@ofbadfaith said "We’re going to have fun tonight.”
❝ i don’t know . . . ❞ oh how he tries to soothe her racing mind with loving words of encouragement , and she loves him all the more for it . this will be their first public appearance together since their lord’s defeat - - - since he’d managed to escape azkaban with that silver tongue of his and those golden pockets . yet so many of their companions had been left to rot - including her dear bellatrix .
❝ i’m all that’s left , isn’t that fun ? my sisters and cousins are all gone now , and i’m all thats left . ❞
these are words only to be spoken behind closed doors - how can she dare utter them to any other ? she’d lost andromeda so long ago it shouldn’t still hurt so much ( but that would be kind , and when it came to her sisters narcissa has never been granted a kindness ) . then sirius - whose disownment had hit just as hard ( and now for there to be claims of his supporting the very cause he’d refused to accept ? oh what fools who ran the ministry . ) and then poor sweet regulus - she doesn’t dare think of what must have become of him .
shaking her head softly , she doesn’t wait for a response - refusing to allow herself a moment more to dwell . ❝ i’ll just have to make myself all the more grand for it , i suppose . ❞
they have a son to think of - a son who needs his mother to push past her losses and play her part . . . and oh how funny that is - isn’t that all she’s ever done ?