A/N: Another update for you to enjoy! This one was a bit harder to write as I wasn't sure how to tie in the lyrics with the idea I had, but I hope it's okay.
Title: Surrender
Characters/Pairings: Narcissa Malfoy, hints of Narcissa/Lucius/Draco (family)
Lyrics: Wonderful by Joel Grey
Setting: May 2nd, 1998
Summary: Narcissa hands over her wand.
3. Surrender
"I never asked for this
Or planned it in advance"
Screams. A jet of light. An explosion rocks the corridor, and a wall caves in. She barely even notices.
The words she spoke to her sister, all too long ago – it feels like a hundred years, not two years – that day on the bank of the river come back to her.
"There's nothing I wouldn't do anymore"
That's what she'd said. And she still stuck fast by that promise.
"Wonderful,
They called me wonderful"
Once upon a time, she'd dreamed of a wonderful, fairytale life, a fairytale family in a fairytale house. She'd been popular, well-liked at school, one of the famous Cygnus Black's daughters. That's how he'd seen her the first time.
Now, it wasn't about her anymore. It wasn't even about her husband, not as an individual anyway.
"Take it" she says quietly, pressing her wand into her son's hand. "I don't need it anymore"
He's sceptical, looks worried. Shakes his head.
"Take it" she insists. "You still have a chance"
She's been following the wrong side all along. And now she wants to see the man calling himself The Dark Lord pay for what he's done. Starting with her surrender.
A/N: Hmm...not one of my favourites. I'm not really that well-acquainted with Narcissa as a character, at least not in writing her, so I hope it turned out alright and made sense. It doesn't actually say in the book when Narcissa gives Draco her wand, but I'd always thought of it as at the start of the Battle, even though he probably had it after the Malfoy Manor debacle. I think it's a bit more dramatic and meaningful this way.
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