[Amphierotic Bloodlines & Kuebiko]
CHAPTER SUMMARY: Narcissa realizes she knows fuck all about the people she supposedly cares for and attempts to rectify that with a lot of questions until one inevitably blows up in her face. Oh, and there’s more book canon plot stuff.
CHAPTER LXII
Narcissa had hoped that speaking to Bellatrix would hasten the conversation her sister needed to have with Cassandra, so that maybe they could all finally get past this and actually find happiness with each other again, but of course that did not happen. For once though, the blame did not lie with Bellatrix. She had tried— had finally mustered up the courage to ask Cassandra if she could talk to her for a second, and even though her words were mumbled and her gaze was firmly settled on the skin she kept picking at around her nail bed, Cassandra seemed thankful that the woman had actually come to her at all, and nodded her head in agreement. But then Rodolphus apparated into the room, his billow of smoke dark in his wake, and told his wife with his one good hand outstretched and a lingering smirk on his face, "Time to crash a wedding, love," and everything else got put on the backburner. And it was jarring, truthfully, as Bellatrix and Rodolphus hated the air the other breathed, and yet it seemed they were both so bloody fervent about their master's accomplishments and their own newfound freedom that they didn't care about their baseline animosity towards one another in that moment. Bellatrix actually smiled at him, and looked for a second as though she actually might take his hand, before she suddenly remembered that she had just promised Cassandra a conversation, and turned to apologize to her. She had been sincere with it though, which Cassandra clearly appreciated, and after Bellatrix kissed each woman in parting, she left with her husband to celebrate their victory over the Ministry with more mayhem and murder. Narcissa explained the situation to Cassandra as she was aware of it, but outside of the fact that Scrimgeour had been assassinated and someone the Dark Lord had placed inside the Ministry succeeded him, she knew very little. Cassandra understood immediately what that meant though, and it was a good thing she had, because she was the one that reminded Narcissa that with Dumbledore dead and the Ministry under the Dark Lord’s control, that Hogwarts would likely be next, and Draco could go back to school. School, which was away from the horrors of the war, away from the front lines, away from Voldemort, and Narcissa wept as she allowed that hope to wash over her, hoping beyond anything that things were about to finally change for the better. But then Bellatrix returned.
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