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Andromeda's Finale

TW: Use of the Cruciatus curse, Language, Family Abuse and Heterosexual couple.

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The excitement that Andromeda Black was feeling was impossible to erase, maybe only her mother and older sister Bellatrix could achieve the task. After spending the entire afternoon and evening with her boyfriend, now fiancé, Ted Tonks; Andromeda was finally heading home. Walking down the London streets, with her left hand on her wand ready to hex any lewd muggle guy that came near to her, it was past midnight after all, and she was aware of the dangers of coming home so late. Even so, what worried her the most, was having to arrive home in extreme silence, then lying to her entire family and tell them that she came home sometime around dusk, hoping that none of her sisters had gone into her room during the day; one more time.

As she walked to the right house, the bricks started to move, showing her home with the splendid front entrance that she was so used to. She stopped in front of the gigantic front door and prepared herself to enter the house, she moved to the middle finger the ring that Ted had given to her two weeks ago, she obviously and stupidly smiled as she did, then, she took a deep breath and started to spell up her body with silencing and protecting charms. And last but not less important, she closed her eyes and suppressed any happy thoughts that she was thinking, letting her Black-pureblood-mask take place on her countenance. Then, she carefully opened the door only to find her mother and two sisters standing in the middle of the main stairs in front of her, Bellatrix just looked at her as it was something funny, holding a self-satisfied smirk on her face; on the other hand, Narcissa didn't show any emotion, just a little bit of disappointment was shining in her eyes. And her mother, she could feel the anger that Druella Black was holding, the older woman eyes filled with rage were fixed on her, and if she looked closely, she could see that for the first time in her entire life her mother was controlling her anger.

After realizing that, she panicked. But she could not show it, it took a great effort to hide the terror that she was feeling, but a few breaths and numbers did it. Her mother could not know that she was scared of her!

"Mother... Narcissa... Bellatrix" she said as calm as she could and waited for an answer she did not get "If you'll excuse me I'll go to bed, good nig-"

"You are not excused" her mother interrupted severely. The right words were hard to find, as her family didn't care to answer what was happening.

"Then, what has you up so late?" Andromeda knew that small talk wasn't the right answer, but at this point, there were only wrong answers.

"We were waiting for you. You see-" her older sister started, but got interrupted by a subtle little cough that her mother made. Drawing all attention to her, and once more the silence took a place on her home.

"Andromeda" her mother began, making her fear grow a little more "Bellatrix has brought to my attention that you have a boyfriend..." Andromeda froze, and her mother stopped just to analyze her reaction "a mudblood boyfriend!" she said with all the anger and disappointment she was holding.

Muggleborn, she thought or rather, by the look on Bellatrix's eyes, mumbled.

"Bella, what was his name again?" her mother asked without listening to what she had said, starting to show the feelings she had towards the boy.