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Narcissa sat in front of her vanity, brushing her long platinum blonde hair and counting each stroke out loud. This is something she liked to do while Bellatrix was down in the common room w/ Rudolfus. This way she wouldn’t have to hear her sister tease her about her grooming.

“Come now ‘Cissa, must you really groom yourself that much. You already have the boys after you.” Bellatrix would annoy her with. “Besides Lucius is already wrapped around your fingers so what is the point of all this.”

She hated her sister at those times. Just because she didn’t take pride in personal grooming didn’t mean that Narcissa didn’t. At a first glance at the room it became obvious which sister was living on which side. Narcissa’s side was very neat and orderly, everything had its place. Bellatrix’s side on the other hand had books and clothing haphazardly strewn about. Her philosophy was to ‘let it lay where it landed’.

As Narcissa finished her 110th stroke with her brush, Bellatrix burst through the door. “My Gods ‘Cissa, I can’t bear to stand it any more.” She had slammed the door so hard that it shook the mirror that Narcissa was looking in. “How can she continue to disgrace us, let alone herself, like this. She traipses around the castle with him all day. I have even witnessed them snogging behind a suit of armor. They are all over each other like stench to a corpse.”

“Gods ‘Bella, Must you really talk like that. Honestly, I do not wish to be thinking of a stench like that before I retire for the night.” Narcissa said curling her lip up as if she could smell the very stench Bellatrix had been talking about. “Besides she is in love with him. We don’t act very different the way she does when it comes to our beaus.” Her thoughts now turning towards the memories of her running her hands through her beaus long blonde hair while he soundly snogged her behind the statues in the corridors leading up to the Great Hall from the Dungeons.

“But it’s different. Our beaus are respectable purebloods. Hers is, is … well, a filthy mudblood!” Bellatrix screamed as she began to pace the floor on her side of the room. “Something needs to be done. We need to find a way to separate them and keep them apart!” Her brain began to race to come up with a plan to keep Andromeda out of the arms of that Hufflepuff.

Narcissa set her brush down on her vanity and turned towards Bellatrix with a chuckle. “Ha! There is nothing you can really do to drive them apart. They are always together. They have this really strong bond and nothing short of her seeing him within the arms of another girl could keep them apart.” Narcissa’s heart fell a little when she heard the last sentence come out of her mouth. She knew in an instant that Bellatrix would think that a great plan.

“That’s exactly what we’ll do!” Bellatrix’s eyes light up at the moment Narcissa said that. “We’ll arrange for her to see him with another girl, mid-tryst. She’ll toss him aside in a heart beat.” She began to smile the most evil grin Narcissa had ever seen as her plan began to form in her mind. “I know just the curse too that will help us get Ted to get more ‘in to it’ or shall I say ‘in to her’ as well.”

Narcissa listen to Bellatrix describe the plan out in depth and could see her grow more evil with every detail. As Bellatrix finished her plans Narcissa turned back towards her vanity, looking at a picture of Andromeda that she kept there, noting how happy she had seemed. “But don’t we want her to be happy? Maybe this is not the best idea you’ve ever had. Besides he can’t really be all that bad if he makes her happy.”

“Not that bad!” Bellatrix screamed, Narcissa seeing the fire in burning in her eyes. “’Cissa, we have to do this for her own good, for the good of the family. He is a mudblood for Circe’s sake. We can not let this atrocity to continue any longer than it already has.”

Bella had begun to rant on about pureblood supremacy again as Narcissa turned towards her wardrobe to pick out the next days outfit. As the night wore on the topic had changed from purebloods back to the details of her master plan and when Bellatrix was going to be putting in to motion. Narcissa half listened to Bellatrix and wasn’t sure if she would idly stand by and let this happen. As much as she was for purebloods being supreme in the Wizarding world, she didn’t want to see her sister hurting. She knew that what Andromeda and Ted had was real and something special. She hoped that the couple would be able to see through this deception and overcome it.

Narcissa crawled into bed after Bellatrix was done and closed her eyes tightly. Her memories flashed back to the happy memories of her and Andromeda together when they were younger. They would play together for hour on end. Even when Bellatrix would go off and leave Narcissa behind, Andromeda made sure she was always there for her, never leaving her out. She remembered all the stories Andromeda told her before she’d go to bed and doing all the things a good big sister would do. She didn’t want to ruin the love that Andromeda had for her. She was her sister after all. There had to be a way that something could be done.



A/N: Hello again. I am sorry this is a short chapter but it was a little tid-bit I felt needed to be put in there. Please keep reading and I will update as fast as I can. Please Review.