#abstainedevoured

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

@abstainedevour | orion & ophelia.

❛ he can be - tough at times. ❜ although that would be an understatement , and they both know this. abraxas is , and has always been , a brute by nature. orion learned this about him first , before any mitigating factors ever came to light , and he reckons abraxas had seen to it this be true in all bonds he would construct. if his friends knew it , his wife would to as she was no exception. in fact , in malfoy’s eyes , she could be afforded less warmth as she had but one duty to fulfill while his comrades were of some value to him in the long term. orion did not agree. while he himself were miserable in his marriage , it was not due to his own desire to be freed of such a commitment. it was his wife who made him so , and he would be lucky to have someone like ophelia awaiting his return home. he looks down at his feet at the thought. atrocious. ❛ are you alright ? ❜

[knowshisowna]

❛ don’t say you love me more. ❜ andy @ bastan

❛ don’t i ? ❜

fatigue tinges the words , and yet they are strong enough to linger and echo through their vast parlor , bouncing off of each and every surface in the vicinity. and back at him. 

he rests his head against his fist , a lazy look cast up at her as she stands near the bar. smoke fills the space between them , but there are no barriers anymore. there haven’t been for some time now. there cannot be when he is one of the guardians of this vast secret. because betraying bella is something rabastan would never do , never THINK to do. 

unless andromeda’s life depended on it. 

❛ you say you love me now , but you have always known they are the words i wished to hear. now , they only belong to me because i am the only one left. ❜

he isn’t bitter , not per se. the passing of ted tonks is not something he’d celebrated , even as he and andromeda rekindled their friendship. and watched it become this. but nevertheless , beyond all of that , he knows that fate works and karma comes , and if this is how he is afforded the life he has most desired , so be it. he knows well enough a beggar does not get to choose. the point is that the words are his now. and she loves him , maybe not more than her past , but ENOUGH. 

rabastan has always settled well for enough. 

❛ and besides , you need me to love you more. it is the only way i can protect you. the only way i can continue to lie to our sister’s face without letting her see a crack in my mask. ❜

and it is the only way that he can cradle the child now sleeping in his arms because while she will never remember what she is , rabastan can never forget. it is critical then that he love andromeda more than the truth. 

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

DRACO CYGNUS BLACK MALFOY | study 001. 

draco is the biological son of rabastan lestrange , but rabastan was sent to prison before narcissa had the courage to relay this news. his parents had loved each other since they were children , but for the sake of family and enforcing his alliances, cygnus sought an arrangement with the malfoys. regardless , narcissa is adamant that her son take her father’s name , stating that he may be the last of the blacks at the end of it all , and they deserve to preserve their line too. 

draco learned of his lineage at the age of 15. his mother told him the night that the death eaters escaped from azkaban in fear that the news would be dropped upon him without warning by one of the two people who knew , his aunt bellatrix.

the only other person aware of it was his perceived grandfather , abraxas malfoy , whom he had always had a close relationship with. abraxas could tell early on that draco was not his grandson , and he put the pieces together as time went on. 

still , he never ceased to claim draco , but he tried to keep him closer. that in turn moved lucius to try and distance them , fearing that abraxas was trying to intervene with his son. despite rabastan’s escape from azkaban , draco was not given the chance to confront or face him until july of that year , shortly after turning 16 when he became a death eater.

rabastan , who had been seriously considering abandoning his duties to voldemort after a most difficult time in azkaban, is met by narcissa , who tells him the truth of his fathering draco. at hearing this , he agrees to remain in the death eaters in an effort to protect his son. narcissa still makes an unbreakable vow with severus due to the fact he’s at hogwarts , but rabastan becomes quite vigilant and very active in his duties alongside his older brother and sister - in - law. he resumes his place as top - tier death eater , but he is not as good as he was before , as previously proven during the battle at the ministry. 

draco doesn’t immediately process or react to the news , instead focusing on the job set before him. tom riddle does not know the truth about draco’s lineage as narcissa blocks that knowledge from him , and he never thinks to search rabastan for it. in that , draco is still filling in for lucius and possibly taking the punishment for his failures. prior to leaving for his sixth year however , rabastan pulls him aside and they have a proper conversation. 

draco isn’t angry or hateful with either of his parents , but he does have some resentment for rabastan getting tossed in prison. in his efforts to both keep his son safe and show he cares , rabastan calls upon fenrir greyback. rabastan is the closest thing to a friend fenrir has amongst the death eaters , and fenrir agrees to place a protection reserved only for his pack on the boy albeit at great cost , a cost rabastan never shares with anyone. 

following the war , draco does take his father’s name.

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

❛ this is the best i can do for you. ❜ poppy @ minerva

minerva snatches the mirror from her bedside table and holds it up to her face , inspecting her eye with great scrutiny. it’s red both in and around , but the vile black and blue that had surrounded it moments earlier had dissipated into more angry scarlet at the edges. better.  

❛ i’ll take it. ❜

normally , she wouldn’t care. normally , she would wear that black eye like a badge of honor , but they would leave for the winter holiday the next morning , and she would hate for her mother to fret over it. it always took so much out of minerva attempting to explain to both parents that she’d taken bludger to the face of her own accord because she had once again practiced far too late into the night on her own. and the worst part this time ? that’s not even what happened. 

but she definitely isn’t going home to admit to her mother she’d been scrapping in the dead of night with a slytherin girl. hence , why she’d come to the raven’s nest to seek out poppy instead of going to the hospital wing. 

❛ i can cover this , no problem. ❜ 

she drops the mirror back into her lap , looking over at an exhausted poppy with the makings of a smile creeping through the scowl she’d come up here adorned with. leaning over , she kisses the corner of the other girl’s lips. ❛ thanks for coming down for me, pops. sorry to wake you though. you can -  ❜ she glances around through the veil of her four - poster to make sure her other dorm mates are sleeping soundly still but drops her voice lower nonetheless.  

 ❛ you can stay here , with me for the night , if you want. ❜

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

im probably gonna sleep for a bit , but tomorrow i’ll post write - ups for:

cygnus + druella

cygnus + his daughters

cygnus + the rosiers

cygnus + the lestranges

cygnus + the malfoys

cygnus + walburga / alphard

orion + walburga

orion + sirius / regulus 

marius black

more tba.

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

@abstainedevoured​ | abraxas & nadya.

❛ they give you just a little bit of power , and this is what you do with it. ❜ he makes a habit of complaining about the things done in his best interest , especially where she is concerned. he cannot allow himself —either of them , really— to become spoiled. fates are sealed and endings written , and while it won’t matter much after the fact , he has to remember that they will always be this fleeting thing , a tinderbox tryst that will burn and burn again to ash. ❛ were you waiting for me , or did you just prepare for whoever walked in next ? ❜ still , he removes his robes , setting them neatly beside hers so that their matching badges catch the torchlight just the same. ❛ i skipped dessert for this , you know. ❜

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

THE BLACK SISTERS EDITS ( 1/?? ) | the roots, the flowers, the thorns

All my life, I’ve been fighting a war I can’t talk to you or your friends It’s not only you My heart jumps around when I’m alluded to This will not do Cause I was raised up to be admired, to be noticed But when you’re withdrawn, it’s the closest thing to assault when all eyes are on you This will not doI’m faking glory Lick my lips, toss my hair And turn the smile on And the story’s brand new But I can take it from here I’ll find my own bravado

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

"do you want to live forever? or do you just not want to die?"

“ i just want enough time with you. ” 

it is as honest as he can be , the only truth he holds steady amidst the storm beneath his skin. little makes sense at the dawn of war , but this does. this one thing , and he has never not once questioned it. 

but he understands. her life , like his own , has been mapped out by the eager hands of others. there is little room for mundane things such as hope and faith. such as love. but it’s the only thing he trusts now , to let go of it would be to cripple himself beneath the pressure. that isn’t something he’s willing to do.

and certainly not while she bears witness. 

“ i don’t want to answer a question like that , cissa. i wanna be free of it , of all that anticipation , just for a bit. can we do that ? can we ? ”

[ourpyrrhicvictory]

"you've trusted me with my hands wrapped around your throat. why not trust me now?" bellatrix for rodolphus

“ i trust you always. however , i would hope that this proved to be mutual. ”

because it is not his trust he wishes to call into question. what has transpired here leaves much to the imagination , more so to his initial inventory of her actions. the fact of the matter is this: his trust in her will not save any of them , and he has always had the best interest of the family in mind. in her way , she does too. he knows she does too. even if she fails to see the big picture. 

“ i am not questioning your motives nor am i questioning your means , bella. what i am questioning is the extent to which you considered the consequences. ”

 she wouldn’t have , not beyond victory , nothing short of failure. imprisonment , identification , DEATH. none of that would have been enough to assuage her favor or draw a second thought. 

that’s his job.

“ you plan is all very fine and well right up until it isn’t. there are easier ways to accomplish this without all the risk. and before you inquire about the risk to who , i will say yes , the risk to me. because i am not willing to lose you to a cell or a hole out of sheer pride. ”

but he alone cannot influence her under such circumstances, and he has long since accepted that. his love for his wife has never been diluted by it either although he would never question the outcome of this for her. they are fine as is. nevertheless . . . 

“ and i doubt the dark lord will either. ”