smiling.
Everyone was looking around. Narcissa felt odd when people looked at her. But the good thing was, no one knew it was her.
Slowly they all moved to the ballads, and began scratching their votes down on the paper. When Narcissa finalley got to the table, she looked at it carefully and began to fill it out
Scariest-The Werewolf (thought he needed at least one vote)
Funniest-The Horse Headed Creature (Andie of course.)
Prettiest- The Veela (it was Petra.)
Best Group Costume- (Lots of people had come in groups-mermaids, muggles, and the group of slytherins. Bella being her sister, she put it down.)
Ugliest-The Mandrake
She slipped it into the slot and walked over to where Charlotte and Petra were standing, and chatted for a bit.
Dumbledore stood up, clearing his throat.
He summoned the results, and muttered a spell, and a piece of parchment appeared in his hands.
"Well, here are the results! For Scariest, goes to the banshee! Come on up here!"
Narcissa felt heat rise in her, as she gulped and walked up to the proffesors table.
"Congratulations! Now, who are you really?:" Dumbledore said warmly, but loud enough so everyone could hear.
"Narcissa Black, sir." Narcissa replied and felt a large lump of candy in a bag drop into her hands.
"There you are! Take care now, and make sure you eat too much!" He said, and She walked down, and became surrounded by a swarm of people.
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