The brilliantly talented guine_evere on IG drew this commission for The Black Prophecy - beautifully capturing the Black Sisters hearing a prophecy in the first scene. Fic can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57587314/chapters/146531797
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I feel like they don't get the attention they deserve. Their characters have so much depth, like, they were all raised the same yet had such different fates. They're so horribly tragic, yet all end up getting what they want. Also, everyone gives Sirius and Regulus sm attention and are always like "oh their relationship so sad" WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK SISTERS?!?! (not saying sirius and regulus aren't also tragic)
Hiya! Hope your okay! Since it’s Saturday I was hoping to make a request,
Could it be Narcissa x reader where they are in a secret relationship and whilst the war is taking place y/n gets hurt badly and Narcissa finds them so she appirate to Malfoy Manor and Narcissa looks after them, maybe a few days later when y/n is better, she could reunite with Bellatrix (she is alive in this) and y/n and Narcissa tell them everything and it’s all happy and fluffy.
Sorry it’s so long, I so hope you can write this. I absolutely love your writing. Thanks x
Hello, thank you for making a request! I hope you’ll enjoy this and you’ll like how I wrote it.
characters: Narcissa Malfoy x fem!reader + Bellatrix Leatrange
rundown: Voldemort hits you when there is war in Hogwarts and Narcissa takes care of you, calling her sister to help her
warnings: wizarding war, reader passes out, fluffy end
request status: saturday requests<3
“Join me Y/n, or I’ll have to kill you.”
“My lord-“
“Shut it Bellatrix. I want the girl to join us.”
“I won’t join you.”
“Avada Kedavra!”
“Y/n! Y/n, can you hear me?” You heard someone calling your name but you couldn’t recognize the voice. Your head and everything around you was spinning and you had a feeling of throwing up. “Y/n?”
“Mhm-“ you squeezed out of yourself only, even that hurt you. Your throat was all swollen and you could feel really bad pain in the area of your chest and stomach.
“It’s me, Cissy. If you hear me please move your hand,” Narcissa told you as she introduced herself and you tried to concentrate every single cell of your body in your hand. You let out a breath and when someone near to you gasped, you tried to move your fingers. “Alright. Alright, you’re alive. I’ll take you home. You don’t have to worry love, I will take care of you-“ Narcissa kept speaking so fast, that fast you almost didn’t know if she was talking or it was the wind. Every sound around you got into one and you couldn’t tell what was what.
A loud scream took place around you and it hung in the air. A second after you realized it was your back hurting so much and it was maybe you who screamed. Someone, if everything was true, Narcissa lifted you up. And you knew that you were right after the apologizes which came.
“I am so sorry love. What hurts you? I will take you home and take a look at you okay? Can you tell me what hurts you the most?” Narcissa kept asking you questions and you found out soon, that you couldn’t really focus on that.
Some unfamiliar feeling rushed over you. Cold wind played with your clothes and you didn’t know what was happening. Was that him? Has he came back? Was he back to finish you off?
Soon, you felt a little warmer air. And then even warmer. It was a sign of that you were somewhere inside. Did you know this building? Have you been in there before? You had no idea.
When your back met something soft, you screamed again. It hurt you so bad you were scared you wouldn’t be able to stand anymore. Someone just shushed you and the pain ran over your body. It hurt so bad, you sobbed.
“I will help you with that. I will just need some medicine and you’ll get better soon okay? Y/n can you move your hand for me?” The same voice asked you and suddenly you didn’t know how to do it. Beeping filled your eyes and even if you couldn’t see anything, your whole mind went black from the pain you couldn’t stand anymore.
You didn’t know how much time had passed when you could feel again. You were laying on your stomach with your face on the pillow but you were too scared to open your eyes.
Something cold touched your back. Your mouth automatically opened and you screamed into the pillow, almost kicking your leg into the air.
“Shh, it’s okay. It’s better than it was yesterday. It will help you Y/n, keep resting,” the same calm voice as before told you and you felt something cold on your back again. This time you just whined and didn’t even move. That person wanted to help you.
When you woke up one more time, you couldn’t feel anyone close to you. You needed to lift your head and walk around to finally find out where you were. As you did so, your body moved along with your head. You could feel pain again, but it wasn’t as bad as it had been at all. You didn’t know what happened before you woke up, but you could feel yourself slowly getting better and better, with no idea what time it was.
“Hey,” you heard. Feeling yourself in a different position than before, you realized you were laying on your back. You couldn’t feel the pain anymore. Trying to get comfortable enough to open your eyes, you fought against everything what was keeping your eyes closed. “Can you hear me love?”
“Mmmm-“ you could only say and then a gasp followed.
“Y/n! You hear me?”
“Mhm-“ you said somehow but didn’t open your eyes yet. Knowing that you were in some room and laying on your bed, you didn’t need to know more.
“How are you feeling? Are you in pain?”
“Back-“ you said only, your voice sounded like it isn’t even yours. “Hurts,” you said another word and you heard a gasp.
“Yeah, you were hit there. The killing curse hit you into your back. Y/n I thought I lost you- oh my god,” Narcissa sobbed and you just breathed out. No energy was left in your body and you could feel that.
Some clicking could be heard in the room and then you sighed. It was Narcissa who sat next to you on the bed and since you were laying on your back in which was the pain returning slowly, you just breathed out.
“Drink this,” Narcissa handed you a little bottle of something and you couldn’t even lift your hand. The pain was spreading into both of your arms and you assumed it was from your spine.
“Hurts-“
“Open,” Narcissa ordered you and you listened. Opening your mouth slowly, you let her pour something into your mouth. It tasted really bad. That bad you wanted to throw it up when you begin swallowing.
“Bad-“
“I know love, but you have to drink it,” Narcissa said and you swallowed what was in your mouth. The aftertaste you got was even worse and you shut your eyes.
“I am here!” You heard someone else, their voice was too familiar to you. You really slowly moved your head to the side to see the doors which opened. When you saw the curly haired witch all you was wishing for was that she didn’t come here to kill you.
“Please no- don’t-“
“What are you talking about?”
“Please don’t kill me- don’t kill me-“ you started begging what made the sisters look at each other.
“Y/n no one is going to kill you, calm down.” Narcissa started and you whined out, realizing that your body didn’t hurt anymore.
“Here. This should help her common sense,” you heard Bellatrix and Narcissa took something from her. You opened your eyes weakly and realized how your breathing picked up.
“Drink,” Narcissa told you and you listened. You let her set the little bottle to your lips and you started slowly swallowing something, what tasted much more better than the previous potion.
Suddenly, everything stopped hurting. You couldn’t feel your head pounding anymore and you started giving attention to the world around you and to what was happening.
“Better?”
“Yeah,” you admitted and sighed loudly. Your hand flew to your forehead and you realized that you had a temperature as well. “What happened?”
“You were hit by the killing curse,” Bellatrix said without anything else and your eyes wide opened.
“Why am I alive then?”
“Someone saved you. We don’t know who was that or what were they doing between the Deatheaters.”
“It was me,” you heard Narcissa say and you weren’t able to speak.
“You? Cissy no offense but you are scared of the Dark lord,” Bellatrix started making fun of her and you looked at her with thankful eyes.
“I might be. But I love Y/n more than I am afraid of the Dark Lord,” she said and looked at her sister. Then she looked at the floor and Bellatrix nodded her head, getting that Narcissa wanted to be alone with you.
When Bellatrix left the room, you had so many questions on your tongue. Narcissa knew that and he started explaining it.
“He hit you. I brought you to the Manor and started taking care of you. Your back was pretty bad and i served you some elixirs and pills I got from St. Mungo’s hospital while Bellatrix was watching over you. There was a really small chance you would wake up. But you did so,” Narcissa said in short and you saw tears in her eyes.
“Thank you-“ you whispered and closed your eyes.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“I am just a little tired,” you admitted and felt someone take your hand into theirs.
“Alright, then rest. I’ll be here, holding your hand okay?” Narcissa asked you and you just swallowed, already falling asleep. But Narcissa was there and she was taking care of you. She has been taking care of you.
“I think I’m in love with Ted”, hesitated Andromeda, fearing her sister’s response.
“You are”, Narcissa affirmed without thinking to much and added, slowly, with tears in her eyes, “And I love you. I always will”.
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Academic rivals; forced together through mutual acquaintances and projects
He fell first and hardest and the seduction was sloooooow, giving her time to come to terms with her attraction to a Muggleborn. Ted was an old-school romantic, and Andromeda was thoroughly disarmed, having no frames of reference for a loving relationship.
The rise of Voldemort added urgently and pressure to their growing relationship. It helped Andromeda see just how toxic her family’s views were. Once she understood how kind and good Ted was, it opened up her world to another way of thinking.
They bonded over books and music, with Andromeda blown away when she was introduced to Bob Dylan. She became a lifelong fan of folk music, with a love of Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Marianne Faithful
Ted was infinitely patient with Andromeda as she discovered the Muggle world, helping her with the practicality and difficulties she faced.
Despite the challenges they faced, and the pain of the broken bonds with her sisters, Andromeda would never regret her choice.
‘…Fate had other plans. Andromeda was stopped as she bumped into the tall, solid form of Ted Tonks outside the Great Hall entrance. She wasn’t about to be distracted. She gave a deep sigh and tried to move to get past him. It did not work. Something held her back; it appeared she was being rooted to the spot by an unseen force.
‘Ah,’ Ted said gently, pointing his finger to the ceiling, where a vine of mistletoe was creeping towards them.
Andromeda watched, mesmerised, as it made its slow descent towards them. She huffed gently. ‘So some parts of Yule are still worth keeping, are they?’
Ted shrugged, his cheeks reddening. ‘I’m not sure this was Dumbledore, to be honest. I think it might be a Prewitt job…’
‘Oh, Merlin,’ Andromeda breathed out heavily, beginning to panic. She knew what this meant. They wouldn’t be released until they kissed. And she was who she was, and he was, well…
‘Don’t panic, lass,’ Ted said considerately, his brown eyes softening. ‘I’ve no intention of forcing myself on you.’
He took her hand then, his grip gentle yet firm, the warmth of his palm seeping into her skin. Her whole body froze in response. Touch was such a rare event for Andromeda that the feeling was almost completely alien, and she gasped at the intensity of it. Warmth spread through her as he gently stroked the inside of her wrist, leaving a trail of fire in his wake. He slowly raised her hand, meeting her eyes as they looked up to him, startled.
‘This is how those Gentlemen in your House do it, isn’t it?’ he whispered. She noticed the crinkle of his crow's feet and the sparkle in his rich brown eyes, speckled with honey.
Carefully, reverently, and tenderly, he kissed the back of her hand, not breaking eye contact as his soft lips met her skin.
Andromeda could hardly breathe.
The lifting of the bond broke their spell. In a fleeting moment, both of them felt the change in the atmosphere, the pressure around them easing, and they were able to move once again.
Andromeda took her chance. She ran.’
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(Andromeda x Ted, Narcissa x Lucius, Bellatrix x Voldemort)
Canonish compliant fic set around the rise of Voldemort. Enemies to Lovers, Fish out of Water Slow Burn, Villain Origin Story, with lots of Slytherin politics, cliffhangers and witchcraft lore
Complete, 150k words, find it on A03
Cover art by @guine_evere on IG
‘Beware all ye who enter’ read the dusty old sign hanging over the doorway of the ratty old tent. The Black Sisters stood before it, contemplating the cavernous lair of the Seer Narcissa insisted on seeing.
The sign should have made them pause, but then again, the sisters were hardly likely to be threatened by idle threats meant to scare the masses. No one would accuse Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa of being ordinary. The Black sisters rose above it all.
‘Come on, Bella,’ Narcissa implored, pulling her eldest sister through the entrance and into the blackness beyond, ignoring her sighs and eyes rolling in exasperation.
Bella had no patience with Divination or Narcissa’s girlish obsession with it. All she saw in her teacups were so-called Grims.
‘They say she only comes out during Solstice once every five years; we cannot miss her,’ Narcissa insisted, determined that her sisters listen to her for once and take their futures seriously. How were they to make a dent in the world if they were not prepared for what was coming?
Andromeda fell behind, as she so often did, uninterested in her sister's plans, plots, and schemes, getting lost in the much richer world playing out in her head.
She bathed her senses in the dark atmosphere of the Seer’s lair. The tent held an intoxicating musky sandalwood smell, the rich velvet drapes brushing against her fingertips as she gazed at the twinkling sprites dancing brightly in their midst. It felt unreal. As much as she was used to the eccentricities of the Wizarding World, this place was more dreamlike than anywhere she’d ever visited.
Only the sharp eyes of the famed Seer could pull Andromeda out of her trance. The Witch they’d heard so much about from Narcissa held court in the centre of this otherworld. She sat in stillness before a fire, deep hooded eyes trained on the sisters. They could barely breathe at the intensity of her gaze.
Andromeda and Narcissa felt ill at unease. The sisters were no strangers to ancient magic, but this place felt drenched in an unknown power.
Bella remained unmoved; it took much more than some parlour tricks to make her believe in such nonsense. The eldest of the Black sisters huffed as she reluctantly took a seat, waving her hand to encourage her sisters to follow.
The Seer merely raised a brow and handed Bella a gleaming silver dagger. She wasted no time grasping it, a look of disdain etched on her strikingly beautiful face.
All the Black Sisters were well-versed in blood magic, and the ritual did not need to be spelt out. Bella quickly sliced open her palm and let her blood drip into the flame, then grabbed her sister's hands to do the same, all in an impatient flurry. Andromeda complied quickly, watching the thick, crimson blood fall from her hands in fascination. At the same time, Narcissa grimaced, wincing delicately, and snatching her hand back, swishing her wand to stem the flow of blood as soon as she could and checking her dress carefully for any spots of blood that might have fallen onto it.
They watched carefully as the Seer cast her wand over the flickering flames, guiding them in their path. She then cast her intense gaze into the depths of the fire and searched furiously for the answers she sought.
Finally, the Seer took a deep breath, her eyes gleaming and a small, wry smile etched on her face.
‘The last of the House of Black,’ the Seer whispered as she watched the dancing flames, unknown futures springing to life in its depths. It was both a promise and a threat.
‘Our line is strong,’ Bella scoffed, clearly unimpressed with the theatrics and ominous prediction.
‘None will survive you,’ the Seer smiled. ‘The only question is, will you endure?’
‘What is our fate?’ Narcissa whispered gently, enraptured by the low baritone voice of the Witch in front of them.
The Seer contemplated them one by one. Her words were a low, deep hum, powerfully vibrating as they spilled from her mouth.
‘Love,’ she said, pointing her long finger to Andromeda;
‘Influence,’ pointing to Narcissa;
‘Power,’ pointing to Bellatrix.
‘Do not be fooled when you are banished, imprisoned, and crowned. There is more to come; you must look to these forces to see it. They will drive you, they will shape you, and if you are not careful, they will devour you.’
The Prophecy hung in the air for a spellbinding moment. Then, slowly, the Seer's words turned into smoke, curling around and dancing lightly in the air before they descended, compelled towards the orb below them, swallowing the smoke in one gulp. Another promise captured for the Hall of Prophecies.
Bellatrix jumped to her feet in outrage. ‘There is no one who can devour us,’ she hissed, furious at the implication.
She jumped from her seat, grabbed her sister's hands, and pulled them quickly out of the oppressive tent into the fresh air outside.
The Seer cackled loudly.
In her long years of prophesying, she had found few could accept their fate. It didn’t matter. The Black Sisters would find it came to them just the same.
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