AU; Lucius is expected to be a father, any moment now. Until said moment is born, he has unfinished business with his sister-in-law. Lucius/Andromeda; implied Lucius/Narcissa, Rabastan/Andromeda, Rodolphus/Bellatrix.

Hermione has told Dean that saying goodbye won't be as horrible as he anticipates. But, then again, Hermione's father never left her family. Dean doesn't want to be the second man to break his mother's heart, but he has no choice.

Clandestine lovers have a moonlit picnic. Or, rather, they try to.

If she intends to leave, he shan't protest. Inspired by Challenge 40 on the Bellatrix Lestrange: The Dark Lord's Most Faithful Forum.

Blaise and Daphne reconnect at the Malfoy-Greengrass wedding reception. They argue. They cry. They laugh. They live.

AU; Bellatrix propositions Sirius to join the Death Eaters. He doesn't exactly have the willpower to decline her solicitation.

Ted Tonks has already lost his family. Losing his religion will be of no further consequence.

Rodolphus's unholy thoughts interrupt dinner in the Lestrange household. Bellatrix's punishment reminds him of why she should never be taken for granted.

Severus tries to make amends with Lily one last time before graduation, different ideals, and life separate them forever. Will he succeed? Or will the cruel fates continue to mock him and the love he harbors?

"To quell my fears, I have to go. I need to know that this country is far, far removed from the perpetual horror of my former life."

In the wake of Andromeda's departure, Bellatrix finds there's only one man capable of making her whole again.

Both Nymphadora and Teddy spoke the six dreaded words that no mother, especially a disowned, former Black, ever hopes to hear.

"Gryffindors are brave, Siri." Andromeda, her heart belonging to both a badger and a snake, comforts the Black family's lion cub when he is most vulnerable.

Andromeda Tonks née Black is haunted by many things, but Ted knows that nothing torments her more so than her naivety of a certain month of the year and the anguish involved therein.

Legend has it that members of each generation go astray; this theory has often stood the test of time. Yet, as the pinnacle of pureblood society, no one envisaged such insurgency in The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black -Summary expanded inside-