Rodolphus has always had a problem distinguishing dreams - and, in his case, rings - from reality.

Draco reflects on the most precious thing the war claimed, post-state funerals. Drabble-esque; one-shot.

The Blacks prayed Andromeda's troubles dead the day she married. Drabble-esque. One-shot.

What Arthur wants, he does not have. What Narcissa wants is what she used to have.

Death doesn't always come like a thief in the night; for Lucius, it arrives as a familiar face in the day.

He is not a simple man but she's got a way about her. - Written for Lady Eleanor Boleyn's "Why" challenge. Challenge 85 on the Bellatrix Lestrange: The Dark Lord's Most Faithful forum.

It was awfully late when she found him in the library ... in the restricted section.

The Battle of Hogwarts is over, as is the Second Wizarding War. But as trials begin, Andromeda's justice can only come at her hands.

Love is many things: patient, caring, kind. But unrequited love, by contrast, calls for war.

They're merciless, cold, and calculated. But Blacks, too, are human, strangled by whirlwinds of imperfection. Five drabble-ish entries. Enter the tormented lives of Bellatrix, Narcissa, Sirius, Andromeda, and Regulus.

"It is harder to kill a phantom than a reality." -Virginia Woolf ; Written for Lady Eleanor Boleyn's "Christmas Carol" challenge. Challenge 44 on the Bellatrix Lestrange: The Dark Lord's Most Faithful forum.

"Why do the Malfoys look so unhappy with their lot? Is it my return, my rise to power, not the very thing they professed to desire for so many years?" Post-Malfoy Manor. Narcissa assesses the past, for the "future" doesn't look too promising.

Rarely do we long to bid farewell, even when the odds have scarcely been in favor of the deceased.

The voodoo priestess and her puppet waltz together in sordid harmony, effortlessly synchronizing, in this, their eternally cursed opera of the underworld.

Some sensations really do have longevity.

"Justin Finch-Fletchley was no stranger to being disliked. He knew, all two well, that such comes with the territory of being special." Written for the "First Magic" challenge on the Bellatrix Lestrange: The Dark Lord's Most Faithful forum.

Rashness is one matter-"nonchalance," another. Narcissa has little time to coddle Bellatrix, especially when faced with implications far worse than Dementors and Azkaban.

The defilement of one won't befoul the other.

The Black soldier seeks the one person who can give him solace.

"There is nothing more deplorable than knowing your wife is bedding another...except, perhaps, breaking bread with said perpetrator. Rodolphus swore, on all that was holy, he hated the Dark Lord."