Title: Keeping Up Appearances
Author: SB
Rated: S
Pairings: None
Genre: Mild angst
Disc.: Keeping Up Appearances on brittiläinen sitcom (suom. Pokka Pitää). HP kuuluu JKR:lle
Summary: Walburga Black knows better than to display her feelings for anyone to see...
Osallistuu kielihaasteeseen. Ensimmäinen double-drabble yritelmäni.
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Keeping Up Appearances
Bellatrix came to visit today. She was distraught, heartbroken over what had happened. She came to confirm the news I already knew to be true. The Dark Lord was gone. A good-for-nothing little coward had led him to a trap, somehow. I had little energy to care.
I offered Bella my comfort and a cup of tea, which she declined. My face did not show the smile that was spreading in my heart. The ones that had stolen my sons from me had both paid for what they had done. The blood-traitor Potter, who had filled the head of my firstborn with filth and lies, and the Dark Lord, who had killed my Regulus were both gone.
Treacherous thoughts.
My face was a mask of dignified grief.
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I always knew they were fools. Dumbledore and all the rest of that muggle-loving rag-tag. They are calling my traitorous firstborn a Death Eater now. Bellatrix is standing at the doorway; she says she has not got the time to come in. She seems not to know whether she should be offended by the scandalous idea of her disowned cousin being labeled the Dark Lord’s favourite. She is laughing, though, at the justice of the situation. My son forsook his real family, his blood, for these people and now they are going to lock him up in Azkaban for good.
I smile proudly as I heartily offer the required insults. The traitor deserves it all, and worse. And by Merlin, he truly does. But somehow, I do not feel like smiling. I have lost both of my sons. The line, centuries old, will break. To think I had to live to see this day.
In my chest my heart is breaking.
I keep smiling.
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