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1960
Young Narcissa sits at the gate of the Black Family Manor, she's playing with the brown grass that seeps through the gate. Her long blond hair flows in the light breeze, she hums a sweet song to herself. She looks up through the gate and off into the distance, looking deeply at lands that lie with in, the tall green grass and the bright yellow flowers. Shes wasn't allowed to play in the fields today, she wasn't sure why.
She looks deeper out, she spots a small figure skipping towards her, she stands up quickly and presses her head onto the gate trying to get a closer look. As the figure gets closer she notices it's a boy about her age, he has shortly cut golden ginger hair, her wears a striped jumper and brown shorts that stop at his knees. He holds a brow leather satchel slung over his body, he grips onto it tightly with two hands as he skips over the field.
Narcissa looks at him intrigued, he walks up to the gate, he looks into Narcissas eyes through the gate, the boy leans down to the ground a plucks a flower out, he stands back up and smiles widely, he extends his arm out to Narcissa with the flower in his hand. Narcissas eyes flicker over the flower, she finds her hand reaching out through the gate, she takes the flower in her hand and smiles back up at the boy. Her head shoots back quickly when she hears a booming voice calling her name.
"Narcissa!" The voice growls loudly making anyone who hears it blood crawl. She sees her father appear on the steps of the large manor, his eyes widen when he sees the boy, he starts to charge over to them. Narcissas eyes begin to fill with fear, she quickly turns back to see the ginger haired boy had started to run away.
"Wait!" Her small voice shouted. She suddenly felt a large hand wrap around her arm dragging her little body back, she tried to struggle back to the gate but the body pulling her was to strong. Narcissa looked up to see her father Cygnus Black dragging her back into the manor.
"Stupid Child" the voice spat, as he yanked her up the stairs of the manor. Cygnus pulled her into the house, Narcissa looked back as she was pulled through the dark halls, she saw the eyes of her nanny follower her, her face filled with worry. She tried to cry out but her father tugged on her arm making her stop.
"Father please!" She cried out as her father pulled her into a room. He let go of her arm and threw her into the room making her fall to her feet. Cygnus strided across the room grabbing his cane in his hand. He walked back to Narcissa.
"Stand up child" his voice boomed firmly, Narcissa scurried up onto her feet, he father stood over her as she cowered beneath him.
"Give me your hand" Cygnus said his gaze sharp on her. Narcissa reluctantly gripped her own hand squeezing her arms over each other, her father sighed and grabbed her hand yanking it off her body. He pulled her hand out flat so the ball of her hand was facing upward.
"We do not talk to filthy mugbloods" His voice filled with disgust. she jumped and turned head head away as her hand was extended.
"Do you understand" Her father said his voice making the hairs in her body stand up. She didn't answer instead she squeezed her eyes tightly shut. Suddenly she felt a snap pain run through her body when her father sliced his cane down on her hand, she let out a yelp.
"I said do you understand me child" his father voice boomed. She quickly nodded her head squeezing her eyes so that tears wouldn't fall.
"Ye-yes father" her weak voice uttered. Cygnus pulled his cane back and stepped away from Narcissa.
"You may go child" he said his voice uninterested, she quickly nodded and blotted through door. She ran through the long halls tears falling from her eyes, as she ran she saw her sister snickering at her in the door way, she wiped tears from her eyes with the back of her hands.
She saw her nanny Rosemary at the end of the hall she ran into her arms sobbing. Rosemary hugged her tightly, she looked down at her and wiped the tears from her eyes. Narcissa cried into her arms and she rocked her back and forth.
"It's okay my dear" Rosemary said her voice sweet like berry's. Narcissa griped her stricken hand "can I have a look at that?" Rosemary asked pointing to Narcissas hand with a comforting smile, she nodded and opened her hand. Rosemary looked down at her hand, there's a red mark.
"Dont worry sweetie, I'll patch this up for you" Rosemary said as she pulled out her wand and pointed at Narcissa hand. "Episkey!" she said swirling her wand in a circle. Narcissa looked down at her hand to see it completely healed.
"Wow" Narcissa said amazed. "I can't wait to go to Hogwarts" she said eagerly forgetting about the earlier sorrows.
That was the day Narcissa learned how the world worked, at least how their world worked.
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1962
"Bella!" Narcissa shouts jumping up, Bella snarls as she dangles a copy of 'James and The Giant Peach' in the air.
"Reading muggle books are we Cissy?" Bella says a sly grin spreading across her face. Bella being five years older then Narcissa was significantly taller then her having the upper hand.
"Don't call me that!" Narcissa shouts as she swings her arms up in the air trying to grab the book. Bella throws the book up in the air her lips curled with a grin.
"Diffindo!" Bella shouts pointing her wand at the book, it rips in half.
"No!" Narcissa shouts her voice filled with hurt. She falls to her knees grabbing the ripped pages in her hands, Bella snarls down at her.
"That's what happens to muggle books cissyyyy" Bella cackles as she skips away down into the manor her voice trailing off.
