Title: Winter of Discontent
Author: aliciadances
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild swearing
Prompt: 33) It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English novelist and essayist
Summary: "Her mother talks as if Regulus has gone somewhere on holiday, but fear feels like an icy hand on the back of her neck." Set ( Read more... )

Title: Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear
Autor: catsintheattic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Prompt: 35) We were all developing the same stubborn pride, behind which our frightened selves hid, pretending everything was all right. Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948), Puerto Rican author, co-founder of film and media production company ( Read more... )

Title: Shadows in Light and Dark
Author: Envinyatar (aka envinyatar15)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Narcissa, Andromeda, Bellatrix, Lucius, Harry, Voldemort, Draco
Rating: R
Highlight for Warnings: DH-compliant, *ungraphic sexual activities, including adultery, threesomes and rough sex, featuring Totally Obvious Canon Pairings.*
Prompt: #15 You can no more ( Read more... )

The first expression on baby Draco’s face, once he had stopped wailing and had been passed from the Healer to his father, was a sneer. His lip curled up above toothless gums and he squirmed in Lucius’s arms, making whimpers of protest till his father deposited him in her arms.

She looked down at his red, still-sneering face. Damn, Narcissa ( Read more... )

Title: The Blessed Damozel
Author: nokomis305
Rating: PG
Fandom: Harry Potter
Word Count: 1175
Prompt: 90. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.--Frida Kahlo.
Summary: Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of ( Read more... )

Title: Borealis
Author: hibernater
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Warnings: Character death
Prompt: #3 Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home - Emily Bronte
Summary: Victory in war is never what it was meant to be, and the dawn is no guarantee of a new day. Much love to starrysilver for the ( Read more... )

Title: Best Left Unsaid
Author: velvetmouse
Rating: G
Fandom: Harry Potter
Prompt: 29. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. --Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Summary: Andromeda Tonks discovers that blood ties really are the strongest bond.

( My family was not what you might call. . . caring. . . )

Title: Walking Down Corridors
Author: meddow
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Harry Potter
Warnings: None
Prompt: #74 - It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.--Marie O'Conner.
Summary: Narcissa Malfoy spends her day contemplation of the fate of her family, her sister’s ideology and the impending death ( Read more... )

Title: A Mother Knows
Author: texasmagic
Rating: G

Prompt: Let us not fear the hidden, or each other.~Muriel Rukeyser

Summary: Narcissa has always been skilled at keeping things hidden, but now it appears as if she might have taught Draco too well.

( A Mother Knows )

Title: Sea Change
Author: tangleofthorns
Website: Spark
Category: Narcissa, various Blacks and Malfoys, rated PG-13.
Words: 2645.
Prompt: #49. A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. -Margaret Atwood
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