HBC + character One Shots!

- Bellatrix | Christmas with the Malfoys p4

Ooh p4!

The pic above is the Mrs. Klaus dress I imagined Bella to be wearing ; )

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- With warm regards Cherie..

My eyes were glued to the last word of the letter.. It's been weeks since I last heard anything about Valerie, not that I was waiting for any information on her, but it was just a big surprise.

Narcissa told me she had dealt with her and that she was not to bother me anymore, but she was a sneaky woman.. damn, all french women seem to have a trick up their sleeves these days.

"Wow that's fancy.. Is that from your mother?"

Draco had leaned over my shoulder and seen the font of the text, thankfully, he had not seen what was written. I quickly closed the card and sighed. Lies, any lie..

"Yes.. she uhm- she's in Austria with my father.. nothing special.."

I put the letter on the floor next to me, the less it looks like I'm trying to hide them, the better. I looked over to the rest of the family. Narcissa held up a beautiful green card and thanks to the crest on the back I could see that it was from the Greengrass family. (Astoria's Family)

My eyes caught onto a special card that Draco was holding very lovingly, not discrete at all. I leaned a bit closer to him to whisper in his ear quietly.

"The phantom of the opera?"

His smile confirmed my theories. Thankfully, he had spent most of the Halloween ball with the 'phantom' and caught onto my reference. I smiled back at him and wiggled my eyebrows slightly before looking back at the rest of the family.

Accidentally, I caught sight of a familiar handwriting in one of Bella's letters. Immediately I recognized it as my potions professor's. He also had a special way to write, always putting a little spike at the P. It looked identical of his copy of the 'Advanced potion making' book.

Jealousy tugged at me slightly, but I was intruding. My eyes moved from her letter to somewhere else.. anywhere. I found myself staring into the sparkle of the Christmas tree once more.

"There we are, presents time!"

Bella's voice snapped me out of yet another sparkle trans. Her hand went into the bag for the second time and out came a box-shaped package with Christmas paper wrapped tightly around it.

She carefully slipped the package around to read the small note that had been taped on the top.

- "To my dearest Draco from Narcissa."

He smiled as he received the package, and I can imagine why. Narcissa seems like the mother to give absolutely amazing presents. We all watched with anticipation as he tore the Christmas paper open.

Out of the box came 6 books all organized and labelled. His face was happy, but I didn't know he read, I thought he said it was boring..?

Soon I realized that the books he had been gifted was actually the new copies of the books we'd need for our next semester at Hogwarts.

"Thank you mother! Perfect timing as always."

He placed to books down carefully on a free space to his left, close to the tree. Bella's hand swooped down again and pulled out a smaller sized box. She smiled as she read.

"Merry Christmas Bellatrix from Santa? Who's this from?"

No one dared to admit who it was from, but she opened it with just as much anticipation. As the paper finally left the interior she began laughing a little.