Hey everyone. Here is another update for Little Moments. This chapter was written for Angel's Event: The Pumpkin Patch on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My prompt was G8: (trope) bed sharing. I choose to have this be one of Andromeda's nicer memories of her sisters. So without further ado I hope you all enjoy Sweet Memory.
Andromeda could remember a time when her and her sisters had all shared a bed. It had been during their younger years when Narcissa was about five years old. The youngest girl used to have the most horrible nightmares and they wouldn't go away unless she was with her sisters. She remembered one time that Cissa had had a prophetic type dream.
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A scream was sounding from down the hall from Andromeda's room. She would recognize that scream of horror anywhere. Narcissa, she thought as she jumped out of bed and raced down the hall hearing Bellatrix do the same.
"Bella..." she whispered as they both met at the door.
"Come on," Bellatrix told her pushing the door to Narcissa's room open. She followed Bellatrix as the older girl padded across the room to Narcissa's bed. "Cissa, you have to wake up now."
Narcissa was whimpering and tossing and turning in her bed. Another scream left the younger girl's mouth and they knew if this went on any longer mother and father would wake up.
"Cissa," Andromeda said sitting on the bed and gently shaking the young blonde, "Cissa, wake up now."
Narcissa's eyes flew open and the tears started to fall down her face like a waterfall. She buried her face into Andromeda's shoulder. She was so very afraid of what she had seen behind her closed eyes.
"What did you see?" asked Bellatrix.
Andromeda gave her a look that said that Bella should have used more tact. Then again Bella never used much tact when it came to anything let alone dealing with their younger impressionable sister.
Narcissa looked fearfully up at Andromeda who felt really bad that her sister's sleep was being disturbed in this way. She put a soothing hand on Narcissa's shoulder.
"You don't have to say if you don't feel comfortable," Andromeda told her.
"But how will she face her fears?" snapped Bellatrix.
"She's only five."
"So?"
"It's alright, Andy," Narcissa's tiny voice interrupted the argument. "I'll tell." She gathered herself and wiped her nose on the tissue on her bed side table. "It was a dream about scary people in masks taking over our home."
Bellatrix laughed at this. This wasn't the first time that Narcissa had had this particular dream and Bellatrix was hell bound to make her realize it was just a dream.
"Did you hear any names in your dream?" asked Bellatrix. "Because if you heard a name we can prove if these masked people are real or not." She folded her arms across her chest as though that settled it.
"I heard a two names," Narcissa managed out shifting closer to Andromeda.
"What were they?" asked Andromeda in concern. Narcissa had never viewed Bellatrix with that much fear before. "What were the names you heard in your dream?"
"One of them was Lucius Malfoy from down the block," she told Andromeda and then she turned a fearful look on Bellatrix. "The other was...the other was..."
"Was what?" snapped Bellatrix.
"Was you."
"It was just a dream," whispered Andromeda. "Bellatrix doesn't wear a mask. Do you Bella?"
Bellatrix shook her head. "You can even check my room for one if you want to," she told both girls.
After a quick mask check they all headed back to Narcissa's room. Sitting back on the bed Bellatrix turned to Andromeda and Narcissa. "See you didn't find a mask," Bellatrix told them. "Right?"
Both nodded.
"It was only a dream. Why don't you go back to sleep?"
"Will you all stay with me?" asked Narcissa.
"Of course," Andromeda told Narcissa pulling the blonde into a hug.
"Yeah," said Bellatrix.
And that was how the three Black sisters were found fast asleep in each other's arms the next day. Every time after that that Narcissa had a nightmare until the time they went to Hogwarts that's how they dealt with the bad dreams.
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"You're smiling, Mother," came a voice from behind Andromeda.
"Yeah," she told her daughter Nymphadora as she turned to face the young girl. "Just thinking about my sister and one of the very nice memories I have of them."
"They'll come."
Andromeda hoped they would come around and maybe one of these one of them would prove Nymphadora right. Or at least she hoped they would.
I hope you all enjoyed the newest chapter of Little Moments Sweet Memory.
